I thought I would do a tourney report this time instead of the other duel theory stuff I've been writing.

My friend built the deck for me and I looked over the deck list. It seemed decent so I played it. The deck was Perfect Circle with Light and Darkness Dragon.

3 Raiza the Storm Monarch
2 Light and Darkness Dragon
2 Cyber Dragon
2 Destiny Hero - Malicious
2 Zaborg the Thunder Monarch

2 Mystic Tomato
1 Destiny Hero - Disk Commander
1 Destiny Hero - Fear Monger
1 Elemental Hero - Stratos
1 Magician of Faith
1 Marshmellon
1 Sangan
1 Snipe Hunter
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Treeborn Frog

2 Destiny Draw
2 Lightning Vortex
2 Soul Exchange
1 Brain Control
1 Foolish Burial
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Pot of Avarice
1 Premature Burial
1 Reinforcements of the Army
1 Scapegoat

1 Call of the Haunted
1 Mirror Force
1 Phoenix Wing Windblast
1 Torrential Tribute

Round 1: Six Samurai
This guy ran Six Samurais without Grandmaster of the Six Samurai but had some of the good stuff from Gladiator's Assault.

Game 1, he went first, set 2 cards and summon Zanji. I played Heavy Storm, Cyber Dragon and Spirit Reaper and it went all down hill for him. I also had Foolish Burial and 3 Monarchs so that was pretty bad for him. He put a few Six Samurais in my way to protect Life Points and then got out Enishi, Shien's Chancellor to put on some pressure but Lightning Vortex took care of him. He got top decked Great Shogun Shien and special summoned him with that card from Gladiator's Assault that lets you special summon a drawn Six Samurai. Of course, he couldn't do that because Great Shogun isn't a Six Samurai but I didn't notice until after the game. Fortunately, the end came very quickly when Great Shogun got spun to the deck by Raiza.

Game 2, I had a +4 card advantage over him and thought I had complete contorl but he activated Back to the Wall to get out 5 Six Samurai. He took me down to a 100 LP on the turn he activated it. I drew next turn and my hand was stuck with Brain Control, a Monarch and some other stuff that just didn't save me.

Game 3, he had a all Six Samurai hand. He looked at the top card when he drew his initial 5 cards and asked if I wanted him to shuffle his deck. I said no because that obviously showed that his hand was horrible, so I said that I should look at the top card as well, which is the correct judge ruling for this incident. Needless to say, I won.

Round 2: Final Countdown
This guy always has the weirdest decks and always uses paper and pencil when calculating life points. His Final Countdown deck uses Final Countdown, main decked Mask of Restrict and some flip effect monsters.

Game 1, he went first and set 2 facedown cards and a monster, then played Final Countdown. He activated Mask of Restrict during my Standby Phase. It didn't matter though as Heavy Storm took care of that and Cyber Dragon with Zaborg the Thunder Monarch took down his set Dekoichi and he took 2400 damage to the face. He just set cards the next few turns as he took much damage from my monsters.

I sided in 2, Mei-Kou, Master of Barriers

Game 2, he went first and didn't have Final Countdown. Cool. He had a Messenger of Peace though but luckily my Mystic Tomato kept his flip effects in check. But then he played down Level Limit Area - B. That stalled for about 6 of my turns until I drew Snipe Hunter. Luckily, he still didn't have Final Countdown. He then had Skull Lair which proceeded to kill off my monsters. But Skull Lair ran out of monsters to remove quickly and after 2 Mei-Kou activations later, Light and Darkness Dragon hit the field and proceeded to decimate him. By this time he drew Final Countdown but I beat him after the 10th turn.

Round 3: A Legendary Ocean
This water deck was not that bad. He used A Legendary Ocean to power out Terror King Salmon. He also had Hydrogeddon, Mobius the Frost Monarch, Levia-Dragon - Daedulus and Fenrir.

Game 1, he went first and set a card with no monsters. I summoned Spirit Reaper and it actually went through to discard a Mobius. He did nothing again and I went for another card. This time he used Compulsory Evacuation Device to return Spirit Reaper to my hand. He set this entire hand the next turn and I just beat him down with Mystic Tomato. He drew Fenrir but couldn't summon him. Spirit Reaper then took it away from his hand and it was on to game 2 the next turn.

Game 2, he had a nicer hand and managed to have a field of 3 Hydrogeddon and a Mobius on the field. He also had 1 facedown spell or trap, Royal Decree and A Legendary Ocean on the field. I actually drew all 4 of my traps so that was pretty bad. Luckily, I got Destiny Hero - Malicious out and offered it for a Raiza the Storm Monarch. I opted to bounce Mobius instead of Royal Decree. Looking back, this was a horrible misplay because I could've used Mirror Force on this entire army the next turn then being in a very good position with my traps available. Luckily, Back to back Raizas was enough for me to win. He had Pot of Avarice but drew into nothing.

