YCS Toronto Deck Profile! Inzektors September 2013

Hello everyone! as I promised I am going to do a re-cap of my YCS Toronto experience and give you my deck profile as well.

Tthe night before I ended up going to our friends house with another friend and we play tested and practiced till around 4 am. I just died on his couch and woke up at 7 am. At 7 am we were in the car and headed towards the venue. We had to make it there early because one of us didn't pre-register. Also we still had some cards to track down.Not for me but for my other 2 friends.

So when all was said and done the YCS was ready to begin.

ALSO ONCE AGAIN I PLAYED INZEKTORS!

Round 1: Inzektors VS Constellars
Verdict:1-2 Loss

I ended up losing the first round of the day. It was saddening. Game 1 I had it because I otk'd him. Game 2I had it...All Ii needed to do was literally top deck a monster. Doesnt matter what it was as long as it was an Inzektor. I was planning on equipping Giga-Mantis in grave anyways. BUT!!! It didn't happen...So I lost game 2. Ggame 3 was ridiculous. I was sitting on ladybugs for so long... no other Inzktor. Then the round ended and we were thrown right into time. I had to start making a push from the get go. I had the last turn. sitting on a ladybug I top decked a armageddon knight. Did some shenanigans. I ended up with a field of dark armed and lavalval chain. I popped his monster with dark armed. and attacked. He was at 2400 life points left and I was at 2200. So sad. Iif I had another turn I would've won. He only had dimensional fissure on the field with no cards in hand. Ridiculous.

Round 2:Inzektors VS Agents
Verdict:2-1 Win

I threw down against Agents round 2 against a later that day Dragon Duelist. Ii was pretty afraid because he took game 1. He killed me with hand traps then made so much monsters and threw down a kristya. GG. Game 2 I otk'd him. Game 3 I just made small consecutive pushes and won.

Round 3:Inzektors VS Infernity
Verdict:2-1 Win

This is the hardest match-up for me. Actually its one of the hardest. The infinite bacrow + barriers...ugh... So he took game 1. I surrendered game 1. I didn't want to fight the combos. Luckily he didnt see any Inzektors,so he didn't know what I was playing. Game 2 I just pounded him with centipede and dragonfly with hornet. He surrendered game 2. Then in game 3, I did the exact same thing.

Round 4: Inzektors VS Blackwings
Verdict:0-2 Loss

This was a stupid match-up. In testing...I DESTROY THIS DECK. I HAVE NEVER LOST....TO THIS DECK.... But game 1 here I kept drawing spells and one call of the haunted. I couldn't do anything. He just kept hitting me with blackwings and I had to sit there and take it. Game 2 was the exact same thing..... so I lost. I didn't get outplayed. I just didnt draw correctly or even decent actually.

Round 5:Inzektors VS Mermails
Verdict: 2-1 Win

This man was so salty losing to me. He took game 1. Game 2 I opened up Dimensional Fissure and he just got wrecked from there. Game 3 was the same thing. I opened up Dimensional Fissure and he got wrecked again. I extended my hand to give him a hand shake and refused it. So salty was he. The judge even asked why he just left and person beside me said "He's so salty right now!"

Round 6:Inzektors VS Dragunity
Verdict:2-0 Win

Just won.GG'S! Also Dimensional Fissure helps.

Round 7:Inzektors VS Prophecy
Verdict:1-2 Loss

This felt like round 1. Had I just drawn a monster at correct times I could've won. He won game 1 and I took game 2. Then game 3 as soon as I got plays.... He drops a veiler and I lose. That veiler saved him. Sooooo mad but he was a cool guy. So I'm glad that I lost to a chill guy. We talked afterwards as well so the salt didn't last.

Round 8:Inzektors VS Karakuri Geargia
Verdict:2-1 Win

Another cool guy. I won game 1,he took game 2 and I won game 3.

So overall fun experience! I end day 1 at 5 wins,3 losses,0 draw.  I didn't make day 2 but maybe next year. Not bad for someone who doesn't really go to locals ever and just plays cards on gut feeling.My losses shouldn't have happened though. That's what killed me in the end. Oh well.

Heres the list I played guys!

