Tournament Report - 12th May 2012

Deck used: Offer everywhere, all them Nuts and Boltz

Format: 4 Round Swiss, cut to Top 8

1st Round: Nicolas(Did I get your name spelled right?) - Pure Hieroglyph OO

1st game: Open with Gearframe, Dark Hole, Heavy Storm, Limiter Remover, Machina Fortress and 1 random card that I totally can't remember. OTK him after he went and Set 1 card lol.

2nd game: Because I didn't get to see anything, I dicided to Side in Generic Stuff like Gorz and whatnot. Once I knew he was running Hieroglyphs, I made a Cockroach and stalled while hitting him with small attacks until he reached 2700. Unfortunately, he Dualitied Gorz from 1st turn, so I couldn't push so much, and had to wait till I amassed 2 Gadgts and 1 Gearframe over 3 turns and made Orouborus lol. To add insult to Injury, I sent his Gorz from hand to GY via Oro effect. Lol.

2nd Round: Xiao Mei - Mirror XOO

1st game: She farmed more than me, and Maestroke lived too long to be helpful to my health. Topdeck Gearframe sealed the deal for her.

2nd game: I poke and poke and poke until her life reached 0.

3rd game: It went back and forth, but a timely Pot of Avarice is super sacky and let me win.

Anyway, note to her: Thanks for not using the gameloss even though I was late.

3rd Round: Malaysian Champion "Sam" - Pedophile Inzektors OO

1st game: Gadget farm + backrow control = game.

2nd game: He Summoned Raioh, I baited the Negation with a Fortress, then Summoned it again with Cannon and proceeded to beat him down with it backed by Shadow Mirror. Vehicular Homicide is awesome.

4th Round: Akira - ?????

1st + 2nd game: Wasn't there since I had to meet someone to buy a phone for a pretty cheap price.

Top 8: Samuel - SackShinyShiny (Sorry, but it's sack when you mill Wulf during 1st turn in all 3 games) OXX

1st game: I was down for a while, but Offering + a pretty amusing hand let me make Giganto X + Number 39 + Inverz Roach + Scrap Dragon backed by a Veiler in hand. His big hand couldn't make a comeback even with Multiple Boss monsters.

2nd game: I got destroyed by the power of the Light. Seriously. JD shouldn't be at 3 @.@

3rd game: The most B.S. duel ever. I didn't see a single Gadget or Gearframe until like the 2-3rd last turn of the duel. A hastily made Stardust died to my own Fortress Reborn'd. Lol. Then Soul Savior Drag- Sorry wrong game. Anyway, the power of the Light compels me to lose to the Shiny Shiny.

Bottom 4: Shared since I can't be arsed to fight for what's pretty much close to each other in value.

Got a Common Chaos Soldier. Anyone wants one? Willing to let go for $12 lol.

I guess it's Karma for Multiple Vehicular Homicide.

Tourney Report (Failing at Topping)

So today I went to play in a tourney at marymount using my usual arrive hero deck
and I topped but well the results will speak for themselves.

so as for the report

Round 1: Chris (Gravekeepers)

game 1: I just dark hole away his set spy night shot his lone backrow and otk him.

game 2: I was stalled for a while because a necrovalley preventing me from using miracle fusion
but a top draw mst followed by double miracle fusion led to my victory despite his gravekeeper visionary also stalling me for a while.

1-0

Round 2: Rubern?? (chaos dragons)

Game 1: I could not do much to stop his light pulsar and REDMD and proceeded to lose.

Game 2: My side deck won me the day this time with prison managing to remove one of his light
pulsar and everything going downhill from there for him.

Game 3: Open the "Putra" hand shock ruler is still a bitch.

2-0

Round 3: Akira (inzektors)

Game 1: I didn't open with the best hand and tried to stall him for a while with shock ruler but he veilered it and proceeded to drop dark armed and reborn inzektors.

Game 2: Control him with shadow-imprisoning mirror the entire game and just beat him down with one stratos. For some reason whenever I play against Akira's inzektors I always end up winning by using solemn judgment when he attempts to mst my shadow imprisoning mirror lol.

Game 3: I card car D for heavy storm and when he summons rai-oh on me his next turn I top draw dark hole and proceed to herp derp all over him.

3-0

Round 4: Clarence (Hieratics)

We only played one game at my suggestion because we would both go up for certain.

Game 1: attempt to make shock ruler get veilered and proceed to eat hieratic otk the following turn.

Top 8: Sherwyn (Verz Ragia)

Game 1: I grind him down until he only has 1 sabersaurus and I have one hope and proceed to just beat him down the following turns.

Game 2: I made a shock ruler and blade heart to beat him down and he could not stop me and surrendered.

Top 4: Clarence ... again (Hieratics)

Game 1: I was a bit annoyed at noobie after a phone call from him since he didn't know how to get to the store and was asking me for directions so I unleashed my rage on clarence and Otked him turn 2.

Game 2: Raging at noobie = imba hands

Top 2: I split with him because we both wanted to eat dinner.

So I got 13 packs and didn't get a single foil <_<

This is karma at work here.

WCQ Incoming

Singapore's WCQ takes place in a around a month or so. With the usual Asia format rules in effect a lot of the normal powerhouses we'll see at locals such as verz rabbit and laval will be non-existent (fuck verz rabbit and laval) unfortunately I can't play my signature hero deck (Q.Q) so I have no idea what to play this time around. I have a hieroglyph deck lying around which I haven't used for weeks I could use but I feel that unlike the Asia championships this year Hanzo Hieroglyph won't be so dominant. Of course this is just my feeling for all I know some of our more skilled players could come by and win with Hanzo Hieroglyph like they did in Asia.

