SandsOfDarkness
02-26-2012, 01:08 AM
I wasn't planning on doing a tournament report but since I went undefeated I decided I will try to do one. I didnt take many notes or anything so it will just be a summarized report.
So I knew about the regional a month in advance and wanted to playtest different decks to see what would be best to regionals. However, due to babysitting and whatnot, I never really had a chance to playtest. I playtested a build of inzektor wind ups and didnt like it and then at home, tried a wind up budget deck that ran gallis and whatnot and it wasnt as consistent as I wanted to. So I looked up alot of different deck ideas and then I saw Cody Bodnar's t32 decklist from atlanta. I didnt have a 2nd maxx c so i just put in the 1 i had and added 2 card troopers to make it a 41 card build and changed the side somewhat to my liking. I added a fun card to the side deck that would help me win my 8th round match. The regionals was held where locals was. Usually we get like 100 people or less for a regionals so I expected about 6 rounds. Unlike most regionals, we dont start til like 1 pm so i get there at 10am to get decklist filled out, sleeve deck and hunt for last few remaining cards needed for extra deck. I actually had a zenmaines coming to me but unfortunate circumstances happened to him. After everyone signed up, we had like 175 people and 8 rounds and after getting food barely in time, it was time to begin. I take my seat and i pull out my Rainbow Dash playmat and begins the round. I dont have anybody's name since I didnt keep notes and this is all from head lol
Round 1
Me vs Hero Beat
Game 1: i summon Armageddon Knight and sent hornet to the grave and set warning. He mst it and summon thunder king to run over my monster and sets a backrow. I summon trooper and suicide and draw a card. He sets a few backrows and then I summon dragonfly and pick away his backrows and monsters until he had no resources left
Game 2: He summons thunder king again with no backrow and I have the trooper again and mill hornet and another dark and suicide and I eventually just destroy his resources with DAD coming down late game
he was a pretty nice guy and we talked and joked alot after the match. Most of my opponents were all nice and fun and talkative
Round 2
Me vs Gravekeepers
Game 1: I go first turn armageddon to send hornet and set warning. He plays Necrovalley and 4 backrows and summons a GK to run over my armageddon. I play heavy storn, he starlight roads, I Solemn Warning and then his backrow all go to grave. I summon Dragon fly to bring back hornet to pop his monster and get centipede. Throughout the match, I kept searching hornet with centipede so i could attach hornet from hand to get around Necrovalley and i win from there
Game 2: I sided in decrees and my one Dust Tornado and other stuff and he goes first. Im hoping he doesnt have the first turn Royal Tribute and he doesnt. I summon Dragonfly as he has 2 backrows and i believe i get to pop both and he just drew bad or something and i won that match without much worry
Up to this point, I havent had to use any Xyz monsters and after the whole 9 rounds, I only brung out 4 Xyz monsters
Round 3
Me vs Chaos Dragons
Game 1: I summon armageddon to send hornet and set a warning. He mst it and then plays Future Fusion and he ended up doing lots of combos and got out 2 red eyes metal dragons, 1 prime material, BLS and something else all on his first turn and he OTKs me
Game 2: He tries to Future Fusion again to get his combo but veilers and crows shut him down and i pick at him with inzektors
Game 3: Dont remember much but late game he gold sarcs for BLS and I went through most inzektors as i opened up with multiples in hand so im trying to beat him down. He gets bls to his hand and i DD Crow the only light he had in grave so I win next turn
Round 4
Me vs Plants
Game 1: i go first and set Trap Dustshoot and tomato. His turn i activate it and only 2 monsters are veiler and maxx c so i send back veiler. I beat him down a bit with tomato as he draws no monsters and he plays like 26 monsters or so i and i win from there pretty much
Game 2: he does plant shenanigans and gains too much advantage with dandy tokens and avarice lets him bring out formula again and I just cant stop his advantage he has gained after he trished me.
