Tournament Report: Ritual Agents

Sup Readers,

It's been awhile since I've done a tournament report. Today I played a variant of the Agent Fairy deck with Herald of Perfection. Recently, a ritual agent deck made it to the top 8 of YCS Providence. My build is based on that deck with some alterations, mainly to the spell and trap line-up. The deck went 3-1 today. I'm pretty happy with the performance this deck gave.

Here's the decklist:

 

3 Herald of Perfection
2 Archlord Kristya
3 Agent Earth
3 Agent Jupiter
1 Agent Saturn
3 Master Hyperion
3 Manju
2 Senju
1 Honest
3 Herald of Orange Light
2 Soul of Purity and Light
1 Sonic Bird

3 Dawn of the Herald
3 Prep Rites
3 Upstart Goblin
1 Monster Reborn
1 Giant Trunade

2 Royal Decree

Extra Deck:
1 Catastor
1 Android
1 Brionac
1 Gaia Knight
1 Black Rose
1 Scrap Archfiend
1 Stardust
1 Thought Ruler
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Red Dragon Archfiend
1 Red Nova Dragon
2 Chimeratech Fortress Dragon
1 Number 39: Utopia

Side Deck:
2 Kinetic Soldier
1 Dark Hole
1 Smashing Ground
2 MST
2 Twister
1 Royal Decree
2 Gozen Match
2 Mask of Restrict
2 Com Evac

The new XYZ starter deck arrived in our hobby store this week and so, our tournament organiser allowed us to play the new cards. I borrowed Utopia from a friend and it rocks alongside Herald of Perfection.

I added Agent Saturn to the deck as an additional level 6 fairy (one tribute for Herald) Agent (to search and remove with Earth, Jupiter and Hyperion). It worked pretty well, and it made siding out easier giving me an obvious target to swap out.

Tournament Report:


Round One: Six Samurai

Game 1, Sam player opens with gateway and I have nothing to stop his big samurai derp play... we go to game 2...

Game 2, I open with Kinetic Soldier, and beat him down with Kinetic and Hyperion.

Game 3, somehow I win... can't really remeber how, I think I got herald out though, he killed it because I ran out of discard fodder. but I still beat him down with Hyperion.

Round 1: Win

Round Two: Machina Gadgets

Game 1, I get Herald out and start to control the game... I come out on top

Game 2, he wins, I get overwhelmed by his Fortresses paired with solidarity

Game 3, he wins again... Fortress and Solidarity... yeah...

Round 2: Lose

Round Three: Noob Exceed

He's playing the XYZ starter deck, so not really worth mentioning ( I win game 1 and 2), but I do want to take a minute to mention a bit about really annoying yugioh players.

I'm always quite cold towards this guy, but to be honest no-one really likes the guy. It's a bit of a shame because along the line it'll probably put him off the game and then we've lost another player.

In my opinion, it's the responsibility of both sides: experienced players have to try to not be total dicks to the newer players, and the newer players should try to not be total weirdos around a new crowd. It's just like meeting new people, so why would you try to do anything to try and piss them off.

In any case, one thing that seriously gets on my nerves is listening to music on your PSP while I'm trying to play you. This guy was insistant on doing this until I told him to take his headphone out. Even then he left one headphone in...

Round 3: Win

Round 4: Infernity

Game 1, I open with herald and decree... smooth sailing after that

Game 2, He opens with thunder king, and I have a hand of searchers, orange herald and jupiter. Nothing I can do, and I get beaten down.

Game 3, open with herald and draw into decree on turn 2 or 3... he can't get past my decree and all my negation (after trying to play launcher and mirage)

Round 4: Win

Conclusion

Really glad about the performance of the deck, but I feel like I can do more to make it my own... This definitely isn't the last of Ritual Agents from me!

Agent Angel: I like fairies

Today, I pre-ordered 3 copies of the new structure deck, 'Lost Sanctuary' (I got a pretty good deal too, it comes with a free A6 'monster' binder... hurrah for ebay!).

To those of you who have been living in a bunker, religiously playing yugioh to avoid the rapture, without contact with the outside world, 'Lost Sanctuary' is a new fairy theme deck that expands on the 'Agent' archtype introduced in 'Ancient Sanctuary' years ago. The OCG has had the deck for a while, the new cards introduced resulted in fairy decks being top tier in OCG territories.

In anticipation of the new fairies, I've recently been testing the deck on Duel Net. My honest opinion of the deck is that it's not quite as explosive as some of the other decks in the TCG tiers. It either loses cards very fast as you try to stop your opponent with herald of the orange light, or really REALLY works.

There are various builds of the deck, but the one I was testing was a build based around 'Agent of Creation - Venus' and 'Agent of Mystery - Earth'.

Agent of Mystery - Earth is one of the new fairies, and probably one of the most significant release. It's a level 2 tuner, that allows an agent player to add a different agent to hand. Combined with Venus' Shine Ball spamming abilities enables fairies players easy access to trishula, mist wurm and black rose.

Agent Angel

2     Archlord Kristya
3     Master Hyperion
3     Agent - Earth
3    Agent - Venus
1    Agent - Jupiter
3    Shine Ball
3    Herald of the Orange Light
1    Honest
1    Marshmallon

3    Cards from the Sky
1    Monster Reborn
1    Dark Hole
1    Giant Trunade
2    MST
2    Forbidden Lance
1    Mind Control
1    Book of Moon

1    Solemn Judgement
2    Solemn Warning
1    Seven Tools
1    Mirror Force
3    Dimensional Prison


The decks really easy to understand. The general idea is make pluses, win.

Jupiter is a searchable beatstick that can boost himself over a pesky opposing synchro monster. Jupiter also also some handy grave control to help bust out that kristya.

Hyperion is a new boss monster, that has been compared to DAD, with a once per turn clause.

This concludes the short preview of a deck we'll be seeing alot of in the near future. The deck also brings new variants of fairy decks thanks to 'cards from the sky'. I will be investigating these in future articles.