Chow's Local Report 12/4/2011 and Cardfight!! Vanguard

Sorry I haven't been posting enough. Between a job and classes, I really don't have the time to just plop down and freely write for fun when I could be relaxing some other way. I'll keep this report short too since I ended up playing scrubs half the day. Everyone else was at regionals and I guess I didn't get the memo.

Just like last time, we had 2 people who went 4-0. Although it wasn't necessary to play another match, the winner would get a Duelist League card with those fancy colored letters. It was me and Jared and this time again so we got right down to it.

Round 5 - Jared & Legendary Six Sams
1 - He won the dice roll and went into Shi En right away. I didn't have Veiler in hand so I couldn't stop it. What I did have was a Terraforming, E - Call, Heat, Miracle Fusion, and Safe Zone. Drew into Gate and tried Terraforming into another but was blocked by Bribe. Then I tried Calling Stratos but Shi En took care of that. I tried stalling but the game was over 3 turns later.
2 - I sided into TKRO but it didn't really mater though because I didn't draw into him during any of my remaining games. I summon Diamond Dude and milled a Dark Hole. He goes into Enishi and Kageki but Safe Zone protected Diamond. Dark Hole activated next turn and I was free to continue to plus off Diamond Dude. Hit a Reinforcement of the Army, then a Emergency Call, then a Noblemen which I Exterminated his Mirror Force with, then a Parallel. No misses >:) I don't think he drew too many monsters but did have a decent amount of backrow to counteract my Fusions. I forced Shi En to negate my Destiny Draw, activated Noblemen of Extermination at my own face down and chained the Safe Zone onto his Shi En. I minused 2 but he lost a Shi En which was good enough for me. I forced a Torrential with Black Luster Soldier - Envoy and followed up with two Miracle Fusions for game.
3 - This was a hella fun game. He set Kageki, I attacked into it with Stratos. He drew and pass. I drew into Ocean, summoned, set Safe Zone and end. He summons Kagemusha and I activate Safe Zone on Ocean in response to the summon. He destroys Stratos and I recycled it next turn. He destroys it again I recycle and blow up his backrow instead of the usual searching. I was steadily building up my resources with Stratos. I started pushing back with BLS and I thought I had him on a roll. Feeling confident, I Safe Zoned my BLS during his Standby. He goes into Black Rose which I was totally chill with. I had Diamond Dude, Miracle Fusion, and Monster Reborn in hand, a dead Stratos, Ocean, and BLS in grave. He wasn't letting me off that easy and Reborned my own BLS. I was down to 3100 but next turn, I reborned Stratos, added Voltic to hand, Miracle Fused into Great Tornado and attacked over BLS. Misplay on my part since I could have simply Miracled into Great Tornado and then Reborned BLS. Fugglor also pointed out that I didn't Normal Summoned and could have Voltic into another Stratos for game. Next turn I did the Voltic play and then Super Poly'd into Adoration for the final push.
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Pros:
-Black Luster Soldier is a god send. Thank you so much Epicake, I found my answer to Shi En and Naturia Beast.
-Safe Zone is not as dead as I thought it would be. At the beginning of the format, I was sick of getting it MST'd so I just got rid of it completely. However, today made me appreciate me this card sooo much. This on Ocean, Diamond, Nova Master, and BLS will guarantee me to score pluses.
-Got over my SixSam-phobia.

Cons:
-Crap packs.
-I thought I would end up with a lot of dead Spells in my hand so I threw in two Summoner Monks. Most of the time, it just sat in my hand since I didn't really want to pitch any of Spells since they all played a key part in my plans. Most of the time I wish it was a HERO. Too bad we don't have Escuridao.

I pulled crap from my Turbo Packs and GENF (another Infected Mail ><). I did manage to score another SR Chain Disappearance and SR Quickdraw for Fugglor. Got my last SR Diamond Dude, two Secret Destiny Draws, and a third UR Miracle Fusion. Now all I need is 2 more ScR Super Polymerization :3

I had fun today but I wish the tougher people would show up more often. It would have been nice if I could have played Fugglor in the last round but he put together a deck at the last second and got controlled by BW :3

Trying to decide if I should go next week even though I have exams to study for...

