So, I've been trying to come up with an innovative new deck for locals. Since I haven't gotten many new cards in a while, it's been difficult. I kind of want to play a deck using Geargiarmor since it's good, but it's hard to do that without any cards from Return of the Duelist. So, I've kind of given up on making a new Yu-Gi-Oh deck at the moment. I did fix up my Gem-Knight deck, though it's not made for competitive play.
But, I've been working on some Kaijudo decks. I fixed up my Light/Water/Darkness control deck; I'm going to try out a bunch of different cards like Flare Inhibitor, Thought Probe, and Trox. Most of the people at my locals play either control decks or basic rush decks, so I've built my deck to combat them. However, seeing EarthP0w3r's most recent video makes me worry about Hyperspeed Dragon and Bolgash Dragon. It makes me want to play Death Smoke, but Razorkinder is just so much better. And that reminds me that I'm disappointed about not pulling any Razorkinder Puppets or Skull Shatter.
Either way, I also built a couple of decks for a couple of my friends (vadangchoinga and the one who plays Vanguard). vadangchoinga wanted a deck similar to the one I had pre-Core Set, so I made him a Water/Darkness/Fire control deck. And, since he's a rarity junkie, I made sure that most of the cards in the deck weren't First Edition. I think that only the Tornado Flames are First Edition, but that's because I don't have three Tornado Flames from the Core Set.
For my friend who plays Vanguard, I made a Light/Nature deck. His favorite Civilization is Nature, and he wanted to use Light Blockers, hence, Light/Nature. I wanted to have the deck use The Great Arena as a draw source, but it's kind of a lackluster card. So, I just made it a fairly basic deck with elements of both aggro and control, since my friend is kind of new to Kaijudo.
And, I fixed up my Vanguard deck in case my friend is unable to get me the rest of the cards I need by the Vanguard tournament this Saturday. Yeah, my locals is starting to have Vanguard tournaments on Saturday mornings, so I'll be going to that. So, if my friend isn't there to loan me his spare deck, I'll have to use my unfinished deck. But, seeing as how many of the people who play Vanguard there are little kids with Royal Paladin or Gold Paladin Trial Decks without sleeves, it shouldn't be too difficult. I mean, I saw one of them call a Grade 3 unit to the back row for no reason...
I've noticed that the skill level for most of the people I've seen play Vanguard is very low. It's not surprising, but at the same time, it is surprising. I mean, all you have to do is watch the anime and listen to when Kai or Miwa comment on certain plays to learn how to play correctly. The anime seriously teaches you everything you need to know, except for what TCG players call "magic numbers," which should be self-explanatory. I literally learned everything about Vanguard from watching the anime (and knowing how to add multiples of 1000); it's not a difficult game. Whatever, I guess it makes it slightly easier to win against people who barely know how to play.
That's about it for this post. I would talk about The Seal of Orichalcos or the Hanzo/Heliopolis tins, but everyone has already talked about those things already. I guess it's nice that Shock Master is being reprinted, but I already have one, so I don't really mind. I mean, there's not much point in worrying about expensive cards getting reprinted; everyone who you should be worried about having those expensive cards already has those expensive cards. It's not like the little kids with Starter Decks will be able to use Shock Master or Maxx "C" effectively, and the casual players will still be casual players; competitive players already have all of these cards.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Tournament Report 9/9/12
Today was the first day for the Kaijudo league. Unfortunately, because of that, I had to get there two hours earlier than usual, meaning that I couldn't sleep in. But yeah, I picked up Aki and we went to locals.
We signed up for the Kaijudo league and got those little point-tracking cards. After that, we sat down and fixed up Aki's Kaijudo deck using some of the cards I got from the box of the Core Set I got yesterday. We then played a duel, which I won. After that, we each got a Fire/Nature/Light starter deck so that I could get Grand Gures and Stormspark Blasts. I took the small Fire section out of my deck to fit in the new Light cards and such. So, now I'm only running Light/Water/Darkness, like every other control player...
