Apparently, Thursday is now Random Stuff day. It probably won't be that way for long, since my school starts back up next Thursday. But yeah, I have nothing really to do until then...
So, my friend who plays Vanguard said that he told a couple of people at locals last weekend that they should start playing Vanguard, and they were all like, "Alright," and dropped like $80 on Trial Decks and booster packs. Wow. Well, at least there should be enough people for the Vanguard tournament Saturday morning. So there's that. My Vanguard deck is still incomplete, but it should be good enough to beat some newbs, given they don't get super lucky.
I've actually been wondering if it's worth running a deck focusing on Mr. Invincible and Dragonic Overlord. Yeah, I can utterly destroy the front row, but it's the back row that's really important. I mean, they can replace their Grade 2's and 3's in the front row and still force out 10k guards. But, if I destroy the back row, they can't replenish them as easily, allowing me to guard with 5k against their rear-guards. Obviously, the best-case scenario is if they can't replace their front row units and lose those attacking lines altogether, but people play more Grade 2/3's than Grade 1's (not to mention people play up to 4 perfect guards, which are almost never used as boosters). It makes me feel like I should switch to a Goku Kagero variant with multiple copies of Demonic Dragon Mage, Kimnara so that I can kill all of their boosters. Dragonic Overlord would have to take a back seat, and it's pretty gimmicky anyways. For now, it doesn't matter, but I will discuss it with my friend who plays Vanguard when I get the chance.
I fixed my Kaijudo deck, adding a Fire section while trimming down the Light and Darkness sections. The Water section basically stayed the same, since I like the 12 Water cards I've been using. It's helpful to be able to stack the bottom of my deck with Reef Prince Glu-urrgle so that I can hit double criticals on my drive checks. Oh wait, wrong game. And I don't even like using Critical Triggers. I might just go back to using all Stands, we'll see.
As for Yu-Gi-Oh, I haven't really been working on a new deck. It feels like there's no point, since my Nordic Diva deck works well enough. I'll probably try Atlanteans when they come out, since I have my Duel Terminal Genex Undines and Genex Controllers sitting here on my desk. I could probably borrow one of Aki's Gungnirs, and that should do it until Abyss Rising comes out.
Aki has actually been working on a Yubel deck that uses Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys. For some reason, our box of Ra Yellow Mega Packs that we got a while ago only had one first form Yubel, so that's kind of inconvenient. So, if anyone at locals who reads this happens to have any Rare Yubels from Ra Yellow, then let me know. We need two more for the deck. I'll probably text all of you guys tomorrow anyways, since half of you only read my blog on the weekends. You know who you are...
Maxx "C" ended up being one of the Super Rares in the Hanzo tin... what a surprise... But yeah, now I might spend some money on the new tins. We'll see what the other promos are. I also have to save money for the new Kaijudo booster that's coming out early November, and that honestly takes priority over Yu-Gi-Oh. And, now that I think about it, I might not even be able to make a trip to the flea market to pick up the tins if I want them. Hmm, we'll see what happens, I guess.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Tournament Report 9/16/12
So, as I said in yesterday's post, I went to locals for the Kaijudo league and Yu-Gi-Oh tournament.
A lot of my friends who read my blog for last week's Kaijudo league were kind of confused at the lack of detailed descriptions of each duel. That's because there's really no point. Basically, the way that you get the most points possible for the league each week is to duel three different people, make sure one of those people is someone whom you have never dueled before, and win at least one duel of those three. It's not really competitive at all, so I didn't feel the need to go through the duels in detail.
But yeah, this week, I was using my fixed up Light/Water/Darkness control deck. I felt like it didn't have much power aside from Stormspark Blast, which lets a field of Blockers wipe out the opposing field, so I considered adding Fire again. So yeah, I played against Fwazalaza first and lost. I didn't draw anything with which to put pressure on him, so he just drew his Stormspark Blast first and killed my whole field. I'll be changing my deck for next week to make sure that this doesn't happen anymore.
Then, I played against someone who I had never played against before. He was playing Water/Darkness control that focused on hand control with Specter Claw, Gigastand, and Fumes. I personally don't like hand control in Kaijudo, but it does work if you draw it early enough. Unfortunately for him, he didn't, so I just amassed a field of Blockers and killed his whole field with Stormspark Blast before winning.
