Flames Of Darkness ( Dark/Fire )

by Joseph Frombaugh

L. King Collectibles

Houston, Texas

November 30, 2002

14 total Participants

    Well, I had a lot of fun at this tournament, and chances are that everyone else did too. The tournament was under Unlimited Format. I arrived at L. King Collectibles at about 6:30 P.M. The tournament started at 7:00 P.M, so I had plenty of time to look at all the cards they had. Man, I couldn't take my eyes off that jumbo sized Expedition Feraligatr!

Anyways, the deck:

Flames Of Darkness

2 Genesis Sneasel

4 Destiny Growlithe

3 Base Set Arcanine

3 Houndour ( Plunder )

1 Discovery Houndoom

1 Ho-oh ( Sacred Fire )

4 Energy Removal

4 Super Energy Removal

3 Ecogym

1 Energy Stadium

4 Gold Berry

1 Sabrina's Gaze

4 Computer Search

20 Fire Energy

1 Double Colorless Energy

4 Darkness Energy

Round 1: VS Steve w/Typhlosion

This battle was easy. He got Typhlosion out early, but that didn't matter. By that time, Typhlosion had 20 damage on it and I had Arcanine out so I used Take Down and won the game.

1-0

Round 2: VS Ben w/ Haymaker-like deck

Oh man, this was a HORRIBLE game for me. I got a Houndoom and an Ecogym out early, but he simply removed the Ecogym with an Energy Stadium and played ER on my Houndoom's Darkness Energy, then SER on the other two Fire Energies it had attached to it. I did get Houndoom powered back up again, but by then, he had a Sneasel built up, and it's Beat Up attack just eradicated all my Poke'mon.

1-1

Round 3: VS Mr. King ( The manager ) w/ a Stall Deck

This was a GREAT game. I think both of us would agree. His main strategy was to use Alakazam to transfer all of the damage I did to Chansey and then remove it with Scoop Ups and Poke'mon Centers. Well, I was down to 2 Prizes when I noticed my deck was getting low. But the next turn I drew...a Holo Ho-oh! I quickly powered it up with the help of Stoke, and I saw that he had an Elekid and a Tyrogue on the bench. I used Sacred Fire on Tyrogue first...Heads! 1 Prize left! Then on Elekid...Heads! I win! What a game!

2-1

Round 4: VS Trenton w/ Clefable

Ugh. This round was '=/' at best for me. He got a Clefable out really quickly, and though I got

Ho-oh, I needed 2 more Energy to do Dive Bomb, when he used Metronome to copy Dive Bomb, and flipped...HEADS, taking down Ho-oh in one mighty blow! I didn't have anything on the Bench at that time so I lost.

2-2

Didn't get to play in the Final Round ( you have to have a record of 3-1 or better to do that ) but it was still a lot of fun.

Joseph Frombaugh

Email: josephfrombaugh@austin.rr.com