Moonrising v1.0 (Psychic)
     by Altima Mantoid
At Books-a-Million, Johnson City, Tennessee


Hello everyone. This is my first PoJo Killer Deck Report.

There is a boy at the League named Damon and he says that I have the best
Psychic deck he has faced. Maybe true, but I wouldn't say "best." Well,
enough blabbing, and onto my deck called Moonrising. Well, here is my deck
report.

- Pokèmon (21) -
4 Abra (Base)
2 Kadabra
1 Alakazam
2 Gastly (Base)
2 Gastly (Fossil)
1 Haunter (Base)
1 Haunter (Fossil)
1 Gengar
1 Mr. Mime
3 Jynx
1 Mewtwo
1 Mewtwo (Movie Promo)
1 Mew

- Trainers (12) -
4 Energy Search
1 Energy Retrieval
2 Switch
2 Gust of Wind
3 Defender

- Energy -
27 Psychic Energy


Here are the match results:


------- Match 1 vs. Multicolored Deck (Water/Fighting/Grass) -------
He goes first and he has a Squirtle, with a benched Magikarp, Diglett
(Rocket), and Oddish. I have Abra, with a benched Jynx and Mr. Mime. He
evolves into Wartortle, so I retreat Abra for Jynx and Doubleslap for no
damage. The third round of the game he has evolved into Blastoise and his
Magikarp into a Gyarados! He uses Rain Dance and maxes out Blastoise's Hydro
Pump and attacks Jynx for 60. Ouch! I draw and put a Psychic Energy on Mr.
Mime, and I go for Doubleslap. I hit for 10 damage. He goes and takes out
Jynx. I put out Mr. Mime and place another Psychic energy on him. I attack
using Mr. Mime and I do 20 (10 from Jynx) leaving Blastoise with 70. We play
until I finally take out Blastoise. He sends out Gyarados. We go again until
Gyarados is taken down by Mr. Mime. He plays Oddish and takes out Mr. Mime.
Abra goes back out and I paralyze with Psyshock. He puts down Gloom and KOs
Abra. I have no more bench, so I draw and I get Mew! I put Mew out and
attach an energy and then attack with Psywave. He goes and tries to attack
but KOs himself due to Confusion! He sends out Diglett and evolves into
Dugtrio and attacks with Slash. I counter with Psywave for 30 HP of damage.
He draws and KOs Mew. He draws a prize, and I draw....Movie Promo Mewtwo! I
go and add a Psychic Energy to him, and do Energy Absorbtion. He goes and
does Slash. I go again and use Psyburn! I draw my prize and I win when he
can't get a basic out.


------- Match 2 vs. Fire deck -------
We start out playing a 3 prize game and I go first. I start with Mewtwo and
Jynx, and all he gets is Growlithe. I go and add energy to Mewtwo and pass.
He adds a Double Colorless Energy to Charmander as he puts him on the bench.
He passes and I draw a Gust of Wind, which I use to blow in Charmander. I
add a psychic energy to Mewtwo and attack with Psychic. He goes and plays a
Computer Search and draws a DCE and adds it on Charmander, plays a Pokèmon
Trader and pulls in Charizard. He then played Pokèmon Breeder and played
Charizard and did Fire Spin, KOing Mewtwo. He draws a prize. I send out
Jynx. I draw and draw an energy, attaching it to Jynx. Doubleslap is
completely unsuccessful. He draws and passes. I draw and add another Psychic
energy to Jynx. Doubleslap gets one head. He draws and places an energy on
Growlithe. I go and I draw Gengar, but what good is he when you have no
other ghosts? I doubleslap for 20. He draws and adds another energy to
Growlithe. I go and finally start doing Meditate. He evolves into Arcanine,
then passes. After about three rounds, I have Gengar out, built up, and then
I KOed 'Zard and drew my prize. He sends out Arcanine and KOs Jynx with Take
Down. I play Gengar and use Dark Mind and KO Arcanine. I draw and he then
plays a Magmar (Fossil). He plays a Super Energy Removal and clears off 2 of
Gengar's energy, then does Smokescreen. I play a Psychic energy and then
pass. He does Smokescreen and then I add another energy to Gengar and go for
Dark Mind. Heads! I hit him for 30. We go Smokescreen and Dark Mind for a
few rounds with me getting tails on the coin toss. My Gengar has 30 HP left,
and his Magmar has 40, so I play Defender and try for Dark Mind. I hit him
for 30 more! He puts down a Rocket's Moltres and switches Magmar for the
Moltres! I could have screamed right there! He plays Energy Retrieval and
attaches a Fire energy to R's Moltres. He then plays another Super Energy
Removal! I get Abra on my bench, then I add a Psychic Energy to Gengar. I
pass. He goes and adds energy. He passes. I go and I evolve Abra to Kadabra,
but I have no energy....I pass. He goes and plays Imposter Professor Oak. I
draw my cards and in my hot little hand is an Alakazam!! he has no energy so
he passes. I go and play Alakazam and put 20 damage from Gengar onto
Alakazam. I play an energy onto Gengar and hit R's Moltres for 30 and hit
Magmar for 10, winning the game!


