Lolcals Report - Wrath of the Dragon Highlord

Quick recap of my last two trips to Pokemon Locals;

-I played and won the TDK Mirror Match through EPIC N plays and clutch Catchers.
-Got a Landorus EX and Entei EX for a Latias EX and Zapdos EX.  Bitchin.
-Redeemed ALL of my stocked up codes for packs I traded off to build a legit TDK + Landorus deck Online.

Now onto the topic of this post and that would be what I intend to be my last Locals Report for Yu-Gi-Oh! for the duration of this format.  Following the last couple of times I've gone and ended up raging to the point of leaving the bloody store I've come to the painful realization that I take the game way too much for my own good and it's ruining the fun of it.  Its causing quite a bit of stress and I really don't need to be having that so honestly a good month or two break will do me some good and when I ultimately decide to pick things up again I hope that I'll be a better person in mind and all that jazz.

That and I'm just tired of how the format and the people have become.  Be it Youtube, forums, DN, Facebook or even at locals I've found myself facepalming to the point that I just need to get away from the environment.

What will you do though, some people may wonder.  Pfft.  I've got at least 5-6 JRPGs on my Backloggery that need to be :B:.  Tales of Vesperia, Final Fantasy XIII, Tales of Graces F, The Last Story, Xenoblade Chronicles, Pandora's Tower, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, Trails in the Sky, Wild Arms XF, Radiant Historia oh dear god it doesn't end.  Not to mention the non RPGs like DmC and Bayonetta or all of the good Wii Games that have come out in the last three years.

So about 5 games then.  *badum-pish!*

That said since this was going to be my last locals in a while I figured I may as well go out with a tremendous roar in a manner befitting a Dragon Highlord and play Dragon Rulers at their absolute best since the deck is going to get hit in September.  Don't deny it.  It's going to die like Inzektors.  Oh that deck had its moment or two in the following banlist but lets be real.  Inzektors now are absolute SHIT compared to March 2012.  In doing this I also knew that I'd be steamrolling through most of the people and probably get some jeers from the people who think the deck is auto pilot, unskilled and the type of opinions from people that they've gained from other people but never actually played the deck.  Don't even fucking care.  I'm not going to bother defending the deck.  It's a really good Rank 7 Toolbox and unless you're playing something on its level it will annihilate you much like the "great" decks of the past did against anything outside of their tier.  Now let's get to the tournament itself...where there will be blood.  Dragon's Blood.

Round 1 - vs Dark World (2-0)

Oh look.  A deck that's even derpier than this.  People may call Dragon Rulers degenerate but at the very least the deck has a tremendous number of plays outside of the obvious Dracossack combos to handle situations.  Dark World...summons Grapha over and over again while trying to rip cards out of the hand.  That's all it does.  One of the most linear decks out there.  If that deck is not spamming Grapha it is not winning.  That simple.

Game 1 - I open pretty ass with Tempest and a Lightning while the rest of my hand are spells not useful for the situation....like Card Destruction.  I set the Super Rejuv in case he tries to do Dark World bullshit which he does.  Upon seeing me chain the Rejuv he stops there and I start forcing out his backrow.  I saw at least 2 Evac Devices before I drop a Crimson Blader and kill him a couple turns later.

Game 2 - Oh look.  He played Dragged Down.  That's a fair card right?  Super Rejuvination is a completely busted and horribly designed card that was never seen in play until Dragon Rulers came out and ultimately started abusing the card and now everyone wants it hit because it's completely unfair to be on the receiving end of such bullshit whereas Dragged Down is a COMPLETELY fair card.  Right?

It's fucking dumb shit like this that I hate about people.  Super Rejuvination needs to be hit but Dragged Down is fine?  THEY'RE THE SAME FUCKING THING.  They are old cards that were never seen much play (well except in Dragon Exodia but that's not a deck.  That's solitare) but then came a deck that took these cards and completely broke them to the point that they are completely unfair in design and are the reason the decks are hated and need to be hit.  The best part though?  There are even people that defend Dragged Down saying that Dark World NEED it to compete.  They aren't a deck without the hand ripping which is complete horse shit.  I fucking want some of that weed that these idiots are smoking because Dark World at its CORE is about making use of discard effects and summoning big monsters.  Not attacking the hand.  Want an example?  See Dark World Creator Turbo.  That's an example of Dark World without the bullshit hand attacks.

Anyway despite that and a Mind Crush hitting my Eradiactor Virus I fuck him up in a few turns after resolving some Sarcs or something.  I was too busy listening to everyone around us complaining about the power of Dragon Rulers.  We were the last people to finish the round which wasn't surprising.  Dragon Rulers do not just burn through opponents like Chaos Dragon did.  It's actually more about the advantage gaining like Monarchs.

Also if Super Rejuvination is to be hit then Dragged Down goes with it.  Same fucking issue.  Bad card design that eventually gets abused.

Round 2 - vs Fire Fist (2-1)

Game 1 - Same guy that I faced the last time I used this deck.  Forced out the backrow then started making some pushes for game.

Game 2 - He opens with Prohibition calling Dracossack which does hurt.  I have the option to Scrap Dragon it by popping a Tidal but I get greedy and go for the attack first and run into a Mirror Force.  I don't draw into Reborn or a means of getting Redox + Earth monster so I scoop it up.

Game 3 - No prohibition this time.  Better yet I have Forbidden Chalices and Veilers for every one of his big plays and.

Round 3 - vs Cyber Dragon OTK (2-0)

Game 1 - I open with a Dracossack which gets sent off for Chimeratech Fortress Dragon.  After explaining to him why Tokens don't count towards attack gain I proceed to not lose to Limiter Removal because that and I'm able to storm back to take it.

Game 2 - I Blader lock him for a turn but I end up losing it or something.  I just remember staring down a field of Tokens before I get the idea to summon Red Dragon Archfiend to nuke them all then make a push.  I win shortly after.

Top 4 - vs Ben Kei OTK (2-0)

...What is this, 2005?  Oh shit!  This is the year Batista wins the Royal Rumble and proceeds to face GOD (ugh) at Wrestlemania.  I should use this knowledge to make money somehow.  The inner Bender in me demands it.

Game 1 - I make something and it gets taken with Creature Swap.  Then I put Scrap Dragon and Dracossack on board and get plusses.

Game 2 - He Creature Swaps again but it ends the same.

Finals - vs Dragon Ruler (2-0)

This was an inevitability as Megamonkey was playing the deck as well (since the time I played Dragon Rulers he has been and won every Tramps since meaning the deck as a whole has gotten 1st place in Regina Locals every week since its release.  Scary) and this was the matchup he was dying to have since I'm kinda good with any Dragon deck I touch and would give him a hell of a fight seeing how we were playing equally matched decks and unlike random DN scrubs I actually knew what I was doing (most of the time).  I think his build was 40 cards to my 42 with about 6 cards difference in the main so yeah...this was going to be a really tight game and both of us knew it going into this.  Because the two best players in the city were playing a Mirror Match involving the best deck in the game all of the other players gathered round for a duel to see who was Greatest of the Four Dragons.

Game 1 - We both open with awful hands.  Hands full of Big Dragons bad.  He goes first and makes a Dracossack after banishing 2 Big Dragons from hand to summon a Big Dragon and I end up doing the same...except he's got Maxx "C."  Now normally I'd be forced to either stop or try to go balls deep in an attempt to kill him or proceed to die on the next turn from probable Big Eye on Big Eye on Big Eye rape which is what everyone around us were constantly yammering (along with other backseat dueling nonsense).  However I happened to have Forbidden Chalice in my hand which allowed me to do the still obscure but quickly becoming well known play of Synchroing into Colossal Fighter while the opponent has a monster of 2500 attack or more on the board and you're under Maxx "C".  What you do in this situation is attack into the monster and Chalice it so that it becomes at least 2900 attack and have Fighter die in battle but revive itself over and over again, forcing the opponent to draw until you ultimately deck them out.  You'll take about 6000 damage in the process if they're at 30 cards in deck but there is virtually no counter to it and not surprisingly I caused several brains to melt after doing this.  Its not very often that a deck is able to turn one of the few things that hard counters it AGAINST the opponent and OTK them for it.

Game 2 - He opens with Dracossack after having a much better hand.  I open with Wiseman's Chalice which I use to steal his Tidal from the Graveyard and drop my own tidal to make Abyssgaios, negate Dracossack's effect and make a Thunder Charger to punch over a token.  Those 2600 points matter especially in the early game post siding, by the way.  He makes a Red Dragon Archfiend and a couple other monsters but unfortunately makes the mistake of forgetting about Abyssgaios' attack lock effect and is forced to bait out the negate with Big Eye in Main Phase 2 before losing his entire field to RDA's end phase effect.  On my turn I make Scrap Dragon and he doesn't have the Veiler for it so I take it.

Not a single Big Eye was summoned.

After this we go to Robins for some after dueling.  I get some games in with my Vermillion The BLOOD and Constellars then Megamonkey and I spend like 4 hours talking about 100 card Traditional Dragon decks, cartoons, some video games and wrestling before calling it a night.  I think I ended up falling asleep half an hour later.

Props
-Winning Locals in glorious manner.  That's two straight 1st Place Finishes in a row with Dragon Rulers.  I r teh grtst.
-Getting a Vermillion The BLOOD mat.  FINALLY I have a Vanguard mat.
-Pulling off the Forbidden Chalie + Colossal Fighter under Maxx "C" OTK.  Now people are more likely to summon Dracossack in defense if they have the Maxx "C" in hand.  But then the opponent knows you have Maxx "C" and will try to play around it which means you won't be able to get that surprise and...jeeeeeez.  This Mirror match IS retardedly strict.

