Inferno Zapdos(Fire/Electric)
by Christian E.
A World of Books
San Leandro, CA
Sunday, January 9th, 2000
32 total participants
Japanese Cards Are NOT Allowed
20 Mins Per Round

Well I love Rocket's Zapdos and I like Blaine's Rapidash, so I decided to
try this combination.  I've been playing this deck for a couple of days.  I
won a tourney while back in November. Well heres my deck:

Inferno Zapdos

Pokemon:
3 R. Zapdos
3 B. Ponytas
2 B. Rapidash
2 Electabuzz
2 Magmar(fossil or neo)
2 Cleffa
2 Clefaiy
2 Clefable
(the Clefable family works fine)

Energies:
9 Fire
9 Lightning
3 DCE

Trainers:
2 Golden Berries
2 Oaks
3 Plus Powers
2 NGR
2 Gust of Winds
2 RSA
3 Comp. Search
3 Item Finders

This deck is pretty good the first time i played it.  I was thinking of
adding Recycle Energies and SER, but i got all those after the tourney in
trading.  I have all the details you need.

Round 1 vs Slowking/Chaos Gym Combo
This is probably my weakness in this whole tournament. I drew a Ponyta,3
lightning energies,DCE,Comp Search, Plus Power. I put down Ponyta for bench.  
i win coin toss! Then she flips a Scyther with no bench!!!! I draw a GOW. I
attach DCE and plus power. I use search and discard both lightnings then i
get a oak. Then i use oak and get a plus power, comp search, R. Zapdos,2
fire, RSA, and Electabuzz. I attach plus power and search for another plus
power for the win!  w00t w00t.  Then she showed me chaos gym in her hand! I'm
so lucky. I advance to the next round.

1-0

Round 2 vs Sneasel Deck/Grass
Sneasel, played with many time, was in this deck at one time but it took too
long for me to power him up. I get a Cleffa, Scyther, 2 fire, 1
lightning,RSA, item finder. i put down Scyther for active and Cleffa for
bench. i lose coin toss. He has a jigglypuff for active and a scyther for
bench.(i think it was suppose to be the other way around for him...lol) Well
he attaches a dark energy to jigglypuff, then we started arguing about
putting a counter, then he finaly did and use lullaby. I flipped to see if i
was awake and i was. i drew a fire. i used RSA and i saw all energies! Then i
attached a energy to Cleffa then retreated Scyther and used EEEEEK! I got R.
Zapdos, 2 Lightning, Comp. Search, Oak, 2 fire. His turn and he puts another
counter. and attaches a grass to Jigglypuff and puts on a plus power, he
tried to do pound but then he flipped tails! Then he adds another counter. I
draw a Clefable. I put down R. Zapdos and a lightning energy. Retreated
Cleffa then put in R. Zapdos then searched and discarded both fires and got a
Gold Berry and attached it to R. Zapdos, then i used oak and got a
Rapidash,Clefairy,Plus power,DCE,2 Lightnings, Fire. Then i koed the
Jigglypuff cause of the dark energy, i draw a prize and get a Plus, amd i put
another lightning from discard to R. Zap.. He attaches a grass and does SD.
Then i Ponyta! I put it down clefairy and ponyta and i attach DCE to Ponyta
and retreat R. Zap. i attach the plus power, and i do 50, i flipped tails.
Then he attaches a DCE and kos Ponyta. Then i put in R. Zap, attach for the
win!  

2-0

Semi-Finals vs Mono Water Deck
This was the fastest game i had in the whole tournament. i get a R. Zap, 1
lightning, 3 plus powers!,2 fires. i win coin toss. He only has a Squirtle
for a basic!
I use plasma for the win! yay!, but i have to wait 18 long mins until the
FINALS!!!!!!!

3-0

FINALS! vs Dark Vileplume
After a long wait of a extra 30 mins, because the players had 3 sudden death
matches! Well i dont want to get into all the details, we had a VERY long
match. He got out Vile in the second turn on bench with Kangashkan(full
powered on active) and 2 R. Scythers, lickitung and jigglypuff. Then i had
Scyther on active and R.zapdos(2 energies) then we started battling it out
towards the end. then at 2-1 prizes each. He had a Vile on bench with 5
counter and a Lickitung
as active with 5 counters also. my turn. i have a Rapidash as active and a
scyther on bench. Scyther and Rapidash both have 6 counters >=( . I had no
choice but to use Trample, Heads i win, Tails i lose! I flipped and the coin
looked like a dramtic scene in a movie, the coin moving v-e-r-y slow hits the
table and lands on the floor. I have to flip again and then i flipped too
hard because i was nervous and lost the coin. I got my other coin a flipped
HEADS!!!!!!!! i win.

4-0

Well since my cousin Scott was there i gave him all 5 packs i won, all Neo.  
My cousin juss started so i gave him a boost up.  He got Lugia! Steelix!
Sneasel... Dark Energy and Bellosome( i had all those cards but i was SOOO
jealous, but o well.)

Props and Slops
Props: i won the tourney,got my cousin good cards, made a good deck
Slops: people who argued and the sudden death matches, gave the good cards
to my cousin, my other cousin didnt enter.

Well this is my Killer Deck Report and also i beat many people on
Myleague/pojo.com with this deck.

My e-mail address is Alphaxpnoy@aol.com and have a great Martin Luther King
Jr. Day!!!