Ok so, I promised this post in my tourny report on sunday. So, I dueling a smokescreen Inzektor to rabbit player during the tournament. And while this deck is fun, and quite a nice strategy at that, He made a few crucial errors. First of all, he was known. These decks typically do not do well at a local level, as by the time you reach round 4-5, everyone knows what you are playing. This does not mean never play one of these decks at a local level. These decks can be very good at a local level, it is just that they do rely upon keeping your opponent offbalance. It is still possible to keep your opponent off balance even with the trick of your deck known. The key is not to be predictable. The player I defeated on sunday was very very predictable. Every game 2 without fail, in came the rabbit, out went the inzektors. Having watched 2 of his games in the later rounds of the tournament, I knew for a fact that game 2 i would see rabbit. This is a horrible idea. You should never become so predictable that your opponent can predict what you are siding at any given time. A way to carry this out is after G1, get out your side deck and begin laying out cards face-down, as if you are going to side. Be sure to flip through your deck and remove an equal number of cards, also face-down. If it is possible, when your opponent is looking, drop one of the archtypal cards from the side deck stack to reveal what you are siding into. It is very important that this is done smoothly and naturally. Now, when your opponent digs through their side looking for their anti-whatever side cards, inconspicously put the original cards back in the deck, and return the side decked cards to the side. Now, Be sure to hold out on revealing what your playing until the last possible moment. Don't do it to the point where it costs you the game, but give your opponents a chance to use that prohibition on the rabbit sitting in your side deck, rather than the hornet in your hand. Another thing to remember is to keep matchups in mind. Siding in to rabbit may surprise a chaos dragon player. However, will that surprise make up for the horrible matchup that is rabbit vs. Dragons? Doubtful. Also, smokescreens should always take advantage of current side deck cards for a deck. An example would be if the standard side deck against rabbit is 2 snowman eater and spirit reaper, siding out any veilers and fiendish chains (just an example). This meta makes a rabbit smokescreen into inzektor a very viable option for the meta. However, if the rabbit side also doubles as a side for inzektor, the time may not be so perfect. I just felt this needed to be said, as that player really pissed me off with how obvious it was. That's all for now.
Tsgreen
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Tournament Report : 6/24/12
Number of participants: 35
Deck used: Chaos Dragons
So I went... Picked up the one solar recharge my locals had in stock before the tournament, couldn't find any others, so it was chaos dragons with 1 solar recharge. Actually played surprisingly well, and I only drew the recharge when it was live so.... Anyway
Round 1:
Vs. ???
G1: He Dark Holed my card trooper and swung with an alexandrite dragon. I lylad away his backrow and otkd him.
G2: Card Trooper got in 1900, He swung over it, and i drew another one.... Normal summoned that one and he flipped torrential?? I tried to reborn it, He dark bribed, clearing his last backrow, and giving me the BLS to complete my OTK set up.
I never did figure out what he was playing....
OO
1-0
Round 2:
Vs. Six Samurai
G1: He veilered my Card Trooper turn 1 then tried to take it back.... He then went off with gateway to get out a barkion and a shock ruler, which i veilered to keep my monster effects. Chaos sorcerer got rid of Barkion, and veiler turned it into black rose, leaving him with 1 card in hand against my four. When samurai try to topdeck..... Bosses kill them.
G2: The thing i remember most in this game was when he had shien and grandmaster vs. my light pulsar and redmd, and He kageki kagemusha's makes catastor, letting me get back another redmd, then drops the -3 Dark hole leaving him topdecking again against my three cards....
OO
2-0
Round 3:
Vs. Hero Drain
G1: He doesnt draw drain but his alius and beast king barbaros take a little out of my lp. Card trooper gets my grave set up, and I rush him, but he manages to prevent my otk. Game state simplifies to his 1 card in hand and topdeck vs. my 4 in hand and onfield chaos sorcerer vs. his one in hand and topdeck. He E-calls for alius, and then monster reborns barbaros at 3000. Barbaros smacks me, but he doesnt summon alius, as he was only at ~2000 lp. I topped tour guide, made leviair, Dropped a lightpulsar, leviair brought back honest and honest bounced itself to inflict the final 2000 damage.
