Poisonous Sand Storm v1 (Fighting/Fire)
                                        by Jason "Hayato" Williams
                                                401 Convenience
                                           Toronto,Ontario Canada
                                         Saturday, August 5th, 2000
                                                36 Participants
 
 Hey all you pojo lovers! i'm reporting from the Pre-Release Gym Hero's tournament, you have no idea how much trouble i went through putting this deck together, i had a little less then 2 days to think about a new deck idea and all of a sudden after reading threw the Jap. Translations of the Gym 1 Jap. cards i found something perfect, something that would take out those REALLY annoying electabuzz and wigglytuff's and deal with fighting resistance at the same time! the answer to all this you might ask? well its Brock's Sandslash! sure two energy seem like allot to be using for a 10 damage attack but poison paralyze with heads and next turn 20 with smokescreen and poison = big @#$@! damage, and best of all if you really need to you can stall by flipping heads again with needles and the basic pokemon has been really improved since base, 2 energy and the person cant retreat = Haymaker stopper because haymaker's don't use switch i use that to the advantage of the deck but with scythers on the loose you gotta keep them contained so that's why i got fossil magmar added in for the smokescreen/smog, hitmonchans to use for a first turn 20 damage and lickitoung for those pesky movie promo mewtwo's..well that's it for deck describing onto the pokemon count!
 
Poisonous Sand Storm v1
 
   Pokemon
3 Brock's Sandshrew (Level 20,#27,Sand Pit) 3 Brock's Sandslash 3 Fossil Magmars 3 Hitmonchans 2 Lickitoungs
 
   Trainers
3 Bill 2 Prof. Oak 3 Item Finders 3 NGR 3 GOW 2 Computer Search 1 Lass 3 Pewter City Gym 3 Energy Removal 2 Super Energy Removal
 
   Energy
10 Fighting 9 Fire 2 Double Colorless Energy
 
 
I never knew the power of this deck untill i started playing with it for a day with proxy's against brian and andrew, man did i have to start trading the day of the pre-release to get those sandshrew/sandslash lucky me 1 guy had 2 of each so i traded off a holo jolteon ^_^ yay me...but one thing with out the gym's to kill the fighting weakness with a few decks i would be history! =( , now onto the battles
 
First Match vs Tim (venusaur/charizard)
ok tim is a bit inexperiance at the game and i was luck enough to get out 2 'chans and a sandshrew vs. his bublasaur charmander and growlith, the rest of my hand was a oak , 3 energy's,and a gust, attached to chan, gust in his charmander 20, his turn no energy my turn i attached to chan again k.o'ed drew my prize, a bill, his turn placed a fire energy on growlith and passed, my turn used the bill to get a magmar and fighting energy placed down the magmar and attached another to chan, oaked and got a hand full of energy (3 fire 2 fighting 1 dce) 40 to growlith, his turn evolves to *gasp!!* promo arcanine! attached a fire and flams of raged me for 80 >_< chan was fried pulled out magmar and smokescreened, his turn he attaches a dce and flips tails, my turn,drew a sandslash evolved, attach another fire to magmar 20 and he was knocked out leaving a energyless bublasaur at my mercy. needless to say he gave up,
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Second Match vs. Andrew R (Base Arcanine/dudrio)
ugh this is a deck everyone fears including blastois!, i had out a chan and sandshrew and he had out a doduo, basicly this was my reaction !#$%@& his turn, he oaks and gets a growlith out on bench, (only time he ever plays a growlith is when he has arcanine and allot of energy in hand) he attached to growlith and passed, my turn i put down pewter gym and attach to sandshrew, passed, he attaches another fire energy to growlith and passes my turn i draw the worst...Lass..with no trainers besides that in hand i used it, in his hand was 4 fire energys 2 dce and a arcanine (eeeeeeeeek!) i attach to sandshrew his turn he attaches dce to growlith evolves retreats for free and does take down (Later chan!) my turn sandshrew vs Fully Pumped Arcanine with me having no bench..>__<
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Third Match vs Alex (Classic haymaker/scyther,mewtwo,chan)
we both only had chans to start we flip, he goes first, puts down a scyther and retreats chan with a dce, my turn drew a sandshrew and attached to him,alex's turn, he puts down a dce and passes my turn i attach another to sandshrew and pass, his turn he attachs a psi energy to scyther and gow's my sandshrew and k.o's it, and basicly i was pokemon screwed for the next 2 turns which resulted in alex getting the K.O thanks to plus powers
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Last Match (worth reporting) Vs. Brian (Dark Charizard/Moltres)
first off prop's to brian for making a real orginal deck, verry weird though i might add but it works, i won the flip and started with magmar with no energy he brought out a magmar with 2 charmanders on bench and smokescreened, i drew and tryed to smokescreen threw his smokescreen (weird aint it?) but i got tails next card i drew was a lass which i didn't need..used it thought and got rid of 2 breeders a scoop up and a pokemon center (bad bad combo's going there)he attached and smoged with poison, smoke screened and took 10 for poison, his turn he flips heads with smog and wins(same we always ALWAYS have Long LONG matches between 20 min. to a hour at some points)
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At League the deck did wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better then in the pre-release tourniment, which ended up with andrew r. winning it all (amazingly beat 2 blastoise decks)
 
Final Record for the day 24-12 so the deck faired pretty well
 
Prop's
To my boy andrew who walked away with alot of packs
Brian to his deck and his sometimes 3 min. turns of thinking (he should play chess =) )
to all my boys (cept me) who won packs
Slop's
To all them blastois and haymaker's out there (cant people think of a original deck? and dont say a classic heymaker with Mr. Mime is original, i'll beat you with my hard case deck holder)
 
Hopefull you people feel inlightend to my deck and create your own original deck! =) good luck and dont forget! "gotta collect them all!" heh
 
Jason "Hayato" Williams
(Impulse150@home.com / impulse150@hotmail.com)