The Fire Wave
by Eric
Games Galore
Raleigh, North Carolina
Saturday, September 23rd
about 24 participants

This is my first killer deck report so I hope you all like it. Games Galore
only holds one tournament a month :( so I try really hard to get to them.
Most of the players here are very good. I saw two or three raindances, I
think about three wigglytuff decks, and probably 90% of the rest were
haymakers. I wanted to try out my new electrode deck that I made, but
unfortunately I forgot about getting voltorbs :) so I had to play my fire
wave deck. Well, enough talking onto the deck:

Pokemon
4 Jigglypuffs
4 Wigglytuffs
3 F. Magmars
3 Scythers

Energy
8 Fire E.
2 Full Heal E.
4 DCE

Trainers
4 Professor Oaks
3 Bills
4 Misty's Wrath (very good card to use with wigglytuff)
4 Computer Search
3 Item Finder
2 Gust of Wind
2 Goop Gas Attack (VERY underrated. I used it to take out mr.mimes, Erika's    
dratinis, and dittos in one hit)
4 Plus Power
4 RSA
2 No Removal Gym

I had to get there at 11:00 AM. I wish I could sleep later on Saturdays. Each
game lasted 25 minutes and there were five rounds in the tournament. Now to
the report:

First Round
versus ?????(sorry not good with names, I know he was 14 though)
The game started off looking good for me I had a fully powered wigglytuff by
turn two, but then I made a mistake that cost me the game. I forgot to RSA
and the next turn he Super ERed my wigglytuff. His deck was mostly fighting
with hitmonchans, hitmonlees, and brock's onix. Well, I got a few prizes with
scythers but not enough to win the game. I got wigglytuff powered a few times
also but then got supered. I ended up decking myself and I learned always
play RSA if theres a DCE.

0-1

Second Round
versus Bricen (Sorry if I didn't spell your name right)
I played this kid a lot at the pokemon league and hes was really good. We
both started off with terrible hands. The entire game all I had a jiggly,
magmar, scyther, and the rest energy. He had a couple of scythers, some
energy removals, and energy. I won this game by KO'ing his scythers with my
magmar. Too bad this was such a quick game.

1-1

Third Round
verus Carson
He played a really weird sponge deck and its always a VERY close match
whenever we play. In the start of this round the electricity in the store
went out but there was still plenty of light so we kept playing. He was
getting tails on coin flips earlier that day about 95% of the time. That
helped me out at the beginning of the match when I had a lone magmar with 30
life left against a powered mewtwo who was smokescreened. Three times he
flipped tails on the smokescreen. All he needed was one heads to win the
game. It was very close through the whole match I knocked out his mewtwos and
dratinis (Using goop gas attack) and at the end I had one prize left, but I
ended up decking myself.

2-1

The two matches I lost I played carelessly using too much card drawing. After
the tournaments over I'm going to take out either some bills or misty's wrath
and add some nightly garbage runs.
 
Fourth Round
versus ???
This kid was very easy. I saw two abras and two venonats and slaughtered them
with Wigglytuff.

2-2

Fifth Round
versus Michael
He played a haymaker and made some attempts at knocking out wigglytuff early
on, although after I knocked out his hitmonchan and his dittos (using goop
gas attack) it was downhill for me from there.

3-2

Since the power went out they also had to relied on prize differences to
determine the winner of the tournament and because of that I ended up doing
really good even though I had two losses. I won first place in the 11 and
older category and got three boosters. Kind of cheap with the prizes don't
you think, but its better than nothing :) In the boosters I got an Erika's
Vileplume, Erika's Victrabell, and Brock's Zubat. They also had random
drawings for cool porygons and the promo #20 psyduck. Well, that was a fun
tournament. I definitely need to take out some of the card drawing like bill
and misty's wrath since I lost both games due to decking. Now its time for
props and slops.

Props
For Games Galore to use prize differences when the computer went off.
The vending machines. They have great snacks!
The power going off. I never have played pokemon in the dark and it was fun :)
Corey for running all the tournaments and pokemon leagues.
Good Gas Attack. I love this card especially now that theres Erika's dratini.
The pokemon league at Games Galore isn't going to stop.
Games Galore for being a great store!
Finally having Cool Porygon at the pokemon league.
 
Slops
Tournaments only being held once a month.
AOL always disconnecting me.
Not giving away a lot of prizes.
N'SYNC. Sorry to everyone that loves them, but I hate them.

Thanks a lot for reading!

Eric
cannibalcreature@aol.com