Game 3: I summon armageddon to send hornet and I have no backrow. He goes first turn tourguide into Zenmaines and attacks my armageddon and sets no back row. I go summon dragonfly to attach hornet from my hand instead to pop zenmaines to get rid of one material, special centipede and now I have 3 darks, i special dad to remove armageddon to hit zenmaines last material and then centipede popped the zenmaines and i attack with all. Eventually he has to Safe Zone my dad as i tried to destroy it and i win with more inzektor combos with call of haunted to his field of librarian and formula and he makes black rose but I have more resources than him and i win the match
Round 5
Me vs TG Stun
Game 1: he just overwhelms me with backrows and I cant get the inzektor combo to work and I lose as he beats me down with 2 Thunder king and TG Rhino
Game 2: I draw out his backrows but he does get my centipede with Hero's Rule 2 but i still push forward next turn and get the inzektor combo to go off and I have warning set so I make a Xyz to force him to synchro with his TGs but I have the warning set to stop it
Game 3: he goes first and sets backrows with no monsters and I attack him with Sangan. The game goes on with small damage and I know he has a Solemn Judgment set cause he got it with Duality. I duality and i choose Heavy Storm and he knows I have storm. He sets one more backrow to have 2 of them. I play storm hoping to draw out the solemn judgement and he lets both go (judgment and warning destroyed). He said he didnt want to risk the heavy LP payment so i beat him down with the inzektor combo
Round 6
Me vs Blackwings
Game 1: he jokes he is playing empty jar but when he dualities and i see blackwings, I know he was joking. He sets 2 backrow and 1 monster and i have played against them enough to know that usually means there is an Icarus Attack face down. I Heavy Storm and hit both backrow which had no icarus attacks but a warning and something else and then dragonfly to attach hornet from hand to pop, get centipede and equip it and attack, pop my own dragonfly in mp2 to get a dragonfly to hand and he cant comeback
Game 2: he gets out armed wing in mid game and he had the 2300 tuner 6 star on the field. I pop both his backrow and the tuner guy and i misplayed here. I went to grab leviathan dragon and grabbed Giga-brillant instead and thought i was going to lose cause i cant get over armed wing and he brings out catastor and i finally draw dragonfly but no more centipides or hornets in deck so i bring out giga-mantis to help get over catastor
Round 7
Me vs Wind ups (tour guides replaced with marauding captains)
Game 1: there were quite a bit of wind ups and i dont know what happened to them but not many were at top tables. The tour guide variants were all at lower tables and 2 Marauding Captain versions were at top tables. I open up with 2 warnings and a veiler. I stop his maruading with veiler and attack it and then the warnings took down magician and then rat and i win
Game 2: he loops me turn 2 and I cant recover. I had a Spirit Reaper but he brings out Tiras and gets rid of it
Game 3: I set Gozen Match and he goes magician and then shark and i flip and gozen prevents him from doing anything so i win this one
Round 8
Me vs Dino
Game 1: here is my hardest matchup and alot of people gather around. I hate when they do that cause it makes me super nervous so i misplay bad game 1 and lose horribly
Game 2: I calm down alot. He summons rabbit and I Maxx C and draw 2 cards off it and then I draw out Laggia's effect and win from there
Game 3: he goes first turn Tour Guide and I veiler it. I attack it and he tries another tour guide next which gets veilered lol. Mid game he has one backrow, a used up laggia, i dolkka with one material and a leviar with one material. I draw the side deck card that i wanted to play the whole day. I have a hornet in grave and i summon a hornet from hand. He has no response. He asks me if i want to use effect, i say no and then activate armor blast to destroy his leviar and dolkka. I bring out bls and he fiendish chains and next turn i get off the inzektor loop and he draws the vanilla dinos
So im 8-0 and sit around and talk to friends until the top 8 was announced There was a deck people were talking about that made people say "really?" and i think it went x-3. It didnt do as good but it was interesting to say the least. It was Wind up Samurais lol. Top 8 is announced and I have to play the TG guy from earlier
Game 1: Just like earlier in swiss, he gets this game with all his backrows and tengu stunts and makes the Gaia synchro and he beats me down with that and tengu.
Game 2: I ended up opening up with 3 mst and so i took his backrow apart. He did warning my gorz mid game but i draw into the inzektor combo and take him down
Game 3: this game, i thought i was going to lose. I blind mst like an idiot and summon dragonfly and he skill drains. I end up special summoning Cyber Dragon to draw out a backrow and a DAD later with no effect. I duality into a Dust Tornado and get rid of Skill Drain. I destroy his destroyed his rhino with centipede to get dragonfly and he got warwolf at end phase so i have 1 inzektor on field and a dad. He has 5 cards in hand. i got 2 in hand. He specials striker, and then specials 3 warwolfs and makes Scrap Dragon to pop his last tg on field and destroy dad and attack over centipede. he sets a backrow. I decide its now or never so i risk it by bringing out dragonfly to attempt to hit the backrow and it was successful and then centipede popped the Scrap Dragon and i attacked for game.
so after all this I went 9-0 and was quite happy. 3 people of from my locals topped 8 with me and one of them made top 4.
Here is the decks that made top 8
2 inzektors
1 inzektors with ninjas that played the old school Ninjutsu art of transformation
1 Plant deck
1 Tg Stun
1 Blackwings (my friend who went x-3 at Atlanta)
1 Rabbit Dino
1 dark world
Overall it was a really good regionals and I met alot of new people and All my opponents were happy and energetic and we had good conversations
PROS:
going 9-0
Meeting fun new people
Getting to use armor blast
3 others from my locals topping
CONS:
Really really crowded. It was a store and it was so cramped the entire day
cant really think of anymore, it was a good regionals.
