Turbo Dark Flareon (mono-fire)
by James Kimbell
Books-a-Million
Lousville, Kentucky
Saturday, August 26th, 2000
Roughly 40 total participants

Original name, huh? Before the league, I bought the September Pojo's Magazine
and and 9 gym heroes boosters and used up some time putting my cards in my
binder and reading the mag(Cool "Gold Rush" deck, Crash!) I got stamped for
attendance then was challenged to a battle.......Oh yea, the decklist. Here
it is:

Pokémon: 13
4 Promo Eevee
3 Dark Flareon
3 F. Magmar
2 Ditto
1 Blaine's Charmander

Trainers: 28
4 Professor Oak
4 Plus Power
4 SER
4 NGR
3 Bill
2 Narrow Gym
2 Gust of Wind
3 Computer Search
2 Scoop Up

Energy: 19
17 Fire
2 Double Colorless

(NOTE: Don't use this deck in an important tournament, it is a fun pokémon
league deck. Kinda like spikes nidoqueen deck.) The strategy is turbo dark
flareon, I've got it turn 2 every game so far. Promo is by far the best(and
fastest) eevee. Ditto is pretty good against water pokémon, magmar's just
plain good, and blaines charmander can suck your opponent dry with about 10
kindles.Trainers are standard for a speed deck, narrow gym is to take away
other gyms(especially no removal). Energy might be a tad high, but better
safe than sorry.

Now, onto the matches:

First game: Me vs. Jake with Aero/Sponge
    I started with a lone promo eevee to his scyther(remind you of anything,
Scott?) and myst fossil. I bit it, he swords danced, I oaked, evolved and
killed him. So all he had was a mysterious fossil against a dark flareon, I
raged on my turn for the win.

Between matches: Alec(who everyone knows plays raindance) saw that I had fire
pokémon and jokingly said, "wanna battle?". To everyone's surprise and
amusement, I said "sure". They thought I would get slaughtered.

Me vs. Alec with Raindance
    He got a second turn dark blastoise, which took out an eevee, but then
got supered and gusted for a misty's horsea. I beat the horsea, then we both
started knocking out pokémon left and right. Prizes were zooming, until he
gusted a being-built-up dark flareon and hydro pumped it. All I had were
eevees against a base blastoise, I kept Super removing it, but he kept item
finding oak and getting more energy to raindance. I lost with 1 prize left
and his only pokémon had 20 HP left.

Next game: Me vs. Joey with ash ketchum deck
    I was mad, but I took out all my anger out on him, getting a prize a
turn, burning through his assorted unevolved basics.

Next game: Me vs. Newbie with typical newbie deck(fire and water, tons and
potion and superpotion) I got really annoyed by his sand attacks,
smokescreens, and potions. He built up an arcanine, which got super removed
and worked over to death by a ditto(who did the same to articuno).

Between Matches: I walked around and watched my brother(with a designed-by-me
Viagra deck) just plain slaughter this newbie. I got my Rocket's Meowth.

Triple Threat Match: Me vs. Bryan with fire/psy vs. Alec with raindance
    This was my chance to get revenge on Alec and his blastoise. He got 2 of
them turn 2. My magmar and his jynx whooped them both with the escalator-like
combo of poison and meditate. We also teamed to beat alec's Misty's seadra. I
then beat Bryan's Jynx and TR charmander for the win.

Props and Slops:
Props to:
-Dark flareon for being unexpected and awesome
-My opponents for being good sports
-NGR for stopping me from decking
Slops to:
-Alec and his raindance for not letting me be undefeated
That's all the Slops I can think of.

I'll be back next week with either Gold Rush, a ninetales cleaner, a weird
Infinity deck like one on the september pojo's puzzler, or something else.

James Kimbell
Jakimbell@aol.com