So, I've finally started dueling random people on "The Network" (that's what Katana calls Dueling Network, and sickpenguin, Evilhamsdwch, and I all make fun of that). So far, I have 20 wins and no losses, but that doesn't really mean anything. Seeing as how it's Dueling Network and my rating was low from having just started, I just played a bunch of newbs in a row. This doesn't really help me, because I'm trying to get 100+ rep so that I can take that Admin Exam that they're having. I've seen some pretty bad rulings made by the admins there, and I want to fix that.
EDIT: And my 34-win streak has been broken by a guy who went first and opened with Manju, Advanced Ritual Art, Kristya, Dark Factory of Mass Destruction, Ritual Weapon, and some other card. He started with Manju, Kristya, and Herald of Perfection with Ritual Weapon out and three Normal Fairies in hand to negate my cards with. He went on to say how he's so good because he opened up with Herald of Perfection 15 games in a row. Yeah...
But, back to the main problem. Since a majority of the people I've played so far just quit instead of hitting the Admit Defeat button, I don't gain any rep from those duels. You get +1 rep when your opponent admits defeat, and you get +2 rep when you admit defeat, but if one player just quits, then neither player gains any rep. Because of this, I only have 9 rep after 20 duels... Getting to 100 may take a while...
On another note, I was planning on going to the ORCS Sneak Preview at the card shop I usually go to for tournaments. That's because I couldn't make it to the tournament they held yesterday, and I couldn't make it to the Regional today. So, I was planning on going tomorrow, but they ran out of packs, and will instead be having their usual tournament. Yay!
I didn't really want much from ORCS besides Number C39 Utopia Ray, which should be easy enough to get, and Gogogo Giant and Photon Thrasher, which are Rares. I would like to have some Inzektors and some of the Xyz Monsters in the pack, but I think I'll wait until the prices cool down for those.
So, the next big event for me is a Regional on March 10, then YCS Long Beach on March 24-25. They'll be right after the ban list, so hopefully all of the big decks will be hit by the ban list. Otherwise it'll just be a swarm of Inzektors (pun intended). I guess that we shall see...
Also, I have to decide on what deck to take to locals tomorrow. It's the same dilemma of whether to take Scrap Worms, which is slow but has a great match-up against Stun decks, or T.G. Zombies, which is faster but has some problems against Stun decks. I like T.G. Zombies more, since it's more flexible and I can make so many different plays, but there are too many Six Samurai players at locals now. It kind of forces me to run Scrap Worms... It feels as though Heavy Storm was never taken off of the ban list, since so many people still play Stun decks...
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Tournament Report 1/7/12
As I said in yesterday's post, I went to locals today once more, this time with Aki. I took my Scrap Worms, since they did really well yesterday, and Aki used his A Gladiator Lives deck.
There were about the same number of players as yesterday, but there were more regulars, so that was good.
Round 1: vs Newbie Dark Worlds
I won the first game somewhat easily. I lost the second after he swarmed with Card Destruction and Return from the Different Dimension. During the third game, he drew into two copies of Return from the Different Dimension, showed them to me, and conceded. I would've won that game either way, since he didn't draw many Dark World Monsters...
Round 2: vs Six Samurai
This was Aki's Round 1 opponent. Seeking vengeance for friends is fun.
-Duel 1: He opened with three (THREE!) Six Samurai United, summoned Mizuho, and used Asceticism for Hand of the Six Samurai, letting him draw six cards. That's totally fair... He overlaid for Leviathan Dragon and detached one Xyz Material to boost its ATK. After Setting two back rows, he ended his turn. The only Scrap card I had in my starting hand was Scrapstorm, so I would be stuck only using the Worms this duel. I summoned Xex to grab Yagan, Set two back rows, and ended. He summoned Elder and used another Asceticism for Kagemusha, letting him make Shi En. I forced its negation with Bottomless Trap Hole, then he flipped Double-Edged Sword Technique to make Naturia Beast. Yagan could only deal with one of his huge Monsters, and I died to the overwhelming advantage.
-Duel 2: Yet again, no Scrap cards in sight. I opened with the Xex/Yagan play and two back rows. He made quite a few misplays, letting me control him easily with my Traps. I was able to beat him down with a Utopia, courtesy of the Worms.
