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blah23
05-31-2009, 06:14 PM
Putting this up so kay wont bug me anymore !

Didn’t want to play GB after getting sacked so horribly vs Lightsworn. So I decided to use a blackwing I been using for about a month got a lot of testing in thanks to YVD and have had really good luck against Lightsworn and the Mirror match only GB I wasn’t so sure of . Wake up around 7:30 head to Ervin’s and then from there to the regional. Around 250 ppl 8 rounder.

Round 1 vs Andrew “gladiator Beasts”
G1. I go first and pass my opening turn he summons a laquari and attacks for 1800 and sets 1. I heavy play whirlwind summon Shura and summon 2 gales and otk =) 6200-0
G2. I draw all m/t’s he T sets and ends. I set reckless/bottomless he flip summons samnite and attacks for 1600 and tags for laquari I bottomless the laquari and he ends. I draw oppression and set it. He summons rescue cat and I chain oppression to its effect. I draw a gale and end. He summons prisma and hits for 1700 sets 1 and ends. I summon gale half the prisma and atk. Set a bottomless and end. He summons samnite I bottomless he ends. I draw and in my draw phase play reckless greed . I play cold wave and end up going dsf and dad for game =) 3900-0

Round 2 vs Kapono “demise”
G1. He goes gold sarc for black salvo and summons manju for Advanced ritual art. I play whirlwind summon shura atk over manju and 1300 directly with gale. I set bottomless and roar. He goes for demise I chain bottomless and roar. Next turn I otk with bora/gale into dsf. 8000-0
G2. He opens up with a hand full of normal monsters I beat down his mechanical chaser with stardust dragon and have bth for his dark strike fighter he scoops. 8000-0

Round 3 vs Alfred “gladiator beast” I play like every regional
G1. I open up with whirlwind and shura for kalut. He sets bestiari and waboku I atk the bestiari he wabokus and tags for murmilo. Main Phase 2 I summon sirocco search gale for whirlwind and synchro for stardust and set bottomless. He proving grounds for bestiari and fuse for gyzarus I negate with stardust he trys to reborn stardust I bottomless. Next turn I go blizzard reborn shura summon gale and bora gg. 8000-0
G2. I have pretty good control over the field with oppression but I waste a roar that costs me this game. He ends up heavying my torrential oppression and whirlwind and goes rescue/reborn for game.

G3. I have the field locked up with oppression again and poking away slowly. I end up winning cuz of it 6400-0
Round 4. George “Gladiator beast”
G1. I basically just go nuts with whirlwind and shura. 2nd turn I otk with dad and dsf. 8000-0
G2. I summon stardust my first turn and have oppression set =) 6400-0

Round 5. Andrew Taylor. “gladiator beast”
G1. I drew double whirlwind gale and trunade I was getting beatdown pretty bad til I drew a BW. I trunade for game. 700-0
G2. We come down to top decking I have a cold wave and he has a bth set. I just need 1 monster for game and draw dad =( I end he goes proving ground for laquari gg. 0-600
G3. Hes stalling horribly for time he over extends to drop me to 3600. I couldn’t make up the lp difference even though I had complete control all he had was equeste and econ. I had blizzard/gale/kalut torrential set whirlwind active and cold wave in hand. I can only drop him down to 5400 so I lose 1 more turn and I had game. 3600-5400.

Round 6. Vs Bruce “dad”
G1. He sets a monster and ends. I summon bora and hit tomato for 600. He searches sangan. I set reckless and end. He goes stratos for malicious. Stratos and sangan attack for 1100. And he ends. I summon blizzard bring back bora and synchro for goyo hit stratos for 1000 and and take control of it. I end he uses sangan to destroy his stratos. Summons krebons and ends. I dark eruption back the blizzard use it to reborn bora. Special another bora from my hand brain the krebon synchro krebon and def bora for gaia and atk for game. 6900 to 0
G2. He d draw malicious teleport dad otk =)
G3. I side in my spys and guard and end up drawing a spy opening hand. I set it with reckless. He summons stratos and it slams into spy for 200 I search guard. I play heavy he solemns. I summon gale he torrentials. I set bottomless and end. He sets another backrow. I play trunade he solemns again. I reborn gale and poke for 1300. He ends up scooping.

