Ok quite some time after i can sit down and do another blog post. Went to amk on 10/6/2012 and played in qualifiers despite already qualified so as to test my deck again for 1 last time.
Deck used: Machiners Gadget (u dun see me play hanzo hieratic do u?)
Match 1 vs Joel (Chaos dragons)
OO
Game 1: Giganto x farm too much, had backrow to clear threats
Game 2: Flush prevented him from otk, stalled till a sided photon thrasher appeared before compulsing his facedown monster and heavy storm his 1 backrow to use thrasher to kill him as he had less than 1k lp left.
Match 2 vs Bryan Chua aka Ballsnow (Inzektor)
OXO
Game 1: Opened relatively bad but he open worse and when i mst 1 of his 2 backrow which turns out to be mind control, went for the limiter rush kill and it worked.
Game 2: He lure out my veiler with double damsel, he set one the last turn and i din wack as i tot was snowman zz. He proceeded with mantis stuns while i proceeded to keeping my cards
Game 3: Had a veiler and he had a facedown all along which he did not open, correctly read it as a call and was not tempted to use a veiler i potted on his centipede that has mantis equipped, he call for damsel and i use on it instead, he made revise to attempt to clear my fortress but i compulse it and that was game.
Somehow the disappearance of Kenneth Tan is setting in now
Match 3 vs Jeff erm no tio repair......Putra er no also tio repair........Calvin (inzektor) i got paired down
XX
Game 1: Reduced him to less than 1k lp and then went downslope as he drew his pieces and my gadget got solumned.
Game 2: Forgot how it went, died relatively quickly, guess my mood suddenly went downhill alongside my cards
Match 4 vs Hong Rui (Hanzo Hieroglyph) Sry if i was very unfriendly and ill tempered, this uncle just sat beside the table and started singing, i got really pissed off trying to hold my composure.
XX
Game 1: Typical Hieroglyph otk with hanzo opening again
Game 2: Typical Hieroglyph otk with hanzo opening again
Match 5 vs Jonas Bai (Inzektor)
OXO
Game 1: He drew badly
Game 2: He mst and do stunts
Game 3: Some insane top deck compulse to save myself and win the game
Score: 3-2 (17th position out of 35 wtf)
So in the end Lauren won it with Hanzo Hierathic
Qualfiers seeded 6 players deck used
2 Machina Gadgets
2 Hanzo Hierathic
1 Rabbit Ragia
1 Inzektor
So from the pre-analysis will we see on the main event day the top 10 decks to be
3.33 Machina Gadgets
3.33 Hanzo Hierathic
1.17 Rabbit Ragia
1.17 Inzektors
However what i foresee is this
1 Machina Gadget
3 Hanzo Hierathic
3 Inzektor
2 Random decks including Chaos Dragons
1 Rabbit Ragia
Reason being Hanzo Hierathic can open the best among these few decks, ignore the machina gadgets opening of dark hole heavy storm limiter gearframe fortress fortress bullshit
Surprisingly the forbidden lance main decked is working against flush break windblast bottomless very well, something u see inzektors playing mostly.
Most of the time, its either opponent does not draw into veiler to stop ur stuns or they get their streak bouncer mind controlled by a non- hanzo hieroglyph player to exceed for gaia dragoon.
Sidingwise, maxx-c, mask of restrict and light imprisoning mirror are the 3 cards most ppl would consider playing alongside scarecrow and tragoedia.
While maxx-c can be stop by just making a streak bouncer and let opp plus 1, mask of restrict can be bypassed via removing dragon on field for redmd, light imprisoning mirror works like a faulty machine against redmd effect.
Not to forget the Black Luster soldier that is a hassle too.
Surprisingly, inzektors have underperformed despite being touted the 'best meta of the format' i guess its becuz hieroglyph is surprisingly fast. But i tipped inzektors killing each other and in the end some ppl piloting inzektor will top based on 40% skill and 60% luck.
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Recent meta trends in singapore
The recent worlds pre qualifiers has seen 2 machina gadgets win them and seeded to top 16, while machina gadgets seem to make a comeback, a couple of considerations to make for the upcoming asia events
Main decking cyber dragon - seems a good stunner in the first game and can eat up zenmaines which inzektors tend to make after nuking fields.
Not playing chain disappearance- Inzektor though widespread, chain disappearance can be not main decked nor sided since centipede against chain disappearance makez u look like some trolollol.
Huge revolution reversal vs Starlight road. IMO heavy backrow decks should play reversal while decks that are less heavy should play starlight road with the reason being starlight road < warning.
Hanzo hieratics threat- recently tool down malaysia worlds qualifiers and expect more from this deck that control from hanzo and can perform gaia bouncer control and even otk.