-Duel 3: He opened with Elder, Asceticism, Kizan, and a couple back rows. Instead of Shi En, he made Naturia Beast, and that was kind of weird. I drew to start my turn and frowned at my sixth card: Maxx "C". I made the Worm Xex play and attacked his Kizan with Xex to bait out his Dimensional Prison. I Set three back rows and ended. He attacked with Naturia Beast, but that was met with a Dimensional Prison of my own. He attacked with the Kizan, which I bounced with Yagan's effect. He Special Summoned Elder and Kizan before ending. I drew Dark Hole and contemplated playing it. I decided against it, but I Set it to bluff. He summoned another Kizan to get the ATK boost, letting him attack over my Yagan, then directly. I cleared out the rest of his back rows with my Mystical Space Typhoon and Dust Tornado, then flipped the Dark Hole. He was top-decking, but all I had was a Maxx "C" and a Book of Moon. I Set both and ended. He drew Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi and attacked with it, but I used Book of Moon to stop its attack. I drew Mind Control and ended. He drew and summoned Kageki and attacked with both of his Samurai. Finally, I drew a Scrapyard... It still wasn't that great of a situation, since he could bounce whatever Monster I wanted to take with Mind Control using Enishi's effect. But he didn't. I took Enishi with Mind Control, then triumphantly dropped the Scrapyard. He was shocked; since I hadn't played any Scraps all match, he had no idea, even going so far as to side in Light-Imprisoning Mirrors. I made the Scrap Dragon and ran over his Kageki. He topped Dark Hole, but I revived Scrap Beast with Scrap Dragon's effect. I topped Cyber Dragon and simply poked with the Scrap Beast. He drew and Set a back row. I attacked with Scrap Beast again after drawing Scrap Chimera. I Tribute Set my Cyber Dragon to be safe and ended my turn. He drew and passed. I Flip Summoned the Cyber Dragon on the following turn, summoned Scrap Chimera to revive Scrap Beast, and pushed for game. His Set card ended up being Musakani Magatama, and the card in his hand was Grandmaster. Dead draws are to be expected, though, I suppose.
Round 3: vs T.G. Stun
-Duel 1: I drew the exact cards I needed to counter his cards. Like, exactly; I didn't have any cards to spare. I ended up killing him with a T.G. Rush Rhino I stole with Monster Reborn earlier to prevent his search.
-Duel 2: I forgot how I lost. Him having Reborn Tengu and double Solemn Warning played a part in it, though.
-Duel 3: I started with two back rows and ended. He summoned Reborn Tengu, Set three back rows, and attacked. I summoned Scrap Chimera (sadness) and used Mind Control to take his Tengu and overlay for Utopia. It was able to push an attack through, which was good. I Set two more back rows and ended. He played Dark Hole, then used Monster Reborn on his Reborn Tengu; all that work for nothing, and now I was out of Monsters. I had to lock up his Tengu with Fiendish Chain while I stalled out. I was eventually able to make a second Utopia with two Scrap Beasts, but he took it with TG1-EM1. He had a Solemn Warning for my Scrap Chimera, and there wasn't much I could do. Quite sad, seeing as how I should have a good match-up against Stun decks, but I suppose that he just drew counters to everything I had.
Round 4: vs Chaos Agents
-Duel 1: Once again, I opened with no connection to my Scrap cards, but Worm Xex was enough to hold out for a while. He had gone first, and passed, leaving me to make my Xex/Yagan play and Set two back rows. He summoned Earth to search Venus, then milled T.G. Warwolf for Gallis the Star Beast, burning me for 600 LP and letting him make an Ally of Justice Catastor. I banished it with Dimensional Prison, and he ended. I attacked with Xex, letting him drop Gorz. Yagan bounced his Token, and I overlaid for Utopia and Set another Dimensional Prison. He summoned Venus and used its effect twice; I negated with Effect Veiler after he summoned the first Shine Ball in Attack Position. He banished the Venus on the field for Hyperion, and I used Solemn Warning to negate its summon. He attacked with Gorz and I negated with Utopia. That left me to attack through his Mystical Shine Ball for 2000 damage. He summoned another Shine Ball from his hand, then attacked with Gorz. This time, I banished the Gorz with Dimensional Prison, leaving him with just his lone Shine Ball. I attacked over it for another 2000 damage, then Set Solemn Judgment. He Special Summoned T.G. Striker, then Kristya. I contemplated using the Solemn Judgment, as I had a Dark Hole in my hand. I let it go, and he pushed through my Utopia with the Kristya and another Venus. I played Dark Hole and summoned Scrap Chimera to go for game. I could've won the turn earlier by summoning the Scrap Chimera before running over his Mystical Shine Ball, but I hadn't used any Scrap cards that duel, and I wanted to hide the true identity of my deck. Unfortunately, it failed, but I still won, so it was okay.
-Duel 2: I opened with both of my Worm Yagans. I ended up having to bounce his Hyperion using one of them, then I had to Mind Control his Spirit Reaper to kill it because I had no outs. After a while, once I finally had my Scraps set up, I lost my only Chimera to a Herald of Orange Light, so he proceeded to beat me down with a Thought Ruler Archfiend. I had made a risky move, summoning Avenging Knight Parshath to pierce through his Set T.G. Monsters, which allowed him to capitalize with the Thought Ruler Archfiend. But, if I hadn't done that, he would've made Trishula and Gachi Gachi Gantetsu instead, so it wasn't really as bad. I Monster Reborned my Avenging Knight Parshath to run over his Thought Ruler, but he dropped Kristya and I lost to it.