After that, I played a few more games against a few regulars, including Fwazalaza. He's now running Light/Water/Darkness like me, but he didn't have any Stormspark Blasts. So, we both put up walls of Blockers until he decked out. Yes, that's why I run a 45-card deck.
Aside from that, all of us completed as many goals as we could for the league, and Aki and I were able to get up to 20,000 points, letting us each get a Flare Inhibitor (and the new Mighty Shouter, but that's unimportant). I think I'll run a Flare Inhibitor, but I won't know until I redo my deck later this week.
But yeah, the Kaijudo league was pretty cool. There were like ten people there, so that was cool. Hopefully it becomes more popular and tournaments start soon. Until then, it's just a fun casual game.
So then, the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament started. There were about 30 players, and I was running my Nordic Diva deck, as usual.
Round 1: vs X-Sabers
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament. Again, he wasn't too happy to play against me, since I always run weird decks.
-Duel 1: We both started by just Setting a bunch of Monsters. He made a push with two Hyunleis (I negated them both) and I pushed back with T.G. Hyper Librarian and Gaia Knight. He topped Dark Hole with one card in hand, while I had my field and one card in hand. I couldn't recover from that, and lost the top-decking war.
-Duel 2: We both started by just Setting a bunch of Monsters. Honestly, X-Sabers are more passive and less explosive than Nordics, which is saying something. But yeah, enough time passed so that I could draw outs to everything he had and start applying constant pressure. It's these types of games that reflect the skills of the players, since when both players draw half of their decks, the effect of luck on the game is reduced. So, I slowly killed off all of his Monsters after baiting out all of his back rows. I put Dimensional Fissure up after using my Maxx "C", then controlled the board with my Monsters. He was able to make a reversal with a Gottoms' Emergency Call, but I had been holding Dark Hole for the whole game. I destroyed his field and swarmed to kill him.
-Duel 3: This duel went into time on my turn. So, on that turn, I decided to just swarm and do as much damage as possible, since the game had just started. I dropped Gaia Knight and Scrap Dragon with a bunch of Flip Summoned Monsters and their effects, then Normal Summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh to lock him down. He had Gorz to block two attacks, but he still took 1900 damage. And since he couldn't deal any damage on the following two turns, I won.
XOO
Round 2: vs HERO Beat
This was my Round 4 opponent from this tournament. He was using the HERO beat deck of my Round 1 opponent from yesterday's locals.
-Duel 1: He wasted a lot of cards on Xyz Summons, and I was able to make his Heavy Storm into a minus when I Chained Gleipnir and Compulsory Evacuation Device (on his Utopia). With that, he had one card and I had four, and he didn't draw Miracle Fusion, so I won.
-Duel 2: I made a Scrap Dragon with Guldfaxe and Reborn Tengu, and he used Super Polymerization with his Alius and the second Tengu for Great Tornado. Quite an interesting move; I had used up my Scrap Dragon's effect already, but I had a Smashing Ground for the G-Tornado anyways. He drew Miracle Fusion later, but I just made Mist Wurm to bounce his The Shining and leave him without Monsters.
OO
Round 3: vs Valhalla Fairies
This was a regular whom I've never played against before. But, I knew what he was running and vice-versa.
-Duel 1: He opened up with Valhalla and Kristya, while I opened up with Ryko and Mystical Space Typhoon. He didn't draw another Valhalla after I destroyed the first one, so he lost.
-Duel 2: He opened up with Valhalla and Darklord Asmodeus. I didn't have any back rows, so I just took an attack and dropped Gorz. He destroyed it with Dark Hole to get his Asmo and Deus Tokens and killed me with those.
-Duel 3: The game started much more slowly than the first two. He didn't start with Valhalla, so I was able to set up my field more easily. Once he did draw a Hecatrice to search Valhalla, I had Fiendish Chain for the Hyperion he tried to drop. Unfortunately, he had Gozen Match to lock me down somewhat. But, since I knew how his deck worked (Aki made a Valhalla-based Darklord deck a while ago), I left his Hyperion on the field until I could OTK him. All that involved was me drawing a Dust Tornado, which happened like five turns later. He couldn't do anything since all he had were Level 8 Fairies, so I just set up to OTK and did so.
