Round 5 Feature Match: Jesse Contreras vs. Darryl Huang
Jesse Contreras and Darryl Huang are both 3-1 in the tournament heading into round 5. Contreras is running a Six Samurai Deck with 2 copies of Great Shogun Shien in it. His opponent, Darryl Huang, is running a Scrap Deck that uses Level Eater.
Huang won the dice roll and chose to go first. He Set a monster and ended his turn.
Contreras opened up with Solemn Warning, Bottomless Trap Hole, Call of the Haunted, Six Samurai United, Book of Moon, and The Six Samurai – Irou. He activated Six Samurai United and then Summoned Irou to the field. He added a Bushido Counter to Six Samurai United and then attacked and destroyed Huang’s face-down Level Eater with Irou. Contreras Set 4 cards to his back row and ended his turn.
Huang activated Scrapyard next turn. He searched his Deck for Scrap Beast and added it to his hand. Then he activated Foolish Burial and used its effect to send Treeborn Frog from his Deck to this Graveyard. He ended his turn without any cards on the field.
Contreras drew Solemn Judgment next turn. He got rid of his face-up Six Samurai United to draw a Great Shogun Shien from his Deck and then attacked directly without Irous, dropping Huang to 6300 Life Points. Contreras Set Solemn Judgment and ended his turn.
Huang Special Summoned Treeborn Frog in his next Standby Phase. Then he activated Enemy Controller to Tribute Treeborn Frog and try to take control of Irou, but Contreras chained Book of Moon to turn Irou face-down. Huang Special Summoned Treeborn Frog again during his Standby Phase. Next, he Normal Summoned Scrap Beast, but Contreras flipped Bottomless Trap Hole to remove it from the game. Huang ended his turn.
Contreras drew Gateway of the Six next turn. He attacked with Irou to destroy Treeborn Frog in battle before passing to Huang.
Huang Special Summoned Treeborn Frog again during his next Standby Phase. Then he activated Cold Wave in Main Phase 1, but Contreras negated it with Solemn Judgment! He discarded Scrap Goblin next, in order to Special Summon The Tricky from his hand in Attack Position! Then he tried to Normal Summon Scrap Chimera, but Contreras flipped Solemn Warning by paying 2000 Life Points to negate the Summon. Huang attacked and destroyed Irou with The Tricky before ending his turn.
Contreras activated Gateway of the Six next turn. Then he used Call of the Haunted to Special Summon The Six Samurai – Irou from his Graveyard and add 2 Bushido Counters to his Gateway. He removed the counters to give his Irou 500 ATK and attack over The Tricky.
Huang Set Scrap Goblin next turn and passed.
Contreras attacked the Scrap Goblin with Irou, but it wasn’t destroyed since it can’t be destroyed in battle.
Huang passed his next turn without making a play.
Contreras activated a second copy of Gateway of the Six next turn! Then he Special Summoned Grandmaster of the Six Samurai from his hand and put 2 counters on each of his Gateways. He removed all 4 Bushido Counters to search his Deck for Spirit of the Six Samurai and Normal Summoned it, adding 2 more Bushido Counters to each Gateway. Then Contreras removed those 4 Bushido Counters to search his Deck for Hand of the Six Samurai and add it to his hand. Next, he Special Summoned Great Shogun Shien from his hand and equipped Spirit of the Six Samurai to his Grandmaster. Grandmaster attacked and destroyed Treeborn Frog, allowing Huang to draw Dark Hole from the top of his Deck thanks to the effect of Spirit of the Six Samurai. Next, Irou attacked Huang’s face-up Scrap Goblin. At the end of the Battle Phase, Scrap Goblin destroyed itself and Huang added a Scrap Chimera from his Graveyard to his hand. Contreras ended his turn.
Huang Special Summoned Treeborn Frog in his next Standby Phase. Then he Tributed it to Summon Scrap Golem and activated its effect to Special Summon Scrap Goblin to his side of the field in Defense Position. Next, he Tuned his 2 monsters together and Synchro Summoned Scrap Dragon! Then he activated the effect of the Level Eater in his Graveyard to reduce Scrap Dragon’s Level and Special Summon Level Eater to the field. Huang attacked Irou with Scrap Dragon, destroying the Irou and dropping Contreras down to 600 Life Points. Next, he used his Dragon’s effect to destroy Level Eater and Gateway of the Six.
