Good Luck (You'll Need It) Grass/Colorless
                     by Andrew Peterson
                     Logan's Baseball and Card Shop
                        North Vernon, Indiana


I really needed to attend a tourmament besides the STS Qualifier, so my friend Javon and I went! The people here are rated high in DCI, but I'm no slouch!


Pokemon: 18

3 Grimer
3 Dark Muk
3 Scyther
1 R. Scyther
2 Base Clefairy (Wish I had more Neo...)
1 Neo Clefairy
3 Clefable
2 Ditto

Trainers: 25

4 SER
3 Oak
3 RSA
3 Item Finder
2 CP Search
2 Rocket's Trap
2 GOW
2 NGR
2 Narrow Gym
2 Bill

Energy: 17

13 Grass
4 Double Colorless

Round 1: ??? with Grass/Electric deck

I can't remember his name. I used Ditto to handle a couple Tangelas and a Jungle Pikachu. He got out a Scy, but I SER'ed it and sent out Dark Muk to knock out his last Poke for the win.

1-0

Round 2: Kevin with Weird Hay

I started out with Scy and R. Scy to... 2 F. Magmars! AAACK! I thought I was a goner, but he didn't poison Scyther and I SER'ed him constantly. I finally managed to use R. Trap on him and then sent out Dark Muk to poison his Energyless Pokes. Time was called just in time to prevent a tie, with prizes being 1-2 in my favor and my Ditto against a Magmar with 60 and Poison on it.

2-0

Round 3: Javon with Wiggly/Zap/Chansey deck

We had practiced our decks the night before, so we knew each other's strategy well. It was my most boring match, though. I managed to knock out his R. Zap with my Clefable, but then he sent out a Chansey to stall. We both kept using Scrunch until time was called with prizes 5-6.

3-0

Round 4: Philip Elliot with Classic Hay

It started out his Buzz to my Scy, and we kept removing each other's energy. He never drew an Oak and I kept kept SERing and R. Trapping him. I finally used R. Scyther's Blinding Scythe to take out his energyless Buzz and Chans.

4-0

Round 5: Scott Palmer and Classic Haymaker

I thought I would lose second turn, because he used Swords Dance and I had a lone R. Scyther. But thanks to Shadow Images and that HUGE Lugia coin for the Neo deck, it took him about 4 turns to finally hit Scy, and by then, Ditto and Dark Muk had made the scene. I thought I had him with Dk. Muk, but he SERed it and Trapped my hand. He recovered first by getting some Energy and knocked out my last Pokes.

4-1

Round 6: Eric Perdue with ANOTHER Classic Haymaker

These Hays are popular here! Anyway, it was game of "build up Energy, get it Removed" for Eric. Unfortunatley, he played Energy Revtrievals and got it back. He took all of his prizes, while I still had 3.

4-2

That was game for everyone. They tallied it up and announced the age group winners. Javon won in the 11-14 division, and I think Scott took 15+. I came in third overall, which wasn't too bad. Time for my first Props and Slops.

Props to:

-Javon, who won 3 Neo packs with Skarmory, Cleffa, and Magby.
-Logan's for holding the tournament.
-Everyone I played for giving a challenge and being good sports, win or lose.
-My dad, for driving me.

Slops to:
The 1st Ed. pack I got for having a stupid Arcade Game in it.

Thanks for reading! E-mail is masterdrew@thepokemoasters.com

-Andrew