OXO
At this point, there were four undefeated players left, including myself.
Round 4: vs "Plant" Synchro
This was my Round 1 opponent from this tournament. He asked if I wanted to split, and I thought about it for a bit. I kind of wanted to get Kaijudo, which he doesn't play, but I decided that half a box of Return of the Duelist is pretty nice, too. So, we played without siding to see who would go on to the finals next round.
-Duel 1: I opened up with an amazing hand while he opened up with two Reborn Tengu. So, I was able to out-advantage him like crazy and win pretty easily.
-Duel 2: I've drawn Lost Blue Breaker quite a lot. It's not fun. But yeah, that was my only Monster, so I wasn't able to do much as he made his Synchro plays to kill me.
-Duel 3: Lost Blue Breaker, I like you, but I'd also like you to stay in the deck until I call for you. Seriously. I drew other Monsters this time, though, so Lost Blue Breaker ran over his Tour Guide. He drew into his second Tour Guide to grab Night Assailant and make Acid Golem after a while. He attacked directly with it, and I dropped Gorz, with the intention of burning him out with his own Acid Golem. So, I just kept Setting stuff until his Acid Golem ran out of Xyz Materials and he ran out of LP. When he was at 1800 LP, he Flip Summoned his Snowman Eater to try and destroy his Acid Golem, but I dropped the Effect Veiler I had been holding for a while. Honestly, I considered using Veiler on his second Tour Guide (I didn't have it for the first one), but a Rank 3 Xyz Monster really isn't that threatening, especially since I had already killed his Wind-Up Zenmaines.
OXO
Round 5: vs Dino Rabbit
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament. I had offered him a split, but he declined. He said that he would've split with me if I hadn't already split with my Round 4 opponent, since he didn't want to just get a third of a booster box.
-Duel 1: He went first with Rescue Rabbit into Evolzar Laggia and a bunch of back rows. I was able to resolve a Ryko to destroy the Laggia, but he used Monster Reborn on it, then flipped Skill Drain when I tried to make a comeback. I was too far behind in card advantage for me to be able to recover from that.
-Duel 2: I drew three Guldfaxe and Lost Blue Breaker. Lost Blue Breaker, why do you do these things to me? Guldfaxe is okay if my opponent plays Synchro Monsters, but Dino Rabbit doesn't, so yeah, I lost.
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So, I ended up going 4-1 and getting a Hobby League Giant Rat. Aki went 1-2 drop with his Destiny Debris deck. I paid for both of our entry fees, so I got both Turbo Packs. They were out of Turbo Pack 8, so we just got a couple Turbo Pack 1's that didn't have holos in them. Oh well. Today was pretty fun, though, minus the last round.
But yeah, after that, Aki and I got a second box of the Kaijudo Core Set, which we made a box opening video for. I'm going to review the video and put it up tomorrow if I do decide to put it up. It didn't seem that great, since we were both tired, and we weren't really concentrating on opening the packs in front of the camera, but I won't be sure until I edit it. But yeah, if I decide to upload it, it will be tomorrow.
Besides that, I'm going to start working on Kaijudo decks for both vadangchoinga and my friend who plays Vanguard so that they can play in the league, if they can make it. I'm not sure if I'll have enough cards to make two more coherent decks, but I'll see what I can do. With all of the reprints the Core Set provided us with, I'm sure that I'll be able to figure something out.
We signed up for the Kaijudo league and got those little point-tracking cards. After that, we sat down and fixed up Aki's Kaijudo deck using some of the cards I got from the box of the Core Set I got yesterday. We then played a duel, which I won. After that, we each got a Fire/Nature/Light starter deck so that I could get Grand Gures and Stormspark Blasts. I took the small Fire section out of my deck to fit in the new Light cards and such. So, now I'm only running Light/Water/Darkness, like every other control player...