Monsters:
x3 Inzektor Centipede
x1 Inzektor Dragonfly
x1 Inzektor Hornet
x1 Inzektor Giga-Mantis
x1 Inzektor Hopper
x3 Inzektor Ladybug
x2  Summoner Monk
x1 Armageddon Knight
x1 Dark Armed Dragon
x1 Cardcar D

Spells:
x1 Allure of Darkness
x1 Dimensional Fissure
x1 Dark hole
x2 Inzektor Sword - Zektkaliber
x3 Mystical Space Typhoon
x2 Insect Imitation
x1 Foolish Burial
x3 Pot of Duality
x1 Book of Moon
x1 Forbidden Lance

 Traps:
x1 Torrential Tribute
x2 Fiendish Chain
x3 Threatening Roar
x2 Call of the Haunted
x1  Solemn  Warning

Extra:
x1 Lavalval Chain
 x1 Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
x1 Leviair the Sea Dragon
x1 Number 20: Giga-Brilliant
x1 Number 30 Acid Golem of Destruction
x1 Number 66: Master Key Beetle
x1 Inzektor Exa-Stag
x1 Adreus, Keeper of Armageddon
x1 Wind-up Aresenal Zenmaioh
x1 Tiras, Keeper of Genesis
x1 Number 12: Crimson Shadow Armor Ninja
x1 Number 61: Volcasaurus
x1 Gaia Dragon, the thunder charger
x1 Shark Fortress
x1 Wind-up Zenmaines


Side:

x2 Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
x1 Maxx "C"
x2 effect veiler
x2 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
x2 Royal Decree
x1 Eradicator Epidemic Virus
x2 Imperial Iron Wall
x3 Gozen Match

Alright guys thats it! enjoy!

Road to YCS Toronto Day 2

Hello Yu-Gi-Oh players! This isn't really day 2 on my road to YCS. I have been practicing for this event for some time now. Of course I like most people practiced under the first confirmed ban list to come out. Thinking that the OCG ban list was going to be the same as the TCG ban list.  So while I was out and was texted words of a separate ban list....my heart sank....And originally my first impression was....gosh darnit....so much for topping; But then I started to think about it. What was my deck of choice? Inzektors. Aside from Monster Reborn and Heavy Storm getting banned, the deck is still pretty much the same. Nothings changed.

The deck still operates the same. It hasn't deviated. The deck needs to get creative in order to obtain the dragonfly/hornet, but overall the deck is the same. So I took it upon myself to create a build that can do the archetype some justice.

I finally got used to my bad match-ups and how exactly I should play against them with my build. It takes creativity though. I hate die rolls. I designed the deck so that way it's irrelevant going first or second. I always seem to lose die rolls so I gave up on that.

I am more or less comfortable with the Plant Ruler match-up now. That was decided to be a very tough match-up especially because of their rising numbers. Going up against the deck will force you into magnificently gusty plays. A lot of thinking is required. I have come to be victorious against them. The only thing that sucks with Inzektors is that the deck slows down even more after siding. So you have to be careful with that. Which is why if you win game 1; game 2 could look a little troublesome. Going first is key. It's the set-up prior to that will assist you. If not, keeping track of the dragons easily helps a bunch. If you can keep track of whats left in the deck to the odds of whats in their hand and whats in grave and whats banished, you easily can make devastating blows.  Just like with any deck; just use your head. That's the best advice I could ever give you.

So how my last night Plant Ruler match went down was

Match #1:Inzektors VS Plant Ruler
Verdict:2-1 Win
I lost Rock,Paper,Scissors. I won game 1. I lost game 2. I won game 3.

Now a bit more testing happened today and it went like this

Match #2: Inzektors VS Mecha Phantom Beast
Verdict:2-0 Win

Match #3:Inzektors VS Blackwings
Verdict:2-0 Win

Match #4: Inzektors VS Zombies
Verdict:2-0 Win

YCS Toronto is coming up! remember regardless of how I do, I will post up my deck profile afterwards. If I make it to day 2, I will post my deck list after day2 wraps up. If I don't make day 2, I will post my deck up after day 1.

