Tournament Report: "SOL Dragon"

While I happen to be on holiday with only one day till Christmas that doesn't mean I can't join a tournament and try out my deck. I've been itching to test out my SOL Dragon deck in an area other than my local, since I'm currently vacationing half way around the world I thought it would be fun to try and find a local tournament. I found one. Its a small humble hobby shop that hosts a relatively large sized local tournament. I played 7 rounds without a side deck and that was the entire tournament.

Here is the deck I took:

Main Deck: 40

Extra Deck: 15
1 Five-Headed Dragon
1 Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
2 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
2 Arcanite Magician
1 Magical Android
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Dark End Dragon
2 Stardust Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter

Monsters: 22
3 Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3 Blue-Eyes White Dragon
1 Elemental Hero - Stratos
2 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Prime Material Dragon
3 White Stone of Legend
2 Red Eyes Wyvern
1 Destiny Hero - Plasma
2 Destiny Hero - Diamond Dude
2 Destiny Hero - Malicious
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Dark Armed Dragon

Spells: 15
1 Future Fusion
1 Reasoning
2 Allure of Darkness
3 Destiny Draw
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Burial from a Different Dimension
1 Scapegoat
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Heavy Storm
1 Brain Control
2 Trade-In

Traps: 3
1 Mirror Force
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Call of the Haunted

And here is a summary of the tournament:

Bare with it, its mostly just been transcribed straight from my scribbles on paper onto a computer so it hasn't been formatted or edited yet. I'll get around to that later, pramis.

Round 1
SOL Dragon vs Lightsworn
Game 1
8000~8000
He goes first and Sarcos a JD – Oh I’m playing Lightsworn.
He ended with 1 set mon and a s/t
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I draw Brain Control, Reinforcement, D-Draw, MST, Call and Blue-Eyes
ROTA me a Stratos
MST me a Bottomless
Stratos me a Malicious
D-Draw me a Mirror Force and Diamond Guy
Stratos nukes Necro Gardna
I set me a Mirror and end
~
He Recharged – discarded Lyla I think
Then Charged a Garoth who attacked.
I’m up by 2 cards and hes getting JD next turn so I flip Mirror Force now. SIMPLIFICATION.
~
My turn. :3
I draw Chaos Sorcerer. I want a White Stone so bad.
Summon Diamond Dude and flip me a monster. I forget what it was. Probably a dragon of sorts.
He Necro’s Diamond Dude so I see Gorz coming.
Stratos hits and yup, its Gorz.
~
He now has 1 Judgement Dragon
Summons another Garoth.
Runs over my Diamond Dude and Stratos
~
I draw D-Draw
I brain Garoth, remove Mali and go for a double Tribute summon. Blue-Eyes White Dragon!!!
Blue-Eyes kills Gorz.
Set Call
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He sets an S/T
I call Stratos in his endphase grabbing Diamond Dude
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I draw Darkness Metal
D-Draw Diamond Guy for an Egg and some Goats
Summon the Egg and synch with Stratos for Catastor!! No Bottomless?
Egg gets me another Blue-Eyes
Catastor kills the token (its light)
Blue-Eyes hits for 3000.
Check his grave – 2 different LS (Wtf? Shit mills much)
I set goats
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He sets a mon and passes (Ryko???)
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I draw a Blue-Eyes (F*ck!!)
Catastor pops… Jain??!?!?!! (He must not have had Honest or learned how to bluff)
Blue-Eyes direct attack FTW!!!
Game 1 4050-0

Notes: That tribute summoning Blue-Eyes move was pretty risky but I’m glad it paid off. I removed Garoth from the field to cut Honest or a next turn Celestia from the equation. I wasn’t afraid of Brain Control as LS decks have been trending away from that lately. Given that I had 4050 LP at that point in the duel I couldn’t maintain anything with him having a field of Gorz, Garoth + Token so I think it was my best move, if a bit unorthodox. Besides from what I had gathered from his playstyle I figured he wouldn’t know how to handle a Blue-Eyes staring him down without the proper LS to summon his JD, turns out I was right. :P

