hi, my deck is called fists of fire, and 1 week ago i participated in a
tourney in a local card shop called time warp in Ceadar Grove NJ. It was
a double elimination and there were 18-22 people there. I placed second
with 3-1, though most of the people there did suck except for 2. anyway,
heres the deck

energy-  15 fire
             13 fighting
             1 double colorless

Pokemon
colorless-1 dratini
              1 dragonair
              1 chansey
              1 clefairy
fire-        2 vulpix
              1 ninetales
              2 growlithe
              1 arcanine
              2 magmar
fighting-  3 machops
              2 machokes
              1 machamp
              2 hitmonchan

trainers- 1 pokemon trader
              1 energy retrieval
              1 potion
              3 bills
              1 prof. oak
              2 energy removals
              1 super energy removal
              1 gust of wind

My deck has no real purpose, that's why i am writing this. I'd like some
suggestions on what i can do best with these cards and what
modifications i could make. Anyway here's the tourney report.

Round 1- this round was against a kid with a pure electric deck, and it
was a little too easy.He didn't even have any electabuzzes. I won it 2-0

Game 1-His first pokemon was a magnemite vs. my machop. All i had in my
hand was was fighting energy, another machop and a machoke. I killed his
magnemite with my machop while evolving my other machop and putting
energy on it. My machop eventually fell due to being paralyzed by
another magnemite, but I then came out and killed all his other pokemon
with my machoke and won the game, because he drew only 2 energy  for the
next 5 rounds and was getting bad coin flips for his magnemite.
Game 2-He draws only 1 basic, a pikachu, and i draw a magmar and a
hitmonchan. I killed his pikachu and then a porygon he drew at the last
second to win the game.

Round 2-this round was against a kid who had 5 colors in his deck and no
trainers but was crammed with energy. it was very very easy.
Game 1-the only basics he draws are a jynx and a squirtle, and he gets 1
psychic energy out of all the energy in his hand. i had a few machops
and a growlithe in my hand, along with a potion. He hits twice for 10
and once for 0 with doubleslap against my machop, so i just healed him
with a potion and killed Jynx. He had no water energy so i killed his
squirtle easily. end of game 1
Game 2-He has a bulbasaur and a doduo, and he only draws 2 plant energy,
both of which he puts on bulbasaur. This time i have a hitmonchan and a
vulpix, and a s.e.r. After he places both energies on bulbasaur, i
s.e.r.'d him and killed that with my vulpix. His doduo gets confused
from my vulpix and winds up killing itself for me. He tried to put a
squirtle in his active slot from his hand but couldn't so i won the
game.

Round 3-This guys deck was pure colorless, and was crammed with chansies
and clefairies. This was actually a pretty hard match.
Game 1-This was actually pretty funny as we both put chansey's in the
active slot, and kept scrunching for 9 turns, fearing that the other guy
would retreat. In this time i managed to get an Arcanine with 5 energies
on it with a vulpix and a machop for support, and he gets 2 fully
powered clefairies. the rest of the game was basically my arcanine vs.
his clefairies and dragonairs, and i finally won my last prize with a
vulpix and confusion.
Game 2- All he draws is a dratini and i get a hitmonchan. It was a
shame, because i was looking forward to playing with him.

Round 4-The only round i lost. This guy was playing a pure water deck
(ouch) with a lot of gyarados's (ouch!) I still won 1 game by luck
Game 1- His only basic is a magikarp vs. my machop. Thank god, thats 1
win
Game 2- He gets out a squirtle which kills my growlithe, and mages to
evolve a gyarados on his bench and power it up before the squirtle and a
poliwag he sent out die to my fighting half. That gyarados dominated the
rest of the game, and killed my arcanine in 1 shot! 1 loss
Game 3- This was the only game where i got a crappy hand. i get out only
1 vulpix and i only have 1 fire energy, not enough to power it up. It
dies and i lose.

So, my deck did fairly well, and i only lost because of weaknesses. I'm
looking forward to any suggestions you have to make for my deck.

Jack Smith gdupin@earthlink.com