Lastly, I played against one of the regulars. He was playing Water/Darkness control that focused on hand control, as well. He doesn't play any boss Creatures, though, instead opting to use stuff like Finbarr, Council of Logos and Rusalka, Aqua Chaser. Well, I just killed his Finbarrs with Bone Blades and such, then amassed a field of Blockers to kill his field with Stormspark Blast. I really don't like having to rely on Stormspark Blast to win like that. So, I'll change my deck for next week...
But yeah, my friend who plays Vanguard showed up, so I let him use the Light/Nature deck I made for him to play. He ended up playing a few duels, and he gave me the Mighty Shouter promo he got. We noticed that the Light/Nature deck doesn't have any really powerful plays, so I'm going to try and fit in a Fire section. Raging Goliant is good, but I don't know if it'll make the cut once I add the Fire cards. Either way, my friend learned a lot about Kaijudo today, so that's good. We also established that Roaming Bloodmane is his Blond Ezel (which we call BEzel, pronounced bay-zel), since you basically can't guard it, and also because there was only one in his deck, like how Aichi only has one BEzel in the anime.
So, after a while, the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament started. There were about 24 players there today. I used my Nordic Diva deck, since I didn't have any time to change my deck since yesterday.
Round 1: vs Frog Monarchs
-Duel 1: This duel took almost the whole 40 minutes. He ended up winning with a series of Creature Swaps towards the end of the duel, and I didn't draw my Tuners, so I couldn't really make any aggressive plays.
-Duel 2: We went into time on this duel, and I won by pushing through a little damage with Super-Nimble Mega Hamster, which I Normal Summoned.
-Duel 3: This duel was sudden death, and he just happened to open with Creature Swap...
XOX
Round 2: vs Dark Worlds
This was my Round 5 opponent from this tournament. I haven't played against Dark Worlds with this version of my Nordic Diva deck, so I was interested in seeing what would happen.
-Duel 1: She went first with Dragged Down, but my hand was five good cards. She made a few small plays with Gates and Snoww, but I had Mystical Space Typhoon and Thunder King Rai-Oh to stop her plays. I killed almost all of her Monsters, then just started poking for damage with stuff like Guldfaxe. She didn't draw any Monsters (the only ones left in her deck were Trance Archfiend and Fabled Raven), so I won.
-Duel 2: I had sided in a bunch of cards, and she didn't have Dragged Down on the first turn, so I played Dimensional Fissure. She didn't have an out, so I won.
OO
Round 3: vs Dino Rabbit
This was my Round 4 opponent from yesterday's tournament. I noted that this match was for much lower stakes than yesterday's match.
-Duel 1: I had counters to all of his plays, and he didn't draw Rescue Rabbit or Tour Guide, so I was able to win pretty easily. I just plain opened a lot better than him.
-Duel 2: He summoned Evolzar Dolkka under the protection of Forbidden Lance. My hand was all Monsters, so I lost.
-Duel 3: All he did was summon Thunder King Rai-Oh, and my hand had both Maxx "C" and Effect Veiler (which I only had one of each of in the deck), along with Tanngnjostr (black goat) and other stuff like Guldfaxe. I Set a random Monster in an attack to safely put Tanngnjostr on the field, but then he summoned Sabersaurus. I sadly couldn't deal with a Sabersaurus, so I lost.
OXX
Oh well. I just decided to drop at that point. From there, my friend who plays Vanguard and I just played Yu-Gi-Oh (I used my Gem-Knights against his Photon/Gagaga deck), Kaijudo, and Vanguard. He was pretty eager to practice playing Kaijudo, since he realized that he didn't know how to play properly. But yeah, as I stated before, he improved a lot over the course of the day. So, with an improved deck, hopefully he'll do a lot better next weekend. We'll just have to wait and see.
As for me, I'm planning on adding a Fire section back to my deck. I kind of want to cut the Darkness section from my deck, but Darkness removal cards are just too good. I think that I'll focus on Fire, Water and Light, but also tech Darkness removal cards like Terror Pit, Bone Blades, and maybe Razorkinder or Death Smoke. I'm not entirely sure yet; it's hard to balance a 4-color Kaijudo deck.
