This deck is called "Stall-Slammer," and is composed of psychic and colorless Pokémon. It focuses around using the Abra-Kadabra-Alakazam line to attack (plus Alakazam's power will let you move all of your damage to Chansey, and then get rid of all of it with a PKMN center), the Chanseys to attack and stall, and the Gasty-Haunter line to just plain stall.

The Cards:

Pokémon:
4 Abra
3 Kadabra
2 Alakazam
2 Gastly [Fossil]
2 Haunter [Fossil]
2 Chansey

Trainers:
4 Bill
3 Prof. Oak
2 Computer Search
2 Pokémon Center
4 Defender
4 Potion
3 G.O.W.
2 Switch
1 Energy Retrieval
1 Scoop Up

Energy:
15 Psychic
4  Double Colorless


This event was at a local Game Keeper store in Mass. (near Wellesley) on Jan 23rd, and was not a tourney, yet part of the league. About 15 people were there, most around the age of 10. I am 14, and a certified coach.

Round 1 (vs. Gym Leader)
  This guy was playing a deck nearly identical to mine, except it had 4 Chanseys and some Dittos. We both started with just one Abra. He went first, and did 20 to my Abra. I did 20 to his, and succeded in paralyzing him. He evolved, layed down a Ditto, and did Recover, discarding an energy. I attached another energy, and did 20 to him. He put another energy on his Kadabra, and did recover again. I drew a Kadabra, evolved my Abra, Attached an enrgy, and Gusted and killed his Ditto.  He attached an energy to his Kadabra, but could not attack. I did Super Psy to him, which killed his Kadabra, and won. (Yay!!!)

Round 2 (vs. a kid who was just learning)
  This opponent was playing a Lock-Down theme deck, and didn't really know what to do. This game basically went as follows: I powered up one Chansey in two turns, layed down another, and evolved an Alakazam in three (no energy). Then I used Chansey's Double-Edge attack, swapped the energy to my other Chansey/Alakazam, and healed them with potions and PKMN Centers when I needed to. The other kid had a full bench, but no energy, so it was just a matter of time until my Chansey Double-Edged all of his Pokémon into oblivion. (Yay!!)

Round 3 (vs. last guy's brother)
  This guy was playing an original fire-water deck that had Ninetales, Magmars, and Kinglers in it. He won the coin toss, and started with a Krabby and no benched guys. He attached an energy. I started with an Abra, and was able to paralyze him. He attached another energy, and his turn was over. I attached another enery to my Abra, and layed a Chansey on my bench. I paralyzed him. He played a potion, and layed down a Fossil Magmar, and attached a fire energy to him. I evolved my Abra into a kadabra, and layed down another Chansey, to which I attached a Double-Colorless. My opponent layed down another Magmar, and attached a fire to it, then attacked using Irongrip. I attached another psychic energy to Kadabra, evolved it, retreated Alakazam by discarding the energies, brought out my powered Chansey, switched my damage to my benched Chansey, and sucessfully Scrunched. My opponent attached a second fire energy to one of his Magmars, layed down a Vulpix, used Call For Family, and got another Krabby. I drew a Gastly, layed it down, attached a second Double-Colorless to Chansey, and Double-Edged, killing Krabby. he brought out his powered up Magmar,and smoke-screened me. I swapped all of Chansey's damage to the benched one (now with 110 damage on it), and Double-Edged again (I succeded), killing Magmar. he brought out the other Magmar, and attached a second fire energy to it, and used smog, but failed to poison me. Then I swapped all of the damage off of Chansey on to Alakazam and Gastly, and used a PKMN center, getting rid of 210 damage, and not paying a single energy for it. Then I Double-Edged his Magmar, killing it. Then he brought out Krabby, but the Krabby didn't have enough energy to attack. So i swapped the damage to Chansey, And Double-Edged. He brought out Vulpix, but couldn't do anything due to lack of energy. I swapped all of the damage to my benched Chansey/Alakazam, Double-Edged, killed his last pokemon, and won. (Yay!!) Definitley my hardest match yet.

Round 4 (vs. yet another nameless kid)
  This kid played a mean Nidoking deck (4-4-4 Nido evolution set). However, he started with a lone Nidoran, and I started with an Abra, 2 benched Chansey, and another Abra. I won the flip, so attached a psychic energy to Abra, and then Psyshocked, Paralyzing him and doing twenty damage. He layed two Nidos on his bench, attached an energy, and failed with Horn Hazard. I attached another energy to Abra, and killed his Nido. he brought out one of his nidos, evolved the other, and failed again with horn hazard. I evolved my Abra, attached an energy, and killed his nido. He brough out the Nidorino, and evolved it to a Nidoking, but couldn't attack. I killed it on the next turn, and won easily. (Yay!!)

Last Round (vs. an older man)
  This last guy was in his late twenties to early thirtes. He sported an original Grass deck that centered on the Exeggcute-Exeggutor and Nido lines. He won the coin flip, and started with an exeggcute and two Nidos on his bench. he attached an energy to Exeggcute, and passed. I started with a Chansey active and an Abra on my bench. I attached a D-C energy to Chansey and did Scrunch, which failed. He attached another energy to Exeggcute, and evolved it. Then he used Big Eggsplosion, and and got one head. I attached an energy to my Abra, and scrunched again. This time it worked. Right here, I forget what happened, but basically I pumped up my Abra to an Alakazam, and Plced another chansey on my bench. Then I used my Alakazam to attack, because half of his deck or more was weak to psy I swapped damage to my Chanseys when the need arose, and finally beat him when he had three prizes left (my only flawless game). (Double Yay!!)

As you can see, Alakazam's PKMN Power is very powerful, especially when used in conjuction with the two Chanseys. The energy retrieval never really came in handy, and since i can use Gastly's attack to get energy, I would trade it for another Chansey if/when I got one. The Defenders should be used to minimize the damage done to Chansey during Double-Edge, and to maximize the efficiency of PKMN center. Basically, if you have a full bench, you can hold up to 330 damage, and if you have not played much energy, you can use Defenders to increase that capacity to 410, and add an extra Double-Edge before PKMN centering. Thanks for reading. Please send any comments to pokemon@zizibaloob.com

     - Ben (zizibaloob)