HEY, pojo. this is mark s. dawson (again) and i would like to make another
killer deck submission. this deck, i guarantee, is new for me and i don't
think i have seen this one before. the idea started 3 months ago when i saw
a pokemon player take comical  advantage of a newbie with "exeggcutor". he
was flipping 20 times a turn. i wish i could remember how he kept it so
clean but i assume it was because of his competition.
enough of that, we played on jun17,'00 at let the games begin in
greenville,sc. it was three rounds of swiss and the top 4 go to a playoff.
not a bad turnout as 17 showed(three months ago we regularly had 28 week in
and week out).
now the deck,Effie's Purple Haze
3 exeggcute (want to get to exeggcutor, and i like his first attack)
3 exeggcutor (my supposed wallop)
2 psyduck (love his first attack)
2 dark golduck (i admit i don't get third eye but him and psyduck's headache
make a great combo)
1 chansey (i never tried this before but i use him as a wall and build up my
bench)
1 lickitung (same as chansey but i like him better in other ways<ie
paralysis. i may have to decideto go with one or the other)
1 ditto (add a change of pace. he offers me a little versatility)
1 scyther (threw it in at the last moment. it helped tho i do not know
exactly why. the only zero retreat i got, i geuss)
 
3 computer search (for options)
2 item finders (again, options)
3 garbage runs (allows me to run 2/2 and 3/3 on evolutions and i can get my
chansey back late if my only hope is to stall)
4 plus power ( fantastic, to get exeggcutors eggsplosion off an odd number.
if i want to kill something with 50hp left i add 1)
4 energy removals (have to have it to slow an opponent from building up. he
plays alot different if he knows i got "em)
2 oaks (replenishing my hand or at least having the option is a must)
3 bills (it's like Christmas)
3 scoop ups (i normally only run 2 but since i have 2 walls i thought i
would go up 1)
2 switch( i like this card but since i have teleport, i might only need 1)
 3 gusts of wind (i like the option of forcing my opponent to play someone
he don't want to or making him waste resources getting it back to how he
wants it)

4 DCE
13 psychic energy
note:i know i have already broke the cardinal rule in not running multiples
especially on my pokemon but i am still deciding on a direction with my last
four.
STRATEGY: the idea of this deck is to protect and build exeggcute on the
bench and evolve to exeggcutor by keeping and scooping a chansey and/or
lickitung as my active. OR i can build up a psyduck by using his headache
attack and this also let's me choose between going to dark golduck or
building exeggcute on the bench. the Hammer tho is always exeggcutor cause
he can do a TON of damage. the more i play the more i like this deck. one
thing that helped me pick this pokemon is the psychic attacks on grass and
water pokemon. i figured there had to be a reason or at least a way i can
use that to some advantage(my daughter has suggested i use a couple of Jynx
because i do not have something that can hit quick but i feel like i might
add a ditto or two. this deck is still needs to be finalized and when i get
that far i hope to re-submit)

 WOT HAPPENED
round1 vs a new ben w/water&psychic
   this was a deck i had never seen before. he used kingler,haunter and
kadabra. i had a little trouble in the first game as i was trying to figure
out what he was attempting and i was not getting anything but 2 psyducks. i
decided to build 1 psyduck on the bench and then hit with it since he had
alot of pokemon with 50 or less HP. i also pulled my complement of gusts so
i just killed what he was building up and finally won late.
 the 2nd game went alot faster as i only had to kill a krabby, 2 abras and a
gastly and i got an exeggcute with 4 energy. the fact that  i won 2/3 of my
flips and had a plus power made this game go quick.
RECORD 2-0

round2 vs connor with alot of pikachus
  i have been seeing more mono-electric decks of late. he crushed me 1st
game as he had an active movie pikachu and i had a lone psyduck. i did not
realize how fast pikachu powers up to a 50 damage attack.
  this went better, the next two games were mirror images. i stalled with
chansey and lickitung and saved my plus powers up. both times i broght up
unscathed exeggcutors with at least 5 energy on it and by the time i was
killing the 6th pokemon he was up to 11 energy. connor was definitely a
little cocky when he beat me so quick and when things did not go his way so
easily he got frustrated and lost. so i swept the last two.
RECORD 4-1

round3 vs scott w/ aero-hay
 luckily aerodactyl never affected me, he got him up in one game but i had
evolved all i was gonna need.
  i won game one, hard-fought. scott played well but i got a few breaks.
 i lost game two. i played well but scott got a good break and he won. both
games were hit, hit, hit.
 game 3 i lost. we did not play long but he was up by two prize cards when
time was called.
RECORD 5-3

 i made the playoffs as 1 person had 6 wins and 3 had 5.
  single elimination opening round
 i played ben . another ben. he plays a standard haymaker. i made a huge
mistake in turn2 and I got flustered and choked. usually i will whine about
it but still keep my head in the game, this time i did not, my head was kept
someplace else.
in a nutshell, i had a ditto with aDCE on it going up against his chan with
20 damage(i had 20 on me,too). all he had on his bench was a scyther with a
lone energy. i put a plus power on my ditto and was supposed to use my
energy removal,computer search and garbage run to search for the oak and
,necessarily, get the energy i needed but for some odd reason i ERed his
scyther and was left short. i lost a valuable turn early and kicked myself
in the place where my head was at and lost. i do not want to take anything
from ben but itruly beat myself.
  third/fourth place game against the same scott above
 i played this so well i almost broke my arm patting myself on the back. it
is amazing how stupid i can be one moment and how smart i can get 15 minutes
later.
  it went like this . iwent first and had my ditto again against his buzz. i
attached DCE and did 30 to him with 10 to me. he goes and attaches a
lightning, takes away my DCE and does 10 WITH paralysis.
 i see he puts down no pokemon and i decide to go for it.i look down and i
have a computer search,plus power ,oak,NGR, and three psychic energy.so how
can i make this work?
 i know i need the plus power, something to switch with, a switch and a DCE.
so i know i have to attach the plus now to ditto while he is my active and i
decided to get my lone scyther with the computer search and to save the oak.
luckily scyther was in there and i got him.
 now all i need is a switch(scoop up does not help since i had to attach the
plus power already)and the DCE. so i oak. i get the DCE but not the switch.
i do see an item finder so i attach the DCE and item finder my oak and  i
dump my hand and oak again. i do not get the switch but i do get a computer
search which i use to get the switch. i switch scyther for ditto and back
again.
  then a question comes up. i say i did not have to discard the plus power
when i put ditto on the bench because the card states i have to attach it to
my active (which i did) and then i only discard when my turn was over and
that did not happen til i brought ditto back up and attacked with it.
(anywho, i had another item finder in my hand to get the plus power if i had
to discard)
 so when i attcked i did 40 to buzz without having to flip and knocked buzz
out winning the game.
   i was thrilled to be able to have a move like that a nd it gave me third
place and a six doller store credit. i am saving these up to buy my daughter
a dark raichu (non-1st edition) if i can get enough money.
  thanks for your time. e-mail me at Mark.Dawson@vacorp.com with any
comments. later gator.