Pokemon
Fossil Gastly X 3 (Lick is great for a first turn
attack and energy conversion is good if you have alakazam in play)
Fossil Haunter X 3 (Transparency is DA BOMB and Nightmare
got me through alot)
Fossil Gengar X 3 (Curse is awesome for helping you kill that
certain pokémon like Charizard, etc. It also helps with killing benched
pokemon)
Mewtwo X 2 (Rain dance, beware!)
Abra X 3 (Free retreat cost and a chance of paralyzing 1st turn
is pretty good despite the crappy HP)
Kadabra X 3 (Super Psy is great for killing Nidokings and
Nidoqueens, and with recover you can erase all damage if ya don't have an
alakazam in play)
Alakazam X 2 (Damage Swap. 'Nuff said)
Chansey X 3 (Yep, I got two more, and one's
first edition! Chansey's the mega-damage sponge)
Mr. Mime X 4 (Invisible wall has to be the best pokémon
power available! It can dish out damage great, too!)
Energy
Psychic Energy X 22
Trainers
SER X 4 (Really helps for stalling Scythers!)
ER X
2
(Super Energy Removal's Little Brother)
Impostor Prof. Oak X 3 (Helpful for decking ppl)
Pokémon Center X 2 (Alakazam can help with the energy removing
part of Pokémon Center, It helped me a lot)
GOW X 1 (It's Mr. Mime's best friend. Good against
rain dance and even other psy decks)
Now that you've seen the deck, here's how well it performed!
Match One
VS Matt with Psychic/Water Deck
This match marked the
beginning of a long and hard reclamation of my title of "Top Cat"
after Adam ruined it. Well, I definately showed my strength. At
the beginning, I drew a god hand (after a mulligan draw I drew). 4 Mr.
Mimes and 3 Psy energies. He got 2 poliwags, 2 squirtles and an articuno.
He sent out a squirtle. I flipped, called heads and (like always) it was
tails. He drew his card and bubbled for 10, no paralysis. My turn,
I drew a psy energy and attached one to a benched Mr. Mime. He bubbled
my active mr. mime 3 times for a KO while I pumped up two on my bench.
My turn, I drew a SER. I wanted to save it for later. I sent out
active mr. mime and meditated. Eventually, I knocked out his active
squirtle and he sent out a poliwag. Seeing as though he had no energy, I
proceeded to mow down his poliwag. But as I had done that, he had
evolved the benched squirtle into blastoise! After I KOed poliwag, he
sent out another poliwag that he'd benched earlier. He raindanced
2 energies onto poliwag and water gunned for 20. I drew a chansey,
retreated Mr. Mime and sent out Chansey. I SERed the poliwag (which made
him mad) and he didn't have energies for quite a while. In the mean
time, I had benched a fossil gastly, evolved it into gengar and benched an
abra and evolved it into alakazam. I finally retreated chansey and sent
out gengar. >From here it was pure easiness until he got an abra and
a base set haunter. I KOed his active poliwag after two turns and he
sent out abra. I retreated gengar and sent out an un-damaged mr. mime.
I meditated for two turns and knocked out abra, moving the psyshock damage to
chansey. He sent out a base set haunter, too bad he didn't know they
suck. He kept trying to use hypnosis, but after his turn Mr. Mime would
wake up! I ERed his haunter a few times to get him angry (he's hilarious
when he's angry) and in the meantime KOed it. He sent out his blastoise
with no energy. I kept meditating, I won. TADA!!
My Record: 1-0
After the match, I grabbed about
a glass of iced tea and a milky way and had a little snack before my next
match. That was really great iced tea, and so was the match that
followed it!
Match
two VS Rich with Grass/Colorless/Electric Potpourri
Now THIS guy was a true loser.
A stupid 8-year old who relied on clefable's metronome to do his dirty work.
If his IQ was bigger than his shoe size, then he'd realize (DUH!!) that Mr.
