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Blaze's Banter
Ok
fresh off the heels from one of the 2005
Pokemon Regional Championships around
the country this past weekend at the
Meadowlands in New Jersey, we are going
to take a look at the 2nd
place winner’s deck in the 10 and under
division. I happen to have the complete
decklist as this deck was run by my son
Nick. Nick went 4-0 in Swiss and swept
the next round 2-0 to make it into the
finals. But unfortunately he did lose
2-1 in the Championship match to a
Gardevoir, Magcargo, Exeggutor deck.
Sound familiar? Last week here at
Blaze’s Banter, we took a look at a
Gardy deck but without the Exeggutor
line. So to see Exeggutor splashed in
was indeed a nice surprise. So on to
the 2nd place deck I like to
call Dark Disability (Distortion +
Liability).
You’ll notice right away that there are
only 3 Dunsparce and a total of only 11
basics but in reality it goes with the
energy ratio of 11 Grass and 4 Darkness
energies. One of your attackers,
Weezing, only takes 1 energy for
Liability. Crobat-ex and Dark Crobat
are relatively cheap attackers and with
Crobat-ex you get a free retreater to go
along with Pidgeot’s free retreat cost.
With 11 draw trainers, yes I include
Celio’s as a draw trainer because you
are getting a card from your deck and
most likely it is to get Pidgeot out so
then you can use Quick Search as another
draw option, there is really enough to
get out the Dark Crobat/Weezing combo.
On to this combo for those that don’t
know:
Dark
Crobat has a Power called Black Beam
that 1x per turn before you attack you
can poison the defending Pokemon. Once
you do this retreat Dark Crobat for 1
retreat cost or you can use the Switch
trainer card and then promote Weezing as
your active and use his 1st
attack Liability. Liability lets you
put damage counters on the defending
Pokemon until it is 10 hp away from
being Ko’d then Weezing does 70 to
itself. Then the poison damage will
kick in ko’ing the defending Pokemon.
Then for even a little nastier surprise
make sure that you play Low Pressure
system before the attack so that this
will bring Weezing’s HP to 80 and he is
not knocked out by Liability. This is
really a great and cheap way to take out
your opponent’s main threat and if it
happens to be a Pokemon-ex you are
trading 2 prizes for 1 with Liability.
When
all else fails you still have Crobat-ex
to work with at 130 HP and 2 sweet
attacks with Cross Attack and Pester.
Pester also goes hand in hand with Dark
Crobat just use Black Beam, retreat and
now since the defending Pokemon is
affected by a special condition Pester
does 100 damage for only 3 energies!!
If that wasn’t enough Crobat-ex has a
Power called Distortion that lets you
put one damage counter on any of your
opponents Pokemon 1x per turn before you
attack. Use Distortion as a Strength
Charm or you can use it ko a damaged
Pokemon on their bench.
On to
the decklist. Remember that in most
cases please feel free to modify the
deck to your liking. This is just a
starting point and depending on your
metagame this deck may or may not work
for you. One thing is for sure is that
this is sure a fun deck to play!!
Pokemon – 24
3 –
Dunsparce
4 –
Zubat
2 –
Golbat
2 –
Crobat-ex
2 –
Dark Golbat
2 –
Dark Crobat
2 –
Koffing
2 –
Weezing (Liability)
2 –
Pidgey
1 –
Pidgeotto
2 -
Pidgeot
Trainers – 21
4 –
Steven’s Advice
3 –
Celio’s Network
2 –
Copycat
2 –
Prof. Oak’s Research
3 –
Rare Candy
2 –
Switch
2 –
Low Pressure System
1 –
VS Seeker
2 –
Mr. Briney’s Compassion
Energy – 15
11 –
Grass Energy
4 –
Darkness Energy
Well
I hope you enjoyed this article. Good
luck to all of you at your respective
Regional Championship tournies this
weekend. Unless someone requests
something different, next week I’m going
to look at the ever popular Ludicargo
deck that has been uber popular at the
Regionals. Please contact me at
JSChimento@aol.com
or AIM me at JSChimento if you wish to
discuss this article or any decks.
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