Oh and one last thought. I've been debating whether or not I should play Cardfight!! Vanguard. I've been watching the anime and it looks really fun. I've had thoughts but it was when I was in a sort of YGO slump. Before I could blow off 160 bucks on Trial Decks and two boxes of Set 1, Fugglor managed to snap some sense into me. I gotta save up some dough for other things...like Order of Chaos!!! Hahah.
If you guys have the time and money to play another card game though, I would highly suggest investing it into Cardfight!! It's made by the guy who wrote Yu-Gi-Oh! R and Duel Masters and is extremely fun. Royal Paladins for the win!!!!! Maybe I'll start when it hits shelves in Oregon...
If you guys are intersted, check out RyuKuze, LGQ, and Rauzes blog ;)

http://dangerascend.blogspot.com/
http://ride-the-vanguard.blogspot.com/
http://soimba.blogspot.com/

That's all for today. Said a lot more then I thought I would. Night guyzzz~~~

Gotcha~
          Chow

Chow's Tourney Report 11/12

I think this is my first tourney since the Generation Force sneak peek. Thought I might as well since I won't have another Saturday off work for a while.

Deck: HERO

Match 1 - Scraps

1: He went for Scrap Twin in attempt to blow away my back row. I allowed him to bounce my Warnings and he tried getting over Stratos but I Super Poly'd for Draco Equiste. Controlled the game from there.

2: He made a first turn Scrap Twin. I had Miracle Fusion, Ocean, Woodsman, Dimensional Prison, Parallel World, and MST. I couldn't set up fast enough, kept bouncing my stuff, followed with Scrap Dragon, and I lost.

3: Same as first.

OXO

Match 2 - Agents

1 and 2: Scrub. HERO beatdown, LIGHT style. Go Shining and Alius tag team!!

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Match 3 - Frogs

1: He started with Tengu. I beat over with Stratos. He goes Swap and sets up Treeborn. Gets Light and Darkness Dragon off next turn. I waste two cards so that Alius could beat over it. Miracle for boss monsters and game.

2: I played too conservatively and he brought out LaDD. I wasted too many resources in attempt to get rid of it and lost.

3: Kept pushing with Rai Oh and Alius, didn't allow him to have more than two monsters out. Yeah I was freakin scared of LaDD haha.

OXO

Match 4 - Hopeless

1: I misplayed by not setting Starlight Road and lost a lot of advantage that I could gained off Ice Edge.

2: We traded off monsters a lot towards the end game. He wasted a Dark Hole and Heavy Storm that could have easily screwed me over. He saw my D.Prison and refused to attack with FGD for game. Drew Smashing and game'd him instead.

3: I had a handle of his playing style and forced him to waste his resources before I made big pushes with Poly and Miracle.

XOO

At this point, only me and Jared were left undefeated. Andrew said that there was a promo card for first so we decided to just play for it. Strangely, this game was less stress on my heart then the other four games were. 

Match 5 - Legendary Six Samurai

1: He started with Kazeki, Kizan, and Enishi with one back row. I summon Stratos and searched. He pummeled me down to 3800. I blew away his backrow with a timely MST. Miracle Fusion'ed for Nova Master and started plusing off his Sams. He was in top decking mode and I had Fossil Dyna and Nova out. With 2600 left, he set one. I switched Nova to defense and attacked Dyna into a Mirror Force. He commented on my good prediction but failed to Smoke Signal into anything that could get over Nova.

2: He started with Shi En and Kizan. I forced Shi En's negation with Dark Hole and then followed with Fusion Gate. Rammed my Zero into his Shi En. I started beating down his monsters, filling up the grave for his Enishi to bounce Shining. By this time, I had accumulated enough HEROs in hand where I just Trinity'd for game.

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Pulled Black Garden from my entrance pack. Took a blue DL Call of The Haunted as my promo, a GENF and TU06 pack as my prize. Pulled Goka and SR Chain Disappearance. I'm pretty satisfied now winning my first tourney. Was the only one on the team that hasn't yet x]

Gotcha~

     Chow

Chow's Tourney Report 3/12/2011

This little Asian was pissed off that he didn't take first place when everyone was at Regionals so now that everyone's back at locals, it's time to get my game on! Yeah >:D

Deck: Gate HERO aka Lancelot 

Round 1: Hao and Gravekeepers

Duel 1: He gets out a Assailant with Solidarity out on the field with Necrovalley so the thing had 2800. I Fusion Gated into Absolute Zero and Book of Moon his Assailant so I could run over it with Neos Alius. I Chain Materialed next turn and ended with Zero and 2 Shinings. One of them blew up and I got back Voltic and Stratos. He sets two. I go, summon Stratos, nukes his face-down Mirror Force and Dimensional Prison.