And for Yu-Gi-Oh, I think that I'll continue using my Nordic Diva deck because I can't really figure out anything else to use. I'd like to use Geargia, but they're too expensive. If I can figure out a new deck by next weekend, then perhaps I'll try it out. Otherwise, I'll just get lazy and use my Nordic Diva deck again.
A lot of my friends who read my blog for last week's Kaijudo league were kind of confused at the lack of detailed descriptions of each duel. That's because there's really no point. Basically, the way that you get the most points possible for the league each week is to duel three different people, make sure one of those people is someone whom you have never dueled before, and win at least one duel of those three. It's not really competitive at all, so I didn't feel the need to go through the duels in detail.
But yeah, this week, I was using my fixed up Light/Water/Darkness control deck. I felt like it didn't have much power aside from Stormspark Blast, which lets a field of Blockers wipe out the opposing field, so I considered adding Fire again. So yeah, I played against Fwazalaza first and lost. I didn't draw anything with which to put pressure on him, so he just drew his Stormspark Blast first and killed my whole field. I'll be changing my deck for next week to make sure that this doesn't happen anymore.
Then, I played against someone who I had never played against before. He was playing Water/Darkness control that focused on hand control with Specter Claw, Gigastand, and Fumes. I personally don't like hand control in Kaijudo, but it does work if you draw it early enough. Unfortunately for him, he didn't, so I just amassed a field of Blockers and killed his whole field with Stormspark Blast before winning.
Lastly, I played against one of the regulars. He was playing Water/Darkness control that focused on hand control, as well. He doesn't play any boss Creatures, though, instead opting to use stuff like Finbarr, Council of Logos and Rusalka, Aqua Chaser. Well, I just killed his Finbarrs with Bone Blades and such, then amassed a field of Blockers to kill his field with Stormspark Blast. I really don't like having to rely on Stormspark Blast to win like that. So, I'll change my deck for next week...
But yeah, my friend who plays Vanguard showed up, so I let him use the Light/Nature deck I made for him to play. He ended up playing a few duels, and he gave me the Mighty Shouter promo he got. We noticed that the Light/Nature deck doesn't have any really powerful plays, so I'm going to try and fit in a Fire section. Raging Goliant is good, but I don't know if it'll make the cut once I add the Fire cards. Either way, my friend learned a lot about Kaijudo today, so that's good. We also established that Roaming Bloodmane is his Blond Ezel (which we call BEzel, pronounced bay-zel), since you basically can't guard it, and also because there was only one in his deck, like how Aichi only has one BEzel in the anime.
So, after a while, the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament started. There were about 24 players there today. I used my Nordic Diva deck, since I didn't have any time to change my deck since yesterday.
Round 1: vs Frog Monarchs
-Duel 1: This duel took almost the whole 40 minutes. He ended up winning with a series of Creature Swaps towards the end of the duel, and I didn't draw my Tuners, so I couldn't really make any aggressive plays.
-Duel 2: We went into time on this duel, and I won by pushing through a little damage with Super-Nimble Mega Hamster, which I Normal Summoned.
-Duel 3: This duel was sudden death, and he just happened to open with Creature Swap...
XOX
Round 2: vs Dark Worlds
This was my Round 5 opponent from this tournament. I haven't played against Dark Worlds with this version of my Nordic Diva deck, so I was interested in seeing what would happen.
-Duel 1: She went first with Dragged Down, but my hand was five good cards. She made a few small plays with Gates and Snoww, but I had Mystical Space Typhoon and Thunder King Rai-Oh to stop her plays. I killed almost all of her Monsters, then just started poking for damage with stuff like Guldfaxe. She didn't draw any Monsters (the only ones left in her deck were Trance Archfiend and Fabled Raven), so I won.
-Duel 2: I had sided in a bunch of cards, and she didn't have Dragged Down on the first turn, so I played Dimensional Fissure. She didn't have an out, so I won.
OO
Round 3: vs Dino Rabbit
This was my Round 4 opponent from yesterday's tournament. I noted that this match was for much lower stakes than yesterday's match.
-Duel 1: I had counters to all of his plays, and he didn't draw Rescue Rabbit or Tour Guide, so I was able to win pretty easily. I just plain opened a lot better than him.
