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Blaze's Banter
Hi – Welcome
to our weekly series of Pokemon featured decks
here on Pojo. I’d like to introduce myself to
those that don’t know me as Johnny Blaze. I’ve
been on the Pokemon scene for about six years
now (wow has it been that long?). I started
playing the game when I purchased the 1st
edition Machamp theme deck for my then 5 yr. old
son Nick. I was immediately hooked and then we
began to purchase individual booster packs to
improve our “theme deck”. Not long after,
Toys-R-Us started their weekly Pokemon League
and we joined that. The badges and battling
were fun but as we got better in our deck
building skills we craved for tournaments. We
still continued at the League but we found a
tournament that was one hour away every
Saturday. During this time is when I started
submitting Killer Deck reports on Pojo.
(Shameless plug: Please submit your tourney
reports to Pojo too whether or not whether you
are a beginner or a long time player). Since
then we have attended all Super Trainer Showdown
and World Championships sponsored by Wizards and
now the Pokemon World Championships and
Qualifiers under Nintendo. We also play Magic,
DuelMasters, and VS. on the competitive level,
along with NeoPets, GI Joe, and Digimon for
fun. But we will continue to play and support
Pokemon for the long haul. Enough of me already
lets get to the deck.
Since
Nintendo is getting ready to launch the awesome
2005 World Championship qualifiers and
tournaments this May-June lets take a look at a
popular and long lasting deck that has been
around since the release of Ruby & Sapphire –
Fire Starter Blaziken:
Pokemon
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4 - Dunsparce
4 – Torchic
(Singe)
3 – Combusken
(Lunge)
3 – Blaziken
(Fire Starter of course)
2 – Blaziken-ex
2 – Pidgey
1 – Pidgeotto
2 – Pidgeot
2 – Rayquaza-ex
(Dragon)
Trainers
– 22
4 – TV
Reporter
3 – Celio’s
Network
3 – Steven’s
Advice
2 – Copycat
4 – Rare
Candy
2 – Switch
2 – High
Pressure System
1 – ATM Rock
1 – Strength
Charm
Energy
– 15
11 – Fire
Energy
4 - Multi
Energy
This is just
a general decklist. Some may vary and use the
Energy Draw Delcatty with Team Aqua’s Manectric
to move energy to the active Blaze-ex. Either
way with the upcoming release of Emerald brings
us the Battle Frontier Stadium card which shuts
off evolved Colorless, Darkness, and Metal
Pokemon Poke-Bodies and Poke-Powers. This new
Stadium will put a cramp in Pidgeot and Delcatty
in this deck, therefore the use of 2 High
Pressure System to counter Battle Frontier.
So your basic
setup will be Dunsparce to SAR’s for Pidgey and
2 Torchic’s or 1 Torchic and 1 Rayquaza
depending on the situation. Next turn hopefully
you can Celio’s for a Pidgeot or use TV Reporter
to draw 3 then dump a Fire. If facing Rock-Lock
you want to conserve the use of your Rare
Candies and go for the Stage 1 evo lines. This
is why I run 3 Combusken. For a more aggro
style you can drop a Combusken for another
Celio’s. Premium setup will be a Turn 1 or 2
Pidgeot and start dumping the energies to power
up Blaziken/Blaze-ex. The lone Strength Charm
is in there for a surprise Rayquaza attack on
your opponent’s main threat. You can use the
Switch to bring Rayquaza to the bench to get
Firestarted on and then rinse and repeat. Once
you establish control with Blaze it is very
difficult to beat. Watch out for any Water such
as Walrein, Ludicargo, or Blastoise decks since
more than often a good Water player will be
packing at least 2 Crystal Shard’s to counter
the Rayquaza’s. Luckily Zap-turn-dos decks are
pretty popular and will hopefully neutralize the
Water decks before they get to you.
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