Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Regional Event Report 3/5/2011


There were 183 participants in Burnsville, MN 2011 Regional. 8 Rounds of Swiss with top 24 invites.

I decided to run my Hopeless Dragon Deck. Here is the deck profile of the Hopeless Dragon Deck:

Monsters: 17

3x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3x Red-Eyes Wyvern
2x Light and Darkness Dragon
3x Masked Dragon
2x Totem Dragon
1x Prime Material Dragon
1x Exploder Dragon
1x Koa’ki Meiru Drago
1x Delta Flyer

Spells: 15

3x Pot of Duality
2x Gold Sarcophagus
2x Forbidden Lance
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Burial From a Different Dimension
1x Future Fusion
1x Giant Trunade
1x Book of Moon
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole

Traps: 8

2x Solemn Warning
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Mirror Force
1x Call of the Haunted
1x Seven Tools of the Bandit

Sides: 15
2x Rivalry of Warlords
2x Lava Golem
2x Swallow Flip
2x Dust Tornado
2x Smashing Ground
1x Koa’ki Meiru Drago
1x Prohibition
1x Malevolent Catastrophe
1x System Down
1x Kinetic Soldier

Extra Deck: 15

1x Five-Headed Dragon
1x Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
2x Scrap Dragon
2x Stardust Dragon
2x Black Rose Dragon
1x Iron Chain Dragon
1x Red Dragon Archfiend
1x Ancient Fairy Dragon
1x Trident Dragion
1x Colossal Fighter
1x Ally of Justice Catastor
1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

Round 1:

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. LV Dragon Deck (Won)

Round 2:

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. Dendylion Warrior Deck (Won)

Round 3

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. Zombie Flamvell (Lost)

Round 4

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. Flamvell Keeper (Lost)

Round 5

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. Flamvell (Won)

Round 6

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. Six Samurai (Won)

Round 7

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. Anti-Mata (Won)

Round 8

Hopeless Dragon Deck vs. Blackwing Turbo (Won)

At the end of the Tournament I topped 24 and received a invite to National 2011.

Written by: PK

Monday, March 7, 2011

Regionals Report: 3/5/11 Burnsville, MN

They were only giving out invitations to the top24 duelists; 180+ Duelists, 8 rounds of swiss.

Round 1: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Gravekeepers
won

Round 2: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Destiny Zero Diva
Won

Round 3: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Lightsworn
won

Round 4: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Chaos Return(?)
Lost

Round 5: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Blackwings
won

Round 6: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Gravekeepers
Lost

Round 7: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Destiny Zero Diva
won

Round 8: Anti-Meta (Me) vs Karakuri OTK
Lost

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I went 5-3, my first 2 losts were on tables 1 and 2 during round 8. At the end of the day I was ranked at 26/180+. I would've had round 8 won but I miss played. He had a Dandylion set along with one set S/T. I had a Doomcaliber Knight faceup and a set 7tools of the bandit, I was on a roll all day in wasting my opponent's s/t with the 7tools + Breaker the magical warrior combo. I had a Breaker in my hand and wanted to make my opponent waste his s/t on my breaker. I dont know why, it could be because of the fact that I only had 4hrs or sleep...So I summoned the Breaker to try to force my opponent to use his S/T but instead, Breaker gets a counter on it and DCK negates it and destroys Breaker which leaves me with nothing on my side of the field except for the useless 7tools of the bandit...I ended and he won during his next turn...

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Deck List:
...will upload later...

~cK

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Structure Deck - Dragunity Legion! Hot or Not?

Structured Deck List:

SDDL-EN001 Dragunity Arma Leyvaten (Ultra Rare)
SDDL-EN002 Dragunity Arma Mystletainn (Super Rare)
SDDL-EN003 Dragunity Aklys (Super Rare)
SDDL-EN004 Dragunity Dux (Common)
SDDL-EN005 Dragunity Legionnaire (Common)
SDDL-EN006 Dragunity Tribus (Common)
SDDL-EN007 Dragunity Darkspear (Common)
SDDL-EN008 Dragunity Militum (Common)
SDDL-EN009 Dragunity Primus Pilus (Common)
SDDL-EN010 Dragunity Brandistock (Common)
SDDL-EN011 Dragunity Javelin (Common)
SDDL-EN012 Mist Valley Falcon (Common)
SDDL-EN013 Hunter Owl (Common)
SDDL-EN014 Garuda the Wind Spirit (Common)
SDDL-EN015 Flying Kamakiri #1 (Common)
SDDL-EN016 Spear Dragon (Common)
SDDL-EN017 Twin-Headed Behemoth (Common)
SDDL-EN018 Armed Dragon LV3 (Common)
SDDL-EN019 Armed Dragon LV5 (Common)
SDDL-EN020 Masked Dragon (Common) x2

