Mondae's Collectables
               Saturday, May 13, 2000
         Brace yourselves... 5 Participants

I'm back again! Yep, you'll never get rid of me. Well this tourney was evaen smaller than the last one, and would have been only me and my 3 friends had we not forced Ryan to enter. The entry fee was the usual 3 dollars, and I entered with Rudi, Troy and my friend Bryan.( We pick up another person every time, it seems like) I know I said last report that I was going to use my secret deck, but since none of the people I wanted to use it against were there, I simply used Tuff Stuff.

    Tuff Stuff: Vers. 3
POKEMON: 14
4 Hitmonchan
4 Jigglypuff
3 Wigglytuff
3 Scyther

ENERGY: 17
13 Fighting Energy
4 DCE

TRAINERS: 29
2 Oak
1 Item Finder
3 Lass
2 Nightly Garbage Run
2 Energy Retrieval
2 Bill
2 Challenge!
4 Plus Power
3 E.R.
2 S.E.R.
2 GOW
2 Scoop up
2 Comp. Search

STRATEGY:
Okay, as you can see if you read my other reports, I have made some more changes to this deck. First off, I scrapped 2 energy for two Nightly garbage runs, which can each get 3 energy back, AND help me stop decking. Second, I took out two bills for two challenge!. Challenge! works like a bill, but has the nice side affect of allowing me to fill up my bench if my opponent accepts.( Remember, Wigglytuff + full bench = Death for opponent) Finally, I scrapped an otherwise hardly used E.R. for another invaluable Lass. I was debating whether or not to put Sneak Attacks in but I couldn't find room. The deck operated flawlessly in the Tourney, but no one accepted my challenges ( Doh!) so I might put the good old bills back in.
    Otherwise, the strategy is to use your powerful basics to stall a couple of turns for a Wiggly, and then demolish your opponent with 60 per turn.

First Round was a Round Robin between three of us, and a regular match between the other two players, with a best out of three Final round.

Round 1: me vs. Troy with Chansey/Ninetales deck
    Match 1:Troy is a real good player, and his deck is also really good. Earlier, he had roughed me up with his fighting/psychic deck, but this time it would be different. He opened with Magmar F to my Chan. ( I also had a benched jiggly ).
It went back and forth with E.R.s and smokescreens and Jabs, until I got a Wiggly. I retreated Chan for Wiggly and challenged. He said no so I drew my cards and got an Oak, immediately using it. I got about three more on my bench, billed, and got a pluspower. I attached the PP and waved his magmar for a K.O, drawing scyther as my prize. He sent out a scyther and passed, so I benched my scyther, searched for a PP and waved for another K.O. After that, he had only a magmar with 20 damage on it ( from Chan ), so after getting smokescreened, I got heads and won with wave.
    Match 2: This time he started with only a pair of vulpixes. I had Scyther, but drew a Chan first turn and retreated for it, then jabbing for 20. He attached and passed, so I attached energy, then a PP, and jabbed for a KO. He sent out the other one, attached and passed again. I attached and Special punched. He drew a chansey and benched it, attached to vulpix and confuse rayed without confusion. I SPed for a prize. He scrunched after playing a DCE on his chansey, with tails. I SP'd again for 80. After he scrunched with heads, he drew no basic on his next turn, so I jabbed for the win.

Round 1: Me vs. Bryan with Attacking Psychic deck
    Match 1: I have no idea why he used this when he knew I was using tuff stuff. He could have had a chance with his Lapras/Electabuzz haymaker, but he didn't use it.
Anyway, I simply decimated him. He couldn't do any damage to my lone Jigglypuff, and he stayed in it solely by using his Haunters PokePower and sleep. After filling my bench, I finally destroyed his Haunter, only to face a Mr.Mime. To make the rest short, I used Chan and Jiggly for the mime, Chan for his Kangaskhan, and Wiggly for all else. I won by prizes. He did hurt me for 30 with a digger though.
    Match 2: He forfeited, seeing that he couldn't win, before he even started.

FINAL ROUND: Me vs. Rudi with Mew/#1 deck.
    Match One: Alright, that wierd name actually has a meaning. The "Mew" part is for his MP and NP Mewtwos, the / is for Scyther's attack( slash, get it?) and #1 is the variation.( the #2 version has Mew and Aerodactyl) All I had to do this match was play his weakness and use my resistance, and I did just that. I picked off his NP mewtwo with Chan and 2 PPs after a GOW, and used Jiggly for everything else. He put up a really good fight, going into the final few cards of our decks, but some lasses and NGR's stopped me from decking and I won by prizes.
    Match Two: This one was quicker. I started a Chan to his Jiggly, which needless to say was trouble for him. His scyther took some time to take down, but after an SER leaving the Scy helpless, I oaked. I got a jiggly, Wiggly and Energy, with a comp. search. I attached DCE to Jiggly. Next turn, I evolved, attached, and searched for Oak, getting enough basics to take out the scyther. After that, all that was left was a Mewtwo MP. I attached  to wiggly incase he had SER, but he didn't and I won next turn.

    For winning the tourney, I got a whole Ten bucks store credit, which I used for 2 Rocket packs. I got a First Ed. Dark Raichu and a First. Ed holo Dark Charizard. Yea, I wish. I actually got a freakin non-holo Dark Charizard, which I already had, and a holo Golbat. Both non First ed. Oh well, my packs always suck. But at least I won.

Hopefully next time there'll be a bigger turnout, and if the certain people are there, I'll use my secret deck. Just so all you people at the Deptford league know, the tourney is in Lindenwold, on Chews Landing road. It's held every other Saturday, so the next one is May 27, at 1 o'clock. GIT YER BUTTS OVER HERE!

PROPS & SLOPS
Props to Rudi, Troy and Bryan for putting up good fights
Props to Scott and the Pojo for being the greatest
Props to Gwen for trading Troy a holo Mr Mime he needed to complete his Jungle set
Props to Nightly garbage Run, an awsome card
Props to Dark Arbok( It's second attack is awsome )
Props to Mr Mondae for lowering the price of packs and giving away free stuff at the tourney.
Props to Troy for trading me Dark Machamp and Dark Dugtrio First. Ed. non-holos for my Dark Charizard and Dark Golbat non holo, non-first Eds.

Slops to the bad turnout
Slops to Toys'R'Us for having signups for the league every week

Well, that's all
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