After that, I played a few more games against a few regulars, including Fwazalaza. He's now running Light/Water/Darkness like me, but he didn't have any Stormspark Blasts. So, we both put up walls of Blockers until he decked out. Yes, that's why I run a 45-card deck.
Aside from that, all of us completed as many goals as we could for the league, and Aki and I were able to get up to 20,000 points, letting us each get a Flare Inhibitor (and the new Mighty Shouter, but that's unimportant). I think I'll run a Flare Inhibitor, but I won't know until I redo my deck later this week.
But yeah, the Kaijudo league was pretty cool. There were like ten people there, so that was cool. Hopefully it becomes more popular and tournaments start soon. Until then, it's just a fun casual game.
So then, the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament started. There were about 30 players, and I was running my Nordic Diva deck, as usual.
Round 1: vs X-Sabers
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament. Again, he wasn't too happy to play against me, since I always run weird decks.
-Duel 1: We both started by just Setting a bunch of Monsters. He made a push with two Hyunleis (I negated them both) and I pushed back with T.G. Hyper Librarian and Gaia Knight. He topped Dark Hole with one card in hand, while I had my field and one card in hand. I couldn't recover from that, and lost the top-decking war.
-Duel 2: We both started by just Setting a bunch of Monsters. Honestly, X-Sabers are more passive and less explosive than Nordics, which is saying something. But yeah, enough time passed so that I could draw outs to everything he had and start applying constant pressure. It's these types of games that reflect the skills of the players, since when both players draw half of their decks, the effect of luck on the game is reduced. So, I slowly killed off all of his Monsters after baiting out all of his back rows. I put Dimensional Fissure up after using my Maxx "C", then controlled the board with my Monsters. He was able to make a reversal with a Gottoms' Emergency Call, but I had been holding Dark Hole for the whole game. I destroyed his field and swarmed to kill him.
-Duel 3: This duel went into time on my turn. So, on that turn, I decided to just swarm and do as much damage as possible, since the game had just started. I dropped Gaia Knight and Scrap Dragon with a bunch of Flip Summoned Monsters and their effects, then Normal Summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh to lock him down. He had Gorz to block two attacks, but he still took 1900 damage. And since he couldn't deal any damage on the following two turns, I won.
XOO
Round 2: vs HERO Beat
This was my Round 4 opponent from this tournament. He was using the HERO beat deck of my Round 1 opponent from yesterday's locals.
-Duel 1: He wasted a lot of cards on Xyz Summons, and I was able to make his Heavy Storm into a minus when I Chained Gleipnir and Compulsory Evacuation Device (on his Utopia). With that, he had one card and I had four, and he didn't draw Miracle Fusion, so I won.
-Duel 2: I made a Scrap Dragon with Guldfaxe and Reborn Tengu, and he used Super Polymerization with his Alius and the second Tengu for Great Tornado. Quite an interesting move; I had used up my Scrap Dragon's effect already, but I had a Smashing Ground for the G-Tornado anyways. He drew Miracle Fusion later, but I just made Mist Wurm to bounce his The Shining and leave him without Monsters.
OO
Round 3: vs Valhalla Fairies
This was a regular whom I've never played against before. But, I knew what he was running and vice-versa.
-Duel 1: He opened up with Valhalla and Kristya, while I opened up with Ryko and Mystical Space Typhoon. He didn't draw another Valhalla after I destroyed the first one, so he lost.
-Duel 2: He opened up with Valhalla and Darklord Asmodeus. I didn't have any back rows, so I just took an attack and dropped Gorz. He destroyed it with Dark Hole to get his Asmo and Deus Tokens and killed me with those.