-Duel 3: I opened Scrapyard, Scrap Beast, Scrap Orthros, Scrap Goblin, Worm Yagan, and drew another Scrap Beast as my sixth card. Yeah, I lost. I was able to hold out for a little while, but he killed my only Chimera with Herald of Orange Light, then OTK'd me with Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning and Honest...
That was pretty demoralizing... losing two matches I shouldn't have. T.G. Zombies would've been able to rip through that Agent deck, but I probably would've had a harder time against the T.G. Stun deck. It's so hard to decide what deck I want to use...
Round 5: vs Burn
-Duel 1: I swarmed with Worms and Scraps to destroy his back row and go for game.
-Duel 2: He burned me for a lot really fast; after I made a Xex/Yagan play, he used Ojama Trio, then Just Desserts and Thunder Short. He then played One Day of Peace and played Messenger of Peace. I flipped Yagan and overlaid for Steelswarm Roach. That gave me room to summon Scrap Beast and Synchro Summon Scrap Dragon using two of the Ojama Tokens. I destroyed the third using Scrap Dragon's effect to destroy his Messenger of Peace. He tributed both of my Monsters to give me a Lava Golem, then he gave me a Grinder Golem. He Set two back rows and ended. I drew and took 1000 burn from the Lava Golem. I played Heavy Storm, but he Chained Remove Brainwashing to take back his Golems. I dropped Cyber Dragon and Scrap Beast to make Scrap Twin Dragon, then used Monster Reborn on my Scrap Dragon. I used my Dragons to attack over his Grinder Tokens, leaving him at 400 LP. He drew a Battle Fader and lost to his own Lava Golem.
So, I went 3-2, which is pretty sad. I pulled a Lightning Warrior from the Turbo Pack 7, which isn't horrible, though.
The whole reason I stopped playing Scraps is because they're too slow for this format. They're decent against Stun decks, but they can't keep up with faster decks. While T.G Zombies can keep up with the faster decks, they have some trouble against Stun and other lockdown-based decks like Six Samurai and Dino Rabbit. It's such a dilemma... and there's a Regional coming up next weekend, which I may or may not attend, so I need to decide soon...
On an unrelated note, Aki and I each bought a new WoW TCG Starter Deck. I got the Horde Mage, while Aki got Alliance Death Knight. Last time I checked, Death Knights were exclusive to the Horde, but I don't play World of Warcraft, so maybe there's something going on that I don't know about...
We're also looking into Battle Spirits, so if any of you want to chime in about that or the WoW TCG, feel free.
There were about the same number of players as yesterday, but there were more regulars, so that was good.
Round 1: vs Newbie Dark Worlds
I won the first game somewhat easily. I lost the second after he swarmed with Card Destruction and Return from the Different Dimension. During the third game, he drew into two copies of Return from the Different Dimension, showed them to me, and conceded. I would've won that game either way, since he didn't draw many Dark World Monsters...
Round 2: vs Six Samurai
This was Aki's Round 1 opponent. Seeking vengeance for friends is fun.
-Duel 1: He opened with three (THREE!) Six Samurai United, summoned Mizuho, and used Asceticism for Hand of the Six Samurai, letting him draw six cards. That's totally fair... He overlaid for Leviathan Dragon and detached one Xyz Material to boost its ATK. After Setting two back rows, he ended his turn. The only Scrap card I had in my starting hand was Scrapstorm, so I would be stuck only using the Worms this duel. I summoned Xex to grab Yagan, Set two back rows, and ended. He summoned Elder and used another Asceticism for Kagemusha, letting him make Shi En. I forced its negation with Bottomless Trap Hole, then he flipped Double-Edged Sword Technique to make Naturia Beast. Yagan could only deal with one of his huge Monsters, and I died to the overwhelming advantage.
-Duel 2: Yet again, no Scrap cards in sight. I opened with the Xex/Yagan play and two back rows. He made quite a few misplays, letting me control him easily with my Traps. I was able to beat him down with a Utopia, courtesy of the Worms.
-Duel 3: He opened with Elder, Asceticism, Kizan, and a couple back rows. Instead of Shi En, he made Naturia Beast, and that was kind of weird. I drew to start my turn and frowned at my sixth card: Maxx "C". I made the Worm Xex play and attacked his Kizan with Xex to bait out his Dimensional Prison. I Set three back rows and ended. He attacked with Naturia Beast, but that was met with a Dimensional Prison of my own. He attacked with the Kizan, which I bounced with Yagan's effect. He Special Summoned Elder and Kizan before ending. I drew Dark Hole and contemplated playing it. I decided against it, but I Set it to bluff. He summoned another Kizan to get the ATK boost, letting him attack over my Yagan, then directly. I cleared out the rest of his back rows with my Mystical Space Typhoon and Dust Tornado, then flipped the Dark Hole. He was top-decking, but all I had was a Maxx "C" and a Book of Moon. I Set both and ended. He drew Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi and attacked with it, but I used Book of Moon to stop its attack. I drew Mind Control and ended. He drew and summoned Kageki and attacked with both of his Samurai. Finally, I drew a Scrapyard... It still wasn't that great of a situation, since he could bounce whatever Monster I wanted to take with Mind Control using Enishi's effect. But he didn't. I took Enishi with Mind Control, then triumphantly dropped the Scrapyard. He was shocked; since I hadn't played any Scraps all match, he had no idea, even going so far as to side in Light-Imprisoning Mirrors. I made the Scrap Dragon and ran over his Kageki. He topped Dark Hole, but I revived Scrap Beast with Scrap Dragon's effect. I topped Cyber Dragon and simply poked with the Scrap Beast. He drew and Set a back row. I attacked with Scrap Beast again after drawing Scrap Chimera. I Tribute Set my Cyber Dragon to be safe and ended my turn. He drew and passed. I Flip Summoned the Cyber Dragon on the following turn, summoned Scrap Chimera to revive Scrap Beast, and pushed for game. His Set card ended up being Musakani Magatama, and the card in his hand was Grandmaster. Dead draws are to be expected, though, I suppose.
