I was very excited and looking forward to going to my locals after I opened my gifts on Christmas. I had new cards and a new deck to try but I didn’t get to stay very long. My fiance and I had another family dinner to go to so I was only able to stay for a little over an hour and a half. That wasn’t long enough to join in the tournament, but it was more than enough time to do some trading and have a few practice duels.
I was using my Blue-Eyes deck which featured 3 Blasters so it wont be legal come January 1st, but it was pretty effective on Saturday. I played 2 duels against one of the guys who is on about the same skill level as I am. He was using an Infernity deck and pretty much dominated the first game. Neither of us changed any cards for the second duel so I knew my only hope was to go in strong and attack fast with my big dragons. I didn’t draw well, but neither did he. I was able to pull off the win but for a while I wasn’t sure it would happen.
For January I think I’ve come up with a variation on my Blue-Eyes deck that will use one Blaster and one Tidal. Because of my hatred for Dragon Rulers and what they’ve done to my Dragunity deck, I really didn’t want to use them at all. However, I have all the dragon rulers and if I don’t use them they’ll just sit in my binder not being used. Besides, they have such good synergy with virtually all dragon decks that its hard to avoid using them. They really should just be banned all together. I’m still testing the new deck on DevPro but once I’m happy with it I’ll post the list up here.
Trading on Saturday was a win-loss really. On Christmas, in one of my tins, I pulled one of the more expensive Mermail cards and since I only need a few more cards to build a Mermail deck I thought I’d try to get a few in trades. I got a few good cards, but I had to take a hit on one of the cards I bought a while back for my Dragunity deck. Trident Dragion was at $30 back when I bought it and I traded it away at current value which is a lot lower. But it’s probably for the best, since my deck is no longer usable and I always got in trouble when I tried to go for an OTK with Trident Dragion. I lost some money but I got rid of an unusable card and moved one step closer to a complete Mermail deck.
Next Saturday will be the first local tournament using the new banlist, so I’m excited to see what everyone does. I know several people are trying new decks so that will be pretty cool, but its also a lot of work getting prepared for a new list. Regardless, I can’t wait.
Let me know what you think about the new banlist and what decks you think will dominate. I don’t know what will be topping competitively but I have a feeling that Fire Fists and Constellars will continue to dominate my locals. What are the dominant decks at your locals?