My name is Ian and I went to a tournament 5-6-00 at Pyramid Comics and Games
in Sierra Vista, AZ, there were 14 people (myself included) at the
tournament. It was $5.00 to enter, Swiss style. Here is my deck
"The Proper Way To Control Fire"
======Pokemon:16======
4 Gastly (Fossil)
3 Haunter (Fossil)
3 Magmar (Fossil)
3 Mr. Mime (Jungle)
3 Lickitung (Jungle)
======Trainers:19======
3 Bill (Base)
3 Gust of Wind (Base)
3 Computer Search (Base)
2 Item Finder (Base)
2 Professor Oak (Base)
4 Plus Power (Base)
2 Nightly Garbage Run (Rocket)
======Energy:25======
13 Psychic Energy (Base)
10 Fire Energy (Base)
2 Full Heal Energy (Rocket)
Not Many Fire Pokemon in the deck, but it worked very well. The Point of
the deck is to stop your pokemon from getting damaged, and to slowly work
them down with a tight control over how you use the Magmars.
And now...on to the report>>>>>
Firs of all, I think almost everyone had a bunch of Colorless pokemon in
their decks, just to annoy me.
Round 1 ===Myself vs. Dan with Fire/Colorless
Well, all I got for most of the game was Gastly, Haunter, and Mr. Mime. I
had a lot of trouble with this match, and my Lickitungs and Magmars didn't
seen to want to show up (until Computer Search came along). Well to make a
long story short, I Lost...although the deck had proven itself able to stop
mass amounts of damage (like his Dark Charizard)so I wasn't that
dissapointed, but learned to take it easy on the card drawing.
Round 2 ===Myself vs. Fred with a Grass/Fighting/Colorless
Record 0-1
Fred is a great person, and had a good, and VERY annoying deck. This time,
the cards came up very well! But I didn't have to worry about using too many
Professor Oaks. He started with a bunch of Psychicly weak Fighters, and a
bunch of grassies... and stoped me with Lickitung. My strategy worked very
well here, and if it had not, I could have easily lost. The Mimes, Magmars,
and Lickitungs saw plenty of action. The Haunters were what won the game. I
took out five of his prizes, he got five of mine. we were both low on cards.
He had gotten out a Dark Gloom onto his bench and annoyed me with that (The
Full Heal Energy came up then to). He later got it up to a Dark Vileplume,
as well as getting another oddish into an Jungle Vileplume. He removed much
of the damage I had done to him. I stalled and won by running him out of
cards, I had four cards left (He went first so +1 and one Nightly Garbage
Run +3 from before his Dark Vileplume). Very good match, and I learned alot
about this deck (which had been tested in theory and in my mind only.
Record 1-1
Round 3 ===Myself vs. Oscar with Fire/Colorless (I think)
Don't know if this is the right deck for him, but all I remember is that I
won, and it was nowhere near close this time. Mr. Mime Stoped his Charizard
in it's tracks. The rest was easy, only Charmander stood in Mr. Mimes way.
Record 2-1
Round 4 ===Myself vs. Toni with...I have no Idea
Matches before this, I concider myself still testing the limits of the
deck, this time it was war. This time, I beat my opponent with relative
ease...My deck was working well and sometimes my opponent got blocked by
stuff that he hadn't even realized was there. So the deck is humming happily
and getting past most anything. I'm hapy too.
Record 3-1
=======================Final Four========================
Records are re-set.
Round 1 Semi-Finals
---Myself vs. Chris with Haymaker variant---
This one was harder. I knew I could handle Scyther and Mewtwo with Mr. Mime,
so I wasn't worried about that. What I was worried about, was
Electabuzz...he just so happened to get three of them on his opening hand.
The entire game, I seemed one or two steps behind him. Eventualy, It took my
last Magmar to ditch his last Electabuzz, so it was smooth sailing
(with the exception of Super Energy Removal) with Mr. Mime. He tried to last
with three Scyther and a bunch of Scoop Ups, But couldn't quite
manage...thankfully!
Record 1-0
Round 2 Finals
---Myself vs. Stephanie with "The Ultimate Fighter Deck"---
(acording to her)
Well, fighting with Psychic weakness...and grass with Fire weakness, isn't
exactly a good setup for her, but she was confident and determined to win,
so what can I say? It was harder than I thought it would be, (those pesky
Tangelas and Machops did lots to me)and my deck had a hard time blocking her
attacks. I managed to take out Machoke before it could get into Machamp. The
Magmars took care of the Tangelas (once they were out) Gust of Winds got the
weakened ones that had retreated.
Overall Looking Back:
So I won a hard tournament, but I thing the deck was just great, despite all
the resistance to it. With A few modifications, this deck might be un
beatable at the next tournament, or I may come up with an entirely new deck.
This is what I got...
1 Promo Mew (Holo)
1 Rocket Dark Gyarados (Prerelease-Holo)
2 Rocket Bosters (with Dark Blastoise Holo and Rainbow Energy Non-Holo)
1 Japanese Jungle Boster (with Vileplume)
1 Japanese Fossil Boster (with Hypno)
3 Japanese #3 Vending Sheets (got uncommon Magmar Lv.27 60hp and 40 damage
attack).
Props and Slops (I have no idea why everyone puts these in, but I will to
just for the thought of it)
PROPS to the Gym Leader (John) for another great tournament.
PROPS to Fred for the Great game, and learning experience.
Props to Dan for having a great deck and beating me. (If you read this,
dan, It won't happen again!)
Props to Stephanie for the great battle over 1st place.
Props to Chris for a great and hard game. (I love hard and challenging
games)
Slops to Chris for always complaining about how people always try to copy
or beat his decks.
Slops to the other people I Played for their easy games and weak decks.
(Hmm maybe you should copy Chris's deck).
Slops to Chris for being a sour loser.
E-mail any questions or comments to me at
mailto:whthse@c2i2.com