My tournament was held in sryacuse, in a store called Micro Play. 22 people
attended the event.I came in second place.

My deck is this:

Pokemon:

2 Growlithe
2 Arcanine

2 magmar

2 vulpix
1 Ninetails

4 Charamanders
2 Charmeleons
1 Charizard

4 ponyta
2 Rapidash

Trainers:

1 Gust of Wind
1 Plus Power
1 Clefairy doll
3 Switch
1 Pokedex
4 Bills
1 Super Potions
1 Energy Retrieval
3 Potions
1 Defender
2 Energy Removals
1 Revive
1 Prof. Oak

16 Fire Energy

Stratigies:

With my deck, I charge up my pokemon at the beginning, and sacrifiice a bad
pokemon while I charge up. When the opponet kills the bad pokemon, I come in
with my evolved pokemon and take it to them. I use bills, my pokeball and
Prof. oak to get good cards. I use switches to conserve energy.

Tournament Report:

Round One: I went against a kid who put together a Water, Fighting deck.
That was bad because fire is weak to water. He took out a starmie and star
freezed me time after time. But I eventually took it out by using Arcanine's
Flamethrower. He put out a few more, and killed my Arcanine after a while.
But then I brought out my other fully charged one and took his starmies out.
At the end with 3 out of 6 prizes left, ( him with 1) he evolved Wartortole
to Blastois on the bench. On my turn, I used gust of wind, took out
Blastois, and killed him with Charizard's fire spin. WON

Round Two:

This round was my hardest one. The opponet's deck was a fire fighting deck.
He also had 2 charizards! He put a Hitmonchon on the active pokemon, and two
more on the bench. I put a Ponyta out to give me time to charge up the
Charizard in my hand. I got my Charizard fully charged right when he killed
my ponyta. I took out Charizard and killed him. He put a manky on the bench,
and put out another Hitmonchon, when he charged it up, ( while I was
charging Charizard again ), he used special punch. It only did ten damage
though because Charizard is resistant to fighting. I killed him on my next
turn. He kept on putting Hitmonchons out, and I kept killing him, but
sometimes I would retreat Charizard when the oppenent used super energy
removal on me. We both had one prize left at the end. He took out his
mankey, evolved to Primape, and did his 50 attack to kill Charizard who had
20 hp left. He snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat. LOSS

Round 3:

This was my easiest match. I went against a kid who had all kinds of pokemon
in his deck. He never got any good energy. I took out a ponyta for
distraction, charged up an Arcanine, and ripped through his bench. pokemon
after Pokemon. I won easily. WON

All together I did pretty well cosidering I went against a water deck with
Blastois and beat it.


My name is Joe Impell, E-mail me at Joeman35@twcny.rr.com