Tournament Report 7/21/12

As usual, I went to locals today.  I haven't changed my Nordic Diva deck since last weekend.  There's really no point; I was going to try and work on a Gem-Knight deck last week, but my time was spent otherwise on non-Yu-Gi-Oh things, like waiting for the Kaijudo Dojo Edition booster set spoilers.  Yeah, I'm still really excited for Kaijudo, though it seems like Lights didn't get very many of their main cards in The Dojo Edition.  I mean, Water got Veil Vortex, Darkness got Terror Pit, Fire got Tornado Flame, and Nature got Root Trap.  All Light got was Sunshock and Regroup, both of which are good cards, but they're not Stormspark Blast...

Anyways, there were 20 players there for the tournament today.  Only regulars and regular newbs were there today.

Round 1: vs Bubble Beat

This was my Round 2 opponent from this tournament.

-Duel 1: I drew mostly Monsters for the majority of the duel, only drawing a couple Traps.  I had the opportunity to use Solemn Warning on a Stratos, but I declined to, since it was my only Trap at the time and I was worried about Miracle Fusion.  However, he didn't attack any of my Set Monsters at all.  So I was able to play in a such a way so that I'd be able to bait out his Torrential Tribute safely, then Set another Super-Nimble Mega Hamster.  Unfortunately, he played Heavy Storm, Dark Hole, then Monster Reborn for game.  Quite sad.
-Duel 2: Unlike the previous duel, I only drew a few Monsters this game.  I opened with a Set Bottomless Trap Hole and ended.  He used Duality to get Reinforcement of the Army to get Stratos to get Alius, then attacked and Set four back rows.  I Set a Monster and three more back rows.  He summoned Neos Alius, and I flipped the Bottomless.  He didn't have the Gemini Spark, so he bounced his Alius with Compulsory Evacuation Device.  Again, he declined to attack my Set Monsters.  I drew Reborn Tengu and summoned it, but he flipped Solemn Warning.  He summoned the Alius again to make Blade Armor Ninja, then detached the Alius to allow him to attack twice.  I used my own Compulsory Evacuation Device when he attacked, however, after using Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy his Set Solemn Judgment.  I Flip Summoned Ryko to destroy one of his face-downs, but he Chained the other: Fiendish Chain.  I Chained a second MST to destroy Fiendish Chain, but he Chained the card I targeted with Ryko's effect: Hero Blast.  I then Set a Monster and a Warning and ended.  He played MST to destroy my Warning, then summoned Alius and Set a back row.  Again, he declined to attack my Set Monster.  However, the Monster I had Set was Tanngnjostr (black goat), so I Flip Summoned it to get Guldfaxe and make Scrap Archfiend.  Unfortunately, he had Gemini Spark to destroy it.  I Set Sangan and ended.  He topped Thunder King Rai-Oh and killed my Sangan, which was horrible.  I drew the second Tengu, and there was nothing I could do to stop his Miracle Fusion.

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Round 2: vs Newbie Deck

He gave up when I kept telling him that he couldn't activate cards that he couldn't activate.  He usually tries to use Mausoleum of the Emperor to summon Obelisk, but he didn't draw those cards this duel.  Instead, he kept trying to play Gateway to Dark World on my turn from his hand, then after he had already summoned Monsters.  From what I could tell, he was kind of a spoiled kid...

Round 3: vs Newbie Deck

Eh, 2-0.  It was kind of interesting, at least.  He used Burden of the Mighty so that his Frostosaurus could kill my Thor, but I just made Catastor and he lost.

Round 4: vs Chaos Dragons

This was my Round 4 opponent from this tournament.

