High Tide T.E. By: D. Rees

Hi. I am the one who made the High Tide deck. Well, after a lot of changing 
and rethinking, I have played in a tournament with what a feel is a much 
better deck. It wasn't a DCI-sanctioned tourney, just one at a local card 
shop. They haven'e gotten DCi-sanction yet, but are planning on it soon. 
Still, it was a competitive tourney. The rounds are simply one game and the 
tourney is single-elimination.

Round 1
I end up fighting this guy who has more or less a modified starter deck. He 
tries getting as far as he can with fighting Pokémon alone, but eventually 
he's forced into using fire. I easily take out his fire Pokémon and win. 

Round 2
I played a guy who had a mono-fire deck. I don't know what it is, but lots of 
people in this tourney were using fire. The only basic Pokémon I had to start 
was Chansey, who stalled about 10 turns before being killed. Chansey was a 
life-saver. During those turns, I accumulated a Blastoise and a Dewgong who I 
loaded up with energy. His fire Pokémon were then easily beaten by my water 
Pokémon. He had a good deck, but the weakness factor was to much to overcome.

Round 3
This guy put up a GREAT fight with a Psychic/Water deck. It was a classic 
back-and-forth battle. His Mewtwos and Gyaradoses were both forces to be 
reckoned with. In the end, I got out Blastoise and rain danced to any Pokémon 
who became active. I ended up winning, but it was close.

Round 4
A guy with a mono-fighting deck was the challenger. His Machamp and 
Hitmonchans were quite annoying, but thanks to a couple fully loaded 
Gyaradoses, a la rain dance, I was the one who walked away the winner.

Round 5: The Finals
Here we were, mono-water and grass/lightning. Who do you think won? Well, I 
got a pretty bad draw and things stunk right from the start. His Venusaur 
stomped all over my Gyarados and he had this annoying Electabuzz which 
decided it didn't like my Blastoise or Dewgong. I came back from a bad draw 
to get a hand that would beat most, but he just had all the right types of 
Pokémon and he won. I have to congratulate him for his anti-water deck. It 
must have been hard for him to get by all of those fire decks, or maybe he 
didn't have to play one. Anyway, I came in second and walked home with some 
card protectors and a couple boosters. Not bad, not bad!

Now for the contents of my deck:
27 Water Energies 
1 Double Colorless Energy

2 Chanseys (nice stalling Pokémon- also good for suicide when he's low on 
energy, if you have already given him some energy)
3 Squirtles
2 Wartortles
2 Blastoises (Pokémon Power's sweet and his attack's not too shabby either)
3 Magikarps
2 Gyaradoses (duh! This guy's a beast!)
2 Staryus (decent basic Pokémon- 20 attack for 1 energy is nice- especially 
against fire where it does 40)
4 Seels
4 Dewgongs (fairly common and almost as good as Blastoise or Gyarados)

1 Super Potion (can help out when you need HP)
1 Bill (always nice- should have more of these, but for some reason, I've 
been deprived and have only gotten 1)
3 Pokémon Breeders (the better chance I have of getting Blastoise out and 
quick, the more of a chance of winning- works well w/ comp. search)
3 Computer Searches (for finding that missing evolution card or Chansey or 
whatever)

There you have it: the High Tide Tournament Edition deck. I'll probably still 
keep changing it around as I get better cards. If you have comments or 
suggestions, you can e-mail me at oodevin@aol.com.

This deck is nice because it has strong, powerful Pokémon with good HP and 
good ways of getting them. Rain dance helps SOOOO much.