Round 3: vs T.G. Stun
-Duel 1: I drew the exact cards I needed to counter his cards. Like, exactly; I didn't have any cards to spare. I ended up killing him with a T.G. Rush Rhino I stole with Monster Reborn earlier to prevent his search.
-Duel 2: I forgot how I lost. Him having Reborn Tengu and double Solemn Warning played a part in it, though.
-Duel 3: I started with two back rows and ended. He summoned Reborn Tengu, Set three back rows, and attacked. I summoned Scrap Chimera (sadness) and used Mind Control to take his Tengu and overlay for Utopia. It was able to push an attack through, which was good. I Set two more back rows and ended. He played Dark Hole, then used Monster Reborn on his Reborn Tengu; all that work for nothing, and now I was out of Monsters. I had to lock up his Tengu with Fiendish Chain while I stalled out. I was eventually able to make a second Utopia with two Scrap Beasts, but he took it with TG1-EM1. He had a Solemn Warning for my Scrap Chimera, and there wasn't much I could do. Quite sad, seeing as how I should have a good match-up against Stun decks, but I suppose that he just drew counters to everything I had.
Round 4: vs Chaos Agents
-Duel 1: Once again, I opened with no connection to my Scrap cards, but Worm Xex was enough to hold out for a while. He had gone first, and passed, leaving me to make my Xex/Yagan play and Set two back rows. He summoned Earth to search Venus, then milled T.G. Warwolf for Gallis the Star Beast, burning me for 600 LP and letting him make an Ally of Justice Catastor. I banished it with Dimensional Prison, and he ended. I attacked with Xex, letting him drop Gorz. Yagan bounced his Token, and I overlaid for Utopia and Set another Dimensional Prison. He summoned Venus and used its effect twice; I negated with Effect Veiler after he summoned the first Shine Ball in Attack Position. He banished the Venus on the field for Hyperion, and I used Solemn Warning to negate its summon. He attacked with Gorz and I negated with Utopia. That left me to attack through his Mystical Shine Ball for 2000 damage. He summoned another Shine Ball from his hand, then attacked with Gorz. This time, I banished the Gorz with Dimensional Prison, leaving him with just his lone Shine Ball. I attacked over it for another 2000 damage, then Set Solemn Judgment. He Special Summoned T.G. Striker, then Kristya. I contemplated using the Solemn Judgment, as I had a Dark Hole in my hand. I let it go, and he pushed through my Utopia with the Kristya and another Venus. I played Dark Hole and summoned Scrap Chimera to go for game. I could've won the turn earlier by summoning the Scrap Chimera before running over his Mystical Shine Ball, but I hadn't used any Scrap cards that duel, and I wanted to hide the true identity of my deck. Unfortunately, it failed, but I still won, so it was okay.
-Duel 2: I opened with both of my Worm Yagans. I ended up having to bounce his Hyperion using one of them, then I had to Mind Control his Spirit Reaper to kill it because I had no outs. After a while, once I finally had my Scraps set up, I lost my only Chimera to a Herald of Orange Light, so he proceeded to beat me down with a Thought Ruler Archfiend. I had made a risky move, summoning Avenging Knight Parshath to pierce through his Set T.G. Monsters, which allowed him to capitalize with the Thought Ruler Archfiend. But, if I hadn't done that, he would've made Trishula and Gachi Gachi Gantetsu instead, so it wasn't really as bad. I Monster Reborned my Avenging Knight Parshath to run over his Thought Ruler, but he dropped Kristya and I lost to it.
-Duel 3: I opened Scrapyard, Scrap Beast, Scrap Orthros, Scrap Goblin, Worm Yagan, and drew another Scrap Beast as my sixth card. Yeah, I lost. I was able to hold out for a little while, but he killed my only Chimera with Herald of Orange Light, then OTK'd me with Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning and Honest...
That was pretty demoralizing... losing two matches I shouldn't have. T.G. Zombies would've been able to rip through that Agent deck, but I probably would've had a harder time against the T.G. Stun deck. It's so hard to decide what deck I want to use...
