Best Comics
278 Middle Neck Road
Great Neck, New York
11021, USA
Sunday, November 28 1999
Well, another week, another tournament at Best Comics. I'm glad that they
decided to go with a weekly tournament. I couldn't stand the waiting for two
weeks :-). I decided to play Super Stall again, but I modified it, so I think
it will be better. Here's the deck.

Pokemon: 11
4 Moltres (Wildfire, and Divebomb when neccesary)
3 Chansey (120 HP)
4 MewTwo (Barrier)

Energy: 29
15 Fire Energy
10 Psychic Energy
4 Double Colorless Energy

30 Trainers:
3 Mr. Fuji
3 Scoop Up
4 Defender
4 Impostor Oak
4 Super Potion
4 Clefairy Doll
4 Mysterious Fossil
4 Super Energy Removal

I added Mr. Fuji because he is different then Scoop Up. Scoop Up gives you
your pokemon, but discards the energy, while Fuji shuffles it all into your
deck. Super Potion cures me, Clefairy Doll and Mysterious Fossil are my
mainstays, with Moltres, while SER is great for disruption. I have enough
energy in it to afford the cost of SER and Super Potion.

12 people showed up at Best Comics, and since I was the raining champion, I
got the third round bye. It was single elimination, $5 entry fee, winner gets
2 Basic Boosters, 2 Fossil, 2 Jungle. Here's the report:

Round 1: Jeremy Boczko with Raindance.
He played a Raindance deck. How original :-(. He started Squirtle and
Magikarp, me a Moltres. I played a Clefairy Doll to start, so he killed it
and bought me a chance to play fire on Moltres. He breeders for Blastoise,
but he only has three energy. I get a MewTwo, play a fire, and pass. He
evolves to Gyarados, still no energy. I play Psychic on MewTwo, retreat
Moltres, and use Barrier. He gets an energy but can't effect me. I play a DCE
on Moltres, let him go. He kills MewTwo. I go, play Mysterious Fossil,
Impostor Oak and play a DCE. He kills the Fossil, I put in Moltres, bench a
Mewtwo and Divebomb. Heads, 80 damage. He plays a water on Blastoise, and I
get another heads on Divebomb for the kill. It just goes downhill for him
from there, I Impostor Oak, Fossil and Clefairy Doll while building up a
MewTwo Barrier. I end up decking him. Not too bad for the first round, but it
got scary when he brought in a powered up Gyarados and killed Moltres.
Luckily, I pulled the neccesary energy to pay the cost for SER, allowing me
to use MewTwo's Psychic for the kill.
WIN 1-0

Round 2: Josh Kravitz with Psychic Swap Deck.
This was pretty original, a deck with Alakazam, Genger, Hypno and Scoop Up to
kill the opponents benched Pokemon, and Alakazam to keep the alive. Good
thing both his Gengars were in his Prize pile. I end up using a LOT of
strategy to beat him, including a nice Clefairy Doll with 3 Defenders to
stall his Abra while building up for a nice Wildfire. I end up using Moltres
Wildfire for a 10 card discard win. Super Potion saved my Chansey's, who put
up a valiant effort in staying alive and stalling for Moltres. I pull out a
close victory.
WIN 2-0

Round 3: Bye
WIN 3-0 (Well, I didn't lose, and you had to be 3-0 to reach the finals, so I
guess I was 3-0) ;-)

Round 4: (The Finals) David Strauss with Raindance
I got really lucky, and he didn't. He started Magikarp, me MewTwo. He went
first and tackled, I played a Psychic energy. He played another energy and
tackled again, I played Psychic Energy and used Psychic, 20 damage. He got no
basics and used Flail. He begged me to use an ER or SER, but I Psychiced for
the win. See, this deck can attack when neccesary or feasible :-)
WIN 4-0

I won a my second tournament in a row at Best Comics. I'm starting to really
like that place. :-) In my boosters, I got a Scoop Up, a Pidgeotto, a holo
Mr. Mime, a non-holo Pinsir, a non-holo Lapras and a non-hole Ditto. I think
I might use some of my Dittos in my next deck. He could be the attacking
Pokemon I need to make this deck unstoppable. I didn't Mulligan at all this
week, maybe I have too many Pokemon. I'll see how I can tweek this deck up
for next week.

Now, it's time for the best part of the report, Props and Slops..........
Props....................
To all of the Original Decks and Deck-Builders out there, you know who you
are.
To me for winning. (Hey, I don't win that much anymore, I take what I can :-))
To Pojo, for having such a great Web-Page, the best one out there by far.
To everyone who contributes a deck to Pojo. I love reading them.
To my opponents, for being good losers :-).

Slops......................
To all of the unoriginal Decks and Deck-Builders out there, you know my story.
To me, for not winning in so long before this besides last week.
To WOTC, for making the right cards for a Haymaker and Raindance deck.

That's all for now. Good luck in all of the tournaments any of you play in.
If you have comments, e-mail me at Ausenstrak@aol.com
Ausenstrak.