Touch of Death (psychic)
by Landon Crispens
Richmond Comix
Richmond, Virginia
Saturday, August 5th, 2000
25 participants
This happened at the Gym Heroes prerelease
tournament. It was 5 hours of pokemon fun. The deck I used is a
gengar deck with scythers and chansey to protect against weakness. Now
I'm going to get right to the good stuff.(warning this was 5 hours. I am
not able to post about 20 games on here. I have forgot some of them.
Plus it is to long to read and write that.)
Touch of Death
pokemon: 18
2 gengar(fossil)
3 haunter(fossil)
4 gastly(fossil)
3 scyther
4 promo mewtwo
2 chansey
trainers: 20
2 secret mission(Look at opponents hand. Then,
discard as many cards from your hand as you want and draw that many
cards.)(gym heroes)
3 bill
2 oak
4 SER
3 computer search
4 plus power
2 gust of wind
energy: 22
4 DCE
3 plant energy
15 psychic
Before matches:
I got there about 10 minutes early and waited
for it to start. My brother was using a wiggly deck with scythers.
When it started everyone got 2 booster packs of gym leaders. I got a
holo LT. Surges Fearow and a rare non-holo onix, plus many more commons and
uncommons. I figured had a good deck to win with. When people started
their first match I had to sit for 15 minutes to wait for people to finish a
match because of a odd number of people. Well here we go with the
matches.
Match 1: Touch of Death vs. Mark's mom with
haymaker with electabuzz and hitmonchans
I started with a scyther and
a gastly. She started with 2 electabuzz. We both tried to get
pumped as much as possible. She got her electabuzz pumped and ended up
have 10 damage on it and 40 damage on my scyther. While that was going
on my gastly had become a haunter and almost a gengar. So I did 10
damage and made it asleep with haunter. She couldn't do anything
and ended. Next turn gengar comes out along with 2 plus powers and I
take a prize. Through the rest of the match it went back and forth until
a built up scyther and mewtwo wrecked havoc.
I win.
1-0
Match 2: Touch of Death vs. little kid with a
semi-hay including electabuzz
I don't remember much of this match but basically I sent out a
gengar and destroyed everything.
2-0
Match 3: Touch of Death vs. little kid with a
Moltres and Ninetails beatdown.
This started out as a stall battle.
He had a pidgey out with a moltres and team rocket moltres on the bench.
I started out with a mewtwo active and chansey on the bench. For about
10 turns no one attacked while we built up our bench. I had a pumped up
chansey and some what pumped haunter and chansey with mewtwo active. I
knew that if I didn't act fast he would overpower me with a new ninetails and
moltres. So by the next few truns pidgey had gone bye bye and a gengar
was out with pumped up chanseys. The guy put out a moltres and koed my
gengar. I reacted with a double-edge buy chansey. Then he put out
the ninetails and took the chansey out. I had one chansey with gastly
and a mewtwo on the bench. I put chansey out and defeated ninetails.
Then I double-edged the team rocket moltres for the win.
3-0
Match 4:Touch of Death vs. some guy who likes
WWF wrestling and his fighting dark dragonite deck
I started with a gastly and scyther on the
bench. He started with a hitmo and a mankey plus kangaskan on the bench.
I took out the hitmo with ease. Then he put a dark drangonair and
evolved it. I had gotten a haunter out waiting to be a gengar. So
I stomped dark drangonite and had 30 damage on a cefairy of his. Then he
put out kanganskan. I used a chansey and plus power to K.O. the
kangaskan that had been sitting on my bench. Then I brought out my
gangar and his cubone that he had and used plus poer to knock that and
clefairy out. Then it went downhill for him and I won.
4-0 (At this point I saw my brother and he was
2-2)
The next few matches went by pretty fast.
I defeated another hay with electabuzz, scyther, and hitmo, and another
haymaker. (I can't remember 5 hours worth of games)
When i became 6-0 things started becoming bad.
Match 7: Touch of Death vs Brandon with
his Venucenter.
