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Preparations:
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As this was my very first tournamnt affected by the new banned list (I missed one in September because of I had to go to hospital), and as I don't have and couldn't borrow any Vayus to play my old favourite deck, Blackwings, I didn't realy know what to play. I first thought about playing Gladiator Beasts, the Deck I topped with at Fortune Tour Bremen about a year ago, but as I played the deck about a year long, I wanted to play something else. So after studying the meta at Orlando and at different international tournaments (thanks to Kzin for the thread at eTCG ) I decided to run Oppression Synchro, the deck Roland Gress won German Nationals with this year. As the meta was quite similar to the March 09 meta, with much Lightsworn and Gladiator Beasts, I thought I would have a quite good chance to top. As I didn't have the time to test, I did'nt know how good my Blackwing matchup was, but it didn't matter anywhere because I didn't face any Blackwing xD
So here is what I ran:
» Main Deck
3x Cyber Valley
2x Dimensional Alchemist
2x Rose, Warrior of Revenge
2x Mystic Tomato
2x Chaos Sorcerer
2x Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
1x Morphing Jar
1x Plaguespreader Zombie
1x Sangan
1x Summoner Monk
1x Dark Armed Dragon
1x Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind
2x Allure of Darkness
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Lightning Vortex
1x Scapegoat
1x Mind Control
1x Heavy Storm
1x Giant Trunade
1x Brain Control
3x Royal Oppression
2x Bottomless Trap Hole
2x Mind Crush
1x Trap Dustshoot
1x Mirror Force
1x Call of the Haunted
1x Solemn Judgment
1x Torrential Tribute
» Side Deck
2x Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
2x Legendary Jujitsu Master
1x Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1x Spirit Reaper
1x Breaker the Magical Warrior
1x Trap Eater
1x My Body as a Shield
3x Threatening Roar
3x Dust Tornado
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The Journey:
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As I life in a very small village (where was no train before 10 o'clock on sunday morning), my brother,Marius, who went to his very first bigger tournament, and me had to spend the night somehwere else. We choosed to stay at my gradnparents in Duisburg. On sunday morning,we had to get up at half past 7, about 3 to 4 hours earlier that we were used to, and go to the main station by bus. Even though we realy got up early we still almost missed the bus....
So we went to Iserlohn by train with Benedikt Junk (Goodyear2010™) and some friends of him. As my brother doesn't have any own cards exept Roid Monsters an so on, he had to borrow a deck by someone (he got a Lightsworn deck like 5 Minutes before registration closed).
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Tournament Data:
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4 Rounds
Top 16
about 90 parcipants
Quite bad decision because the organizer was overburden with that my people I think, they did'nt even have enough tables to play for everybody, so some people had to wait until others were ready until they could play. Realy bad organization.
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Round 1:
vs. Alexander Brune(Lightsworn) (2-1)
=========================================================================He opens the first game by double Sacropharg for double JD, I draw like half of my deck but didn't draw the Mind Crush I would have needed to prevent the KO I was facing. In the second game, my side deck helped me to deck him out with Roar,Valley and Gorz, the same in the third game. He could have won the third game, but he forgot to attack (he had Lumina, Garoth and Wulf on his field, with one more Lumina in his hand I saw with Trap Dusthoot and a Wulf in his graveyard, I had an empty field, it would have been 8050 damage)
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Round 2:
vs. forgot his name (D-Zombie-Skilldrain) (0-2)
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I don't quite remember the first game here, I just know he always had Skill Drain on his field from the first turn on, so I could'nt do any bigger move. Even though I also had Oppression on my first hand he just had the stronger monsters like Stratos and Mezuki to give me heavy beatdown. I lost the second game because I activated my Solemn just before time was called and he hold up his lifepoints with Psi-Lifetrancer, a card I never thought I would lose to.
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Round 3:
vs. Dominik Schulte (Gladiator Beasts) (2-1)
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As I already knew him from some tournaments at his local, the atmosphere of this match was quite good. I lost the first game (yes, once more) beacuase I missplayed MST (I had TRA and Royal Oppression on field while he had two cards set, Book of Moon and Mirror Force, I could have read Mirror Force because I knew from former games that his Force was bened but I hit Book of Moon). In the second and third game, I can early get card advantage with Oppression, Storm and Mirror Force and win from there on.
After this match,Marius just came up to me and told me he was 3-0 at the moment, so he already secured himself a spot in the Top 16
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Round 4:
vs. Manuel Dainius (Lightsworn) (1-2)
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This was the worst match of the whole day, I will explain later why.
In the first game I open with Trap Dusthoot and Mind Crush and destroy him with this. In the next game, I again open with Trap Dustshoot,but this time with DOUBLE Mind Crush, I already thought I would have won, but I had to let him discard Charge and JD with Mind Crush (he had 2 Lyla in hand, but I only had Mystic Tomato face down and a bad hand, so he could have disturbed my whole game with Ehren and I couldn't have handled a JD if he had milled well). I also didn't draw up any solution, so it went to a final duel. I start by setting Trap Dustshoot (Yes,again!) MJ and Roar, I saw a bad hand with TDS, but couldn't have stopped him attacking my MJ (I activated Roar because I still had Spells in my hand to set, but it didn't matter as he would have attacked the Jar next turn). Some turns later, I made the misplay that costed me a spot in the Top 16. He had Lumina, Lyla, Wulf and Decree on his field with Storm in hand (I knew because of Sacro). I had Rose, Mind Control, TT, BTH and Solemn in hand. I didn' realise the option of summoning Black Rose Dragon or Arcanite Magician to destroy everything and summoned Colossal. He draws JD an punishes me for this mistake...
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Still At The Location:
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Even though I already lost, I still had to stay because Marius was still in play. I sat down next to him during his Top 16 game and realised he was very nervous and made tons of misplays in the match. He still won by drawing JD and Storm from the top of his deck with Solar Recharge while his Blackwing-Oppression opponet had DaD and Armed Wing with Oppression and Force face down...
In the quarterfinal he face the same deck again, but he lost the first game because of misscalculation and the second because he again did tons of misplays. So I didn't get a spot in the Top 16 because of one misplay and he goes al the way to the quarterfinals with like thousands of misplays, life is very fair sometimes.
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The Way Home:
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So after I told him he shouldn't play that dump again we went all the way to the station. It was rainy all the time, so I was very pissed when we reached the train. Some people from my local store who left earlier were also sitting in the train (which only goes every second hour on sundays). Just before the train started, Adrian Madaj,who had made al the way from Hannover to Iserlohn just to finish 2:2 because his opponets were to lucky, joined us.
So the way back to Dortmund was very funny, but there we had to sepperate. Marius, Sebastian Keackerey(a player form my local store) and me had to take the train to Bielefeld while the others had to go to Hamm. So,after we left 10 Euros at McDonalds, we went all the way to Bielefeld, where the other guy left us and we two had to wait over half an hour for our last train Home to Hövelhof. Living in a hicksville also has it's drawbacks....
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Conclusion:
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So,after 4 hours of traveling I finaly was at home and drew my conclusions from the day:
- Lightsworn needs no skill
- Oppression Synchro does
- Traveling 4 hours home from a depressing tournament is worst thing ever
- McDonalds is too expensive
- Lightning Votex sucks
Thanks for reading and see you next time.
You can keep spelling misstakes you found ;)
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