My deck is a water rain-dance deck. I have sent it in to the Dack Garage maybe 4 times by now and I finally had my first tourney. I placed first out of eleven people, losing only once. I lost to a worker at the shop, but he quit because he wouldn't get anything anyway, so I had an un-defeated record. By the way, it was at The Arena in Muskegon, MI. My deck is 20 Water Energy 4 Squirtle 1 Wartortle 3 Blastoise 3 Poliwag 1 Poliwhirl 2 Poliwrath 3 Magikarp 2 Gyarados 2 Staryu 2 Farfetch'd 1 Chansey 4 Pokemon Breeders 3 Prof. Oak 2 Pokemon Trader 1 Comp. Search 3 Bill 1 Energy Retreval This tourney was done Swiss style First Match: This was a bit pathetic. He had just bought a Power Reserve deck and thought he could beat me with it. I started with Farfetche'd and he had Oddish. I went first. I Leek Slapped him and flipped heads. He Stun Spored twice, paralyzing the first, not the second. Both turns I pumped up Farfetch'd and finally Pot Smashed him. I was ready for a fight with Blastoise on my Bench and Gyarados fully pumped up, but he had no more pokemon so I won. By the way, his name was Billy. Second Match: A girl named Ashley. She was using Fire and fighting, with mostly Machops and Charmanders. I kicked @$$ with Staryu against her Charmander, and when Machop came out, I knew I was screwed. But I had backup. His name is Gyarados. I Slapped once, took the low kick and retreated for a pumped up Gyarados. She brought out an arsenal of Charmeleons, Machops, and Magmars, but Gyarados killed them all. I had one prize left when she ran out of basics. She lost due to lack of Hitmonchan and/or evolved forms. Third Match: His name was Jacob. He had also bought the Power Reserve deck, but at least he had enough sense to up-grade it with Wigglytuff. He used Bellsprout first and I picked Poliwag. I thought I was done for, but I got to go first, and I had Blastoise out on the second turn! I killed it with Poliwag. His next turn, he brought out Jigglypuff and put me to sleep. I woke up when I evolved into Poliwhirl, and I now have Gyarados, pumped up on the bench as usual. He lullubied(?) me again, but I woke up, retreated for Gyarados, and Bubblebeamed. I flipped tails. He finally had enough to Do the Wave, but it only did forty, so next turn I killed him. BubbleBeam took out guys like Gloom and Nidoran girl until I won. Forth match: It was Ed, the guy that worked there. He pretty much swept the floor with me. He started with Lickitung, and I with Staryu. This took a while, as he Paralyzed and Confused the sense out of me, but finally, Staryu over came him. Only to be mashed in by the mighty Magikarp. I sent out Poliwag, whose energy had been removed by Ed earlier. I drew another one, and Water gunned him. I also Evolved my other Poliwag into Poliwrath using Pokemon Breeder. He Used an Item Finder to get his Energy removal, and used it again. Then he Tackled me. I had nothing, so it was his turn. (I need a Prof. Oak!) He Tackled again. I was down to twenty. I got an energy! I slapped it onto my Poliwag and Gunned him for ten. There is hope! Never mind. He flailed for the kill. Out comes Energyless Politrash, I mean Poliwrath. I drw a useless Trader, and did nothing. Since he knew I could do nothing, He evolved into Gyarados. He had three energy on him already. My turn, I draw an Oak! I use it, evolve Squirtle to Blastoise, slap three on Poliwath, Oak again, and put three on Blastoise. Then I water gun. Gyarados is now at 50 hits. He Paralyzes Poliwrath. I do nothing on my turn, so it is his turn again. He kills Poliwrath. But there is still hope! Heres Blastoise to put Gyarados down to ten hits! But, he manages to piss me off again. He uses Item finder for Energy removal, uses it, then uses Super Energy Removal, then Rages for fifty. Nothing on my turn, so he rages again for the win. Damn. Now I'm in the semi-finals! But wait! Ed dropped out, so now I have the best record so far! There are some tie-breakers, so I sit and trade with my friend Will. He has 3 wins and 2 losses, and I have 1 loss and 4 wins, so I think me and will are gonna be the next match-up. l was right. First Match: My good friend Will is my opponent. He has a water fire deck, so I have the advantage. He starts with Charmander, me with Staryu. I let him go first since he is using my weakness. He scratches my staryu. I put Squirtle on my Bench, and Slap him for fourty. He evolves into Charmeleon. He claims that he can still attack (I know he's wrong) after evolving, and after two minutes of disscussing it, I just let him do it. There is only one Judge in the place and I didn't want Will to think I didn't trust him, so Iet him do it. He used Flamethrower to kill Staryu. I had evolved Squirtle into Wartortle and brought him out and bit Charmeleon. He noticed that since all of his guys would get killed in one hit by Wartortle's Bite, he might as well just quit. Second Match: It is Billy again. I don't konw how he got here with Power Reserve, but he's here. I started with Farfetch'd like last time, and like last time, he used Oddish. He went first and Stun Spored me, but flipped tails. I leek slapped for thirty. He Stun Spored two more time, Paralyzing on both, so I used the time to pump up Poliwrath and Chansey with Blastoise on my Bench. I finally got to Pot Smash Oddish for the kill, but since last time, I guess he added Snorlax. I Pot Smashed Snorlax, then got Retreated the next turn to save farfetch'd. He Body Slammed my pal Chansey, who committed suicide with Double-Edge. I sent out Poliwrath to Whirlpool everyone and win it. He evolved his guys to early and couldn't get the energy to use them becaues of whirlpool. that was the short, sweet Semi-finals, so I was off to the finals. We played the Semis more like Single Elimination than Swiss. It was me and ? to the last match for first and second. Final Match: It was against a boy who's name I can't remember. He used fire, electric. He went first. I think he cheated because he started with Zapdos, 4 Electric Energy, and a Pikachu/Raichu family. He put down Zapdos against my Staryu. After a few turns of him putting energy on Zapdos and me Slaping him, Zapdos committed suicide taking Staryu with him. By this time, I had a Wartortle and a Squirtle on my bench, and he had Raichu, Vulpix, Pikachu, and Flareon on his. He sent out Raichu against my Wartortle. He had no energy but I had none either. But I had one last trick up my sleeve! I evolved my benched Squirtle to Blastoise, Danced three energies onto Wartortle, and Bit Raichu. He gave one energy to Raichu, and retreated him. He then realized that all of his guys would be killed in one hit by Wartortle, and he just quit. (Sound familiar?) So I won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! I got seven Boosters (One just for entering) and two cards of my choice! I chose one Gyarados and a Snorlax, and in my boosters I got a foil Jolteon, foil Pidgeot, and a foil Mr.Mime which I traded for a Nidoking and a Super Energy Removal. I might make a deck like Ed's. -David aka Sniper5009@aol.com (This is a killer deck submittal if you can't tell)