Tournament Report 3/27/11

Yay, two tournaments in one weekend. Same deck, of course.

JC and his weird friend were there, not that most of you care.

Round 1: vs X-Sabers

-Duel 1: I opened with Mind Control and Scrap Goblin, so I was going to wait until he played a Monster to steal it for a Synchro. After a few turns of draw-pass-draw-pass, I stole his XX-Saber Darksoul and Synchro Summoned Naturia Barkion, which got Warned. After that, more draw-pass-draw-pass. He used Giant Trunade to swarm, and I countered with Scrap Dragons. Over a few turns, I ground down his resources and won.

-Duel 2: Same as the first duel for the first part of the game. Then, when he was preparing to swarm, I calculated his next move and dropped a second Scrap Dragon. He only had enough cards to bounce one with Brionac, so he was stuck making a subpar XX-Saber Gottoms play, which I picked apart on my next turn.

Round 2: vs Salvo Chaos

-Duel 1: He drew really well, and I didn't. However, his deck was too slow to keep up with my Scraps, once I started making my plays.

-Duel 2: He drew fairly decently, but Crevice Into the Different Dimension removed both of his Darks, crippling the Chaos Sorcerer and Dark Armed Dragon that were in his hand. I beat him down with Scrap Twin Dragon over a few turns.

Round 3: vs Hero Beat

This was my Round 1 opponent from this tournament.

-Duel 1: I gained advantage on him with Scrapstorm and Scrap Chimera, removing his Monsters with Traps and such. Worm Xex and Yagan were also quite helpful.

-Duel 2: Same deal, basically. I also opened with both Mystical Space Typhoons, and he drew pretty badly.

Before the next round, I agreed to a four-way split with the other three undefeated players (okay, there were five undefeated total, but we knew that the one who got paired down would lose, so we were mean enough to exclude him).

Round 4: vs Six Samurai

This was my Round 4 opponent from this tournament.

-Duel 1: I started with a Set Worm Yagan and some Set back rows. On his second turn, he ran Shi En into my Worm Yagan, even though he kind of expected it. I won the game off of that momentum and another Yagan, courtesy of Worm Xex.

-Duel 2: He started with Naturia Barkion and back rows. I Normal Summoned Worm Xex, but he negated its summon with Warning. That's right, people are starting to use Solemn Warning on Worms. More on that in another post. Either way, I killed the Barkion with Smashing Ground, then revived it later with Monster Reborn. He kept drawing Traps, so he couldn't get around it, and I was able to win with it.

Round 5: vs Disaster Dragon

This was my Round 2 opponent from this tournament.

-Duel 1: He went first and opened with Future Fusion. He swarmed to kill me.

-Duel 2: I controlled the duel with Naturia Barkion, and he couldn't get through it.

-Duel 3: The duel was very back and forth. I was able to waste most of his resources and peck away at his LP with Scrap Beast. I negated the summon of his last hope, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, with Solemn Judgment and topped Scrap Chimera to go for game.

So yeah, I went undefeated, making up for yesterday. Now I can say that I've won a tournament every weekend this month, yay!

As the prize, I got 3/10 of a box of STOR Special Edition. That amounted to nine packs of STOR, two Light and Darkness Dragons, and one Hand of the Six Samurai. From the packs, notable pulls include Gleipnir, the Fetters or Fenrir and Guldfaxe of the Nordic Beasts.

Those were notable because I'm actually thinking about making a Nordic deck for fun. It seems like it could be really interesting. The only problem is the mass amount of Setting and reactive plays that the deck needs to work. It could still be a neat deck to try out, and aside from Vanadis, which is unnecessary, the deck is relatively inexpensive. I just need two more Tanngnjostr (black goat), two more Gleipnir, and a Thor.

So yeah, now I have a new deck to try and build. I don't like how combo-based it seems to be, but it could end up being competitive, if something bad happens to Scraps or something.

Tournament Report 3/26/11

So, I ended up going to locals with my Scrap Worms deck. A bunch of my friends were there, including vadangchoinga (who needs to upload videos more often) and Katana.

Um, not much else to say. The amount of people there was the usual. I only saw one person playing Fish OTK.

Round 1: vs Machina Returner

-Duel 1: He opened with Machina Gearframe, which he Unioned to the Machina Fortress he Special Summoned. He then Set some back rows and ended. I dropped Cyber Dragon, and it died to Bottomless Trap Hole. I dropped the second one and fused for Chimeratech Fortress Dragon. I was able to win from there without using any Worms. Conversely, I didn't see his Jinzo (Returner)s, so I didn't side for that.

-Duel 2: I keep control with Scraps and such. He did draw Future Fusion for double Jinzo, but it was too late. My victory was already set.

Round 2: vs Gladiator Beasts

This was my Round 4 opponent from this tournament.

-Duel 1: He drew really well, and I didn't. It might have ended differently if he had hit different cards with his Gyzarus, since he blindly hit both of the back rows that I needed to keep for later.

