Feature Match: Saturday’s Dragon Duel
Dragon Duels are for Duelists age 12 and under. Christopher Van Hoomissen, age 12, is a Minnesota local and currently undefeated with his Machina Gadget Deck in today’s Dragon Duels. His opponent, Nicole Weigert from Arizona, is 3-1 with Frog Monarchs. A win for Van Hoomissen will lock him in as today’s Dragon Duel Champion.
Van Hoomissen won the dice roll and chose to first. He Summoned Red Gadget to the field and used it to search his Deck for a Yellow Gadget to add to his hand. He Set 2 back rows and ended his turn.
Weigert opened up with Caius, Battle Fader, 2 copies of Enemy Controller, Vanity’s Fiend, and Treeborn Frog. She Set Treeborn Frog and ended her turn.
Van Hoomissen Summoned Green Gadget to the field next turn. He activated its effect to add a Red Gadget from his Deck to his hand. Then Green Gadget attacked Treeborn Frog and Red Gadget attacked directly, but Weigert Special Summoned Battle Fader from her hand to stop the attack.
Weigert drew Soul Exchange next turn. She Tributed Battle Fader for Vanity’s Fiend and attacked Red Gadget, but lost her Fiend to Van Hoomissen’s Dimensional Prison.
Van Hoomissen Summoned Red Gadget next turn and activated its effect to search his Deck for a Yellow Gadget to add to his hand. Then both copies of Red Gadget and the Green Gadget attacked directly, dropping Weigert down to 4000 Life Points. Van Hoomissen Set a card in Main Phase 2 and ended his turn.
Weigert Special Summoned Treeborn Frog next turn and Tributed it to Summon Caius the Shadow Monarch to the field. She removed Van Hoomissen’s Set Solemn Judgment from the game with Caius’s effect, but lost Caius to Bottomless Trap Hole. Weigert Set 2 copies of Enemy Controller in Main Phase 2 and ended her turn.
Van Hoomissen activated Heavy Storm next turn to blow away both copies of Enemy Controller! Then he Summoned another Gadget to the field and attacked directly with all of Gadgets to end the Duel!
Van Hoomissen takes a quick first game win against Weigert.
Weigert chose to let him go first in Duel 2. He started things off by Summoning Yellow Gadget to the field and activating its effect to add a Green Gadget from his Deck to his hand. Then he Set a back row and ended his turn.
Weigert opened up Duel 2 with Giant Trunade, Heavy Storm, Vanity’s Fiend, Battle Fader, Raiza the Storm Monarch, and Substitoad. She Summoned Substitoad to the field and Tributed it to Special Summon Swap Frog from her Deck. She activated the effect of Swap Frog to send Treeborn Frog from her Deck to her Graveyard. She ended her turn, leaving Swap Frog on the field.
Van Hoomissen Summoned Green Gadget next turn and activated its effect to add a Red Gadget from his Deck to his hand. Then he attacked Swap Frog with Yellow Gadget, inflicting 200 points of damage to Weigert. He followed up with an attack from Green Gadget, but Van Hoomissen Special Summoned Battle Fader to negate it!
Weigert drew Soul Exchange and Special Summoned Treeborn Frog from her Graveyard next turn. Then she activated Heavy Storm to blow away Van Hoomissen’s Bottomless Trap Hole and Tributed Battle Fader to Summon Vanity’s Fiend. Vanity’s Fiend attacked over Yellow Gadget and Van Hoomissen lost 1200 Life Points.
Van Hoomissen activated Smashing Ground next turn to destroy Vanity’s Fiend. Then he Summoned Machina Gearframe to the field and activated its effect to add Machina Fortress from his Deck to his hand. He discarded the Fortress and a Machina Peacekeeper next, to Special Summon the Fortress to the field. Then he discarded another Fortress and Peacekeeper to Special Summon a second Fortress. Green Gadget attacked Treeborn Frog and then Machina Gearframe and both copies of Machina Fortress scored direct hits, dropping Weigert down to 1000 Life Points.
Weigert activated Soul Exchange next turn, Tributing Van Hoomissen’s Fortress for Raiza to spin another Fortress to the top of his Deck. Its effect activated and Weigert lost Swap Frog from her hand.
Van Hoomissen Summoned Red Gadget next turn and activated its effect to add a Yellow Gadget from his Deck to his Graveyard. Then he discarded Fortress and Red Gadget to Special Summon his Fortress back to the field. Red Gadget attacked and destroyed Treeborn Frog and then Machina Fortress attacked over Raiza. Finally, Machina Gearframe scored a direct attack, ending the Duel!
Christopher Van Hoomissen uses his Machina Gadgets to defeat Nicole Weigert’s Frog Monarch Deck and become today’s Dragon Duel Champion!
Post-Event Analysis!
See what our panel of experts had to say about this Duel after the event was over.
Michael Kohanim (2009 World Championship Competitor)
Van Hoomissen did a great job bringing his Machina Gadget Deck to the top in Saturday’s Dragon Duel. Machina Gadget Decks have recently been seeing less play in big tournaments, but they still have many advantages over more popular Decks, like the ease with which they can Summon a monster every turn. By going undefeated, Van Hoomissen proved that Machina Gadgets are still a Deck you should be prepared to face in tournaments.
