Grow To The Goal v2.0 (Grass/Water)

by Jason Hirschhorn

Pastimes Sports Cards and Comics

Niles, Illinois

Saturday, May 19th, 2001

Roughly 12 total participants

3 Articuno (1 promo 2 fossil)

3 Marill (promo)

2 Azumarill (neo 1)

1 Pinser (jungle)

1 Rocket's Scyther (gym 1)

4 Chikorita (neo 1)- all level 19

3 Bayleef (neo 1)- all level 22

2 Meganium (neo 1)- all level 57

2 Chansey (base set)

14 Water Energy

14 Grass Energy

3 Double Colorless Energy

2 Gold Berry

3 Potion

1 Full Heal

1 Misty's Tears

1 Sprout Tower

In tourney battles I have never before tried an

evolution deck. However one day I got tired of the

common haymaker deck and I made what i call a

Fast/Evolution deck. I have some nice basic pokemon

(my articuno squadron and my grass studs Rocket's

Scyther and Pinser) and I have a good stage 2

(Meganium) who not only evolves from some good pokemon

but does 40 damage and automatically puts the

defending pokemon to sleep for 2 energies. Plus if I

have both copies of my stage 2 in play they make all

grass energies on MY grass pokemon worth 4 (ah, the

power of Meganium)! On my water side i have a good

power in Azumarill who can do 30 damage, paralyze, and

do 10 damage to each of my opponents bench pokemon for

3 water energies. I don't need many trainers and i

have enough energies so i always have them when i need

them.

After testing it out for months against my friends, I

got a chance to use it in tournement play. At the tour

stop at Pastimes Sports Cards and Comics I got to play

in there main tourney and a mini tourney that they

hosted.

After a long annoying wait for them to get everything

ready I played against a good experienced trainer

named Andy. He used a stall deck and my Articuno

squadron took him to the cleaners with their

paralyzing freeze dry. Also pitching in where Meganium

and Chancey (for stalling till i got Meganium).

1-0

My next 3 battles were basicly the same (2-0 3-0 4-0)

until I got my first loss against a guy named Carl. He

used sneasel to its fullest power and never looked

back.

4-1

I then played a girl whose name escapes my mind. She

tried sneasel to but this time Rocket's Scyther's

shadow images never failed and he won the game single

handedly!

5-1

The rest of the battles wear haymakers and Rocket's

Scyther's shadow images won me all but 2. However this

was a good showing for such a young deck.

(6-1 7-1 7-2 7-3 8-3 9-3)

Jason Hirschhorn

Zeldaguru1@yahoo.com

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Jason

Hirschhorn

<zeldaguru1@yahoo.com>