I had previously beaten him 3 times and my
record was 3-0 against him. But things went bad. He got a Venusaur
out quick while i struggled with energy. He started hurting my scythers
and mewstwos while I built up a chansey. I doubled-edged and killed
myself and energy removaled a couple of his guys. But I got taken over
and lost.
6-1
Match 8: Touch of Death vs. my neighbor
Mandy and her wiggly deck
OK. I win 9 out of 10 against her but
that didn't quite happen this time. I basically got a slow start with a
mewtwo and chansey. I had almost no energy and no drawing capablities.
I just went downhill and I lost grrrrrr.
6-2 ( My bro played soone after and whopped up
on her :) )
Match 9: Touch of Death vs. a dude with
an arcainine deck.
I almost had him in the beginning with a
chansey but he energy removaled it. Then he keep energy removaling
everything I put out. He soon built up a electabuzz and drilled through
my sitting pokemon. Then he sent in promo arcanine for the kill.
Another loss.
6-3
Match 10: Touch of Death vs. kid with
psychic deck
This kid was talking about how bad he was doing
so I went over to check it out. He asked me to play since I had lost the
past few so I said okay. He put out a mr. mime and I put out a chansey
and a mewtwo. He stalled a few turns then I got out gastly. 2
turns later it was over due to weakness from gastly. He asked me to give
him some advice and I did.
7-3 (He eventually won one)
Match 11: Touch of Death vs. Andy with
raindance
This guy was on a good streak and I had wanted
to play him earlier. He put out 2 squirt and a articuno to start.
I had a chansey and mewtwo. He puts a energy down and says go. I
slap dce for a quick kill next turn and do scrunch. Then he gets a
blastoise and a dark blastoise with articuno active and pumps up the dark
blastoise. Then I put a dce on chansey and gust out dark blastoise for
the kill. The next turn I do it again with 2 plus powers to his regular
blastoise. After that he never recovered and just stalled himself to
death.
8-3 (He won the whole tournament)
The next matches are mostly repeats with
previous people. I don't recall what exactly happened. But I had a record of
11-3. (Something close to that) I played a lot of matches in 5 hours.
Last match: Touch of Death vs. Ricki with
raindance
This match started off bad for me. I had
out a mewtwo, chansey and a gastly. He had 2 squirtles and a articuno
active. He energy removaled me the whole way and built up 3 blastoise.
After a few minutes all I had was a haunter active with a gastly. For
the next 7 turns he attacked and I flipped heads with haunter.(Lucky)
Then he made me switch coins and I flipped tails. But my gastly on
the bench became a haunter and stalled some more until time was called.
11-3-1 (Something like that but only 3 loses
and 1 draw)
Here are the standings
1st Andy(12 packs of Gym Heroes)
2nd and 3rd tied Ricki and Mark(split ten packs
2nd was 6 and 3rd was 4)
4th Caroline I see at the league often with a
sponge deck(mewtwo, scyther, and electabuzz)
5th and 6th tied My brother Austin and some
guy(split 4 packs 2 for each place)
7th some guy(2 packs)
8th tied Me and some guy( split 2 packs)
Note: I was the only one in the top slots that
did not use a archetype. Everyone used wiggly speed,
raindance, haymaker(scyther, electabuzz, and
hitmo) or a sponge.
Incase you wanted to know what it took to win
my brother finished 15-3 and only tied for fifth. It was tight in the
points since I was 11-3-1. Wins were 2 points, losses were 1 point,
draws didn't count. The way to win seemed to be to play as many people
as possible. Caroline was the only undefeated person and only made 4th.
Props and Slops:
Props to the people for reading this.
Props for the kid that actually won a game.
Props Caroline for playing with me afterwards
(the one that came in 4th)
Props for me coming in 8th
Props for Frank (the owner) for having no
entree fee and for a page I needed.
Props to Richmond Comix for the having the pokemon league
Props to the kid who showed me a ultra rare
neo2 dark raichu.
Slops to my brother for beating me and causing me to miss my
first match due to the odd number of people (he wasn't on the list but some
people didn't show up).
Slops to my neighbor for beating me.
Slops for all the people that got rare goldeens (They are
really bad)
Slops for not winnig more packs
Landon Crispens (aka Agent007 on gooey)