May 6, 2000
                 Wizard of the Coast, CA
                 22 Participants


We usually just have league games but this day they decided to have a tourney with the winner winning promo mew, arcanine, holo mew, prerelease gyrados, and a special promo mewtwo from nintendo power mag. Here's my deck:

4 Tauros
3 mewtwo promo
3 hitmonchan
2 scyther

2 scoop up
2 mr fuji
2 pokecenter
3 switch
3 gust of wind
4 energy removal
2 super energy removal
3 plus power
2 oak

4 DCE
1 full heal energy
3 grass
13 fighting
7 psychic

My strategy is to heal with my scoops,fuji and centers and to manipulate the game with gusts and removals. I play switch cause there is to many element decks in my area.


Round 1 vs. Eevelution deck
I played my little sis in the first round. I got out my tauros and chan on the bench. She drew magmar and 2 eevee. She played magmar and smokescreened me for about 3 turns until I finally knocked it out. By that time she had FlareonTR fully pumped and her jolteonTR fully pumped as well. I got out my chan and took care of jolteon. She then KO my chan and I took tauros out again. I got mewtwo on my bench fully charged. She got rid of my Tauros and got electabuzz on her bench. I psyburned for the KO. And she thunderpunched me. I would lose the next turn so I oaked and got my chan on the bench. I psyburned then got KO. Chan jabs for the win. 1-0

Round 2 vs. CharizardTR deck
He drew out his Vulpix and benched charmanderTR. I drew a Scyther(bad luck). I stalled with my pokecenter and Removals.I got out my chan and tauros. DCE on tauros. Stomped his vulpix. He confused me next turn I stomped but unsuccessful full. He took out Tauros I jab for the kill. Brought fully charged CharizardTR. # flips and no heads. I jabed. 4 flips one heads for him. I special punch with 2 Plus powers for the win. 2-0

Round 3 Vs. Element deck
This guy was playing a vileplume gloom TR deck. Yikes!!
He got oddishTR and played a zubatTR. I got chan and scyther on my bench with active tauros. He drew and placed snorlax on bench. He retreated zubat placed snorlax as active. I DCE stomp for 20. He evolved oddish into gloomTR. Confused me. and then body slam. (boy this guy was getting good hands)I gust of wind gloom and tried to rage but was unsuccessful. He Evolved into vileplume.(this was ridiculous)I suspected cheating here cause of his great draws but no matter. I switched and Special punched. He powered up his zubat and evolved to golbat. I special punched for the KO but before ER snorlax. He brought in golbat and KO my tauros. I special punched. He hit my beched chan with 20. I special punch for the KO. He brought out snorlax. Slamed me but non paralyzed. I special punched for the KO. I win 3-0

Final vs. Psychic/water
He used A psychic water deck that had TRgolducks and TRkadabra line. I began with Tauros and had scyther and another tauros on my bench. He used abra. I placed energy. His turn he did nothing. Next turn I oaked and got 2 dce. Attached and stomp. He evolved into kadabra. I Stomped again. He attached energy but nothing still. I stomped again for the win. I t turns out he had a terrible hand. All water energy and 2 golducks and a kadabra. 4-0

I got my promo's and traded my venusaur and my mewtwo NP for a cool porygon. I bought 10 boosters for my little sister of TR. She got Alakazam and Charizard holo.
Props to Wizards for doing something nice for a change, for the kid who traded his cool porygon and my sister for giving me hell in the first round.
Slops to the guy who later on I found out marked his sleeves on his element deck, for WotC for not giving prizes to the losers, the kid who took my sister league book and DCI never sponsoring the events held around my area.

sabumike@aol.com
Mike Sandman (yes thats my real last name)