The Crusader
By
Matt Dunford
The
My name is Matt Dunford I am a player of Wizards of the
Coast at the Mission Valley Mall here in
I arrived at the Convention Center at
The time is now
It is now
It is now 8:30 A.M. Jerel Barnes and his cousin William
Gibbs joined us. After talking to Jerel for a while he decided to look around
for someone, I asked him who he was looking for, and he told me that he was
looking for Matt Moss so he could punch him in the face. [See Day 2, Round 6 of
Matt Moss’ Tournament Report]
The Main Event had just begun here are our entrants.
11-14
Kevin Nguyen (Crobat)
Ryan Watson (Crobat)
Kevin Cheng (Dark
Golduck/Slowking)
Daniel Deardoff (Kingdra/Murkrow)
Cody Dalton (Entei/Magcargo)
Richard Cheng (Fire Recharge)
Everyone else decided to enter the Unlimited Tournament.
Unlimited Tournament
Matt Dunford (Haymaker)
Danny Natan (Haymaker)
James Day (Steelix/Chansey)
Robert Estrada (Rain Dance)
Jerel Barnes
(Steelix/Chansey)
William Gibbs (Rain Dance)
Kevin Tran (Sneasel/Slowking)
Abraham Jimenez
(Sneasel/Rocket’s Scyther)
Here is my deck and my report.
The Crusader
Pokemon
12
3 Cleffa LV. 6 (Genesis)
3 Erika’s Jigglypuff LV. 13
(Challenge)
3 Electabuzz LV. 35 (Base)
3 Sneasel LV. 34 (Genesis)
Trainers
29
3 Computer Search (Base)
3 Professor Oak (Base)
3 Focus Band (Base)
3 Item Finder (Base)
4 PlusPower (Base)
3 Nightly Garbage Run
(Rocket)
3 Gust of Wind (Base)
4 Energy Removal (Base)
2 Bill (Base)
1 Super Energy Removal (Base)
Energy
19
4 Darkness Energy (Genesis)
4 Rainbow Energy (Rocket)
4 Double-Colorless Energy
(Base)
7 Electric Energy (Base)
Round 1 Matt Dunford vs. Kevin
Tran (Sneasel/Slowking)
Kevin Tran is a player from my league and just because he
is my friend did not mean that I went easy on him. I won the coin flip. I
started with an Electabuzz as my active and Kevin started with a single
Chansey. I attach an Electric energy to my active Electabuzz and use
Thundershock but failed to paralyze. He attached a Double-Colorless Energy and
used Scrunch and it failed. I attach an Electric Energy to my Electabuzz, play
an Energy Removal on his Chansey, and then play a Professor Oak to get more
basics. Kevin did manage to kill off my Electabuzz but after his Chansey was
knocked out, he really had a hard time against me. Whenever he would put an
Energy on his Sneasel, I would use an Energy Removal to take it off and whenever
he put down a Slowpoke I would just use and Erika’s Jigglypuff with a PlusPower
to kill it. So in the end I won.
1-0
Round 2 Matt Dunford vs.
Caitlin Christian (Wigglytuff/Sneasel)
When I first saw this girl I though to myself, “All right
another easy win.” But I was wrong. It started like this. My active was an
Erika’s Jigglypuff and she only had a Cleffa. So I attached a Double-Colorless
Energy to my Erika’s Jigglypuff and tried to attack, my attack failed. She
attached a Recycle Energy to her Cleffa and Eeeeeeeked, I attached an Electric
Energy to my Electabuzz and tried to use Pulled Punch, it failed. Then she put
down a Jigglypuff, a Sneasel, a Pichu and another Cleffa. Then she attached
Focus Bands to all of them and the she used a Professor Oak. I had an extremely
hard time playing against this girl especially because all of her Focus Bands
flipped heads. But I eventually defeated her. I would have never suspected that
a girl her age could have a deck that good.
2-0
After I beat Caitlin, I talked to some other Players. Two
of the other players that I met are Dax and Chao both are good players and were
doing well in the Unlimited Tournament so far. I went back to our designated
hangout spot. I asked how the other players were doing in the Main Event. Kevin
Cheng told me that he was undefeated in the 11-14 division, and I told Kevin
that I am undefeated in the Unlimited Tournament. Kevin asked if he could see
my deck, so I showed it to him and he said he wanted to see how it would do against
his Haymaker, I accepted his challenge.
