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Pokemon Tournament Reports From Rags to Riches
Rags (Exeggutor d/
Raichu d)
Game Parlor
States
This was my second States
ever and its been one of the longest pokemon events I've
ever been to for awhile. I was already a little
nervous, but before the tournament Gonzalo and I had an
early lunch at Subway. I've been playing the deck for a
while and made my first version of it as soon as I saw
William Hung's report on how Rags won nationals, so I
was playing it already for 4 months. I expected a lot
of Metanite, Salamence ex and Flygod, so I teched in a
crystal shard. Here is my list:
4 Exeggutor d
4 Exeggcute d
4 Raichu d
4 Pikachu d
4 Holon's Castform
2 Holon's Magnemite
4 Cursed Stone
1 Mr. Briney's Compassion
2 Energy Root
2 Warp Point
1 Windstorm
2 Cessation Crystal
1 Crystal Shard
2 Mary's Request
4 Holon Transceiver
3 Holon Mentor
1 Holon Adventurer
1 Holon Scientist
2 Holon Researcher
1 Holon Farmer
1 Heal Energy
3 Double Rainbow Energy
3 Scramble
4 Metal
So now on with the report:
Round 1 vs. Stephen the "Big
Mouth" with Metagross (PK) and Mew (LM)
I set up early and he
manages to set up Metagross ex after I knock out a few
of his pokemon. I hit him first with Exeggutor when he
is a metang, he KOs me. I send up Pikachu and attach a
holon magnemite to my benched Exeggutor. He KOs all four
of my Pikachus and draws 4 prizes. I wasn't expecting
that. I send up Exxegutor attach a castform, I already
have a benched exeggcute and I think I'm going to lose.
Then I topdeck a mentor, get my last exxegcute bench it
and KO for thye win. My thought was that he almost had
me there.
1-0
Round 2 vs. Ryan Weber with
GatrQueen
Ryan is from the Aardvarks
league and I hear from Gonzalo that he is really good.
Luckily I played Gatrqueen before and knew that I had to
swarm with Raichu. I keep on early KOing him. I kept
Cessation Crystal and Cursed Stone reasonably early. I
take the early advantage and play from there. I get a
caution for looking at my prize thinking it was my hand,
but time runs out and I win. Ity was one of those games
as always with GatrQueen where you can press an early
ad=vantage, but eventually it will overpower you. That
was also a good match.
2-0
Round 3 vs. Gonzalo with
Scizor ex/ Kingler d
I have to be careful to not
damage his Scizor ex too much and Kingler isn't any
better. Gonzalo and I always play each other at the
league, so no surprises, althought he usually wins. I
keep on KOing so that he cannot set up properly and I
prepare my Raichu for my last KO. I drew like mad
looking for my windstorm. I put away my warp point I
used. Then I look in my hand and saw that it was at the
very beggining of my hand. I windstorm and metallic
thunder the Kingler d for the KO.
3-0
Round 4 vs. Paul N. with
Kingdra ex d swarm/ Fearow d
I shut him out early in the
game with cessation crystal and take my first 5 prizes.
He eventually gets rid of cursed stone and I can't get
any more. I decide to attack full power with exxegutr,
when I probably should have delta drawn. If I only had
my other cessation crystal I would have zapped his
Kingdra d with 10 hp left, but he built up some other
one and defeated me.
3-1
Round 5 vs. Michael with
BOOM (Banette ex/ Houndoom Unseen Forces)
I blindly swarmed into his
trap and it was too late. He locked crysral beach on me
and always got heads on his ER 2 and Reversals. I
thought it was just like MewTric, but it wasn't. I
shouldn't have drawn so much because he Copycatted and I
should have either had Latilock in my deck or just have
2 Raichus set up. That draw he got even after the lock
made it hopeless for me to win.
3-2
Round 6- vs. Kevin Wong with
Arcanine ex and Eeveelutions
He starts with Holon'sd
Voltorb. I attack with Pikachu he uses Prof. Elm's
Training Method and evolves, I evolve to Raichu DRE,
metallic thunder.
4-2
I didn't make the top 8,
but I placed 11th anyway. I was extremely exhausted
after the tournament. I was also trying to introduce my
Houndooom/ Weezing deck to other people so that maybe it
could be made better. I also noticed in the top 8 that 7
out of 8 were archetypes of some kind: Eeveelutions,
BOOM, Metanite, and Rags. The only rogue deck was
StingRay. Some decks seem to counter BOOM in some manner
as well, such as with Latilock and I think eeveelutions
counter it too.
Props and Slops
So tired after tournament, but at least I want
to remember it....
David Bennett
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