Contreras drew The Six Samurai – Zanji next turn. He Normal Summoned Zanji and added 2 counters to his Gateway. Then he removed them to boost Grandmaster of the Six Samurai up to 3100 ATK! Grandmaster attacked Scrap Dragon and destroyed it in battle. Contreras drew Giant Trunade with the effect of his Spirit of the Six Samurai and Huang Special Summoned Scrap Goblin in Defense Position with the effect of his Scrap Dragon. Next, Zanji attacked the Goblin and destroyed it with its effect. Great Shogun Shien attacked next, and Huang Special Summoned Gorz the Emissary of Darkness from his hand! Contreras was forced to activate Dark Hole in Main Phase 2, destroying everything except the Grandmaster. (Spirit of the Six Samurai protected it.) Contreras Set a back row and ended his turn.
Huang Special Summoned Treeborn Frog and then Normal Summoned Scrap Chimera next turn. He Special Summoned Scrap Goblin with its effect and Tuned all 3 monsters together to Synchro Summon Scrap Dragon. Then he Special Summoned Level Eater from his Graveyard by reducing his Dragon’s Level, and destroyed his Level Eater and Contreras’s Set Mystical Space Typhoon. Next, he Special Summoned Level Eater again, by eating another of his Dragon’s Levels. He followed up with Monster Reborn, but before he could even choose a monster to revive, Contreras conceded.
Darryl Huang takes the first Duel with his Scrap Deck, and Jesse Contreras will be going first in Duel 2!
Contreras opened up with The Six Samurai – Zanji, Book of Moon, Gateway of the Six, Six Samurai United, Dark Hole, and Chain Disappearance. He activated Gateway and United, then Normal Summoned Zanji. He put 2 Bushido Counters on the Gateway and 1 Bushido Counter on Six Samurai United. Then he Set 2 back rows and ended his turn.
Huang Special Summoned Cyber Dragon! He used it to attack over Zanji and destroy it. Then he Set a monster and ended his turn.
Contreras sent his Six Samurai United to the Graveyard to draw a card, then activated Dark Hole to clear the field. Huang’s Cyber Dragon and face-down Treeborn Frog were destroyed. He Set the rest of his cards to his back row before ending his turn.
Huang Special Summoned Treeborn Frog in his Standby Phase and Contreras flipped Chain Disappearance to remove it from the game. Huang passed his turn.
Contreras activated Call of the Haunted next turn. He Special Summoned The Six Samurai – Zanji, adding 2 more counters onto the Gateway. He removed all 4 counters to search his Deck for Hand of the Six Samurai and add it to his hand. Then he Normal Summoned Hand of the Six Samurai and attacked directly with both of his Samurais. Hand attacked first, and Huang took the hit, but when Zanji attacked, Huang Special Summoned Gorz from his hand! In Main Phase 2, Contreras activated the effect of his Hand of the Six Samurai to Tribute Zanji and destroy Gorz. Then he used Monster Reborn to bring Zanji back from the Graveyard and add 2 more counters to his Gateway. Contreras removed all 4 counters from his Gateway to search his Deck for Grandmaster of the Six Samurai and add it to his hand before ending his turn.
Huang used his Emissary of Darkness Token to attack Hand of the Six Samurai next turn. Hand was destroyed by the battle and Huang ended his turn.
Contreras drew Pot of Duality next turn. He Special Summoned Grandmaster of the Six Samurai and added 2 Bushido Counters to his Gateway. Then he attacked and destroyed Huang’s Emissary of Darkness Token with Grandmaster, and Zanji scored a direct hit.
Huang Set a monster on his next turn and passed.
Contreras used Pot of Duality next turn to add Hand of the Six Samurai from the top cards to his Deck to his hand. Then he Summoned it to add 2 counters to his Gateway (making a total of 4 counters), and removed all 4 counters from Gateway to search his Deck for a Grandmaster. Next, he Tributed his on-field Grandmaster to destroy Huang’s face-down Level Eater. Then Hand of the Six Samurai attacked directly and Huang Special Summoned Battle Fader! In Main Phase 2, Contreras Tributed Zanji for the effect of Hand of the Six Samurai in order to destroy Battle Fader. Then he ended his turn.
Huang used Giant Trunade on his next turn, returning all of Contreras’s back rows to his hand. Then he Special Summoned The Tricky by discarding One for One, Special Summoned Gorz from his Graveyard by activating Monster Reborn, and Special Summoned Level Eater from his Graveyard by eating a Level from Gorz. All 3 monsters attacked through Hand of the Six Samurai, dropping Contreras down to 3800 Life Points. Huang Set a back row and ended his turn.
