A couple of my friends from up in Kansas decide to come and stay the weekend with me down in Oklahoma. They arrive friday afternoon ready to playtest and party Oklahoma style. I am still undecided on what deck I will be running. It was between Zekrom, Mew/Rhyperior/BlazikenFB, and an HS-on build I have been working on. We test until about 4 AM knowing we have to get up at 6:30 to drive 2 &1/2 hours to Ada. Regardless, the playtesting helped out a lot. Joe decides to run ReshiBoar, Andrew was running his RIDICULOUS Gigas list, and I decided upon Mew. We stop at Sonic down in Stroud and have an extremely creepy carhop.
Round 1 vs Joe.... W/ Reshiboar
This is one of the things I hate the most. I always end up having to battle one of the guys that I bring with me. Regardless, we always try to make our games fun and enjoyable. It's not like we knew each others decks by heart or anything either...
I can't remember exactly how this game started. But I do remember setting up byh T2 and I was able to HC turn 3 or so. He draws through most of his deck and I realize that he is burning through energies wayyyy too fast. I do some math in my head and after he KO's my active mew, I decide to send Blaziken FB active rather than my benched Mew. He looks confused for a moment and then I proceed to attach Rainbow and Luring Flame his benched Emboar forward. He has the choice of retreating it and burning 4 energy, or trying to stall with it active. He retreats and KO's my blaziken. He has already used up all of his fisherman and he cant pull of the 2 energy he needs to end the game. I sweep with Mew for my last 2 prizes.
GG Joe. Blaziken really saved me here.
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Round 2 vs ... with DonkDos
I don't really have anything nice to say about this guy. I asked him if he was going to donk my lone Mew and his reply was "I only play to win."
I would understand running the deck to prove a point to P!P but you take it too far.
Way to ruin the game for everyone else.
And thank you Austino for the kind words of wisdom after the match
1-1
Round 3 vs Old Man (Roy) w/ Cinccino/Mandibuzz/Zoro
I have the utmost respect for this man. He has an obvious love for the game as he is the TO for Oklahoma. Dr. D gave him a break for the day though
We start off fairly evenly. He plays the deck well and uses a Judge midgame to give me a hand of Sableye, Sableye, and 2 energy. Worst possible hand ever for midgame. I cant get much going but I manage to Luring Flame for about 4 turns to damage a large amount of his pokemon. I know that when I Luring Flame hsi benched Pokemon, he cant retreat them without equipping energy and wasting attachment for turn. His only Pokemon on the bench that had energy was Bouffalant.
Time is up and we are are close on prizes and I KO something to bring it 2-4. He tries to burn through his deck to find something to get going, he eventually passes. Turn 3 for me and I draw and end my turn.
GG sir, it was one of the best matches I have had in a while.
2-1
Round 4 vs Andrew Parmely w/ Gigas
I feel as if I almost built his Gigas list, but I wasn't good enough with it so I put it in the hands of my good friend Andrew. In our playtesting, he generally beats me. He can generally powerlock me the whole game so i know to not even worry about my Delcatty.
I start Mew, Sableye, Skitty. I decide to start with Mew active as I wanted to see off on turn 1. I get the see off and after that, Andrew starts running away with it. He is one of the elite few who can wield Gigas properly. He is way up on prize count and I am not hitting the necesarry energy on Hard Crush. He ALWAYS belts at the right time which put me 20 short on the KO multiple times. He sac's at the perfect tiems and is just rolling right over me. I see a weak point and KO his active Gigas. He promotes a benched Gigas and Levels up. The prize count is 2-1 I believe. He equips a belt to make his Gigas have to be hit by 4 energy... I am soo disappointed but then a light bulb goes off in my head. I had around 15 cards left in my deck. I go through my discard and coutn all the energy. I know I have enough in my deck. But I also had a few other cards that would get in the way of my HC. I realize I have Collector in hand and pull my last 2 Sableye out of the deck leaving only a Bebes, 1 other trainer, and the rest were energy. I HC for the game.
The winner of this game was going to make Top 4... The only other person to beat Andrew was the same guy who beat me with SableDos earlier.... and Im sorry bud, you did amazingly for your FIRST TOURNAMENT EVER
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Top 4 was as follows:
Joel with SpeeDos
Guy who beat me earlier
Me
Joe DeVore with ReshiBoar
Top 4
I am obviously facing the guy from earlier.
TERRIFIC....
Game 1
I start Mew, he starts Sableye and 2 PokeDrawer + in hand.
Game 2
I have a ridiculous start with Mew, Sableye, Skitty and Psychic energy +Collector in hand.
He says that I didnt offer my deck to cut and makes me reshuffle and he cuts it giving me a blazikenFB Dialga start. It was fast.
