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Magcargo Extravaganza
Terry Kamm aka Pokeplayer
Magic Dragon Games

Boise, Idaho
May 25, 2003
19 Participants

                 I played the following Deck:

                  3 Slugma Neo Rev
                  1 Slugma Neo Dest
                  4 Magcargo
                  3 Entei Howl
                  2 Cleffa
                  1 Tyrogue
                  1 Suicune Non Holo

                  4 Elm
                  4 Copycat
                  2 Fan Club
                  2 Town Volunteers
                  2 Fast Ball
                  4 Double Gust
                  2 Scoop Up
                  4 Focus Band
                  1 Trader

                  20 fire Energy

Round 1 Me Vs Tyranitar deck????

I won this match fairly quickly. I do not remember many of the details

Record 1-0 3 pts

Round 2 Me vs Kabutops/Muk Deck

This was a very good match. I actually had given this player a buried fossil and underground  lake card to fit into his deck. We had talked before the SBZ had started. He is a very good young man.

We each drew a couple prizes but the game slowed down. I double gusted out his MUK with
no energies  and he double gusted out my Magcargo with no energies. At this point I was ahead of prizes 4 to two. My deck was thinning out and I feared he would deck me. I checked my discard pile and found I still had one town volunteers in my deck. For about 4 or 5 turns my opponent could do nothing with his  MUK active. I used the time to get
the Town Volunteers and place 5 energy into my deck. I was also able to get energy on
Magcargo. I KOed Muk. He was unable to get the final Kabutops he needed to KO my Magcargo. I collected my last prize to win the game.

Record 2-0 6 pts


Round 3 Me vs Cleffa

This was a very quick match. I went first with my tyrogue active. He had only a cleffa. I                  explained  that I roll dice instead of flipping coins. Heads is even, tails is odd on the dice.... I roll the   dice....
I get a two and a four and kO the cleffa for the win.....

Record 3-0 9 pts

Round 4 Me vs Fast Fire (good young 11-14 old player)

The TO/Head Judge performed a deck check on my opponent. He passes. The TO/Head Judge
looks at my deck and asks that I re-sleeve my deck. I am using thin transparent sleeves. She
asks that I use opaque sleeves. I take a few minutes to re-sleeve my deck.

I go first. All I have is an Entei active, a Scoop Up, Trader and 4 energy. I attach an energy
and say go. My opponent traders for a Magcargo, attaches an energy to Slugma, Howls and gets
one fire energy. He says go. I draw my card. It is another energy. I know he has the Magcargo
from last turn and figure he has one fire energy. I know the game is lost so I scoop up my only
 pokemon.

 Record 3-1 9 pts

Round 5 Me vs water deck with Seal and other Pokemon???

I start with a Entei active. She has a Seal. She attaches an energy and does 20 to my entei.
She does this for two more turns. In this time frame, I am able to set up my Magcargo with at least three fire energy.  She tries to build up her other pokemon. On my third turn, I attach an energy to Entei and  retreat. I bring up Magcargo and KO Seal. My Magcargo is to powerful for her other pokemon and I   bench her for the win.

Record 4-1 12 pts

Round 6 Me vs Umbreon/Aquapolis Nidoking

She goes first. She attaches an energy to Eevee and tries to do energy charge and fails. I
attach an energy   to my Slugma, I have an Entei active and another Slugma on the bench. She attaches a  darkness energy, a gold berry and evolves to Umbreon and does 30 to Entei.
I evolve to Magcargo and attach and energy and focus band and end my turn. She attaches a
  darkness energy to Umbreon and does 30 to Magcargo.   I draw and get an energy. I attach it to Magcargo. I end my turn. She starts to build up Male  Nidoran into Nidoking. She does 30 more
damage to Magcargo. All I need is an energy to retreat Entei and I can KO her Umbreon. Well
I draw and I get nothing useful. She KOs my Magcargo, ( I fail the  focus band roll). I double gust out her male Nidorino to stall. She evolves to Nidoking, adds an energy and KOs my slugma. She then continues to KO all my Pokemon with her Nidoking. She draws 6 prizes to my zero.

Record 4-2 12 points

The Top 8 Standings are posted. I have placed in the 3rd position. The 1st and 2nd places
each finished with only one lost and 15 points.

Top 8 quarter Finals Me Vs Umbreon/Nidoking Deck

This is the same person I played and lost to in the sixth round. In this game though, I am able
to get Magcargo up and running really fast.  I am able to KO her pokemon really fast. She got a terrible start for this game. Magcargo KOs her nidorans and Eevees.

Top 8 Semi Finals Me vs Fast Fire Deck

This is the same person I lost to in Round 4. This game went the distance. I drew 6 prizes for
the win. I was able to get up  Magcargo up really fast. He had a slow start. I was able to KO a slugma and two babies with my first Magcargo. He got up a magcargo. He tried to KOed my magcargo, but my focus band was successful. I used  it to KO his Magcargo. He failed his focus band roll.

He KOed my magcargo the following turn. I KOed his pokemon with my second Magcargo.
He was able to stall for a while with Promo No. 47 Mew. However, he did not have psychic
energy to confuse me.  I used the time to build up an Entei with three energy. I eventually got three energy on  Magcargo, retreated and KOed Promo  mew with Entei for the win.

Top 8 Finals Me vs Kabutops/Muk

This is the same person I played in the second round. This was a very quick match. I went
first. I had cleff active. He had promo Hitmochan with 60 hp. I attached an energy to slugma,
howled and attached two more energy. My opponent attached an energy to Hitmonchan, Elmed and placed a cleffa on his bench. He  did 20 damage to Cleffa. I got the Magcargo I needed the second turn, attached an energy and KOed hitmochan. He attached an energy
and eeeked for a new hand. I attached an energy to Magcargo, I rolled the dice and got a
HEADS!!! The game was over and I won the Trophy and a box of Skyridge.

Props to
My opponents for being great players
The Card Shop for having SBZ
The WOTC Store in South Center Mall that donated extra promo cards to give out at SBZ
Those that donated extra prizes for the younger players

Slops to
Incorrect understanding how WOTC had ruled in the Compendium on
correct interpretation of some of the cards function/ability.


Terry Kamm
AKA Pokeplayer

email     
Kammman@attbi.com

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