Mime and Kadabra combined can knock out anyone. Here's some of his
quotes while I was fighting Matt (he was watching):
"Haw haw haw! My deck
can beat ANYONE!"
"My record is 2-0 and yours
is only 1-0, haw haw!"
"I bet my deck is betterer
than yours!" (He actually said betterer!!)
I wasn't about to let another
spoiled brat beat the Top Cat of the Action Figure Cantina!! This little
nightmare could turn into an Adam Yellenik. He's egotistical, cocky,
over-confident and IMHO he oughtta be studying up big time! He didn't
even know the english fossil set existed!! When I was battling him
(which I'll explain), he kept looking at my fossil gastlys, haunters and
gengars. OK, enough blabbing from me, let's all hear about the match!
It started out like I was going
to lose. I drew an abra and a mr. mime for my starting pokemon with the
other 5 cards energies. At this point, I was thinking, "Crap, I'm
gonna lose to this little brat!" until he flipped over his pokemon- his
active was clefairy and he had a bulbasaur benched. We flipped and I got
to go first. I drew a chansey (Thank god) and slapped a psy energy on
the mr. mime. His turn, he attached an electric to clefairy and
tried to sing, no effect. My turn, I drew the life saver Kadabra!!!
Never had I been so glad to see this card! I attached a psy energy to mr.
mime and it was his turn. He evolved into clefable and used metronome,
20 damage. My turn, drew a psy energy and attached an energy to kadabra
and his turn. He tried to use metronome and it would've killed Mr. Mime
if it wasn't for invisible wall. The dweeb looked puzzled and glanced at
the card. He growled and it was my turn. I attached a psy
energy to kadabra, retreated mr. mime and sent out kadabra, super psy, 20
damage. His turn, he KOed kadabra. I drew a fossil gastly and sent
out mr. mime. Dang, no effect. I eventually drew enough psy
energies that chansey could use double-edge and I KOed chansey and his
clefable at once (after he metronomed double-edge once). He said,
"Now I'm ANGRY!" and benched...MAGNEMITE!! I said, "Ooo, that's
scary. I better take cover!" BTW, my prize was....CHANSEY!
;-) I don't really want to drag this out so i'll summarize it.
Eventually, I had 2 chanseys, an alakzam, the mr. mime and the two mewtwos. I
just kept stalling with Mr. Mime and using Impostor Prof. Oak occasionally.
He had tried numerous times to use his fossil magneton on me, but I kept
SERing and ERing him to death. He was about to lose when he said,
"This is getting boring, I forfeit!!" I guess he couldn't take
the power of psychic stall decks. He said my deck was awesome and that I
was a really great trainer (which I myself beleive already). I was the
only guy who beat Rich that day, and by the end pretty much everybody was
watching us. Nobody exactly cheered when I won, but still I know they
were satisfied to see Adam Yellenik Jr. go down in flames.
My record: 2-0
Rich's record: 2-1 (HA HA!)
After defeating the evil Rich, I
downed another glass of iced tea (no milky way this time) and prepared to take
on my next victim...er...challenger.
Match
Three VS Brett with Rain dance
I don't know why ppl like these
decks. Karp Karp! Ya get out a magikarp, your opponent gets a chan
or a buzz, BOOM, it's all over. Rain dance decks are vulnerable to any
type of deck (even starter decks, I must sadly say). The starting
pokemon are so WEAK!!! Look at 'em all. Seel, squirtle, magikarp,
poliwag, psyduck. WEAK WEAK WEAK WEAK WEAK!!! This guy had one
blastoise, gyaradoses, dewgongs, and articunos for his star pokemon. Too
bad for him he didn't know the power of Psychic decks.
Before my second game, he got out
a gyarados early. But if was obviously counterfeit, as it wasn't
holographic! I refused to play him unless he took it out. He
agreed and we began our second match. It started out OK, with me getting
a fossil gastly, a Mr. Mime and an Alakazam for my pokemon, a pokemon center
for my trainer card and 3 energies. Not bad, eh? I thought I might
have a chance of losing if he had an articuno or something. But he
didn't. Nope, just an articuno, 2 squirtles, 1 seel and 2 poliwags.
