The Wraiths

            The Wraiths (Psychic)
                  by 8r@x
               Kavala, Greece
          Tuesday,October 31st,2000
              12 participants

The tournament I attended is not an official one but it was organized by my city's hobby shop. I just thought that, since you want decks from all around the world, I might as well drop a line. I only tried it once, but I think it does fairly good.

POKEMON (20)
3 Team Rocket Abra
1 Base Set Abra
1 Kadabra
2 Dark Kadabra
3 Mr. Mime
4 Fossil Gastly
3 Fossil Haunter
1 Promo Mew
2 Team Rocket Porygon

The wraiths of the deck are Mr. Mime and Haunter. If the opponent doesn't have a resistance to psychic, I attack with every Pokemon I have, using Defender and caution not to let my opponent get enough prizes. If his Pokemon, though, have a resistance to psychic, I change its weakness to psychic with Porygon and I attack with Kadabra and Dark Kadabras to put a few damage counters on them, then retreat them and use Mr. Mime's Meditate attack. If the Defending Pokemon is Stage 1 or 2 and has a few damage counters on it, I might as well use Mew's Devolution Beam attack. If I cannot cause enough damage, I use Mr. Mime, Haunter and Defenders and pray to win the toss in Transparency's check until my opponent is decked out.

Round 1: The Wraiths vs. a lightning deck: 0-2
Electabuzz was on my opponent's bench at both matches and knocked out my Gastlies and Abras before I could evolve them or fight back. By the time I knocked out Electabuzz, he had 2 Electrodes , a Zapdos and a Dodrio on his bench. In the second match, I was decked out.

Round 2: The Wraiths vs. a fire/lightning deck: 2-0
Electabuzz wasn't too lucky with this trainer. He got knocked out quite fast by Kadabra (and a little help from Gastly and Porygon), while Charmander didn't have a chance to evolve. The second match was tougher, with Charizard and Dark Charizard in my opponent's bench. Luckily, I had evolved a Gastly into Haunter and got a few heads in Transparency checks. I put some damage counters on Dark Charizard and finished him off with Mr. Mime.

Round 3: The Wraiths vs. a Fighting/Grass deck: 2-0
Things were not complicated at all in this game. My opponents Machop quickly overrun my Porygon but he had problems dealing with Gastly and Haunter. Kadabra kicked some Nido-ass with Mr. Mime finishing off anyone else.

Round 4: The Wraiths vs. a Fire deck: 2-1
This was a long game. First match I won using Haunter's Transparency Pokemon Power against Vulpix, Ninetails and Charmander. econd match, though, Vulpix managed to confuse Mr. Mime first and Haunter afetr the first was knocked out. Ninetails knocked out the rest. Last match we had a duel between Mr. Mime and Ninetails. Guess who won...

You might be wondering why I don't use any of Sabrina's Pokemon. The reason is simple: In Greece, Gym Heroes is not published yet. I hope it will be soon.