YCS TORONTO! plus a little talk

Well it's been a long while people! I know I say I'm always back and ready to write some more but lazyness is just too real. SO GUESS WHAT THOUGH?! Yours truly will be playing at YCS TORONTO this weekend! What will I be playing? I think it should be clearly obvious! Inzektors! I don't want to give too much away but I have been testing them and they do look promising. The only issue that the deck has is that it can't play too much attack prevention or it slows down and thats all you end up drawing at moments you wish it could be something else. It has to rush the Hornet + Dragonfly race or things get hard. By far the hardest match-ups tend to be gladiator beast simply for how their designed. Another difficult match-up is the new/old Plant Rulers because of their ability to explode consistently. It may not be able to do what original E dragons do but it's pretty good. Another bad match-up is Prophecy. That deck is still real. A fate is all they need. Don't know how the dark world match-ups will go just yet.

So I ended up designing my side board to accommodate my bad match-ups. Also for deck's that will main or side problematic cards against me. Some of those cards include Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror,Skill Drain,etc. Knowing all those cards to be ground breaking against me, I still have a lot of optimism for the deck. Also I guess it's time to put my money where my mouth is. I've been talking about Inzektors for some time now. If I were at that event,If I was there,If they had just listened to me with my tech etc... Now I can go in with my skill and knowledge and the deck that started it all for me. Wish me luck as I continue to test. Also after the event I shall do a deck profile with a recap and after thoughts.

Look forward to it!

Also here are some matches I played earlier:

Match 1:Inzektors VS Infernities
Verdict:2-0 Win

Match 2:Inzektors VS Gogogo
Verdict:2-0 Win

Match 3:Inzektors VS Prophecy
Verdict:2-1 Win

Match 4:Inzektors VS Noble Knights
Verdict:2-0 Win

Match 5:Inzektors VS Utopia Turbo
Verdict:2-0

Match 6:Inzektors VS Random
Verdict:2-0

Match 7:Inzektors VS Ojamas
Verdict:2-0

Match 8: Inzektors VS Dark Gaia OTK
Verdict:2-1(Only saw one inzektor that whole game.Won't say which one or it might give away stuff ;) )

NOW!! These 2 matches were testing between me and my friend.

Match 9:Inzektors VS Plant Rulers
Verdict:0-2 Loss

Match 10:Inzektors VS Blackwings
Verdict:2-0 Win

So I do need to focus on the plant ruler match-up a little more. But overall the deck is looking pretty solid. Just need a little bit more practice time.

For fun,4 man tournament with friends for cards...report! Playing:Gladiator Beast

Hey people! What's up?! I'm here to give you guys a small fun tournament report! Sometimes me and my friends will put up cards and play for them in swiss style tournaments. Now the tournament only really consists of me and 3 of my friends. So essentially it becomes a 3 round tournament.... WHICH I KNOW ITS REALLY BAD but hey...I went to a local an hour away from me with my cousin before and the tournament was only 3 rounds as well...so....IT HAPPENS! So anyways for this tournament my one friend who joined decided to just scoop all his rounds cause last minute he got too lazy to play. So amongst us the decks that were played were: Gladiator Beast(me), Gadgets with Tin Goldfish, and Malefic Stun with the virus cards. I decided to play Gladiator Beast because it is a deck that I am most familiar with! I've been playing Glads since 2009. Every time I tell my friend I was playing them on a certain day, he would just shrug it off and tell me they're irrelevant. So I wanted to make them relevant.

So Round 1 Begins

Round 1 VS The friend that scoops
He scooped that round so I auto won. I wanted to play it out but he just got lazy. Oh well
1-0

Round 2 VS Gadgets with Tin Goldfish
Game 1:I was jsut overwhelmed pretty quickly and could not get over a cowboy in the end. I ended up losing to a cowboy...so mad...
Game 2: I feel the pressure is on so I begin to throw cards at him. A lot of my super secret tech cards... I end up over powering him with spirit reaper and a gladiator beast that just wont go away...
Game 3:He opens up all monsters. Eventually it looks like he's getting a feel for the game and it looks like he might actually do stuff;  But in fact, I kinda allow him to walk into things. I couldn't get over a cyber dragon for the longest time. He ruined my field of equeste + another monster. I later come back with a reborn play and a book of moon and eventually I take the game.
2-0