Slops
-Losing a game to an awful player because I got reckless.
-Winning because of a misplay.  I know that's usually how Dragon Ruler Mirrors end but still kinda crummy.

Lolcals Report - I can't keep this up

Gonna do this now while its fresh on my mind and not three days later.  Seems legit.

ANYWAY.

So for this locals I was going to play Disaster Ruler or Monarchs depending if Totally Legit Extra Deck Guy was around so I could mooch his Dracossacks and Big Eye.  He couldn't make it until later on so I opted to go with Monarchs due to their favourable matchups against many things.  I also did some trades and bought packs of Plasma Storm and pulled a Shiny Charizard.  Bitchin!

Round 1 - vs Evols (WW)

Game 1 - I bait out a Laggia after taking some hits and drop Obelisk the Green Slayer and proceed to torment him.

Game 2 - He opens with Najasho/Evo Force and hits me for 4000+ but doesn't end his field with a Laggia like the last time.  Same result.  I drop Obelisk and attack with his FISTS OF FURY.

Round 2 - vs Chaos Dragon (WW)

Game 1 - Pretty bad player, not going to lie.  I mean who fucking banishes Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon for a Chaos Summon when there's other shit in the grave?  You had damn well believe I schooled him for his misuse of an inferior Dragon deck, motherFUCKERS.

Game 2 - He goes ham really early while I Maxx "C" or something.  All I know is he comes at me with BLS, Pulsar and REDMD but I've got a Fader and Veiler to stay in there.  Come my turn I E-Con BLS, remove something then sack off my three monsters for Obelisk and he scoops it up.  Better yet he calls me out for playing a deck as derpy as this that can drop an Obelisk with ease.  What can I say?

You don't mess with this motherfucker

Round 3 - vs Constellar (WLW)

Game 1 - This shit was LONG as I have to work my ass off to get around the Rank 5 in order to secure a LaDD drop, force out his backrow and eventually grind out the win through advantage.

Game 2 - Much the same.  I am able to drop an Obelisk but he has the Honest to get over it.  I eventually fall down to 100 LP to his 8000 but drop a Vanity's Fiend to lock him down and start poking.  It gets Evac'd, he forces out his own Starlight Road and gets Honest back to his hand through Pot of Avarice.  I'm unable to kill him before he's able to draw another creature.

Game 3 - Opened nutty and am able to drop a LaDD or a Vanity's Fiend.  I forget which.  He's got no answer to it as time is called and scoops it up.

Top 4 - vs Shock Master.dek (LL)

Game 1 - Shock Locked.

Game 2 - Shock Locked AND I get my shit stolen with Big Eye.  I was NOT happy with this at all.  Didn't even get to fucking play Yu-Gi-Oh! AT ALL.  It was literally pass turn every turn because I couldn't do jack shit.  I got horribly crushed and left furious to the point that I had to get out of the building and vent my frustrations away from the group.

Yes this is the second locals in a row where I've snapped.  This is not a good thing at all.

After clearing my head and patching things up the tournament was over.  Megamonkey won with Dragon Rulers but I ended up being the true master by pulling a Super Gem Spark.  We all went over to Robins (as usual) and had games of YGO and Vanguard while talking about the stupidity that is WWE before calling it a night.

Props

-After nearly 10 years I at long last summoned an Obelisk monster.  This took a surprising amount of time given that I've associated myself with an Obelisk character since 2003 and thought I'd have made a deck to summon the Tormentor much sooner.

-Using Obelisk's monster nuking attack.

-Getting a good laugh out of my round 2 opponent who is a long time Dark World player.  Monarchs are even derpier than Dark World?  BITCH PLEASE.

Slops

-Losing my cool.  Again

In regards to Monarchs the deck is very good.  Obelisk the Tormentor is an amazing card this format due to his ability to dodge targeting effects.  With Dark Hole, Torrential and Bottomless largely out of the picture he's really difficult to kill without going out of your way.  This deck will be amazing next format.

As the title alluded to I really can't keep doing this.  The whole getting super butthurt over the game.  Its just not dignified and I should be better than this.  Don't give me the "its just a game.  Don't take it so seriously" lingo because its really difficult not to when that's all you've done since playing.  Do I want to be a try hard?  No!  I want to have fun in my games but at the same time I hate to lose and therefore try my best to win even with something that's not tier.  Thus I try hard and become all the more upset when things don't go well.  I'll keep trying to scale it back but at this point it's going to be a really long and difficult journey.  Honestly I might just stop competing at locals and going specifically to just talk with everyone for a few hours.

Bleh.

Locals Report from Hell

Way to go Derrick.  Now we're all dead.  Worse yet I still haven't finished telling my story and now I have to do it as a ghost.  I hope you're happy.

Now where was I?  Oh right.  Cube Draft.  Stuff happened then I ended up taking part in the next one.  I was able to draft a somewhat decent Dragon deck while making some hard choices (my one pack had Monster Reborn AND Pot of Greed in it.  I went with Greed but my god, having to pass up Reborn was hard...) and I did meh.  My first round had Victoria in his deck and I just died to that thing.  I did summon original Red-Eyes B. Dragon in the first game though and therefore earned the most style points of the second draft.  HAH!
My second round I was able to do some stuff though he got heads on Fiend Comedian when I was trying to Debris into Black Rose and if there's anything that will get me upset its Fiend Comedian.  I have NEVER seen anyone call it wrong.  Fuck that card.  After paying him back in spades with BLS we decided to play Normal Yu-Gi-Oh! where I got my revenge and smacked his Evilswarm with Hunders in all but one or two games where he YOLO'd and it paid off.  Notably I made a Number 69 and stole Lavaval Chain's effect and dropped a HUGE Trag.

Then we played each other's decks and I beat him down with Evilswarm.  Had Bahamut take a Constellar M7 and I Shock Locked him after hearing him say "Shock Master isn't good against the Meta."

I am like Crapcom.  Your tears make me stronger.

I also did some trades, got a FF Bear for Constellars and an OTT deck for a really good deal.  That someone makes up for the fact you blew up the Earth, Derrick.

Wednesday

So after my two fillings were thawed I realized I could go to Pokemon Locals and get some trades/games in...assuming things went well.  They did and while I traded for a whole couple things the important thing was that the resident competitive player was there.  Turns out he's going to Worlds to compete for the Last Chance Qualifier since Worlds is in Vancouver this year.  See Pokemon likes to hold major events, like Nats or Worlds in Canada because they appreciate the Canadian player base.

TAKE A FUCKING HINT, KONAMI.

Thus I offered to have him some games with his deck "complete" (he was using Proxies for his missing stuff) and point out any things that I could help with because apparently despite having jack shit for credentials in the game of Pokemon some people regard me as one of the better players in the city, if not one of the best.  That weird moment where a judge is asking for your opinions on rulings.

Rayeels vs Plasma Box WLW

Game 1 - He makes the mistake of playing Virbank first and I win the Stadium War as the result.  Not having to deal with Virbank is HUGE when Plasma Box relies on that extra Poison Damage to get quick KOs.  Thus I was able to grind him down while setting up my Rayquazas and I start picking off his key guys (Deoxys-EX) and win after some time passes.

Game 2 - I start pretty bad but work my way out of it.  Unfortunately he's able to get a huge Scramble Switch into Lugia-EX play off and I just can't fight out of it.

Game 3 - Oh dear god one of my Eels are prized.  He takes the lead in knockouts and I have to do scrub plays like use Switch to get my Rayquaza cycle going but I start clawing back into it after finally getting a 1 Fire 3 Lightning setup going and taking down his guys after Ning him down to 1 card in hand to my 6.  I complete the come back by Dragon Bursting a Lugia-EX for 300 damage.

Props
-Completing Disaster Dragon
-Getting a new Vanguard Deck
-Summoning Red-Eyes B. Dragon in draft and attacking with INFERNO FIRE BLAST!  NYEH!
-Making up for one of my slops
-Avenging my Pokemon losses in glorious manner.  Dragon decks rule.

Slops
-Getting sacked
-Losing my cool
-Getting killed by the apocalypse.  Dammit, Goku!  Hurry up and wish the Earth and all of the people on it back already!

The Much Awaited Lolcals Report for June...I think

I've learned that if I don't post on a weekend that I go to Locals that potentially bad things happen.  Well okay not really but the puppy dog eyes I get can crush souls so I'll share my tales from this weekend and Wednesday then.

You know who you are.

So I had my once a month weekend off that I only get once a month because once a month I get Saturdays off.  Figuring competing at the good locals would be a nice change of pace I decided to run Dragunity with Imperial Iron Wall to stonewall the two good players present who would be playing Dragon Rulers because Iron Wall is kinda really good and I was toying with the idea of running Iron Wall Dragunity at Nats.  Techs like that which can singlehandly get you blow out wins and steal those crucial Game 1s in this format are great and being able to build decks that can take advantage of said cards can really help you go the distance in an event.

Ultimately the build ended up being about 5-6 cards off of PhoenixFlareX's recent build which is okay.  He's one of the best NA Dragunity players so this just means I had the right idea.  I also noticed in last video how he felt Cards of Consonance was becoming less and less useful and would be better off not main decked.  Finding this intriguing I decided to try playing without CoC but still main decking Garuda.

Round 1 - vs Constellars WW

Game 1 - I don't recall much of this but I'm able to play around his Pleiades and ultimately kill him in one giant turn.