Round 7 vs Robby. “Blackwing”
Game 1 I opened with a good hand shura/kalut/gale/heavy/delta crow. I summon shura set delta crow. He goes brain bora gale double kalut for game. =) 0-8000

G2. Complete opposite of game 1. Basically a stall war. I had 3 spys and guard face up with oppression. He has 2 spys and colossal fighter at 1400. I end up playing cold wave summoning gale using its effect o cut a spy in half. Destroying a spy. using arcanite magician to take out his only trap and colossal fighter . his turn he ends up going his own arcanite magician and leaving me with nothing but my own arcanite but he has no backrow. I have whirlwind/shura/brain and reborn. Dsf alone would burn for almost 5000 that turn.

G3. I end up drawing kinda ugly. Gale/blizzard reckless/dad and bottomless. He pokes me a coulpe times with gales. I try to bluff my gale as a spy and but he attacks it =( I draw and set spy =) he attacks into it with shura and I get my guard. Next turn I go arcanite magician and dad to clear his whole field and leaves him with 1 in hand he just set a monster and I use dad for gg.

Round 8. Steven “Gladiator beasts” again…
G1. Im messing around I have 2 whirlwinds and got to search twice with both of them I go all out and he has torrential and force lol. So I end up losing.
G2. I get more serious and end up locking him down with oppression and otk him when I draw cold wave.
G3. He sides in d-fissure sets 3 and ends. I play heavy he negates with solemn I play allure get rid of dad since it’ll be no use to me. Summon kalut and atk for 1400. I set bottomless and oppression and end. He summons darius I try to bth he negates with solemn again. He atks for 300 and trys to tag I flip oppression. I end up beating him down with gale and kalut he got stuck with 2bth =). 7700-0
Top 8 for me =)
Record after Swiss:
1. Joseph Franzo (8-0)
2. Alberto Becerra (7-1)
3. Ruben Jimenez (7-1)
4. John Umali (7-1)
5. Daniel Lu (7-1)
6. Adam Corn (7-1)
7. Anthony Chalupa (7-1)
8. Pete Navarro (7-1)



We all decide to split the packs and then were supposed to play for the gift card. Im supposed to play Adam but he had to leave so I get the gift card for free. but other wise good day.

Final Standing after Top 8 Playoffs:

1st Place: Alberto Becerra (Lightsworn)
2nd Place: Ruben Jimenez (Blackwing)
3rd Place: John Umali (Lightsworn)
4th Place: Pete Navarro (Blackwing)
5th Place: Joseph Franzo (Lightsworn)
6th Place: Daniel Lu (Skill Drain Barbaros)
7th Place: Adam Corn (Blackwing)
8th Place: Anthony Chalupa (Lightsworn)


Props:
Topping
Making fun of ervin
Kenny getting his invite
Making fun of ervin
Pulling 6 holos out of 13 packs
Making fun of ervin
starbucks



1 Dark armed dragon
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
3 Blackwing - shura the blue flame
3 Blackwing - bora the spear
3 Blackwing - kalut the moon shadow
3 Blackwing - gale the whirlwind
2 Blackwing - blizzard the far north
2 Blackwing - sirocco the dawn

3 Black Whrilwind
2 Allure of Darkness
2 Dark Eruption
1 Heavy Storm
1 Giant Trunade
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Brain control
1 Monster Reborn


3 Reckless Greed
2 Icarus Attack
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Delta Crow Anti Reverse
1 Threatning Roar

Extra
1 stardust
1 thought ruler
1 colassal fighter
1 red dragon archfiend
1 goyo guardian
1 gaia
1 bw armed wing
1 black rose dragon
2 dark strike fighter
2 blackwing armor master
1 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
2 Arcanite magician

GSRIceman
05-31-2009, 07:04 PM
GJ on the Top and your Invite....So Joseph Franzo used Lightsworn instead of Blackwings? Didn't see that coming. Will there be a decklist from you?

blah23
05-31-2009, 08:05 PM
lol yea he changed his mind on the LS/BW match up. he went undefeated in swiss and lost bw in top8.

i might put up a list later depending how i feel lol

dUck
05-31-2009, 08:22 PM
Very nice report.