-Duel 2: He summoned Evolzar Dolkka under the protection of Forbidden Lance. My hand was all Monsters, so I lost.
-Duel 3: All he did was summon Thunder King Rai-Oh, and my hand had both Maxx "C" and Effect Veiler (which I only had one of each of in the deck), along with Tanngnjostr (black goat) and other stuff like Guldfaxe. I Set a random Monster in an attack to safely put Tanngnjostr on the field, but then he summoned Sabersaurus. I sadly couldn't deal with a Sabersaurus, so I lost.
OXX
Oh well. I just decided to drop at that point. From there, my friend who plays Vanguard and I just played Yu-Gi-Oh (I used my Gem-Knights against his Photon/Gagaga deck), Kaijudo, and Vanguard. He was pretty eager to practice playing Kaijudo, since he realized that he didn't know how to play properly. But yeah, as I stated before, he improved a lot over the course of the day. So, with an improved deck, hopefully he'll do a lot better next weekend. We'll just have to wait and see.
As for me, I'm planning on adding a Fire section back to my deck. I kind of want to cut the Darkness section from my deck, but Darkness removal cards are just too good. I think that I'll focus on Fire, Water and Light, but also tech Darkness removal cards like Terror Pit, Bone Blades, and maybe Razorkinder or Death Smoke. I'm not entirely sure yet; it's hard to balance a 4-color Kaijudo deck.
And for Yu-Gi-Oh, I think that I'll continue using my Nordic Diva deck because I can't really figure out anything else to use. I'd like to use Geargia, but they're too expensive. If I can figure out a new deck by next weekend, then perhaps I'll try it out. Otherwise, I'll just get lazy and use my Nordic Diva deck again.
Tournament Report 9/15/12
So, I got to locals at 11:00 in the morning for the Vanguard tournament. Unfortunately, the only other people who signed up were two little kids who barely know how to play. My friend who plays Vanguard didn't even show up for some reason. So, everyone who was there just got the Vanguard promo pack thing that has Knowledge Drunkard and two other (bad) cards. I got the Kagero one, Dragonic Valblade, which isn't completely horrible. It's better than Yaksha...
But yeah, the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament started after a while... There were 21 players there today (really yesterday, since it's after midnight...). I used my Nordic Diva deck, since I failed to come up with a new deck over the past week, and also because I was lazy.
Round 1: vs Lightsworn
This was my Round 1 opponent from this tournament.
-Duel 1: He opened with Card Trooper milling Wulf, which is pretty messed up. I was able to make a reversal with a few Synchro plays, and it went back and forth for a while. When I was at 1300 LP to his 1900 LP, he summoned Lumina to revived Aurkus and attack my Set Ryko (he knew it was a Ryko since I got it with Super-Nimble Mega Hamster). I used Ryko's effect to destroy my bluff Heavy Storm, since I couldn't target any Lightsworn Monsters. He then attacked directly with Aurkus and I dropped Gorz. He decided to overlay for Acid Golem for some reason, so I just waited until he burned himself out.
-Duel 2: I rushed him with Thor and Scrap Archfiend, making it so that he could only win if he dropped two Judgment Dragons on the same turn (I had like 5600 LP). He had one Judgment Dragon, but milled the other two, and therefore couldn't win against Thor. He decked out before I was able to kill him.
OO
Round 2: vs Machina Gadgets
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament.
-Duel 1: I opened up with a pretty good hand, but so did he. The difference was that I had no Traps, while he drew a bunch of Traps. So, while I was able to make a few aggressive pushes, he was able to counter them all with his Traps and Machina Fortress. I ran out of cards before I could kill him, so his Gadgets were able to kill me.
-Duel 2: He didn't draw any of his Machinas, so I was able to win pretty easily. It's not hard to kill a bunch of Gadgets with Guldfaxe or even Lost Blue Breaker.
-Duel 3: I summoned Catastor after clearing his back row to destroy his Machina Fortress. He used Fiendish Chain after reviving his Fortress again, but then I Tribute Set Cyber Dragon and fused it with his Fortress for Chimeratech Fortress Dragon. He used Solemn Warning, paying down below 2000 LP. So, I was able to push a bunch of damage through a Gadget using Thor to win.