Round 5: vs Burn
-Duel 1: I swarmed with Worms and Scraps to destroy his back row and go for game.
-Duel 2: He burned me for a lot really fast; after I made a Xex/Yagan play, he used Ojama Trio, then Just Desserts and Thunder Short. He then played One Day of Peace and played Messenger of Peace. I flipped Yagan and overlaid for Steelswarm Roach. That gave me room to summon Scrap Beast and Synchro Summon Scrap Dragon using two of the Ojama Tokens. I destroyed the third using Scrap Dragon's effect to destroy his Messenger of Peace. He tributed both of my Monsters to give me a Lava Golem, then he gave me a Grinder Golem. He Set two back rows and ended. I drew and took 1000 burn from the Lava Golem. I played Heavy Storm, but he Chained Remove Brainwashing to take back his Golems. I dropped Cyber Dragon and Scrap Beast to make Scrap Twin Dragon, then used Monster Reborn on my Scrap Dragon. I used my Dragons to attack over his Grinder Tokens, leaving him at 400 LP. He drew a Battle Fader and lost to his own Lava Golem.
So, I went 3-2, which is pretty sad. I pulled a Lightning Warrior from the Turbo Pack 7, which isn't horrible, though.
The whole reason I stopped playing Scraps is because they're too slow for this format. They're decent against Stun decks, but they can't keep up with faster decks. While T.G Zombies can keep up with the faster decks, they have some trouble against Stun and other lockdown-based decks like Six Samurai and Dino Rabbit. It's such a dilemma... and there's a Regional coming up next weekend, which I may or may not attend, so I need to decide soon...
On an unrelated note, Aki and I each bought a new WoW TCG Starter Deck. I got the Horde Mage, while Aki got Alliance Death Knight. Last time I checked, Death Knights were exclusive to the Horde, but I don't play World of Warcraft, so maybe there's something going on that I don't know about...
We're also looking into Battle Spirits, so if any of you want to chime in about that or the WoW TCG, feel free.
Tournament Report 1/6/12
So, first tournament of the year. I kind of wanted to post an end of the year thing for 2011, but it didn't feel important enough. I'm probably going to talk about how the format was throughout the year as the ban list approaches.
Anyways, I decided to take my Scrap Worms to locals today. I expected there to be quite a few Dino Rabbit and Six Samurai decks, and my Scrap Worm deck is supposed to have a good match-up against them. It also can deal with all of the random stuff that people often play at locals fairly easily.
There were 31 players, including quite a few newbs. A majority of the players were regulars, though, and that was good.
Round 1: vs Karakuri
Apparently, this was this guy's first tournament. How sad.
-Duel 1: He opened with Meklord Army of Granel. I opened with a Set Worm Yagan. He summoned Ninishi and used it to summon Kuick, Synchro Summoning Burei. Burei's effect got Saizan, which was tuned to the Granel for Stardust Dragon. He then used Burei's effect to flip my Yagan, which bounced his Stardust Dragon. I proceeded to buy a couple of turns with Scrap Goblin and Fiendish Chain before making a Scrap Orthros/Scrapstorm play, letting me Normal Summon Scrap Chimera to make a Scrap Dragon to destroy his field with. He made another small push with his Karakuri to get rid of my Scrap Dragon, but I made another one with a second Chimera and destroyed his field again. He was top-decking after that and couldn't recover.
-Duel 2: He pushed through a Maxx "C" giving me four cards. He kind of had to, since he would've had to attack my Monsters with his wienies like Ninishi and Inashichi due to their Karakuri Effects. Too bad for him, though, since that Maxx "C" gave me a bunch of options of how to deal with his swarm. I decided on fusing my Cyber Dragon with his Burei for Chimeratech Fortress Dragon, then Mind Controlling his Naturia Barkion to go with my Scrap Goblin and make Scrap Twin Dragon. With only a couple cards left, he couldn't break through my field, which included three back rows.
Round 2: vs Gravekeeper's
Really...? People still play this...? This guy was kind of annoying, too...
-Duel 1: He wasted all of his back rows for no reason (Compulsory Evacuation Device on my Scrap Beast that was attacking directly while he had 8000 LP...twice...). That let me finish him fairly easily with a Scrap Twin Dragon.
-Duel 2: I had control of the duel, but I couldn't capitalize because I didn't have any Scrap Tuners. So we just sat there for the longest time until I drew into every single Scrap Tuner I had (I had a dead Scrapyard, my third Scrapyard, at the end of the duel because I had used all of my Tuners...). In the end, he used Heavy Storm on my four back rows and his four back rows and Necrovalley. He proceeded to use Gravekeeper's Stele to grab Spy and Assailant, then Set the Assailant. His reasoning was that I wouldn't expect him to have Set Assailant. Obviously not, but that still doesn't make it even a remotely good play. I dropped Cyber Dragon, Scrap Chimera, and a topped Mind Control to go for game. I still advocate the banning of Mind Control.