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SOL Dragon vs Lightsworn
Game 2
8000~8000
He sarcos another JD, pulls a bunch of fancy antics that end him with a Garoth on the field and 2 S/T with 2 different named LS in grave and no Necros. (OH yeah and I saw a Mirror Force, excellent!!! Unabated battle field go!)
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I drew White Stone, Allure, Diamond Guy, Call, Heavy and Plague
I Allure for a D-Draw and a Red-Eyes, I remove Plague.
I d-draw diamond dude and get another egg and a trade-in
I set an egg, set call and end
~
Garoth hatches my egg.
~
Yup, that was seriously his turn, either this guy needs to fix his deck or he doesn’t know how to win outside of Judgement Dragon.
I draw Blue-Eyes.
Trade-In Blue-Eyes for Future Fusion and Burial.
I call Egg
I heavy storm, taking out Beckoning Light and Bottomless
Egg dies and nets me another Blue-Eyes
Future Fusion!
I dump a Prime, 2 Wyvern and 2 Red-Eyes. The only other dragons left in my deck are 1 White Stone and 1 DAD.
I set Burial and endphase myself 2 Darkness Metals
~
He turns Garoth to DEF (CANT BLUFF)
Sets a mon
Sets an S/T (hahahaha we know its not Mirror Force)
Ends
~
We Draw Chaos Sorcerer. Ohhhh. Sweet victory.
Red-Eyes grabs Prime.
Flip Burial tossing Plague and 2 Wyvern into my grave.
Remove a White Stone and Diamond Dude for Chaos Sorcerer who removes Garoth
Set Blue-Eyes ontop of deck for Plague
Tune plague to Chaos Sorcerer for DARK END DRAGON (alright, I know Arcanite via White Stone would have cleared the f/d as well as his monster, but im not doing this just because it's a Dark End Dragon – Prime has his F/D pinned, unless its something obscure like PWWB which can’t stop my OTK anyway, keeping it on the field prevents Gorz thus Dark End is actually the better choice)
Dark End wipes Necro Gardna
Darkness Metal revives Blue-Eyes
Necro blocks one attack and my other mons ATK for game. No Gorz cuz he had a f/d Beckoning or something. I dunno, I never saw it.
Game 2 8000-0

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Woot.

That's a match.
2-0 vs Lightsworn (badly played Lightsworn, but Lightsworn nonetheless)

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Round 2
SOL Dragon vs Tele-DAD
Game 1
8000~8000
I win the roll and draw MST, Stratos, Malicious, RotA, Heavy and Chaos Sorcerer
I RotA me a Diamond Dude.
Summon Stratos who searches Plasma
Set MST and end (he must think I’m playing DHZ)
~
He foolishes a Necro
Sets a mon and 2 S/t and ends
Endphase I MST his Mirror Force
~
I draw Allure
Allure grabs Blue-Eyes and another Allure – I remove Diamond Dude
I Allure again – Trade-In and Call – I remove Plasma
Trade-In Blue-Eyes for Egg and another Sorcerer
Summon egg and tune to Stratos for Android
Egg gives me Blue-Eyes and Android gets Bottomless-ed
I set call and end
~
He tributes Sangan for Caius – removes call
I chain Call on stratos
Sangan grabs him tomato and stratos misses its timing (stupid me)
I take a hit from caius and he sets a card
~
I draw wyvern (really missing that diamond dude, I forgot about stratos’ timing issue and am now left with 2 dead chaos sorcerers in hand as I have no darks in grave, stupid)
Set wyvern
~
He sarcos DAD
Summons tomato
Caius killed wyern and I take tomato to the face
~
I draw trade-in
I trade-in my Blue-Eyes for a wyvern and a Darkness Metal
I heavy – kills torrential
Summon Wyvern and remove it for Darkness Metal
Darkness Metal revives Blue-Eyes
Blue-Eyes get Necro-ed and Darkness smites Caius (like im touching that tomato while he has a level 6 dark on the field)
~
He e-teles a Krebons
Tunes Krebons to Tomato for Brionac and discards his only in hand card – giant Trunade to bounce… Blue-Eyes? He notices my confused face and read darkness metal. Yeah. Realises his mistake.
~
I draw Reasoning
I play Reasoning – he calls lvl 4
I get a Mali
Darkness Metal revives a White Stone
I tune White Stone to Mali for Black Rose but don’t blow up. He has 4 darks in grave.
White Stone gives me a Blue-Eyes
Remove white stone and DAD (was dumped with Reasoning) for Chaos Sorcerer who removes Brionac
Red-Eyes and Black Rose hit direct – hes at 2400, I’m at 4200.
~
He gets DAD – 4 darks in grave – Sangan, Caius, Tomato, Krebons
He scoops. I’ve never been scooped to before so that was kinda cool.
Game 1 4200-0

Notes: lol at my opponent not knowing what Darkness Metal did.

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SOL Dragon vs Tele-DAD
Game 2
8000~8000
He foolishes a Necro, sets a mon and sets 2 s/t
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I draw Allure, 2 Wyvern, 1 White Stone, 1 Plasma and 1 Diamond Dude
Allure for Goats and Sorcerer and remove Diamond Dude
I set goats, set an egg and end
~
He tributes his goblin zombie for a caius – this is looking familiar
Caius removes White Stone and Goblin grabs him Mezuki. Apparently this is a zombie Tele-DAD thing.
Caius runs into my scapegoat and kills one.
He sets another backrow and ends
~
I allure drawing burial and heavy storm – remove sorcerer
I play heavy and he decides to chain his burial on my removed monsters. Thanks broski. Dunno if he was afraid of DDR or what. Heavy also takes out his MST and a bottomless.
Here comes the predictable summon. I tribute 3 goats for Plasma and suck up his defenceless Caius – he chains Necro Gardna thinking that plasma will negate all his effects. READ THE CARD.
I summon a wyvern alongside it and attack – forcing him to negate the first attack – wyvern’s. Plasma hits for 3100.
~
He sets a monster and a f/d
~
I draw RotA.
I play RotA.
RotA gets Stratos.
I check his grave and am suddenly fearful of Mirror Force and Torrential.
I summon Stratos and choose to pop his f/d it's a Call of the Haunted.
Wyvern kills his Mezuki
Stratos hits for 1800 – no Gorz so Plasma hits for 3100 – which is his exact number of remaining lifepoints. Neat.
Game 2 8000-0

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Woot.

That's a match.
2-0 vs Lightsworn
2-0 vs Tele-DAD-Zombies

Notes: These people need to learn to read cards more. Winning thanks to Plasma was pretty epic. So far I’ve pulled off a win with a tribute summoned Blue-Eyes, a Plasma and a Dark End Dragon. I’m happy with that so I go get myself a coke to drink while I wait for round 3. I also pojo for a bit since this place has free wifi. Yay. Free wifi.

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Round 3
SOL Dragon vs DHZ
Game 1
8000~8000
I go first and draw Future Fusion, 2 White Stones, D-Draw, Plasma and Torrential. Damn, I wanted a +3 off that Future Fusion.
I Fusion dump 1 White Stone, 1 Prime, 1 Darkness Metal and 2 Wyvern.
White Stone gives me a Blue-Eyes
I D-Draw my Plasma for MST and Chaos Sorcerer
I set White Stone, set Torrential and end
~
He D-Draws a Defender
Summons a Zombie Master – TORRENTIAL.
Egg gives me a Blue-Eyes.
He sets 2 s/ts and ends
~
I draw a Diamond Dude
I go ahead and drop my MST – hitting his Mirror Force (man I’m good at hitting those)
I summon Diamond Dude and flip a Plague (sad face)
The Dude hits for 1400.
~
He summons Mezuki and kills diamond dude
He sets another S/T (awww man my FGD is gonna get bottomlessed)
~
I draw reasoning and he dustshoots a Blue-Eyes back into the deck?
Five-Headed Dragon hits… nothing happens.
I drop reasoning – he calls 4 and I get a Mali
I summon White Stone and tune it to Mali for a Black Rose – again not blowing up
White Stone gets me a Blue-Eyes
I remove a Stone and Plasma for Chaos Sorcerer who removes Mezuki on priority
Black Rose hits for 2400 and Five-Headed kills him. Man I’m winning in so many cool ways today. XD Overextension FTW!!
Game 1 7700-0

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Notes: I wonder what his face-down was... probably a bluff. I knew it wasn’t mirror force and if it didn’t trigger to my FGD I figured I could give swarming the field a try. Glad to see my reckless aggression pays off again. :P
Someday that’ll cost me a duel. XD

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SOL Dragon vs DHZ
Game 2
8000~8000
He summons Stratos.
Grabs Mali.
Ditches Mali for D-Draw.
Removes Mali to fetch another.
Sets 2 s/t
~
I draw 1 White Stone, DAD, 2 D-Draw, 1 Prime, 1 Trade-In
I set my egg and 1 D-Draw and end.
~
He plays Rota for defender
d-draws defender
sarcos a Skill Drain
switches Mali to ATK
stratos kills Egg – egg gives Blue-Eyes
I take 800 from Mali
He sets 2 more to his back row for a total of 4 s/t - now that's intimidating
~
I draw Burial
I Trade-In Blue-Eyes for Future Fusion and Brain Control
I Future Fuse – dumping 3 Darkness Metals, 1 White Stone and a Wyvern.
White Stone gives me a Blue-Eyes.
I drop DAD removing 1 Red-Eyes to kill one of his f/d on priority
He chains it – torrential, and chains MST on my Future Fusion after that
I set Burial and endphase myself 1 Darkness Metal
~
He passes
~
I draw Chaos Sorcerer
Darkness Metal brings down Prime
I attack but he chains a f/d E-Tele on Krebons.
He negates both attacks and Krebons removes itself in the endphase
~
He drops Heavy Storm. I chain Burial to return 1 Darkness and 1 Wyvern to my grave and lose my D-Draw bluff. He chains his Burial on his Krebons and Mali.
He foolishes a D.D. Crow and sets 1 card.
I bet that set card is Skill Drain.
~
He flips Drain to my Draw Phase
I remove White Stone and DAD for Sorcerer and go for game
Game 2 7200-0
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Woot.
That's a match.
2-0 vs Lightsworn
2-0 vs Tele-DAD-Zombies
2-0 vs Skill Drain DHZ
Notes: This locals is seeming really easy. Like, easier than my locals.

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Round 4
SOL Dragon vs DHZ
Game 1
8000~8000
Bleh 2 DHZ in a row.
I win the roll and draw 1 Trade-In, 1 Future Fusion, 1 Wyvern, 1 Torrential, 1 D-Draw and 1 Reasoning. Holy hell this hand could only possible be better with a Stratos. Oh I hope I get Stratos off Reasoning. :P
I Future Fuse 3 White Stone, 1 Wyvern and 1 Darkness Metal
3 White Stones add me 3 Blue-Eyes
Trade-In 1 Blue-Eyes for a Plasma and Diamond Dude. OMG.
I set torrential and summon a Wyvern to end
~
He sarcos a DAD
Rotas a Stratos
Foolishes a Necro (man his hand is looking almost as good as mine, this duel should be fuunnnnnnnnn)
Stratos grabs Plasma
D-Draws his Plasma (okay his hand might have been better)
Sets 2 s/t and ends
~
I draw Burial
I D-Draw my Diamond dude for a Red-Eyes and a Mirror Force (Shoulda Reasoning-ed >.<)
I Reasoning – he calls level 6 and after skimming over both my Chaos Sorcerer’s and DAD it lands on Plaguespreader
Tuning Plague to Wyvern for Brionaaaaaac
He solemns my Brionac.
I end-phase a Darkness Metal but it gets Bottomlessed.
~
He summons Tomato but I flip Torrential
He sets 1 s/t
~
I draw MST and drop it to hit his Mirror Force
Five-Headed hits the field.
I check his graveyard and DAMN HE HAS A NECRO.
Five-Headed swings for game but Necro blocks it.
~
He gets DAD
He drops Heavy Storm
~
I draw Heavy Storm
I set Mirror Force and play Burial to get back a Wyvern and Red-Eyes into my grave.
I end phase a Darkness Metal
~
He sets 1 S/T (hes practically topdecking btw, he has a DAD in hand and 2 darks in grave)
~
I draw D-Draw
I drop Heavy and he chains his Burial to get his Necro back.
I D-Draw my Plasma for Diamond Dude and another Darkness Metal
Red-Eyes revives 1 Blue-Eyes
I remove Red-Eyes for another one that drops a Blue-Eyes form my hand
I then proceed to remove that Red-Eyes for yet another one, who in turn summons my third Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my hand. Fuck you single Necro Gardna.
Game 1 8000-0

Notes: I summon my Blue-Eyes White Dragon!!!! As you may have noticed my play style is that of simplification. I play a simplification game where I reduce the cards on the board and in both players hands till we both have 1-3 each, then proceed to beat face with excessive Special Summons. Thanks to cards like Prime Material Dragon, Chaos Sorcerer, Plasma and Arcanite/Dark End Dragon such plays are made ridiculously easy and rewarding for me as they make it easy for me to capitalise on such simplification, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal also allows for me to profit from such a situation and due to the intense combo nature of most top tier decks now if you can keep control of the board, keep and eye on their grave and keep their hand low they can’t do anything. As you saw in this duel, I summoned Brionac and he flipped Solemn. He had to, I had 6 cards in hand to his field and 2 of them were expendable Blue-Eyes and another was a Darkness Metal, but he didn’t know about that. But since Brionac wasn’t my goal and I was just playing it to simplify the board it accomplished its purpose – stripping him of 4000 life points and ridding him of yet another answer to my uberhand. He overextended pretty bad in the beginning of the duel, he had like 2 cards in hand when I Brionac-ed him. The grave is super important this format. Being able to see your opponents grave is like being able to see half of their hand. At all times you should know whats in there regardless of what you are playing against. Knowing whats in your opponents graveyard not only helps you prepare for JD/DAD/Vayu plays but it also gives you the ability to tell what cards have been played, what is yet to be played, you can also guess the number of cards left in their deck based on their grave, field and hand count which allows you to accurately predict what cards your opponent has and doesn’t have. The graveyard has always been important but in this format with so many decks actually playing out of it its more essential than ever to keep track of your opponents grave. /End Rant.

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SOL Dragon vs DHZ
Game 2
8000~8000
He opens with Gold Sarco for DAD.
He Rotas a Stratos
Allures for 2 and removes Necro
He summons Stratos and grabs Plasma
Sets 2 s/t
~
I draw Plasma, Trade-In, Prime, Call, Wyvern and Heavy
He Dustshoots my Plasma in my draw phase. My hand is now shit and he knows it. :(
I summon Wyvern and set Call
~
He summons Plague and Brionac hits the field.
Brionac pitches a Bottomless to return my call.
Then he puts a card on top of his deck for plague and tunes it to Brionac for Colossal Fighter.
Colossal runs over Wyvern.
~
I draw Torrential
At least Brionac is off the field and Plague is removed.
I set Call and Torrential
~
He gets DAD
Colossal hits direct >.<
He sets 1 s/t
~
I draw Wyvern
I summon Wyvern and flip Torrential
~
He sets another S/T
I call Wyvern in the End phase and he Torrentials
~
I draw Plasma (yay It came back)
I heavy and he chains burial on Necro and plague (oh man…) but I kill his MST, which is lame. Bad heavy.
I Trade-In Plasma for Allure and a Stone. I now have 3 cards to his 2, problem is, 1 of his is DAD and I don’t have any darks for allure. Hrm. If I risk Allure and pitch Prime and Stone I get a free Blue-Eyes, but its dead. If I get a dark I get to keep everything.. choices, choices. I’m in a bad spot in the duel so I set White Stone and end.
~
DAD hits.
DAD removes Colossal to kill my egg.
I get Blue-Eyes.
Plague comes back.
DAD and Plague hit direct. No Synchro???
~
I draw another White Stone
I have no choice at 800 LP so I play Allure and draw D-Draw and Diamond Dude. Damn.
I remove Diamond Dude.
I try to bluff? In a shit measure I set D-Draw and end my turn. Removing Wyvern for another one in DEF mode.
~
He falls for it!!! DAD pops my D-Draw by removing Necro and thus has to kill Wyvern in battle.
Plague hits for 400 but I live another turn!
~
I draw Darkness Metal
I summon White Stone, removing it for Red-Eyes
Red-Eyes brings down Blue-Eyes
Blue-Eyes kills DAD and Red-Eyes kills Plaguespreader.
WOOT.
I’m pretty much clawing for damage here. Fuck card advantage, I have 400 Lifepoints.
We both have 3 cards. 2 of mine are on the field with over 2800ATK, his are all in his hand but he has used his DAD, his Plague is removed and he has used his burial (assuming hes not running 2). All of a sudden, I’m actually in a good position to win?
~
He sets a monster
~
I draw my DAD pity I don’t have any darks.
Darkness Metal brings down Prime.
Prime kills D-Hero Doom Lord
Darkness Metal hits directly.
Blue-Eyes attacks and I win?!?!
HAHAHA. I so should have lost that duel. Yay for bluffing.
Game 2 400-0
Notes: I pulled that win out my ass. Man that was so funny. He was pretty stunned. Topdeck powaaaaa.

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Woot.

That's a match.
2-0 vs Lightsworn
2-0 vs Tele-DAD-Zombies
2-0 vs Skill Drain DHZ
2-0 vs DHZ

Notes: This locals is easy. I may have almost lost that last duel but seriously to only nearly lose 1 duel is pretty ridiculous, most of these wins have left me with 7000+ lifepoints.

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Round 5
SOL Dragon vs Dark Hopeless
Game 1
8000~8000
Oh man its on. This guy and I are the only people in this entire tourney running Hopeless Dragon. He’s running the dark variant. This is gonna be fun. :D

I’m still rather excited about my last win. He asks why I’m so bubbly and I show him my notes from last duel while we wait for the round to start. He laughs, I laugh, and everything is awesome. Only problem is now he knows what I’m running. I already saw his deck in action during an earlier round when I had finished up my match so my advantage over him is gone; its Hopeless vs Hopeless, who will win?

He wins the roll but lets me go first, nice guy, that or he just wants the first battle phase. I played during Cyber-Stein, I know what OTK decks like.
I draw Chaos Sorcerer, Call, Plaguespreader, Future Fusion, Brain Control and Stratos. That Brain Control will come in real handy against his Darkness Metals.
I play Future Fusion – I dump 1 Wyvern, 1 Darkness, 1 Prime Material and 2 Stones. I’d dump 3 but I need that Prime to protect me from his field clearing tactics.
I get 2 Blue-Eyes to the hand. Chaos Sorcerer is now a live card.
I summon Stratos and grab myself a Mali.
I end my turn and use it to discard that Mali. (Setting up for Dark End Dragon FTW)
~
He summons a Wyvern and removes it for Darkness Metal.
It kills Stratos.
~
Oh man. Oh man. He didn’t set ANYTHING.
I draw Heavy Storm
I remove Mali for another Mali
I summon Plaguespreader
I Brain Control his Darkness Metal.
Darkness Metal revives my Prime Material Dragon.
I tune Plague to Malicious for Red Dragon Archfiend. I’d summon Dark End but I’d rather save that surprise for later. After all, who suspects a Dark End Dragon?
I remove White Stone and Mali for Chaos Sorcerer
No Gorz = OTK.
Game 1 6200-0

Notes: I drew way better than him. Consistency. SOL Dragon has it. Dark Hopeless doesn’t. Watch him Norleras my arse next duel.

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SOL Dragon vs Dark Hopeless
Game 2
8000~8000
He goes first this time.
He Foolish Burials a Phantom of Chaos
He plays Future Fusion dumping 2 Wyvern, 2 Dark Horus and 1 Darkness Metal.
He End phases himself a Darkness Metal.
~
I draw 1 Wyvern, 1 DAD, 1 Allure, 1 Burial, 1 Trade-In, 1 White Stone.
I play Allure, drawing another Trade-In and another Wyvern. Lame.
I remove DAD for its cost.
I set a Stone and end my turn.
~
He Trades-In a Dark Creator
Darkness Metal revives him a Dark Horus
Darkness Metal hatches my egg and I get a Blue-Eyes.
Horus hits me direct.
He sets 1 S/T and ends.
~
I draw Call.
I Trade-In my Blue-Eyes for Chaos Sorcerer and Torrential Tribute
Then I see why he Foolished that Phantom of Chaos as Dark Horus revives it. >.<
Stupid shortsighted me.
I use Burial to throw DAD into my grave and remove it again alongside White Stone for Chaos Sorcerer in DEF mode. It removes Darkness Metal. We don’t want that on the field.
I realize Five-Headed is coming next turn and thus set Torrential Tribute and Call of the Haunted.
I also set a Wyvern and end my turn.
~
Five-Headed hits the field and I torrential
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I draw Destiny Draw.
I flip Call on my Blue-Eyes and trigger his Torrential.
I summon Wyvern and peck him for 1800.
~
He plays Swords of Revealing Light
He sets 1 card and ends
~
I draw Blue-Eyes
I Trade-In that Blue-Eyes for another Blue-Eyes and White Stone.
I curse my shit shuffling.
I summon White Stone alongside Wyvern and tune them for Magical Android.
I’m out of Blue-Eyes. He gets to look at my deck. :(
I end my turn and get lifepoints.
~
He passes.
~
I draw another Destiny Draw and pass, getting more lifepoints
~
He Brain Controls my Android
He Giant Trundes
He sacrifices Android for Prime Material Dragon
He removes Prime for Darkness Metal and revives a Dark Horus.
I take 2 dragons to the face. Oh man. I’m probably going to lose this one.
~
I draw Future Fusion.
I play it. Dumping 1 White Stone, 1 Prime and 3 Darkness Metals – the last of my dragons.
He gets Phantom of Chaos back via Dark Horus
I end my turn and revive myself 2 Darkness Metals. Looks bad.
Oh ya, I have 400 Life points again.
~
He spams dragons for a while before attacking for game.
Game 2 0-5400

Notes: First loss, and to Hopeless Dragon? Not bad. At least Hopeless is the one that beat me.

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SOL Dragon vs Dark Hopeless
Game 3
8000~8000
I get to go first.
I draw 1 Plasma, 1 White Stone, 1 Darkness Metal, 1 Burial, 1 Reasoning.
I play Future Fusion and dump 1 Wyvern, 1 Prime, 1 Darkness Metal and 2 White Stones.
I get 2 Blue-Eyes.
I play Reasoning and he calls level 8. I get my Plaguespreader in DEF mode.
I end phase myself a Darkness Metal Dragon.
~
He MST’s my Future Fusion.
He Sarcos his own Future Fusion.
He Foolish Burials a Phantom of Chaos.
He summons Grepher and discards Phantom of Chaos to send Plaguespreader.
He puts his last in hand card ontop of his deck to revive Plague and Synchros a Goyo Guardian.
Goyo kills my Plague and tunes with it to summon a Colossal Fighter.
~
I draw Trade-In
I Trade-In my Blue-Eyes for Torrential and Diamond Dude
I check his Colossal. It has 3000 ATK.
Red-Eyes revives White Stone of Legend.
My Plague summons itself by placing Blue-Eyes ontop of my deck.
I tribute those 3 for Plasma and suck up Colossal
White Stone gives me Blue-Eyes, right off the top of my deck. Yay, free shuffle.
Plasma hits for 3300. He has no hand. This looks good for me.
~
He sets a monster, one turn till he gets Future Fusion
~
I draw another Blue-Eyes
I summon White Stone and remove it for Red-Eyes Darkness Metal
Darkness Metal revives Prime Material Dragon
I Burial back 1 White Stone, 1 Plague and 1 Wyvern.
Plague summons itself by placing Diamond Dude ontop of my deck.
I tune Plague to Prime for Red Dragon Archfiend
Red Dragon Archfiend nukes his set Wyvern
Darkness Metal and Plasma hit for game.
Game 3 8000-0

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Woot.

That's a match.
2-0 vs Lightsworn
2-0 vs Tele-DAD-Zombies
2-0 vs Skill Drain DHZ
2-0 vs DHZ
2-1 vs Dark Hopeless

Notes: First loss is to Hopeless. I’m glad I won that match though; I haven’t lost a mirror match with dragons yet and I don’t intend to start now.
I am now in the Semi Finals of this local

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Round 6 – Semi Finals
SOL Dragon vs Gladiator Beasts
Game 1
8000~8000
Kyuusei would love to play this match. :P
He won the roll.
He Respited a Bestari and War Chariot back into his deck.
Summoned Prisma and set 2
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I drew Darkness Metal, Brain Control, Wyvern, White Stone, D-Draw, Blue-Eyes
I Brain Control his Prisma and use it to dump a Blue-Eyes
I summon a White Stone and tune it to Prisma for Catastor.
White Stone gives me a Blue-Eyes.
Catastor hit direct.
~
He Respites a Respite and a Laquari
He Proving Grounds a Hoplomus
Sets a monster and another 2 S/t
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I summon Wyvern
I remove Wyvern for Darkness Metal
Darkness Metal revives a Blue-Eyes
Catastor attacks but he flips Book of Moon
Darkness Metal attacks and kills Laquari
Blue-Eyes hits direct
He now has 2800 Lifepoints
~
He sets another S/T
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I draw Trade-In
I Trade-In a Blue-Eyes for Rota and a White Stone
I play Rota for Stratos
I summon Stratos and search Malicious
I D-Draw Mali for Chaos Sorcerer and another Mali (ha)
I flip summon Catastor
Red-Eyes revives another Blue-Eyes
Blue-Eyes attacks but he flips Waboku
We hold off our assault
~
He sets a monster
~
Catastor wipes Bestiari off the field
Blue-Eyes hits for game
Game 1 8000-0
Notes: I wonder what the 4 s/ts were.

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SOL Dragon vs Gladiator Beasts
Game 2
8000~8000
He lets me go first.
I draw 2 D-Draw, 1 Diamond Dude, 1 Wyvern, 1 Trade-In and an Allure
I D-Draw Diamond Dude for a Rota and another Allure
I Rota a Stratos
I summon Stratos to grab Malicious
I D-Draw Malicious for a White Stone and a Mirror Force
I Set Mirror Force and end
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He sets a monster
He sets 2 S/T
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I draw Scapegoat and wish I had searched Plasma
I remove Malicious for Malicious
He chains Torrential, killing his Test Tiger
I set White Stone of Legend; denied my Synchro
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He summons Rescue Cat.
Tributes Rescue Cat for Samnite and Test Tiger
Test Tiger tags Samnite out for Bestiari who nukes my Mirror Force
Bestiari kills my White Stone and I get a Blue-Eyes
Bestiari tags out for a Laquari
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I draw another White Stone of Legend
I Trade-In my Blue-Eyes for a Destiny Draw and a Chaos Sorcerer
I remove White Stone of Legend and Malicious for Chaos Sorcerer and remove Laquari on priority – no war chariot?
I summon White Stone of Legend and tune it to Chaos Sorcerer for Arcanite Magician
White Stone gives me a Blue-Eyes
My Arcanite removes its counter to destroy his set Dust Tornado – apparent anticipation for Royal Oppression or Mirror of Oaths – too bad I forgot my side deck. :P
I set Scapegoat
Arcanite attacks directly
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He sets a monster
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I draw Plasma
Arcanite removes its counter to kill his face-down Murmillo
I Destiny Draw Plasma for DAD and Burial
I summon Dark Armed Dragon
Dark Armed Dragon hits directly, Arcanite turns to DEF mode
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He sets a monster
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I draw Wyvern
DAD removes Plasma to pop his face-down Bestiari
I summon Wyvern
Wyvern and DAD hit for game
Game 2 8000-0
Notes: I think we can all see that Gladiator Beasts are no match for a Dragon.

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Woot.

That's a match.
2-0 vs Lightsworn
2-0 vs Tele-DAD-Zombies
2-0 vs Skill Drain DHZ
2-0 vs DHZ
2-1 vs Dark Hopeless
2-0 Gladiator Beasts

Notes: Final Round. Me vs some Twilight deck!!

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Round 7 – Finals
SOL Dragon vs French Twilight
Game 1
8000~8000
I win the roll. Lets go!! OTK!!!
I draw Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, Allure, 2 Trade-In, 1 Future Fusion and a Diamond Dude. O_________________O
I Future Fuse 3 White Stone, 1 Darkness Metal and 1 Wyvern
I get 3 Blue-Eyes
I Trade-In 1 Blue-Eyes for Prime Material Dragon and Destiny Draw
I Trade-In 1 Blue-Eyes for Burial and Malicious
I D-Draw Malicious for Plasma and Darkness Metal
I play Allure, drawing DAD and Rota and removing a Darkness Metal for the cost
I plat Rota and grab Stratos
I summon Stratos and grab a Diamond Dude
I end my turn discarding 1 Blue-Eyes and 1 Diamond Dude
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He Charges a Garoth
Summons a Garoth and kills my Stratos
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I draw MST
I drop DAD and remove Diamond Dude to kill Garoth
I summon Diamond Dude and flip over Destiny Draw!
Diamond Dude attacks and triggers Tragoedia with 2400ATK
DAD kills it.
~
He removes Garoth and Tragoedia for Chaos Sorcerer and removes DAD
~
I draw Call of the Haunted
Five-Headed Dragon hits the field
I activate Destiny Draw through Diamond Dude and draw Allure and Scapegoat
I remove Mali for another Mali
I play Allure, drawing Sorcerer and Torrential and removing Plasma for the cost
I tribute Diamond Dude and Mali for Darkness Metal
Darkness Metal revives Blue-Eyes White Dragon
Darkness kills Sorcerer and triggers another Tragoedia. This one with 1800 DEF
Blue-Eyes kills Tragoedia
Five-Headed attacks directly
I set Torrential in case of a freak Judgement Dragon
~
He scoops
Game 1 7950-0
Notes: Tragoedia is annoying.

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SOL Dragon vs French Twilight
Game 2
8000~8000
He summons Garoth and ends
~
I draw 1 Malicious, Allure, Torrential, Prime Material, Future Fusion and Trade-In
I Future Fuse 2 White Stone, 2 Wyvern and 1 Darkness Metal
I add 2 Blue-Eyes to my hand
I Trade-In 1 Blue-Eyes for Stratos and D-Draw
I D-Draw my Mali for Diamond Dude and Sorcerer
I summon Stratos and grab Plasma
I remove Mali to summon a Mali
I play Allure and draw DAD and another Sorcerer. I remove Diamond Dude for its cost.
I remove White Stone and Red-Eyes Darkness for Chaos Sorcerer
Chaos Sorcerer removes Garoth
Stratos hits for 1800
I set Torrential
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He summons Jain and I flip Torrential
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I draw Allure
I play Allure, drawing Mirror Force and Blue-Eyes, I remove DAD for its cost.
I set Mirror Force
I summon Chaos Sorcerer by removing Malicious and a White Stone
Chaos Sorcerer hits for 2300
~
Solar Recharge and Charge hit the field and cards are milled but nothing of consequence comes of it.
He sets a monster and an S/T
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I draw Heavy Storm
Five-Headed Dragon is summoned
I tribute Sorcerer for Prime Material Dragon
Prime runs over Necro Gardna
Five-Headed attacks but gets Necro-ed
~
He scoops again
Game 2 8000-0

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Woot.

That's a match.
That's a finals.
That's a tourney.
Final Score for SOL Dragon:
2-0 vs Lightsworn
2-0 vs Tele-DAD-Zombies
2-0 vs Skill Drain DHZ
2-0 vs DHZ
2-1 vs Dark Hopeless
2-0 vs Gladiator Beasts
2-0 vs French Twilight

So I won me a locals and got some boosters which had nothing of use in them, but that's okay cuz it was fun and I only lost once. :P

Overall it was a pretty fun tournament. It was nice to see another local other than the one I'm used to hosting and it was also nice being a competitor instead of the TO. While I understand that winning a local is no great feat I would like to point out that in many of my duels my opponents decks despite having numerous cards available to them (particularly that Twilight deck) couldn't do anything. That reeks of inconsistency in their deck building. Having played Hopeless Dragon, one of the most inconsistent decks in the metagame I think thats a pretty good example of how important it is to test your deck thoroughly for inconsistency like that.

Anyway, That was my tournament report using "SOL Dragon". Hope you liked it. ;)