hey PoJo, this is a deck i constructed after getting some Jungle boosters. i played it in a tournament at The Game Keeper in San Diego, CA. It was formatted in a strange way though. There where 2 age groups, a 'little kids' group and a 13+ group. i was placed in the 13+ year olds (as i am 13). anyway, there where 8 people in each group, and everyone played everyone once. who ever won the most, won. i ranked 2nd out of the 8 people in my group. my deck is a fighting and colorless deck that is supposed to be quick beatdown. it's called the 'Almagest'. 'Almagest' Energy: 18 Fighting Energy 4 Double-Colorless Energy Pokemon: 4 Hitmonchan 4 Machop 2 Mankey 1 Rhyhorn 4 Rattata 2 Raticate 4 Farfetch'd 2 Chansey 2 Clefairy 1 Clefable 2 Kangaskhan Trainers: 2 Pokemon Trader 2 Switch 1 Gust of Wind 3 Energy Removal 1 Super Energy Removal 1 Potion Round 1 vs. 'Josh' (his mom was calling him while he played against me) This fight was against someone who looked around 8 years old, but somehow he was 13. He had a Haymaker deck and started with 1 Hitmonchan and 1 Rattata, i got 1 Machop, 1 Farfetch'd, and 1 Clefable and some energy in my starting hand. I put out Machop and put a fighting energy on it, boom, his Rattata is gone. He puts out his Hitmonchan with 1 fighting energy on it and jabs. my Machop is at 30 HP. i low kick back, and his Hitmonchan is at 50 HP. it goes on like this until my Machop dies (his Hitmonchan is at 30 HP after this), i put out my Farfetch'd with 3 energy on it. i put out my Farfetch'd and Pot Smash for 30 damage, endgame. 1-0 Round 2 vs. ??? This person who i didn't know had a pure Psychic deck ( i think). anyway, the first turn he had 2 Abras and a Mewtwo on his bench and he sent out Mewtwo. I got a Hitmonchan, 2 Machop, and a Rattata. My Hitmonchan eventually killed his Mewtwo, so he sent out his Abra with no energy (he was evolving and adding energy to the last Abra on his bench). My Hitmonchan takes care of the Abra in 2 turns, then comes trouble, he sends out his fully powered Kadabra against me and kills my Hitmonchan. Next i send in a Machop and low kick to bring it down to 40 HP, and next turn my Machop dies. My turn again, i send out a Machop and low kick once again to bring him down to 20 HP. He then Recovers and it's my turn again. I put a Clefairy on my bench and put a double-colorless energy on it. i low kick with my Machop to bring the Kadabra down to 40 HP. next turn he kills my Machop, and i put about my Rattata and bite to bring it down to 20 HP (and put a fighting energy on my Clefairy). He recovers and its my turn again. i retreat my Rattata and put out my Clefairy, his turn again. he Super Psys and brings my Clefairy down to 20 HP, and next turn i kill him with Metronome. 2-0 Round 3 vs. Tim (my friend) This guy was my friend and he had a pure lightning deck. his bench was filled with 2 pikachu, 1 clefairy, 1 rattata, and 1 magnemite (I guess he got crap energy). I got out 1 Hitmonchan, 1 rattata, and 2 machop and some fighting energy. I got to go first so I put out hitmonchan with a fighting energy on it and jab, good bye pikachu #1. he sends out rattata with a electric energy and bites for 20 damage. next turn, jab and down goes rattata, and next he sends out another pikachu with 1 electric energy and gnaws, my Hitmonchan is at 40 HP. will eventually my hitmoonchan takes out the pikachu and a magenmite and dies and my machop finishes the clefairy after it metronomes. his bench runs out and I win. 3-0 Round 4 vs. Bobby??? I think I heard someone call him bobby, but I think it was my imagination. anyway, he had a pure colorless deck that worked my greatly with 2 stupid farfetch’d. I HATE FARFETCH’D!!! 3-1 Round 5 vs. some huge guy this guy who made an eerie shadow over me had a fire/fighting deck. his bench was filled with 3 charmander and 3 machop and he sends out a charmander. I put out a hitmonchan, and have 2 farfetch’d, 1 clefairy, and 1 machop on my bench. first turn he scratchs, then I jab back. my hitmonchan takes out 2 charmanders, and all 3 ‘punching bags’ machops. all while doing this he makes a freaking fully powered charizard. and fire spins to disposes of hitmonchan. I send in a farfetch as a punching bag as my clefairy is busy getting some energy. charizard kills my 1st farfetch’d, and my machop. I send in my fully powered farfetch’d and pot smash of 30, charizard is at 90 HP, next turn he kills farfetch’d and I kill him with a metronome from clefairy. 4-1 Round 6 vs. David (my friend) david has a all water deck that focused on the evolution of gyarados. anyway, his bench is filled with 2 squirtle, and 3 magikarp. I have a hitmonchan, 2 clefairy, and 1 kangashkan on my bench (NOT 1 CHANSEY IN ALL MY FIGHTS!!!). he sends out a squirtle and my hitmonchan kills them both later. next, I kill his all his magikarp except for 1 which evolves into a gyarados in 1 turn later. I jab for no damage against his gyarados, and it ends up killing my hitmonchan and 1 of my clefairy. next, I send in my fully powered clefairy (with a fully powered kangashkan on my bench) and dragon rage for 50 damage (his gyarados is at 50 HP). next turn, he puts down a magikarp on his bench and then he dragon rages and bye bye to clefairy. I then put in kangashkan and comet punch for a total of 60 damage which kills the gyarados. now all he has is a little magikarp which dies to my kangashkan. 5-1 Round 7 vs. ??? OK, this fight was a push over, this kid had a 5 or 6 color deck. he had a bench with pikachu, squirtle, machop, and clefairy. I took him out in about 10 or 11 (or more, I don’t remember very well) turns with 1 hitmonchan. 6-1 Round 8 vs. the undeafeated girl This was my last match and she (yes she) was the one that was undeafeated. She had a ‘mewtwo mulligan’ deck which stalled and stalled until my deck got down to nothing. I HATE MEWTWO MULLIGAN DECKS!!! anyway, I though I could win cuz I had my clefairy (fully powered) and I super energy removaled the mewtwo. anyway, that sucked cuz his whole deck was full of energy. anyway, I don’t think I could’ve ever beat a deck to weird. 6-2 Well, I came in second and got 2 booster packs of jungle (whoop-de-doo, I payed $10 to reserve and register for the tournament). I got a holo-foil snorlax and a non-holo-foil venomoth as my rares. anyway, that girl that was undefeated got to choose which theme deck she wanted and 2 jungle booster packs, so obviously she chose the ‘ZAP!’ for another stupid mewtwo. any questions or comments e-mail me at myrmidon85@yahoo.com. -myrmidon85