The Woodlands, TX, Toys R Us
10-15 people
Saturday, April 22nd, 2000
For coming, I got 2 prerelease Gyarados Foil cards for Team Rocket.

Pokemon: 22
2 Mew
2 Movie Promo Mewtwo (#3 and #14)
2 Mr. Mime
3 Gastly (Fossil Version)
3 Grimer
2 Muk
3 Zubat
2 Jigglypuff
2 Golbat
1 Scyther
Trainers: 13
2 Computer Search
1 Mr. Fuji
4 Bill
2 Professor Oak
4 Energy Removal
2 PlusPower
The rest of the space was Energy, like 11 Psy, 8 Grass, 4 DCE, but I
can't remember exactly.

Round 1 vs. ???? with Water

He told me he had gotten the whole Poliwag line in his initial hand, and
sure enough, his ONLY BASIC was Poliwag! My hand had Scyther and Mew. He
evolved to Poliwrath, and that 3rd turn right after that Swords Dancing paid
off because I got my 3rd Energy and dealt 120 damage! Whohoo!
Matches: 1-0

Round 2 vs. Same Kid with Water

On my bench I benched all my Pokemon. The Pokemon I had in my hand were
Grimer, Mew, and Jigglypuff, plus some DCE. He wins toss and sends out
White Diamond Chansey from Gym 2. He attaches an Energy to Chansey and using
Lucky Egg, searches his deck. I attach DCE to Jiggly and Pounded. He
attached Energy to Chansey and Egged again. Now I use Pound again, attaching
an energy to Grimer. (G). I Pound. He attaches his THIRD energy to Chansey
and uses Lucky Punch with heads for 40. I attach Energy to Mew (P) and
Lullaby. He flips tails then heads both times I do this! (He now has 60
damage on Chansey). I attach a
2nd Psy to Mew (M) and drop a Mr. Mime on my bench. (He actually CROAKED
when he saw this!) and I retreat Jigglypuff. (He allows me to pay with a
Grass Energy from my hand.) Then I send out Mime, attaching a Psy (M). Next
turn, he Punches, gets HEADS, and on my next turn I drop a Psy on Mime and
use Meditate for 40. Next up, Dratini! I fight it with Grimer, it evolves,
and uses Snowstorm, getting heads and 10 to all my Bench, KOing Jigglypuff.
Grimer is still alive with 20 HP. I bench my #3 Promo Mewtwo and use
Minimize. 10 more damage to Grimer on his next turn. I use Minimize. Grimer
is KO'd and I send up Mime. (with 3 damage counters on him.) I use Meditate
for 0. He uses some attack which requires us to shuffle our Active Pokemon
and all cards attached to them into our respective decks. Mewtwo comes up
vs. Merril. My turn, I attach a Psy toMewtwo (M) and use Energy Absorption,
bringing up a Psy and a Grass. Hedoesn't have any translations so he can't
do a THING! I use Psyburn and KO Merril. (NOTE: Merril does NOT evolve from
Raichu for people who are still wondering. THANK YOU!) He sends up
Blastoise. I say "That's suicide." He doesn't even have a 3rd Water Energy!
So I Psyburn Blastoise twice and Devolve it for kicks. (NOTE: I could have
used Psywave and killed it that turn too, thanks to the 2 W energy.) 
Finally: His Prerealease Gyarados! Well, my turn (he had 2 W on Gyarados) I
use Psyburn. He drops a Potion (ARRGH!) and attaches a W,
using Ice Beam. He gets heads. Thanks to an earlier 20 damage attack (?)
Mewtwo dies to a second Ice Beam-whereupon my just benched #14 Mewtwo
comes in as Active! (He actually and physically CROAKED when he saw it
and said, 'ANOTHER ONE?!' Well my faithful #3 had left Absorbabal (Sp?)
Energy behind! I attach a Psy to Mewtwo (M) and use Energy Absorption,
pulling the same Psy and Grass. He uses Ice Beam with no paralyis. (Sp?)
I use Psyburn, he fails yet another Ice Beam flip, and Psyburn kills
Gyarados. Before he can replace it, time is called. I have 2 prizes left
to draw and he has 3. So I win!
Matches: 2-0.

Props:
1.) To that kid for teaching me and being a good sport.
2.) Props to Dad for taking me
3.) Props to that kid for using Misty's Challenge so we both drew NINE
cards instead of seven, and for croaking on site of Mime, Mewtwo, and
Absorption.
Slops:
1.) To that kid for saying Lucky Egg let him search my deck-my
translation guide says on heads you draw 2 cards!
2.) To my dad for not taking me at 8:30 (Though 9:30 was better than
nothing! :-). )

Oh yeah, and through parts of the second, and maybe the first, games,
I had Gastly benched. My favorite Pokemon now go:
1.) Mew/two
2.) Vulpix
3.) Jigglypuff
4.) Arcanine

Oh yeah, and a Prop goes to Pern Spike and his Vulpix for fixing my
deck, even though I botched it. Originally, Meowth/Persian was going to
be in place of Jiggly, but I didn't have 5 extra spaces-so Jiggly got
the job!
Well, if you like my deck...
Daniel Garibay or peanuts3890@hotmail.com.