-Duel 1: I went first with a Set Hamster and two back rows.  He summoned Lyla and used its effect on my Set Compulsory Evacuation Device, which I allowed.  He milled two Tour Guides and a Chaos Sorcerer and ended.  I Flip Summoned Hamster to grab Ryko, then summoned Guldfaxe.  Hamster killed Lyla, and Guldfaxe attacked directly.  I Synchro Summoned Stardust Dragon and Set another back row before ending.  He topped MST and instantly played it on the card I had just Set, so I Chained Stardust Dragon's effect.  He then Special Summoned Darkflare Dragon.  On the summon, I flipped Book of Moon so that he couldn't use its effect to banish my Stardust, but he Chained Forbidden Lance to protect it.  He sent a Lightpulsar Dragon and Eclipse Wyvern from his hand and deck, respectively, to the Graveyard to banish my Stardust Dragon, then banish a Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon from his deck.  He then banished the Eclipse Wyvern and a Dark Monster to Special Summon Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning.  He grabbed back his REDMD and banished his Darkflare Dragon to Special Summon it.  He then revived Lightpulsar Dragon with REDMD's effect, and banished my Ryko with BLS' effect.  I topped Dark Hole, but had no follow up and lost soon afterwards.
-Duel 2: I went first with Reborn Tengu and two back rows.  He played two MST"s to destroy my back rows, then played Future Fusion.  His field ended up being REDMD, Lightpulsar Dragon, and BLS.  I was holding the Dark Hole again, but had nothing else that I could do to kill the REDMD that he would revive.  I was able to survive until the Five-Headed Dragon came out, and when he tried to go for game with it, I flipped MST to destroy the Future Fusion, depriving him of the enjoyment of winning with FHD.

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So yeah, I went 2-2, which is really bad, considering the fact that my wins were against newbs.  I guess that I really need to concentrate more on beating HEROes, since they seem to be one of my tougher match-ups, though that could be said for Stun in general.  I'm not really sure about how I'm going to be able to side more against Stun decks, though.  A third Dust Tornado would be kind of overkill, not to mention unnecessary.  Oh well, it doesn't really matter that much, since we'll be getting the ban list in less than a month.

And, something good did come out of the tournament today.  So I went to get my Turbo Pack after my last round, and my Round 1 opponent was also waiting to get his Turbo Pack.  He told me to decide which pack I would get first, and that he would pick the same pack as me.  Just so you know, the shop owner had just found a bunch of Turbo Pack 1's in his storage room or whatever, so he started offering them as an option alongside Turbo Pack 7, Turbo Pack 8, Hidden Arsenal 4, Hidden Arsenal 5, and Storm of Ragnarok.  I picked Turbo Pack 8, so my Round 1 opponent followed suit.  He said that I'd better not make him regret his decision.  I opened my pack and looked inside, seeing the holo name.

"I pulled Thunder King Rai-Oh."  He didn't believe me, so I pulled it out of the pack and he was shocked.  He opened his pack, revealing Ready for Intercepting.  I noted how I always pull good cards from the Turbo Packs when I scrub out badly.  It's a nice consolation after basically losing all of my real matches today.

Afterwards, Fwazalaza and I went out to eat and play Kaijudo.  He's actually been able to beat me fairly often now.  It's kind of nice that he's been doing better against me; it'd be boring winning all of the time.  Anyways, we made plans to meet at locals Tuesday morning to get a couple boxes of The Dojo Edition.  He said that he wanted between one and two boxes, so I offered to split a box with him, so that I can get half a box and he can get one and a half boxes.  I'm planning on recording us opening the packs while we're at locals and uploading the video when I get home.  So yeah, I'm excited for that.  Although the Light Civilization cards weren't as good as I was hoping, they're still plenty good, and will definitely be replacing all of the Water Blockers that I've been using.

But until then, I won't change my deck.  I'll also try to record a deck profile to show how it is now.  It's kind of sad how I haven't even gotten to the Kaijudo videos showing the deck in its current state since alternating Yu-Gi-Oh and Kaijudo videos take a while to get through, even though I'm uploading daily.  Maybe I'll skip some of them and start on the newer videos soon.  Perhaps I'll upload the deck profile video on Monday; I'll see what I can do.

But yeah, I'll be at locals tomorrow, like usual.  Hopefully AquaBass and vadangchoinga will be there, too...