G2: My snowman eater makes his gemini spark dead, and lyla and lance clear out his other backrows, allowing me to make an exabeetle lightpulsar play and attack for game.
OO
3-0
At this time the undefeateds had thinned to 2 inzektor players, 2 chaos dragon players, and 1 inzektor to rabbit smokescreen player.... So, of course the dragon players got paired together xP.
Round 4:
Vs. Chaos Dragons.... This guy didn't know you could revive redmd with pulsar....
G1: A late game future fusion play to attempt an otk used a large amount of bosses, only to be foiled by gorz. He dropped lightpulsar and red eyes after that and I had no answers :(
G2: I don't remember much, but I dropped a couple of dragons to OTK i thinl...
G3: I opened Fufu and heavy storm. My initial push was foiled by gorz, and he tried to counter push with BLS, only to have things turned around on him by DAD.
XOO
4-0
Round 5:
Vs. Inzektor Rabbit smokescreen. These usually don't work very well at a local level, as by this point everyone knew this was what he was running. He also was not very good at the mind games capable with a smokescreen (I'll do a post on this later).
G1: I opened DAD 2 Redmd and 2 chaos sorc.... Luckily I sacked allure of darkness and charge of the light brigade to set me up, and lyla and lance cleared his backrow again, so that my two redmds and a pulsar could otk him.
G2: He sided to rabbit..... Against chaos dragons.... Anyway, he opened a set marshmallon, that my eclipse ran into. He then tour guided into sangan and made leviathan dragon with marshmallon. He proceeded to beat me down a bit with Leviathan and Sangan, until I dropped a chaos sorcerer, which he warninged. I then dropped another chaos and banished leviathan. He veilered my lyla when i attempted to clear his backrow. Next turn he crashed sangan and searched rabbit. He summoned it, only to get stopped by effect veiler. During my turn, Lyla cleared one of his backrows, chaos ate a veiler, and my blind space cleared his dimensional prison, allowing my tribute summoned light pulsar to swing over his rabbit. He conceeded on the following turn with no outs.
OO
5-0
Round 6:
Vs. Inzektors We agreed to split, but played it out to see who got their picture on the wall.
G1: He solemn warningd my lyla, and then when i tried to reborn it, he dropped judgment.... I summoned chaos and banished his beefed up centipede, forcing him to grab back ladybug with sword. He was at 3000. He summoned ladybug, equipped gigamantis, and attacked... right into my lance! Next turn, chaos took the remainder of his lifepoints.
G2: I controlled him from the start. His only inzektor was hornet that was run over, and Then when he dropped dragonfly, I ddcrowed it. I forced out his chalice with mst, and then dropped chaos, which he book of mooned. Dark armed cleared out dragonfly and swung, leaving him topdecking against dad chaos sorc and an in-hand veiler. Game set and match.
\OO
6-0.
So i went 6-0. Lightgrunty was there, but he dropped after round 4. I pulled jank from the prize box, but it was essentially free, so I can't complain. Props to everyone for a fun tournament. I really liked how my deck played, although I would like to test with just 2 recharge. All in all, I had a great time and enjoyed hanging out.
Deck used: Chaos Dragons
So I went... Picked up the one solar recharge my locals had in stock before the tournament, couldn't find any others, so it was chaos dragons with 1 solar recharge. Actually played surprisingly well, and I only drew the recharge when it was live so.... Anyway
Round 1:
Vs. ???
G1: He Dark Holed my card trooper and swung with an alexandrite dragon. I lylad away his backrow and otkd him.
G2: Card Trooper got in 1900, He swung over it, and i drew another one.... Normal summoned that one and he flipped torrential?? I tried to reborn it, He dark bribed, clearing his last backrow, and giving me the BLS to complete my OTK set up.
I never did figure out what he was playing....
