Hey people - how's it going? Here's another one of my tournament reports.
Once again I was attending a WCQ:Regionals event - this last Tuesday.
With this new format it promised to be a much more versatile event - so I was up for the challenge with my Fire Fist deck.
Jumping straight to the action:
Round 1 - I'm matched vs. a kid that uses Dark World.
Well, this one wasn't too difficult - in the first duel he didn't draw a good hand and I quickly negated his Zenmaines with Tiger King to get a fast win.
The 2nd duel I started with D-Fissure first hand - luckily he had no "Dragged down" to strip me of it - once it was in place it was over pretty fast. He tried to activate Dragged Down after it was in place and then when I discarded his Snoww to the banished zone he was like "Oh yeah...". lol
A good start for the day with the help of the now limited D-Fissure.Yay, I've finally stopped my tendency to lose my 1st round matches like in most previous tournies I played in.
Moving on to
Round 2 - I'm vs. a Lightsworn player.
Duel 1 - He starts with Jain face up - luckily he mills nothing useful on the end phase. I use bear on my turn to get rid of Jain. On his next play he summons Lumina to return Jain, my Maxx "C" at least gives me a draw for it. This time though he mills Ryko, Gorz and Gardna - the risk for JD is becoming real.
On my next play I manage to get another bear on board along with Rooster he opts out of using Gardna so I clear his field again; he has 3 LS in grave now.
On his turn he summons Lyla - for which I had a bottomless waiting. Then he goes for BLS - I veiler him so he can only attack my Bear. This leaves me with a lot of play options on my turn - and I get rid of BLS and eventually take the game when he's stuck with at least one JD in hand.
A timely bottomless saves the duel.Duel 2 - He starts with some nice millings along with a sided mind crash which drops Spirit from my hand. His plusses were too big and I lose pretty fast.
A timely mind crash takes the game.Duel 3 - I start with this one with the Combo of Horse Prince getting Rooster on board with Rooster adding Bear to my hand. But again he starts with some nice millings with lumina and garoth - even drawing two with garoth's effect and then he double mind crashes me on Bear and Wolfbark.
Luckily I have Tenki which gets me Dragon that revives Bear from the Grave - I manage to kill his two monsters but now he has 4 LS in grave. So, I look at the extra deck and what do you know Steelswarm Roach is there - how convenient. I summon it and ride it to victory - he didn't manage to draw into Ryko or Dark Hole and his JD in hand couldn't be summoned.
Steelswarm Roach makes a rare appearance to insure the win!Round 3 - I'm facing Inzektors. In advance I know this is a very tough match up for me
Duel 1 - I manage to go back and forth a few turns, but it turns out he mains Dust Tornado in additional to the 3 MST and he takes out my last play that could save myself with dust on Tensu.
An unexpected dust tornado proves effective!Duel 2 - I start without monsters but with a few hand traps including Craw on his call of the haunted play. Then he uses another Call to revive Ryko on which I respond with Maxx "C" - he has no choice but to play immitation and eventually he leaves me on low LP but with a full hand of Tenki, Tensu and Gorilla. I use them to clear his field and summon Cardinal to shuffle lady bug and hornet back to the deck. From there the duel was mine.
When Maxx "C" works it's always nice.Duel 3 - We both have a slow start. I know he has a Ryko face down but I opt to not use dark hole - he flips it and gets immitation for centipede, but no follow up with equips. I summon Spirit and use its effect but he chains Maxx "C" - so having rekindling and dark hole in hand I stop summoning to wait for next turn. It was a gamble here - but unfortunately he tops foolish and drops hornet in grave which means he OTKs me.
The Dragonfly combos are still potent as ever!Round 4 - I'm vs. Chaos Dragons
Duel 1 - It turns out he mains Battle Faders, so he stops my Bear from getting the search effect. Then he gets some monsters on - but I take control back and attack into a Gorz that I expected will turn out at some point; but I have mirror force to take care of it so I wasn't worried. At the end he summons BLS, he knows I have Tensen so he just banishes one of my monsters - but on my turn it's over when I summon another monster.
Sometimes all it takes is the old reliable staple.Duel 2 - My first hand isn't really good but luckily - after he plays Solars recharges he doesn't manage to mill any dark monster; so I can slowly attack him. Finally he summons Lyla, use its effect to break one of my face downs and mills 2 darks at the end phase.
But I couldn't let him have that - so I summon Cardinal and shuffle his 2 darks back to the deck. Then on his turn he summons Pulsar from the grave by sending a light and dark from hand - then he banishes eclipse and the dark to get another pulsar and fetch REDMD from eclipse effect - so he has REDMD and Pulsar on board and kills my cardinal.
On my move I draw Fossil Dyna - so I set it and a Prison. His turn, he attacks with pulsar but I activate prison on it - then he opts out of attacking with REDMD - but it doesn't matter - on my turn I flip summon Dyna to destroy REDMD and summon Gorilla - I had enough attack to end the game - and any potential Gorz/Trago/Fader he might have held were useless due to Dyna.
Dyna, Still a good card vs. decks that rely on special summons!Round 5 - I'm facing Blackwings
Duel 1 - I open with Panther that fetches Tenki to put Spirit in my hand and put Mirror force down. He plays Zephyros which gets mirrored. My turn I play the spirit to revive panther and from there Horse prince which he chose to bottomless but summons Rooster anyway to fetch bear to my hand. I attack for some damage. His turn he plays Shura - which I veiler so he special summons bora and kills both my monsters and end with Maestroke.
On my turn I play Wolfbark, revive bear - go for Tiger King which places Tenki on my field. Negate maestroke with Tiger's effect - fetch Dragon and use its effect to re-summon bear. Bear gets rid of Maestroke and all attack for game.