Round 3: vs Dimensional Eatos
Really...? This is even more obscure than Gravekeeper's...
-Duel 1: I started with a Set Worm Yagan. He opened with three back rows, a Guardian Eatos, and a D.D. Survivor. He used the Survivor to attack, and I bounced the Eatos. He resummoned it and ended. I summoned Worm Xex and sent the second Yagan to the Graveyard from my deck. I attacked the D.D. Survivor with Xex, but it got banished by Dimensional Prison. I didn't have any back rows (I opened with two Effect Veilers...), so I was just kind of sitting there. I got to use a Veiler to negate the effect of his Spirit Reaper, at least. On my next turn, I summoned Scrap Beast, attacked the Reaper, and Set a Scrapstorm. I had to negate Reaper's effect once again with my second Effect Veiler, and I used my Scrapstorm to grab Chimera. The resulting Scrap Dragon was able to take control of the duel after I forced out his Solemn Judgment with my Heavy Storm.
-Duel 2: He opened with Eatos, Breaker the Magical Warrior, and a couple of back rows. I summoned Worm Xex, and he negated its effect with Skill Drain. I was fine with that, since it let me run over the Breaker. I Set two back rows and ended. He blind MST'd my Set Forbidden Lance, which I Chained to weaken Eatos. He then summoned Barbaros which I had to use Fiendish Chain on. I summoned Scrap Beast to Synchro Summon Colossal Fighter, but he had Solemn Warning to negate its summon. I Set the Dust Tornado I had just drawn and ended. He tributed Barbaros for Caius the Shadow Monarch, then attacked with both Caius and Eatos directly. I drew and played Dark Hole, then attacked directly with Scrap Beast. All he had left was a dead Caius in hand, so he couldn't do much to stop me.
Round 4: vs Newbie Dark Worlds
This was my Round 4 opponent from this tournament. He was still playing junk like Forced Requisition, but he also had expensive cards like Dark Smog and Fabled Raven, so it would still be a, uh, tough match...
-Duel 1: He went off with Card Destruction, The Gates of Dark World, and Fabled Raven, and I died in two turns. I considered scooping strategically, as he had only seen the Worm side of my deck up to that point, but I still had a slim chance of winning. I still ended up losing, though...
-Duel 2: He didn't draw many discard outlets, only a lone Gates. Two pokes from Utopia and an attack from his own Grapha, courtesy of Monster Reborn, was enough to beat him. It's neat, as that Utopia was free, thanks to Worm Xex, and I was able to use its effect to negate its own attack. He basically told me that he had Gorz, since he Heavy Stormed his own two back rows while I only had one Trap Set and promptly ended his turn, so I used Utopia's effect on itself to get a Monster into the Graveyard for Monster Reborn, but it turns out that that wasn't necessary. It's still cool, though.
-Duel 3: I don't remember exactly what happened, except that he kept drawing Dark World Monsters to go with his discard outlets. Fortunately for me, he didn't draw his Graphas, so my Scrap Dragons were able to take him down without interference. Honestly, this match was a lot closer than it should've been. He didn't really have any idea what he was doing, but his deck was powerful enough to carry him through several duels. If he had known was he was doing, he would've won without question. This speaks to what this game has come to... But I'd rather not go into it right now. Perhaps another post...
Round 5: vs Nordics
This was my Round 5 opponent from this tournament. Yet again, it was the finals, and we agreed to a split. We played for fun without siding.
-Duel 1: We were sitting there for a while, as I had drawn into both of my Worm Yagans, and he had drawn into multiple Nordic Tuners. After a bit, he cleared out the field, then summoned Odin using Valkyrie of the Nordic Ascendant, banishing a Vanadis and Guldfaxe from his hand for its effect. I used Bottomless Trap Hole, but he Chained Forbidden Lance. I made a Number 39: Utopia in an attempt to stall out, but I didn't draw any more Monsters and died to Odin. Number C39: Utopia Ray would've been quite helpful in this situation...
-Duel 2: He opened with the Valkyrie, banishing two Vanadis to make Odin. Odin attacked into my Set Worm Yagan, and laughs ensued. It should be pretty easy to tell who won just from that, but I ended up finishing him off with a couple Scrap Dragons. If I hadn't played Nordics for a little while, I might have lost this duel, since playing Nordics allowed me to see which of his Set Monsters were Super-Nimble Mega Hamsters and which were Tanngnjostr of the Nordic Beasts, and I was able to make a game-breaking play using this knowledge.