XOO
Round 3: vs Wind-Ups
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament. He knew that I was either playing Nordics or Gem-Knights, while I knew that he was playing Wind-Ups.
-Duel 1: I opened with a decent hand, except that it was a horrible hand to start with against Wind-Ups. It was something like two Guldfaxe, a Veiler, and some back rows. I Set two back rows and ended. He played Mystical Space Typhoon on my MST, then made his Magician/Shark play. I used Veiler on the Magician, leaving him to make Utopia and attack directly. I topped Super-Nimble Mega Hamster and Set it and another back row. He Normal Summoned Wind-Up Rabbit and attacked with Utopia. I used Book of Moon, then he attacked with Wind-Up Rabbit. He took damage, and I got Tanngnjostr (black goat) in face-down Defense Position. He Set one back row to end. I Flip Summoned Tanngnjostr (black goat), and it got negated with Effect Veiler. So, I Normal Summoned Guldfaxe and tuned it to my Hamster to Synchro Summoned Scrap Dragon. Using Scrap Dragon's effect, I destroyed my Tanngnjostr (black goat), and his Set Dimensional Prison. I attacked his Utopia and ended. He summoned Tour Bus and overlaid with it and Rabbit for Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity. He detached the Rabbit to Special Summon Rat from his deck, then used Rat's effect to Special Summon Shark. He used Shark's effect to level down, then overlaid for Leviathan Dragon. I wanted him to make Acid Golem, but he had Book of Moon to turn my Scrap Dragon face-down so that he could run it over with Leviathan Dragon after boosting its ATK. But, when Scrap Dragon was destroyed in battle, I got to Special Summon Tanngnjostr (black goat) from my hand. I used it to call out Tanngrisnir (white goat) and Normal Summoned my second Guldfaxe to Synchro Summon Thor. That Thor ended up winning me the game, since Wind-Ups don't have outs to Thor.
-Duel 2: He went first with a bunch of back rows. I copied him and Set a bunch of back rows. We ended up just making a series of small exchanges. While he didn't draw any combos to generate advantage with, most of my Monsters generate advantage by themselves, so I was able to take control pretty easily. Not to mention that he messed himself up by playing Dimensional Fissure and preventing himself from using the Effect Veiler he was holding.
OO
Round 4: vs Dino Rabbit
This was my Round 1 opponent from this tournament.
-Duel 1: He opened with Thunder King Rai-Oh, which gave me some trouble since he used Solemn Warning on my Super-Nimble Mega Hamster. We ended up making a bunch of trade-offs where he steadily lost LP while I steadily lost card advantage. We got to a point where I was top-decking and he summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh to attack. I had plenty of LP, but he was at 1200 LP. I drew into Mind Control, then another Hamster so that I could overlay for Utopia for game. Mind Control should really be banned.
-Duel 2: He opened up with a pretty passive hand (he had Sangan and Dark Mimic LV3), so I set up my field for a big Synchro play, but then he dropped Maxx "C". He had a Kabazauls on the field with a couple cards in hand, so I just decided to go for it. "I'm going to make you draw into all of your Dinosaurs," I declared. I let him draw like four times, but I was able to make T.G. Hyper Librarian and another Synchro Monster so that I could draw as well. With that, I wiped his field, and he drew to seven cards in hand, while I had seven cards total. He summoned Tour Guide and I negated it with Effect Veiler. He scooped at that, showing me that he had drawn three vanilla Dinosaurs off of his Maxx "C".
OO
Round 5: vs Six Samurai
I was playing against Shien, and since we were the last two undefeated players, this was the finals. We decided not to split, because there was really no point.
-Duel 1: He was able to get out Shi En quickly, but he didn't have any back rows to support it. I was able to drop Gorz and take control of the duel pretty easily.
-Duel 2: He didn't seem to draw any Monsters besides Kizan, but he had a mess load of back rows, including Rivalry of Warlords, to lock me down. I Tribute Set Gorz, since I couldn't Synchro, but he bounced it back to my hand with Compulsory Evacuation Device. I lost this duel by getting beat down by Kizan.
-Duel 3: He didn't draw that many Traps, instead drawing a bunch of swarming Spells like Asceticism, so my Thought Ruler Archfiend was able to take control of the duel after my Ryko killed his Colossal Fighter. After I used MST blindly on his Mirror Force, I knew that Thought Ruler would be safe, and the rest of his back rows were things like Dimensional Prison and Compulsory Evacuation Device, so he couldn't protect himself from Thought Ruler.
