From: Shadow Assassin [james_gundam@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:47 PM
To: Cardtips@pojo.com
Subject: Second Deck Fix: Sabrina's Gengar- Shadow Assassin

My deck is 'Assassination' since my nickname is 'The Assassin'. Hardly anybody uses Sabrina's Gengar so, I decided to give it a try. My basic problem is figuring out the number of energy needed in a deck. I sometimes put a lot in because of the fear of Energy Removals. Enough said, here's the deck:

 

4 Sabrina's Gastly : Suffocating Gas

3 Sabrina's Haunter: Nightmare

1 Sabrina's Gengar: Call of the Night

1 Sabrina's Gengar: Shadow Bind

4 Jigglypuff

3 Wigglytuff

1 Mr.Mime

1 Magby

1 Tyrogue

2 Computer Search

1 Berry

1 Potion

2 Super Potion

1 Switch

1 Full Heal

1 Energy Retrieval

1 Nightly Garbage Run

2 PlusPower

1 Pokemon Trader

1 Master Ball

2 Gust of Wind

1 Professor Elm

1 Professor Oak

1 EcoGym

1 Saffron City Gym

1 Challenge

17 Psychic Energy

2 DCE


Ok. Decent deck idea, unfocused deck. You should either base the deck around Pain Amplifier, and use S's Mr. Mime and S's Hypno; or use The Shadow Bind and focus the deck on retreat stoppping through Murkrow, Rocket's Training Gym, and the 50 hp Sabrina's Gastly. You also are going to need more trainers.  Let's focus on both stategies. This should be fun. The Holo S's Gengar is a major bench destroyer. The Rare S's Gengar is a retreat stopper/ pokémon power remover. If either deck gets going, your opponent will be begging for mercy.
Pokémon :
In the Holo's deck, the Gengar line is ok, but swap one rare gengar for the holo kind. Also, remove the Jiggly/Wiggly for 3/2 Sabrina's Drowzee/Hypno and 2 Sabrina's Mr. Mime. The normal Mime and the babies should be removed for more trainers.
The Rare Gengar is based more around control. The 50 hp gastly more completely accomplishes this goal. Also, drop 1 holo Gengar for 1 rare one. The Jiggly/Wiggly line should be removed for 3/2 Slowpoke/Slowking and 2 Murkrow. The babies again should be dropped.
Energy:
In the holo Gengar deck, energy costs should remain low. The hypno attacks for 1 or 2. Gengar takes only 1 for its better attack. The highest costing attack that you should use is the Haunter's second attack. So drop both DCE and 1 Psy.
The rare gengar deck should use a bit more energy. Drop 2 DCE and 3 Psy energy, but add 3 Dark energy.
Trainers: This needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Both decks need 4 Bills, 2-4 Oaks, 4 Plus Power, and some Gust of wind. The 3 pokémon cut, and the energy cut should up your trainer total a little more.  Also, you only have 59 cards in your original deck, so another can be added to the trainers. I wont put all the trainers here, so just look at the decks. I named the Holo Gengar deck Massacre because it attacks all of their pokémon. The Rare Gengar should get the name Ambush, because once you attack, they can't escape.
 
Massacre:                                           Ambush:
Pokémon (16)                                     Pokémon (16)
4 Sabrina's Gastly (40 hp)                   4 Sabrina's Gastly (50 Hp)
3 Sabrina's Haunter                             3 Sabrina's Haunter
2 Sabrina's Gengar (Holo)                   2 Sabrina's Gengar (Rare)
3 Sabrina's Drowzee                           3 Slowpoke (Neo Genesis)
2 Sabrina's Hypno                               2 Slowking
2 Sabrina's Mr. Mime (Magic Darts)   2 Murkrow
Energy (16)                                         Energy (17)
16 Psychic Energy                               14 Psychic Energy
                                                            3 Darkness Energy
Trainers (28)                                        Trainers (27)
4 Bill                                                    4 Bill
3 Professor Oak                                   3 Professor Oak
2 Misty's Wrath                                    2 Misty's Wrath
2 Plus Power                                        4 Plus Power
3 Rocket's Minefeild Gym                     3 Rocket's Training Gym
4 Gold Berry                                         2 Gold Berry
3 Energy Removal                                 2 Eco Gym
2 Super Energy Removal                       2 Gust of Wind
4 Sabrina's Psychic Control                   4 Sabrina's Psychic Control
1 Sabrina's ESP
 
This should give everyone 2 different veiws on Sabrina's Gengars. Thank you Assassin. I hope you like the decks.

Shadow Assassin -The Dark, Mysterious Destroyer of Archetype Decks

 


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