Main decking veilers - stop otks, inzektors bombing , gadget gearfrmae. searches and rabbit from using effect, mayb too obvious but the quantity to play is another issue, i prefer 3 veiler in gadgets and 2 in rabbits.
Siding against inzektors. Really eternal rest are the 1 for 1 against inzektors while compulse gets rid of exceeds like ninja which are irritating. While compulse can get rid of exceeds, it merely stalls against normal inzektors. DD crow can work wonders but if opp has another grulf or hornet in hand, there goes the 'crow' effect.
Hand traps vs field traps, mst is likely to be at 3 and with ryko plus storm, hand traps seems viable but without monsters to clear the mob, inzektors bomb next turn again
Main decking cyber dragon - seems a good stunner in the first game and can eat up zenmaines which inzektors tend to make after nuking fields.
Not playing chain disappearance- Inzektor though widespread, chain disappearance can be not main decked nor sided since centipede against chain disappearance makez u look like some trolollol.
Huge revolution reversal vs Starlight road. IMO heavy backrow decks should play reversal while decks that are less heavy should play starlight road with the reason being starlight road < warning.
Hanzo hieratics threat- recently tool down malaysia worlds qualifiers and expect more from this deck that control from hanzo and can perform gaia bouncer control and even otk.
Main decking veilers - stop otks, inzektors bombing , gadget gearfrmae. searches and rabbit from using effect, mayb too obvious but the quantity to play is another issue, i prefer 3 veiler in gadgets and 2 in rabbits.
Siding against inzektors. Really eternal rest are the 1 for 1 against inzektors while compulse gets rid of exceeds like ninja which are irritating. While compulse can get rid of exceeds, it merely stalls against normal inzektors. DD crow can work wonders but if opp has another grulf or hornet in hand, there goes the 'crow' effect.
Hand traps vs field traps, mst is likely to be at 3 and with ryko plus storm, hand traps seems viable but without monsters to clear the mob, inzektors bomb next turn again
Friday, May 25, 2012
Drillroid
Just for those that watch the vids in previous post and realised that drillroid actually drill past snowman in game 2. Thats not the real ruling as i read from other post and i would really apologise to win by 'wrong rulings' nevertheless, drillroid is still a good card imo as it can destroy facedown snowman as a 1 for 1, or destroy damsel in fd defence.
So sorry for wrong rulings demonstration even if that day it was ruled otherwise. Thanks to Derelome gang and the blog one dream live it for pointing it out if not i wun check its rulings too.
I guess now the thing to do will be focusing on worlds, this post is just to clarify and public apology since i feel that winning by wrong rulings is very wrong. Reminds me of the msia playoff ....
zzxiaoboizz signing off
So sorry for wrong rulings demonstration even if that day it was ruled otherwise. Thanks to Derelome gang and the blog one dream live it for pointing it out if not i wun check its rulings too.
I guess now the thing to do will be focusing on worlds, this post is just to clarify and public apology since i feel that winning by wrong rulings is very wrong. Reminds me of the msia playoff ....
zzxiaoboizz signing off
Monday, May 21, 2012
Worlds pre qualifier 1 finals video
On the left is Wan Xin aka xiaomei and on the right is me.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8atT8bs49nc&feature=youtu.be
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_IQR14SahE&feature=youtu.be
Credits to Colin for video taking and Ygo Accel for posting the vid links on their fb page and uploading it thanks.
zzxiaoboizz signing off
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8atT8bs49nc&feature=youtu.be
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_IQR14SahE&feature=youtu.be
Credits to Colin for video taking and Ygo Accel for posting the vid links on their fb page and uploading it thanks.
zzxiaoboizz signing off
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Worlds pre qualifier 1 20/5/2012 at marymount
Deck used: Machina Gadgets
Format 4 round swiss cut to top 8, winner gets seeded to top 16 of worlds singapore qualifier next month
Match 1 vs Ryan Stark (Rabbit Ragia)
OO
Game 1: Torrential his 3 monsters he solemn i solemn back = earn
Game 2: Game went back and forth and i use meklord grannel and fortress to overpower sabersaurus with a set forbidden lance
Match 2 vs Samuel (Lightlord)
OXO
Game 1: I went first set warning and ended, he used solar recharge on his turn and ended with no wulf nor guardna milled. I summoned meklord grannel and sp fortress and went for the kill with limiter in the process using warning on his tragoedia.
Game 2: He was leading with his mills and he beat me down with judgement dragon
Game 3: He drew pretty badly and gadgets earned advantage quickly so he was quicky out-resourced
Match 3 vs Wan Xin aka Xiao mei (Machina Gadgets)
OO
Game 1: Saw 5 backrow but none was activated as gearframe beatdown
Game 2: Cleared her 3 fortress with 2 flush and proceeded to beatdown
Match 4 vs Kenneth (Hanzo Hieroglyph)
Since we both top 8 for sure, he gave me the win
Top 8 vs Bixuan (Inzektors)
OO
Game 1: He drew pretty badly so i went for beatdown
Game 2: Game went down hill for him when he attempted to bottomless then veiler my gearframe and i book it, repeated hits from gearframe and he lost.