Game 2 - I opened up with all the answers.  Warning, Mind Crush, Negation.  That kind of stuff.  He couldn't do anything.

Round 2 - vs Dragon Ruler WW

Game 1 - Opened with Maxx "C" which is godly against the deck and I was able to resolve 2 Gold Sarcs.  He ended up leaving a Tidal on the board I think and I power through 2 Effect Veilers (I had a hand of Dux and 2 Mystletainns) in order to make a Blader and lock him from there.

Game 2 - We both throw Maxx "C" around but he starts Blader locking me.  I'm forced to pass with an open field but I'm able to stave off an OTK and on the next turn I go off and kill him.

Round 3 - vs Samurai LWL

Game 1 - He has all the answers to my plays and I just die after he Enishi's my Mystletainn and goes ham.

Game 2 - I bait out a Musakani with Stardust before sitting on Thought Ruler.

Game 3 - Sams do what Sams do.  Open with the Shi En and Double Edge plus additional backrow.  My no monster hand was no match for a Shi En + Nat Beast lock.  I'm utterly disgusted.

I end up bubbling as the result despite having the same 2-1 record as people that did top.  I end up playing Evilswarm on the side with Dragunity and Hunders for testing purposes.  Dragunity ended up winning the first match but I lose the next two with Hunder after getting repeatedly lucksacked which outright pisses me off.  What's the point of playing when my opponent is able to open the fucking nuts ALL THE TIME and has ALL THE ANSWERS no matter what I do, I ask myself.  I had to get away from there and everyone, go home and sort out my thoughts and issues.

So overall it was not a k day.  Frankly it was from this I realized that going to Nationals would be a complete waste of my time.  Why drop 1400 dollars to fly to an event JUST so I can get sacked by someone opening with 2 Super Rejuvinations?  Given that I'm notoriously pissy about getting sacked I just don't see myself having a good experience.  It's a shame because I really wanted to meet the players I knew would be there but my wallet and my patience cannot afford it at this time.  Maybe next year?  But that would require me to top a Regional and I'm honestly not sure if I have it in me to keep going like this.
Megamonkey suggested that I should consider taking a break from competitive play (while still hanging out at Locals when I can since we're all brotherbanded and such.  Yay Star Force reference that only I will get!) and honestly I may do that after this upcoming weekend.  The one positive thing that came from this trip was that I FINALLY got the 2 Redox I needed to build Disaster Dragon so I threw together "Sandstorm" and decided I would get some games in the following day.

Sunday

I ended up not going to locals because A) it was my mother's B-Day and I didn't know if we were getting together for dinner.  We didn't.  B) I also NEEDED a haircuit.  Seriously I was starting to look like this guy

THE VORLD VILL BE MINE!!!

After all ended up being well I did visit Tramps and chummed with Megamonkey and Totally Legit Extra Deck Dude (we will find a nickname for you yet!) before heading to Robins where lulz were had.  Lots of Lulz.

RayEels vs Darkrai Hydregion L

This was cloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose.  Both of us got down to the point that a Knockout would win the game.  Sadly he got to it before I could.  I lost 2 Eels to Night Spear's splash damage.

Narukami vs Aqua Force - A bunch of wins, I think.

HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T OPEN WITH ALL TRIGGERS IN MOST OF MY GAMES WHAT THIS THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Yeah I was pretty happy.  My deck worked like it was supposed to!  Do you realize what this means, Cut Man!?  It means I win!

Disaster Dragon vs Evilswarm WW

Game 1 - He goes for the turn 1 Ophion...but runs into an Exploder Dragon.  I take it from there.

Game 2 - He opens with Ophion again but read my set monster as an Exploder so he ended up sicking another monster after it....and into a Masked Dragon which got Exploder who got bounced.  I played around it and started making Synchro and Xyz plays.  Despite having proxies of the Rank 7s I never needed to use them.  Randy.

Then the cube draft came up which I didn't take part in.  I filmed it.  Lulz were had including Zombies vs Stun and Shapenatch getting summo-

Dark Hole Is Bad in High Level Play

OH NO YOU DIDN-

Shut the fuck up.  Yes I did.  I went there and honestly it's getting fucking annoying how every instance that a decklist comes up and Dark Hole is absent people flip the hell out.  Youtube accounts flame, dislike or outright unsubscribe to anyone who profiles a known deck but forgoes the use of Dark Hole.  The reason for this?  "Dark Hole is a staple.  You have to run it.  You're bad for not running it" or "You need Dark Hole to beat X deck.  What are you gonna do when your opponent shits on you?" 

Okay.  I understand why people would think this.  Dark Hole is a powerful card.  It's been limited since 2010 after coming off the banlist.  It's been a staple for many years.  However that time is slowly coming to an end much like how Book of Moon went from being Staple to tech over the course of a few formats.  Now Book of Moon is starting to come back into play and that would be due to the same reasons Dark Hole is weakening.

Dark Hole does jack shit to the top decks of the format.

New Text: I'm basically a Threatening Roar, but not Chainable.

I'll try to spare you much of the things raised by Kris Perovic's own article on this (which you can find here) but needless to say its been something that I've thought of for a very long time.  At first it was as simple as not running it in decks that always have a monster on the board like Dragunity as you'd never want to nuke your Stardust, REDMD and Atum setup.  Samurai and Dino Rabbit could also fall into this.  However as the formats went on and more decks became difficult to kill through destruction/spell and trap removal I found myself wondering why do I even run this card that isn't guaranteed to work half the time when I could run something that's always helpful like Book of Moon?  The fact is that best decks these days either are highly resistant to Dark Hole or are flat out unaffected by it.  Right now the top decks are Dragon Rulers, Prophecy and Evilswarm.  All 3 Decks don't even bat an eye to Dark Hole;


-Dragon Rulers; Dracossack stays on board.  Better have a follow up play or they'll make another Dracossack.  Good job!  You've done NOTHING.  Oh and they can just summon 4 or more dragons to completely replace that field.
-Prophecy; Spellbook of Wisdom.  That Priestess is still there.
-Evilswarm; 3 Pandemics, 3 Dress and 1-3 Lance.  Good luck with that.

Then there's the lower tier decks;

-Fire Fist and Mermail we already know about.
-Monarchs; You're at best wiping one monster off the field.  Two at the most.
-Constellar; Omega is a Pandemic on legs and it runs Safe Zone
-Dragunity; You're kidding, right?
-Karakuri; This is assuming you're allowed to live.
-Lavals; "Negate with Quasar"

And the even lower tier decks;

-Samurai; No comment.
-Dark World; Much like Dragon Rulers if you're doing this then you'd better be winning that turn seeing how Grapha NEVER DIES.

Now let me get one thing out of the way.  I'm talking about using Dark Hole at high level competition like a Regionals, WCS or Nats.  I'm not talking about Locals where you have random bad people trying to play Ice Barriers and flat out lose to the card.  I'm talking about a large venue with hundreds to thousands of skilled players running the best of the best.  Dueling Network and DevPro is also iffy due to the varying levels of pedigree with the players you get...but I'm willing to bet the high rated people running the best decks have been considering this too.

In regards to some of the reasonings;

"You have to run it because its a staple."
-Only because we have this mentality that because it's been a staple in the past its required now.  Isn't a staple card something so overwhelmingly strong that its useful in every situation whenever you draw it?  Look at the situation with Dark Hole compared to Monster Reborn and Heavy Storm.  Reborn and Storm are still fucking busted.  Dark Hole?  Not even near that much.

"You are bad for not running it."
-Argue with theory all you want but results speak for themselves.  I don't consider myself an amazing player but I am good enough to realize that sometimes I need to step back and take an unbiased look over a card.  Not only that but I'm not alone in this logic.  Look at the decklists of all the decks that have been topping in Japan for the entire format.  Dark Hole has been in and out of nearly every one of the best decks with it sliding more towards no mainboard play than yes.  Then there's the Pros that everyone goes out of their way to emulate and netdeck.  They're starting to think less of the card too (I'm talking highly regarded players like Perovic and the ARG Crew) which is really interesting as the same people who are bitching about Dark Hole being dropped from the top decks are the same ones that are just going to copy Parker Robinson's Dragon Ruler or Johnny Nguyen's Prophecy card for fucking card.

Again.  Argue with theory all you want but results speak for themselves.

"You need Dark Hole to beat X Deck."
-X deck being anything that's not Dragon Ruler, Evilswarm, Prophecy and Mermail.  Again it's adorable people think Dark Hole will singlehandedly win a game against said decks.  You Dark Hole their field then you HAVE to OTK them that turn or you are not any better off than before.

"Dark Hole allows you to have a chance with X deck when your opponent does BLARGH."
-This is one that I actually get alot when I post Dragunity Decklists.  The problem though with Decks like Dragunity or the top decks is that they're so consistent in setting up their boards that if the opponent is able to break through them, put a bunch of monsters on the field, NOT KILL you and leave you needing to top deck ONE SINGLE CARD to not lose the game...you've probably lost the game.  What I mean by this is for that kind of situation to occur your opponent would have to have godhanded you and frankly with how Yu-Gi-Oh! has devolved its rare that you're able to win against an opponent whenever they open the perfect hand.

Honestly the better card for this format is Torrential Tribute by far.  Its ability to be used during your opponent's combos is incredibly disrupting with all of the combo based decks in the format (but again...its also kind of waning in power), its chainable and at two.  Book of Moon is also a powerful card for its ability to be chained at almost any point making it a great response to chained Pandemics or Spellbook of Wisdom, sets Dracossack and can be used on your own monsters for neat tricks.  Or how about Evac Device?  Bouncing monsters is starting to become good again.