Ill add more pros/cons if i think of them. Im dead tired and heading to bed soons lol
So I knew about the regional a month in advance and wanted to playtest different decks to see what would be best to regionals. However, due to babysitting and whatnot, I never really had a chance to playtest. I playtested a build of inzektor wind ups and didnt like it and then at home, tried a wind up budget deck that ran gallis and whatnot and it wasnt as consistent as I wanted to. So I looked up alot of different deck ideas and then I saw Cody Bodnar's t32 decklist from atlanta. I didnt have a 2nd maxx c so i just put in the 1 i had and added 2 card troopers to make it a 41 card build and changed the side somewhat to my liking. I added a fun card to the side deck that would help me win my 8th round match. The regionals was held where locals was. Usually we get like 100 people or less for a regionals so I expected about 6 rounds. Unlike most regionals, we dont start til like 1 pm so i get there at 10am to get decklist filled out, sleeve deck and hunt for last few remaining cards needed for extra deck. I actually had a zenmaines coming to me but unfortunate circumstances happened to him. After everyone signed up, we had like 175 people and 8 rounds and after getting food barely in time, it was time to begin. I take my seat and i pull out my Rainbow Dash playmat and begins the round. I dont have anybody's name since I didnt keep notes and this is all from head lol
Round 1
Me vs Hero Beat
Game 1: i summon Armageddon Knight and sent hornet to the grave and set warning. He mst it and summon thunder king to run over my monster and sets a backrow. I summon trooper and suicide and draw a card. He sets a few backrows and then I summon dragonfly and pick away his backrows and monsters until he had no resources left
Game 2: He summons thunder king again with no backrow and I have the trooper again and mill hornet and another dark and suicide and I eventually just destroy his resources with DAD coming down late game
he was a pretty nice guy and we talked and joked alot after the match. Most of my opponents were all nice and fun and talkative
Round 2
Me vs Gravekeepers
Game 1: I go first turn armageddon to send hornet and set warning. He plays Necrovalley and 4 backrows and summons a GK to run over my armageddon. I play heavy storn, he starlight roads, I Solemn Warning and then his backrow all go to grave. I summon Dragon fly to bring back hornet to pop his monster and get centipede. Throughout the match, I kept searching hornet with centipede so i could attach hornet from hand to get around Necrovalley and i win from there
Game 2: I sided in decrees and my one Dust Tornado and other stuff and he goes first. Im hoping he doesnt have the first turn Royal Tribute and he doesnt. I summon Dragonfly as he has 2 backrows and i believe i get to pop both and he just drew bad or something and i won that match without much worry
Up to this point, I havent had to use any Xyz monsters and after the whole 9 rounds, I only brung out 4 Xyz monsters
Round 3
Me vs Chaos Dragons
Game 1: I summon armageddon to send hornet and set a warning. He mst it and then plays Future Fusion and he ended up doing lots of combos and got out 2 red eyes metal dragons, 1 prime material, BLS and something else all on his first turn and he OTKs me
Game 2: He tries to Future Fusion again to get his combo but veilers and crows shut him down and i pick at him with inzektors
Game 3: Dont remember much but late game he gold sarcs for BLS and I went through most inzektors as i opened up with multiples in hand so im trying to beat him down. He gets bls to his hand and i DD Crow the only light he had in grave so I win next turn
Round 4
Me vs Plants
Game 1: i go first and set Trap Dustshoot and tomato. His turn i activate it and only 2 monsters are veiler and maxx c so i send back veiler. I beat him down a bit with tomato as he draws no monsters and he plays like 26 monsters or so i and i win from there pretty much
Game 2: he does plant shenanigans and gains too much advantage with dandy tokens and avarice lets him bring out formula again and I just cant stop his advantage he has gained after he trished me.
