Gooey and great v2.5(Dark Muk)
Daniel Reyes
Strike Zone
Houston, TX
Sat June 22
Roughly 35-46 ppl(just a guess. Im not too accurate)
Gym Challenge 11-14

Well, I threw the deck together a week before the
tourney. I was unprepared. Luckily I got the cards I
needed quickly. I got 3 of my 4 Dark Muks I needed by a
friend of mine that was judging that day. I got there
kind of early with my friend Tray. Not many people were
there at first. Then, the crowds started building. I met
many people, Including screwball. Thanks for everything,
man.

It took me forever to write me deck registration. =(

Then, the first round began.



The deck:
Pokemon-15
4xGrimer(2 LC, 2 Rocket)
4xDark Muk
3xmurkrow
2xscyther(promo)
2xcleffa
Energy-15
11xGrass
4xDark
Trainers-30
4xElm
4xDouble Gust
4xIOR
4xBill
3xRSA
3xFocus Band
3xErika
3xRocket's Hideout
1xTime capsule
1xScoop Up



6 rounds swiss modified

Round 1 vs Tray (w/rogue fire deck)

This was a hard battle. I was battling my best friend.
He took the trip with me, and I was battling him first
round. I couldn't hold back, though. I hope he
understands...
He started out with a moltres. I got out 2 muks turn 3,
and I basically kept gusting his high retreat pokemon.
He didnt get out any energy, and I picked up all 6
prizes before he got one.
1-0
3 pts

Round 2 vs Justin (w/Gatr)

We both started out fast. He had a turn 3 Gatr on me,
but not many water in the discard. He KOed my scyther,
but then I KOed his gatr, and he was pretty much done.
he got close to another gatr with a croconaw, but a
fatal sweep away resulted in him decking out. I really
admire this kid. He could have cheated, but he didn't. I
KOed his baby, with a focus band. I thought he had to
flip for the focus, but he reminded me that poison gets
around it.
2-0
6 pts

Round 3 vs John (w/typhlo and B.arcanine)

He started out with a growlthe immediately stoking. He
soon got an arcanine out, but I had gotten out 2 charged
Dark Muks. He Koed one of them, then I Koed his Canine.
He sent out tyhlosion, and started charging another
canine. He never really attacked with Typhlosion
(mistake) and I ended up gusting out his babies. The
real reason I won was because poison gets around focus
band.
3-0
9 pts

Round 4 vs Jason (w/Gatr)

yet another Gatr. he started out slow with a tyrogue. I
was about to lose, but my focus band saved me. i got out
a Dark muk and Koed his Tyrogue. He was pretty much
stuck the whole game because of the mass IOR/RSA's i
played. I must have played all of them in that game.I
Koed his 2 totodiles and the game was over.
4-0
12 pts

Round 5 vs Ryan (w/muk-misty's gyrados-kingdra)

This was the hardest battle of the day. It doesnt sound
too good, but at the point, we were the only 2
undefeated people. He started out with magikarps. I
started out slow =( . i got out a Dark Muk like turn 4,
and by then he had a Gyrados. I KOed it, he got another
one out, and I KOed it too.
I gusted out one of his muks, and KOed it. At that
point, I had 2 prizes left, and he had all six. Then, he
got a kingda (that i underestimated greatly) and it
ripped me apart. Towards the end, I realized he had
picked up 5 straight prizes. He KOed my cleffa in the
end, to win it. I had one prize left.
4-1
12 Pts

Round 6 vs Tal (w/gatr)

This was the shortest game in the day for me. I killed 2
of his totodiles with my Dark Muk.He then poisoned me
with a smeargle. I ended up poisoning him too. At the
end of the turn, we both KOed each other. I won because
I had a murkrow on my bench.
5-1
15 pts


At the time, i was tied in first place with the person I
battled in round 5. I got 3rd in the top 8 somehow.

Finals Round 1 vs Tal (w/gatr)

This was the worst moment in my life in the game of
pokemon. I started out with a GREAT hand, consisting of
a few erikas, an IOR, an elm, and a dark muk. The only
bad part was that I only had a cleffa as a basic. He
flipped heads to go first. He started out pretty fast.
He started out with a suicune, and did something
extraordinary. He brought out a totodile w/focus band,
and he flipped heads for baby power. he fury swiped my
and got ALL 2 HEADS!!! He KOed my cleffa for the win!

The whole day, I was dominating Gatrs. i lost the whole
tourney to a totodile. He got 5 straight heads!!!! thats
a 3.125% chance!!!! I was really mad, but I can't hate
the kid. I would be happy if I had that luck.

The winner of the tourney played Gatr. I was confident
if I battled him, I would have won, or came really close.

I got 18 boosters, to get 4 holos... My luck went bad in
between the 4th and 5th round. =(

Props-
-Luis for giving me 3 Dark Muks a few minutes before the
tourney. He saved my life!!!
-Screwball for hooking me up with a promo scyther, and
convincing me to play Dark Muk.U DA MAN.
-Martin Moreno for helping me out a lot. He helped me
with Dark Muk strategy, encouragement, and metagaming
other decks. Thanks a lot man!!!
-My friend Tray for going with me.(I battled him 1st
round lol)
-Cool judges
-The incredible 5-heads luck of Tal Lewis


Slops-
-Horrible boosters.
-The incredible 5-head luck of Tal Lewis
-Unoriginality(porbably over 50% of the decks were
Gatr.) Thats not necessarily bad for me. =)


When I lost like that, I felt like I let a lot of people
down. Damn.But I'll move on...

PS... No hard feelings, Tal.


By Daniel Reyes
DanMar2703@worldnet.att.net