Duel 2: He sets a monster, sets a reverse, activates Necrovalley, and plays Royal Tribute. He loses two monsters from his hand. He looks at mine: Terraforming, Chain Material, E.HERO Neos, Noblemen of Crossout, and Chain Material. He discards Neos. My turn, draw into Torrential, Noblemen his face down Recruiter, MST his backrow, and replaced Necrovalley with Fusion Gate. Set two reverse. He goes, summons, I Torrential. I go, activate Chain Material, he scoops.

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I see some other guys playing HERO decks and was wondering why no one played with Chain Material. Zack told me it was cuz it's a waste if they Dark Hole you. Psh, never happened to me, never will. Never lost a game after Chain Materialing...

Round 2: Absolute Zero/Light Beat

Duel 1: I summon Absolute Zero first turn, he Smashes. I make my Chain Material play, he Dark Holes...wtf. Zack, you jinxed me, you cheese-eater haha. I lost this game.

Duel 2: We pretty much took turn exchanging monsters, both down to 2100. He had Alius and Stratos. I draw into Super Poly.

Duel 3: I was down to 100, he had CyDra, Stratos, and Alius. I played Fusion Gate, fused for Zero and destroyed his Stratos. I set Trunade and Chain Material face down and forgot to activate Trunade to return Fusion Gate back to hand. He fuses the last two cards in his hand next turn for Shining which swings over Zero for game

XOX

Round 3: Tre and D.D.

Round 1: He summons Warrior Lady and sets two face downs. I go, he flips Macro Cosmos, I summon Stratos, search for Voltic and crash into Warrior Lady and he removes both of them from play. I set Solemn Judgement and passed. Next turn he attempts to Card Destruction. I looked at my hand of Fusion Gate, Voltic, Prisma, and Ocean...nuh uh screw you. SOLEMN JUDGEMENT! He passes. I activate Fusion Gate, fused Prisma and Ocean for Shining. Summon Voltic. Attack with Voltic and Special Summoned Stratos to blow up his Macro Cosmo and face down (Macro Cosmo). That's game.

Round 2: He summons DD Warrior Lady and sets two face down (deja vu). I Fusion Gate, summon Stratos and search Voltic, fused Stratos and Ocean for Zero, Zero and Voltic for Shining. Attacked with Shining. Yeah he can't do anything.

OO

So before my next round, I'm going to tell you guys a quick story that made this duel for me. Since the first day I came to this local, I've always been the HERO kid. I never played anything else. There's this big black guy that goes there, arrogant as fuck but an amazing duelist, he recently won Regionals. Anyways, arrogant, noisy, and egotistical. He's always looked down on me and doesn't even recognizes me, mostly because I was never really that good and never went more than 2-2 in a locals. Played against him once during the Duelist Revolution sneak peek. His Naturia deck killed my HEROES. From that day on, he was my wall and the wall that I was gonna break down to become a better duelist. Here comes the match that I've waited almost a year for. Here's Round 4...

Round 4: Alex and Legendary Six Samurais

Game 1: He takes the initiative and summons Kizan, sets 4 reverse and passes it on to me. I draw and play Terraforming. He asked, "Oh, Dragunitys?" And I'm thinking, "Really, have you ever seen me play anything besides Heroes?" I search Fusion Gate, summon Stratos, search, and rammed. Set three in my back row and pass it on to him. He activates Gateway, I Solemn Judgement. He flips United, summons Spirit of the Six Sam, special Grandmaster, equips and attacks. My turn, activate Fusion Gate, then Chain Material.

Me: Voltic and Voltic, summon Shining?

Alex: OK.

Me: Stratos and Ocean, summon Absolute Zero?

Alex: OK.

Me: Neos and Rainbow Dragon, Rainbow Neos?

Alex: OK...wait. What the fuck?

I guess he never saw Rainbow Neos coming cuz he started to freak out. I use Rainbow Neos to return his backrow, fused Rainbow Neos and Absolute Zero for Shining, Chain Materialed into another Shining which died and fetched me Stratos and Voltic. Yeah, that's game. He had 2 cards in hand and no comeback.

Game 2: I drew into a bunch of HEROES and no Fusion Gate. He summoned Kizan and Zanji, I Veilered his Zanji so neither of them could get over Alius, he Doubled Edged Sword Techniqued into two more Kizan and Zanji which I Solemn Judgement. Ugh it was just an ugly game and I eventually lost.