Matt Dunford vs. Kevin
Cheng (Sneasel/Hitmonchan/Scyther)
We began our game. I got the coin flip. I started with an
Erika’s Jigglypuff as my active and an Electabuzz on my bench. Kevin had a
Scyther and a Hitmonchan on his bench and as his active; he had an Erika’s
Dratini. I attached a Double-Colorless Energy to my Erika’s Jigglypuff, and
then I attached a PlusPower to it and did 20 damage to him. He put a
Double-Colorless Energy to His Erika’s Dratini and did 30 damage to me. I put a
Darkness Energy on my Sneasel used Professor Oak, put on another PlusPower and
kill his Erika’s Dratini. He brings up his Hitmonchan and Jabs me. Kevin and
his Hitmonchans were really giving my Electabuzzes and Jigglypuffs a hard time.
I used a Super Energy Removal on his benched Hitmonchan and left it with a
single Recycle Energy and killed his active Hitmonchan with a Sneasel. He
brought up his Benched Hitmonchan and used Jab. I used an Energy Removal on his
Fighting Energy. He drew his card and said go. I drew my card and said go. He
drew his card and said go. And so on and so on until he finally decked out. I
had removed all of his Fighting Energy and he could not attack.
Soon after my win we were called back to play in the
Tournament.
Round 3 Matt Dunford vs.
Jeffery Orchez (Sneasel/Murkrow/Muk)
I hate this kid. Everyone hated this kid. Whenever you
would talk to anyone about this kid, the first thing they would say is that
they hate him. He is an ugly little punk with stupid hair and dumb beady eyes
and he always had his mouth open, probably to attract flies. I suspected that
this kid cheated during our game. Anyway onto our match. He won the coin flip.
I had a Sneasel as my active with an Electabuzz on my bench. He had a Cleffa as
his active and Sneasel on his bench. He put a Recycle Energy on his Cleffa and
used Lass and then he Eeeeeeeked. I had no Trainer options so I put a Darkness
Energy on Sneasel but I failed to attack. He used an Energy Removal on my
Sneasel. I really do not remember much about this match except that he really
made me mad and that it took every once of my will power not to punch him in
the face.
2-1
After my loss I talked to Abraham, he was bragging about
how he was undefeated, and I told him that he has to go up against the kid
next. Abraham said, “I hate that kid.” What did I tell you?
Round 4 Matt Dunford
vs.??? (Lugia/Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres)
I started with Sneasel as my active with an Electabuzz on
the bench. He had a Lugia as his active and all three Birds on the bench. I had
all four of my Energy Removals in my opening hand and as you can imagine that
really screwed him up. Once I got a Sneasel going, he could not make a comeback.
3-1
In between this round a tragedy occurred. Some dirty gimp
stole Kevin Tran’s deck.
Round 5 Matt Dunford vs.
Abraham Jimenez (Sneasel/Rocket’s Scyther)
Abraham lost his last match to the stupid, ugly cheater kid
and now he has to face me his worst nightmare. I won the coin flip. I began
with an Erika’s Jigglypuff and two Sneasel on the bench. He had a Sneasel and a
Rocket’s Scyther on the bench. I started by attaching a Double-Colorless Energy
to my Erika’s Jigglypuff and then I attached a PlusPower then I used a
Professor Oak and got another PlusPower and killed his Sneasel. He really did
not have a chance against me. Tubbs was easily defeated.
4-1
After Abraham met his demise, I spoke with Dax to see if he
beat that gimpy kid. “I hate that kid,” he said. See the pattern. The gimpy
cheater kid went 5-0.
Now for the Top 8
1.
Jeffery Orchez
2.
James Orchez
3.
Matt Dunford
4.
Dax
5.
Chao
6.
Abraham Jimenez
7.
Caitlin Christian
8.
???
Wow
only to members of our group made it to the Top 8.