OO
1-0
Round 2:
Vs. Six Samurai
G1: He veilered my Card Trooper turn 1 then tried to take it back.... He then went off with gateway to get out a barkion and a shock ruler, which i veilered to keep my monster effects. Chaos sorcerer got rid of Barkion, and veiler turned it into black rose, leaving him with 1 card in hand against my four. When samurai try to topdeck..... Bosses kill them.
G2: The thing i remember most in this game was when he had shien and grandmaster vs. my light pulsar and redmd, and He kageki kagemusha's makes catastor, letting me get back another redmd, then drops the -3 Dark hole leaving him topdecking again against my three cards....
OO
2-0
Round 3:
Vs. Hero Drain
G1: He doesnt draw drain but his alius and beast king barbaros take a little out of my lp. Card trooper gets my grave set up, and I rush him, but he manages to prevent my otk. Game state simplifies to his 1 card in hand and topdeck vs. my 4 in hand and onfield chaos sorcerer vs. his one in hand and topdeck. He E-calls for alius, and then monster reborns barbaros at 3000. Barbaros smacks me, but he doesnt summon alius, as he was only at ~2000 lp. I topped tour guide, made leviair, Dropped a lightpulsar, leviair brought back honest and honest bounced itself to inflict the final 2000 damage.
G2: My snowman eater makes his gemini spark dead, and lyla and lance clear out his other backrows, allowing me to make an exabeetle lightpulsar play and attack for game.
OO
3-0
At this time the undefeateds had thinned to 2 inzektor players, 2 chaos dragon players, and 1 inzektor to rabbit smokescreen player.... So, of course the dragon players got paired together xP.
Round 4:
Vs. Chaos Dragons.... This guy didn't know you could revive redmd with pulsar....
G1: A late game future fusion play to attempt an otk used a large amount of bosses, only to be foiled by gorz. He dropped lightpulsar and red eyes after that and I had no answers :(
G2: I don't remember much, but I dropped a couple of dragons to OTK i thinl...
G3: I opened Fufu and heavy storm. My initial push was foiled by gorz, and he tried to counter push with BLS, only to have things turned around on him by DAD.
XOO
4-0
Round 5:
Vs. Inzektor Rabbit smokescreen. These usually don't work very well at a local level, as by this point everyone knew this was what he was running. He also was not very good at the mind games capable with a smokescreen (I'll do a post on this later).
G1: I opened DAD 2 Redmd and 2 chaos sorc.... Luckily I sacked allure of darkness and charge of the light brigade to set me up, and lyla and lance cleared his backrow again, so that my two redmds and a pulsar could otk him.
G2: He sided to rabbit..... Against chaos dragons.... Anyway, he opened a set marshmallon, that my eclipse ran into. He then tour guided into sangan and made leviathan dragon with marshmallon. He proceeded to beat me down a bit with Leviathan and Sangan, until I dropped a chaos sorcerer, which he warninged. I then dropped another chaos and banished leviathan. He veilered my lyla when i attempted to clear his backrow. Next turn he crashed sangan and searched rabbit. He summoned it, only to get stopped by effect veiler. During my turn, Lyla cleared one of his backrows, chaos ate a veiler, and my blind space cleared his dimensional prison, allowing my tribute summoned light pulsar to swing over his rabbit. He conceeded on the following turn with no outs.
OO
5-0
Round 6:
Vs. Inzektors We agreed to split, but played it out to see who got their picture on the wall.
G1: He solemn warningd my lyla, and then when i tried to reborn it, he dropped judgment.... I summoned chaos and banished his beefed up centipede, forcing him to grab back ladybug with sword. He was at 3000. He summoned ladybug, equipped gigamantis, and attacked... right into my lance! Next turn, chaos took the remainder of his lifepoints.
G2: I controlled him from the start. His only inzektor was hornet that was run over, and Then when he dropped dragonfly, I ddcrowed it. I forced out his chalice with mst, and then dropped chaos, which he book of mooned. Dark armed cleared out dragonfly and swung, leaving him topdecking against dad chaos sorc and an in-hand veiler. Game set and match.
\OO
6-0.