Look I can keep going and going on this but the fact of the matter is Dark Hole is at an all time low in terms of power with how decks are running in the game.  The reason its still seeing wide play is because of its staple status being part of the Unholy Trinity and people are naturally fixated on running it without question because of this.  They refuse to even think about dropping it to even the side and trying out that one card you've always wanted to fit in but could not.  I've tried explaining why I don't run the card in my own decks from time to time but so many people out there are thickheaded to the point that it's now a waste of time.  If someone ever makes a remark about a lack of Dark Hole in any of my videos that doesn't need it I will just flat out ignore it.

At least I can take comfort that the people that read this blog and are subscribed to my channel have better sense than those who I've just ranted about.  That said I'm done.

Lolcals Adventure - Boots to Asses

Alright so its been quite some time since I did one of these.  Bet you've been wondering how the last bits of stuff went.  Well to sum up the 100 card Traditional Tournament in a nutshell;

-Monarchs with all of the control switch cards are dumb.
-I sacked and got sacked.
-Samurai and their players can eat a colossal penis and choke on it.
-Leave it to Megamonkey and myself to have a skillful match in a bullshit environment.

FASTFORWARDTONOW

Tachyon is now legal...and 100 bucks a box.  Like a fool I YOLO and get two of them hoping that I could get a Dracossack from at least one of them.  I've pulled Rabbits and Duality during their peaks so its not unreasonable.  However instead of Sacks I end up pulling two Spellbook of Judgment.  OH OKAY THEN.  Neither of those are Dracossacks but I GUESS I can settle for this.  I also pull 2 Harpie Channelers and the good Fire Formation in the set while picking up Dragon Rulers.  Then Megamonkey suggested I play his take on Dragon Rulers since it's only fitting that the long time dragon player run the deck during its first weekend of legality at locals.  I decide sure why not and hastily made a side deck to handle our meta.  After doing that and looking over the deck I only had one thing left to say;

PREPARE THY ANUS FOR THY REAMING.

You know how I was all "Ophion savaged asses left and right" in the last post.  That was being comical.  This time I'm being legit.  Asses were going to get reamed.

Round 1 - vs Chaos Dragon (2-0)

Game 1; I start off surprisingly slow having to just pass turn with Seven Swords and Return from the Different Dimension.   I eventually get a Crimson Blader going while setting up a gigantic Return that does tremendous overkill.

Game 2; Standard Dracossack plays backed with Super Rejuvination.  I eventually have it, Blader and Big Eye and just decimate him.  Oh you have a Gorz on the field?  It would be a shame if someone were to...



Take it.

Got the expected reaction.  People hating the deck, etc, etc.  NEXT

Round 2 - vs Blackwings (2-0)

Game 1 - I open completely dirty and poop all over anything he does.

Game 2 - I actually had to work for this one as I went through both Dracossacks and something got Solemned.  I was ultimately able to wear him down and win through my beaters.

Round 3 - vs Fire Fist (2-0)

Game 1 - Made a Dracossack which he had problems getting around.  Then I flipped up Return and it was kay.

Game 2 - That rare time you're able to Heavy Storm 4 backrow and NONE of them are Starlight Road.  So good!  Anyway Dracossack again was a problem.  So was Big Eye and Scrap Dragon.  I also resolved several Gold Sarcs and Seven Swords.

Top 4 - vs Heroes (2-0)

Game 1 - This one took some time as I had to play through his Evacs, Grand Moles and big Shinings but Big Eye kind of handled it.  The look on his face when I told him he doesn't get Shining back at End Phase was priceless.

Game 2 - I don't really remember this one other than I was constantly summoning and summoning.  He had a Marshmallon which I went after with Gaia Charger and that helped set up a gameshot a few turns later after resolving some Rejuvinations.

Finals - vs Evols (2-0)

Game 1 - I dickbutt him pretty good with my combos.  He can't keep up even after having Dolkka negate several of my shit.

Game 2 - And in this game I crush his soul after setting up through Gold Sarcs a turn where I +8 off of Super Rejuvination and am ready to tear him a new one before he scoops it up.

From my Astral Pack I got a Harpies Hunting Ground and traded for Kerykeons.  Bitchin.  Now I need Ophion and Ouroboros.

Props
-Dragon by Balls across faces.
-Annihilating all of my matches with 2-0 wins.  I seriously scorched a guy so badly that his bad body odour could have possibly ignited.
-Pulling 2 Spellbook of Judgment

Slop
-Being a huge dickbutt.  This deck is disgustingly unfair and the prospect of it being the most commonly encountered deck at Nationals makes me question wanting to go.
-Not being able to make Lucky Straight
-Not pulling Dracossack.

Lolcals Adventure - Prepare thy Anus

Yay Hidden Arsenal 7 is out.  I bought two boxes for 100 each which fucking sucks thanks to pack prices in Canada being awful.  We Canadians get fucked in the ass by Yu-Gi-Oh! on a regular basis but that's alright.  I was able to get everything I needed to build the deck that fucks pounds asses just as well if not better; Evilswarm.

After some minor trades and mooching I was able to build the deck exactly as I wanted and figured this would be a good of a chance to test it as any.  While it may be odd that a dragon player like myself would even touch this deck given that Ophion is such a bitch to deal with you've got to keep in mind that Ophion himself is not only a Dragon but he's one that also savages the anuses of several decks by being on the field.

Basically he's a different kind of Koa'ki Meiru Drago and it happens to be that our locals are very weak to this Dark Type Koa'ki Meiru Drago.  That and I've always enjoyed the sit on a tank and grind out your win playstyle that this deck, Gladiator Beasts and Hero Beat employ.  Classic Disaster Dragon was also exceptional at this as outside of Future Fusion plays you would trade one for ones while poking with Drago, Masked and REDMD before going for a kill.  I'll also say to the people who will bitch about me being a dickrider that I don't fucking care what you think.  I have a genuine interest in this deck along with all of the other Hidden Arsenal archetypes.

Except Gusto.  Fuck them.  They're shitawful.

Tournament time!

Round 1 - vs Gallis Agent 

Game 1 - Honest fucks me in the ass.

Game 2 - Maxx "C" and Ophion fuck him in the ass.

Game 3 - See above.  Ophion.  Anus.  Fucked.

1-0

Round 2 - vs Mono Mermail (Megamonkey666) 

Game 1 - I take it in the ass.

Game 2 - He takes it in the ass.

Game 3 - Abysslead savages my hand and by that I mean my anus through using his effect three times.  Both of us fail to realize he can only tribute attack monsters which is a terrible oversight given how experienced we are with the deck.  I blame my mistake on worrying if I could even sit on a chair after this savaging.

1-1

Round 3  - vs Evols 

Game 1 - Not one but TWO Ophion pound him in the anus.  It was not pretty.

Game 2 - Ophion isn't done with that ass yet.

2-1

Top 8 - Win

My opponent never showed up.  Clearly he knew about the amount of anuses that I had been savaging with Ophion and ran away before his was next.  So I ended up playing a Samurai deck for fun while waiting out the round.  Ophion fucked up that ass so hard I honestly wonder if he'll be able to sit for the rest of this week.

3-1

Top 4 - vs Mono Mermail (Megamonkey)

Game 1 - The ass.  Ophion gives it the D.

Game 2  - Ophion and two Soul Drains wreck that ass.

Final - vs Geargia Karakuri

Game 1 - Ophion pounds that ass then his own ass gets pounded.  Then my ass takes it before I retaliate with extreme anal savagery and win before the store closes.

Draw

I pull a Trap Stun from Astral Pack 2 and we head to Robins for food and comfy chairs to ease the pain of our anuses getting reamed so badly.  

I proceed to have some games of Pokemon with Monkey with him eventually using my Speedquaza deck against my Blastoise.  We drag out the game a bit because he wants to see just how much damage I can do with a Mewtwo EX that is heavily stacked with energy.   Between my near 20 Energy and his own attachments I hit for a massive 380 damage that TEARS THAT ASS UP A NEW ONE.  MAXIMUM ANAL RAPEAGE.

Oh and also wrecked anuses and by that I mean one person's with Monarchs because I'm fucking awesome at this game and everyone else only exists to bend over and take it without tears.

This entire tournament report style inspired much by something?  Perhaps.  Now bend over.  Your ass is next.

Props

-Sending several people to the proctologist

-Building an entire Evilswarm Deck out of two boxes of HA7 and 3 trades.

-Getting the core pieces of Constellars and the last monsters needed for Gishki and Gem-Knights

-Hitting for nearly 400 damage in Pokemon.  Suck my Basilicock Kyurem EX with Crystal Wall.

Slops

-Needing to see the proctologist as well.

-Not catching the misuse of Abysslead's effect.  Tsk tsk

-Not being able to send more people to the proctologist.  There were only so many asses to give the Evilswarm D to.

A Pokemon Post? What the!?

Yeah this kinda happened.  I ended up having Wednesday off which happens to be when my locals holds a 2 hour Pokemon Session (TCG and Video game matches) so I opted to go since I hadn't had any chance to play the TCG in months.  I arrive and buy five packs of Boundaries Crossed and pull a Secret Rare Shiny Golurk and Gold Potion ACE Speck.  Bitchin.  I proceeded to trade those off for a Dragons Exhalted Rayquaza, 3 Dark Trance Hydregion, Scyther EX and 7 energy so I could finish my AMAZING TROLL DECK.

