Mystical Riptide(Water)
		       by Ryan Byrd
		      Star City Comics
		      Roanoke,Virginia
		   Sunday, September 17th,2001
			32 people(11-14)

	
      Well, umm.. this is my first Killer Deck Report so...try to hang
with my terrible attempt. I had a bad night at the tourney in Raleigh,NC
with people like GeneralRaikou and ebArtemis410 playing. I have not won
a first round match since...maybe August when I won the age group. I
went 3-2 in that tourney, Friday. I hope that I would have a change of
luck in the Qualifier on Sunday. I was staying with the Gym Leader and
his son. My deck had performed well after the tourney on Friday. Enough
with the details.

Mystical Riptide

Pokemon(19x)
4x Totodile(50hp)
3x Croconaw(Sweep Away)
3x Feraligatr(Riptide)
3x Cleffa
2x Elekid
2x Unown D
2x Magby

Trainers(25x)
3x Professor Elm
4x Misty's Wrath
3x Trash Exchange
3x Nightly Garbage Run
3x Gold Berry
3x Narrow Gym
2x Warp Point
2x Double Gust
2x Recall

Water(16x)

We got their at 7:30am and entered at 8 am. We ate breakfast and
registered and battled. I was undefeated in the battles before the
tourney, but my motto for this tourney is...." Oh how the tables have
turned". We started Rd 1 at 11 a.m. The tourney was Lv.1 in the levels
of penalty. Keep that in mind.


Rd.1)  Rocket's Trap/ Rocket's Pokemon.

This match was won on first turn with my hand on opening turn. But, the
judges told everyone to shuffle their hands in their decks and re-draw
thier opening hand:( Well, he mulliganed....but won the opening flip. He
got a few Rocket's Scythers out but I got passed 2 of 3. He got up on
prizes with he K.Oing my babies. Another first-round loss for me :(

0-1 (0pts)


Rd.2) Blaine's Arcanine/ Slowking

This guy was at our tourney on Friday and went 0-5. I beat him
then...but remember my motto. I lost the opening flip again. He had a
Blaine's Growlithe against my Magby. He Blaine'd and Elmed. He attempted
Stoke and failed. I got out a Croconaw 3rd turn with Narrow Gym to
override the Cinnabar Gym. He was knocked out and had only a Cleffa and
Unown D. He eeks and got a Slowking out. I Elmed, forgetting about the
Slowking... and guess what he flipped. Heads. I prize lost and game
loss. I hate Focus Bands with Blaine's Arcanine. 

0-2( 0pts)

OK... My motto was sticking up to it's potential. Well, I had to go
outside to avoid yelling at my friends because I was the only one 0-2
from Raleigh. 
Well, I need a when and needed it with no contest. 

Rd.3) A Fighting deck of some sort...too random.

I won the toss and got 2 cards from a mulligan. 5th turn,I got a
Croconaw and Sweeped' through his deck with a well needed win.

1-2 (3pts)

Rd.4) A Zap deck that was modified. 

I got the toss...but no energies...:( He got a Lt. Surge's Raichu( Mega
Punch) out,but Croconaw with a Gold Berry couldn't be defeated.

2-2 (6pts)

Rd.5) Feraligatr/ Steel

She got a few babies and a Skarmory and I got a totodile, elekid, and
cleffa. I got a Feraligatr out with 5 water's and a double gust. I
doubled her Skarmory and she picked Feraligatr. I Riptide'd and after
that I went through her babies.

3-2 (9pts)

Well, I finshed 15th...barely in the top 16, but I had a wonderful time
playing some people better then me.

Props and Slops
-Props to my Gym Leader for taking me
-Props to his son who was in the Final 4 in 10&under
-Props to the 0-5 guy who finshed 4th overall
-Props to ebArtemis410 for making top 8 and losing to the most
egotistical, little jerk of a kid. Sorry man:(

-Slops to the guy in the 11-14 who marked his Feraligatr's with a
Japanese Feraligatr behind it and who USED proxy cards during the
tourney. It helps to be buddies with the judges,but was disquaified in
the final 4. 
-Slops to the judge in the blue shirt,who let the kid who beat Artemis
flip a coin instead of highest roll. BOOH!
- Slops to the kid who beat Artemis, who after beating him dropped out
so his bro could win a trip because he already won a Philadephia
Qualifier for 10& under.

Thanks!

Ryan Byrd
Nightblade Hawk@aol.com