From: Viperep@aol.com
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:04 AM
To: KillerDecks@pojo.com
Subject: Return of the Fire
Steve Jerrejod
Non-modified Tournament in a Toys R Us in Brooklyn NY
12-20-2001

Entering my 1st non-modified tournament ever, this place was packed with some 39 kids even though pokemon has largely died out in NY. Playing with gator got boring so i decided to try a fire-electric deck with no damn cleffa. The deck pulled out against some tough decks, but still wasn;t as good as i though it will ._____.
RETURN OF THE FIRE
pokes-
-3 fossil magmars
-1 neo magmar
-3 entei (revelation)
-2 blaine's growlithe
-2 blaine's arcy(gotta love that firestorm)
-1 magby(slowking invasion)
-3 electabuzz
trainers-
-4 bill
-2 elm
-4 energy removal
-2 energy retrival
-4 gold berry
-2 gust of wind
-2 pluspower
-1 ngr
energy-
-16 fire
-6 electric
Stall with magmar then unleash arcy or entei to kill opponent.Buzz is their to repel water pokes but against wooper there is no chance.

Round 1 vs. some kid with murkrow deck
i get a good hand with a magmar active and a growlithe benced. He mean looks me with murkrow but i respond with a flurry of energy removal. He wasn't able to get back those dark energies and i would kill his sneasels and murkrows for the win.
(1-0)
Round 2 vs. Meganium deck
i dont remember much but i know he stalled with a rockets scyther and built up a meganium but by then a built up a arcy and shocked him.
(2-0)
Round 3 vs.Gator
i waz freaking worried. He begins with wooper and i began with buzz. Downhill from there. I tried to stall with magby but by then it was too late and he unleashed a gatr(Chomp version.___.) to kill my actives.
(2-1.)
Round 4 vs. zapdos deck
I had a lousy hand and didnt get bill elm or energy in time before he sent out his zappy to kill my neo magmar. I eventually knocked that out with entei, but he sent a dark raichu and destoyed my bench. Crashed and burned in the end.
(2-2.)
Round 5 vs. Rain dance
I tried to knock out his squirtles early but he had a ton of gold berries. He knocked out entei and magby, and i elmed 2 times in 1 turn to get the electric energy for my benced buzz and attacked with it. We removed each others energy, but i billed and found pluspower and gust of wind just before i decked myself. I gusted his shining gyrados, removed it's energy and he couldn't retreat. he decked himslef.(YYYYYYYYEEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!)
(3-2)

-i didn't make it to the finals but i got 2 revelation boosters, including a holo ho-oh and a non-holo raikou.
Props:
-To me for finishing all the games before time was called.
-To the kids i played, they were a little younger then me and left me on the edge on those games.
-To magmar, for still being a great card.
-For not being any slowking decks!
-To those lions, gotta love those lions
Slops:
-Me for not getting into the finals
It's bak to my gator deck next time, fire is too risky nowadays.
giantZruleny@aol.com