SpeedQuaza vs Lugia/Ho-Oh/Mewtwo EX

Game 1 - He opens with Sigilyph which I auto lose to.  SCOOP

Game 2 - I do AMAZING because I hit 3 Energy off of Celestial Roar and it goes from there.

Game 3 - I lose to a combination of Hypnotoxic Laser and Gold Breaker and not having another mon on the bench.

SpeedQuaza vs Steel Deck

Game 1 - I donk him after two turns

Game 2 - He gets Plasma Kling Klang out and I lose because this deck can't deal with things immune to EX Attackers.

SpeedQuaza vs Dragon Deck

Game 1 - I misplayed several times with my energy attatchments which kept me from being able to attack for several turns, then got killed by an opposing Rayquaza.

Game 2 - He tanks behind several dragons as I keep KOing his guys.

Game 3 - He sets up a fast Dragonite but then I Dragon Burst it for 360 damage and donk him gloriously.

After this I switch decks.

Blastoise/Keldeo vs Lugia Ho-Oh/Mewtwo EX

Game 1 - I get the turn 2 Bastoise and a strong field of attackers but run out of steam after being N'd three times and not being able to play around his Mewtwos.

Game 2 - I open absolute shit and get donked.  My hand was 2 Juniper, 2 Energy Retrieval and a Blastoise and I drew that kind of hand again after being N'd.

Blastoise/Keldeo vs Lugia Ho-Oh/Mewtwo EX

Game 1 - This one was crazy as we both mulligan'd give times and I mulligan'd a sixth time opening with 2 Keldeos and a Mewtwo with an extremely shitty hand.  He opens up with Mewtwo and a Landorus so I make it a point to slow attach a DCE and a Water to Keldeo then I catcher up his Landorus for the easy knock out and I get the ball rolling off my Prizes (more Catcher).  We go back and forth with our guys and it comes down to my 2 Prizes left to his four, staring down a Mewtwo, a Victini and a Ho-Oh EX while I have a no energy Keldeo, a DCE, Catch er and Juniper in hand with a Squirtle on the bench.  I catcher up his Ho-Oh, attach the DCE and proceed to say, "YORU!" while playing the Juniper.

I draw into a into two Rare Candy, a Water Energy, an Ultra Ball, N, Skyla and Juniper.  My god did I ever sack off of that.

Anyway I Ultra Ball out the Blastoise and Rare Candy it onto the board, Deluge the water energy and attack the Ho-Oh for enough that he's sitting at 20 HP.  My opponent swiches out into a Mewtwo with 3 Energy on it and hits my Keldeo for a near KO but not enough.  I draw for turn and Skyla out my last Catcher, bring up that Ho-Oh and knock it out for the game.  I R SO GUD!

After that we had to leave as it was past 6 and I overall had a very good game against someone who like me knows how to properly play Pokemon.  Until I can get people from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Group who are open minded to play the game (exception being Megamonkey as he's always had an interest in playing) this guy will no doubt be my most challenging opponent at locals as including us two there are only 3-4 people who play Pokemon with a competitive mindset.

Props
-Now being able to build Darkrai/Hydregion....far too late.
-Opening with one of my four Rayquaza in all but one of my games.  That time I mulligan'd 5 times and drew two of him.
-Fucking shit up with Blastoise/Keldeo at last...even if one of my games was failure.
-That last turn play before closing.
-Pulling GOD from a mere five packs once again.

Slops
-Misplays.  Too many times I mismanaged my energy attachments with Rayquaza and had to wait extra turns to attack.
-Saying YORU with the accent in front of two people from Japan.  They didn't notice so no awkwardness was had but still.  Eep.

Cardfight!! Vanguard Tournament Report - What Are the Chances?

What.

No I'm serious.  I'm doing a report for Vanguard today.  In fact today was a special 3v3 Team Tournament with a Nats invite on the line for the top two teams.  Now sadly some things kept it from being like I imagined (3 people dueling simultaneously) but the overall experience sounded promising and I liked the idea of partnering up with people I knew (in this case it was Megamonkey666) and forming a team in which the power and friendship and courage and all that shit would conquer all.

4Kids' writing staff would have a FIELD day with this.

Anyway our team consisting of myself, megamonkey666 and a man known as Liam were team Abyssal Fire Storm spelling be damned and our decks were Narukami, Kagero and Shadow Paladin respectively.  I'd say that our team was overall very good thanks to a combination of skill and deck power between us.  Arguably I had the weakest deck of the team as while Vermillion is a great card Narukami have some major consistency issues compared to its big brother Kagero (and my lack of competitive play can also be an issue as I don't quite know how to play against a lot of the top decks) while monkey had the most power thanks to DOTE while Liam had the most balance (Crossrides and Perfect Guards).  Our order ended up with myself as first, monkey with second and Liam for game 3 as we wanted to try and play to our deck strengths against the most stacked team of the tournament.  Guess who we had to face round 1?

Round 1 (0-2)

Game 1 - Narukami vs Nova Grappler (Loss)

There is one thing you guys have to know about me and this game.  I.  Draw.  Shit.

A running gag around here is "Drawing a Dana hand" which means you open with a handful of triggers, put them back into the deck for the mulligan and DRAW TRIGGERS.

Yeah this happened at the worst possible time and while I can't blame my loss completely on it the fact of the matter is I opened god awful against a more consistent deck and player and basically was done after a couple turns and a few stand triggers on his part.

Game 2 - Kagero vs Kagero (Loss)

Megamonkey was sadly the victim of a double trigger sack off of twin drive.

So we are disappoint.

Round 2 (2-0)

Game 1 - Narukami vs Neo Nectar (Win)

This was a complete blowout.  My opponent was new to the game (and basically wasn't committed to it as we both dicked around before making plays) and Narukami kinda destroy this deck.  Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion can singlehandedly break up any board control the deck has thanks to his counterblast and it kind of happens here.  Also for once I get some lucky trigger breaks.

Game 2 - Kagero vs I don't even know (Win)

I don't even remember how this one turned out.  I'm sure monkey can tell me what to put here.

Round 3 (0-2)

Game 1 - Narukami vs Oracle Think Tank (Loss)

So he gets a Silent Tom out but I have a Perfect Guard in case I'm in danger.  My hand is set to annihilate his board with Vermillion and I'm sitting at 3 damage.  Worst case scenario I'm going into my turn at 4 or 5 damage so I opt not to use my perfect guard on my opponent's Vanguard attack.  What are the chances he'll double crit and beat me right there?

He gets a double critical and beats me right there. I was completely dumbfounded and extremely upset at the outcome.  I outright said to my opponent "Good sack" when he said "GG" then got up and left.  No raging or throwing salt.  Just walking away.

Game 2 - Kagero vs Shadow Paladin (Loss)

Monkey sadly has one of those games where he's drawing his triggers instead of checking them and the opponent happens to have a crapton of hand resources.  He managed to get DOTE out but vs 13 cards in hand even he's got limits.  Then the opponent double triggers him for the win.

So we are both very salty.  I misplayed (or did I get unlucky?), monkey got shafted and Liam hasn't played a game yet.  At this point all we could do is win the next round to finish at five hundred.

Round 4 (2-0)

Game 1 - Narukami vs Nova Grappler (Win)

This one was the new ride chain build that I barely remember.  Anyway I get a clutch Thunderstorm Dragoon as my hand was full of Grade 1s and 3s (including Vermillion) and I proceed to dominate his field as he's stuck sitting on a grade 2 for several turns.  He eventually goes off and amasses a large field but then Vermillion clears things up and I outgrind him.

Game 2 - Kagero vs Dimension Police

Enigman build.  I saw the guy put his Enigman to near 30000 at several points but monkey thankfully has enough hand resources to guard the attacks.  He drops DOTE early and constantly pressures the opponent into guarding his attacks out of fear of that Persona Blast and eventually he outgrinds him and wins.

Final Record 2-2

So we leave after this and buy packs from the shop upstairs.  From a mere 5 Pokemon Emerging Powers I get TWO POKEMON CATCHER.  BOO FUCKING YEAR!!!  Also I pull an ulti Glow-Up Bulb.  Yaaaaay.  This somewhat made up for an otherwise shitty tournament.

Props
-Fucking shit up with my team mates.  Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion and Dragonic Overlord/The End got in there.
-Pulling amazing.

Slop
-Misplays
-Getting trigger sacked.

Pseudo Lolcals Adventure - I r teh grtst!

That is all.





Okay fine I'll elaborate.  So Locals didn't happen today since it was Easter Sunday and Tramps was closed.  Did that stop us?  Pffft, no!  We all just went to the Robins and chilled there all day instead.  Or rather they did at first.  I on the other hand didn't know about this and as such slept until noon when I got a text message saying everyone was down there and so I went after (hastily) throwing some decks together.

Match 1 - Disaster Dragon vs Monk Photon (2-0)

Game 1; I summoned Drago and trololololol'd.

Game 2; I forget how this went.

Match 2 - Hero Beat vs Different Photon (2-0)

Game 1; This one's hazy (flame).

Game 2; Fiendish Chain and Shining put in work.

Match 3 - Hero Beat vs Bad Photon Deck (2-0)

Game 1; Pretty sure I Dark Hole his boss field and monster Reborn a Galaxy-Eyes.

Game 2; I nuke his board with a clutch Torrential.

Match 4 - Hero Beat vs 2011 Tengu Plants (2-1)

Game 1; Grinded a little for this.  Eventually managed to establish control and win.

Game 2; I opened god awful and couldn't play out of my hand.

