From: "Williams, Keith" Just thought I would send along what the heck I played exactly this last Friday. However keep this in mind; a.) the format was a swiss, 3 game series with only 4 prizes per game. 8 prizes wins the match. (if that makes ANY SENSE) b.) no time limit I think the deck is good, but not tournament worthy...yet. Like I didn't run into one energy removal all day and that is something you will ALWAYS see in a huge tournament. I lost the first match because of bizzare draws. Ask Gordon. The entire match lasted like 10 minutes. 5 of which was shuffling. Oh and it went 3 games. Kinda like this; Opening hand: Chansey, 6 energy. (FUN!) His hand: Machop, Diglet, Dugtrio, plenty of energy, bills, oaks, blah blah blah 3 turn kill...fun. Oh and I hate flipping for Chansey, I ALWAYS lose. Next game... Opening hand: Scyther (i.e. the game is over Mr. Mono-Fighting) His hand: 2 Machops I smash both Machops and leave him staring at his hand. Next game... Opening hand: 2 Chansey, energy and Bill His hand: Onyx, Machop, Diglet, energy and all kinds of love. I draw thru my deck begging for any Scyther, Computer Search, Trader, ANYTHING. Whatever The rest of the matches were either crushing people or me teaching people how to BUILD A DECK. Not strategy or anything, just stuff like, "Oh you might need to put ENERGY IN THE DECK." Sigh. Final match was vs. Gordon which he played a weird 4 color (maybe 5?) Haymaker kinda deck. It might of been like Scott's Haymaker or something. He was goofing around and so was I. We knew it would end up the 2 of us. (Well actually it was gonna be him...I thought it would be cool just to throw eggs into ONE opponent's face, not a well-played semi-solid deck. I will let Gordon tell the specifics of our match, I will say one thing thou, I cheesed victory away from him...I should of just conceded since it was kinda sucky...it's the format that is sucky. Basically Our first game went to Gordon 4-3 in prizes. Next match was all mine due to energy hose from Gordon's deck 4-0. So that makes it 7-4 in my favor for prizes which means I only need to win ONE prize to win the match and Gordon needs a sweep of 4. Nuff said... Here's the deck. It ran pretty good but some cards could be arranged. I made it to be funny, but it turned out to actually work. 12 Psychic 10 Grass 2 DCE 4 Abra 3 Kadabra 2 Alakazam 3 Exeggcute 2 Exeggutor 3 Scyther (He is just the best damn Pokemon) 2 Chansey 1 Kangaskhan 4 Bill 3 Oak 2 Trader 2 Center 2 Switch 1 Finder 1 Comp Search 1 NRG Retrieval Basically plays the same as Damage Swap and you ever so subtly build up Exeggutor on the bench for a face full of egg to send to your opponent...One time I flipped 8 coins on Gordon. It was really ridiculous. Neat Tricks; Exeggutor's Teleport, Scyther's free retreat and Switches. I put switches in for people who might gust alakazam to the front to kill. Whenever someone sends something ugly into the way, teleport or free retreat away and put something else up front. It saves energy and makes for some cool combos. People were mystified by this... I was thinking that a Venasaur deck with the same idea that lets a Exeggcute sit there for a while and you build up energy on several different Pokemon then on one turn you evolve to venasaur, evolve to exeggutor send all the energy to CEO Eggs and let him flip a billion times to kill a HUGE fatty. Anyhow I liked it..it was fun to play and overall I had a great time with it. Nothing quite like saying to your opponent, 'Is that egg in your hair?' Laf.... Keith --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- You can WIN $100 to Amazon.com! http://www.onelist.com If you join ONElist’s FRIENDS & FAMILY program. See homepage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------