He sent out his seel. I sent out gastly. I flipped, called
heads and went first. I attached a psy energy to gastly and
licked, no paralysis. His turn, he headbutts for 10. I drew a
mewtwo, benched it and attached an energy to it. I licked with no
paralyze. He headbutted again and I attached another energy to mewtwo.
I licked for the 3rd time, paralyzing seel. He evolved into dewgong,
attaching another water energy to dewgong and evolving a poliwag into
poliwhirl. I retreated attached a psy energy to mr. mime that I drew that turn.
His turn, aurora beam, KO. I sent out mr. mime, drew a psy energy
and attached it and meditated. He attached an energy to poliwhirl
and tried to aurora beam, no damage. I KOed dewgong, my prize was
Chansey. Then, the match was cut short. I kept SERing and ERing
his pokemon to death and then proceeded to knock every single one out slowly
and painfully with mr. mime. At one point, he had out another dewgong,
but double-edge took care of that. At the end, he was all over my deck,
saying "DUDE, your deck is awesome! Rain dance sucks, I'm
converting to psychic!" Four ppl who had been watching said tha
same exact stuff as Brett. I gave 'em pointers etc. on stuff, blah
blah blah. Later, I also was told I'd get payment for helping
out at the Action Figure Cantina so much (I'm the Top Cat around there and
their #1 Charizard supplier!). For helping out at several birthday
parties in which I had to teach kids how to play the TCG, I got a Cascade
Badge! KEWL!! Only 6 more badges ta go....to celebrate, I downed
another glass of iced tea!
My record: 3-0
Match 4 VS Daniel Molar with
Venusaur/Nidoking/Pinsir/Scyther deck
Well, I got lucky this time
again. This match was REAL short. Guess what I got? I got an
abra and he got a guy nidoran. To cut to the chase, I psyshocked twice
(I went first) for the win. Score one for the master!!
My record: 4-0
Match 5 VS Daniel's younger
brother (who looked identical to him), Jake with (Dramatic Music) PSYCHIC
DECK!
This was my toughest match yet.
It was psychic against psychic. Well, at least he was smart. His
deck isn't some crappy rain dance or lame potpourri deck or even a Gaymaker...er,
Haymaker ;-). What can I say? This kid is great!! He had a
deck almost identical to Mike A.'s Mr. Mime Time. Unfortunately, he had
no strategy associated with this deck. I was dissapointed. He
could have been a Psychic Mastermind like yours truly, but he incorportated
into it the dreaded effects of rain dance. He had breeders and traders
in his deck, which no psychic deck needs. He didn't have any ERs
or SERs either, which bugged me. He never really told me what
he replaced them with, darn him. Well, anyhow, onto the match.
I drew a mulligan twice, and on
my third draw, I got a god hand. A mewtwo, a mr. mime and a chansey, the
rest energies (I never really got to use many of my trainer cards). I
sent out mewtwo. He sent out a chansey and benched 2 abras and a
base set gastly (chuckle). This could be the hardest match of my life or the
easiest, depending on how I played it. The way I figured it, he would
try to double-edge mewtwo and then retreat chansey. It seems like
my predictions were right and his first turn (he went first), he slapped a DCE
onto chansey and scrunched, failing. My turn, I drew an ER and removed
the DCE. Boy did we have a big discussion on that. Of course, me
being me and him being himself, I won the argument with everybody at the
play-and-trade day agreeing with me. He scowled and we went back to
playing. Kudos to me!! I celebrated by attaching a psy energy to
mewtwo. His turn, he slapped another DCE on chansey and scrunched,
working. I attached another psy energy and used barrier (he seemed, IMHO,
rather absent-minded so I think he didn't hear me). He tried to use
double-edge, I reminded him of barrier and he broke down. He didn't
forfeit like Rich, but he stuck in there and tried hard. I admire him
trying to beat my deck. If I was in his shoes, I'd forfeit and save the
effort. He soon breedered his abra into alakazam and put 3 energies on
it. Basically, the rest of the game I went easy on him, perhaps too
easy. At the end, it was him and me, one prize left for each of us.
