Lawnmower (or Australian Surfers, Let the Wiggles take you over, etc.)

(Grass/Colorless)

by Matthew Yeager

Hastings

Kennewick, Washington

Approximately 24 people

   This deck is a Butterfree/Wiggly deck designed by me and my sister... our goal was to make a deck that would be a blast to play (B-free) and still have serious 0wnage (Wigz). The Hastings I play at doesn't have many serious players, so I thought that the first few rounds would be a piece of cake... They were, but...

P. S., I realized after the tourney that I had unwittingly removed ALL MY OAKS!! Not only that, but my Grass Energies were down to 9!!! Egadz!

Ouch....

Well, here's the deck!

3 Caterpie (Neo: 2)
1 Metapod (Neo: 2)
1 B-free (Neo: 2)
1 B-free (Jungle)
1 Jiggly (SI)
3 Wiggly
2 Jiggly (Jungle)
1 Chansey
1 Iggly
2 Rocket's Scyther
2 Scyther
1 Unown N
2 Cleffaz
1 Pichu

22

A TON of singles, but it runs well anyway. All these different cards: and I can use any of them to their full potential whenever I see one (energy notwithstanding). Unown N helps Chansey and stops Colorless pokes pretty well. Iggly stops other people's Unown N. On to the energies!

Ya, ya, not enough, especially with my limited card drawing skillz. But I was rushed to get to the League, and didn't do so horribly, anyway! Metal is incredibly useful... DCE is obvious. I never had any real troubles with NRG anyway...

Hey, No Removal Gym has the same abbreviation as Energy... maybe Wizards is smart! Anyway, trainer time!

1 RSA

1 Goop

1 Misty's Wrath

1 Elm

1 Time Capsule

1 Breeder

2 Bill

1 Item Finder

2 Lass

2 Pluspower

1 Switch

1 Erika's Kindness

1 Scoop Up

3 GOW

1 Switch

1 Trader

3 Comp. Search

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The trainers need no explanation, except that I somehow can't find my Gold Berries... I had two. At least I used to. So... count that in. Plus, I had a lot of singles... but they all 0wned. Erika's Kindness is MAD TeCH.

This is sort of a funeral march for the poor deck, since I'm dismantling it and making a Venusaur deck with the "fossilized remains". BUT... on with the report!

Round 1 vs Breanna (Houndoom/Blaine's Arcy)

I led with a Caterpie (R's Scy benched) and she led with a Snorlax (Iggly benched). I Spin Tackled her 3 times, but then she eliminated me with Body Slam. I Blinding Scythed with my Scy, and drew a prize. After that, I built up a Chansey with a Metal and Unown N and drew 4 prizes with it. In the end she accepted defeat and Double Edged her Chansey for my last prize.

1-0

Round 2 vs Ethan

I'll never know what Ethan could've done... he never showed, and after ten minutes the Gym Leader gives me the victory. I watched my friend Brolin wipe through the enemies with his Gatr. My friend Stephen also won. The tourney is single elim... I hoped I wouldn't have to face either of them.

2-0

Round 3 vs kid with a rainbow deck

I've played the kid before, and he ALWAYS gets his sole non-holo Ho-oh as well as 3+ different kinds of energy in his hand. This can be tough. I gusted his Ho-oh out early and Eeked my way to a Wiggly fairly quickly, and was doing 60 a pop. His 60 couldn't cut it, and I KO'd his best soon, followed by repeated Do the Waves to win the game. I find out that Brolan lost (!!) but Stephen won. I'm playing Stephen! AND I've already earned a booster and a Rainbow!!

3-0

Semi-finals vs Stephen (Dewgong, Drag, DK Drag, Dodrio, Poliwrath).

Stephen is a good friend, but in all honesty I knew he'd stand no chance. He didn't. Wiggly simply eliminated all of his basics and he could never evolve.

4-0

Finals vs some guy with an earring and an Espeon/Togetic deck

He played Psychic. Psychic is dead, and even deader against Wiggly. Chansey again lets me take 4 prizes, and Wiggly and Neo: 2 B-free combine to finish the match. I WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got 53 cards!!! Wow! All with Austrailian Surfers (oops... Lawnmower)

Props and Slops

Props to all my opponents

Props to the kid who took out Brolan (I didn't relish playing his Skarmory/Gatr deck)

Props to Steven on making it to the semis on his B-day with quintuple evo

Props to God

Props to Mom

Props to GRASS EVERYWHERE!

Props to Charizard

Props to the Gym leader

Props to Brolan for top 8ing

Props to good coin flips

Props to Breanna for a good fight

Props to you, 'cause you're reading this

Props to Kaitlin for actually making it to the second round

Slops to Ethan for not being there

Slops to my sis for not going

Slops to the tourney not being sanctioned

Slops to me for keeping an unorganized deck

Slops to people who think up very weird rulings and then call their friends to verify it and then say "HA!" when their friend agrees and then toss their friend a Neo booster

Slops to bad coin flips

Slops to anyone who's reading this (just kidding)

Thanks for reading this!

Matthew (aka matthewssandslash)

yeagers@urx.com