Hey everybody!  This is El Champ, back with my second article at pojo, another deck philosophy!(sp?)  These would all be tourney reports if my budget for Pokemon cards was a little higher than it is right now.(Mom? Dad? You listening?) Anyway, here are the stats for the Japanese cards in the deck.

Sabrina's Abra
Type:  Basic Psychic Pokemon
LV.11     HP 40
P:   Energy Loop:   20
  Effect:  Choose 1 P Energy card attached to this Pokemon, and
    return it to your hand.
          Retreat
P         Weakness
No. 063 (Common)

Sabrina's Alakazam
Type:  Stage 2 Psychic Pokemon (Evolves from Sabrina's Kadabra)
LV.44     HP 80
[Pokemon Power] Psylink
  Effect:  This Pokemon can use the attacks of any of your other
    Psychic Pokemon.  This power stops working when this Pokemon is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
PCCC:   Mega Burn:   60
  Effect:  During your next turn, this Pokemon cannot use Mega Burn.
-CCC      Retreat
P         Weakness
No. 065 (Rare Hologram)

Team Rocket's Mewtwo
Type:  Basic Psychic Pokemon
LV.35     HP 70
P:   Change Damage
  Effect:  Flip a coin.  If heads, exchange all damage counterson this Pokemon and the Defending Pokemon.
PP:   Hypnotic Wave:   20
  Effect:  Flip a coin.  If heads, the Defending Pokemon is now
    Asleep.
PPPC:   Psyburn:   60
-CC       Retreat
P         Weakness
No. 150 (Rare Hologram)

The translations are curtesty of Edo.  Thanks Edo!!!

Man, it's so hard to get your deck down to sixty cards.  One day, I realized that there are soooo many good Japanese Psychic cards.  Best of all, is Sabrina's Alakazam.  With the ability to use any attack of any Psychic pokemon on your bench, he would be awesome as the core of a mono-Psychic deck.  It could include Dark Alakazam as well, and Gengar, and three different Mewtwos....etc, etc.  Well, after making room for my normal dose of Trainers, as well as a healthy amount of energy, this was all that was left.

Psychic Smack  v1.0

Pokemon:20
4 Sabrina's Abra
4 Sabrina's Alakazam
3 Team Rocket's Mewtwo
3 Movie Promo Mewtwo
3 Mew(League Promo)

Trainers:24
4 Pokemon Breeder
4 Bill
2 Professor Oak
2 Challenge!
4 Computer Search
4 Super Energy Removal
2 Nighttime Garbage Collection
2 Pokemon Trader

Energy:16
14 Psychic Energy
2 Double Colorless Energy

First things first, THIS IS NOT A STALL DECK!!!  Hopefully that was obvious from looking a the deck list, but for any of you who saw the word "Alakazam" and assumed is was a souped-up damage swap, you're wrong.  All right, let's go over the cards in the deck.

Sabrina's Abra
He's here mostly just to evolve to Alakazam but his attack is pretty good.  Not only does it have a nice energy to damage ratio, but it ensures that if he's KO'ed, the energy won't be wasted.  Unfortunatly, he gets KO'ed quite often, with only forty HP.  The attack is sorta cool to use with Sabrina's Alakazam.

Sabrina's Alakazam
Ah, the core of the deck.  His Pokemon Power is AWESOME!!!  You think it's cool that TR's Mewtwo has three attack?  This guy has twelve.  Plus, eighty HP isn't too shabby.  Could be better for a stage two life isn't perfect.  That three retreat cost is also a pain but if you're lucky he'll be out there long to have done his job well and you can just sacrifice him and bring in the one that's waiting on your bench. 

Team Rocket's Mewtwo
This card isn't really meant to be an attacker, what it does best is sit on the bench and lend it's attacks to Sabrina's Alakazam. And WOW, they are some attacks!!  If you're good with a coin, Change damage can be very helpful to you and deadly for your opponent.  Or if you're looking to just deal the heavy damage and you're bummed that Alakazam can't use Mega Burn twice in a row, stick with Mewtwo's Psyburn.

Movie Promo Mewtwo
Like TR Mewtwo, he's not really for attacking unless it's necessary.  Other than that, it's self-explanitory.  Energy Absorbtion to power up, than do Alakazam's Mega Burn.

Mew(League Promo)
As expected, he's another bench-warmer/attack lender.  Devolution Beam is a cool attack when used in coordination with a Mega Beam. 

Pokemon Breeder
This is obviously needed to evolve Abra to Alakazam.  It's a risk not having Kadabra now that a lot of people throw a Lass or two into their decks to ward off Raindance, but speed is the key to this deck.  Now that I think about it, this deck is sorta like a Psychic-Dance.  Hmmm....

Bill
Draw two cards.
'Nuff said.

Professor Oak
Need for Speed, Baby!!!

Challenge!
Hope your opponent excepts, then get out all your bench-warmer/attack lenders.  If your opponent decllines.....
Draw two cards.
'Nuff said.

Computer Search
Get out those Alakazams ASAP.  If you discard energy, you can just pick it up later with Energy Absorbtion.  If you want, you can even get it back to your hand by using Energy Absorbtion, and then Abra's Energy Loop.

Super Energy Removal
Screw up your opponent, then hit them hard while they're down.

Nighttime Garbage Collection
Get back those energy's and Alakazam's.  Also, protect yourself from those evil stall decks.

Pokemon Trader
Use to get Alakazam, then PC Search for a Breeder.  In short, more speed. :)

Energy
To attack, DUH!  The small number is due to the Nighttime Garbage runs and Energy absorbtion.  The Double Colorless can be used for Mega Burn, but they are mostly for retreating when your bench-warmers get gusted in.

Well, I guess that's everything.  This deck probably won't become popular till Gym 2 is released in English, but even then I doubt many people will try it out.  If I was Scott Gerhardt, I'm sure it would become the fourth great archetype.  :)

   -El Champ-

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