Monday, March 26, 2012

Ok since I'm bored I'm going to post a tournament report I wrote for the first ever Columbus Regional I went to.  Date was 10/23/2010.  The latest set released was Duelist Revolution and since the ban list actually did what it was supposed to do, we didn't have any overpowered decks.  Light Hero Beat won the most recent YCS however I didn't have much success with it.  I noticed many decks such as Blackwings, X-Sabers, and Hero Beat where all running large amounts of back row since this was the first Format with Heavy Storm banned so I chose a deck that went the opposite direction.  Since Book of Moon was at 3, a deck maining 3 Royal Decree would still have enough defense while shutting down a large portion of other decks.  With that in mind I chose to build Pete Navarro's Volcanic Quickdraw deck with one or two minor changes.  Notes on how each card did will be next to each card.

Monsters
1x Tytannial, Princess of Camellias:  Pretty much the best monster during the regional.  When backed up by Royal Decree and with plenty of Tokens to tribute for her effect, players had a very difficult time dealing with her.  I also didn't draw her that often which was a huge plus.
1x Gorz, the Emissary of Darkness:  I added this in last minute because I was afraid of X-Sabers but I only played 1 and it didn't have Darksouls or Emmersblades.  If anything this helped me in not drawing Tytannial so that alone honestly made it worth it
2x Caius, the Shadow Monarch:  Huge help against Blackwings.  Because Dandylion was at 2 and you can easily generate extra tokens, summoning him was not a problem. 

3x Debris Dragon:  The primary play with Debris Dragon was to go into Scrap Dragon.  Rarely went Black Rose Dragon and I rarely brought out Stardust Dragon.
2x Quickdraw Synchron:  I pretty much used this in combo with Volcanic Shell to make Drill Warrior.  However I sided out that engine quite a bit to add more cards like Snowman Eater and Spirit Reaper just to give myself more consistency.
2x Lonefire Blossom:  Consistent way to bring out Tytannial.  Pretty much it's only use in this version of Plants
2x Dandylion:  Supplied a steady stream of Tokens for Tytannial to use as well as being a very good target for Debris Dragon
1x Sangan:  Searched everything besides Caius, Gorz, and Tytannial
1x Card Trooper:  Could crash Thunder Kings and helped get my mill going.  Enough said
3x Volcanic Shell:  See Quickdraw.  Also used it as a discard cost for Drill Warrior and Raigeki Break
2x Effect Veiler:  Because I ran Royal Decree this card was needed to give myself some form of protection.  Did it's job perfectly
3x Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter:  Decree locked down opponent's traps so I mostly used Ryko to destroy opposing Monsters.  The Mill was a nice added bonus

1x Spore:  Honestly didn't use this much but when I did use it, it was game winning.

Magic
3x Book of Moon:  Main form of protection since I use Royal Decree
1x Charge of the Light Brigade:  Allowed me to see my Rykos very early and also milled and fueled POA
1x Foolish Burial:  Dump Dandylion
1x Enemy Controller:  Another form of protection and since I should have extra tokens I can take opposing monsters.
1x Dark Hole:  Staple
1x Monster Reborn:  Staple
1x Pot of Duality:  Only played it once.  Theory behind it was to try and consistently get Royal Decree but I didn't need it.
3x Pot of Avarice:  So much milling, you need it to be able to reuse all of your monsters so you don't run out of steam
1x Cold Wave:  Staple

Trap
1x Raigeki Break:  Generic monster removal that takes advantage of all the cards I can discard
3x Royal Decree:  As I said before, shut down 1/3 of my opponent's deck.  Very few players main decked Mystical Space Typhoon so usually if Decree hit the field, it stayed.

Extra:  I'm very glad I used 2 Scrap Dragon.  He was by far my most used Synchro.  I kind of wish I had used Red Dragon Archfiend for the Plant Mirror match and just had the 1 Chimeratech sided but hindsight is 20/20.  Turbo and Nitro where rarely brought out but each had a specific purpose so they had to stay in. 
1x Armory Arm
1x Catastor
1x Brionac

2x Drill Warrior
1x Iron Chain Dragon
1x Turbo Warrior
2x Black Rose Dragon
1x Nitro Warrior
1x Stardust Dragon
1x Junk Destroyer
2x Scrap Dragon
1x Chimeratech Fortress Dragon




Side
2x Cyber Dragon:  Sided in many times in place of QD and Volcanic Shell.  Since players will typically side out Bottomless it became more effective
2x Doomcaliber Knight:  Sided in a few times.  Better than T-King in that format
2x Snowman Eater:  Hero's where popular and Snowman kills Hero's
1x Spirit Reaper:  Nice wall against Saber's and it's a Debris Target
2x Mystical Space Typhoon:  Really only for Infernity's but I didn't play any
1x My Body as a Shield:  Protection from cards such as Icarus Attack and Gyzarus that doesn't get hit by Decree
2x Chain Disappearance:  X-Sabers, Mirror Match, Frogs.  Very good card for each of those matchups
2x Solemn Warning:  Mainly for Gladiator Beasts but also used it against VayuSworn
1x Chimeratech Fortress Dragon:  Wish I had just had 1 copy in the side and not one in the extra but oh well.



Results (O=game win, X=game loss)
Round 1: X-Sabers, OO
Round 2: Hero Beat, OO
Round 3: SalvoDAD, OO
Round 4: Blackwings, OXO
Round 5: Hero Beat, OO
Round 6: Gladiator Beasts, XOX
Round 7: VayuSworn, OXX
Round 8: Volcanic Quickdraw Plants, OXO
Round 9: Machina Geartown, OO


Final placement 11th out of 455

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