Round 3 VS Malefic Virus
Game 1:This is actually the worst match-up for him. Not because Gladiator Beasts are OP but because he himself cannot beat Gladiator Beasts to save his life. Game 1 I just control it with massive backrow and a constant loop of Gladiator Beast tagging.
Game 2:He flips over skill drain and what not. It actually is the longest grind game of history. We take about 20-30 minutes on game 2. Eventually he over powers me.
Game 3: I hold it down with fossily dyna. Yes, Fossil DYNA. I heard it's a good card...but its just probably a rumor. So I boarded in 2 and he just got poked by it like 6 times. In the end he cant get over it and I win.
3-0

So In conclusion Gladiator Beasts won this tournament.Granted it was a 4 man tourney and it was only 3 rounds and 1 man scooped all his rounds but hey it's okay... SO WHAT DO I WIN IN THE END?!

Well from our gadget player, he has to give me 3 of his super penguin soldiers....(lol i know but hey I wanna make something very troll like with that...ahaha)
AND FROM OUR MALEFIC STUN PLAYER.... I get his 2 Obelisk(the playable version). Our running joke thats actually a fact is whenever we make a deck we have to ask ourselves, Do we have an out to Obelisk? ahaha that guys too OP. So sad frogs is the only deck that actually makes real use of Obelisk.

Anyways this was just a fun tournament. If I had lost I would've lost 3 Grapha's. That's a no no. My girlfriend got me those. So I'm glad I won. Maybe for our next tournament I'll try Glads again. I like the deck. It's still good. I think..ahaha Like they haven't changed in the past how many years. Our only real hit on the list was Bestiari to 1. Also if you include rescue cat....then that was another hit. Other than that Gladiator Beasts have remained with the same power. It just takes a really skilled player or maybe even a super creative build in order to win.When Elemental Dragons comes out though or even judgment for Prophecy... I don't know how they shall fair. But for now they're fun and I had fun with this tournament. It's good to do stuff like this. If you're new to the tournament scene, definitely try some practice tournaments with friends to get more comfortable.  It's nice practice and a nice time with friends. Alright that's it.

Gladiator Beast all day long!

I'm out!

OSHAWA REGIONAL REPORT! April 13th 2013

Hello!! For the first time ever I am bringing you guys a....REGIONAL REPORT! :O !!!! So for a while now I have been practicing with many different decks for this upcoming regional. The regional I attended was at Oshawa. The night before me and my friends had about 3 hours of sleep. We ended up joking around a lot and testing as well last night. My friend put me up against different decks and I found that out of the abundant duels we had last night, I only lost once. I was pretty set on what exactly I was playing at this point. In the end I decided to play Dino Fist. I decided to play Dino Fiist because of its potential more options than the regular fire fist deck. Also laggia + backrow = gg. If you lost with that opening hand,you don't deserve to win.

So at around 7:30 we were picked up at my friends house and the 4 of us headed to the venue. It was the longest car ride of my life. We actually live pretty far from the venue so we sat in a car for about 40-45 minutes. Eventually we arrived at the venue. I wrote out my list and stood in a line for about 20 minutes or so to get registered. I received my 5 packs upon registering.... TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW... I CANNOT OPEN PACKS GREAT AT ALL...I basically pulled ok/bad commons then bad rares then my only holo was that fool of prophecy card...ugh....eventually the player meeting begins. The guy sitting beside me during player meeting had lost his deck. That sucks. Everyone around him was trying to help him but no luck. Don't know what happened after that. Then round 1 had begun...

Round 1: Dino Fist(YAY MIRROR MATCH >.>)
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-1
game 1:he goes first by summoning a bear and setting 2. I go rabbit and go laggia and just beat him from there.
Game 2:he goes tenki ,set 2. I go rabbit again and win from there
1-0

Round 2:Mono Mermail
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-2
game 1:He makes the biggest explosive 1st turn and I cant come back from it
game 2:I just try my hardest to push with what I have. I eventually make a dweller and protect it with my life to win.
game 3:he sets 3 and summons pike dropping dragoon and goes plus and ends.I summon a monster and activate 2 dimensional fissure and set bottomless and set mirror force. I feel as if I have this. On my end phase he activates mst and twister on both my dimensional fissure and activates a sphere. then next turn he pushes but pops my mirror force and beats me down. I lose.
1-1