Something kicked in and I thought to myself, "Hey, doofus, you're about
to lose! Snap out of it and beat this guy!!" I soon did snap
out of the daze of going easy on him. Thanx to gengar's benched pokemon
effect of dark mind, he saved the day once again. It seemed as though I had
faced a sensible opponent for the first time. He's a heck of a lot
smarter than his brother.
My record: 5-0
I grabbed another glass of
iced tea and went on to the revenge of the dork (as if...).
Match
6 VS Graham Maxwell with (HA HA) modified Bodyguard Deck
Let's be reasonable with Graham
here. First, he comes up to me with a nidoqueen/king deck and now a
bodyguard deck! It is a bit funny, but he got the upper hand early.
Luckily, I was able to pull myself out of the slump I was in during the match
to ascend to victory!
Now this time, my hand was truly
crappy. I was, however, saved by Graham's moronic ways. All I got
for pokemom were an abra and a haunter, the rest were all 3 impostor prof.
oaks and the two poke-centers. He sent out grimer and benched 2
zubats and a koffing. We flipped and he got to go first. Get this,
he oaked 4 times in a row, that's 28 cards discarded!! He then played 4
bills, total of 36 cards discarded. He item finder'd the oaks back and
decked himself the first turn! NO LIE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Ahem...the
crowd saved their laughter until the end. By this time, they were
watching me play as if I was preaching to them about psychic decks or
something. It's kind of a weird feeling, but I like it. Graham was
laughed all the way out of the store where his parents were waiting. I
don't think he'll be challenging me anytime soon.
My record: 6-0
Match
7 VS ???? with Charizard Deck
Well, another leaver. His
granny came and caned him when he didn't want to go out (seriously). I
didn't get a chance to really beat him, it was the first round when his granny
came. I guess that's another win for the Top Cat!
My record: 7-0
By this time, about half the ppl
there were gone. I had to find more opponents, and fast!!
Match
8 VS Buddy "Concrete Head" with "Rainmaker"
(Haymaker/Raindance Cross)
Before I start rambling on about
this match, let me express my feelings towards him. He's a fat spoiled
brat loser whose parents probably will buy him 900,000,000,000 booster boxes
for christmas. He's one of those dorks who have 90,000 japanese cards
(which around here aren't allowed in tournys) and think they're SOOOO cool.
Well guess what, Buddy? You're only #2 (prolly not even)!! This
kid had every card ever made. Seriously. But he didn't have any
1st edition base set cards. I have a 1st Edition Nidoking and a 1st
Edition Chansey and he didn't want either of them (The geek)!! He even
had all the movie promos, I NEEDED HIS MOVIE MEWTWO!! BTW, if any of you
fellow Poke-Maniacs out there have a movie mewtwo, mail me at gen1551@usaor.net
and tell me so. I offered him even a venusaur for his promo mewtwo and
he rejected the offer. I offered him my 1st Edition Nidoking and he said
no. That's how I gave him his nickname, "Concrete Head". You
think that a slowpoke is slow, you oughtta see this weenie! It takes
him at least 20 years to feel pain instead of slowpoke's 5 seconds.
Well, on to the match.
This was a close match (when I
beat him he had 1 prize remaining). It started out fairly good,
with me getting both mewtwos and a kadabra, a poke-center and 3 energies.
I sent out a mewtwo and he sent out a hitmonchan and benched 3 more.
I could see where this was going. I needed to really think about this
one...chan is weak vs psychic, but mewtwo's attacks aren't that powerful.