So i went 6-0. Lightgrunty was there, but he dropped after round 4. I pulled jank from the prize box, but it was essentially free, so I can't complain. Props to everyone for a fun tournament. I really liked how my deck played, although I would like to test with just 2 recharge. All in all, I had a great time and enjoyed hanging out.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
My deck choice for regionals
Some of you may be questioning my deck choice at regionals. I didn't go with stun, but instead i played chaos dragons. Honestly, i feel like stun is just not the deck for this meta. With the game swinging towards momentum rather than advantage, 1-1 control play really does not have much place here. An example would be, i have a banisher, starlight road, dimensional prison and 1200 life points left. My opponent has just his topdeck. If he were to say topdeck a rescue rabbit, well, my cards are irrelevant. With this inability to control, I had to make a meta choice. Rogue or tier. given that i had no rogue decks built for the current meta, i went with the most budget, and in my opinion the best adapted of the current meta decks: chaos dragons. I do not think that chaos dragons are the best meta deck. They aren't. That title belongs without a doubt in my mind to dino rabbit. However, given the state of the current meta, chaos dragons are the deck with the least bad matchups. Lets look at some matchups.
Chaos Dragons vs. .... Dino Rabbit - The decks best matchup. You should lose very few of these.
Inzektors - A 50/50 shot. Whoever gets the more aggressive hand and gets set up first wins.
Windups - If you get looped, you can lose. Otherwise, they are too slow and too small.
Hero Beat - If you can get some monsters in grave, they die fast. just goes to show 2500> 1900.
Dark worlds - Can cause a problem depending on build. If they can get skill drain and grapha up, and heavy storm gets milled, it can be a long day. Otherwise, very easy to otk, and help set up graveyard a lot.
Lets compare this to....
Dino Rabbit vs. ....... Chaos Dragons - A horrible matchup. Everything beats you down and floats.
Inzektors - 50/50 shot. If you give them an opening, they can make your day very unhappy.
Windups - Trouble if they loop. Any other time, they're in trouble.
Hero Beat - If you crack their defense, they die.
Dark Worlds - Auto lose, except in case of dead draws. Grapha > Laggia Attack wise.
Given i don't have the money to play rabbit anyway, its nice to know chaos dragons have better meta matchups than them. This has been a stumbling, low quality post by: Tsgreen
Chaos Dragons vs. .... Dino Rabbit - The decks best matchup. You should lose very few of these.
Inzektors - A 50/50 shot. Whoever gets the more aggressive hand and gets set up first wins.
Windups - If you get looped, you can lose. Otherwise, they are too slow and too small.
Hero Beat - If you can get some monsters in grave, they die fast. just goes to show 2500> 1900.
Dark worlds - Can cause a problem depending on build. If they can get skill drain and grapha up, and heavy storm gets milled, it can be a long day. Otherwise, very easy to otk, and help set up graveyard a lot.
Lets compare this to....
Dino Rabbit vs. ....... Chaos Dragons - A horrible matchup. Everything beats you down and floats.
Inzektors - 50/50 shot. If you give them an opening, they can make your day very unhappy.
Windups - Trouble if they loop. Any other time, they're in trouble.
Hero Beat - If you crack their defense, they die.
Dark Worlds - Auto lose, except in case of dead draws. Grapha > Laggia Attack wise.
Given i don't have the money to play rabbit anyway, its nice to know chaos dragons have better meta matchups than them. This has been a stumbling, low quality post by: Tsgreen
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Regionals report: 6/2/12
Hey guys green here. Today i went to a regionals with my current deck, chaos dragons. It was kinda thrown together, main and sidewise, but altogether i felt it did well. Without further ado.
Deck Played: Chaos Dragons
Participants: 505
Round 1:
Dino Rabbit
I lost the die roll.
G1: Rabbit Dna digivolves, and my hand is full of jank. Nothing i can summon or use to fill my grave. I drop a Gorz under Evolzar Dolkka to force out a negation and then Reborn it. Unfortunately he has Fiendish Chain to stop my attack, and Smashing Ground to wipe out my Lifepoints on the following turn.
G2: I saw basically the same jank hand, with one difference: I had a ryko. Ryko got dark holed, and it was rabbits and tour guides from there.
