Tournament Report Gießen 6th December

Hey guys
After a long time without real posting, I'm back here with a tournament report of yesterday's PS3 event in Gießen.

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Preparations:
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At first, I wanted to play Lightsworns so badly. There only was one problem: I didn't have JDs, I can't afford to buy them at the moment, and nobody could borrow them. So I first thought I had to play my Blackwing deck, but when I saw Dale Bellido presenting his brother's Zombies on his YouTube channel, I thought I could also try this, as I didn't want to play Blackwing any more. I made some modifications in the sidedeck and kicked Gorz from the main for the second Tragodia, so this is what I played:

Monsters:

2 Mystic Tomato
2 Pyramid Turtle
2 Goblin Zombie
2 Mezuki
2 Caius the Shadow Monarch
2 Krebons
2 Tragoedia
1 Dark Armed Dragon
1 Sangan
1 Plaguespread Zombie
1 Zombie Master
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer

Spells:

2 Allure of Darkness
2 Burial from a Different Dimension
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Emergency Teleport
1 Brain Control
1 Lightning Vortex
1 Gold Sarcophagus
1 Book of Moon
1 My Body as a Shield
1 Creature Swap

Traps:

2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force
1 Solemn Judgment
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Dust Tornado
1 Phoenix Wing Wind Blast

Side Deck:

1 Kycoo the ghost Destroyer
2 Legendary Jujitsu Master
1 Breaker the Magical Warrior
1 D.D. Crow
1 Smashing Ground
3 Light-Imprisoning Mirror
2 Trap Hole
2 Dust Tornado
1 Caius the Shadow Monarch
1 Grave Robber

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The Journey:
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We started of at 8 o'clock in the morning, and went all the way to Gießen (2,5 hours) by car.
As we arrived at the location at 10:30 we saw it wasn't opened yet, and searched for a shop were we could buy something to breakfast. When we retunred we still had to wait for 10 minutes, while other people like Michel Grüner and Soner Güngör also arrived.
I also got the last cards I needed for my deck, so I was ready to start.

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Round 1:
vs. Sascha Senne (Zombiesworn) (1-2) ====================================================================
I build up constant advantage in the first game, but he topdecked JD.
In the second game, I make the right reads and remove 1 Goblinzombie and 1 Ryko with Caius. The third game was quite depressing. I opened with a face-down Sangan, but he summoned his side-decked Thuner King (lol!). I lose from there on.

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Round 2:
vs. Roland Gress (Blackwing) (2-1) ====================================================================

I first thought this would be a joke when I read the parings. I get a depressing lose in the first round just to face our national champion?
In fact, I could do like nothing in teh first game, he had total control. The second game was quite balanced, but I could manage to make a big move for game thanks to Tragodia. I took his Goyo Guardian with her effect and took control over the game.
The third game was an easy one for me, I had the perfect answer to all of his cards.
He opened with Bora and 3 backrow cards, I lured out his Icarus by setting Goblinzombie and a random spell or trapcard. He plays Blizzard to brign back his Bora and attacks, I summon Tragodia. He endes after setting one more back row card. I first play Vortex,discarding the Mezuki I searched with Goblin Zombie to make him play Solemn, then I tributed Tragodia for Caius. He activates Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror, I chain MST. He blocked my attackwith mirror force, but didn't draw anything, so he could only attack with Bora. I still had Krebons in hand and Mezuki and Goblinzombie in my graveyard, I think you can imagine the rest....


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Round 3:
vs. Thorsten Kattler (Lightsworn) (2-1) ====================================================================

This match also was a quite easy run. I hit Necro Gradnas and Rykos with Caius and he had to protect his Lumina with Honest when I attacked with Pyramid Trutle, Tomato or Goblin Zombie. My maindecked Kycoo also blocked his 2 Gardnas that would have protected him in the first game. Main Kycoo,he roxx!

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Round 4:
vs. Joshua Gielessen (Twilight) (2-1) ====================================================================

I hate it to face teammates that early in a tournament. I don't know how the first game proceeded, but I know I lost it. In game two, he decked himself out because I had Tragodia to stop his OTK, and in the third game I activate Call for Kycoo at the end of his turn while he had 2 Gardnas in his grave...

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Round 5:
vs. Jörn Schmidt (Lightsworn) (1-2) ====================================================================

Lost to Tempest Magician.....don't remember the rest of the match....

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Round 6:
vs. Julian Gaitzsch (Antimeta) (2-0) ====================================================================

When I saw his Thunder King, I thought this one was over,but in fact, this was a quite easy match. As he didn't paly Dimensional Fissures, I could bring out big monsters with my Turtles (Mezuki and Zombiemaster can realy be big ones if your oppenet does only play Thunder Kings to get them off the field). After baording my third Caius, Trap Holes and Dust Tronados, he didn't stand a chance.

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Top 16:
vs. Christopher Wenge (Gadgets) (2-0) ====================================================================

I think this was the easiest match of the whole day. Green Gadget? Go for double kill with Tomato. Yellow Gadget? Go for double kill with Pyramid Turtle. My maindecked Dust Tornado and Vortex also were a sake for this match.

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Top 16:
vs. Thorsten Hutzl (Zombies) (2-0) ====================================================================

This would be my first mirror match today!
Whizzy already cangratulated me for reaching the Semifinals before this match xD
Thorsten was playing Reckless Greed and flipped two of them in his second turn,so he had 9 cards in hand....which were all blocked by my maindecked Kycoo xD
I the second game, I build up control with Caius (I consider maining the third one, he's god in the mirror).

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Top 4:
vs. Piyal Peiris (Anti) (2-1) ====================================================================
This was the best match of this tournament. I lost the first game as he did +4 with Morphing Jar, but the second and third game were two of the most intense games I ever played. The second game was balanced, but I could manage to go for card advantage with Caius plays. The third game was also very intense, but a Storm from my backrow on his full backfield without any countertrap hit him too hard.

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Finals:
vs. Michel Grüner (Zombies) ====================================================================

When I arrived at the table, he offered me a pricesplit. We arranged that he would get the PS3, while I would get 100 Euros and two Mezukis along with 10 Turbo Packs from him. I pulled JD and Doomcalibur out of those, so we both went home with a big plus in our bags.


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Conclusion:
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On our way home, I invited my three mates, who waited for me for about 7 hours, to a meal at McDonalds. We arrived at my house at about midnight, and I went to bed instantly as I was looking forward to a History classtest today....
In the end, I was quite happy I didn't play Lightsworn. I think I would never have made it that far with them...