Mr. Mime would get crushed. My only hope was kadabra.
Kind of like Princess Leia's famous Star Wars quote, "Help me
Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope", except I'm a guy ^_^ . Well,
I flipped an he went first. He jabbed for 20. I drew an abra
(praise the lord) and benched it, slapped an energy onto it. I let him
kill the active mewtwo, and by then I had kadabra pumped. I sent him out
and whooped 3 chans (no damage done to kadabra, prizes were all 3 of my
chanseys). Then, he sent out (Dramatic Music) CHANSEY!! I asked
him what a chansey was doing in his deck. He drooled and muttered,
"Uhh, ummm...duhh....I dunno..". Whilst I pounded his chansey,
he got a gyarados ready. I thought I was finished. Not even the
mighty kadabra can kill the water-snake-o-death! Alakazam can, though!
After he dragon raged, I evolved him and swapped the damage to a chansey.
He sort of paled and his friends snickered. I confused ray'd his
gyarados twice, each time making his might snake of death hurt itself trying
to attack. He had one last pokemon I hadn't noticed, though. A
fully pumped blastoise!! He also had a heap of potions and super
potions, as well as energies for any SERs or ERs (he told me that after I beat
him). I tried confuse raying him several times, with his potions and
super potions countering that. He KOed alakazam, I sent out a badly
damaged chansey. He killed it, drawing his 3rd prize. I sent out a
chansey i'd pumped up earlier and double-edged, 20 HP left on blastoise but I
killed chansey. I sent out an abra that I had floating on my bench.
After abra got KOed, I sent out a fully ready mewtwo and psychic'ed for the
win!! YEAH!!!
My final record: 8-0
Well, there you have it, fellow Pojo-Holics!
It's how I regained my reputation Adam Yellenik had crushed when I lost to
him. Here's some suggestions on how to beat some other types of decks:
Rain Dance Decks: Always stick with
Mewtwo and Mr. Mime. Haunter could help too, if the coin flips are
lucky. Try to get an Alakazam and swap any damage that comes your way
to Chansey and if you're really in a rut, Gengar and Alakazam itself.
Most of the time though, I quote Brian Brokaw when I say, "Kadabra can
take out pretty much any weenie opponent who threatens Mr. Mime".
These decks should be easy to handle.
Haymakers: Hitmonchan is weak against
psychic, and it's usually what you see out most, right? Try using
Gastly to paralyze Hitmonchans/Hitmonlees until you have a chance to get a
Mr. Mime or a Haunter/Gengar. Kadabra is also a nice choice to use if
you can get it early enough. Haymakers could be a little hard to
handle.
Psychic Stall Decks: With a
Psychic Stall deck, try and use Gastly to lick and paralyze until you get
out haunter or Alakazam, whichever comes sooner. Get Alakazam to
confuse enemy Pokémon into hurting themselves. Don't hesitate to use
Impostor Prof. Oak either if your opponent is only holding one or two cards
in his hand. That will fit the stall part of this deck nicely.
Energy Denial Decks: Try SERing to
send your opponent crying into energy denial for some nice fun. If
that's not possible, try using chansey to double-edge any hostile opponents
who threaten your energy cache. It worked for me when I tried this
deck on my best friend's deck, his deck basically uses Dragonairs, Golducks
and Poliwraths to get off energy.
Lockdownish Decks: These type of decks
try to use lots of status effects. Prevent that by Mr. Mime and always
evolve to get nasty status effects away.
Muk Decks: If your opponent relies on muk,
try to gust out a muk or two to kill it when it's unpowered. NEVER use
Mr. Mime against anybody when Muk's pokemon power is active.
Have fun with Night Shade, e-mail me at gen1551@usaor.net
with any questions, comments, critisicms, whatever's on your mind about this
deck. Oh yeah, and if you do try using this deck, give me credit for
the deck, plz.
-Poke_Maniac_6
Night
Shade