On July 11th I competed with this deck at the Monthly Tournoment at
the Days of Knights in Newark, Delaware and there about 16-18 people
competing in the Tourney.  In general this is just a supped up Raindance
Deck.  It did fairly well and I'm already working on an upgraded
version.

Pokemon:
4x Squirtle
2x Wartortle
2x Blastoise
4x Magikarp
2x Gyarados
3x Farfetch'd
2x Lickitung
1x Chansey

Trainers:
4x Professor Oak
3x Bill
4x Computer Search
4x Pokemon Breeder
2x Pokemon Trader

Energy:
20x Water Energy
3x Double Colorless Energy

Tourney Report:
    The style was single elimination, and after you were eliminated you
could just play around for fun with other people who were out.
GAME ONE:
    This was by far the easiest of the games.  I drew a man who had to
be at least 40, and was using his sons Grass/Could be something else
deck.  He barely had a clue what was going on, and it was just a plain
old walk in the park.  I drew an awesome opening hand and was able to
have Blastoise out on the second turn.  Coupled with a Prof. Oak I drew
5 Water Energies and tore up his poor Pokemon.  He actually managed to
get a Venusaur out there, but with no energy to power him up Venusaur
was fried.  He did manage to use Energy Trans what energy he had on
Venusaur to a Pinser, which was promtly destroyed with one Hydro Pump.
He ran out of basics and I won by default, although with a fully powered
up Blastoise out there he never really stood a chance.

GAME TWO:
    This game I drew one of two people I didn't want to face.  His name
is Tyler Miller and was the person who I played the most and traded the
most with.  Not to mention he is my arch-rival so, I wouldn't mind
beating him.  Tyler used a water/electoric that did stand a chance of
thrashing me, but I got a great draw.  I drew a Squirtle, a Breeder, and
energy.  I sent out Squirtle, against a Voltorb.  I drew my first card
and didn't get anything I could use.  So I layed down a Water energy and
bubbled Voltorb.  Thnak God I got heads, because another tackle attack
and I would have been finished.  Tyler laid down another Electric energy
on Voltorb and became unparalyzed.  I laid another energy down on
Squirtle and drew a card, again no Blastiose or any other basics.  He
flipped the coin, and again heads.  He lays another energy down on
Voltorb, and he makes a key error, he doesn't evolve him into Electrode
while he could.  I draw my card knowing that this game can't last much
longer, and....BOOM! It was a Blastoise, I play the Breeder and get
Blastoise, Rain Dance and get him hooked up with 5 energies.  Hydro Pump
and he's gone.  With no basics on his bench, again I win by default.

GAME THREE: THE SEMI FINALS
    Now with only four survivors, I come against the lowest form of deck
I've ever seen...and also one of the most efficiant.  It was the Mr.Mime
deck, and I made two key errors when trying to deal with this deck.
First off I went Oak crazy, quickly speeding through half of my deck.
Now I did have a fully powered up bench, but no way to touch him because
he was hiding behind Mr. Mime and just Damage Swaped away any hits I
managed to score.  Second was the way I approached this situation, with
the only thing I could, a Lickitung.  Lickitung came out about half way
through my deck, and I immediately put him into to play.  His main
weakness was his slow rate of attack, 10 damage with Tongue Wrap and
paralyzation was useless.  I couldn't get any energy for Supersonic, so
i just toughed it out.  He damage swaped away any damage dealt and I was
in over my head.  I eventually decked myself and was out of the tourney.

GAME FOUR: PURE TERROR
    While this game was not for the tourney it reinforced the strength
of my deck after I lost.  I faced a kid with a fighting deck, and it was
a romp.  I just got Blastoise out there and let him start pounding on
them, killing three of him Pokemon.  Finally he forfeit, and gave me my
remaining prizes.

    Well that was how it went.  I tied for 3rd and hung in there while
Mr. Mime killed me.  On a brighter note, the kid who beat me, who's name
is Albert, went on to win the tourney.  Which basically brings an end to
my report.

-C.J. Velez
Designer of Ignition, Heat Lightning, Lava Flow, and a wide variety of
other failed decks, most recent failure: Color Blender
Current Decks: Tidal Surge Turbo 35-5, Energy Express 5-1,
Haymaker-Alpha 1-0
Card Strategy of the Week "Huff and Puff and Bluff their little deck
down"
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predicted that Fossil would be out by the year 4000 BC....their
decendents are still waiting.
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