Contreras Set 5 cards to his back row next turn and ended his turn.
Huang attacked with Gorz on the following turn, but when Contreras activated Mirror Force to destroy Gorz, The Tricky, and Level Eater, Huang conceded!
Huang will be going first in Duel 3!
Huang started things off by activating Scrapyard and searching his Deck for a Scrap Beast to add to his hand. He Summoned it to the field, Set 2 back rows, and ended his turn.
Contreras opened up with 2 copies of Bottomless Trap Hole, Call of the Haunted, 2 copies of The Six Samurai – Zanji, and Threatening Roar. He Summoned Zanji and tried to attack Scrap Beast, but Huang used his face-down Scrapstorm. He sent Scrap Chimera from his Deck to his Graveyard, drew a card, and destroyed Scrap Beast with the effect of Scrapstorm. Then he returned Scrap Chimera from his Graveyard to his hand with the effect of Scrap Beast. Zanji scored a direct attack instead. Contreras Set Bottomless Trap Hole and Threatening Roar in Main Phase 2. Huang destroyed the Threatening Roar with Mystical Space Typhoon in the End Phase.
Huang Special Summoned Cyber Dragon next turn. Then he discarded Scrap Goblin to activate One for One, and Special Summoned Sasuke Samurai #2 from his Deck! He paid 800 Life Points to activate its effect, preventing the activation of Spell and Trap Cards for the turn. Then he Tributed his Cyber Dragon to Summon Scrap Golem and activated Scrap Golem’s effect to Special Summon Scrap Goblin to his field in Defense Position. He Tuned the Goblin with his Golem to Synchro Summon Scrap Dragon, then attacked over Zanji with his Dragon. Sasuke Samurai #2 attacked directly next. In Main Phase 2, Huang destroyed his own Samurai and Contreras’s back row with the effect of his Dragon.
Contreras activated Dark Hole next turn. Scrap Dragon was destroyed, and Huang Special Summoned Scrap Golem from his Graveyard with the Dragon’s effect. Next, Contreras Set a monster and 2 back rows.
Huang used the effect of his Golem to Special Summon Scrap Goblin on his next turn. Then he Tuned the two monsters together to Synchro Summon Stardust Dragon. He Summoned Scrap Chimera next, and used its effect to Special Summon Scrap Beast from his Graveyard. He Tuned Scrap Beast with Scrap Chimera to Synchro Summon Scrap Dragon! Contreras flipped Bottomless Trap Hole, but Huang negated it by Tributing his Stardust Dragon. Next, Contreras activated Monster Reborn to bring back Scrap Golem, activated its effect to Special Summon Scrap Goblin, and then activated the effect of his Scrap Dragon to destroy his own Scrap Goblin and Contreras’s Set Call of the Haunted. Huang used the effect of his Goblin to retrieve Scrap Chimera from his Graveyard. Huang attacked Contreras’s face-down Zanji with Scrap Golem and then Scrap Dragon attacked directly.
Contreras drew Mirror Force next turn but it was no help! He Set it, but on the following turn, Huang Special Summoned Scrap Goblin from his Graveyard with the effect of his Scrap Golem, and used the effect of his Scrap Dragon to destroy the Goblin and Contreras’s Mirror Force. Contreras instantly conceded, knowing Stardust Dragon, Scrap Golem, and Scrap Dragon would finish him.
Darryl Huang defeats Jesse Contreras’s Six Samurai Deck and advances 4-1 with Scraps!
Post-Event Analysis!
See what our panel of experts had to say about this Duel after the event was over.
Jason Grabher-Meyer (The Old Man of Dueling)
In Duel 1, Contreras had Bottomless, Solemn Warning, and Solemn Judgment to protect himself from any Synchro Summons that Huang might’ve made if Huang took control of Irou. Contreras played Book of Moon to keep Huang from borrowing his monster with Enemy Controller, when he could’ve just taken 1700 Battle Damage from Irou’s attack and taken Irou back in the End Phase. He could have saved that Book of Moon for later in the Duel when he needed it more.
Michael Kohanim (2009 World Championship Competitor)
Level Eater was a cool choice for Huang to play in his Scrap Deck. As long as it’s in his Graveyard, Huang can be sure that he’ll be able to use his Scrap Dragon’s effect every turn, to destroy an opponent’s card without giving up a card that’s valuable to him. With interesting tech choices like The Tricky and Phoenix Wing Wind Blast to help him discard Level Eater, Huang caught a lot of his opponents off-guard.