SDDL-EN021 Dragon Ravine (Common)
SDDL-EN022 Dragon Mastery (Common)
SDDL-EN023 United We Stand (Common)
SDDL-EN024 Mage Power (Common)
SDDL-EN025 Dragon's Gunfire (Common)
SDDL-EN026 Stamping Destruction (Common)
SDDL-EN027 Creature Swap (Common)
SDDL-EN028 Monster Reincarnation (Common)
SDDL-EN029 Foolish Burial (Common)
SDDL-EN030 Card Destruction (Common)

SDDL-EN031 Windstorm of Etaqua (Common)
SDDL-EN032 Relieve Monster (Common)
SDDL-EN033 Legacy of Yata-Garasu (Common)
SDDL-EN034 Final Attack Orders (Common)
SDDL-EN035 Mirror Force (Common)
SDDL-EN036 Dragon's Rage (Common)
SDDL-EN037 Bottomless Trap Hole (Common)
SDDL-EN038 Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabi (Common)
SDDL-EN039 Icarus Attack (Common)

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IMO, this deck will be hot! It has OTK potential with Trident Dragion, support from Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon (REDMD), EASY synchro for any level 5-8 monster and it also has Mirror Force reprinted in it as common! How great is that!?

As always, we are interested in hearing what your thoughts are so please leave a comment below.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Regional Event Report 2/26/11

There were over 100 participants but not over 125. Seven rounds of Swiss with only Top16 invites.

Round1: Karakuri OTK (me) vs ScrapKeepers
Won

Round2: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Gladiator Beast
Lost (swept!)

Round3: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Solidarity Machina Gadget
Lost (deck check error made by judge)
I would've had this game won, he started by summoning Green Gadget for Red, set 2 S/T and end. I drew, summon Gearframe to add Fortress to my hand, swing for 400dmg, set Compulsory Evac and end. He drew, summoned Red to add Yellow and ended his turn. I drew for my turn, activated Giant Trunade, he had no response so I chained with Compulse to target his Red Gadget and yet he has no response. I ditched a machine monster along with Fortress to S/S Fortress to the field, activated One for One discarding a Karakuri monster to S/S Glow up bulb, syncro for Bureido, S/S Strategist in defense mode and targeted himself by changing his battle position and allowing myself to draw +1 with Bureido's effect. Judge came behind me to stop our match and said I only had 39 cards in my deck so we need to stop our duel and he needed to take my deck for a "deck check". Seven mins later he came back and said that they had an error because they thought I was playing with only 1 Glow-up Bulb (because I had 2 in my main deck). We restarted the match, I OTK him game1 and he redeemed himself in game2+3. Told my friends i'll still play to test the Karakuri deck.

Round 4: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Anti-meta Light Beat
Lost

Round 5: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Anti-meta Light Beat
Lost

Round 6: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Anti-meta
Lost
I checked the Drop box because I was overwhelmed with boredom of the anti-meta decks.

BORING anti-meta decks were all over the regionals event. There were more anti-meta than there were Blackwings and Samurais. All day my opening hands were book of moon, mst, karakuri strategist, karakuri watchdog, and other cards that cant combo well with these cards. I may be putting this deck on the shelf and wait it out till Extreme Victory when new and more support for Karakuri's are available.

In preparations to this event, I had my side built to play against Blackwings, samurais, fish otk, and formula monarchs. These were the decks I was assuming the majority were playing but it seems I was wrong.

Here is the Deck List for my Karakuri OTK…

Monster line-up: 21

3x Machina Gearframe
2x Machina Fortress
1x Machina Force
1x Black Salvo
2x Dekoichi
2x Karakuri Watchdog MDL 313 "Saizan"
2x Karakuri Ninja MDL 919 "Kuik"
3x Karakuri Strategist MDL 248 "Nishipachi"
2x Karakuri Soldier MDL 236 "Nisamu"
2x Glow-Up Bulb
1x Effect Veiler

Spell line-up: 11

1x Dark Hole
1x Giant Trunade
2x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Pot of Avarice
3x Book of Moon
1x One for One
1x Limiter Removal
1x Monster Reborn

Trap line-up: 8

1x Solemn Judgment
1x Mirror Force
3x Solemn Warning
1x Torrential Tribute
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device

TG Hyper Librarian!