Game 3: I drew into Terraforming, Ocean, Alius, Seven Tools, Chain Material, and Kinetic Soldier. I Terraformed for Fusion Gate, summoned Shining, set my hand and passed. He summoned Kageki, Kagemura, and then Kizan. Synced for Mist Wurm and bounced my Shining, Chain Material, and Seven Tools. He hit my Kinetic Soldier, set, and passed. I drew Ice Edge, set my hand again and passed. He activated United, summoned Spirit, Special Summoned Grandmaster, equipped. Attacked with Grandmaster and then directly with Wurm. Set and passed. My turn, draw, Chain Material. Went for Shining and he Bottomlessed...okay. Went for Rainbow Neos and slammed his hands down in frustration which got the attention of the whole room. This guy really doesn't like Rianbow Neos ._. I sent my face down Seven Tools to clean his backrow. Went for two more Zeros and a Gaia and fused for two permanent Shining and Zero. He had a card left in his hand and scooped.

OXO

Count: 3-1

Ranking: 4th out of 34?

I feel like some hero in an Anime, working hard this whole year to overcome my self proclaimed rival and win his attention. And I've done it. I'm pissed that I still have a problem playing against my own archetype but if I hadn't lost today, I would have never been able to play Alex. That one win was worth a hundred loses (and not one more).

Gotcha~

          Chow

Local Report 3/5/2011

First tournament with Shining and I was so stoked! Today was also regionals but it was kinda out of the way and I wanted to practice before doing anything big.

Name: Chow
Deck: Gate HERO aka Lancelot

Match #1 - Josh and Aliens
Game 1 - I got out Absolute Zero first turn and had Solemn Judgement face down with Fusion Gate and Voltic in hand. I attacked and he Compulsed. After a lot of thinking, I decided to not risk it and Solemn his Compulse. Game was mine >:]
Game 2 - Chain Material and Fusion Gate won me this game.
OO

Match #2 - Morphtronics
Game 1 - He was beating me down with Videon/3 Equips. I Fusion Gated into Zero and then Shining for game.
Game 2 - I kept Chimerateching whenever he swarmed. Yeah it's not easy getting past a 4K Fortress Dragon.
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Match #3 - Brah and Gate HERO
Game 1 - I didn't keep track of how many Shinings I had left in the Extra Deck, activated Fusion Gate, attempted to go for Shining but couldn't find any. Next turn he activated Chain Material...
Game 2 - We traded off Heroes one after another. I went into Absolute Zero and Ocean, suicided into Kinetic Shoulder, and attacked with Ocean. I had Miracle Fusion and Monster Reborn in hand but decided to play conservatively. Big mistake. He went into Rainbow Neos, Gaia, and Absolute Zero. Sigh...
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Match #4 - Zack and SalvoDAD
Game 1 - Chain Material and Fusion Gate shenanigans. I Rainbow Neos his backrow, went into AZ and then into Shining which cleared off Sangan which he then added PSZ with, went into another Shining and used the dead HERO in grave with Neos for another Shining.
Game 2 - Seeing as how I ended the last game too quickly to know what to side in, I just sided in another Thunder King for Synchro plays. He Gold Sacred into DAD so he would get it back in two turns. The next three turns was him setting Dekoichi, having me destroy it, Dark Erupting it, and setting it again. I eventually drew into Gate and fused like crazy before he had a chance to counter with Dark Armed.
OO

Overall Rank: 2nd of 18?
Prize: 2 Turbo Pack 4. (SR Diva!!! :D)

My thoughts:
I'm pretty pissed I lost to my own HERO build teched with Gemini Spark but I did learn a lot. I should have kept better track of my Shinings and take more time with my moves. I also have a habit of over analyzing things, not just duels but life as well. While playing conservatively is good, learning when to play like that is also important. HEROES are an explosive deck and leaving an open monster with no backrow and thinking my 4300 LP would not hit 0 next turn was a stupid thought.
I have to admit though, although this deck is HEROES, I don't have much fun winning as I thought I would. My opponents don't look like they're having fun and the only thing that seems to be going on in my mind when I draw my hand is "Chain Material. Fusion Gate. Chain Material. Fusion Gate. Chain Material. Fusion Gate. Chain Material. Fusion Gate. Chain Material. Fusion Gate. Chain Material. Fusion Gate." I enjoy playing games where our LP are neck and neck and amazing plays are happening and stopped at the same time. Or maybe, and I don't mean to be arrogant, my games weren't challenging enough for me (except for Brah). Most of the really good people were playing in Regionals that day so I guess it should have been expected. I'm planning on giving Gate HERO another go for 1st and keep doing so til I get my very first 1st place.

