Arlington, VA
August 28, 2000
Comics and Cards
A tourney.  I enetered for the small price of $5.00


This 8 round tourney was a great tune up for my deck in preperation for
the East Coast STS qualifier.  This happend after my 3 league battles
which I submitted a report for.  The prize was a Box of BASE SET packs.
Second would get 8 packs of their choice, 3rd would get 6, 4th would get
4.  The cool thing was, everyone there got a TR booster.  I got a nice
holo Dark CHARIZARD!!!!!  I had come here to get a good tune up for my
deck, called now by it's original name, Raichu's Power Station.  I have
tweaked this deck every bit I could.  I even traded 1 of my 3 Dark
Blastoise holofoils and 1 non-holo Dark Vileplume for a Dark Raichu and
a MP Pikachu.  I have a tip for all you people who play electric like
me.  Don't underestimate the power of any 1 of the 3 Raichu's.  He is
the best pokemon for an Electric deck IMO.  I also have all around
favorites like Electabuzz, Hitmonchan, Zapdos, and the ever flexible
Scyther.  So far this deck has earned me 2,910 points.  Not counting on
all the stickers I filled up.  So here is the deck:

Pokemon

3 Electabuzz
4 Pikachu (2 Jungle, 1 MP Pikachu, and 1 non-movie promo)
3 Raichu ( 1 Dark, and 2 Base set)
3 Hitmonchan
3 Scyther
1 Basic Zapdos


Trainers

4 SER
3 Bill
1 ER
2 Plus Power
1 Rocket Sneak Attacked
2 Professor Oak
2 Item Finder
1 Computer Search
1 Energy Retrival
1 NGR


Energy

14 Lightning
9 Fighting
2 DCE



         This deck has a very impresive record of 46-8.  The 8 loses
were very important in this decks making though.  I learned what needed
to be took out and what needed to be put in.  A tip to all you Wiggly
players out there, don't use Challenge.  Your opponent will pull out a
Chansey or Mime or Hitmonchan.  I think archtypes may have a slight edge
against a unique deck, because an archtype has been improved over and
over again.  But good on all of you who make decks that center around
Dark Arbok, Dark Muk, and others who aren't used much in tourney play.
I have won several tourneys with a non archtype deck like my Dark Arbok
deck which i will give to you after this Sunday.  Here are the tourney
results.

Round 1  Me vs a Wiggly deck.

To start off with, this deck was tweaked to be able to handle archtypes
in preperation for the ECSTS Qualifier to take place in like 14 days or
something in Maryland.  This match went sour at the beginning with me
mulliganing 3 times.  I finally drew a basic, Hitmonchan.  I sent out
Chan to to take out all 4 of his Jigglypuffs.  I Jabbed and Plus Powered
2 of them down.  Then he got out a Wiggly, but only had 2 pokemon on his
bench.  He waved for 30.  I played a fighting on Hitmonchan and played a
Scyther on the bech.  Then I Special Punched for the K.O..  All he had
left were Hitmonchans.  I brought out Scyther and beat them all down.

Record for tourney 1-0 for day 4-0-0

Between the match, I got a Pre-release Misty's Seadra and my 3 Promo
Evee. 

Round 2  Bye for Me I guessed the right number

Record 2-0  +  5-0-0

Round 3  Me vs a Raindance

I started with a MP Pikachu and used Recharge.  I then was tackled by
Magikarp for 10.  I Computer Searched for Dark Raichu. I played another
energy on Pikachu and evolved.  K.O.ed Karp and got 2 heads doing 20 to
his Squirtle, Lapras, and TR Squirtle.  He sent out Rocket Squirtle and
played a Rainbow!?!!?!!?!!? energy on it and passed.  I Rocket Sneak
Attacked his Breeder, attacked with Suprise Thunder killing the TR
Squirtle and the Base one, because I got 2 heads.  He then played his
lone Lapras and got it K.O.ed by me the following turn.

Record 3-0  +  6-0-0

Round 4  Me vs Haymaker

My hardest match.  Not!!!!!  I got out Zapdos on his lone Chan and 4
turns later it was Thunderbolt for the win(!___!)

Record 4-0  +  7-0-0

Round 5  Another Bye

Record 5-0  +  8-0-0

Round 6 Me vs a VenuCenter

He got his combo going and I Could only wait for my Zapdos to come and
save me from Venusaur.  He used up his Pokemon Centers fast and fell to
my SER+Item Finder.  I eventually got out Dark Raichu to hit his benches
and then I won a grueling match.  His deck really needed Item Finders
though.  My damage was coming in real fast when I got Dark Raichu out.

Record 6-0  +  9-0-0

Round 7  Me vs another VenuCenter

I got down to 30 cards in my deck and he decked himself.  This happend
very fast because he had 4 Item Finders, 4 Oaks, 4 Bills, 4 Pokemon
Center, and 4 Computer Searches.  That was way to much card drawing and
discarding.  I had kept the damage coming with Scyther and Hitmonchan.
He used up the 4 Pokemon Center and Item Finder in the first 12 turns. 

Record 7-0  +  10-0-0

Round 8 (finals)  Me vs a Stall deck.

Almost my worst nightmare.  I got 7 Mulligans.  He drew all 14 cards
though.  This worked to my advantage.  He started already down 21 cards
in his deck so it had only 39 cards left.  He managed to kill off 1 Base
Raichu with a Double-Edge.  Then I piled up enough damage with Dark
Raichu to knock out 4 out of 6 prizes.  All he had left was an
Alakazam.  he kept Confusing me so I kept passing until I had Zapdos
charged up for the kill with Thunderbolt.

Record 8-0  +  11-0-0

I took home my boxe and haven't opened it yet I will open 1 pack now
though.  Holy Cow.  A Venusaur!  Cool!  Sweet! Yahoo!.


Props to Zapdos
Props to Parents
Props to WoTC
MEGA PROPS TO POJO AND STEVE FOR THE KILLER DECK REPORT PAGE!!!!!!!!!!


MEGS SLOPS TO PEOPLE WHO HATE RAICHU


Email me, Henry , at Darth_Maul_Sith_Lord@hotmail.com