Game 3: I summon armageddon to send hornet and I have no backrow. He goes first turn tourguide into Zenmaines and attacks my armageddon and sets no back row. I go summon dragonfly to attach hornet from my hand instead to pop zenmaines to get rid of one material, special centipede and now I have 3 darks, i special dad to remove armageddon to hit zenmaines last material and then centipede popped the zenmaines and i attack with all. Eventually he has to Safe Zone my dad as i tried to destroy it and i win with more inzektor combos with call of haunted to his field of librarian and formula and he makes black rose but I have more resources than him and i win the match
Round 5
Me vs TG Stun
Game 1: he just overwhelms me with backrows and I cant get the inzektor combo to work and I lose as he beats me down with 2 Thunder king and TG Rhino
Game 2: I draw out his backrows but he does get my centipede with Hero's Rule 2 but i still push forward next turn and get the inzektor combo to go off and I have warning set so I make a Xyz to force him to synchro with his TGs but I have the warning set to stop it
Game 3: he goes first and sets backrows with no monsters and I attack him with Sangan. The game goes on with small damage and I know he has a Solemn Judgment set cause he got it with Duality. I duality and i choose Heavy Storm and he knows I have storm. He sets one more backrow to have 2 of them. I play storm hoping to draw out the solemn judgement and he lets both go (judgment and warning destroyed). He said he didnt want to risk the heavy LP payment so i beat him down with the inzektor combo
Round 6
Me vs Blackwings
Game 1: he jokes he is playing empty jar but when he dualities and i see blackwings, I know he was joking. He sets 2 backrow and 1 monster and i have played against them enough to know that usually means there is an Icarus Attack face down. I Heavy Storm and hit both backrow which had no icarus attacks but a warning and something else and then dragonfly to attach hornet from hand to pop, get centipede and equip it and attack, pop my own dragonfly in mp2 to get a dragonfly to hand and he cant comeback
Game 2: he gets out armed wing in mid game and he had the 2300 tuner 6 star on the field. I pop both his backrow and the tuner guy and i misplayed here. I went to grab leviathan dragon and grabbed Giga-brillant instead and thought i was going to lose cause i cant get over armed wing and he brings out catastor and i finally draw dragonfly but no more centipides or hornets in deck so i bring out giga-mantis to help get over catastor
Round 7
Me vs Wind ups (tour guides replaced with marauding captains)
Game 1: there were quite a bit of wind ups and i dont know what happened to them but not many were at top tables. The tour guide variants were all at lower tables and 2 Marauding Captain versions were at top tables. I open up with 2 warnings and a veiler. I stop his maruading with veiler and attack it and then the warnings took down magician and then rat and i win
Game 2: he loops me turn 2 and I cant recover. I had a Spirit Reaper but he brings out Tiras and gets rid of it
Game 3: I set Gozen Match and he goes magician and then shark and i flip and gozen prevents him from doing anything so i win this one
Round 8
Me vs Dino
Game 1: here is my hardest matchup and alot of people gather around. I hate when they do that cause it makes me super nervous so i misplay bad game 1 and lose horribly
Game 2: I calm down alot. He summons rabbit and I Maxx C and draw 2 cards off it and then I draw out Laggia's effect and win from there
Game 3: he goes first turn Tour Guide and I veiler it. I attack it and he tries another tour guide next which gets veilered lol. Mid game he has one backrow, a used up laggia, i dolkka with one material and a leviar with one material. I draw the side deck card that i wanted to play the whole day. I have a hornet in grave and i summon a hornet from hand. He has no response. He asks me if i want to use effect, i say no and then activate armor blast to destroy his leviar and dolkka. I bring out bls and he fiendish chains and next turn i get off the inzektor loop and he draws the vanilla dinos
So im 8-0 and sit around and talk to friends until the top 8 was announced There was a deck people were talking about that made people say "really?" and i think it went x-3. It didnt do as good but it was interesting to say the least. It was Wind up Samurais lol. Top 8 is announced and I have to play the TG guy from earlier
Game 1: Just like earlier in swiss, he gets this game with all his backrows and tengu stunts and makes the Gaia synchro and he beats me down with that and tengu.
Game 2: I ended up opening up with 3 mst and so i took his backrow apart. He did warning my gorz mid game but i draw into the inzektor combo and take him down
Game 3: this game, i thought i was going to lose. I blind mst like an idiot and summon dragonfly and he skill drains. I end up special summoning Cyber Dragon to draw out a backrow and a DAD later with no effect. I duality into a Dust Tornado and get rid of Skill Drain. I destroy his destroyed his rhino with centipede to get dragonfly and he got warwolf at end phase so i have 1 inzektor on field and a dad. He has 5 cards in hand. i got 2 in hand. He specials striker, and then specials 3 warwolfs and makes Scrap Dragon to pop his last tg on field and destroy dad and attack over centipede. he sets a backrow. I decide its now or never so i risk it by bringing out dragonfly to attempt to hit the backrow and it was successful and then centipede popped the Scrap Dragon and i attacked for game.
so after all this I went 9-0 and was quite happy. 3 people of from my locals topped 8 with me and one of them made top 4.
Here is the decks that made top 8
2 inzektors
1 inzektors with ninjas that played the old school Ninjutsu art of transformation
1 Plant deck
1 Tg Stun
1 Blackwings (my friend who went x-3 at Atlanta)
1 Rabbit Dino
1 dark world
Overall it was a really good regionals and I met alot of new people and All my opponents were happy and energetic and we had good conversations
PROS:
going 9-0
Meeting fun new people
Getting to use armor blast
3 others from my locals topping
CONS:
Really really crowded. It was a store and it was so cramped the entire day
cant really think of anymore, it was a good regionals.
Ill add more pros/cons if i think of them. Im dead tired and heading to bed soons lol