-Duel 3: The game started much more slowly than the first two. He didn't start with Valhalla, so I was able to set up my field more easily. Once he did draw a Hecatrice to search Valhalla, I had Fiendish Chain for the Hyperion he tried to drop. Unfortunately, he had Gozen Match to lock me down somewhat. But, since I knew how his deck worked (Aki made a Valhalla-based Darklord deck a while ago), I left his Hyperion on the field until I could OTK him. All that involved was me drawing a Dust Tornado, which happened like five turns later. He couldn't do anything since all he had were Level 8 Fairies, so I just set up to OTK and did so.
OXO
At this point, there were four undefeated players left, including myself.
Round 4: vs "Plant" Synchro
This was my Round 1 opponent from this tournament. He asked if I wanted to split, and I thought about it for a bit. I kind of wanted to get Kaijudo, which he doesn't play, but I decided that half a box of Return of the Duelist is pretty nice, too. So, we played without siding to see who would go on to the finals next round.
-Duel 1: I opened up with an amazing hand while he opened up with two Reborn Tengu. So, I was able to out-advantage him like crazy and win pretty easily.
-Duel 2: I've drawn Lost Blue Breaker quite a lot. It's not fun. But yeah, that was my only Monster, so I wasn't able to do much as he made his Synchro plays to kill me.
-Duel 3: Lost Blue Breaker, I like you, but I'd also like you to stay in the deck until I call for you. Seriously. I drew other Monsters this time, though, so Lost Blue Breaker ran over his Tour Guide. He drew into his second Tour Guide to grab Night Assailant and make Acid Golem after a while. He attacked directly with it, and I dropped Gorz, with the intention of burning him out with his own Acid Golem. So, I just kept Setting stuff until his Acid Golem ran out of Xyz Materials and he ran out of LP. When he was at 1800 LP, he Flip Summoned his Snowman Eater to try and destroy his Acid Golem, but I dropped the Effect Veiler I had been holding for a while. Honestly, I considered using Veiler on his second Tour Guide (I didn't have it for the first one), but a Rank 3 Xyz Monster really isn't that threatening, especially since I had already killed his Wind-Up Zenmaines.
OXO
Round 5: vs Dino Rabbit
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament. I had offered him a split, but he declined. He said that he would've split with me if I hadn't already split with my Round 4 opponent, since he didn't want to just get a third of a booster box.
-Duel 1: He went first with Rescue Rabbit into Evolzar Laggia and a bunch of back rows. I was able to resolve a Ryko to destroy the Laggia, but he used Monster Reborn on it, then flipped Skill Drain when I tried to make a comeback. I was too far behind in card advantage for me to be able to recover from that.
-Duel 2: I drew three Guldfaxe and Lost Blue Breaker. Lost Blue Breaker, why do you do these things to me? Guldfaxe is okay if my opponent plays Synchro Monsters, but Dino Rabbit doesn't, so yeah, I lost.
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So, I ended up going 4-1 and getting a Hobby League Giant Rat. Aki went 1-2 drop with his Destiny Debris deck. I paid for both of our entry fees, so I got both Turbo Packs. They were out of Turbo Pack 8, so we just got a couple Turbo Pack 1's that didn't have holos in them. Oh well. Today was pretty fun, though, minus the last round.
But yeah, after that, Aki and I got a second box of the Kaijudo Core Set, which we made a box opening video for. I'm going to review the video and put it up tomorrow if I do decide to put it up. It didn't seem that great, since we were both tired, and we weren't really concentrating on opening the packs in front of the camera, but I won't be sure until I edit it. But yeah, if I decide to upload it, it will be tomorrow.
Besides that, I'm going to start working on Kaijudo decks for both vadangchoinga and my friend who plays Vanguard so that they can play in the league, if they can make it. I'm not sure if I'll have enough cards to make two more coherent decks, but I'll see what I can do. With all of the reprints the Core Set provided us with, I'm sure that I'll be able to figure something out.
"Regionals" Report 9/8/12
Those are quotation marks in the title, in case you're questioning your eye-sight.
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So, yesterday (really two days ago, since it's after midnight), I got everything prepared for the Regional, including my Nordic Diva deck list and food so that I wouldn't have to buy overpriced slices of pizza and such.
