HydroBurst
By Bradley Hammitt
EX Hidden Legends Pre-Release Tournament
Dolly’s Crafts and Gifts
Toronto, ON
Saturday, June 12th, 2004
About 25-30 Participants
It took me an hour and a half to get here, since I come from Buffalo, NY. There are no tournaments in my area, L, so this is the closest one. This was a sealed deck tournament, not the normal booster draft, so I was kind of unprepared. This is the first prerelease tournament I’ve been to, but anyway, here’s the deck:
Pokémon: 22
1 Cyndaquil #59 (no more grass and metal for you!)
1 Igglybuff (Set Song = good)
1 Kyogre EX (beat down!!)
2 Tentacool #77
1 Tentacruel (status effects are always good)
2 Staryu #75
1 Starmie #49
1 Corsola #32 (card drawing)
1 Snow-cloud Castform
2 Clamperl #58
1 Gorebyss
3 Beldum #54
1 Metang #43
3 Chikorita #55 (more status effects)
1 Tropius (Frutation = good)
Trainers: 2
1 Island Cave
1 Ancient Tomb
NRG: 16
2 Grass NRG
4 Psychic NRG
10 Water NRG
My strategy is, just try to win! There was a lot of talk about Metagross and Metagross EX, and I was hoping I did not run into a deck like that. Everybody at my table got at least one EX, and 2 of them got a Wiggly EX. The other was a Metagross EX. (uh-oh!)
Round 1 (Rick, miscellaneous cards, no real theme)
There were 2 Rick’s, but I faced the older. This game was my worst loss ever. His combo of Machop, Relicanth, and Starmie was brutal. Relicanth’s poké-body makes me flip twice to see if I wake up! I lost.
Prizez: (0-4)
Record: 0-1
Points: 0
Round 2 (Steve, more miscellaneous cards)
I took this guy apart with my Metang, and brought out Kyogre EX for the finishing blow. Iggly’s Set Song got out Tropius, which in turn helped in healing my Kyogre EX w/Fruitation. (told you frutation = good) I win!
Prizez: (4-2)
Record: 1-1
Points: 3
Round 3 (Isidro, and you guessed it, more miscellaneous cards, AND Regice EX)
This was a close game, but in the end, my Kyogre EX destroyed his bench with Water Arrow, around a Regice EX. I win! This was the only EX that I battled in the tourney!
Prizez: (4-2)
Record: 2-1
Points: 6
Round 4 (Greg, I don’t even have to say it)
I started off taking a quick 3 prizez, but he wouldn’t quit. His Banette came out and started doing 40 damage every turn. In the midst of this, I ran out of NRG. L . He finally won, since all my pokémon had at least 40 damage on them and I couldn’t retreat.
Prizez: (3-4)
Record: (2-2)
Points: 6
Greg traded me 6 paks of Magma-Aqua for a Milotic! I Won 7th place and got 4 Hidden Legends booster packs! The guy who won my division, +15, was Rick, and his son won the –10, so they both got a whole box of boosters! What a rip!!! In my packs I pulled a Banette, Huntail, Shiftrey holo(dark type), and a Groudon EX! Greg traded me 6 packs of Magma-Aqua for a Milotic. But, no Blex or any other EX’s.
Props:
To Kyogre EX for saving by butt!
To all the people for being nice
To Metang
To the people at my deck building table
For there being another Tourney in August!
And to Sandslash for being the Koolest Pokémon (my opinion)
Slops:
For not getting a Blex in the 6 packs
To getting stuck for 1h and 30m on the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge coming home
For not getting a Feebas in my packs for the tourney
To the chubby kid who won the 11-14 age group
To there only being 2 people in the -10 age group
Bradley Hammitt