My, my. I've got alot on my plate this week following the shenanigans that happened this weekend. Both YCS Dallas and Toulouse had Chaos Dragons make big splashes with a 2nd Place finish and 1st place respectively. The impact of this will be profound as at long last Konami has gotten their secret wish in that Dragons actually topped and won YCS level events (despite Disaster Dragon making several Top 16 appearances in Europe last year) and we can all expect and increase in Chaos Dragon play at the Local, Regional and Dueling Network level for the next while. My immediate recommendations? If you're not siding Macro you'd better have Light-Imprisoning Mirrors ready as shutting down the Lightsworn engine and Lightpulsar Dragon is key to winning the matchup. Just be weary of MST and Royal Decree stopping those cards.
That said perhaps it was a sign of something being in the air as this weekend for locals I decided to run the deck as well with the intent of dismantling it afterwards. I've spent alot of time (and videos) with the deck on DN for the last while and I really wanted to see how it would perform against competent people while also not putting up with bullshit randomizers.
Pre Tournament - I get some games in with my Budget Dark World deck against Infernity. Save for one game where I drew Broww then nothing but spells and traps I smashed the hell out of the deck through sheer speed and power. I can only imagine what'll happen once I get TGUs.
ROUND 1 - vs Zombie World (2-0)
Game 1: He let me go first. I opened with Future Fusion. Honk honk!
Game 2: Nothing special here. He was clearly a newer player as I had to explain to him what can and can't trigger Torrential Tribute and stuff like that. Couldn't get through Lightpulsar looping.
ROUND 2 - vs Wind-Ups (2-0)
Game 1: Veiler'd his Magician and Pulsar/REDMD took it from there. He wasn't able to get much going.
Game 2: Oh god he gets the loop off and I don't have my 3 Veiler, 2 Maxx "C" and 2 D.D. Crow to stop it! He hits all but one of my cards in hand and that turned out to be a Gorz that helped me fight my way back. He wasn't able to mount much of an offense afterwards as Lightpulsar Dragon held down the fort and I was eventually able to normal summon Maxx "C" and poke for the win.
ROUND 3 - vs Gravekeepers (2-1)
Game 1: Upon having Trooper attack into a Spy I realized I was in a world of trouble. My worst matchup by far and my hand is full of graveyard reliant cards! He's able to establish some beaters backed by 2 Necrovalley (I MST'd one) and I scoop it up.
Game 2: 9 Cards were sided in for this and I saw a few of them. Unfortunately he got Royal Tribute off so I lost a couple guys. But through destruction effects and Future Fusion I'm able to turn it around.
Game 3: Managed to get Heavy Storm, Dark Hole and a flurry of Chaos Monsters off for a huge win. Not surprisingly he drew Starlight Road afterwards.
TOP 8 - vs Zombies (2-0)
Game 1: A bit of a haze other than I'm staring down an Ill Bud that just keeps going and going. But she's unable to get around Lightpulsar Dragon + REDMD and I eventually win.
Game 2: I get Future Fusion off but it would be a while yet before I had a hand of monsters able to capitalize on it. Eventually I drop boss monsters and win.
TOP 4 - vs Infernity (2-0)
Game 1: Same deck I faced with Budget World so I knew that if I could overwhelm him with a couple big dragons he'd be force to make subpar plays, which he does a few times. Lightpulsar was just too difficult to play around.
Game 2: He uses Card Destruction which sets up my graveyard for my Chaos Monsters. Sorc and Pulsar do their jobs.
FINALS - vs Koa'ki Meiru (2-1)
Game 1: Set Ryko and pass turn. He Dark Holes that and summons KKM Urknight and it goes downhill from there. Didn't help the rest of my hand was Pulsar Dragon, Sorc and REDMD. Really needed that mill to go off.
Game 2: This one was foggy but I remember getting Future Fusion off and taking it from there.
Game 3: I open Future Fusion and drop BLS to clear his monsters. Pulsar Dragon follows this but he's able to make it a close game with Enemy Controlling BLS and coming at me (the second time though I rammed LPD into Soldier and got REDMD) before I drop Five-Headed Dragon and win locals for the 1st time ever at this location.
After this I get some Pokemon Emerging Powers Boosters and pull 3 Thunderus in a row.
PROPS
-Lightsworn Engine put in tons of work. To the point that Future Fusion was a dead card at times because of how many dragons I milled.
-Lightpulsar Dragon managed to win over some respect from me.
-Random Debris Dragon enabled game turning Black Rose Dragon plays.
SLOPS
-Not paying closer attention to the number of Dragons I had in play/graveyard/banished as on 3 occasions I used Future Fusion and all I had left were 5 Dragons including Eclipse Wyvern.
-REDMD at 3 was too much. Taking this down.
-Side deck card of Kinetic Soldier was a complete fail. I expected to face Six Samurai and turns out none were present.
Wouldn't you know though that at this tournament which I played a Chaos style deck almost /everyone/ was playing a Light/Dark heavy deck. I probably would have ran Disaster Dragon had I known this for Drago Trolling. Oh well. Perhaps next time.
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