Second, my friend Kevin has been pulling amazing stuff from the Turbo Packs he won. The first time he did a favor the guy who works there (Andrew, my self proclaimed Asian bro ho) and so Andrew rewarded him by throwing a Turbo Pack 3 at him but not before rubbing it on his balls. Kevin pulled a super rare Rekindling. Second time Kevin got a Turbo Pack 4, he rushed to Andrew and told him to rub his balls on it. Pulled a super rare Compulsory Evacuation Device. So today, all depressed that I got second, opened my Turbo Pack 4. But just as I was opening it, a thought occured. I rushed to Andrew, told him to rub his balls on it, and pulled a super rare Deep Sea Diva! ALL HAIL THE MAGICAL BALLS!!!!

A final note, I beat Zack and SalvoDAD so fast, I didn't get to see the unique part of the deck. He was using Genex Duradark and Neutron!!! Freakin genius! It acts as Chaos Sorc food and the Duradark can be revived via Black Salvo!!! And the guy's name was Zack Fast! Zack FAST! FAST!!!! Such a sick name for a guy with a sick deck.

Gotcha~
          Chow

Tourney Report 12/19

I ended up not going due to playing in a basketball game.

We lost, 65-63.

We suck.

Tourney Report 12.19.2010

Quick update before I head to bed. I honestly never do well in tourneys even though I do well against Fugglor and Brah outside of tourneys and they always seem to top.

Round 1 - Lee (Mishmash)
Duel 1 - I kept my two Miracle Fusions in hand in case he had good response to my AZs. Unfortuanetly after he Radiant Mirror Forced (yeah you read this right. This is probably the second time this week, I have got to stop over extending) my Alius, Stratos, and Prisma, I decided to conserve my AZs and he decided to Soul Release my grave of five of my Heroes. No Ocean in grave = no AZ. I had to Super Poly his Clayman for Gaia and he Torrentialed it later. Probably stalled with Scrap Iron Scarecrow for 10 rounds and I had no MSTs or Neos Alius to combo Gemini Spark with (due to him removing all my Alius with Soul Release). I ended up controlling with CyDra and Honest with a shit ton of back row. Eat that Black Luster Soldier.
Duel 2 - I already took way too long with the first duel and decided to go in serious business mode against this scrub. Sided in my MSTs and beat him to death. He scooped
OO

Round 2 - Kenny (Gravekeepers)
Duel 1 - Royal Tributed my hand first turn. I lost Honest, Stratos, CyDra, and Prisma. I was left with a Miracle Fusion and against Necrovalley, I was fucked.
Duel 2 - Opened with Royal Oppresion, Skill Drain, Solemn Warning, Book of Moon, Torrential, and Stratos. Summond Stratos, searched Prisma, and set 4. He set a Spy and 4 face downs. My go and I attacked into Spy and chained Oppression. Umm I forgot what happened after this but I remember us passing and then him Royal Tributing my hand of all my monsters. I was fucked even with Oppression out.
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Round 3  - Fugglor (Monster Mash)
Duel 1 - I controlled and won. Can't remember how.
Duel 2 - I Super Polyed his Red Nova Dragon and my Prisma for Draco-Equiste but he Caiusd it next turn. I lost by a margin.
Duel 3 - This game was really intense, he had Caiused my back row Book of Moon which I responed by flipping his Monarch. Absolute Zero was then facing down against Red Dragon Archfiend (he ran out of Stardust), Formula, a face down Caius, and Collassal. He attacked into AZ and our fields were clean. I drew into Cydra and passed. He drew and removed Vayu and Sirrocco for Armed Wing. Something happened and I narrowly lost.
OXX

Round 4 - n00b HEROES
Duel 1 and 2 - Should I even bother?
OO

Round 5 - BW
Duel 1 - He started off with Shura and a face down. I summoned Alius and with Honest in hand, attacked into Shura and was expecting a Kalut but it never showed up. He then Gold Sarced into Whirlwind and set one in each row. I summon Ocean and attack into Mistral which I then destroy with Alius. Setting one in my back row, I turn it to him. He summons Sirrocco but I Bottomless it. My turn and I summon Stratos and attempt to nuked his face down. Lucky for me, I didn't know Starlight Road couldn't negate Stratos (thanks Brah and Kenny) so no Stardizzl for him and bye bye Royal Decree. I easily won this.
Duel 2 - The game started the same as last time and again I was expecting Kalut but no Kalut! Can this guy not afford Kalut? Come on, it's cheaper than Honest and you have a freakin Stardust! My game.
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I got 6th place and 7 dollars of store credit which all went to two Hidden Arsenal 3s. Pulled jank though, Gungnir doesn't want to be with me :( At least Brah went 3-2 with me, I would have felt lonely if he went 4-1 with Fugglor.
Hopefully I'll do better when the Shining comes out...