TG Hyper Librarian, what more is there to say other than, BROKEN!! I've been watching OCG deck lists for different ideas and i've noticed this synchro monster in most Extra Decks in pairs. When I watched a video on the new junk/doppel deck and saw how this card was abused, I was sold! This card is like, Card of Safe Return, instead you draw every time a synchro monster is successfully summoned. This card is extremely good to have in the Extra of a Fish OTK deck. This card is also good to combo with Fabled Ragin allowing you to draw +3. Synchro for Formula Synchron = +2 draw. Have 3x Hyper Librarian on the field and you're drawing +3 every time someone synchro summons!
It'll be a good investment for anyone to subscribe to the Jump Magazine as I can see this card being a $40-$50 card!

Don't forget to leave your comments below on what your opinions are towards Hyper Librarian.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Official March '11 Ban List!

Forbidden:
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End
Cyber Jar
Cyber-Stein
Dark Magician of Chaos
Destiny Hero - Disk Commander
Fiber Jar
Magical Scientist
Magician of Faith
Makyura the Destructor
Rescue Cat
Sinister Serpent
Substitoad
Tribe-Infecting Virus
Tsukuyomi
Victory Dragon
Witch of the Black Forest
Yata-Garasu
Thousand-Eyes Restrict
Dark Strike Fighter
Goyo Guardian
Brain Control
Butterfly Dagger - Elma
Card of Safe Return
Change of Heart
Cold Wave
Confiscation
Delinquent Duo
Dimension Fusion
Graceful Charity
Harpie's Feather Duster
Heavy Storm
Last Will
Mass Driver
Metamorphosis
Mirage of Nightmare
Painful Choice
Pot of Greed
Premature Burial
Raigeki
Snatch Steal
Temple of the Kings
The Forceful Sentry
Crush Card Virus
Exchange of the Spirit
Imperial Order
Last Turn
Ring of Destruction
Time Seal

New: Goyo Guardian, Cold Wave, Mass Driver

Limited:
Left Arm of the Forbidden One
Left Leg of the Forbidden One
Right Arm of the Forbidden One
Right Leg of the Forbidden One
Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow
Dandylion
Dark Armed Dragon
Elemental Hero Stratos
Exodia the Forbidden One
Gladiator Beast Bestiari
Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
Honest
Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner
Marshmallon
Mezuki
Mind Master
Morphing Jar
Necroface
Necro Gardna
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
Night Assailant
Plaguespreader Zombie
Sangan
Summoner Monk
Tragoedia
Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
Advanced Ritual Art
Allure of Darkness
Black Whirlwind
Book of Moon
Burial from a Different Dimension
Card Destruction
Charge of the Light Brigade
Destiny Draw
Dark Hole
Emergency Teleport
Foolish Burial
Future Fusion
Gateway of the Six
Giant Trunade
Infernity Launcher
Level Limit - Area B
Limiter Removal
Mind Control
Monster Gate
Monster Reborn
One For One
Reasoning
Reinforcement of the Army
Scapegoat
Swords of Revealing Light
Call of the Haunted
Ceasefire
Gravity Bind
Magical Explosion
Mind Crush
Mirror Force
Return from the Different Dimension
Royal Oppression
Solemn Judgment
The Transmigration Prophecy
Torrential Tribute
Trap Dustshoot
Wall of Revealing Light

New: Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow, Dandylion, Honest, Book of Moon, Gateway of the Six

Semi-Limited:
Archlord Kristya
Card Trooper
Debris Dragon
Destiny Hero - Malicious
Judgment Dragon
Lonefire Blossom
Spirit Reaper
Chain Strike
Magical Stone Excavation
Megamorph
Mystical Space Typhoon
Overload Fusion
Royal Tribute
Bottomless Trap Hole
Icarus Attack
Magic Cylinder
Ojama Trio
Solemn Warning

New: Archlord Kristya, Card Trooper, Debris Dragon, Spirit Reaper, Megamorph, Overload Fusion, Royal Tribute, Icarus Attack, Solemn Warning

No Longer Limited:
Chaos Sorcerer
Snipe Hunter
Demise, King of Armageddon
Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier
Gold Sarcophagus
Skill Drain
Ultimate Offering

Saturday's Local Report

Swiss

Round 1: Karakuri OTK (me) vs X-Sabers (dean)

Won

Round 2: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Legendary Six Samurais (Tony)

Won

Round 3: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Blackwings (Blank)

Lost

Round 4: Karakuri OTK (me) vs Lightsworns (Toua)

Won

Top 4

Karakuri OTK (me) vs Scraps (Calvin)

Won

Top 2

Karakuri OTK (me) vs Legendary Six Samurai's (Tony)

Split

Split decision because I was borrowing the Karakuri Steel Shogun's from Toua (Lightsworns) and he had to go to work. At the end of the day Tony and I were both awarded with $22.75 in store credit.

Video to my deck profile: