Team Tournament @ GamesHaven (Paya Lebar) 25/3/12

Team Tournament @ GamesHaven 25/3/12
Deck : Machina Karakuri
18 Teams joined

Member A

Swiss 1 vs Hero Beat (Wei Ann)
OO
Team Result: OOX (Inzektor, Hero Beat, Karakuri)


Swiss 2 vs Ver or Verz Ragia (Jie Lun)
OXO
Team Result: XOX (Hieroglyph, Verz or Verz Ragia, WWBF)


Swiss 3 vs Inzektor (Yong Jie)
OXO
Team Result : OOO (Verz Ragia, Inzektor, Inzektor)


Swiss 4 vs Inzektor (Daniel)
XX-
Team Result: XXX (Inzektor all)



Top 8 vs Inzektor (Xiao Mei)
XX-
Team Result : ?XX (Laval, Inzektor, Inzektor)

Team Tournament @ GamesHaven (Paya Lebar) 25/3/12

Team Tournament @ GamesHaven 25/3/12
Deck : Six Samurai
18 Teams joined

Leader Position
Swiss 1 vs Inzektor (William)
OXO
1) OTK with Shi En and Blade Heart
2) Got OTKed by the swarming combo
3) Beat down with Kizan or Enishi. Got alot of backrow to stop his stunt.

Team Result: OOX (Inzektor, Hero Beat, Karakuri)

Swiss 2 vs Hieroglyph
XX-
1) He did the Atumus, Atumus and Gustaph Max OTK
2) Got no monster and He beat down with Gaia Dragoon

Team Result: XOX (Hieroglyph, Verz or Verz Ragia, WWBF)

Swiss 3 vs Verz Ragia (Yong Xiang)
XOO
1)He summon Verz Thunderbird with 4/5 set cards and beat down for few turns. I managed to turn into Catastor to attack him and got demon chain. Waited for a few turns and I summon veiler and turn Catastor into Brionac and attack and he activated demon chain again. Lose from there.
2) 1st turn Shi En and Grandmaster with no set card and control from there.
3) Managed to hit him with everything until he left with 600 life. He summon rabbit and turn into Ouroboros while my field is Grandmaster and Barkion. He attack my Grandmaster with Ouroboros and use its effect to drop my last hand card which is Spirit of the Six. I drew a Ceasefire, set and end. He use Ouroboros' effect to return my Barkion and I chained Ceasefire and win the game.

Team Result : OOO (Verz Ragia, Inzektor, Inzektor)

Swiss 4 vs Inzektor (Jonas)
XOX
1) Forget
2) He did a misplay and I win the game
3) Forget

Team Result: XXX (Inzektor all)

Managed to get into top 8 but prizes only for top 4.

Top 8 vs Laval (Plant)
XO-
Didn't really note anything down.
My 2 members lost their game and we didn't play the 3rd game after that.

Team Result : ?XX (Laval, Inzektor, Inzektor)

[31 Days to Asia Championship 2012] Counter(s) on monsters

It's 31 Days away from Asia Championship 2012.
Placing counter(s) on monsters. Let's talk about the worst you can get for not placing counter(s) on monsters.

Breaker the Magical Warrior
When this card is Normal Summoned, place 1 Spell Counter on it (max. 1).

I personally think that it is better to place the counter to it as you might forget to use it's effect or you might just die for not putting the counter. Losing it's 300 atk for not putting the counter might cost you the match.

Life point 900, Opponent attack you with Machina Fortress. You let it go through and die by taking 900 damage when you haven't use breaker effect.

Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En
Once per turn, when your opponent activates a Spell/Trap card, you can negate its activation and destroy it.

This monster is a Once Per Turn effect and got no placing counter effect but it would be better if you place the counter to remind you that you have not use Shi En's effect. Opponent might just cheat you when you ask "I use Shi En's effect already?". Just like a lot of the duelist ask "I normal summon already?" when they do a lot of combo with special summon and forget whether he/she normal summon a monster that turn.

Cards like "Shrink", "Forbidden Lance", "Forbidden Chalice" and etc..

You might also want to place counter on monster(s) affected by card with similar effect listed above to avoid a misplay in using the affected monster to attack a monster with higher attack or using a monster to attack the affected monster which got a higher attack and lose to match from there.




The counter I used is actually a normal counter, its not Mentos. lol.

Card Review: Appropriate

Appropriate
便乗
Activate only when your opponent draws a card(s), except during their Draw Phase. Draw 2 cards.

Personally, I find this card useful when facing decks that run cards that provide draw power. Currently, many people are running cards like Maxx "C" and Card Car D. There are also certain decks that have access to cards which increase their draw power, eg. Six Samurai having their Six Samurai United. This card punishes opponents who tries to abuse the drawing power of a single card.

This card can give you great advantage when your opponent drops Maxx "C", you will be able to continue all your plays without caring about your opponent getting the draws as you are getting draws yourself. Opponent uses Card Car D, he only gets a plus one while you get a plus 2, even better, your opponent still has to pass the turn while also wasting a normal summon.

However, this card may not be very useful in the late game as not many would be using cards like Card Car D or other draw power cards in the late game so drawing this in the late game would just be a dead draw instead of the main purpose of giving free pluses. Most of the time, Card Car D would only be used in the first turn when the user wants to get his combo pieces fast, this card is not even usable when your opponent is starting first and uses Card Car D as the card is not even set on the field. If you are the one starting first, your opponent may already have Maxx "C" and could have activated it during your turn, this would leave it useless as it's still in your hand.