Skyfox Games
May 20
Oshawa, Ontario
Hey Pojo! How's everyone out there doing today? This is Alexa, and here's another summary of my day at the Pokemon league, with my deck, Gengar, Buzz, and Mewtwo! An explanation of why each card is in the deck is below.

GENGAR, BUZZ, & MEWTWO, v 1.2

Pokemon: (17)

4 Electabuzz
2 Fossil Zapdos
3 MP Mewtwo
3 Fossil Gastly
3 Fossil Haunter
2 Gengar

Trainers: (19)

4 Bill
2 Professor Oak
2 Computer Search
3 Super Energy Removal
4 PlusPower
2 Gust Of Wind
2 Switch

Energy: (24)

10 Electric Energy
14 Psychic Energy

STRATEGY: Gain an early game advantage with Electabuzz and Mewtwo, while evolving to Gengar and building up Zapdos. Then, promote Zapdos, and pile the damgae on their Bench. Curse it around with Gengar to KO those 30-50 HP Pokemon to grab multiple Prizes. Oh, and have fun!

EXPLANATIONS:
POKEMON:
ELECTABUZZ: Very energy-efficient, great starter, you know why Buzz is good.
ZAPDOS: Amazing bench-killer, although is IS an energy fattie, a horrible starter, and extremely kamikaze. That's why I only run two.
MP MEWTWO: Eats Hitmonchan for breakfast, speedy, recharges itself. You know why Mewtwo is good, as well.
FOSSIL GASTLY: An okay starter, it kicks Base Gastly in the pants. He is needed for Haunter and Gengar, also.
FOSSIL HAUNTER: It is good when you need to stall for time. Needed for Gengar.
GENGAR: Curse and Dark Mind are a great combo, this guy is okay as an attacker and even better as a sneaky ol' defender, too. Great for the metagame.
    TRAINERS:
BILL: Card drawing....duh.
PROFESSOR OAK: Better card drawing....double duh.
COMPUTER SEARCH: Search for any card. It could be a Pokemon, a Bill, an Oak, a Super Energy Removal, anything!
SUPER ENERGY REMOVAL:A great card, it can really frustrate an opponent.
PLUSPOWER: A nice surprise. They may waste an energy in a move to build up for an attack that they think they'll have time to use, and then.....BAM! Hehehe.
GUST OF WIND: Another little "surprise". Use it to KO an injured benchwarmer.
SWITCH: A lot of the Pokemon in this deck, minus the ghosts, have high retreat costs. Also, it helps remove any staus effects you may have, without risking not being able to retreat, wasting energy, and so on.
The energies sort of explain themselves. ;)
  On with the report.
Match 1 vs. ? with Grass/Psychic
The first match of the day. I hoped to start off well, and I did.
He started off with a Mew active and an Oddish on the bench. I had a Mewtwo active, that's all. He went first. I didn't want him to do Psywave for 60 (weakness), so I decided to hold off with the energies until I was sure that  I could do it all in two turns. I passed without doing anything. He attached a grass to Oddish and said go. I passed again, after benching and attaching to a Gastly. He attached an energy to Mew and was done. Finally, I got something to get me energies in the discard; an Oak. I Oaked, attached an energy and Absorbed. He smiled, and Psywaved. I gulped, benched an Electabuzz, attached to it, ad KO'd the Mew with Psyburn. He evolved the Oddish into Gloom, and poisoned Mewtwo, KOing it. I sent out Buzz and Thunderpunched. Gloom was evolved into Vileplume, which then killed my Buzz. I benched another, attached to it, and Licked the Vileplume with Gastly. No paralysis. Gastly was KO'd by Petal Dance, but I got the 'Plume with my Electabuzz and a PlusPower. Phew. Using a combination of Mewtwo and Electabuzz, I finally won, albeit six turns from decking myself, when I was ahead by just one Prize.
MATCH RECORD: 1- 0

Matches 2 & 3 vs. ? with Fighting (Match 2) and Water (Match 3)
The first match, I led off with Gastly, vs. his Sandshrew. I swapped it out for Mewtwo once it was pumped and ready, and devasted his entire deck with that one card. Six Pokemon fell, one after another, ending with me the victor.
The second game wasn't much tougher, as he used a mono (non-Raindance) Water deck, and I led off with Electabuzz. I don't remember much about this game, except for the fact that it was really easy, and, once again, I KO'd every Pokemon with just one card, that same Buzz.
MATCH RECORD: 3- 0
Match 4 vs. Tasha with Grass/Water
Her deck was the Nidoqueen kind, not weak to Fire. This made the match easier. I started with Gastly and Mewtwo yet again, and that really made this easy. She started with Nidoran Female! I went first, and attacked with Lick, no paralysis.  Her turn, she attached a Grass and Fury Swiped for 10 damage.
I attached an energy to Mewtwo, and Licked, this time with Paralysis. She evolved to Nidorina to get around it, and used Supersonic, after benching a Scyther and attaching a Grass to it. She got heads, and confused my Gastly. I attached a Psy to Mewtwo and tried to attack. Heads! It was successful. I licked with no Paralysis. Tasha dropped a DCE on Nidorina, and KO'd Gastly with Double Kick. I sent out Mewtwo and KO'd the Nidorina with Psyburn. She played Scyther, and Sword Danced. Then, she benched a Magikrap. Excuse me...Magikarp. I played Buzz, and attached an Electric. Then, I Psyburned the Scyther. She did 60 with Slash. I attached another Electric to Electabuzz, and Psyburned to KO Scyther. She promoted her only basic, Magikarp, and Tackled my Mewtwo for the kill. No matter, here comes Buzz! I Thunderpunched the Magikarp for the win!
MATCH RECORD: 4 - 0
Match 5 vs. my friend Mike with Grass/Psychic
Another one! It seems that everyone I played today was playing Grass! Fine by me, seeing that Grass is, IN GENERAL, a weak colour. There are exceptions to the rule, as in Venusaur, Exeggcutor, Scyther, Beedrill, Pinsir, etc...Anyway, on to the match. This was, by far, the easiest match of the day. He started Caterpie, and I Buzz, with a Benched Mewtwo. This WOULD have been over in two turns if it wasn't for Energy Removal. He ER'd Buzz's Electric, and kept Paralyzing my Pokemon. He made a fatal mistake, though. He Gusted out and Paralyzed Mewtwo, instead of Paralyzing Electabuzz. I just used a Switch card, and Thunderpunched for the win!
MATCH RECORD: 5- 0
Match 6 vs. Andrew with Old - School Haymaker
He mulliganed 5 times! In short, it was an easy match-until my mom showed up. She didn't want to wait, and so I had to forfeit when only a few turns from winning. D'OH! Oh well, there's always next week!
MATCH RECORD: 5- 1 ( IN MY MIND, 6- 0.)
Hey! I got my Computer Error!
<<Note to Self: Do NOT put this in a deck!>>
It's pretty bad, in my opinion. Oh well.....it's a Promo.
Please post this report. It took me almost two hours to type, as I am an extremely slow typer and dumb with computers. ;)
NOW, 'TIS TIME FOR PROPS AND SLOPS!
PROPS:
SLOPS:
No slops today, I don't think that anyone deserves any!
Anyway, you Pojo-holics, have fun playing!
If you have any tips, deck fixes, another name for this deck, or any comments, please send them to me.
Alexa
rapidash_007@hotmail.com