------- Round 3 vs. Energy Removal Deck -------
We played a 6 prize game and he went first. He sends out Electabuzz and
plays Scyther on his bench, and I automatically assumed I was facing a
Haymaker deck. WRONG! I have Movie Promo Mewtwo out, with a full bench with
my opening hand, consisting of 2 Abras, 1 Jynx, 1 Mr. Mime, and one Gastly
(Fossil). He uses Thundershock and paralyzes Mewtwo. I go and add energy to
Abra and pass. He puts Magmar (Fossil) on his bench, adds a Lightning energy
to Electabuzz, and uses Thunderpunch with heads, adding 40 Damage to Mewtwo.
I add psychic energy to Mr. Mime and pass. He goes and KOs Mewtwo. I put out
Jynx (for her high HP) and attach an energy to her. I use Doubleslap on
Electabuzz for 10 damage. He goes and plays a Ditto, and adds a DCE to him,
then does Thunderpunch. He does 30 TO Jynx and 10 to himself. I go and add
energy to Mr. Mime. I use Doubleslap and do no damage. He goes and uses a
Super Energy Removal discarding one off of Electabuzz, elimenating the
energy off of Mr. Mime. Then he plays Energy Removal off of Abra and then
uses Thundershock. He gets heads and Paralyzes Jynx. I go and I add a
Psychic energy to Gastly (Fossil) and evolve him into Haunter (Fossil). I
pass. He goes and adds a DCE to Ditto and then does Thundershock again,
getting Tails on the coin flip. I go and add another energy to Haunter and
use Doubleslap getting 20 damage in. He goes, uses a Super Energy Removal
and removes the Energy off of Haunter. He then uses Scoop Up and pulls
Electabuzz into his hand, then plays him again. He sends out Ditto and KOs
me with my own attack. We play and everytime I build a Pokèmon up with
energy, he ER or SERs it off of them, then defeats me by KOing 6 and winning
by drawing all of the prizes....all with Ditto! Grrr....


Final Record: 2 - 1



Here are some pros and cons about the deck that I have found.


Pros:

  Power. If you need some power, then you can use Kadabra's Super Psy for
50, or Mewtwo (Movie Promo) and his Psyburn for 40.
  Stall. Alakazam's Damage Swap may look like it has no purpose, but Jynx's
70 HP and seemingly worthless attacks make it good to soak up damage.
  Speed. This deck's speed is average, and once it gets moving, it will take
a lot to slow it down!


Cons:

  Energy Removal. This deck is VERY susceptable to Energy Removal based
decks. As you can read my third match and find out.
  Psychic Resistence. The only way around this is with the Promo Mewtwo or
Kadabra. There is always the confusion by Alakazam though....



Now for Props and Slops

Props:
Books-A-Million for holding the Pokèmon League weekly.
Devon for his compliment on my deck.
My parents and my grandparents for giving me rides to the league.
PoJo for having Killer Deck reports.

Slops:
Energy Removal....my biggest fear....*shivers*



If anyone has any deck fixes or suggestions, or if you just want to talk
about Pokèmon in general, then e-mail me at altima_mantoid@hotmail.com and I
will get back to you! Thanks and I hope to hear from some of you Pokèmaniacs
out there!

- Altima "The Emperor" Mantoid
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