THUNDERBEAM by Mike Candela            Washington D.C.
Date:   10/6/2000
To: <A HREF="mailto:Killer Decks@pojo.com">Killer Decks@pojo.com</A>        
ThunderBeam, electirc,plant
                                                                      v.1.0
                                                           By Mike Candela   
            
Dear Pojoholics,                                  Toys "r" us
                                                     Andrews AFB, Maryland 
                                                         September 13, 2000
                                                               50 participants
My name is Mike.  I made this great deck called thunder beam.  I won 4
matches in a row! yes, I know, amazing but true.  First, before the results
of the tourney here's my deck.                                               
                                       
  Thunder beam v.1.0
      Pokemon: 21
     
      2 bulbasaur
      1 ditto
      1 fossil zapdos
      1 scyther
      2 magnemite
      2 magneton (1 base 1 fossil)
      1 dratini
      1dragonair
      2 dragonite(1 fossil 1 1rst movie promo)
      1 farfetch'd
      1 chansey
      1 pikachu(1rst movie promo)
      1 base raichu
      1 taurous
      1 ivysaur
      1 venusaur
      1 muk

       11 trainers
       2 pokedex
       4 energey removal
       1 gust of wind
       1 switch
       1 professor oak
       1 energy retrieval
       1 pluspower

       28 enegy
      12 plant
      12 electric
        4 DCE (double colorless energy)
Now the results of the tourney held in Waldorf, Maryland 9/13/2000 at toys
"r" us ( I can't make the r backwards)

           Round one: v.s. Mark

           He is my friend and uses a three color deck with only gym leader
cards.
         I started out with a scyther,ditto and 2 plant energy,2 DCE,and 2
lightning energy.  He starts out with brocks zubat and brocks onix. I win the
flip.  I put out scyther and he puts out onix.  I draw a card, I play a plant
energy under scyther and use swords dance. he adds an energy to onix and
passes.  I play a DCE under scyth and slash his onix into a coma and get my
prize, it's my pikachu.  He gets blaines tauros and does 0 damage to scyth. 
I got a raichu and did swords dance. he adds a DCE to tauros and gets 60
damage on scyth.  I get a pluspower and kill his Tauros, and then I killed
his zubat on the next turn.

me  1-0

Round 2: v.s. john

A rain dance deck, am I lucky or what!
I start out with a with my scyth a plant energy a DCE, 2 of my energy
removals, an Ivysaur and a muk.  I win the flip.  He has a magickarp and a
poliwag(you know who he sent out).  I play a plant energy under scyth and use
swords dance.  He water guns me.  I play a DCE under scyth and defeat his
poliwag and he didn't get his gyrados, so I killed his magickarp.

me   2-0

round 3 v.s. gus

He used a haymaker deck

I start out with bulbasaur, ivysaur, a DCE, and four plant energies.  I win
the flip.  He puts out a buzz, nothing else.  I play a plant energy under
bulba and pass.  He plays a fighter energy under buzz and passes.  I add a
plant energy under bulba and leech him.  He plays a lighting energy under
buzz, uses thunderpunch, and loses the flip.  I get a pluspower evolve to
ivysaur and give buzz a vine whipping.  Games over.

me     3-0


Round 4    v.s.    Jordan

He used a deck called "invisible stall"

I get a bulbasaur, a scyther, a ditto, and four plant energys.  I put bulba
up just in case he gets a Mr. mime.  He got one and put it out,
yyyyyyeeeeeessss!!!!!!!  He won the flip, put a psychic energy under mime,
and did invisible wall.  I play a plant energy and pass.  He got out his
abra, added an energy(psychic)under abra, and passed!!  I played a plant
energy under bulba and did some leeching to his mime.  This turn he played a
DCE under mime and used meditate.  I leeched all the life out of his mime and
removed the damage from bulba.  He put up his abra, psyshocked me, and got me
paralyzed.  I got a switch, brought up ditto, played an energy, psyshocked
him, and won the flip.  He was really mad and passed.  I retreat ditto with
the no retreat cost and sealed the game by leeching his abra.

me 4-0

round 5   vs.  Tony

This guy had a haymaker deck except he said improved it! (yikes!)

I had a terrible hand of a bulbasaur, 2 lightning energys, 2 DCE, a venusaur,
and a muk.  He won the flip, got a buzz and a hitmonchan, played a lightning
energy under buzz and fully paralyzed me with thunder shock.  I didn't get a
basic pokemon so he thunderpunched me next turn and ended the game.

>From finishing 3rd place, I got 2 base boosters, one jungle booster, and 2
rocket boosters.  I got a breeder, a vileplume holograph, a dark hypno
holograph, a dark blastoise, and a holographic charizard!!  I think my deck
did very well 
     Mike Candela
 Muggsy81@aol.com