Round 3: Beatdown
I don't see how this deck went 3-0 but it did. He played Berserk Gorilla, Goblin Attack Force, Slate Warrior and stuff like that.

Game 1, he summoned Slate Warrior and I was expecting Dark Necrofear Return or something like that. Luckily for me, all he did was play large beat sticks which were rendered useless by first turn Foolish Burial coupled with Zaborg the Thunder Monarch. He lost that rather quickly.

Game 2, he set a Slate Warrior and I attacked it with Mystic Tomato for a +1. He attacked my red plant with Berserk Gorilla and I got Snipe Hunter. I dumped Malicious with Snipe Hunter, summoned Zaborg offering my searched out Malicious and proceeded to beat him down from there. Perfect Circle was surprisingly aggressive so far and felt more like 15 Gauge Monarchs. Oh well, can't argue against wins.

So cool, I topped 8.

Quarterfinals: Perfect Circle
This was a poorly built deck. It had all the pieces and everything but the deck wasn't fluid and the player made too many misplays.

I don't remember much about this match probably because both games ended so quickly. The one thing I did remember is that I got out Light and Darkness Dragon both games, and in both games he had to waste 3 cards just to lower its attack to kill it, then in both games I got to special summon Destiny Hero - Disk Commander with it.

I also got double Destiny Draw and Foolish Burial on game 1. Good hands rule.



Semifinals: Zombies
This was a fairly decent Zombie deck with all of the typical good stuff.

Game 1, I had opening hand of 2 Raiza's, 2 Destiny Hero - Malcious, Elemental Hero - Stratos and Scapegoat. I top decked into a Monarch, summoned Stratos to fetch Destiny Hero - Disc Commander. He killed by Stratos with Pyramid Turtle searching into Ryu Kokki. I draw nothing for the next few turns and watched as my Sheep tokens met oblivion as I sat there saying "Go ahead" for 3 consecutive turns.

I sided into 3 D. D. Crow and 2 Royal Oppressions.

Game 2, he had absolutely nothing so I proceeded to just beat him down with Stratos. He tried to Book of Life but D.D. Crow shut him down. I guess this balances out game 1.

Game 3, I had Royal Oppression on turn 1 and rendered his hand useless. The most memorable thing here is that I negated his Giant Rats and Pyramid Turtles. If you don't see the problem with that, it's time to get up to date with your rulings. He didn't put much of a fight in this round and Cyber Dragon goes all the way.

Finals: Demise OTK
I never saw this guy before and didn't know he was playing Demise OTK until game 1.

This deck was the toughest deck I faced so far. My first lost to Six Samurai was pretty much a fluke and my second loss to Zombies was thanks to a horrible hand. But in game 1, I actually had a decent hand but still went very close to losing. I started out just beating his down with Mystic Tomato and Elemental Hero Stratos. He then brought out Demise and blew the field, dropping to
himself down to 2000 LP and leaving me with one card in hand with nothing else. I top decked Treeborn Frog and discarded it to Lightning Vortex to kill off Demise. He summoned Sonic Bird and attacked me down to 1000 LP and played a face down spell or trap. I drew nothing relevant but had Treeborn Frog on the field. I prayed he didn't draw a monster and my wish was granted. I was praying for a Raiza the Storm Monarch now and luckily, the heart of the cards gave it to me. I chose to bounce his face down card instead of Sonic Bird and attacked him down to 1000 LP. He set his face down card again. I prayed for another Raiza the Storm Monarch and it came. Cool.

I sided in 2 Wobaku and 2 Royal Oppressions.

The last game of the tournament was rather anti-climactic. He opened with a face down spell or trap and summoned Insect Knight in attack mode. I had nothing to kill the Insect Knight, except Breaker the Magical Warrior but had Stratos, Destiny Draw and Destiny Hero - Fear Monger in my hand. I wanted to kill the Insect Knight that turn so I played Destiny Draw discarding Fear Monger, hoping for a Cyber Dragon, and it came to me. Cyber Dragon hit the field along with Breaker. Breaker broke and my monsters hit for 1800 damage. I had Royal Oppression and activated on his turn. He set a card and passed. I top decked Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy his face down Dimension Fusion, then summoned Stratos, searching for then discarding Malicious to Destiny Draw. I removed Malicious from the graveyard to get another one and attacked for game.

He revealed to me he had game if I didn't have Royal Oppression. I'm such a lucky player. I had Foolish Burial in my opening hand an unusually large percentage of the time, as well as Destiny Draw with Stratos and Premature Burial.

The odd thing was I never once saw Magician of Faith.

The prize was 2 booster packs (contained nothing but the powerful Lucky Pied Piper!) and a promo Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer. Nothing fabulous but there was a mat tournament next week so yeah, that had a nicer prize and that tourney report is coming to you next week.