-Duel 3: He Set two back rows and a Monster. I used Heavy Storm, but he Chained Gleipnir, the Fetters of Fenrir to grab a Tanngnjostr (black goat) from his deck. I summoned Scrap Beast and used Mind Control to take his Set Tanngrisnir (white goat). I attacked with Scrap Beast, then Synchro Summoned Scrap Death Demon (that's Scrap Archfiend's Japanese name, and I personally like it quite a bit). He Set one back row and a Monster and ended. I made an Orthros/Scrapstorm play to get Scrap Chimera and make a Scrap Dragon. I was able to destroy his field and grab back Scrap Chimera in the process, and he scooped next turn. Apparently, he Set the wrong Trap Card on his previous turn; he meant to Set Solemn Warning, but Set Mirror Force instead. Even though I had already used Heavy Storm, he didn't Set both because he had his own Heavy Storm in hand and wanted to use that later.
So, I went undefeated and got 1st place. Yay, Scrap Worms! They had the new Turbo Pack 7's, so I was able to get one. As expected, I didn't pull anything that great. Herald of Orange Light is nice, though.
I ended up spending my store credit on the Orient Dragon I put off getting for months. Literally, three months. I was going to get one at the Regional I went to on September 10, 2011, but I was too lazy to find someone with one for trade. Soon after, I decided to use Splendid Rose instead, so I put it off even further. But, now I have one, so yay.
I'll be going to locals once more tomorrow (really today, seeing as how I'm finishing this post at 2:40 AM...). Aki with almost certainly be coming with me, so that's pretty cool. So yeah...
Anyways, I decided to take my Scrap Worms to locals today. I expected there to be quite a few Dino Rabbit and Six Samurai decks, and my Scrap Worm deck is supposed to have a good match-up against them. It also can deal with all of the random stuff that people often play at locals fairly easily.
There were 31 players, including quite a few newbs. A majority of the players were regulars, though, and that was good.
Round 1: vs Karakuri
Apparently, this was this guy's first tournament. How sad.
-Duel 1: He opened with Meklord Army of Granel. I opened with a Set Worm Yagan. He summoned Ninishi and used it to summon Kuick, Synchro Summoning Burei. Burei's effect got Saizan, which was tuned to the Granel for Stardust Dragon. He then used Burei's effect to flip my Yagan, which bounced his Stardust Dragon. I proceeded to buy a couple of turns with Scrap Goblin and Fiendish Chain before making a Scrap Orthros/Scrapstorm play, letting me Normal Summon Scrap Chimera to make a Scrap Dragon to destroy his field with. He made another small push with his Karakuri to get rid of my Scrap Dragon, but I made another one with a second Chimera and destroyed his field again. He was top-decking after that and couldn't recover.
-Duel 2: He pushed through a Maxx "C" giving me four cards. He kind of had to, since he would've had to attack my Monsters with his wienies like Ninishi and Inashichi due to their Karakuri Effects. Too bad for him, though, since that Maxx "C" gave me a bunch of options of how to deal with his swarm. I decided on fusing my Cyber Dragon with his Burei for Chimeratech Fortress Dragon, then Mind Controlling his Naturia Barkion to go with my Scrap Goblin and make Scrap Twin Dragon. With only a couple cards left, he couldn't break through my field, which included three back rows.
Round 2: vs Gravekeeper's
Really...? People still play this...? This guy was kind of annoying, too...
-Duel 1: He wasted all of his back rows for no reason (Compulsory Evacuation Device on my Scrap Beast that was attacking directly while he had 8000 LP...twice...). That let me finish him fairly easily with a Scrap Twin Dragon.
-Duel 2: I had control of the duel, but I couldn't capitalize because I didn't have any Scrap Tuners. So we just sat there for the longest time until I drew into every single Scrap Tuner I had (I had a dead Scrapyard, my third Scrapyard, at the end of the duel because I had used all of my Tuners...). In the end, he used Heavy Storm on my four back rows and his four back rows and Necrovalley. He proceeded to use Gravekeeper's Stele to grab Spy and Assailant, then Set the Assailant. His reasoning was that I wouldn't expect him to have Set Assailant. Obviously not, but that still doesn't make it even a remotely good play. I dropped Cyber Dragon, Scrap Chimera, and a topped Mind Control to go for game. I still advocate the banning of Mind Control.
Round 3: vs Dimensional Eatos
Really...? This is even more obscure than Gravekeeper's...
-Duel 1: I started with a Set Worm Yagan. He opened with three back rows, a Guardian Eatos, and a D.D. Survivor. He used the Survivor to attack, and I bounced the Eatos. He resummoned it and ended. I summoned Worm Xex and sent the second Yagan to the Graveyard from my deck. I attacked the D.D. Survivor with Xex, but it got banished by Dimensional Prison. I didn't have any back rows (I opened with two Effect Veilers...), so I was just kind of sitting there. I got to use a Veiler to negate the effect of his Spirit Reaper, at least. On my next turn, I summoned Scrap Beast, attacked the Reaper, and Set a Scrapstorm. I had to negate Reaper's effect once again with my second Effect Veiler, and I used my Scrapstorm to grab Chimera. The resulting Scrap Dragon was able to take control of the duel after I forced out his Solemn Judgment with my Heavy Storm.