Top 4 vs Kennth (Hanzo Hieroglyph)
OXO
Game 1: Managed to have outs to his outs and rush him when he had a facedown card
Game 2: He went first with 1 set facedown and used card car d effect. I summoned gearframe and sp fortress and went with limiter only to end up with a book of moon on my fortress and went down hill from there.
Game 3: Lightning vortex worked and game stretched till time was called but i was around 3600 life and he had only 600 life, he din top deck anything good to turn the table.
Finals vs Wan Xin aka Xiao mei (Machina Gadgets)
OO
Game 1: Limiter ends her mid way thru the game
Game 2: She had a big hand and hardly set backrows, game came to a point of time where i had giganto x and fortress on the field with offerings to the doom and limiter set and she was left with 4600, she mst my limiter which i choose not to chain, she jumped fortress and i destroyed it using offerings to the doom, she set a facedown defence monster with no backrow which i proceeded to use giganto x effect to search drillroid the next turn and won. It was later said that she had a bad hand of gadgets.
So seeded to top 16 of worlds qualifier Singapore, a milestone achieved yay. Now the next step is to decide what to use on that day, should i go for aggressive build decks or control based and stick back to the machina gadgets that brought me into top 16....hmm tough choice that i hav roughly a month more to think haha.
zzxiaoboizz signing off
Format 4 round swiss cut to top 8, winner gets seeded to top 16 of worlds singapore qualifier next month
Match 1 vs Ryan Stark (Rabbit Ragia)
OO
Game 1: Torrential his 3 monsters he solemn i solemn back = earn
Game 2: Game went back and forth and i use meklord grannel and fortress to overpower sabersaurus with a set forbidden lance
Match 2 vs Samuel (Lightlord)
OXO
Game 1: I went first set warning and ended, he used solar recharge on his turn and ended with no wulf nor guardna milled. I summoned meklord grannel and sp fortress and went for the kill with limiter in the process using warning on his tragoedia.
Game 2: He was leading with his mills and he beat me down with judgement dragon
Game 3: He drew pretty badly and gadgets earned advantage quickly so he was quicky out-resourced
Match 3 vs Wan Xin aka Xiao mei (Machina Gadgets)
OO
Game 1: Saw 5 backrow but none was activated as gearframe beatdown
Game 2: Cleared her 3 fortress with 2 flush and proceeded to beatdown
Match 4 vs Kenneth (Hanzo Hieroglyph)
Since we both top 8 for sure, he gave me the win
Top 8 vs Bixuan (Inzektors)
OO
Game 1: He drew pretty badly so i went for beatdown
Game 2: Game went down hill for him when he attempted to bottomless then veiler my gearframe and i book it, repeated hits from gearframe and he lost.
Top 4 vs Kennth (Hanzo Hieroglyph)
OXO
Game 1: Managed to have outs to his outs and rush him when he had a facedown card
Game 2: He went first with 1 set facedown and used card car d effect. I summoned gearframe and sp fortress and went with limiter only to end up with a book of moon on my fortress and went down hill from there.
Game 3: Lightning vortex worked and game stretched till time was called but i was around 3600 life and he had only 600 life, he din top deck anything good to turn the table.
Finals vs Wan Xin aka Xiao mei (Machina Gadgets)
OO
Game 1: Limiter ends her mid way thru the game
Game 2: She had a big hand and hardly set backrows, game came to a point of time where i had giganto x and fortress on the field with offerings to the doom and limiter set and she was left with 4600, she mst my limiter which i choose not to chain, she jumped fortress and i destroyed it using offerings to the doom, she set a facedown defence monster with no backrow which i proceeded to use giganto x effect to search drillroid the next turn and won. It was later said that she had a bad hand of gadgets.
So seeded to top 16 of worlds qualifier Singapore, a milestone achieved yay. Now the next step is to decide what to use on that day, should i go for aggressive build decks or control based and stick back to the machina gadgets that brought me into top 16....hmm tough choice that i hav roughly a month more to think haha.
zzxiaoboizz signing off
Sunday, May 13, 2012
13 May 2012 ah kit shop tourney @ marymount
Participants 22
4 round swiss
Deck used: Machina Gadgets
Match 1 vs keithchen(infernity)
OO
Game 1: Slowly bait out backrow while he seats behind a first turn gantetsu,make big eye and took gantetsu and took control from there
Game 2: He zero max and i threw maxx-c, he decides to giv me +1 by using beetle effect only but i drew enough with 2 cards to add to my zero hand to make a comeback.
