Pensacola, FL
Books-A-Million
June 16 2000
Around 50 kids showed up at 11:00 A.M.
Since I had just stockpiled a lot of new TR cards
I thought I might experiment with a mostly TR deck
Pokemon
4 Ponyta (TR)
3 Dark Rapidash
4 Charmader (TR)
3 Dark Charmeleon
2 Dark Charizard
3 Evee (TR)
2 Dark Flareon
Trainers
3 Bills
3 Plus Powers
2 Prof. Oaks
3 Energy Retrievals
3 Defenders
2 The Boss's Way
Energy
3 Full Heal Energy
20 Fire Energy
My main strategy for my deck is to try and get out
a quick damage dealer like flareon or charmeleon to quickly take down the
oponent while using defenders to prolong your life and plus powers to shorten
theirs.
Ok, first of all you have to understand that half of the
kids at the league I participate at are inexperienced.
So I thought I would test my new deck out on some "fresh meat".
Duel One
At first some kid thought he would use bug deck, which relied mostly on
Weedles and Caterpies. On the first turn I drew 2 charmander, evee,
flareon, rapidash, and 2 fire energies. I really don't have to tell you
what I played but it was evee active and the charmanders as bench. As for him
he played a weedle active and caterpie as bench. I won the toss and drew a
fire energy (Like I needed that) so I played a F energy on evee and used
tackle for 10 whopping damage. As for his first turn he used poison sting and
got a heads. So now evee is halfway dead and I draw a Boss's Way and use it to
get a dark charmelon. Then I evolved evee to dark flareon an put a fire energy
onto a charmander and used rage for the kill and picked up a Bill. For his
second turn he sent caterpie to his doom, then he put a grass energy on him an
played an oak and then put a venonat down. And used string shot and landed a
heads. For my third turn I drew another bill and quickly used both to get a FH
energy 1 F energy and 2 defenders. So I thought it's probably time to be like
the rayovac man and exterminate him. So I used a defender on flareon used the
FH energy and used rage. Well now that the kid is clearly losing he declared
that I was cheating because his so called "wonder bug" deck never
loses was gonna get murdered, he forfeit the match saying what a cheater.
(What a sore loser!)
Duel Two
This time I thought I might battle someone a little bit harder, so I
challenged one of the rgeular duelists who happend to be jusing a fire deck as
well. He won the toss, but he mulliganed three times before getting a hand
that had a basic in it. And that basic was a base ponyta and that was it while
I had 2 ppowers, 1 defender, 1 charmander, 2 ponyta, 4 F energy, 1 FH energy,
and 2 evee. Either way I started laughing because i played the cahrmander as
my active and the rest as my bench. Well for the first turn he played a DCE on
ponyta and used smash kick for 20. I'm like a whole lotta good that did him as
I played a F energy on the charmander and the ppowers for the win.
Duel Three
Now just as I'm about to make a challenge towards the top player at the league
some boy who had to be 12 who had been watching me battle challenged me
to a match so I said," Ok, your funeral." Little did I know he was
using a raindance deck and a pretty poor one at that. Anyways I won the toss
and had to muligan once. And i drew an evee, charmander, ponyta, Boss's way,
Oak, and 2 F energy. So I played my evee as active and the rest as my benched.
Well first of all he started of the battled using a TR squirtle and staryu as
bench. And right now I'm thinking oh crap no wonder the little freak was so
cocky about battling me. Anyways I thought I might give him one of the best
battles he had ever had. Obviously I played the F energy on my evee and used
tackle. Well for his part of the turn he put a DCE on the squirtle and used
shell tackle for 20. Next turn i attached an F energy to the now
evolved Flareon from Boss's way. Did playing w/ fire, flipped heads and
its bye-bye squirtle. He playes an energy on Staru, and kills my Flareon.
My turn I played charmander w/ a fire energy I just got from my turn and used
the oak, which got me a dark charmeleon, defender, another charmander and
some F energy. I then used the defender on the charmander and used
fire tail. for his next turn he plays an Articuno and lays a water energy on
him and he then used slap for 20 damage. My turn, I draw a bill
which lands me an F energy and a FH energy. I then evolve charmander to
charmeleon and use a F energy on him for tail slap forthe kill. for his next
turn he sends out articuno and plays a water energy on him and does nothing
else. So for my turn i pick up a F energy which I play on charmeleon and use
fire ball for a heads and the win!
Duel Four
Now I think I can take on anything with my deck so I challenge the top player
(David) to a duel. For the coin flip he wins and sends a movie promo pika and
a buzz. While I play my Charmander and hold onto the 3 F energy, 1 FH
energy, 1 energy retrieval, and the 1 boss's way in my hand. so he plays an
electric enrgy on pika and uses recharge and then i put a F energy on char and
use fire tail for 20 whole damage. Well for his 2nd turn he uses an electric
energy on pika and uses thunderbolt for the kill..... Hence I finally lost.
Overall my new deck did fairly well and I got some major playtesting done.
Props to David for having a good deck, although no basics is the worst way to
go
Props to Dark Charmeleon for making some great last minute kills
Slops to the whiny brat who called me a cheater
Slops to Leage Pika for being so dang fast
Slops to all those unoriginal players out there who play to win, not to have
fun
C-ya later
Chris F.
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