-Duel 2: He opened with Eatos, Breaker the Magical Warrior, and a couple of back rows. I summoned Worm Xex, and he negated its effect with Skill Drain. I was fine with that, since it let me run over the Breaker. I Set two back rows and ended. He blind MST'd my Set Forbidden Lance, which I Chained to weaken Eatos. He then summoned Barbaros which I had to use Fiendish Chain on. I summoned Scrap Beast to Synchro Summon Colossal Fighter, but he had Solemn Warning to negate its summon. I Set the Dust Tornado I had just drawn and ended. He tributed Barbaros for Caius the Shadow Monarch, then attacked with both Caius and Eatos directly. I drew and played Dark Hole, then attacked directly with Scrap Beast. All he had left was a dead Caius in hand, so he couldn't do much to stop me.
Round 4: vs Newbie Dark Worlds
This was my Round 4 opponent from this tournament. He was still playing junk like Forced Requisition, but he also had expensive cards like Dark Smog and Fabled Raven, so it would still be a, uh, tough match...
-Duel 1: He went off with Card Destruction, The Gates of Dark World, and Fabled Raven, and I died in two turns. I considered scooping strategically, as he had only seen the Worm side of my deck up to that point, but I still had a slim chance of winning. I still ended up losing, though...
-Duel 2: He didn't draw many discard outlets, only a lone Gates. Two pokes from Utopia and an attack from his own Grapha, courtesy of Monster Reborn, was enough to beat him. It's neat, as that Utopia was free, thanks to Worm Xex, and I was able to use its effect to negate its own attack. He basically told me that he had Gorz, since he Heavy Stormed his own two back rows while I only had one Trap Set and promptly ended his turn, so I used Utopia's effect on itself to get a Monster into the Graveyard for Monster Reborn, but it turns out that that wasn't necessary. It's still cool, though.
-Duel 3: I don't remember exactly what happened, except that he kept drawing Dark World Monsters to go with his discard outlets. Fortunately for me, he didn't draw his Graphas, so my Scrap Dragons were able to take him down without interference. Honestly, this match was a lot closer than it should've been. He didn't really have any idea what he was doing, but his deck was powerful enough to carry him through several duels. If he had known was he was doing, he would've won without question. This speaks to what this game has come to... But I'd rather not go into it right now. Perhaps another post...
Round 5: vs Nordics
This was my Round 5 opponent from this tournament. Yet again, it was the finals, and we agreed to a split. We played for fun without siding.
-Duel 1: We were sitting there for a while, as I had drawn into both of my Worm Yagans, and he had drawn into multiple Nordic Tuners. After a bit, he cleared out the field, then summoned Odin using Valkyrie of the Nordic Ascendant, banishing a Vanadis and Guldfaxe from his hand for its effect. I used Bottomless Trap Hole, but he Chained Forbidden Lance. I made a Number 39: Utopia in an attempt to stall out, but I didn't draw any more Monsters and died to Odin. Number C39: Utopia Ray would've been quite helpful in this situation...
-Duel 2: He opened with the Valkyrie, banishing two Vanadis to make Odin. Odin attacked into my Set Worm Yagan, and laughs ensued. It should be pretty easy to tell who won just from that, but I ended up finishing him off with a couple Scrap Dragons. If I hadn't played Nordics for a little while, I might have lost this duel, since playing Nordics allowed me to see which of his Set Monsters were Super-Nimble Mega Hamsters and which were Tanngnjostr of the Nordic Beasts, and I was able to make a game-breaking play using this knowledge.
-Duel 3: He Set two back rows and a Monster. I used Heavy Storm, but he Chained Gleipnir, the Fetters of Fenrir to grab a Tanngnjostr (black goat) from his deck. I summoned Scrap Beast and used Mind Control to take his Set Tanngrisnir (white goat). I attacked with Scrap Beast, then Synchro Summoned Scrap Death Demon (that's Scrap Archfiend's Japanese name, and I personally like it quite a bit). He Set one back row and a Monster and ended. I made an Orthros/Scrapstorm play to get Scrap Chimera and make a Scrap Dragon. I was able to destroy his field and grab back Scrap Chimera in the process, and he scooped next turn. Apparently, he Set the wrong Trap Card on his previous turn; he meant to Set Solemn Warning, but Set Mirror Force instead. Even though I had already used Heavy Storm, he didn't Set both because he had his own Heavy Storm in hand and wanted to use that later.
So, I went undefeated and got 1st place. Yay, Scrap Worms! They had the new Turbo Pack 7's, so I was able to get one. As expected, I didn't pull anything that great. Herald of Orange Light is nice, though.
I ended up spending my store credit on the Orient Dragon I put off getting for months. Literally, three months. I was going to get one at the Regional I went to on September 10, 2011, but I was too lazy to find someone with one for trade. Soon after, I decided to use Splendid Rose instead, so I put it off even further. But, now I have one, so yay.
I'll be going to locals once more tomorrow (really today, seeing as how I'm finishing this post at 2:40 AM...). Aki with almost certainly be coming with me, so that's pretty cool. So yeah...
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