Match 2 vs Wesley Seek (Inzektors)
XOO
Game 1: Compulse din help much and gadgets gt ram over or shot by hornet after he controlled with a first turn ninja from gruf.
Game 2: Make a counting mistake of making emerald when i gt 2 monsters in grave only, later on he had less than 2k and a facedown centipede while i had a gadget on field, i tried to reveal my other gadget and say make kachi kochi to kill but plan fail cause i no play and i just took warning and managed to win as his mst came 1 turn late.
Game 3: Time was called and i had better advantage with flush and warning set and 2 veiler in hand. He tried some mindfuck skills but i had flush to counter his mst on his own mantis equipped to damsel on my last turn to avoid the veilers.
Match 3 vs Jun Cai (Raioh Inzektors)
OXO
Game 1: Raioh gt darkholed and game was a little scary as he din show any inzektors all game(turns out tat he drew none and i just beatdown while negating his gorz with a warning.)
Game 2: Searchers all in hand, fortress gt bottomlessed then all hopes gone, lost in like 3-5 mins.
Game 3: He make bls mid game to clear my gadget and black corn i rush back with fortress and gearframe then he could not follow up after that.
Match 4 vs Xiaomei (Machina Gadgets)
OXX
Game 1: Had higher advantage and won
Game 2: Out advantaged
Game 3: Fail rush leads to her taking total control the following turn.
Top 8 vs Sam (Tour guide Inzektors)
XX
Game 1: Loss to some beatdown by tourguide sangan and gruf
Game 2: Keep drawing gadgets off my emerald and had no veiler to answer to his outs, deck often shuffled to not get a foil which my veilers mostly are LOL
Bottom 4 vs Xiaomei (Machina Gadgets)
OXO
Game 1: Advantaged and win
Game 2: Forgot how i got gged
Game 3: Had a better hand and game went till late on and i use gold fish to beatdown and win lol.
Result 5th/6th took dragons collide ocg deck.
Nt bad finally topping again, side deck most cards untouched and needs to be touched, forgot how to side as a machina player after nt playing it for almost a year in tourneys, still vividly remembers that i was using machina last year same time period lol.
Grats to mr wesley for winning.
Zzxiaoboizz signing off
4 round swiss
Deck used: Machina Gadgets
Match 1 vs keithchen(infernity)
OO
Game 1: Slowly bait out backrow while he seats behind a first turn gantetsu,make big eye and took gantetsu and took control from there
Game 2: He zero max and i threw maxx-c, he decides to giv me +1 by using beetle effect only but i drew enough with 2 cards to add to my zero hand to make a comeback.
Match 2 vs Wesley Seek (Inzektors)
XOO
Game 1: Compulse din help much and gadgets gt ram over or shot by hornet after he controlled with a first turn ninja from gruf.
Game 2: Make a counting mistake of making emerald when i gt 2 monsters in grave only, later on he had less than 2k and a facedown centipede while i had a gadget on field, i tried to reveal my other gadget and say make kachi kochi to kill but plan fail cause i no play and i just took warning and managed to win as his mst came 1 turn late.
Game 3: Time was called and i had better advantage with flush and warning set and 2 veiler in hand. He tried some mindfuck skills but i had flush to counter his mst on his own mantis equipped to damsel on my last turn to avoid the veilers.
Match 3 vs Jun Cai (Raioh Inzektors)
OXO
Game 1: Raioh gt darkholed and game was a little scary as he din show any inzektors all game(turns out tat he drew none and i just beatdown while negating his gorz with a warning.)
Game 2: Searchers all in hand, fortress gt bottomlessed then all hopes gone, lost in like 3-5 mins.
Game 3: He make bls mid game to clear my gadget and black corn i rush back with fortress and gearframe then he could not follow up after that.
Match 4 vs Xiaomei (Machina Gadgets)
OXX
Game 1: Had higher advantage and won
Game 2: Out advantaged
Game 3: Fail rush leads to her taking total control the following turn.
Top 8 vs Sam (Tour guide Inzektors)
XX
Game 1: Loss to some beatdown by tourguide sangan and gruf
Game 2: Keep drawing gadgets off my emerald and had no veiler to answer to his outs, deck often shuffled to not get a foil which my veilers mostly are LOL
Bottom 4 vs Xiaomei (Machina Gadgets)
OXO
Game 1: Advantaged and win
Game 2: Forgot how i got gged
Game 3: Had a better hand and game went till late on and i use gold fish to beatdown and win lol.
Result 5th/6th took dragons collide ocg deck.
Nt bad finally topping again, side deck most cards untouched and needs to be touched, forgot how to side as a machina player after nt playing it for almost a year in tourneys, still vividly remembers that i was using machina last year same time period lol.
Grats to mr wesley for winning.
Zzxiaoboizz signing off
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