So any suggestions on what deck to play?

Tournament Report 5 May 2012 (so close)

Came to the tournament after watching the epic avengers movie iron man was a boss as usual and the black widow didn't do too much as I expected. Anyways on to the tournament report.

Deck used: Arrive Hero (Boosted by the power of the avengers!!!!)

Round 1: vs Mog (Inzektors) won dice roll

Game 1: Open future fusion, phoenix wing wind blast, compulsory, mst, stratos, and a e-call/rota

i set the traps and activated future fusion dumping zephyros and alius thinking i had the game mostly won when I saw 3 mst appear clear my backrow and inzektor shenanigans.

Game 2: Open with stratos and traps search alius with the stratos and beat him down a bit with them before otking him a turn or two later.

Game 3: My hand wasn't that good and he had a decent hand I tried to stall as long as I could but eventually I fell to a swarm of bugs.

current result: 0-1

Round 2: vs Juni (Old School Skill Drain Hero Beat) I forgot the dice roll sorry

Game 1: I pot for heavy storm and proceed to otk him with the standard arrive hero shenanigans the following turn. (nothing special here)

Game 2: I go for the otk but a unexpected super polymerization from him gave him a shining which he used to beat me down over a few turns.

Game 3: In Juni's words "I draw shit" GG.

I had a wonderful game against my good friend Juni who is finally returning to yugioh after a long hiatus a bit funny he had to fight me and our other friend Vishal in the first 2 rounds though lol.

current result: 1-1

Round 3: vs Ting Jun (Geargia Karakuri) won the dice roll I believe

Game 1: Opened with future fusion and a hero lives and otked him with the usual combos.

Game 2: Had a subpar hand and tried to stall with bubbleman and traps thinking I could survive for that turn and kill him the next but an unexpected heavy storm and Haipa beatdown spelled my defeat.

Game 3: Heavy storm plus the usual otk.

current result: 2-1

Round 4: Sam the eternal Malaysian champion aka I'm so fucked (hieratics) I think I won this dice roll

Game 1: He opened subpar and died to the usual stuff without much resistance.

Game 2: I made shock ruler to try and stop the monster effects of his dragons but died to bls.

Game 3: Opened subpar and tried to stall with backrow but he cleared it with mst and break and proceeded to make me taste a swarm of dragons.

Final Result: 2-2

So I scrubbed today even after watching the avengers movie with heroes. Having shamed iron man and his sidekicks I proceeded to drown my sorrows in expensive food with friends. Unexpectedly Sams got 9th place and could not top 8. 

I'll upload videos when I can.

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Random Stuff #1

Don't have room in your extra deck for the stardust dragon yet still want to play starlight road? Try this card out lol.

I'll try to get some more duel videos this weekend. 

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Quasar comes in any form.

Requirements:

General: Flamvell Guard in Hand, Deck or Graveyard
Hand: Svartalf of the Nordic Alfar, Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit
Field: Face-up Ultimate Offering
Graveyard: Level Eater, Svartalf of the Nordic Alfar
Extra Deck: 2 Level 5 Synchros, Formula Synchron, Shooting Quasar Dragon
Opponent field (Optional): At least 1 monster.

Steps;

1) SS Tefnuit
2) SS Level Eater, Tefnuit Lvl 5
3) NS Svartalf by tributing Level Eater (-500)
4) SS Level Eater, Svartalf Lvl 4
5) Tune Svartalf + Level Eater for a Level 5 Synchro (Preferably Librarian)
6) SS Level Eater, Tefnuit Lvl 4
7) NS Svartalf by tributing Tefnuit(-500)
8) Add Svartalf to hand, SS Flamvell Guard
9) Tune Flamvell Guard + Level Eater for Formula Synchron (Draw 2)
10) SS Level Eater, Svartalf Lvl 4
11)Tune Svartalf + Level Eater for another Level 5 Synchro (Draw 1)
12) Tune Formula Synchron + 2 Level 5 Synchro Monsters for Shooting Quasar Dragon
(OPTIONAL)
13) SS Level Eater, Quasar Lvl 11
14) NS Svartalf by tributing Level Eater (-500)
15) Add Svartalf to hand
16) SS Level Eater, Quasar Lvl 10
17) Tune Svartalf + Level Eater for Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
18) Bounce any cards the opponent have on their field.
Final Field: Shooting Quasar Dragon, Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, opponent having a clear Field.

Attack for game with a Double 4000 and 2300. Of course, Veiler or Maxx C makes this quite moot so fudge that.

The Decline of Inzektors in Singapore and the Meta

Inzektors are considered one of the top if not the top deck in Singapore at the moment. With the ability to gain easy advantage, otk with only two cards, and a massive toolbox of rank 3, 4, and 5 exceeds its no wonder they are tier 1. However recently there has been a decline in the number of inzektor players at locals. At most now I only fight one inzektor or none at locals each week. There could be a few reasons for this in my opinion such as that inzektors have a terrible matchup against decks that can main macro cosmos such as raggia which is seen quite commonly in Singapore or perhaps its just that inzektors have gotten boring (lets face it who doesn't feel inzektors are boring now).

In any case with the decline of Inzektors the Singapore meta has gotten increasingly more random. Laval, Hieroglyph, Geargia variants, Hero variants, Dark World, Raggia variants, and even random decks such as Machina Gadgets have topped recently in Singapore. While I believe no deck is really better than the rest right now I know that I would rather fight Dark World and Raggia all they long compared to Laval.

So what are your thoughts on the meta? Any decks do you feel are overpowered or annoying to face for you?

Lastly if you are or were an inzektor player would you consider changing decks or if you have why did you do so?

Thanks for reading