Who Let the Onix Out? (Fighting/Steal)
By Tai Kamiyo
Skyfox
Games Oshawa
Oshawa,
Ontario, Canada
Saturday, October 13th, 2001
17 People in Tournament
Here we go. I find this deck to be pretty good. I have won quite a few of tournaments with this deck, even though I am not very highly rated on the DCI Rankings. This is because my store’s tourney’s are obviously not DCI related. Time for my deck:
Pokemon (14):
4
Rainbow Islands Onix
3
Steelix
3
Ditto
2
Cleffa
2 Neo Discovery Igglybuff
Trainers (32):
4
Computer Search
4
Energy Removal
4
Gust of Wind
2
Item Finder
4
Master Ball
4
PlusPower
4
Professor Oak
3
Super Energy Removal
3 Super Energy Retrieval
Energies (14):
7
Fighting Energy
4
Metal Energy
3 Double Colorless Energy
Before the tournament, I thought “Why not play a couple of test matches?” I also did good in those. I’ve had the plan to write this for a while, but I haven’t got the time. Luckily, all the info is correct, because I wrote an on-paper copy of it!! ;)
Total of 5 rounds
Round 1 (against Nick’s haymaker/Clefable deck)
I
got two Onix’s, a Cleffa, and a Steelix in my opening hand, as well as a
metal energy and a dce (how lucky was I, lol) All he had was a clefairy and he
was quickly and easily defeated.
Record: 1-0
Round 2 (against Max’s Electabuzz/Magmar deck)
He
had my Igglybuff paralyzed all the time and kept on using playful punch,
eventually getting enough heads to knock out my Igglypuff.
Unfortunately for him, that brought up my Steelix (you can probably tell
that he had no Magmars in play) I
killed his active (a base Electabuzz), and then the Elekid on the next turn for
the win.
Record: 2-0
Round 3 (against Shawn’s Dark Vileplume deck)
He
had two Dark Vileplumes in play but they were of no use because of the two
Igglypuffs on my side. He was
charging up his Sneasel, while preventing my attacks with his active (a Totodile
for some reason). Well, I naturally
gusted the Sneasel to knock it out with my Steelix.
After the Sneasel, he brought the Totodile out again.
I gusted for one of the Vileplumes to knock it out with two PlusPowers.
Yet again, he brought up Totodile, so I gusted for the other Vileplume,
and used Computer Search x2 to get the PlusPowers I needed to knock it out and
gain my last prize.
Record: 3-0
Round 4 (against Matt’s Brock’s Ninetails/Arcanine deck)
No
problem here. Turn two knock out on
his Brock’s Vulpix with my Steelix.
Record: 4-0
Round 5 (against Ryan’s Sneasel deck)
Everyone
thought I was crazy when I said that I could beat this guy.
He had 3 Sneasels on the bench, and a Cleffa as the active.
I went first and knocked out the Cleffa.
He wasn’t able to get any dark energies, so I slowly killed all
three of the Sneasels.
Overall record: 5-0
Props + Slops:
Props:
-great
tournament
-the
hard work presented by all the competitors
-my
transportation to the tourney (I think my car deserves credit for my win lol)
-everyone who traded me the cards I needed for this deck, I couldn’t have even played without you
Slops:
-tournament started late
-low prize money because of low player count