Rene
05-31-2009, 08:40 PM
Good report and good job, congrats.

Wish I had the patience and energy to stay through that system failure after round 2. : (

Bearded Mexican
05-31-2009, 08:51 PM
gj man , anything u would have changed from ure deck?? i also noticed many dont play delta crow but i like it too much no to main 1.

blah23
05-31-2009, 08:58 PM
Good report and good job, congrats.

Wish I had the patience and energy to stay through that system failure after round 2. : (


lol it wasnt that bad, if i could wait for the horrible start to the shonen i could wait an hour and a half. plus we were sitting on the couchs just joking around.


and really nothing i didnt like with the deck it ran smooth and did way better than i thought it would

Oscillate Wildly
05-31-2009, 09:15 PM
Good job , congratulations for the top.
how well did the reckless greed worked for you?
I want to run a BW with the reckless engine but im not sure.
Your going to the regional at san diego?

blah23
05-31-2009, 09:26 PM
Reckless greeds are broken if u know how to play them. Ppl ust randomly flip them. I wait as long as i can to activate it until i draw the 2nd, going for game or im desperate.

Nah i have no reason to go to SD. theres still 2 more regionals up here if i felt like going.

Wu-Lord
06-01-2009, 12:22 AM
Very impressive on not running Solemns. How does the pair of Blizzard do for you?

I'm wondering what do you usually side out for the Gravekeepers if you don't mind me asking?

The Fiend Commander
06-01-2009, 12:36 PM
Was that DAD deck Cesar Dad on Summoner Dad?

blah23
06-01-2009, 01:30 PM
i think it was closer to cesars version

XxPossyxX
06-01-2009, 01:32 PM
do you know what adam ran like what did it look like

blah23
06-01-2009, 01:35 PM
so many want to netdeck lol. it was close to mine maybe 4-5 card difference at most

TheBigBad
06-01-2009, 01:47 PM
which one of the top 8 were you? (whats your name)

XxPossyxX
06-01-2009, 01:48 PM
can you talk to me on aim plz vjrimshots69 i would really like to talk to you

blah23
06-01-2009, 01:57 PM
which one of the top 8 were you? (whats your name)

Ruben. lol

TheBigBad
06-01-2009, 02:00 PM
rublah23

dammit glads is dying :(

XxPossyxX
06-01-2009, 02:01 PM
ruben your awesome

Bearded Mexican
06-01-2009, 02:05 PM
Damm ure getting a fan club .

XxPossyxX
06-01-2009, 02:06 PM
im gonna start a ruben fan club

blah23
06-01-2009, 02:09 PM
lol chill it was just 1 regional

TheBigBad
06-01-2009, 02:11 PM
seems like armor master never comes out

always the dsf

XxPossyxX
06-01-2009, 02:15 PM
so do you ever bring the armor master out

Baburnzzzz
06-01-2009, 02:16 PM
Franzo didnt run Bw? I was surprised to see him runnin ls. lol

blah23
06-01-2009, 02:19 PM
I didnt play against ls or have a chance to pull it out in the mirror. but yea dsf is the main synchro i go for.

XxPossyxX
06-01-2009, 02:34 PM
i thought armor master was better

blah23
06-01-2009, 02:39 PM
cuz when i go dsf i have game.

Steven22
06-02-2009, 01:32 AM
great job im gonna play this deck for my regionals this week

myloveforpenguins
06-02-2009, 02:13 AM
I wish I could have went. Oh well. I'll probably miss this weekends aswell. That leaves Long Beach and Anaheim?

