Subject: Dark Metal by Josh Herren

Dark Metal
by Josh Herren
L.King Collectables
Sunday February 1, 2002
Houston,Texas
14 Participants

	So far with this deck I have won five tournaments and have only lost about
seven times. So I believe that this is my best deck ever. My strategy is to
get steelix and sneasle out fast enough that my opponent has no possible
way to set up his strategy. On with the deck.

3 onix (base set)
3 steelix
3 sneasle
2 chansey
2 cleffa
1 ditto

4 metal energy
4 darkness energy
3 rainbow energy
4 DCE
3 recycle energy

3 Comp. search
3 item finder
3 oak 
2 elm
3 gold berry
2 eco gym
4 super removal
3 removal
2 gust of wind
2 scoop up
1 balloon berry

the tournament is four rounds long with the top four going to the final
four.

Round 1
me vs. Ben(Steelix and Muk)
this match started out slow for him as he could not draw any good cards for
like the first five turns. He started with tyrogue and lasted for a really
long time. Later off in the game he finally got out a steelix against mine.
I eventually killed it though. The only prize he picked up the whole game
was when I killed my own chansey with double edge. I win.
1-0

Round 2
me vs. Brian(another steelix)
when we first were shuffleing our decks he noticed he only had 59 cards in
his deck. I let him get a card from the store owner before we started. For
some reason he got a water energy!?! when we started he had the neo 1 onix
against my two sneasle's. On turn two I used beat up to kill his only
pokemon.
2-0

Round 3
me vs. Tal(stupid murkrow slowking)
I kept telling him that his deck is very bad and he should change it but he
will not listen to me. I think he is just mad that I beat him at the
qualifier in Houston. This was a pretty easy win for me. I just kept
killing all of his murkrows and cleffa's. In the end he decked him self out
on purpose.
3-0

Round 4
me vs. Daniel(sneasle, Rocket Zapdos)
this match was verry close and could have went either way. I had a bad
start with only a cleffa. He almost first turned me! Then I got it going
and picked up three prizes. I had one more prize picked up than him when
the owner called time!
4-0

Final four: Round 5
me vs. Luis(hitmonchan wigglytuff)
this match took about a hour and a half to complete. I started off to the
most horrible start. I could not get any thing good in my hand till about
the tenth turn. I finally picked up a prize when he had already picked up
three. I tied it up later in the game at one prize left apiece. I had a
steelix out with 60 damage and he had a cleffa. On top of that I had a
drakness energy on steelix. I noticed that he had a jiggly on the bench
with two energy and 40 damage. On my turn I drew a gust of wind!!!!!!! I
used it on jiggly and used tail crush for the game. Later I figured out
that if I did'nt kill someone that turn then he would have evoolved to
wiggly and won on the very next turn.
5-0

I won my seventh tournament and got 28 dollars store credit! 

j.herren@worldnet.att.net