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Best Comics
278 Middle Neck Road
Great Neck, NY
11021, USA
Sunday, November 21 1999
SUPER STALL
Another great tournament at best comics. I've been playing Super Stall for a
few weeks now, and I decided to play again. Why not? I've had some success
with it. This time would be different though. I decided not to play MewTwo,
because a Pidgeot using Hurricane sends him packing. (I tried the 59 energy,
1 MewTwo deck. Your opponent is just as likely to deck you as you are him, as
long as he realizes not to Bill or take cards for mulligan. I lost to my
friend that way. Besides, it takes the fun out of the game ;-)) Now, the deck:
10 Pokemon
4 Moltres (Wildfire, and Divebomb just in case)
4 Chansey (120 HP)
1 Aerodactyl (To stop the very unoriginal and very annoying Raindance deck)
1 Omanyte (Perfect for setting up Impostor Oaks)
24 Trainers
4 Mysterious Fossil (Stall/Omanyte/Aerodactyl)
4 Clefairy (Stall)
3 Pokemon Center (Remove damage counters after Wildfire)
4 Defender (Keeps me alive)
2 Computer Search (Gets me what I want, when I want it)
4 Impostor Oak (Discards cards)
3 Switch (I don't want to pay Moltres' retreat cost, I want to WILDFIRE. HAHA)
26 Energy
22 Fire Energy
4 Double Colorless Energy
As usual, the goal of this deck is to stall and deck your opponent. However
(as seen in rounds 2 and 4) I am not afraid to Divebomb and Double-Edge for
the no-basic kill.
There were 16 people at the tournament. An even number, no byes. It was
single elimination with a two-out-of-three final. I played no, absolutely NO
original decks. Very dissapointing. Here's the report:
Round 1: John Wachstock with RAINDANCE:
Lovely. Another unoriginal deck. He started Squirtle, me a Clefairy Doll with
Moltres on my bench. I got lucky enough to get out an Omanyte, and I Impostor
Oaked his only Blastoise. Very lucky indeed. I ended up decking him, with 3
Impostor Oaks, lot's of Wildfire, and some good old-fashioned stalling with
Chansey, Mysterious Fossil and Clefairy Doll.
WIN 1-0
Round 2: Aaron Block with Potpourri Haymaker:
Another unoriginal deck. At least he had Ponyta in here, which was very good
for me. He started Ponyta as his lone basic, while I had Chansey as my one. I
had a DCE and 3 Fire energies, and an Impostor Oak and Mysterious Fossil. I
started with Fossil, thinking I should stall, but I saw he only had Ponyta. I
discarded the Fossil, sent out Chansey and played a DCE. He Billed, but no
basic. He played a fire energy. I draw a Pokemon Center, play an energy on
Chansey and Scrunch.......tails. He doesn't get a basic, plays a Fire Energy
and does Flame Tail for 30. I play a fire energy and Double-Edge for the win.
WIN 2-0
Round 3: David Andrew with Haymaker:
This guy played a true Haymaker, with Electabuzz, Hitmonchan and Farfetch'd.
The original unoriginal deck. How ironic. I started a Chansey, while he got a
Farfetch'd and Hitmonchan. I played a couple of DCE's while he jabbed twice.
I decided to Double-Edge, we both die, and I send out Moltres. I build up
Wildfire, Impostor Oak twice, and Wildfire away ten cards. We both had less
than 30 cards in our deck, so I retreated Moltres, played Clefairy Doll, and
put 3 Defenders on it. Apparently, you are allowed to do this (I asked the
help person at the WOTC web-site). He complained to the judge, and I showed
him the print-out of the e-mail saying this was legal. It took him 3 turns to
kill it, and Moltres was powering up for another Wildfire. I sent him out,
put another Chansey on my bench, Wildfired, and waited until my turn to
Pokemon Center away the damage. I let him kill Chansey and a Clefairy Doll,
Impostor Oak and let him deck himself.
WIN 3-0
Round 4/The Finals: Abraham Kaplan with Raindance:
Match 1:
Yet another unoriginal deck that I played today. Good thing this was the
finals. I start a Moltres (My only basic Pokemon. I was really scared). He
started Magikarp. I thought, okay, he must have Gyarados. So I played one of
my two DCE's on Moltres, hoping to Divebomb early. He goes, puts down an
energy. I play a DCE, Divebomb.
<editor's note: This is cheating. You can not pay for Divebomb with DCE. Divebomb requires all fire energy. -Scott>
The coin is up, and
it's.........................rolling around on the floor, landing under some
parents foot. I grab the coin, see its tails, and ask the judge if I should
re-flip. He says no, that the flip counts. On my opponents turn, he plays a
water energy. HE FORGOT TO EVOLVE!!!!!!!! I divebomb,
get.....................heads, yeah!!!!! No basic, I win match 1 of the
finals. Turns out he had Gyarados, but he thought he couldn't evolve until he
had enough energy to do his attacks. His loss, my gain, my win.
WIN, 1-0 in best out of 3
In match 2, I start Chansey, he starts Squirtle. Turn two Breeder, Blastoise,
Hydropump twice (over two turns), game.
LOSS 1-1 in best out of 3
In the final match of the tournament, I got my Chansey, I mean chance to
shine. My Fossils and Clefairy Dolls did their part, 2 Chanseys sacrificed
themselves, and 3 Impostor Oak and a 20, yes, I mean 20 card Wildfire
brought Abraham to his knees. I finally won a tournament with SUPER STALL.
WIN 2-1 in best out of 3, 4-0 in the tournament.
I won 4 basic packs, 2 jungle pack and 3 fossil pack. I got the following
holos: Nidoking, Mr. Mime, Clefairy, Flareon, Poliwrath, Hitmonchan. I got
the following non-holos: Dragonite, Aerodactyl, Hitmonlee. I think I may have
perfected the Super Stall deck, and I intend to use it for a while. I may try
an experimental Pidgeot deck. Now, it's time for the best part of the report,
PROPS AND SLOPS!!!!!!!!!
PROPS............. :-)
To everyone who played me, for being good sports.
To everyone who posts decks on Pojo, thanks for contributing. I love reading
them.
To the guys at WOTC who made sure I didn't get any trainer rares in my basic
packs.
To Pojo, for being the best Pokemon web-site there is.
SLOPS................ :-(
To those of you who use unoriginal decks. There are so many good cards which
nobody uses which decks could be made out of (Pidgeot-No Basics,
Hitmonlee/Raichu Fossil/ Zapdos Fossil/ Gengar/Hypno Bench Killer, etc.) Use
your heads and play over the internet. It's a great way to experiment.
Good luck to all of you who play in tournaments, and thanks for reading.
Ausenstrak
P.S: I apologize, but I do not give out my Gooey name. I have developed a
good circle of friends who I play with. My advice is to challenge a few
people to a match on-line, see if they're nice to play with and introduce
them to one another. Then, you can have miny tournaments on-line whenever you
want. And, you can always "invite" more people to join your "group". It's
what I did, and it worked for me.