Game 3; This one went long with removal and beaters abound.  I get 2 Cardcar D's off and draw what I need to win.

Match 5 - Hero Beat vs Karakuri OTK (2-0)

Game 1; I set 5 and summon beaters to win.  Not much you can do against Warning, Judgment, TT, Bribe and Fiendish Chain.

Game 2; He makes a Naturia Beast which would have killed me had I not opened Super Poly + a Hero so I do just that and while he's able to push me around a bit, my backrow do their job.

Match 6 - Hunder vs Plant Synchron (2-0)

Game 1; This is already a favourable matchup thanks to my ability to Shock Lock or Crimson Blader lock and I do both here.  I'm able to kill him in a few turns.

Game 2; He goes OFF with a shit ton of monsters and ends his board with Librarian, Berserker and another monster along with a Pot of Avarice and Dandylion combos.  I answer with a one turn Thunder Spark Dragon and my backrow helps keep him in check.

Match 7 - Disaster Dragon vs Wind-Up (2-0)

Game 1 - He keeps removing Dragos and gets Factory off but I eventually drop a Yamata Dragon, score the +5 off of it and ride my traps to victory.

Game 2 - He bottomlesses my REDMD so I decide to make a huge push with Return from the Different Dimension and I flat out annihilate him in doing so.

Match 8 - Hunder vs Plant Synchron (Draw)

Game 1; He gets a turn one Quasar.

Game 2; He had to leave.

Match 9 - Disaster Dragon vs Prophecy with Judgment (1-2)

Game 1; He opens with Judgment and I just don't have the resources to outlast his constant plusses.  I also start considering building Dark World.

Game 2; He doesn't open as strongly and I'm able to Solemn his Spellbook Magician then go for the throat on the following turn with Blaster and Tempest.

Game 3; See game 1.

Match 10 - Hunder vs Prophecy (2-1?)

Game 1 - I believe I open with T-King here and while he gets around it I drop a Dynamo to kill a Priestess and have Honest to back it up.

Game 2 - I make a Crimson Blader and use it to buy a couple turns before shitting my hand out and winning.

Match 11 - March 2012 Chaos Dragon Mirror Match (2-0)

Game 1 - I get Future Fusion off and despite some awful mills I eventually win it.

Game 2 - I open Future Fusion like a baws and then we just shit big monsters all over the place.  I do win this after blowing up the field with Dark Hole while having a Pulsar and pushing through Maxx "C" for the win.

Then we all went home.  Overall the day was good.  It was basically locals except all the good people were present.  I got to test out some changes to my Hunder Deck, my idea of how to run Heroes and even got a few games with Disaster.  I'm disappointed I couldn't get the match win against Spellbooks as I had hands in which I could have done SOMETHING, but nowhere near what was needed to get the job done with Priestess and a shit ton of spellbooks coming.  Being able to win against the deck with Hunders though?  That felt good and it definitely boosted my confidence with the deck after my poor showing at Regionals.  Photon Thrasher is a fucking beast.

Props
-Heroes
-Hunders
-DRAGONS
-Getting that last Blastoise I needed to start building Keldeotoise.
-Playing the Chaos Dragon Mirror with 2 REDMD and Future Fusion.  God that was so fucking dumb

Slops
-Losing to Prophecy with my favourite deck.  Fuck Judgment Day.  Card Destruction requires a situational hand to be anywhere near as plus.
-Milling BLS and Monster Reborn with Chaos Dragons in both games.

Lolcals Adventure - A Shocking Result

Yay locals!  If there's anything that can be done to help my wounded pride it would be a chance to to kick some ass with a modified version of my Regional Deck as I really wanted to see how much of a difference Photon Thrasher would have made.  I also made it a point to trade off a playmat and some of my cards for older cards, Hazy stuff and a few banned cards.

Also some of the people are really fucking terrible when it comes to trades.  "No I'm not trading that Secret Rare Vylon Epsilon for a Super Rare."

Except for you know Vylons are garbage and Hidden Arsenal Secrets are no more valuable than the obsolete penny.  I know some people (okay not some.  Just the awful people) hate the whole card values thing but almost everyone with a head on their shoulders will trade cards based on value, not rarity.  Its what we do and if you want to get trades done with the non sucky people then you're going to have to bite the bullet.

Now for the tournament.

Round 1 - vs X-Sabers (1-2)

Game 1 - So I put out a bitchin field of Stardust with Prism and Thunder King.  He's pretty much dead next turn...but then plays 2 Saber Slash and OTKs the fuck out of me.

Game 2 - Macro Cosmos.

Game 3 - I put out a Thought Ruler which negates 2 of his cards...then gets Creature Swapped because that's a card that I've had a longstanding hatred of before I even met any of the people at locals.  I hate losing games because of Creature Swap and while I eventually do get around this thanks to Dynamo and make a field with Rai-Oh he's eventually able to clear it and make Barkion to my backrow of Fiendish Chain and Bottomless and kills me.  Ultimately the Creature Swap won him the game and I am placing part of the loss on that.  The damage I took from that hit and the work I had to do in order to take control back was just too much and against Sabers that's enough to outright lose it all.

Round 2 - vs Legendary Ocean Deck (2-0)

Game 1 - You know how I talked about beating a bad player with a bad deck and how its basically like kicking a puppy?  Yeah that's kind of the same here.  He negates my Pot of Duality with Magic Jammer and I'm like "well then".  Then I make Stardust and eventually Scrap Dragon and win.

Game 2 - I completely shit on his setup with Decree, Stardust and Dynamo.

Round 3 - vs Blackwings (2-1)

Game 1 - I make Stardust and he has no answer to it for most of the game.  Then he Storms, drops DAD and some more Blackwings and beats me to death....mostly.  I admit that I misplayed and forgot that I had TRAG IN HAND and could have lived the turn out at 1000 LP, played Dark Hole and Reborn'd Stardust.  Now I was dually pissed.

Game 2 - So I summoned Photon Trasher and literally beat him down with it.  He killed it but by then it was too late.  I had far too much advantage on him.

Game 3 - He opens with Whirlwind and gets Gale off his Shura summon but no other backrow so I'm reading an all Monster hand.  So I make Shock Master and call effects for 3 turns, beat him down with it and Rai-Oh then make Scrap Dragon and win.

And that was it because we only had a Top 4 and what do you know I didn't make it because the tournamen structure is DUMB and I bubbled out.  I got 5th place!  The fuck!?  Ever since we started doing this new style it's become more and more bullshit in regards to how well certain players do and alot of good people have missed out on playoffs because they lost one match.

So after this we go to Robins and do our usual of more games, trades, Vanguard and such.  I got to playtest Hunders against Prophecy and not surprisingly I drew Shock Master Hands most of the time.  It was kinda dickbutty.

Props
-Making up for my horrible Regional performance albeit somewhat.  I ended with a winning record and I'm pretty sure I'd have gone 3-0 had I elected to have Rai-Oh negate an X-Saber Gardestrike summon which lead to a Saber Slash into Barkion play.
-Getting out of the Salt Mine.
-Puns.  Many many puns.  You could say they were...electrifying!

Slops
-Misplays.
-Still taking bad losses way too hard.  I literally told someone to stop playing a bad deck when I saw him flip up DNA Surgery and call Divine-Beast.  This was the guy I made flip the table in the 100 card tournament and lo and behold he was still playing shitty stall decks.

March 23, 2013 Regional Report - Disappointment

Well this could have gone better and by that I mean ALOT better.  I mentioned this a while back in a video that Regina would be getting a second Regionals in March and this happened to be that weekend.  It also happened to be the weekend of YCS Austin and not surprisingly the end results were kind of expected.

Except for the whole us not having a Monarch deck that topped.  With his entire Extra Deck in toploaders.  Wow.  This guy must have been a master troll or something as there were ALOT of salt filled posts on Duelistgroundz in regards to this.  Some of these people were more salty than myself which may be a shocker to some (you guys know who you are.  In fact you're reading this right now.

Hiiiiiiiiiiiii.) but yeah its possible.  This Regionals was also quite salty.  In fact it was basically a fucking salt mine with me driving the cart except for the whole I wasn't the most salty person there.  That belonged to the guy who bubbled because of his tie breakers.  I promptly gave him the wheel and went about my way.

Anyway I ended up taking Hunders to this since I already had my invite and wanted to play something more wonky than Dragunity (the other choice was Hieratic but I was drawing like the master and by that I mean total ASS in most of my games).  In retrospect this was a bad call as I'd never really used the deck much outside of games on DevPro where it tested decent and I was not fully confident in my side decking decisions.  I probably should have gone with Chaos Dragon but after getting horribly anal raped by Karakuri the night before I was like "k this isn't going to work."  Oh and for the curious our meta turnout was Rabbit, Dark World, Lightsworn, Machina Gadget, Machina Geargia, Chaos Dragon, Mono and Genex Mermail, Fire Fist and finally Dragunity because ever since I topped the last Regionals with them some people have been playing the deck more or in one case outright trying to copy exactly everything I've done.

Oh and there were two women at this.  Two out of almost 70.  Dat ratio.  Oh and they came with their boyfriends......and this is where I'm sure some people just went "well shit."

Moving on I get there with Megamonkey and the rest of the group, do some trades while catching up with the guys from Saskatoon while also learning that a couple people from Winnipeg came all the way here to compete.  By the end of the day they were very, very sorry they did.  Our head judge does his speech and we're set to begin...except the fucking Dark World player comes in at the last minute, bumps up the rounds of swiss from 6 to 7 and we all have to get re-paired.  The stupidity of the deck is astounding if their players can cause fuckups of that magnitude without games being played.  So after ANOTHER wait the Regionals begin.

