Haymaker’s Potpourri Variant v. 3.5

Gym: Heroes Release Tourney

RPG Outpost

Glenside, PA

Saturday, August 5th, 2000

Approx. # of participants: 24

 

Basic Outline: Well, this is the first Report I’m sending in, to the PoJo! What better time to do this than the Gym: Heroes Release Tourney. I’m using my Haymaker’s Potpourri Variant. Scott Gerhardt, assistant webmaster of PoJo.com, designed the original Potpourri. Scott’s Fossil Potpourri can be found in Pojo’s Pokemon Magazine for the month of February, I believe.

Tweaking: What I basically did was drop out Mimes, Ponyta and Kang for Fossil Magmars and an extra Electabuzz. Also, switched the trainers around ever so slightly. This deck has worked great for the past couple months for me. It may look like I draw slim to no energy, and the drawing methods are off, but it works great. I’ve tried and tried to listen to people who told me to play 4 Bill and Oak, but that didn’t work out, and I lost more games than I have ever with this deck. So I’m sticking with my first instinct, my original deck. Well, I’ll let you take a look at the deck below: I’ll tell you the contents and briefly explain why chosen:

 

 

Haymaker’s Potpourri v. 3.1

 

Pokemon (12):

4 Electabuzz – Very little energy need to T-Punch for a possible 40.

3 Hitmonchan – Must metagame against Wigglytuff here.

3 Scyther – To combat Hitmonchan.

2 Fossil Expansion Magmar – Basically screws Scyther. Helps me stall towards the end of the game

 

Energy (22):

9 Fighting

7 Electric

4 Fire

2 DCE

 

Trainers (26):

3 Bill

2 Oak

2 RSA

2 Item Finder

2 CPU Search

2 Scoop Up

2 GOW

3 ER

3 SER

2 Plus Power

1 NGR

1 Narrow Gym

1 Energy Flow

Cards added with Gym:

Narrow Gym (Wigglytuff Do the Wave for only 50).

Energy Flow

Well, there you have it. The Potpourri Variant I used what I believe is the right mix of trainers to help this deck succeed. This deck I’ve tweaked and tweaked until I got it right. Now that we finally have Gym: Heroes, I’m thinking about making a Trapper Variant. I hopefully will manage to get a hold of four Team Rocket’s Trap from the expansion. This deck basically functions on these rules:

1.     Always start with a low-retreat pokemon

2.     Metagame to each opponent

3.     Match-up with weakness / resistance (i.e.: Opponents Wiggly – you send out Hitmonchan, etc. you get the point!)

4.     Use Scoop Up sparingly, only when need. I’ve won a few games with saving Scoop Up’s until I had about 60 of 70 damage on my Pokemon and they were paralyzed or another status effect.

5.     I need to go and use this deck’s speed during this past tourney, because of the free-for-all league format. It worked out for me got many quick wins.

I think the ¾ ER/SER is a good mix. Once Prohibition Gym is put into more decks, I’m pretty much screwed, but for now, it works, especially against Arcanine and Wiggly decks. I’m able to SER the Wigglys while still on the bench, hence not being able to do The Wave. Then, I proceed to GOW out it, with my Hitmonchan in play and Special Punch for a prize. Simple.

 

Enough baffling about my deck, here’s the tournament report. I do have names and deck types available. Only using pictures with camera such as Tyler Grund did, for the STS! East Coast STS, baby! Soon!

 

Tournament Report: (Sorry, don’t remember much, I was too into the games, so excuse me for the lack of Detail).

 

Match #1 vs. Little Kid w/ a Fire Deck (Charizard)

Quick and easy. Got out Hitmon/Scyther/Buzz and never looked back against his Eevees and Blaine’s Tauros.

 

Match #2 vs. Ray’s Water Deck

Again, the kid only had a Promo Articuno out, which my Electabuzz and Scyther were too much for.

 

Match #3 vs. Red Head Kid w/ Psychic Deck

He got out Mr. Mime and Movie Mewtwo. I just SER’ed him, and took the game with ‘Buzz.

 

Break #1: Wins: 3  Losses: 0

 

Match #4 vs. Kid with Fire deck again

 

Since we both moved on, I had to face him again. A little harder because he kept getting basics out, but his Lickitung’s Tounge Wrap failed and Chan came out with a Plus Powered Special Punch for the win.

 

Match #5 vs. LITTLE kid with a Psychic/Fighting Deck

 

Machop vs. Scyther and Buzz. Scyther stalled, Buzz came out Plus Power T-Punch. Game.

 

Match #6 vs. My Bro Mike with his Wiggly Deck

 

Best fight I had so far. I got out Chan early against All Colorless pokemon, and we exchanged Jabs with his Ditto, until I managed to get Narrow Gym out and prevented him from dropping Scyther out on the bench, and Chan and Buzz just wrecked the house, although he did manage to draw two prizes. We were both guaranteed to move on, so we did not care. Good game, Mike.

 

Break #2: Wins: 6  Losses: 0  Points: 12

 

Single Elimination Matches for the Prizes of Gym: Heroes Boosters:

 

Quarterfinals #1: I got a bye along with Elliott, we were both 6-0 to start, so Bill Chapman gave us both a bye, guaranteeing us each two packs.

 

Quarterfinals #2 vs. Evan w/ Clefairy/Clefable Haymaker:

Note: This kid from what I hear is a frequent cheater, so I watched him the whole game, he played clean.

-         Okay, My Scyther and Hitmo vs. his Clefairy and Hitmo. I wonder who won this match! Me, of course, he did get pretty mad because he only won 1 pack for losing!

 

Semi-Finals vs. Dan with Mr. Mime/Scyther/Macop deck

 This was a good game. He defeated my bro with Mr Mime to move on to this round, and he put up a good fight, but I just kept matching up with his weakness and resistance for the win in about 15 minutes.

 

Finals (2/3) with Paul and his Haunter Haymaker

 

Game 1: I again matched up with his weakness and my resistance. I got a scare early on from his “Minion of Team Rocket” but lucky for me he flipping 1 tails and 1 heads, preventing me from losing, so I had to bring out Scyther on his Chan for a Game One win!

 

Game 2: We were pretty even early on, trading prizes, but I oaked a little too much, and we were down low on our decks with two prizes each left. I Slashed his Hitmo for a kill. Then, with five cards left in my deck, ten in his, I drew an Item Finder, for the GOW, Gusted out a hurt Gastly and T-Punched for the win!

 

Well, there you have it, the report. I ended up winning 5 extra packs in addition to the two in the beginning. Not bad cards inside, A No Removal Gym and some other great rares!

 

Props / Slops:

 

Props:

-         Bill Chapman for running this excellent tourney

-         Mike for letting someone beat him, after the kid cheated

-         Elliott for bringing Elliott Maker to the Tourney

-         Paul for being in the finals

-         Seany for being the man and taking some losses with his Gym Cleaner

-         Scott Gerhardt for making the Potpourri

-         PoJo and Scott for managing this site well

Slops:

-         The Prizes (only 5 packs due to only 24 Participants and WotC said 12 to the winner) Oh well!

-         Evan for being a spaz when I beat him

-         Kid who cheated and beat my bro’s Wiggly deck (My bro ended up in 5th, the kid in 4th because I beat him in the Semis).

-         Little kids who were VERY loud

-         Little kid for playing Ancient Mew Translation card as an Ancient Mew, and having no colored back card sleve on his Ancient Mew.

 

Thanks for reading the report!

-         Steve

-         Steveo@tomgreen.com