Welcome to the Blue Corner on Blogspot dear readers and to a bit of a different report from Locals.
Yes Locals. Not Lolcals.
Turns out it wasn't just me who was unsatisfied with the competitive scene in Regina. In fact several people expressed an interest in changing things up in addition to being less than pleased with how Tramps has been conducting themselves over the last while. The way things were going I honestly saw something ugly happening down the road. Just saying.
However it ended up never coming to that due to a really lucky break coming up in the form of Comic Readers expressing interest in having Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournaments which made me really happy. For those that may not know for a long time Regina had TWO places to go to for Yu-Gi-Oh! Locals. Tramps and Comic Readers. Of the two Comic Readers was the more competitive place to be as all the good players went there wheras Tramps was where all the retards and scrubs played. Topping Comic Readers actually took considerable effort because of the player quality present.
Unfortunately as time went on many of those good players stopped coming to Readers and the challenge there dropped significantly. Ultimately we stopped going entirely as Cardfight!! Vanguard Locals was just a better use of our time and the end result was the discontinuation of tournaments.
Fast forward to now and through some negotiations Comic Readers has opted to start having Local Tournaments again, this time on a Sundays! This is again great as I was never able to go to Readers tournaments in the first place because of my work schedule so it's great to know I can actually take part in the GOOD tournaments on a frequent basis and actually improve my game (which honestly I feel has been slipping. You're only as good as your competition you know). Furthermore if the tournaments have decent turnouts on a frequent basis we could end up doing things ala Collector's Lane from Saskatoon (Box Tournaments, Sealed Play, maybe Goat Format)!
That in itself is a long ways away. Right now we just have to get things rolling. I am really hopeful though that we can make these things happen. Regina REALLY needs this. I've said this a few times now but in comparison to Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Alberta we're a laughing stock. I want to change this. I want Regina players to be able to command respect. I told everyone in the room as such while we were opening our Shadow Specters Sneak Peek packs. I pulled the Bujin Ultra Rare, Ulti Dragluon and picked up dragon stuff that I needed before getting ready for a regular tournament using Dragon Rulers with Dragon Shrine and some other oddball card choices. My reasoning was;
-Dragon Shrine is another copy of Ravine to get cards into the graveyard without having to rely on chancy milling aspects like Card Trooper.
-No Cards of Consonance as I want to use my tuners for either Synchros or for Shrine.
-Trap Stun over MST can just lock out all of the things that this deck hates; traps and floodgate cards.
-Battle Fader over Scarecrow as you can Fader a Star Eater.
-No Vanity's Emptiness as I want real traps to disable my opponent.
Ultimately I had a build teched out for not just the Mirror but the randomness of Regina. Much to my surprise Magnus was present and playing Megamonkey's Dragon Rulers. Good to see him back.
Round 1 - vs Mermail (1-2)
This was rather unfortunate. Game 1 I open with the hand that puts out 2 Sacks and 3 Tokens with a Ravine in hand but he has both Maxx "C" AND Effect Veiler to stop my combo dead at AFD. Afterwards he summons Leed from his hand (lol), pops AFD with Infanty, summons 2 Aqua Spirit and a Marksman for the OTK. Game 2 I get rid of his Iron Wall and Warning a clutch Abyss-Sphere play while Game 3 he had all of his answers to my one MST. I should note I had 3 Maxx "C", 1 Fader, 3 MST, 3 Wind Blast and 2 Trap Stun in my deck post siding. I only saw 1 MST out of those. No hand traps at all against a deck that I really wanted them for.
With that said I'm now out of top cut as I lost a round. Unfortunate.
Round 2 - vs T.G. Synchro (2-0)
I can't help but feel kinda sad when I play Mr. Hobo. He was fucking on FIRE two months ago at the Regina Regionals and the day after with his Madolche deck. We played in the finals of the locals following that tournament and he gave my Blue-Eyes Rulers a really good fight. Since then he's stopped being serious and opted to start dicking around again and it makes me again a bit sad. At the rate he was going I honestly felt he could have very well topped the next Regionals or consistently made it into the finals of Locals. Perhaps I'm being hard on him but I call it as I see it and that's something that the people reading this blog apparently enjoy. Especially when I rip baddies a new one.
I still hate that fucker who plays the dumb as hell Ground Collapse Gravity Bind faggot stall decks, by the way.
Anyway back to this one. He's playing T.G.s the way Konami wanted them to be meaning he'd be minusing the HELL out of himself to get combos off against a deck that pluses all day long. Both games were lopsided.
Round 3 - vs Utopia Zexal Weapons (2-0)
And I end up finishing on the bubble. I pull crap from my Astral Pack and end up doing some Pokemon stuff. I scrape someone with my In Game team before we all head over to Robins where more games are played. Megamonkey and I had a Ruler mirror that wasn't very good on both ends and I got to playtest my Sweep Command Dragon deck on some people before we called it a night.
Props
-Playing at Comic Readers for the first time since May. It does feel good to be back.
-Sweep Command Dragon is a boss surprisingly.
-Got almost everything I wanted from the Sneak. Just gotta wait for Mistake and Felgrand to drop in value (both are under 30 now).
Slops
-Not topping. This was the worst I've done with Rulers at a Locals. Gonna have to give E-Con and Book a try...
