Turbo Wiggly 1.1

By Anna Schipper

The Joker

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sunday, December 16th, 2001

About 60 participants, 13 in my age group (15+)

 

This is the fifth tourney I played in, and I was a bit nervous (okay, quite more than a bit) because I went 3-3 with a Wiggly deck in another tourney last month, losing to 3 (!) Steel Chansey decks, where the Unown N’s screwed me up because I didn’t play Igglybuff. Well, I took out the 4 Erika’s Jigglypuff’s I played then, and replaced them with 2 Clefairy and 2 Clefable. Another few changes, and well, this is the deck:

 

Pokemon (17)

3 Jigglypuff (see below)

3 Wigglytuff (well, duh!)

2 Clefairy (Neo, for its +10 HP)

2 Clefable (good against anything with big attacks like Arcanine, but mostly for R. Zappy)

2 Scyther (good for second turn kill if you can’t find a Jiggly)

2 Igglybuff (anti Slowking, Unown N)

2 Cleffa (eeeeeek)

1 Gligar (playing the weakness game against Chansey, Wiggly, Clefable) 

 

Trainer (29)

4 Oak (Need to tell you why?)

4 PC Search (To get what I want, when I want it)

4 Pluspower (10 extra damage? Sure!)

3 Item Finder (Get back my Oaks)

3 GUW (needed in every deck)

2 Gold Berry (Just because)

2 SER (for Dark and Metal, but mostly Metal)

2 Lass (great with Cleffa, and puts cards back in your deck)

2 NGR (If I Oak away my Wiggly’s and anti decking)

2 No Removal Gym (save my DCE’s)

1 Rocket’s Minefield Gym (to remove the Eco or No Removal, so I can removal them)

 

Energy (14)

6 Grass (for Scyther’s sword’s dance)

4 DCE (Well, this is obvious)

4 Recycle (Great to protect my Wiggly from SER)

 

 

Before the tourney I played a couple of practice matches, to play test my deck since we have no Pokemon League where I come from (Groningen). I played 5 practice matches, against 2 Blaine’s Ninetales, a Slowking/Sneasel, and 2 against Magby (no, that’s not his real name…) with his Steelix deck (he won the STSQ in Holland in the 10-), and I won them all, giving me a bit confidence.  Then there was this boy, who was really confident and extremely cocky. He said all things to me about how bad my deck was and how it would lose against Slowkings and Tyrogues en all fighting types. I said something like ‘whatever’ and asked him for a match if he was so sure about himself.  He said he never played matches before tournaments because it brought him bad luck… yeah sure, I was just scared of fighting me. At the end of the day I asked him his record and he went 2-2. By then, I started laughing really hard and thought that it served him right…

 

The tourney was 4 rounds of swiss (best of three), and they said the t8 would go to the finals, but due to time, we only played 4 rounds, one with the most points wins the tournament. All cards were allowed (everyone in 15+ played Sneasel except for me and one other guy). Well enough talking, here are the matches:

 

 

ROUND 1 against ??? with Slowking/Sneasel

 

Game 1:           I was very nervous, this was the guy I defeated in a practice game, but I really hate Slowking decks, I almost always lose from them… Anyway, we shuffle and draw 7 cards, flip the cards over, and he has a lone fossil Gastly! I opened with Scyther and Jiggly on the bench. We roll the dice, I go first. And, to make a long story short, I retreat the Scyther, I Oak and Search till I find 3 pluspowers and a DCE and finish him. Yes! First turn kill!

1-0

Game 2:           This was what I feared for. He opens with gastly and 2 Slowpokes, me with a lone Scyther. As a loser of the first game, he goes first. Oaks, brings out Sneasel, retreat Gastly, Darkness and he does fury swipes with 2 heads.

I draw, Oak, fill my bench but I have no energy. He goes, evolves the two Slowpokes (grrr…) drops a rainbow energy on Sneasel, and starts beating through all my pokemon. I believe I took one price against his six…

1-1

Game 3            This was the same as the first game, only he opened with a slowpoke. Another First turn kill… Man, that’s not how I want to win, but I’m not complaining. I asked him how many Basics he had in his deck and he counted them and said…17!

 

2-1  3 points

 

Well, after this I traded some cards, called my sister back home, who didn’t want to make the 150 miles trip with the train. She wished me luck again and I went back to play the second round.

 

ROUND 2 against Lia with non-holo ho-oh, sneasel, neo 3starmie, and chansey

 

Game 1            I was very glad that I had to play Lia, because she was just playing for fun, with a non-metagame deck, and I knew I could beat her twice. But she DID gave me a run for my money when she powered up a Ho-oh with 4 different energy’s, but the games were fun. I started with a scyther, she with Chansey. I dropped an energy on Scyther and called out swords dance. She did some thing I don’t really remember and laid down a Healing Field. I got Wiggly out on turn 2, played a Clefairy, and did 60 damage with Scyther. She played a DCE on Chansey, flipped heads for the Healing Field and Scrunched unsuccessfully.

I evolved my Clefairy, and sacrificed it for 80 damage and a knock out.

She promoted a Starmie and tackled for 10 to my Scyther.

I topdeck the needed pluspower and knocked out the staryu.

Next turn my Wigglytuff was powered up and blasted through her Sneasel, 2 Ho-oh’s and a Chansey for the win.

