Malcolm's Chaos Theory
by Mark S Dawson
St Pattys Day 2001
GREENville, SC
20 participants
3 Round Swiss

Finding myself intrigued with Chaos Gym I spent a week building a
deck around it (and,yes, this was the best I could do). I have been wanting
to use Sabrinas Venomoth for awhile so I thought 75% confusion (in the deck,
not my own) was a good complement. And since my original attempt with the
Gastly/Haunter/Gengar line was a failure and put me in a dark mood I decided
to go Dark with Murkrow and Sneasel. The Sneasel was there for Punch, Pop&
Power. The Murkrow as a bench sniper and the chance of trapping an impotent
active.
The Dittos were added only because I missed him: po' pitiful me.
The only trainer idea I had was to put in trainers that attached to
my pokemon because the Chaos Gym says my opponent cannot use any trainers
that are put into play. So I had Berry ,Gold Berry and Plus Power.(If this
is the wrong interpretation I would like to know but I cannot figure out any
other meaning for that phrase). And I added the 2 Eco Gym because they
really helped my Dark energies and I could use it to knock out the Chaos
play my trainers and, hopefully, item find the Chaos and put it back out.
All in a single turn.

Transmorgrifying into:
3 Sabrinas Venonat
3 Sabrinas Venomoth
2 Cleffa (card drawing without using a trainer)
2 Sneasel
2 Murkrow
2 Ditto
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4 Dark
4 Rainbow
4 DCE
8 Psychic
4 Grass  (ditto can use anything and the S Venomoth line uses both
Psy and Grass)
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3 Chaos
2 Eco
3 Berry
1 Gold Berry (I really started running outta room in this deck or I
woulda liked another)
2 Plus Power
3 Oak (all decks need Oak just in case you start out with or end up
with squat)
2 Item finder
2 Computer Search
2 Master Ball (A great card to have in your opening hand if your
opening hand is Poke Lite)
2 Energy Removal (for when I knock out my Chaos and can use with
impunity on that Chanseys DCE)
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I think this deck can use some serious tweaking so I invite all you
amateur deck mechanics to have at


Round 1 v Kristen w/ alotta grass weak water
She had Mistys Psyduck and Horsea and somebodys Poliwhirl and someon
elses Staryu and Tentacool.
And she gave me fits. I was starting to wonder if I shouda
playtested this deck before bringing it to the tourney though I tested Chaos
Gym alot recently. I was going slow and the only thing that saved me was
that she was weak to geass and that I could tell she had few trainers, so I
never put out the Chaos when I had the chance. I squeaked out the first game
and was ahead by one prize card when time was called in game 2
2-0
Round 2 v Kathy w/ a mostly colorless deck
Wigglytuff, Snorlax, Tauros, Kangaskhan... Again, Game1  took
forever. We have 45-minute-best-2-outta-3 rounds and game 1 was probably 30
minutes long. I was getting anxious cause I could not go into Round3 with
only 3 wins and my deck was getting scouted both rounds and I had no idea
what anybody else was playing.
Finally, game 1 ended and I won only giving up 2 prizes.
Game 2 started and it was a 3 turn game as she could get only a sole
basic and my lone S Venonat killed her Jigglypuff.
4-0
Round 3 v Ben ,definitely a top 2 player at this tourney and you
know me I'm a player-hater
My deck was not going off at all. It was not doing what I had built
the deck to do and I had no inkling what Ben had. I was messed up.
Game 1. I got the early Chaos and Ben said "Darn". It was bad as he
kept losing trainer flip after trainer flip and he had only a Sneasel and
Ditto out and I got a powered Sneasel, a Ditto and S Venomoth up. He killed
one of mine and I offed both his  and that was that. That really helped me
as far as advancing to the playoffs.
Game 2, this was a good one until...
I was getting beat bad early and Ben was down to needing 2 prize
cards and me 5. I got my Sneasel out to swap 2 prize cards (I killed his
Sneasel and a Nidoking. Sneasel rocks for those big mama jammas) for one and
it left me in the precarious position of losing if he could kill one more of
mine and I had to do 3 of his. I got lucky because Ben was trying to build
up another Nidoking instead of his benched Chansey and I was able to tie us
up at one prize each, and this is where it got hairy.We both had ONE card in
our library He brought out Ditto on my Sneasel and added a Dark and Plus
Power to Ditto and THEN had to win 2 of 5 flips to win. He won only 1
leaving me with the opportunity to win 3 of six to kill Ditto. I flipped
TAILS, TAILS, TAILS, (the judge called time) HEADS, HEADS and then he said
that was it.  He said I flipped 4 tails to start and then 2 heads and I
begged to differ. I KNEW I flipped 3 cause there was no sense in giong on
after that and time was called so why bother...
Maybe Ben and I are too competitive and I know one of us was wrong,
neither of us want (or wanted) to cheat the other.
Record ?-?
I made it to the playoffs and as I found out it was moot.

Playoffs
v Scott w/ Flareon, Magmar and Buzz (the other on of the top 2 at
this tourney)
This is the best  I played all day AND the only one I lost.
I started out with a lone Ditto and junk in my hand, except for a
lone Oak. He got to go first. Ditto was smokescreened and I drew. More
nothing. I oaked away a Chaos gym and 2 Darks after attaching a DCE to
Ditto. I got another Chaos Gym and Oak, and Eco gym. I played the Eco gym
and decided to wait and see. My attack failed and he smogged me, no poison.
I drew nothing so I had to Oak again  because if he brought up his Erikas
Dratini with a DCE that was game. So I lost Chaos Gym , a Rainbow and got a
Cleffa whaich I played to the bench , 2 DCE and my last Chaos Gym. I was
scuffling. I had to play a DCE on Cleffa and lose a DCE by retreating Ditto
and Eeeeeeek. I was in a huge hole, I had lost some good cards, was down to
half my deck and was weak to his Magmars and Flareon and was playing one of
the top 2.Yet, still incredibly, I built up a one prize card lead and was
still up a prize card 3-2 when I was finally decked. I used every imaginable
trick to stay alive and keep it close.  If I had not spent so much cards at
the beginning I had a shot. The moral of the story is to never give up
Just as well the other deck that made it to the Finals was a pure
FIRE deck and I probably could not stand the heat.

3rd/4th place game v my boy from Philly Chuckie D  aka the Raven
I had not played Chuck in a long time and he was down visiting his
cousin, Douglas. Unfortunately, my deck went off exactly as planned, I was
using his potions to clean off my guys and I got to use one of his Energy
removals. His deck was all Scyther , Chan, and maybe that was all I saw. He
had the worst luck as I did a first turn Chaos and he had no Gyms in his
deck. I killed a Scyther and 2 Chans  and then did the Eco gym Chaos
knockout and added my plus powers and berrys and ERer him and then item
found my Chaos and put it right back out and then finished off another
Scyther and a Chan to win as he ran out of basics. It was a shame that the
only time my deck worked properly Chuck had to take the brunt of the force.
I got lucky and I know it. Hopefully there will be a next time.
I won 6 bucks in store credit which I will use on NEO 2. Again, I
need help. Ithink this deck is stronger than I played it so I look forward
to any/all your help. E-mail me at Mark.Dawson@vacorp.com     Later Gator