In any case tis the last locals of the format and I decided to go out with something silly, yet capable of winning thanks to its construction as opposed to dumb luck. In this case I decided to try my hand at playing the Saffira Chaos deck that topped a random Regional and was the subject of a small discussion on DGz. For those of you who aren't aware of this deck I'll explain it in a nutshell.
First up this is a Ritual Deck which you guys know I have a boner for. The Ritual Monster in this case is;
And the spell is;
So we have a monster with 3 powerful effects and a Ritual Spell with a really underrated secondary effect. Protecting Saffira from destruction via Bottomless or Dark Hole is clutch. It also works in Damage Step so you can swing into Yamatos and force out Cranes from the hand, if need be. Saffira's effects are also relevant as knocking cards, correcting your hand or recycling Veiler, Honest and BLS is bonkers. However as good as the Queen is, she can be made better with the Ritual Djinns;
I think you can see where I'm going with this. Summon a Saffira using these two as tributes and you get an untargetable monster that doesn't allow your opponent to Special Summon, thereby turning her into a near impossible to kill floodgate. Sound familar? That's because this deck's style ultimately plays the same as;
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In any case because Djinns are a thing, Tour Guide is definitely good and when a deck wants to abuse TGU, it also abuses Scarm of the Burning Abyss. Throw in Mathematicians and some solid traps and draw support and you have yourselves a deck;
Side was tailored for our Meta which is a mixture of Tier 1, Tier 1.5, Tier 2 and Tier 99. Leviathan Dragon is in as a "solid" opening Tour Guide play as I don't own a Dante and boy did I ever need him.
Round 1 - vs Lightsworn Ruler (2-0)
Oh hey, Magnus! Wouldn't be a tournament without us paired up at the start. As it was I kinda just floated with Tour Guides until I summoned a Saffira using Djinn Releaser's Break Ride effect Game 1, and kind of did the same game 2. He had a Spark Dragon for the second game which was annoying, but Hymn's graveyard effect + Zenmaines outed it and that was that.
Round 2 - vs Batterymen (2-0)
I open with Veilers for his 9V and Charger, after that I eventually drop a Saffira and BLS so he dies. Game 2 I BLS + Honest him so he's hella dead.
Round 3 - vs Mermail (2-0)
He opens with Pike + Dragoons (MBN) and has Infantry + Marksman after that which is a concern as I have a Saffira + Releaser play but Infantry can out her, but he thankfully doesn't set backrow and I'm able to drop her with a set Emptiness and Preparation of Rites in hand. When I told him he couldn't special summon he was completely bewildered and he must have read Releaser like 3 times. He DID have a Mind Control though and tried to summon Megalo, but Emptiness kind of stopped that cold and come my turn I draw into Demolisher and proceed to setup a second Saffira using both Djinns. At this point both he and his friend try to argue that the Djinns don't give her effects because they have to be on the field, which I flat out tell them no they're reading the card wrong.
Game 2 he opens with Pike and Abyssscale of the whatever. It's the one that negates a spell card which is normally an awful card to play in Mermail, but it's situationally amazing here as I had Hymn AND Preparation of Rites. Gonna say right now I hate it when people run bad cards that are situational as hell but against me they go off and I pretty much lose, therefore they are justified in running them.
I'm forced to take a hit while setting up Emptiness and Trap Stun and draw MST which is superb as I force out the scale, Summon Saffira and flip Vanity's to his Abyss-Sphere. Saffira's discard effect resolves and I knock Abyssgunde out of his hand which is a tremendous blow and I ride Emptiness to victory.
Top 4 - vs Lightsworn Rulers (2-1)
Game one he mills poorly and an opportunity to swing with BLS, Giga Brilliant and Leviathan Dragon presents itself that I immediately take. Game 2 was more of a grind and I'm one piece away from being able to go off, but he resolves Soul Charge and short of BLS I have no way of dealing with established boards so I die in a few turns. Game 3 was really fuzzy outside of me hitting his Blaster with D.D. Crow which just crippled him and I grind out the duel, resolve Leviathan Dragon a few times and Giga Brilliant to eventually beat face and win.
Finals - vs Satellarknights (0-2)
I'd like to regale you with a tale of strategy, wit and all that jazz but honestly what it comes down to is whenever you play against Woodhouse in this game, you HAVE to open godly. Otherwise he will sack the shit out of you. Maybe not immediately, but eventually his insane luck will kick in and you'll suddenly get blown out. To make matters worse I brainfart and try to Sorc while he has Caringorgon and he redirects it to my Djinn Demolisher. He didn't even read it, he just picked it at random. 10 turns later because I couldn't tribute that card with Releaser for a Super Saffira he ends up winning the duel because Woodhouse is THAT GUY who runs Phoenix Wing Wind Blast in a deck that cannot support it "because it puts Denebs in my graveyard", spins Saffira and beats me to death with an ARK.
Game 2 he opens as always the perfect counter hand to what I'm trying to do. Mathematician? Warning. Emptiness? Wiretap. Saffira? Wind Blast. This coupled with the games I'd played against him leading up to this where he always, always, ALWAYS gets lucky caused me to finally snap and I rage quit the duel while telling him flat out that he's a terrible player, wins a majority of his games through sheer dumb luck and left. This is something that I've come close to saying several times over the last couple of months and well, I finally said it. I didn't think to tell him that he only plays linear as fuck decks that take no thought because of his inability to strategize or improvise nor that it's a terrible mentality to be proud of sacking. The guy is fucking awful and he relies on luck to win against better players. Simple as that.
And don't get me started on the monkey see, monkey do shit. What did I see after a few rounds? Him with Saffiras. I hadn't even FINISHED the tournament and he's already trying to build the deck. Oh bullshit on "I HAD these things all this time." They were in your trade bait for the last month and you only pulled them out NOW because you saw me shrek people with it.
Good luck trying to play the deck I do. You don't always open with a Ritual play. Oh who am I kidding. It's fucking Woodhouse. He'll ALWAYS open with Saffira, Hymm, Demolisher and Releaser.
Props
-Got to play Blue Cards
-Crushed dreams
-Picked up Yang Bling for 150.
-Moved my Glow-Up Bulb Ultra for 30 dollars in value. I just hope it gets reprinted in the LC.
Slops
-Failed the Tactical Evolution challenge. WHY DO I KEEP PULLING RAINBOW DRAGONS!? I JUST WANT SUMMONER'S ART!
-The Finals. I am a bit upset at myself for snapping. Do I regret calling out Woodhouse? No. I probably offended him or even pissed him off but SOMEONE was going to say it eventually. He's just lucky it wasn't Nord.
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