That night, vadangchoinga texted me asking if he could borrow a Hieratic Sun Dragon of Heliopolis from me; I was going to lend mine to my friend who plays Vanguard, but I remembered that AquaBass has one. So, I asked AquaBass if vadangchoinga could borrow his Heliopolis and he said yes. He then asked me if he could borrow an Elemental HERO Escuridao from me. I told him that I was supposed to sell one to vadangchoinga, so I could sell it to him and they could borrow each other's cards. He said that's fine, but then said that he hadn't been to Regionals before, so he wasn't sure what to do to get to the convention center. I told him that Fwazalaza, my friend who plays Vanguard, and I would be meeting at locals and driving from there, since the Regional would be like five minutes away from locals. I invited him and he accepted.
So, while AquaBass got to locals at 8:30 in the morning, the rest of us arrived exactly at 9:00. Like, Fwazalaza had just parked when I was pulling in to the parking lot, and my friend who plays Vanguard (who had been walking from his house to locals) was like 20 meters away. Quite convenient. So everyone piled into my car and we headed to the Regional. We split the cost of parking evenly (the point of driving together) and went to get in line.
Once we got to the end of the line, I called vadangchoinga, who had arrived early, to tell him that AquaBass was here to lend him the Heliopolis. I also told vadangchoinga to bring us those registration sheets so we wouldn't have to go get them. He did, but he didn't have the Lightray Sorcerer I wanted from him as part of the deal for my Escuridao. So I just sold AquaBass the Escuridao and he lent vadangchoinga the Heliopolis. After that, we filled out our registration sheets and waited in line...
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So, after waiting in line for three hours, the Konami staff announced that there would be a cut-off and registration was closed. Apparently, there were almost 1000 players there, and they only had room for like 600. That was somewhat disappointing, but to be fair, the biggest Regionals in the area hadn't gone over 600 players before. So, our little group didn't make it in, but vadangchoinga and Shien did.
Because of that, we all went back to locals for the tournament there. But, since our locals is five minutes away from the convention center, a mess load of other people who didn't make it into the Regional went there as well. There were like 70 players for the usual Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. It was so cramped that the store owner had to make the tournament single-elimination so that there'd be room for the Magic event later that night (and also so we all wouldn't suffocate...). So, locals report:
Round 1: vs HERO Beat
I knew that he was running HEROes and that he wasn't very good.
-Duel 1: He drew two Miracle Fusions, but no HEROes, so I just beat him down with Reborn Tengu for most of the duel.
-Duel 2: He played all three Miracle Fusions on me and I lost because he made three The Shinings backed by Skill Drain...
-Duel 3: He drew two Gemini Sparks to go with his Stratos and Alius, and once I was finally able to get rid of all of his cards, he draws Miracle Fusion against my Thunder King Rai-Oh. I make Catastor to kill The Shining, but then he played another Miracle Fusion for Escuridao, using the Maestroke I negated with Solemn Judgment. This is why I wanted Miracle Fusion limited in some way; they reward bad players as much as they reward good players, much like Gorz.
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So, I lost to a total of seven Miracle Fusions and dropped from the tournament. I got nothing from my Turbo Pack 8. My friend who plays Vanguard entered the tournament with me paying his entry fee, and he also lost the first round to HEROes, so he gave me his Turbo Pack 8, which had just as much nothing as my Turbo Pack.
After that, we played Vanguard a little bit. He said that his friend had the rest of the cards that I needed for my Vanguard deck, so I'd have to wait to get them from him. After getting gradestuck so many times with his Gold Paladins, he decided to use his Nova Grapplers, letting me use his Gold Paladins. I forced him to change the Gold Paladin deck, since his grade ratios were weird (8/12/13...), which is part of why he gets gradestuck so easily. I took out a Grade 3 (Sagramore) for a Grade 1 to even out the ratio and also took out another Grade 3 Sagramore (since I hate them) for a third Garmore. So then, we played for fun for a while.