Quarterfinals Matt Dunford
vs.??? (Blissey)
I really expected this match to be a lot harder. I won the
coin flip. I began with a Cleffa as my active and an Electabuzz on my bench. He
had a Chansey as his active and a Scyther on the bench. I brought up Electabuzz
and I used Thundershock and paralyzed his Chansey. He put a Gold Berry on his
Chansey and a Double-Colorless Energy and said go. I put down a Sneasel and
play a Professor Oak, play an Electric Energy on Electabuzz and took off his
Gold Berry and did 10 to myself. He put on another Double-Colorless Energy on
his Chansey and used Double-Edge on my Electabuzz. When my Electabuzz fell I
brought up my Sneasel and put on a Darkness Energy and two PlusPower and used a
Professor Oak, got some more basics and used Fury Swipes on his Chansey, I
needed I flip to bring it down and I got two. He managed to get a Blissey with
two Double-Colorless Energy out but I just used a Super Energy Removal on him
and that really screwed him. I used the same method that I used to beat Kevin
Cheng, he had problems getting energy and when he I did get energy I would just
take it off. I did that until he decked out. Just like Kevin. After I beat him,
I learned that he did not even play Hyper Devolution Spray.
After I won, I checked how my friends did. Dax had to go up
against Chao and Dax lost, but Dax gave us a final message. Dax said I do not
care who beats the cheater kid I just want him to be beaten. Abraham also lost,
too bad Tubbs.
Semifinals Matt Dunford
vs. James Orchez (Sneasel/Murkrow/Muk)
All right, now I am in the Semifinals and must do my best
to win. I won the coin flip. James was playing an identical deck of his little
brother except that he is a lot nicer than his brother is. James mulliganed
four times at the start of the game. When he finally got a basic, it was a
single Murkrow. I had an Electabuzz and I had three PlusPower in my hand and a
Computer Search too. I Attach an Electric Energy to my Electabuzz, use a
Computer Search, and look through my deck for another PlusPower. I looked
through my deck four times. It was in my prizes. I could have had the game
right there if it was not in my prizes. Things just went downhill from there. I
lost. However, on the plus side, Chao beat the gimpy kid and the gimpy kid ran
out of the convention center and started crying like a little wimp. Chao lost
to James but hey, he made the finals. I why am I not happy with my placing. It
is just that I knew I could but I did not. Third out of 64 is not bad. When Dax
heard that, the gimpy kid had run out crying he started cracking up.
As soon as the Tournament was over I when over to the Main
Event I joined my friends as we supported Kevin and Daniel in the Top 8 of the
11-14 Division. Daniel lost in the Quarterfinals and Kevin made it to the
Semifinals. Kevin still gets to go to
I stayed until the very end with Danny and James. I and had
the pleasure of interviewing Dark Master Trainer Mike, I learned that he is
obsessed with Gengar. Danny, James and I were the last people to leave the
convention center and they stuck with me from start until finish they are my
real friends. As Danny, James and I left we walked to out pick up spot at the
grassy knoll. While we were walking the cheater kid walked by us his eyes still
red from crying we just laughed at him, I am not a mean person but this kid
deserved it. As we sat on the grassy knoll waiting for our parents to come, we
talked of our great day our success and how much fun it was.
Props
To my Gym Leader Robert
Estrada for skipping work to be with us.
To Danny Natan for providing
himself as an obstacle for me to overcome.
To James Day for getting me
into the Pokemon trading card game.
To Abraham Jimenez for always
being alongside me.
To Dax, I only knew you for
one day but you are a cool guy.
To Chao for beating Jeffery
Orchez we all thank you for that.
To Marcello Mundo for
believing in me before I was a big shot.
To Jerel Barnes for always
providing me with a new challenge.
To Dallas Dalton for winning
the Professor’s Challenge.
To Cody Dalton you will do
better next time.
To William Gibbs for making
our time a lot funnier.
To Kevin Nguyen for his great
determination.
To Kevin Tran for always
being a good opponent.
To Ryan Watson you will do
better next time.
To Caitlin Christian for
getting in the newspaper the next day.
To Kevin Cheng for getting to
the Semifinals of the 11-14 division.
To Daniel Deardoff for making
the Top 8 of the 11-14 division.
To Yoda for having the
coolest fight scene in the history of time.
And very special props to
Suni Murata.
Slops
To my last PlusPower being in
my prizes.
To Jeffery Orchez.
To Jojo Coleman, Josh Shneck
and David Valdez you guys are gimps.
To the guy who stole Kevin’s
deck.
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Matt Dunford