Painful Poisons
                    by: lizzard27
               Pat's Beanies and More
                   Austin, Texas
               Wednesday, June 13, 2001
                    10 People


     This is just a prototype of my deck - I still
have to fine-tune it, but, sofar, I have done pretty
well. I just played with it in its first tournament,
and it went un defeated. This is a fun deck, not a
Haymaker (I shun main-stream decks) that is deadly
efficient and doesn't allow you to have any fun. The
goal of this deck is to get the defending player into
a situation where it is costly to retreat, but time is
running out! Their Pokemon is poisoned!


Painful Poisons
ENERGIES
     28 Grass Energies
TRAINERS
     3  The Rocket's Training Gym
     3  The Boss's Way
     3  Bill
     2  Sabrina's Gaze
     2  Super Potion
BASIC POKEMON
     4  Oddish  (Team Rocket)
     4  Grimer  (Fossil)
     4  Koffing (Team Rocket)
STAGE 1 POKEMON
     2  Gloom
     2  Dark Muk
     2  Dark Weezing
STAGE 2 POKEMON
     1  Vileplume


     Although I have still not changed anything in
this deck, I figured out that I will Probably change
out the Oddish-Gloom-Vileplume series with the
Nidoran(M)-Nidorino-Nidoking series. Nidoking's "Toxic
Attack" would REALLY increase the opponents need to
retreat their active Pokemon.


ROUND 1 VS. JACOB (WATER/ELECTRIC)
     As I sat down to play this opponent, I thought
that this would be an interesting round. I was right.
My opening hand was almost perfect - 2 Grass Energy, 1
The Rocket's Training Gym, 1 Bill, 1 Oddish, 1 Grimer,
and 1 Dark Muk. I almost immediately beat my opponent
because he had only 1 Pokemon out - a 40 H.P. water
Pokemon. He did not draw a basic Pokemon in time. In
the second game, my opening hand was O.K., but not
wonderful (I got only 2 cards in my combo- Dark Muk
and The Rocket's Training Gym), but I still won.


ROUND 2 VS. DENTON (ELECTRIC/PSYCHIC)
     For the first game of this round, I pretty much
won the way that I won the first game of the first
round (Except for the fact that the Pokemon he had out
was a Pikachu). For the second game of this round, I
lost, but not without a valiant fight. It was a very
close game, with me losing with only one prize left.
One of this decks biggest weaknesses of this deck
became apparent- almost all of my Pokemon have a
Psychic weakness. The third game of the round was one
of the closest games I have ever played. I won by one
prize. In the beginning, James was kicking my rear
(with his Mewtwo), but I made a late-game comeback
with my Vileplume.


ROUND 3 VS. COLIN (PSYCHIC/GRASS)
     For the first game, I won only because my
opponent was drawing grass Pokemon, instead of
Psychic. The second game was a disaster, with him
drawing all psychic Pokemon instead of grass. The
third game of this round ended up alot like the first
game, except that in the beginning he had a Mew. I was
able to poison that to death. 
     
     Lucky me! I got first in the tournament and won
two packs. I doubt that this deck will be as
successful next tournament, because people would be
out to get my type of deck.


PROPS AND SLOPS
     Props to . . .
PAT- helped me get all of the cards together for my
deck
     Slops to . . .
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE- Those cocky jerks who think that
they have the match won, then they get beaten, and
blame their loss on card drawing or bad luck.


PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH SUGGESTIONS, CRITICISM, AND DEATH
THREATS-      lizzard27
                   lizzard27_smart_one@yahoo.com


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