3-1

Game 2 

This was almost the same as the first game, only this time she got out her Starmie and confused my Wigglytuff. After flipping 3 tails in a row for the attacks to kill her Starmie (another Healing Field was in play), I knocked out my own Wiggly, to promote another Wiggly who started waving away the rest of her Pokemon.

 

4-1  6 points

 

At this point I was one of the two people with 6 points, the other one being James Lomaz, a guy playing Slowking/Sneasel/Hitmonchan(?). I had to face him in the 3rd round, and I was really nervous. I knew that if I won this round, I would be ranked 1st, and have a good chance at going in the top 8. But John had won the last two tourneys I competed in, so I knew it was not likely that I would win…

 

ROUND 3 against John with Slowking/Sneasel/Hitmonchan/ER,SER

 

Game 1            I’ve forgotten most of the details because of the tension, but I do know that he got out two quick Slowkings, a Sneasel and 2 Hitmonchan’s. After some lucky flips with his Tyrogue against my Jigglypuff and Clefairy (damn their weakness), I brought out a Scyther (resistance) but he kept gusting everything with weakness and his Slowkings prevented my trainers, even tough I had out an Igglybuff. I managed to get 3 prizes with Wigglyuff, but his SER slowed me down even with the No Removal Gym, and after that it was over.

4-2

Game 2            I knew I had to win this game to stay in the match, and I said a short prayer. Well, it helped because I got out a turn two Wiggly (his Tyrogue flipped two times TAILS) and I knocked out three of his Pokemon before a Sneasel stopped my Wigglytuff. I brought out a Clefable, defeating the Sneasel with 3 heads on the Beat Up. He brought out a Hitmonchan, played an ER on my Scyther with one grass energy, discarding 2 cards for the No Removal Gym. I had a Jigglypuff on the bench with a DCE, but he didn’t see that! That left him without a hand, and on my turn I evolved to Wigglytuff, put a Recycle Energy on it and knocked out the Hitmonchan with a pluspower (I had both Iggly’s out for his two Slowkings) for the win!

After this game I asked him to tie, because we had only five minutes left, but a judge came to us and said we had to do a Sudden Death. We said we wanted to tie, but he said that wasn’t possible, but we could also throw the dice for the winner… We played on anyway with a sudden death.

5-2

Game 3 (Sudden Death)            We rolled the dice, and I could begin.  I opened with a Scyther (yes!) to his Hitmonchan. I Lassed him first turn, removing his Professor Elm, SER and Computer Search. I attached a grass, hoping for a quick game. No such luck, tough, he played an ER, but his Hitmonchan couldn’t touch me. I drew, attached a Recycle (I didn’t have another grass) and ended my turn. He did nothing on his turn and I drew a DCE(!)

I attached, and Slashed his Hitmonchan. He retreated it with a DCE to a Sneasel. On my turn I did 30 damage. He retreated for another Hitmonchan and still couldn’t attack me. I drew, hoping to topdeck something like Oak or Search to get a Gust, and I drew… A GUST OF WIND!

So, gust with his Sneasel, game!

 

6-2  9 points

 

After this I was very happy! I traded a lot of cards to get my Gym Challenge set complete, and everyone asked me how on earth I defeated John, which was quite funny.

I knew whomever I had to play in the fourth round that I could beat him!

 

ROUND 4 against Wim with Sneasel and Porygon 2

 

Game 1            Just for the record, he didn’t use the Porygon 2 for attacks but for his Pokemon power on Sneasel’s Energy’s. He had won two matches and his first round ended in a draw. We shuffled and he explained me a bit of his strategy (?). I got to go first and opened with a Cleffa against his Sneasel. I attached a Recycle to my benched Jigglypuff and let him go (I had a Wiggly in my hand). He attached a Dark Energy and a Focus Band to Sneasel and fury swiped my Cleffa for 20 damage. I drew, evolved to Wiggly and retreat Cleffa.

I Oak twice to fill my bench and kill the Sneasel. He watches in disbelief and says something about my deck being even faster than his…all the while forgetting to flip for the Focus Band. He promotes a Cleffa, and eeeeks. I kill the Cleffa and after that an Igglybuff, a Porygon, a Porygon 2 and a Sneasel with Focus Band. He couldn’t find more basics than those six (even after about 4 Elms) I win!

7-2

Game 2             This was a fast one. I started with a Scyther active and a Jigglypuff benched, he with a lone Igglybuff. I won the flip and drew a DCE. I attached it to Jigglypuff, played a Computer Search for a pluspower, retreated the Scyther and rolled my 20 sided dice…come on…heads…And it was a 10! Yes!

8-2

He was a bit disappointed so we played a third game, just for fun.

Game 3            I didn’t write anything down about this game but I know that it was the same as the first, with him not being able to find the right pokemon and me knocking everything out with Wigglytuff and great Baby flips.

 

At this point John came to us and said that they wouldn’t play more rounds in a Top 4 or Top 8, because of a time shortage and that the winner of this game was the winner of the tournament. Wim said it was me, and I was like ‘wow!’. I won my first tourney outside Groningen!

 

9-2 12 points

 

I won 2 Neo 3 boosters, a box of green Deck Protectors and a Birthday Pikachu. In the boosters I got an Aerodactyl and a holo Ampharos. I was so proud of myself and I was quite happy. After that I took the next train home and wrote this Killer Deck report.

 

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Thanks for reading!

Any mail is welcome, deck tips, questions, and comments, even flames!

 

Anna Schipper

annabeetleborfan@hotmail.com