OXO
So yeah, I ended up going undefeated and getting 1st place. I'm glad that I only played against regulars today. Honestly, there are better players at my locals, but it was nice to play against the relatively good players. It'll probably be more difficult tomorrow.
Anyways, I got some sleeves and some Kaijudo Core Set packs with my winnings and pulled a second Meteor Dragon. I wanted to get Crimson Wyvern or Tatsurion the Unchained, but oh well. Fwazalaza wanted the Meteor Dragon and a set of Patrol Leader, Paladio, so he traded me a Lord Skycrusher and a Shaw K'Naw for them. So, it worked out.
But yeah, tomorrow (really today, since it's after midnight...) will be the Kaijudo league and another Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. I don't think that Aki is coming, but he might. And my friend who plays Vanguard might show up for the league to use the deck I built for him, but yeah, we'll see...
But yeah, the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament started after a while... There were 21 players there today (really yesterday, since it's after midnight...). I used my Nordic Diva deck, since I failed to come up with a new deck over the past week, and also because I was lazy.
Round 1: vs Lightsworn
This was my Round 1 opponent from this tournament.
-Duel 1: He opened with Card Trooper milling Wulf, which is pretty messed up. I was able to make a reversal with a few Synchro plays, and it went back and forth for a while. When I was at 1300 LP to his 1900 LP, he summoned Lumina to revived Aurkus and attack my Set Ryko (he knew it was a Ryko since I got it with Super-Nimble Mega Hamster). I used Ryko's effect to destroy my bluff Heavy Storm, since I couldn't target any Lightsworn Monsters. He then attacked directly with Aurkus and I dropped Gorz. He decided to overlay for Acid Golem for some reason, so I just waited until he burned himself out.
-Duel 2: I rushed him with Thor and Scrap Archfiend, making it so that he could only win if he dropped two Judgment Dragons on the same turn (I had like 5600 LP). He had one Judgment Dragon, but milled the other two, and therefore couldn't win against Thor. He decked out before I was able to kill him.
OO
Round 2: vs Machina Gadgets
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament.
-Duel 1: I opened up with a pretty good hand, but so did he. The difference was that I had no Traps, while he drew a bunch of Traps. So, while I was able to make a few aggressive pushes, he was able to counter them all with his Traps and Machina Fortress. I ran out of cards before I could kill him, so his Gadgets were able to kill me.
-Duel 2: He didn't draw any of his Machinas, so I was able to win pretty easily. It's not hard to kill a bunch of Gadgets with Guldfaxe or even Lost Blue Breaker.
-Duel 3: I summoned Catastor after clearing his back row to destroy his Machina Fortress. He used Fiendish Chain after reviving his Fortress again, but then I Tribute Set Cyber Dragon and fused it with his Fortress for Chimeratech Fortress Dragon. He used Solemn Warning, paying down below 2000 LP. So, I was able to push a bunch of damage through a Gadget using Thor to win.
XOO
Round 3: vs Wind-Ups
This was my Round 3 opponent from this tournament. He knew that I was either playing Nordics or Gem-Knights, while I knew that he was playing Wind-Ups.
-Duel 1: I opened with a decent hand, except that it was a horrible hand to start with against Wind-Ups. It was something like two Guldfaxe, a Veiler, and some back rows. I Set two back rows and ended. He played Mystical Space Typhoon on my MST, then made his Magician/Shark play. I used Veiler on the Magician, leaving him to make Utopia and attack directly. I topped Super-Nimble Mega Hamster and Set it and another back row. He Normal Summoned Wind-Up Rabbit and attacked with Utopia. I used Book of Moon, then he attacked with Wind-Up Rabbit. He took damage, and I got Tanngnjostr (black goat) in face-down Defense Position. He Set one back row to end. I Flip Summoned Tanngnjostr (black goat), and it got negated with Effect Veiler. So, I Normal Summoned Guldfaxe and tuned it to my Hamster to Synchro Summoned Scrap Dragon. Using Scrap Dragon's effect, I destroyed my Tanngnjostr (black goat), and his Set Dimensional Prison. I attacked his Utopia and ended. He summoned Tour Bus and overlaid with it and Rabbit for Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity. He detached the Rabbit to Special Summon Rat from his deck, then used Rat's effect to Special Summon Shark. He used Shark's effect to level down, then overlaid for Leviathan Dragon. I wanted him to make Acid Golem, but he had Book of Moon to turn my Scrap Dragon face-down so that he could run it over with Leviathan Dragon after boosting its ATK. But, when Scrap Dragon was destroyed in battle, I got to Special Summon Tanngnjostr (black goat) from my hand. I used it to call out Tanngrisnir (white goat) and Normal Summoned my second Guldfaxe to Synchro Summon Thor. That Thor ended up winning me the game, since Wind-Ups don't have outs to Thor.