Round 3:Honestly don't know what to call this(xyz turbo)
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-3
Game 1:I saw tour guide.. I saw marauding captain...I beat him with 1st turn laggia and backrow.
Game 2: He goes first turn shock master and one of the materials made it a 3300 shock master. I open up rabbit,warning,solemn judgment,mirror force,bottomless. I go dolkka and set 4 and pass. he attacks and loses the shock master and I win from there.
2-1

Round 4:Hieratics
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-4
Game 1: He goes cardcar D,set 1 and pass.I open up 5 monsters that are not rabbit and 1 tenki. next turn he otk's me.
Game 2: I go rabbit and hold it down with laggia + backrow. I rock his world.
Game 3: He does the exact same thing and I get otk'd
2-2

Round 5: Fire Fist Glads
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-5
Game 1:I beat him down with rabbit into laggia and backrow and later on i go tenki get gorilla and pop his backrow and win.
Game 2:He throws out some tech i never thought of in glads...it scared me a lot actually and it worked..garuntee no one has played glads like this guy.
Game 3:I summon zenmaines and set bottomless,set heavy. he summons,i bottomless then he sets 4 and passes. I activate heavy and proceed to win.
3-2

Round 6:Fire Fist
LOST THE DIE ROLL 0-6
Game 1:I couldnt get over backrows...
Game 2:He cant get over my rabbit into laggia and win.
Game 3: Back to back heavy by me and him and him having the far superior upper hand is so ugh... i quit... i got raped game 3..
3-3

Round 7:Mermail Fire Fist
LOST THE DIE ROLL:0-7
Game 1: I don't really recall what happened..I just won.
Game 2: Same with game 2.
4-3(we talked after and he gave me some interesting ideas for a deck by letting me look at his. we had a long discussion and we boucned ideas off each other. twas nice)

Round 8:Heroes
LOST THE DIE ROLL:0-8
Game 1:I win with going rabbit and backrow
Game 2:I cant get over his alius' and backrow then miracle fusion
Game 3:I win with 1st turn rabbit and backrow
5-3

Round 9:dont know.
My opponent never showed up and I got the match win.
6-3

So the whole regional was 9 rounds. 286 people I believe attended. It was top 32 gets their invite AND!!! I...made it to the 41st spot.sadly.

A huge portion of my losses were simply because I didnt go first at all.But I enjoyed my time. Evene after discussing with people who were watching me play.. I never misplayed..I just got yugioh'd.

Anyways thats my regional report. have fun yall

I'M BACK...again

HELLO YALL im ready to start posting again. I have nothing but free time.
I have not dropped yugioh whatsoever. I took a little hiatus. I did play at the toronto regionals though. I played Ninjas. All day I was sick that day.I even asked a judge if i could use a chair in the registration line because I wasnt feeling well. Im thankful my friend later on that day supplied me with a tylenol. Anyways how that day went was losing big time. Honestly I only lost because I didnt have a compete extra deck. I was missing shock master,dweller,cowboy,blackship..etc.... So sad. I did manage to 2-1 Chaos Dragons and 2-0 destiny hero and honorable mention for my round 1 duel.Round 1 was up against agents. I lost game 1 due to so much destruction cards. Game 2, he only has a venus on field. I have hanzo  and I make a blade armor ninja as well. I go leeching the light and otk him. Aha. Game 3 we were down to top decking and my deck couldn't do that.

So I retired ninjas after that day. I love the deck but its missing a card to really make ninjas viable. BY THE WAY!!! this was a pure ninja deck! Hanzo and upstart can only do so much for me.

So whats in store? OSHAWA REGIONALS WOOH! For that event my friend is lending me everything I could possibly need. Extra,side,main etc... All of it will be supplied. So thank you to my friend. So ultimately it comes down to playing macro rabbit then or fire fist. Honestly I am more comfortable with macro rabbit, so I may play that. Also for the fact a first turn rabbit it deadly. For the fact that it can drag games on forever which some decks hate being apart of. A lot of decks, I think, fall apart late game. etc.. I just love the deck.Hopefully my friend did not sell anything that was in the deck. I want to play! aha!

Anyways I'll come back to you guys with more videos and posts soon. PEACE!

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