-Duel 2: He locked me down with Dimensional Fissure, and was drawing really well again. But I ran him out of Monsters and beat him down with Worm Xex to win.

-Duel 3: He started with Retiari and five back rows. I Set Ryko and a back row. He attacked, and I flipped Malevolent Catastrophe. He rage quit after that.

Round 3: vs Six Samurai

This guy wasn't very good...

-Duel 1: I think that I used Worm Yagan on his Shi En and proceeded to win.

-Duel 2: He started with Gateway, but I had double Effect Veiler, so I wasn't too worried. Unfortunately, he Normal Summoned Kizan. I couldn't get rid of the Gateway in the next turn, so he got a bunch of pluses off of it. However, I was able to stall behind a Scrap Goblin, then pick apart his field with a Mind Control into Scrap Dragon. I used both of my Effect Veilers on the Kagekis he summoned over the next two turns, and after I let him summon Shi En, I stole it with Puppet Plant to go for game.

Round 4: vs Twilight

I've seen this guy a lot at locals and bigger events, but I think that this is the first time I've played him.

-Duel 1: After having a D.D. Crow to stop my Scrap Chimera, he drops Judgment Dragon early game. I couldn't deal with it, so I died.

-Duel 2: Same deal, except that I could deal with the Judgment Dragon. He had milled two Garoth, so I used Cyber Dragon and Scrap Goblin to Synchro into Colossal Fighter. He tried to use D.D. Crow on his own Garoth, which he didn't know he couldn't do, letting me know he had the Crow. So I attacked the Judgment Dragon, then the Wulf he got for free the previous turn. He dropped Chaos Sorcerer, and I put the Effect Veiler I had recently drawn to good use. However, he milled Plaguespreader Zombie soon after, giving him his third Dark. I lost to Dark Armed Dragon, which was horrible.

Round 5: vs Blackwings

This was my Round 5 opponent from this tournament.

-Duel 1: He opened with Royal Oppression and Black Whirlwind. Seriously...? He then drew into Blizzard and Dark Armed to kill me.

-Duel 2: I opened with Cyber Dragon, Worm Xex, Worm Xex, Worm Yagan, and Worm Xex. Seriously........? However, my sixth card was Giant Trunade, which was okay. I made the obvious Worm Xex play and ended my turn. He summoned Shura, Set a bunch of back rows, and ended his turn. I flipped Worm Yagan to force the Icarus Attack, but he didn't have it. I then played Giant Trunade and Normal Summoned the Scrap Beast I had just drawn. I attacked with everything, then Synchro Summoned Scrap Dragon. I was somehow able to win, getting a total of a plus-3 off of two Worm Yagans, one of which I used Book of Moon on after Flip Summoning to reset it.

-Duel 3: He started with a Set Gravekeeper's Spy and one back row. I Special Summoned Cyber Dragon. He flipped Royal Oppression, again (he did have it in the second duel, but I think that I got rid of it somehow), and I was forced to use my Mystical Space Typhoon. I attacked and he Special Summoned another Gravekeeper's Spy. The rest that I remember is him playing Black Whirlwind, summoning Bora to search Gale, then drawing into two Blizzards to kill me.

So I went 3-2, which was disappointing. My deck is supposed to have a really good match-up against Blackwings and Gladiator Beasts (my last opponent even admitted that he thought that he would auto-lose against me), but I can't do much when my opponents draw really well all the time.

By the way, the Fish OTK guy won, so I might have to watch out for that more. I was siding Trap Dustshoot and Mind Crush, so I think that I would've been okay.

Anyway, I might end up going to locals tomorrow as well. I'll have to see what happens.

Crazy Side Decking Idea

So I was just talking to my friend who has no idea about Yu-Gi-Oh about how annoying the meta will be with Empty Jar and Fish OTK everywhere.

During that chat, I decided that since my deck has a good match-up against everything except Empty Jar, Fish OTK, and Gravekeeper's, I could Main Deck the Side Decked hate against my good match-ups, then use my Side Deck almost exclusively for Empty Jar and Fish OTK.

What would that mean? My Side Deck might look something like this:

Effect Veiler x2

D.D. Crow x2

Extra Veiler x2

Banisher of the Radiance x2

Nobleman of Crossout

Mind Crush

Trap Dustshoot

Crevice Into the Different Dimension x2

Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror x2

The Shadow-Imprisoning is for Gravekeeper's, obviously. With this, I could Side Deck like ten cards against Empty Jar and Fish OTK, ensuring that I don't lose to them.

Of course, the usual Dimensional Prisons and Dust Tornadoes would be moved to the Main Deck. The only problem with this is the lack of space. But, if I could make it work, this would be awesome.

I'm going to try a less extreme version of this idea this weekend, and see if it's worth it. If people don't really catch on to the Empty Jar and Fish OTK decks, then I won't have to worry.