PhageTheFallen
06-02-2009, 02:23 AM
Congratulations on the Top 8, Ruben.

I was the person sitting next to Al in the back from Round 3.

myloveforpenguins
06-02-2009, 02:38 AM
Yes, congratulations indeed. If you do go to another one of the regionals let me know. I should be able to go and have the money and my deck ready.

blah23
06-02-2009, 09:10 AM
thanks, long beach is this weekend san diego is on the 13th and anaheim on the 20th. i think im going to lb and anaheim.

TheBigBad
06-02-2009, 01:23 PM
should i go to franks this saturday or longbeach

blah23
06-02-2009, 03:37 PM
whats the point of winning a garbage tourney when everyone is gonna be at long beach??

TheBigBad
06-02-2009, 03:43 PM
no its because my friends are there lol

gonna go back to china for 3 months

blah23
06-02-2009, 03:56 PM
then why ask me?? to test ur deck to see if its really good take it to LB if ur just gonna mess around and chill go to franks.

TheBigBad
06-02-2009, 03:58 PM
yeah you're probably right. i did want to pick up some airbellums though, hopefully target stocks up on friday

myloveforpenguins
06-02-2009, 07:03 PM
After reading your report again I notice BTH hits stardust dragon?

blah23
06-02-2009, 07:07 PM
it was my stardust dragon. if he activated stardust it would come back on my side.

TehCruze
06-03-2009, 12:12 AM
it was my stardust dragon. if he activated stardust it would come back on my side.

actually it wouldn't because you didn't send it to the grave :P

myloveforpenguins
06-03-2009, 12:23 AM
So what i am asking is does BTH hit Stardust?

blah23
06-03-2009, 12:24 AM
If your opponent controls your "Stardust Dragon" and they use its effect, during the End Phase you will Special Summon it from your Graveyard

Bottomless says destroy so obv stardust can activate.which he chose not to cuz he didnt want me to have it back.
=/

myloveforpenguins
06-03-2009, 12:39 AM
So just use CED to get rid of stardust?

blah23
06-03-2009, 12:41 AM
yea that always works. or u can try shrink.

Rabbid.
06-03-2009, 03:55 AM
how was 2 eruption? and no solemns?

TehCruze
06-03-2009, 10:51 AM
how was 2 eruption? and no solemns?

Solemn in BWs is bad lol

blah23
06-03-2009, 11:12 AM
Solemn in BWs is bad lol

hey relax there are builds that run solemn that run fine. u shouldnt be giving opinions when u dont know how stardust works.

chihoi
06-03-2009, 12:02 PM
what the heck.. didnt play any lightsworns?? congratz tho

at least you didnt lose in top 8 like i did to a noob :( after they misplay about 5 times....

blah23
06-04-2009, 02:06 PM
yea i know i was next to them all day but never got paired with one. lol losing happens even when u play right.

TehCruze
06-04-2009, 10:57 PM
hey relax there are builds that run solemn that run fine. u shouldnt be giving opinions when u dont know how stardust works.

I was going off what a judge told me so meh jokes on me for that... even though at locals I argued the other way. Lol thats sad to try to swing that way though

SaladMan69
06-15-2009, 07:01 AM
Where was this event held?! :)

-Connor

PS. Congrats on those who topped ;)

blah23
06-15-2009, 07:25 AM
the title says anaheim =)

SaladMan69
06-15-2009, 08:02 AM
the title says anaheim =)

Funny...
I meant location [convention center, hobby shop, etc]

-Connor

blah23
06-15-2009, 08:21 AM
so cal has too big of a turn out most of the time its always in the convention center. whether its anaheim or long beach.

uchia maadra
06-19-2009, 12:25 AM
what was your side board?

blah23
06-19-2009, 03:22 AM
if u read u can see some of the cards i sided i didnt post it for a reason