Once it was about 4:30, we left for the other card shop for their Vanguard tournament. It's supposed to start at 6:00, but their Yu-Gi-Oh tournament was running late, so it started late. Also, my friend wanted to sell some of his extra cards and get more Vanguard brand sleeves.
After a while, the tournament started. The inside of the store was taken over by their Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic events, so the Vanguard tournament would take place outside. It was dark, and the tables and the area in general were disgusting. But yeah, I was using my friend's Gold Paladins, and since Vanguard is a very simple game, I had already mastered them after playing them only for that day. Seriously, Vanguard is easy.
In the first round, I played against a fairly incompetent Granblue player. I won the first game fairly easily, lost to a Critical Trigger in the second game, then won with a Critical Trigger in the last game. I was at 5 damage and he was at 4, and he got a Heal Trigger as the first damage, meaning that he couldn't heal. I felt quite evil because of that; "You can't heal," I said, before he even tried to.
I had to play against my friend in the second round. He got gradestuck in the first game on Grade 2. So, I just slowly gained advantage over him with my Twin Drive and was able to win fairly easily. In the second game, I got gradestuck on Grade 2 for one turn, luckily getting the one copy of Spectral Duke Dragon he runs off of a drive check. Using Tripp to unflip my damage, I was able to use that Spectral Duke Dragon's Limit Break three times that game. That's like Super Special Over the Limit or something. By the time I used it for the third time, though, I had dumped my last two units onto the field, and had to also feed the Tron boosting Spectral Duke to its effect. Not that it mattered, since he had nothing left to guard with.
However, I decided to give him the win because he's supposed to have a better shot at the Top 4 than me. My third round opponent dropped, so I watched my friend play against a fairly incompetent Gold Paladin player. My friend misplayed quite a bit since he was tired (it's hard to believe that there's such a thing as misplaying in Vanguard, but it's very simple stuff that you can figure out with basic math; he was just too tired to add multiples of 1000). But, he still won because it's Vanguard and you don't need to play well to win.
Okay, so there were a total of 15 there for the Vanguard tournament, but for some reason, the tournament organizer decided to cut to Top 4 after the third round, even though there were still multiple undefeated players left. That was annoying, since I was 5th after the third round, so I didn't make it. Since my friend was technically undefeated, he made it, of course.
I watched him play against another incompetent Gold Paladin player and win 2-0. Come on people, Vanguard's not hard. The thing is that these people don't even have the basics down. I mean, it makes sense that these people remain as incompetent as they are, though. In a game like Vanguard where you can be carried through games on luck (much like playing Six Samurai or Lightsworn), you don't have to strive to be a better player; you can just rely on good luck for wins and blame bad luck for losses. It's sad, really.
I didn't get to watch the finals between my friend and the same Kagero player he lost to last weekend when playing for 3rd, but apparently my friend got gradestuck again. Perhaps the Kagero player was stacking his deck or something, since he was shuffling weird. I don't really know.
Either way, my friend got five packs of Set 3 (the Demonic Lord whatever one). He pulled an SP Nightmare Doll, Alice (that Pale Moon one). I was able to get a box of Kaijudo Core Set for $70, so that was cool. I actually did make a box opening video, but it was really rushed and uneventful. The highlights of the box were me pulling two Logic Cubes, one Crystal Memory, one Thought Probe, one Moorna, one Bolgash Dragon, one Bolshack Dragon, and a Stormspark Blast and Ra-vu from the same pack. Everything else was pretty bad, so I'm disappointed with the box. Kaijudo boxes should be good, but I only pulled seven holos and only three of them were good. Not only that, but there's too many effectless Creatures in the Core Set, and they're all bad.
Also, I got three of the Water/Darkness starter decks from the usual locals for $12 each. I just got them for the Dark Scaradorables, and the packs in the starter decks were all bad. I just can't believe that Manabind is a Rare, what a waste. Whatever, it doesn't really matter. Hopefully the box Aki and I get tomorrow (really today, since it's after midnight) will be better. We'll see, I guess...
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