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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