Fucking shitty.
Like wow. This was just a giant misadventure you could say. Sure I had fun in Edmonton and got to see the atmosphere of a REAL Yu-Gi-Oh! community with good players playing good decks and not shitty loltastic decks which means that I would actually gain something from playing them and perhaps grow as a player.
Get fucking salty all you want if I offended you with that remark but 90% of the playerbase in Regina is that level of casual and if you want to be really, REALLY good at the game, you HAVE to go try hard level. I don't fucking care if people will bitch and moan at this but dammit I AM competitive, I WANT to be good and I WILL do what I MUST to be one of the best players not in Saskatchewan, because that's piss easy. No I want to be one of the best Canadians in the game. That is my fun. Don't like it? Too bad then.
So the trip starts with myself, Ryan and Cobb heading out to Saskatoon and we hit a vicious rainstorm along the way. This shit was ridiculous. We arrive in Toon Town and check out their Local Shop and holy shit, it's leagues above what we have to work with.
Astral Packs. They have ASTRAL PACKS.
Oh and they sell their product at not bullshit rates. 3 Structure decks for 30 as a promotion? Extra Booster boxes for under 50? Fuck even Saskatoon is a giant step up from Regina as a Yu-Gi-Oh! community.
Then we head out on our long 7 hour journey until the GPS told us to go off the main highway to Edmonton for some...weird reason and as the result we end up being sidetracked by 4 hours and arrive so late that our goal of going to a Locals falls flat on its face. We end up playtesting by ourselves and I'm convinced that Dragon Rulers are the thing for me as my Troll and Toad Order didnt come in time for Lightsworn Rulers....until while trying to fall asleep and failing (because god forbid I ever get a decent night's sleep before a Regional) I decide to switch to Disaster Dragon on the premise that LSR should be popular and this would be my chance to test the deck in what is one of Canada's best environments for dueling. I ended up using this list;
Then came the big day, we head to the tournament after more misadventures because FESTIVALS and CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE. I got to meet Delhon who is a pretty chill guy. After some time passed the tournament began;
Round 1 - Disaster Dragon vs Lightsworn (1-2)
Game 1; I open with Koa'ki Meiru Drago and brickwall him for the win. Turns out he opened triple Necro Gardna.
Game 2; I am able to get Drago out once or twice, but he has Lance to get over it and makes an enormous push that ends with me down to 200 LP to his JD and Lumina.
Game 3; I open with Shine, Soul Charge and Drago so I make Spark + Drago and beat for a bit. He;s able to protect a Raiden Long enough to go into an ARK and take Stardust and it goes downhill from there thanks to Imperial Iron Wall and some really good mills. I'm talking 3 Gardna, BTS and Skill Prisoner and my hand is Tidal and Tempest. Time is called and I'm down by over 2k. I have MST for Iron Wall, but that only makes his grave live. With no way of ending the game in 5 turns I scoop.
Round - vs Anti-Meta (0-2)
Game 1: This one was sad. He has near endless backrow and I don't see a single decree this game. My monsters just keep falling to his traps and I eventually lose. Why would you main Memory of an Adversary.
Game 2; Post siding this became a REAL grind. Lots of pass and go. He didn't want to attack my Masked Dragons and I didn't want to attack into his 5 backrow so I had to pass and wait with REDMD. Sadly my two major points to turn the game around were stopped by D.D. Crow and his hands picked what I had left. I scooped after being down to no monsters left in deck, field or grave.
Round 3 - vs Noble Knights (1-2)
Game 1; This guy was fucking awful. I'm saying it now. The Field Spell? Really? Just for shits and giggles too? That's fucking terrible logic and yet this guy pushed my shit in games 2 and 3. I won the first game because I was actually able to play protect the Drago with REDMD on board. The other two though came down to "equip Borz with Gwen and blow up all your monsters." It's really fucking sad that I had no means of stopping that. After losing to this I dropped out of the tournament out of disgust with myself and my deck.
I'm going to upset people when I say this, but Disaster Dragon doesn't have it anymore. I find it admirable that people believe in the deck but I'm going to be real here and say that it has been power crept to hell while being indirectly crippled by the banlist. We NEED REDMD to 2 so bad it hurts, among other things. There's no advantage generating, no unfair setups, no comboes. Disaster is too fair of a deck to compete. The deck does not have the tools needed to play Yu-Gi-Oh! in 2014 and no amount of cute little additions and tricks is going to change that. In order for someone to top an event with Disaster and not some locals, they have to be one HELL of a good player. I'm unfortunately not that caliber of a player. I did well with the deck in 2010-2012 but it's again 2014 and I've felt that it's just never been the same. I've tried playing the deck here and there but I've always felt dissatisfied with its performance and especially the consistency.
So as of now, I'm putting Disaster Dragon on the shelf. I don't know when I'll play it agin, but it doesn't look like it'll be anytime soon.
After I eliminated myself I did some trades, picked up some swag and we all went back to the hotel to try and get some rest as between the 3 of us we had 5 hours of sleep, with me having only 2. It sucks. The next day we checked out and came back to Regina in much less time before, while dealing with even shittier weather.
And now I get to go back to playing at Lolcals. Happy fucking birthday to me. I'm so done with this next year.
Props
-Picked up some nice shit.
-Edmonton is hella nice
-Saskatoon for that matter
Slops
-Bricking, consistency issues
-Losing to matches I should on paper dominate. One case was extreme luck. The other was the guy was playing a better deck in just about every manner.
-Road mishaps.
-The weather