Round 1 - vs Shitty Fucking Awful Mermails (Not even a Win worth counting)

Game 1 - Oh my god I'm paired up with the idiot who tried to mimic my Hazy Flames deck from a while back.  Except this time he's trying to play Merlanteans since I guess its the best deck of the format....except that he had no Megalos (only 3 Leeds) and he had NO IDEA of how his cards worked.  He was either reading or misreading effects.  Example; He summoned Genex Undine and tried to pitch Marksman from the HAND.  Oh and apparently he was running Dimensional Fissure in his Side Deck.









Wut.

Yes I'm being a fucking prick but you have no idea how much facepalm I wanted to do.  So I completely and utterly thrash him with Abyss Dweller and Crimson Blader equipped with a Prism and lock him out.

Game 2 - Pretty much the same as before.  I put Thunder King on the board and eventually make a Dweller to lock him out of his Linde effects.  I kill him after making a Dynamo.

Round 2 - vs Machina Gadgets (1-2)

Game 1 - So this guy's been playing the game since LOB and much like Cameron he has lots, and lots, and lots of decks.  You know how in GX Bastion opens up his coat and has a FUCKTON of decks?  That's Cameron and this guy.  Except this guy's more like Bastion and Cam is so much like Abridged Jaden it's fucking scary.

Oh right the game.  I basically managed to keep him from doing much and put out a ton of damage through my constant double summons and he can't keep up.

Game 2 - He summons a Tiger King Wanghu with backrow and I die inside as I've got no out to that thing and despite my best efforts to thin my deck out, stall and hope to draw an out I don't.  I was hoping to get a Rai-Oh or a Soul Taker but nope.  Worst yet he's got the Starlight Road and I'm pretty much done.

Game 3 - He opens with a Machina Fortress and I Taker it.  He summons it again and I taker it.  Then we basically poke here and there while drawing backrow but no monsters or a monster but losing it to removal.  This game went on a long time and eventually he's able to get the win after finally knocking off the rest of my LP after I take him to around 1200 I think.  My only disappointment from this was that I never saw Thunder Seahorse which up until this point I opened with in every game.  Now I realize just how much the deck lives and dies by Seahorse.  Anyway the handshake was done and he told me that was by far the best game he had in a long time and by the sounds of it the best he had that entire day.  I didn't hear it personally but he basically said that I was the toughest and one of the most skilled opponents he had ever faced.  Coming from someone who has likely played all kinds of caliber players that does mean alot and it certainly helps my ego.  I was still disappoint that my deck failed me though.  I don't like to lose.

Round 3 - vs Inzektors (1-2)

Game 1 - I try to make a Stardust but it gets Solemned.  Then he proceeds to do Inzektor plays with Call of the Haunted that I can't stop and I pretty much die.  My dislike of this deck is well known and I didn't side nearly enough hate for it in retrospect.  I always wondered why the guy who topped Hawaii with this deck ran Shadow Mirrors.  Now I do.

Game 2 - I get Macro Cosmos off Turn one and beat him to death with it

Game 3 - This was by far my worst playing in a long time as I make the stupid move of negating a Decree with Judgment which puts me at 2800 LP and enough to let him use his Call of the Haunteds to beat over my Dynamo then attack for game.  If anything I should have Macro'd Turn 1 (which I didn't because I got greedy and wanted to get the draw off of Dyamo) and i should have let the Decree go since I had Storm and another Macro in hand.

Round 4 - vs Fire Fist Rabbit (0-2)

Game 1 - Oh god fucking dammit.  Not this deck.  I was not prepared for this at all and I get thoroughly raped by it thanks to a Turn 1 Tiger King and a never ending supply of backrow that I could not get around.  I knew he had a Mirror Force and he had Lances, Tensen and a frequent supply of Bears I could not handle.

Game 2 - I Heavy Storm, he Starlight Roads then makes Shock Master and calls Monster Effects.  I couldn't even say anything.  I couldn't even DO ANYTHING.  The fuck do you do against Stardust, Shock Master and Bear with 4 facedowns!?  If this was DN or DevPro I would have just outright ragequit and I almost got up and left the room here.  I ended up scooping it up and getting out of there before I snapped or something because I got 2-0'd and while I admit I'm not the greatest player in the world I do NOT get fucking 2-0'd.  I'm fucking better than THAT.  That much I do know!  God damn just look at the Gadget match.  I lost that but I made it one of the most difficult wins that a person could get.  Fucking fighting tooth and nail to the bitter end.  This?  I got blown out and it was disgusting.  I straight up dropped here and decided to participate in the win a mat.

The worst part of this however?  My only match win was against a bad player playing a bad deck.  That's like OTKing a random 60 card Dark Magician deck on DN.  That's not much of a win if you even count it as one.  *throws the salt packs out*

Win-A-Mat Tournament

So after waiting 10 minutes and getting pairings done four times we FINALLY got to try to get the badass looking Kaito + Neo Galaxy-Eyes mat which is honestly better than the Regional Mat itself.

Round 1 - vs Machina Geargia (2-1)

Game 1 - My opponent has the Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon Hobby League mat and I basically throw things at him to get it and I eventually do.

What the game?  Oh fine.  He'd never seen a Hunder deck in action before so my plays we're kind of confusing.  I eventually make a Stardust with a Prism on it and beat face or something.  He couldn't get around my guys.

Game 2 - I drew no monsters for like EVER and got beaten to death.

Game 3 - We pretty much went into a grind game which is fine by me as Hunders love the slow game.  Allows me to do constant Seahorse toolboxing to set up then make a push which is what I do here.  Not often you can say you managed to beat Machina Geargia at their own strategy but I did here.

Round 2 - vs Sephilonsworn

Game 1 - He attacks me and I drop a Trag and beat face with it and a Thunder King.

Game 2 - I pretty much had him down on the ropes until he rips a Pot of Avarice and drops JDs.

Game 3 - We kinda go back and forth in this.  He gets a monster Reborn off but I'm pretty sure he either can't handle the Stardust with Prism or I lock him down with Blader and use Dynamo to finish him off.

Round 3 - vs Fire Fist (0-2)

Game 1 - So all the Fire Fist players came from Winnipeg I think which explains why nobody was prepared for them.  I admit we all thought the deck would be non-existent here due to nobody being able to afford a playset of Bear and thats why I didn't side for the deck.  Not that it mattered here as he had EVERYTHING.  Things to kill my monsters on summon or Lance/Tensen to beat over them.  I couldn't do jack all.

Game 2 - He pushes me into a corner then plays Reborn to win it.  Fucking hate that card.

And that's as far as I went.  I ended up trading cards to get the mat from the winner who was the Fire Fist guy which sounds like was the best move as alot of people hated him.  There was also a Chain Burn player who was a complete douche and Magnus thrashed him.  Good job.  Megamonkey also got Top 4 with his Mermail deck which allows him to choice the coveted Regional Deckbox club that yours truly is a part of.

Anyway if we get another Regionals Tramps is going to have to seriously step up their game because compared to Winnipeg we really are nothing but banjo playing hicks.  It pains me to say this but after being at a Regionals in Winnipeg and being at ours twice...its the truth.  Also complaints are apparently being made which could affect future regionals here.  I think if anything Saskatoon should get the next one.  I think their people could handle it better.  If we get another one then I definitely agree with Cameron being Head Judge and while I'm touched that him and Magnus think me competent and knowledgeable enough to pull of Judging well (because lets face it, I probably am better suited to this shit than some of the people we've had.  I'm not trying to be cocky or anything but I am confident in not only my rulings but also applying common sense with card interactions).  Would I judge at a Regionals in September or would I rather play Dragons?  Good question.

That said after all this we head to East Side Mario's for dinner then to Cameron's to talk, watch TFS Abridged and I had some more games with my Hunders since I wanted to see if the deck was flat out awful or my matchups were.  I played against Junk Doppel and Lightsworn where Crimson Blader kinda fucks them up royally so they were lopsided wins in my favour.  Score.

Props
-Megamonkey getting another Regional Top.
-Picking up basically an entire Samurai Deck for 30 bucks
-Getting the Win A Mat for 120
-Getting the Red-Eyes Mat that I've wanted for YEARS

Slops
-Scrubbing out and finishing in 57th place.
-Not going with Dragons.  I love Hunders but Dragons really are my deck.
-Not going with the Photon Thrashers that I ran in early builds.  Thrasher + Sishunder into Dynamo would have been real helpful.
-Losing to Monster Reborn and Avarice.
-Getting 2-0'd by Fire Fists.  Fun?  That was FUN!?

Yeah this day was not very fun at all.  I had to wash out alot of salt during my morning showever.

Lolcals Adventure - More Salt

Alright so time for another Locals report!  I should warn you guys.  There's a good chance this post will have higher than usual amounts of sodium in it.

Anyway!  With Regionals coming up I decided to test a deck I had been mostly set on running in Hieratics.  Pulling Volcasaurus from my Collector's tin on the spot kinda sealed it.  However instead of running the Birdman build that Paul Cooper topped with I took a modified version of a recent OCG build running Divine Dragon Apocralyph and a Level 4 Vanilla to enable Queen Dragun Djinn access and the ability to OTK using 3 Hieratics and a random card in the hand.  How did it go?  Well...