XX
So, A round one loss against my best matchup... Not the best way to start.
0-1
Round 2:
Gladiator Beasts
I lost the die roll.
G1: All i saw was tkro before my ryko killed it, and i threw a large number of big beatsticks at him.
G2: I saw the first GBs. Painfully. I got chariot looped for days. He literally activated the same chariot 2-3 times before killing me finally with bestiari and laquari.
G3: A long drawn out game that ended with my fiendish chained chaos and lyla and bls in hand with judgment set vs. His macro, face-down and chain. Summoned lyla, popped chain, dropped bls and attacked for game.
OXO
1-1
So that was scary... It was also a little worrying that i lost a game to another very good matchup....
Round 3:
Bubblebeat
I lost the die roll.
G1: Heavy storm followed by big beatsticks.
G2: Giant Absolute Zero play clears my board, and his shining sweeps up the rest of my life.
G3: His last resort is a shining, which swings over my redmd. I drop chaos, banish it and attack for game
OXO
2-1
Round 4:
Dark Worlds
This girl goes to my locals sometimes... She ended up X-4
G1: She drew horribly, so the big beaters poked her to death.
G2: She drew slightly less horribly, but not by much.
OO
3-1
Round 5:
Wind-ups
I lost the die roll.... Not that it mattered lol.
G1: I got a game loss for having a few commons in my deck box... REALLY?
G2: He opens wind-up loop + pot of avarice, along with a dark hole for my set ryko, and a warning for my topdecked tour guide.
XX
3-2
So yeah... That was stupid.
Round 6:
Chaos Dragons
I lost the die roll! 6 in a row!!! but this one was also irrelevant xP
G1: On turn 4 he recieved a game loss for not removing his sided decrees and soul takers. I had seen he was playing chaos dragons, but all he saw from me was a tour guide and a sangan.
G2: He drew no bosses other than one chaos sorc i veilered. My DAD REDMD and lightpulsar killed him through 2 set rykos O.O
OO
4-2
Round 7:
Dino Rabbit
I won my first die roll!!! Go ME!
G1: He made a first turn dolkka to kill my ryko. He then booked the lyla i attempted to summon and got over it with guiaba, making laggia in M2. I ripped charge and milled 2!!! Eclipse Wyvern. He negged one with dolkka for some reason. This ended up costing him the game. I searched lyla, normalled it, and used honest to attack over his laggia. M2 i popped one of his backrow and EP i milled some darks.
He summoned guiaba with no targets left in deck and went for some beatdown. I dropped a dark flare adding redmd dragon to hand with wyvern. Banished it and my comeback to control was complete!
G2: A slowpaced early game with him not drawing rabbit. Kabazauls puts in work for him, backed my macro and several warnings. After baiting most of his backrow, i drop tour guide, leviair for lyla and pop macro. He's forced to waste more cards to get rid of leviair, so i drop a lot of damage in the next turn, and he conceeds.
OO
5-2
Round 8:
Gravekeepers
I lose die roll again.
G1: First turn royal tribute. To G2 we go!
G2: I draw outs to his necrovalleys and bring out the pulsar lock.
G3: First turn royal tribute. Again.
XOX
5-3
A disappointing loss to one of my old decks. Royal tribute is too good against this deck.
Round 9
Hero Drain
G1: He doesn't draw skill drain, and REDMD pushes easily through all in its path.
G2: He draws skill drain, but is forced to heavy storm it to get out maestroke when he should have made pearl.
OO
6-3
Final Standing: 71st
The good: Winning against rabbit. Seeing friends. Playing good yugioh, Friend from locals took 12th
The bad: Lost almost every die roll. Getting a DQ for trying to keep my commons mint.
The ugly: Loss to rabbit r1. Not having royal decrees.
Have a nice day gaiz
Tsgreen
Deck Played: Chaos Dragons
Participants: 505
Round 1:
Dino Rabbit
I lost the die roll.
G1: Rabbit Dna digivolves, and my hand is full of jank. Nothing i can summon or use to fill my grave. I drop a Gorz under Evolzar Dolkka to force out a negation and then Reborn it. Unfortunately he has Fiendish Chain to stop my attack, and Smashing Ground to wipe out my Lifepoints on the following turn.
