(To the Pojo:  Please put this up so it somehow is with my other Mewtwo
decks, they are all very related, and meant to be a 3 piece set, even though
they should be in 2 different color sections.)

Atlanta, GA
War Room, 11-21-99

Well, it's the last day of NATO.  It was Sunday, and NATO combined with the
fact the Sunday was the big day for tourneys anyway meant tough competition,
and it was.  Only about 30 or so people, but they were all good.  The
Carahans, Unho and his group, the Gibsons, and other great player all made
their appearances today.

I was about to scrap the deck and play with a lightning deck I made, but
after a late night discussion with my buddy RCHOKESLAM, I improved on the
deck, and played it again.

Here's the new, pretty idealized version of the deck:

Mewtwomaker
10 Psychic Energy
7 Fighting Energy
4 Double Colorless Energy

4 Mewtwo (movie promo)
3 Aerodactyl
2 Chancey
2 Hitmonchan

4 Computer Search
4 Professor Oak
4 Pluspower
4 Mysterious Fossil
4 Pokemon Center
3 Gust of Wind
3 Bill
2 Energy Retrieval

New deck's plan:  Get out Aero fast to stop evolution, then rotate my pokemon
as needed to adapt to the situation, with Mewtwo beong the preferred fighter.

(Kevin Row wanted me to mention him in this report, so I'll say that I played
his straight from Scott potpourri deck before the tourney, and beat it.  ^_^ 
)

5 Rounds of Age-Modified swiss, and here we go.

Round 1:
Against David Lee.  One of Unho's group, and a positively great test...  He
is the big Rain Dance player around here, and I wasn't to happy to see a guy
like him for the first match.

He started with Articuno, so I knew it was raindance.  My hitmonchan sat out
there, but more importantly, I got an Aerodactyl out on turn 2, and that
screwed him up for the whole game.  Articnos and SER really dragged the game
on, but with a few Articunos as he onlly fighting unit, he stood little
chance.  With 5 cards left, I searched for an insurance Psychic Energy, and I
finished his Lickitung off with a pluspowered Hitmonchan for the last prize.
WIN

Round 2:
Against a guy named Greg.  He was playing Haymaker with Clefairies and
Clefables.

I felt really sorry for this guy.  I got out an Aerodactyl second turn, and
it was resistant to Hitmonchan, and strong against clefairy.  I just plowed
through a few pokemon for the win easily.
WIN

Round 3:
Against good ol' Paul Carahan, playing a psy stall deck.  He had included a
few Movie Mewtwos after seeing my deck for the past 2 days.

It was long and brutal.  Every pokemon I had, he had a cure for, and down on
cards, I needed to try for the win.  I was down to 2 prizes, but I ran out of
cards due to all his resistant pokemon, and He won it from me.
LOSS

Round 4:
Against Unho Kim.  I'm the only 2-1 who has to play a 3-0 person, and it just
HAD to be Unho Kim.  He's playing the same deck as yesterday, Energy Trans.

It started out okay, and a pair of Aerodactyls ensured that there would be no
early evolutions.  It was nightmarishly close, and the final play came down
to a single card.  I knew I had a gust coming as my last card in the deck,
and I had to get it to kill a pokemon for the last prize.  His active was a
swords danced Scyther, and he had a Venusaur on the bench with one energy as
well.  I had only 2 attacking units, a Hitmonchan and a Mewtwo, both heavily
damaged.  My only hope was to keep one out, gust up a weak one, and kill it,
but only if he didn't have the energy to kill me.  I held my breath as I put
out Mewtwo...  And he did.  He killed Mewtwo for his last prize.  Oh well.
LOSS

Round 5:
For pride, against Lauren Gibson.  She always plays haymaker, and she was
playing a Wigglymaker variation today.

It was fast.  Thanks to many careful gusts, both my Chanceys managed to take
out 2 pokemon each.  It was just a matter of sending a Mewtwo out for
cleanup, and it was over.
WIN

Well, I went 3-2, giving the deck an overall record of 13-4 for the weekend. 
Given that this is the hardest store in the state, I feel that this is a
viable deck.  Please try it, and I think you'll see what I mean.  Time for
what I have learned.

What have I learned from this?
As I said in a previous report, Articuno rules.  He almost stole the first
game from me, as I was 2 cards away from decking myself.

This deck can beat Potpourri, Raindance, Haymaker, Stall, and most anything
else.  I think I may continue to work with this.

Unho, you are the man.  Congratulations on winning yet again, and I swear
I'll have you next time.  :)

This is a viable deck.  13-4 is no slouch, and I wonder what the Scotts,
Chipmunks, and El Ravagers will do with 4 Mewtwos.  Trade to get 4 and build
a deck with them now!

This deck needs a way to keep from killing itself.  I may try Lass or Gambler
next week.

Well, I hope this was helpful to everyone out there who wants to know how to
play this deck, and those who want to know how to beat it.  Try it out, and
maybe I will have popularized the newest archaetype.  (And for those of you
who go to the War Room, I do know how to beat decks that try to play against
me!)

Singning off,

Justin Purdy
daihakusei@aol.com