Round 1 - vs Cyber Dragon (1-2)

Game 1 - I opened pretty mediocre as I ended up summoning 2 Wind-Up Rabbits and making a Zenmaines.  Eventually I put out a field of Monsters but his Cyber Larvas keep him safe from what was an OTK.  Then he Power Bonds a Cyber Twin Dragon and plays Limiter during the damage step.  Salt.

Game 2 - I summon Rabbit and pass turn.  He goes for Power Bond turn one and attacks hoping I don't have Battle Fader.  I do and that's why I didn't die and went on to OTK quite nicely with a Volcasaurus popping Cyber Twin for extra oomph.

Game 3 - He torrentials me after I drop a Su and that really fucking sucks.  Then he turn Power Bonds into a Cyber Twin and I have no Battle Fader so I take over 10000 damage and lose to a fucking awful deck.  I didn't rage though.  No I kept my salt levels in check.  I just scooped up my cards and left, not saying good game or any handshakes.  Shitty decks like this don't get good game from me.

On that note why do people keep building this bullshit?  OH LOOK AT ME I CAN SUMMON A BIG DRAGON AND DO AMAZING DAMA-Compulsory Evacuation Device.  Oh look.  You just lost EVERYTHING.

Maybe I should have played Macro Rabbit today.  Between this guy and the FIVE DARK WORLDS and the two Merlantean decks present I would have annihilated everyone.  That or Six Sams.  Basically anything that punishes people for -109409304923480954350129430498ing themselves.  Hieratics can't do that.

Round 2 - vs I don't even know (2-0)

Game 1 - I don't remember this, other than I summon a shitton of monsters and eventually have to play around a Gorz.

Game 2 - I smoke him pretty good.

Round 3 - vs Dark World (2-0)

I already knew he was playing this after watching him Mirror Match another Dark World.  He's not surprisingly a bad player that without thinking uses Dealings against someone he KNOWS IS PLAYING DARK WORLD.  Yeah how did that work out for you?  Your opponent summoned Silva and Goldd and got their bonus effects?

Game 1 - He opens awful which is fine by me.  You want to play Dark World because you're a talentless hack who can't fucking play his way out of a paper bag nor do you understand how cards work.  "I'm going to use your field spell's effect" No you can't do that.  Why?  Field Spells are one sided unless they specifically SAY both players.  And no Allure of Darkness does not let you choose to discard your hand instead of banishing a Dark Monster.  This is the same fucknut that tried to copy my Haze King deck and failed miserably at piloting deck.  So what does he do?  Go back to playing a deck that covers up a terrible player's flaws by giving them godly hands!  Because that's all he can do.  Anyway my original point.  If you are going to play Dark World you'd better be prepared for the garbage hands that the deck produces and Hieratics even with a bad hand can capitalize on this.

In this case I made a Tiras and poked with it until I won.

Game 2 - Oh my god.  This was so awesome.  So he sets a bajillion and calls Su with Prohibition and I see he has a Light Mirror because he flipped it up by mistake and I caught it.  Now I was like "well crap" but then I hit a Gemini Imps off of Duality while opening with one.  He plays Dragged Down KNOWING I have the Imps and I draw Heavy Storm off of it.  He has no follow up plays and I draw a 4th Hieratic.  I Storm his backrow and put out 10700 GLORIOUS POINTS OF DAMAGE on the board.  I then go over to see Megamonkey beat the Cyber Dragon player after he Power Bonded and failed to do anything, putting himself down to 1000 LP.  Monkey makes Blackship of Corn and sends Cyber Larva to the graveyard for exact game.  He later told me that the Cyber Dragon guy went HAM and blew up his field or something but he topdecked Dark Hole in response and got called a sack for it.

My god I just....I want to summon Koa'ki Meiru Drago, set 2 and see this guy's face.

Anyway because I lost to a bad person and only beat two bad people I didn't make it to top four.  In fact I placed way the fuck out of contention and so far down the list I swear to god I was in Space Mexico.

So we all went to Robins and I playtest against Mermails and Wind Ups.  Mermails I needed a god hand to beat and Wind-Ups was a bearable matchup, even winnable to an extent.  Then I playtested Dragunty/Tempest and dickbutted pretty badly.  Gold Sarc + Ravine + Phalanx.  Yeah....my end field was Stardust, REDMD, Messier 7 and backrow.  I also played Vanguard and won more games than I lost with one point I managed to hit 2 Critical Triggers on an opponent who didn't guard thinking he'd be fine.

SUCKS, DOESN'T IT!?

Props
-New style Hieratics are extremely versatile.  I can OTK and never need to see REDMD.  That's insane.
-Volcasaurus too stronk.  I won so many games because I blew up a monster and went into Thunder Charger.  Queen Dragun Jinn, 2 Chargers and at least 700 damage is an OTK.
-Queen Jinn was amazing.
-Teaming up with Megamonkey's Kagero with my Narukami in a team Cardfight.  Bow before the might of Team Firestorm!

Slops
-Getting out HAMed by a bad HAM deck while playing a good HAM Deck
-Konami's fucking retarded tournament structure system.
-Drawing 3 Vanillas.  *Commits seppuku*

Lolcals Adventure - Memory of a Friend

New format!  Indeed today marks the first blogpost of the Yu-Gi-Oh! March 2013 Format and by the looks of it this may turn out to be even shittier than March 2012.  Oh don't get me wrong right now things are better than last year but let me tell you guys when Lord of the Tachyion Galaxy comes out we're all FUCKED.  Capcom fucking over anyone who bought a 3DS for Mega Man Legends 3 level fucked.

Ooooooh.

On the plus side (if there is one) the Elemental Dragons are in that set and they're bitchin to play with.  I recently gave Tempest Dragunity a go and jesus.  Easily a tier 1.5 deck now.  If Prophecy wasn't a deck it'd easily be Tier 1.  Still don't have a finalized list (I've seen some OCG builds run virtually no traps for instance which I feel is a giant no no in a deck like Dragunity) but I'm working on it.

Back to Lolcals.  Yes I'm calling these posts that now because for the most part our locals are Lols.  Anyway for this Locals I decided to use Lightsworn since I was short an Advanced Ritual Art for Herald Agents, short one Breakthrough Skill for Dragunity and I didn't want to use Macro Rabbit yet.  That and I had a more personal reason for wanting to play Lightsworn.  I'll elaborate on this in a video.

Round 1 - vs Chaos Dragon (2-1)

Game 1 - I attack into a Ryko who pops my Ryko and he kinda puts a shit ton of damage on the board.  Also my mills were complete garbage.  Lost a Monster Reborn.

Game 2 - I don't remember this one much other than getting Judgment Dragon out and nuking several times.  He Dark Holes but then I topdeck amazing.  This was after losing Reborn again to mills.

Game 3 - We both see some of our sided cards and he ends up swiping JD with Electric Virus and going for game, but forgot I had a Necro Gardna and that cost him the game.  I was able to take the field and win afterwards.  Milled Reborn and my Trags here.

Round 2 - vs Hazy Kings (2-0)

Game 1 and 2 - Same scrub who was playing Dark World against my Hazy Kings that I kicked the shit out of a couple weeks ago.  Unlike yours truely he had no fucking clue how to operate the deck as he made brutal misplays and took WAY too many unnecessary -1s.  How did I ever think this slapnut was ever GOOD?  God damn do perspectives change after time.  I remember when he roflstomped me in my very first ever game at a locals with 3 Charge of the Light Brigade Lightsworn and used to think he was good.

So anyway both games I drop BLS and beat over Garunix.  In one case I threw an Honest on.  Being the bad that he is the guy forgot to get Barong out of the deck in both games.

Round 3 - vs X-Sabers (2-1)

Game 1 - I do Lightsworn things and poop all over his field.

Game 2 - He does Saber things and poops all over my field and makes a Strike Bounzer.

Game 3 - I almost lose to a random Magic Cylinder but I'm able to get JD out and take the game over.

Top 4 - vs Dark World (2-0)

Game 1 - He opened crap and I opened with 2 Wulfs!  Yay!  I'm still able to get some damage in before he Card Destructions and sets up a big field.  However I drop a Judgment Dragon and win.

Game 2 - Oh man.  This was awesome.   So he gets Grapha out and Dark Smogs the JD that I milled.  That's okay.  Because I drop Chaos Sorcerer, Black Luster Soldier who attacks Grapha....and I drop Honest!  Total damage that turn?  Over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND.

He was quite salty at that level of sackery.  Dark Worlds have no right to complain about Lightsworn sacking.  Simple as that.

Final - vs Karakuri (2-1)

Game 1 - I killed him.

Game 2 - He killed me.

Game 3 - This also got close as I opened Lumina + Garoth and had an amazing setup (but never drew JD) and dropped a 3000 Trag that I sat on as he comboed out.  He could have made a Scrap Dragon to win it but it slipped his mind and I ultimately topdeck BLS with time looming and I go to town under the safety of Royal Decree.

Yes I sided cards and did not mill them.  Holy fucking shit its a miracle.

After this we went to Robins were I had some games of Cardfight Vanguard and did some trades.  Picked up Virbank City Gym for Pokemon, a Genex Ally Birdman for Hieratics and recorded a Deck Profile of this.

Props
-Winning a tournament even if it was Locals with Lightsworn in memory of a good friend.
-Outsacking Dark World.  Solemn my Judgment Dragon?  Monster Reincarnation trolls that!  Also the BLS + Honest play against a Grapha with 3000 attack and a Sorc to back it up.  That was 11200 damage there.
-Finishing Hieratics for the new banlist...mostly.  I need a third Thunder Charger.

Slops
-Milling my TEN SPELLS.