Hey everybody! This deck is called ThunderSlash and is based on electabuzz
and scyther with clefable to take out big pokemon.I've been playing this deck
for about a month now and its been doing great. The tournement I
went to at Name of the Game was really small. Only 6 people showed up
compared to the usual 10 or 12. The people that did show up though are
good. So I guess I can't expect to have any easy wins.:)
ThunderSlash v1.0
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4 scyther (free retreat and
colorless attack! and also good against fighting pokemon)
4 electabuzz (One of the best cards in the game in my opinion)
3 clefairy (just an annoying sidestep before getting clefable)
3 clefable (ahh... the power of
metronome)
Energy:18
14 lightning (this is pretty low
4 double colorless
Trainers:28
4 pluspower
4 gust of wind
3 super energy removal
3 energy removal
3 bill
3 professor oak
2 scoop up
2 item finder
2 lass (explained in the stategy)
2 computer search
Strategy:
The
point of this deck is to use hard hitting basics to deal lots of damage using
one of my personal favorites electabuzz. It has clefable basically because
I’m seeing a lot of big evolutions where I play and also a lot of psychic
pokemon (which clefable works wonders against). Now, Lass is a little bit
of a strange card but I use it sometimes against decks that
depend on trainers to work like Raindances. It also is great for the
people who like to keep that annoying super energy removal or Scoop up
until it hurts the most.
And now on to the report...
This tourney was five rounds of swiss.
Round 1 vs.Ning with electricAero deck. Well, this was one of
the decks that my deck was made to beat but for some reason it wasn't
working:(
Match#1
I start out with electabuzz and so does he. We
go on doing the same thing for about ten turns and then it comes down to
him with a fully charged electabuzz with 30 damage and me with a
fully charged scyther with 20 damage. He still had 3 prizes and I only
had 1. I had a scyther in my hand but I hadn't thought to put it down. Next
turn he puts a pluspower down and gets heads on the flip and I lose the
first game.(next time I'm putting down the basics that are in my hand) =(
Match record 0-1
match #2
This game I did much better but still I couldn't
get my deck rolling because I was missing energy most of the time. It ended
where I had two scythers and I was desperately looking for some energy.
Earlier I had professor oaked when I had all my professor oaks in my hand and
now all I had was a comp search and there wasn't anything to search for
because I also had used all my itemfinders. Basically I retreated again and
again until both scythers were dead.
Match record 0-2
Round 2-bye I just got to sit
around playing Soul Calibur for a while :)
Round 3 vs. Du (Nings little
brother who is excruciatingly annoying)with scyther Articuno deck. Du's been
playing this deck for quite a while and he seems to do ok but I think that the
strategy is a little weird.
Match#1
I started out with scyther and he started out with
articuno and scyther on the bench. Luckily I started out with an energy
and a doublecolorless and 2 pluspowers. I billed and then billed again to get
4 pluspowers! Second turn I wasted them all on the Articuno.:) Then I went on
to kill his scythers and articunos by gusting him around a bit. At the end I
beat him by trapping his ditto that had 60 damage on it but was copying a
scyther. If he tried to retreat it he would lose and so he let me
finish it off.
match record 1-2
Match#2
This match was a lot like the first accept that I
didn't use all my pluspowers on the second turn. It went on for quite a
while until my deck got so low from oaking that Du went into
stall mode. It came down to him with an articuno with no energy and a
scyther fully charged (both with 30 damage) I only had a lonely electabuzz
with thirty damage as well. I only had two cards left in my deck and only 2
prizes. If I could get heads on my next coin flip my thunderpunch would
give me the win. Of course I didn't get heads and so he lived and I lost.
match record 2-3
Match#3
This was a rather long match where nothing really
big happened. After about three quarters of our decks were gone
Chris (the store owner) came over to watch because he kept taking a really
long time to take his turns. Finally I just got out a scyther and kept
energy removaling him while I did a constant 30 each turn until he had no
more basics.
match record 3-3
Round 4 semi-finals vs. Ben
with Raindance(which is kinda slow)
match#1
This game was kinda shifty because the tables kept
turning giving the other person the advantage. Ben got out a Blastoise in the
first few turns and Electabuzz swiftly got destroyed him but just as soon
as I killed off one another came back. I thought I was done for but Ben had
wasted so much energy before, that he didn't have enough to keep up with me
energy removals so I took the win.
match record 4-3
match#2
This game was very long and we both went to the
bottom of our decks. It came down to Ben trying to stall me while I tried to
pick up my last few prizes. His problem was that he hadn't got much play with
his Blastoise so the backups had to pick up the slack. After some
skillful gusts of wind and pluspowers I finished him off with only about 5
cards left in my deck.
match record 5-2
Round 5 finals vs. Ning
(again)
match#1
This time I played Ning I was going to be sure to
play smarter. I knew I could beat him if I just played right. This time I
opened with Clefairy and he opened with a Zapdos and a fossil on the bench. I
was a little worried to only have a Clefairy but I knew that if I could
just get a Clefable that I would easily defeat him. Luckily I had a professor
oak. I drew energy,S.E.R scyther, and clefable. I evolved clefairy and
did 100 damage to Zapdos killing it.Then his aerodactyl killed off my clefable
and I loaded up scyther and killed off his aerodactyl. By now he had another
Aero and scyther dealt with it swiftly. Soon I got another clefable and now
all he had left was a zapdos. I use metronome killing off his last basic.
:)
match record 6-3
match#2
This was the shortest match I played in the
tournement. It only lasted for four turns. We both open with
electabuzz. I win the coin flip and attach an energy to electabuzz and
thundershock with tails. Ning goes and thundershocks with tails. I go but I
didn't pull an energy so I thunder shocked again(this time I get heads).
Ning is uneasy now because he has no other basics so he asks if I have a
pluspower. I didn't so I told him no. So he says go and I draw... a pluspower!
I oak after attaching the pluspower and get a second energy. Now, Ning
had a comp. search in his hand and was ready to get another basic, but if I
could get heads on my thunderpunch I would win(his electabuzz had 20
damage).So... This time luck is on my side and I flip heads. I win the
tournement!
final match record 7-3
This Tourney there weren't many people so the
prize was only 15$ store credit and another promo arcanine(I already have
one). I only decided to get one basic booster and save the rest and I pulled a
Mewtwo. I guess thats pretty good for buying only one booster but not as good
as Ben (the guy with the Raindance) who bought only one booster with his 3.00$
store credit (from placing third) and pulled a Charizard!!!
Props and slops...
props to Ben for pulling a charizard with only one
booster!
props to me for winning the tourney :)
props to Name of the Game for the greatest
tourneys
props to electabuzz for coming through the victor
:)
props to Soul Calibur for being the greatest
Dreamcast game ever
slops to Ning for copying Liams deck(A.K.A. W.
Myers)
slops to Du for being so darn annoying and taking
too long to take his turn
slops to...well, actually, I don't have any more
slops cuz this tourney kicked a@#
Well, I really liked how the tourney came out and
I think that my deck did great. I hope this gets on the killer deck reports.
If you have any comments or suggestions about this deck email me at sdgz@hotmail.com
Later,
S. Anderson