G2: I saw basically the same jank hand, with one difference: I had a ryko. Ryko got dark holed, and it was rabbits and tour guides from there.
XX
So, A round one loss against my best matchup... Not the best way to start.
0-1
Round 2:
Gladiator Beasts
I lost the die roll.
G1: All i saw was tkro before my ryko killed it, and i threw a large number of big beatsticks at him.
G2: I saw the first GBs. Painfully. I got chariot looped for days. He literally activated the same chariot 2-3 times before killing me finally with bestiari and laquari.
G3: A long drawn out game that ended with my fiendish chained chaos and lyla and bls in hand with judgment set vs. His macro, face-down and chain. Summoned lyla, popped chain, dropped bls and attacked for game.
OXO
1-1
So that was scary... It was also a little worrying that i lost a game to another very good matchup....
Round 3:
Bubblebeat
I lost the die roll.
G1: Heavy storm followed by big beatsticks.
G2: Giant Absolute Zero play clears my board, and his shining sweeps up the rest of my life.
G3: His last resort is a shining, which swings over my redmd. I drop chaos, banish it and attack for game
OXO
2-1
Round 4:
Dark Worlds
This girl goes to my locals sometimes... She ended up X-4
G1: She drew horribly, so the big beaters poked her to death.
G2: She drew slightly less horribly, but not by much.
OO
3-1
Round 5:
Wind-ups
I lost the die roll.... Not that it mattered lol.
G1: I got a game loss for having a few commons in my deck box... REALLY?
G2: He opens wind-up loop + pot of avarice, along with a dark hole for my set ryko, and a warning for my topdecked tour guide.
XX
3-2
So yeah... That was stupid.
Round 6:
Chaos Dragons
I lost the die roll! 6 in a row!!! but this one was also irrelevant xP
G1: On turn 4 he recieved a game loss for not removing his sided decrees and soul takers. I had seen he was playing chaos dragons, but all he saw from me was a tour guide and a sangan.
G2: He drew no bosses other than one chaos sorc i veilered. My DAD REDMD and lightpulsar killed him through 2 set rykos O.O
OO
4-2
Round 7:
Dino Rabbit
I won my first die roll!!! Go ME!
G1: He made a first turn dolkka to kill my ryko. He then booked the lyla i attempted to summon and got over it with guiaba, making laggia in M2. I ripped charge and milled 2!!! Eclipse Wyvern. He negged one with dolkka for some reason. This ended up costing him the game. I searched lyla, normalled it, and used honest to attack over his laggia. M2 i popped one of his backrow and EP i milled some darks.
He summoned guiaba with no targets left in deck and went for some beatdown. I dropped a dark flare adding redmd dragon to hand with wyvern. Banished it and my comeback to control was complete!
G2: A slowpaced early game with him not drawing rabbit. Kabazauls puts in work for him, backed my macro and several warnings. After baiting most of his backrow, i drop tour guide, leviair for lyla and pop macro. He's forced to waste more cards to get rid of leviair, so i drop a lot of damage in the next turn, and he conceeds.
OO
5-2
Round 8:
Gravekeepers
I lose die roll again.
G1: First turn royal tribute. To G2 we go!
G2: I draw outs to his necrovalleys and bring out the pulsar lock.
G3: First turn royal tribute. Again.
XOX
5-3
A disappointing loss to one of my old decks. Royal tribute is too good against this deck.
Round 9
Hero Drain
G1: He doesn't draw skill drain, and REDMD pushes easily through all in its path.
G2: He draws skill drain, but is forced to heavy storm it to get out maestroke when he should have made pearl.
OO
6-3
Final Standing: 71st
The good: Winning against rabbit. Seeing friends. Playing good yugioh, Friend from locals took 12th
The bad: Lost almost every die roll. Getting a DQ for trying to keep my commons mint.
The ugly: Loss to rabbit r1. Not having royal decrees.
Have a nice day gaiz
Tsgreen
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