Tiger King opens up the big plays!Duel 2 - This was really a good one. At the start he was in the lead; all I managed to do was to lock one of his face downs with Gyoku. I smelled a Blizzard in his hand and wanted to draw it out so I set Consecrated light; it worked, he summoned blizzard and went for armed wing - he attacks and I'm safe. From there I take control back - then he summons Maxx C to try and kill Consecrated light; i use warning. Then I attack for some more damage but again he summons Maxx C - this time I can't stop it and I lose my monsters.
Next I have a play for Tiger King - and attack for some more damage. He has one non-blocked S/T - I take a risk and summon consecrated light on main phase 2 - and its Torrential - risk didn't pay off. However I chain Tensen so I have 3 face up formations and this let's me use Tiger King's effect from the grave to summon bear and Gorilla. And I go into a 2nd tiger king.
On his next turn he uses duality - and he gets a saving card - he reveals Gladius and sets it. My move - I didn't draw another monster - all I can do is attack the face down Gladius and it isn't destroyed. On his turn he draws another level 3 monster and XYZ into Acid Golem to run over my tiger.
At this point I have less than 3000 LP. All I can do in my turn is set the Spirit I drew; on his play he detaches one from Acid golem; he also doesn't get a monster so he attacks my spirit.
My turn - I draw Rekindling - this doesn't help for the moment so I set my last monster - D.D. Crow. On his turn - he takes the 2000 damage from acid and attacks the crow.
He has now one face down blocked with Gyoku and 2 non-blocked S/Ts. This is my last chance to do something - I draw Panther! Summon it - and get Gyoku - I block one of his S/T - and then play rekindling and synch to horse prince which summons rooster that gets bear. I have Tensu face up so I can summon bear and get rid of acid golem with its effect; then I attack for game.
After the duel is over he shows me the blocked Prison and Icaurus - his other face down was black whirl wind.
Tough wins like these are always nice.
Sometimes top decking the smallest monster proves to be a winner!Round 6 - I'm facing Gravekeepers now.
Duel 1 - I start with the Spirit+Panther+Tensu combo - and he starts with no monsters and without necrovalley. All he can do is set a lot of back row - but I win it pretty fast.
Starting with the now limited Spirit sets up the win from turn 1!Duel 2 - This one was a grinder - we both start with major back rows and it takes forever to get something going. Eventually - he flips skill drain which stops me from doing anything with my monsters - but he has two face up "dead" fiendish chains and two other face downs locked with Gyokus. He also has necrovalley on board.
So, it came to him heaving two commandnats and a face down spy - I finally draw MST - have to play it on Necrovalley so I can use rekindling and get Horse Prince. But I someohow forget that I can now overpower commandant with wolfbark now that necrovalley is off the field. This allows him to go into Gem-Knight Pearl the next turn to finish me.
Necrovalley still blocks grave based plays as always.Since this duel took a long time - end of match was called before we could get to duel 3 - so it ended in a tie.
Round 7 - I'm facing Agents.
Duel 1 - I start the game with Tiger King summon - when I try to use his effect he negates with Orange light. Then on his turn he gets venus but I chain maxx "C" so he stops summoning.
On my play I block his 1 face down with Gyoku - then I manage to get rid of his monsters. But again he uses Orange Light - this time on my Bear. After that he uses duality to take Hyperion to his hand. I knew he would try to remove Gyoku next turn so I activate a 2nd gyoku on the same face down. I didn't have nothing else to play - all I got left was Veiler in hand and some formations face up; I had 4400 LP left.
So, on his next turn he summons the Hypeiron and destroys one Gyoku - then he summons trooper and mills 3 - but I have veiler to keep it at 400 ATK so I won't lose. Then he says - hope you don't draw Tenki.
And what do you know - I draw my last chance card and its Tenki!! I get bear and from there control shifts back to me for the eventual win.
Top deck Tenki!!!Duel 2 - He starts with too many resources while I don't have much to do - it is over pretty quickly with a win for him with Tour guides into leviair and master hyperion.
Hyperion - still a boss!Duel 3 - This time he doesn't have agents in his first hand - all he can do is negate my monsters effects twice with orange light but that leaves him low on resources. I don't remember exactly but I think I then play Rekindling to get some major precense on board and he doesn't draw into anything that can stop me so the win goes for me.
Recycling the negated monsters was enough!Round 8 - This was the last round and at this point both me and my opponent (a friend using Ruler-Plants) were already assured of a top 8 place since there were not enough players ranked below us that could bypass us on the rankings.
So - this one was only for the record; I ended up with the W.
Well - that ended the important part of the tournament - I finished 2nd on the Swiss only behind the Inzektor player that beat me on the 3rd round - he went unbeaten the entire tourney - perfect 8 out of 8.
This means I insured an invite to the European championship next summer - so I'm happy.
After that we had the
top 8 playoffs - it's not part of the Regional's official result - it's just to play for some more booster prizes.
I was matched up vs. a Dragon Ruler deck with Ravine and all those small tuners which also mains Skill Drains.
Unfortunately this major lucker opened twich with skill drain first hand - and of course I didn't draw into any MSTs in this match at all - so I got luck sacked big time there and was out of the playoffs.
Skill Drain sent me packing...The Inzektor player won the playoffs too - totalling 11 for 11 on the day - pretty cool achievement.
And.. that's all for this report - hope you've enjoyed the read.
Subject: Another day at WCQ:Regionals 
Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:53 pm
Really interesting read i am so happy that people aren't using the same decks anymore ..
