Deck: Patriotic Haymaker
Name: PokePunk
Date: 4/9/00

Ahh, the stars and strips forever... how beautiful they are. Red White Blue,
hey! Aren't those colors in the Pokemon TCG? That's what came to mind when I
made the deck. Knowing I came in third at the tourny with it, I knew the
strips and stars were with me. So here's the deck!

4x Lapras
2x Chansey
2x Jigglypuff
2x Kangaskahn
4x F. Magmar

4x Energy Removal
4x S. Energy Removal
4x Plus Power
4x Gust of Wind
2x Energy Retrival

4x DCE
11x Fire Energy
13x Water Energy

Round 1 Vs. Garcia

The starting round was a mismatch. He played his mono Psychic deck to my
haymaker. Sadly, every chance I got I used energy Removal on him, to keep
his Pokemon energy-less. The only time he did do much damage to me was with
Prophecy by his Hypno. I just used Magmar and Lapras to dish out damage with
him yeilding only 1 prize.

Round 2 Vs. Pesner

This round kept moving back and forth until the boat tipped in my favor and
sunk, pretty much. His mono fighting deck went dry of energy when I
removaled a ton of the suckers. He knocked out Magmar, Lapras, and another
Magmar before I took his team out. Oddly, his deck only had Hitmonchan,
Kangaskahn, and Hitmonlee.

Round 3 Vs. Lee

I was slaughtered. I could have sworn he had about 80 energy removals and 10
scoop ups. Whenever I'd gust out a benched, un-powered weakling, he'd scoop
up and re-bench it and send out the powerhouse he was attacking with. He
used and Mono-Psychic with some scyther. By the time I had chansey to stall
with, he Psyburned me with a few energy removals thrown in and slashed me
down. After this, I baught 2 base 1 boosters to cheer me up, only to find I
had gotten a Mewtwo and Ninetails in both! I knew my luck would change.

Round 4 Vs. Taminsky(Younger Bro)

For my fourth round, I faced a familiar face from the TCG League. He was the
younger of two brothers armed with a raindance deck. I was afraid at first,
but Magar Stalled long enough to get a well powered Bench. I Nuked his
Articuno an destroyed his Blastoise when it came out. When he brought out
another Articuno, I sent out a maxed Kangaskahn and flipped 4 heads! It was
off to battle for 3rd place.

Round 5 Vs. Taminsky(older Bro)

Oddly enough, I'd lost and won to him before. This became our deciding
match. Whoever won got 3rd place and was the better of the 2. Luckily, I had
my Laprases against his mostly Mon-Fire deck. I started out draining energy,
gusting and knocking out some of his heavy hitters early on. The end came
down to my drained Lapras Vs. His almost totally powered Arcanine. I drew a
DCE and retreated to Smog him to death with Magmar.

The Tourny ended with me getting 9 more Points and the ability to get the
Marsh Badge next time I got to the league. I also got $15 in store credit
which I used to buy 4 base 1 boosters, one of which hearalded a Charizard!
My deck faired well, but I took out Jigglypuff and added more energy
retrevial. So anyway, till nex time PokePunk!
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