-Duel 2: He went first with a bunch of back rows. I copied him and Set a bunch of back rows. We ended up just making a series of small exchanges. While he didn't draw any combos to generate advantage with, most of my Monsters generate advantage by themselves, so I was able to take control pretty easily. Not to mention that he messed himself up by playing Dimensional Fissure and preventing himself from using the Effect Veiler he was holding.
OO
Round 4: vs Dino Rabbit
This was my Round 1 opponent from this tournament.
-Duel 1: He opened with Thunder King Rai-Oh, which gave me some trouble since he used Solemn Warning on my Super-Nimble Mega Hamster. We ended up making a bunch of trade-offs where he steadily lost LP while I steadily lost card advantage. We got to a point where I was top-decking and he summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh to attack. I had plenty of LP, but he was at 1200 LP. I drew into Mind Control, then another Hamster so that I could overlay for Utopia for game. Mind Control should really be banned.
-Duel 2: He opened up with a pretty passive hand (he had Sangan and Dark Mimic LV3), so I set up my field for a big Synchro play, but then he dropped Maxx "C". He had a Kabazauls on the field with a couple cards in hand, so I just decided to go for it. "I'm going to make you draw into all of your Dinosaurs," I declared. I let him draw like four times, but I was able to make T.G. Hyper Librarian and another Synchro Monster so that I could draw as well. With that, I wiped his field, and he drew to seven cards in hand, while I had seven cards total. He summoned Tour Guide and I negated it with Effect Veiler. He scooped at that, showing me that he had drawn three vanilla Dinosaurs off of his Maxx "C".
OO
Round 5: vs Six Samurai
I was playing against Shien, and since we were the last two undefeated players, this was the finals. We decided not to split, because there was really no point.
-Duel 1: He was able to get out Shi En quickly, but he didn't have any back rows to support it. I was able to drop Gorz and take control of the duel pretty easily.
-Duel 2: He didn't seem to draw any Monsters besides Kizan, but he had a mess load of back rows, including Rivalry of Warlords, to lock me down. I Tribute Set Gorz, since I couldn't Synchro, but he bounced it back to my hand with Compulsory Evacuation Device. I lost this duel by getting beat down by Kizan.
-Duel 3: He didn't draw that many Traps, instead drawing a bunch of swarming Spells like Asceticism, so my Thought Ruler Archfiend was able to take control of the duel after my Ryko killed his Colossal Fighter. After I used MST blindly on his Mirror Force, I knew that Thought Ruler would be safe, and the rest of his back rows were things like Dimensional Prison and Compulsory Evacuation Device, so he couldn't protect himself from Thought Ruler.
OXO
So yeah, I ended up going undefeated and getting 1st place. I'm glad that I only played against regulars today. Honestly, there are better players at my locals, but it was nice to play against the relatively good players. It'll probably be more difficult tomorrow.
Anyways, I got some sleeves and some Kaijudo Core Set packs with my winnings and pulled a second Meteor Dragon. I wanted to get Crimson Wyvern or Tatsurion the Unchained, but oh well. Fwazalaza wanted the Meteor Dragon and a set of Patrol Leader, Paladio, so he traded me a Lord Skycrusher and a Shaw K'Naw for them. So, it worked out.
But yeah, tomorrow (really today, since it's after midnight...) will be the Kaijudo league and another Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. I don't think that Aki is coming, but he might. And my friend who plays Vanguard might show up for the league to use the deck I built for him, but yeah, we'll see...
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