Props
Andrew being Ridiculous with Gigas
Joe having a love affair with Shuckle
Austin and Taylor for being great judges
Dr. D for running the tournament
Blaziken FB for winning me some games
Slops
People who run Donk decks for the SOLE purpose of winning. Way to suck the fun out of pokemon.
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Round 1 vs Joe.... W/ Reshiboar
This is one of the things I hate the most. I always end up having to battle one of the guys that I bring with me. Regardless, we always try to make our games fun and enjoyable. It's not like we knew each others decks by heart or anything either...
I can't remember exactly how this game started. But I do remember setting up byh T2 and I was able to HC turn 3 or so. He draws through most of his deck and I realize that he is burning through energies wayyyy too fast. I do some math in my head and after he KO's my active mew, I decide to send Blaziken FB active rather than my benched Mew. He looks confused for a moment and then I proceed to attach Rainbow and Luring Flame his benched Emboar forward. He has the choice of retreating it and burning 4 energy, or trying to stall with it active. He retreats and KO's my blaziken. He has already used up all of his fisherman and he cant pull of the 2 energy he needs to end the game. I sweep with Mew for my last 2 prizes.
GG Joe. Blaziken really saved me here.
1-0
Round 2 vs ... with DonkDos
I don't really have anything nice to say about this guy. I asked him if he was going to donk my lone Mew and his reply was "I only play to win."
I would understand running the deck to prove a point to P!P but you take it too far.
Way to ruin the game for everyone else.
And thank you Austino for the kind words of wisdom after the match
1-1
Round 3 vs Old Man (Roy) w/ Cinccino/Mandibuzz/Zoro
I have the utmost respect for this man. He has an obvious love for the game as he is the TO for Oklahoma. Dr. D gave him a break for the day though
We start off fairly evenly. He plays the deck well and uses a Judge midgame to give me a hand of Sableye, Sableye, and 2 energy. Worst possible hand ever for midgame. I cant get much going but I manage to Luring Flame for about 4 turns to damage a large amount of his pokemon. I know that when I Luring Flame hsi benched Pokemon, he cant retreat them without equipping energy and wasting attachment for turn. His only Pokemon on the bench that had energy was Bouffalant.
Time is up and we are are close on prizes and I KO something to bring it 2-4. He tries to burn through his deck to find something to get going, he eventually passes. Turn 3 for me and I draw and end my turn.
GG sir, it was one of the best matches I have had in a while.
2-1
Round 4 vs Andrew Parmely w/ Gigas
I feel as if I almost built his Gigas list, but I wasn't good enough with it so I put it in the hands of my good friend Andrew. In our playtesting, he generally beats me. He can generally powerlock me the whole game so i know to not even worry about my Delcatty.
I start Mew, Sableye, Skitty. I decide to start with Mew active as I wanted to see off on turn 1. I get the see off and after that, Andrew starts running away with it. He is one of the elite few who can wield Gigas properly. He is way up on prize count and I am not hitting the necesarry energy on Hard Crush. He ALWAYS belts at the right time which put me 20 short on the KO multiple times. He sac's at the perfect tiems and is just rolling right over me. I see a weak point and KO his active Gigas. He promotes a benched Gigas and Levels up. The prize count is 2-1 I believe. He equips a belt to make his Gigas have to be hit by 4 energy... I am soo disappointed but then a light bulb goes off in my head. I had around 15 cards left in my deck. I go through my discard and coutn all the energy. I know I have enough in my deck. But I also had a few other cards that would get in the way of my HC. I realize I have Collector in hand and pull my last 2 Sableye out of the deck leaving only a Bebes, 1 other trainer, and the rest were energy. I HC for the game.
The winner of this game was going to make Top 4... The only other person to beat Andrew was the same guy who beat me with SableDos earlier.... and Im sorry bud, you did amazingly for your FIRST TOURNAMENT EVER
3-1
Top 4 was as follows:
Joel with SpeeDos
Guy who beat me earlier
Me
Joe DeVore with ReshiBoar
Top 4
I am obviously facing the guy from earlier.
TERRIFIC....
Game 1
I start Mew, he starts Sableye and 2 PokeDrawer + in hand.
Game 2
I have a ridiculous start with Mew, Sableye, Skitty and Psychic energy +Collector in hand.
He says that I didnt offer my deck to cut and makes me reshuffle and he cuts it giving me a blazikenFB Dialga start. It was fast.
Props
Andrew being Ridiculous with Gigas
Joe having a love affair with Shuckle
Austin and Taylor for being great judges
Dr. D for running the tournament
Blaziken FB for winning me some games
Slops
People who run Donk decks for the SOLE purpose of winning. Way to suck the fun out of pokemon.
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