Down to a Cyber Flip!

by Tr0n

     It was the final match of a tournament at the local card shop where I Pulled off another victory. My record was 8-1 after the four rounds of swiss. My friend had ran an 8-0 so I figured I had placed second. The shop owner comes over to tell us that we were tied in Quality points and that we needed to duel for first place. Matt is an extremely talented duelist, and has the reputation of dominance at this card shop. So we sat down and began dueling. First round, I was not drawing anything good, the trio hit me up on top of it. I played my hardest but he was victorious with a swarm of Berserk Gorillas and Black Luster Soldier. Second round, I managed to get Phoenix and Luster out for a constant stomping. The first few turns of this duel were hilarious as we both spent enemy controllers and windstorms of etaqua to kill Beserk Gorillas. Literally, we destroyed and lost two Gorillas each, in back to back turns.
     Duel 3 of the final match for first place was beginning. The duel went back and forth, but he managed to stay in control of the field. I pulled out a Jinzo to stomp a gorilla. Next turn, he brain controls and tributes my Jinzo for his Jinzo. I had one face down, it was Call of the Haunted. After the attack I had 1200 LP remaining, which was much higher than his 400 LP. My next turn I top-deck Cyber Jar, I set it and prayed that he did not have Nobleman of Crossout in his hand. I lucked out, and he charged into it with Jinzo. After the effect went through, he had summoned his blade knight, breaker, and beserk gorilla in attack position. I flipped my monsters out, Breaker and Apprentice. I checked my Graveyard to see that I had used all my possible summons with apprentice...He had sinister and Vortex in his hand, so I knew I had to win within my next turn. Idiotically, when I discovered I had no more lvl 2 or less spellcasters I made a comment about it. He continued his battlephase and attacks my Face Downs with Blade Knight and Breaker. He must have wanted the kill shot with Beserk for glory. I took advantage of his error. A direct attack from any of these monsters would finish me, all three of his monsters had higher atk then the def of my two. After he cleared the field with blade and breaker, he smiled and pushed beserk gorilla forward and said "and you sir, are dead." I calmly smiled looking at his empty S/T zone and flipped my F/D trap card up, Call of the Haunted. He made some comment about the wonders of a "replay". I brought back Jinzo. He laughed, and threw down his vortex. I stopped him and said, you are still in your battle phase...Beserk Gorilla hasn't attacked... He looked at me and shook my hand, then calmy said, "beserk attack Jinzo". It was a good game. It was also to be the first time I have defeated Matt in the tournaments, hopefully not the last :)