Hello everyone! Hope you all had a nice and relaxing weekend, but had some time for Yugioh of course! This weekend, I traveled to the Philadelphia regional where there was more than 750 players! That is the new Philly regional record and a pretty cool accomplishment in general for just a regional. Want to know something else that was cool? Fellow ARG member Billy Brake made a guest appearance at this event! I know alot of fans were shocked and surprised to see him. I have not seen Billy since YCS Providence (because I could not attend YCS Seattle) so it was really nice to meet up, talk, hangout with him since he is a good friend of mine. After that, I walked off to get a decklist and finalize my card choices before we had to submit them. I ended up choosing to run Chaos Dragons like I mentioned in the PodCast interview with Cordero and Slim. But however, something about my deck was different. Lets get right into it! I will first off show you the build I had sleeved up.
Monsters: 29
1x Dark Armed Dragon
3x Darkflare Dragon
1x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3x Lightpulsar Dragon
1x Eclipse Wyvren
1x Card Trooper
2x Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress
2x Ryko, Lightsworn hunter
3x Effect Veiler
3x Maxx C
1x Gorz
2x Tragoedia
2x Tour Guide from the Underworld
1x Sangan
1x Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beg.
1x Chaos Sorcerer
1x Night Assailant
Spells: 10
1x Charge of the Light Brigade
2x Solar Recharge
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Mind Control
Traps: 1
1x Treacherous Trap Hole
Extra deck: 15
1x Number 20: Giga Brilliant
1x Temtempo the Percussion Djinn
1x Leviair the Sea Dragon
1x Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
1x Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction
1x Wind-up Zenmaines
1x Queen Dragon Djinn
1x Maestroke the Symphony Djinn
1x Adreus, the Keeper of Armageddon
1x Inzektor Exa-Beetle
1x Photon Strike Bounzer
1x Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger
1x Number 11: Big Eye
1x Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustv Max
1x Armory Arm
Side Deck: 15
2x Thunder King Rai Oh
3x Gemini Imps
2x Royal Decree
2x Dust Tornado
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Soul Taker
2x Messenger of Peace
Basic as you see, but powerful as you all know. Chaos Dragons is one of my favorite decks because of the pure raw power the deck provides. 
Every aspect of the deck is essential to one another. For example, the Lightsworn mill engine is essential to the boss monsters as well as clearing backrows for your boss monsters to be dropped down to the field. The hand traps provide a sense of security since their is lack of trap cards in the deck and help you maintain hand/card advantage when necessary. Everything in the deck coincides with one another allowing the deck to become a key entity in the Dueling world as we all know it. The fact that playing a trapless (or 1 trap card) deck enables your opponent to virtually have 2-3 Mystical Space Typhoons and Heavy Storm all "dead" cards is also an advantage. I know this kind of thing has been talked about in other articles on ARG, I just wanted to shed a little light into the subject if you were considering Chaos Dragons as your deck for the next event, give it a try!
Back on track to the deck I ran, so you see my main deck, side deck and extra deck I sleeved up for this 10 round event. But remember in the beginning how I said that this was what was "sleeved up", lets get into what I wrote down on the decklist and see where you can spot the changes.
Monsters: 29
1x Dark Armed Dragon
3x Darkflare Dragon
1x Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
3x Lightpulsar Dragon
1x Eclipse Wyvren
1x Card Trooper
2x Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress
2x Ryko, Lightsworn hunter
3x Effect Veiler
3x Maxx C
1x Gorz
2x Tragoedia
1x Sangan
1x Black Luster Soldie - Envoy of the Beg.
1x Chaos Sorcerer
1x Night Assailant
Spells: 10
1x Charge of the Light Brigade
2x Solar Recharge
1x Heavy Storm
1x Monster Reborn
1x Dark Hole
3x Mystical Space Typhoon
1x Mind Control
Traps: 1
1x Treacherous Trap Hole
Extra deck: 15
1x Number 20: Giga Brilliant
1x Temtempo the Percussion Djinn
1x Leviair the Sea Dragon
1x Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
1x Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction
1x Wind-up Zenmaines
1x Queen Dragon Djinn
1x Maestroke the Symphony Djinn
1x Adreus, the Keeper of Armageddon
1x Inzektor Exa-Beetle
1x Photon Strike Bounzer
1x Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger
1x Number 11: Big Eye
1x Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustv Max
1x Armory Arm
Side Deck: 15
2x Thunder King Rai Oh
3x Gemini Imps
2x Royal Decree
2x Dust Tornado
2x Compulsory Evacuation Device
2x Soul Taker
2x Messenger of Peace
Notice anything off the bat? Take a second look over it... maybe a third... Still can't see it? On the first decklist I gave, look right between Tragoedia and Sangan. Now look at the second deck list, see what I see? Tour Guide from the Underworld was not written down on my decklist I submitted before Round 1. In my mind while writing down my decklist, I was making sure all my sleeves were okay, my cards were all mint, had my translations for my foreign cards I was using, every little thing I was trying to do in order to get ready for the regional. And this one time, I wrote down my decklist and put it aside to do all those other things and let it sit there untouched and pushed aside like I did not care about it once I was done. So, during my round 1 Matchup, I won game 1, in the process of gaining field control and pushing for lots of damage during game 2, I got a mid-game deck check and got shown my decklist I just wrote.
Sure enough, I indeed forgot to write Tour Guide on my decklist. A game loss was issued to me, and ever since then I was just on tilt the rest of that match and that tournament for that matter. I literally "punted" the game/match away because of my own foolish mistake and not checking it over at least twice. This was the first time in my Yugioh playing career that I have ever recieved a game loss for anything at all. This put me on tilt for a couple of reasons. One being that it was a 10 round event and if I hoped to top 8 I would have to win out the remaining of my rounds (thought positive about that, but still frustrating of course) and second being that I was just so upset with myself that I did not do something so simple and check over my deck list. Being on tilt is something I hardly ever do, but in this case, I could not get it out of my mind that I did something so foolish. I cannot blame anybody but myself so I kicking myself in the you know where over this! I know this might sound like I am rambling on about me being upset, calling what I did foolish, and being on tilt over it, but that is because I am stressing how important it is to check over what you right down on your decklist exactly. It saves you the trouble of getting a penalty during the tournament! Check your spelling, monster count, spell count, check everything! Even make sure you write down your own name right for that matter! (and yes, I have attended some regionals where players have written their own name down wrong) so PLEASE make sure to check over everything at least twice to make sure everything is correct and matching what your playing. Because if not, the mean judges will come out and get you eventually! Be back soon duelists, Until next time. Play Hard or Go Home!
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