To be honest I'm going to blow through this as our Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament was Traditional Format and my experience was really, REALLY silly. I decided to throw some banned cards into my Infernoid deck that complimented the theme (so Painful, Graceful, DMoC) as I didn't have the time or desire to dig through my cards for things needed to build Darklaw.dek. To be honest I went into this thing half hearted as I really just wanted to watch the stupidity of every player's deck in action while waiting for some friends to come down so I could do some trades. Picked up cards I needed for Pokemon while getting rid of my Lose 1 Turns as I suspect the card is going to drop to 30 post Nats while getting some games of Vanguard in. For the tournament itself, well;
Round 1 - vs DN.dek (2-0)
He tried to use Forbidden Chalice from his hand on my turn to stop Blaster's in hand effect to pop a card.
Round 2 - vs U.A. (2-0)
I bait out a Perfect Ace, get a decent Reasoning off with Card of Safe Return and just pound him.
Round 3 - vs U.A. (2-0)
He bricked both games while I resolved Reasoning, Card of Safe Return and Charity/Painful Choice. Not much else I can say on that.
Top 8 - vs U.A from Round 2 (2-1)
At this point I'm thinking that this is getting silly as I've basically only played against UAs today which is a problem matchup due to Perfect Ace being able to stop my mill engines if I go second yet if I go first I lose out on that vital card needed to get me out of the early game. In this case I bricked Game 1 while he had Ace, Slugger and Jersey while Game 2 I beat him down and bricked game 3. I get beaten down to 1200 and have a hand of Card of Safe return, 1 Infernoid Monster and irrelevant spells while he has a Perfect Ace, Slugger and Rebounder on the board. I draw for turn and it's Graceful Charity which he lets through after my attempt to bait it with CoSR failed and I draw into Raigeki and Pot of Greed to which I'm like "YES!"
I bait out the negate, draw Card Destruction which draws me into Feather Duster so I can blow up his backrow and I draw enough monsters to start plussing off CoSR and I eventually win.
Top 4 - vs U.A. from Round 3 (0-2)
Okay NOW this is getting stupid. My 4th game in a row against that deck and it was only a matter of time before I dropped to one. Both games can be summed up as I had him on the ropes and dead next turn, but he topdecked the one card needed to set up a Dreadnought Dunker + 2 Jerseys to OTK. I got completely and utterly dunked.
So that happened and sometime after we all left for Robins where I got to play Aqua Force vs Machinings and as I may have mentioned before that deck is kinda scary because of how Stun works with Stride in addition to Aquas not liking having their shit stunned. Long story short I was able to win, but it was by no means easy. You will have to sometimes not attack their VG so they don't get Machining Damage and when you can, attack their rear guards. Destroyer needs RGs in order to use his skill so if you keep killing off the sides, they're eventually going to run out of things to use or even worse call triggers down.
Then I traded off Pale Moons to a friend for...a lot of things and that was basically it.
Props
-Ballering. Got so much stuff for things I didn't need.
-I now have a complete Force of Will deck, an almost done Colourless Rayquaza Deck, a Metalborg Core, Stick and Chair, Gear Chronicle, a Sylvan Core and a ton of other stuff for basically 120 bucks.
-Top 4'd with a deck that I didn't intend to do well with
Slops
-Phantom Blaster Diablo is dumb.
-FOUR UAS IN A ROW. WHAT THE HELL
Monday 22 June 2015
Tuesday 2 June 2015
I'm not done yet
Another week, another moment in which I sound off;
-A scrub in any card gaming community is not someone who is new to the game and therefore unfamiliar with the concepts and mentality that experienced players are well versed in. This often comes up in the form of deckbuilding, playing and access to the card pool. These are newbies and the thing that differentiates them from being a scrub is a willingness to learn be it rulings, why certain cards in a theme are bad compared to others (thus not played like Nekroz of Catastor) and a desire to improve as a player. Scrubs are the people who is insists they are right and you are wrong, believe that meta decks are cancer and should die so that they can win with their pet decks rather than learn to exploit their weaknesses through siding or play badly but refuse to accept that they do and thus never grow. Not surprisngly 70% of Pojo, 95% of Zodiac and 100% of the Reddit consist of these people.
-I'll say it again anyone who thinks people who play meta decks have no skill or use them to hide their lack of any are fucking retarded. Yes Yu-Gi-Oh! has become stale and power crept in the sense that archetype decks can be linear to a fault (Tellars) and you can win because of how badly designed and strong they are (Qli) but you know what? There are also decks that are not linear, have multiple branch plays and require you to not fuck up in running them or else you'll lose (Shaddolls, Nekroz), such as in a mirror match. Here's the kicker though; to do that you have to have skill! If you don't have it then you're going to lose every one of those mirrors. Best example? When I played a Fire Fist Mirror Match (during +1 Format) against Woodhouse and after a few games he flat out refused to play anymore as he couldn't beat me because he didn't have the skill needed to win it when the element of sacking is removed.
Seriously people who think meta decks take no skill and the people that run them are talentless hacks piss me the fuck off.
But then I remember that they can't do anything other than top a locals whereas these "meta scrubs" have Nats invites, YCS wins and went to Worlds. And they did it with a "skill-less meta deck", not 60Crystalbeastsixsamuraialien.dek with Upstarts in it.
-A scrub in any card gaming community is not someone who is new to the game and therefore unfamiliar with the concepts and mentality that experienced players are well versed in. This often comes up in the form of deckbuilding, playing and access to the card pool. These are newbies and the thing that differentiates them from being a scrub is a willingness to learn be it rulings, why certain cards in a theme are bad compared to others (thus not played like Nekroz of Catastor) and a desire to improve as a player. Scrubs are the people who is insists they are right and you are wrong, believe that meta decks are cancer and should die so that they can win with their pet decks rather than learn to exploit their weaknesses through siding or play badly but refuse to accept that they do and thus never grow. Not surprisngly 70% of Pojo, 95% of Zodiac and 100% of the Reddit consist of these people.
-I'll say it again anyone who thinks people who play meta decks have no skill or use them to hide their lack of any are fucking retarded. Yes Yu-Gi-Oh! has become stale and power crept in the sense that archetype decks can be linear to a fault (Tellars) and you can win because of how badly designed and strong they are (Qli) but you know what? There are also decks that are not linear, have multiple branch plays and require you to not fuck up in running them or else you'll lose (Shaddolls, Nekroz), such as in a mirror match. Here's the kicker though; to do that you have to have skill! If you don't have it then you're going to lose every one of those mirrors. Best example? When I played a Fire Fist Mirror Match (during +1 Format) against Woodhouse and after a few games he flat out refused to play anymore as he couldn't beat me because he didn't have the skill needed to win it when the element of sacking is removed.
Seriously people who think meta decks take no skill and the people that run them are talentless hacks piss me the fuck off.
But then I remember that they can't do anything other than top a locals whereas these "meta scrubs" have Nats invites, YCS wins and went to Worlds. And they did it with a "skill-less meta deck", not 60Crystalbeastsixsamuraialien.dek with Upstarts in it.
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