'Sup
everyone. It's the Whether Man with your Allergy Watch. We have high clusters
of tree pollen and grass pollen in regions of the central US. Mold spores
sweeping into the east into New England, and that was the Allergy Report.
Allergy Reports are sponsered by all natural Vileplume Sinus Treatment. Quick
relief without the rest!
Whether Man here. I'm back
with a new deck! Rain Dance, Sponge, Haymaker, Wigglytuff. What do they have
in common? They are all tourney winning decks, and they all use excessive
amounts of trainers. Instantly when I say that you should know where I'm
going. Well, here's a hint: Team Rocket's coming out soon. Is that enough of a
hint? That's right! Dark Vileplume and the rest of the hand disruption gang!
Think of a deck with
ultimate disruptive capabilities. That deck is so good because it attacks a
deck by blocking the use of cards that all decks have and use frequently. Once
you play that card, those decks are near powerless because their precious
cards can't be played, and you run the game from here on end. Sound good?
Here's my version of it:
Hay Fever
15 Grass energy
4 Oddish
14 Psychic energy
4 Dark Gloom
2 The Boss's Way
3 Dark Vileplume
2 Nightly Garbage Run
2 Scyther
2 Imposter Oak's Revenge 3 Promo Mewtwo
2 Pokemon Trader
2 Mr. Mime
3 Grimer
2 Dark Muk
Okay,
translations: The Boss's Way allows you to search for any
"Dark" pokemon card and put it in your hand. Imposter Oak's Revenge
let's you discard a card to make your opponent shuffle his or her hand into
his/her deck and draw 4 cards. Nightly Garbage Run lets you shuffle 3 cards
from your discard pile into your hand provided they aren't nonbasic energy.
Dark
Gloom HP:50
Dark Vileplume HP:60
Pokemon Power:
Pollen Stench
Pokemon Power: Hay Fever
Once during your turn, before you
No trainer cards can be played. This
attack, you may flip a coin. If
heads, power stops working when Dark
Vileplume
the defending
pokemon is confused. is Asleep, Confused or Paralyzed.
If tails, your active is confused.
This GGG:
Petal Whirlwind 30x
power can't be used
when Dark
Flip 3 coins. This attack does 30 damage
Vileplume is
Asleep, Confused, or
times the number of heads. If you flip 3 heads
Paralyzed.
in this way, Dark Vileplume is confused.
GG:
Poison Powder 10
Weakness: Fire Resistance:- Retreat: 2
The defending
pokemon is now
poisoned.
Weakness: Fire
Resistance:- Retreat:2
Dark Muk
HP:60
Pokemon Power: Sticky Goo
As long as Dark Muk is your active
pokemon,
your opponent pays 2 more to
retreat his or her
active pokemon. This power stops
working when
Dark Muk (you know the rest)
GG:
Sludge Punch 20
The defending pokemon is now
poisoned.
Weakness:Psychic
Resistance: - Retreat:2
One of this
deck's major achilles heel is the difficulty of getting Dark Vileplume out
with the trainers at a bare minimum, but it's worth it. Okay, main theme:
Disruption. Dark Vileplume, Dark Muk, Dark Gloom, Oddish, Mr. Mime, and
Imposter Oak's Revenge all work toward that theme. The promo Mewtwo, Scyther,
and Mr. Mime all work toward taking out your opponent's pokemon while they're
weak. Dark Muk is there to take out as many pokemon as he can while he's at
full potential. Hey, you'd be surprised how many you pokemon you can take out
with poisoning ability when robbing your opponent the ability to retreat.
(Instantly, all Haymaker pokemon have 4 retreat!) The way to play this deck is
to use the BBP's you have to attack while you use the few Trainers you have to
get as many Oddishes, Dark Glooms, Dark Vileplumes, and Dark Muks as possible.
Then play the Dark Vileplume and start cranking!
This deck
takes out most tourney-winning decks. Haymakers, Wigglymakers, InSaNiTy decks,
and Rain Dance decks all have a dependancy on trainers. Rob them of that and
they're sunk. We of the Whether Gang have yet to see how powerful this deck
archetype will be. I'm guessing it will be a hard deck to play. This will keep
it from destroying Haymaker. However, metagame be with you, you might do well.
I don't think this will be a major tourney winner, but it will sure as heck be
fun to play. Tell me what you think. Well that wraps up the Whether Report.
And now, the "Traphic" report.
-The Whether Man