Battle roads has been quite interesting for me. The first BR, I took 2nd with Gengar/Vileplume. The second BR, I played it again and went 3-2, losing to a bad start and exact mirror. The 3rd BR went quite well, my best one ever tbh. My friend Alex and I were trying to decide on decks. I built Garchomp.Box and it was OK, but had alot of trouble taking its last 2 prizes against SP, and I knew that there would be alot of SP. I figured that the meta would look something like this (Luxchomp/Dialgachomp/Gengar/Vileplume). Well, I was basically right. There were more random decks than i had figured, though.
Alex really wanted to play my Gengar/Vileplume. I built a mediocre Gigas list and played him and got steamrolled. I then built Sablelock and got steamrolled again. I was really getting aggravated. I figured that if I played Gigas, I could make a pretty solid list. Last BR season i took 2nd with Gigas, so the rotatoin couldn't hurt that badly, could it?
So anyways, we get to the event and I forget my wallet -__-. Ma boy Jon (LtheGreat) saves me again and hooks me up with the cash flowww, ya diggg? So whatevs I build another Gigas in 10 minutes balancing Disruption/Damage Output/Speed (DDS I like to call it). DDS is vital in all decks, and everything must be balanced, or it throws your decks ability to function out the window. I drop a few energy for some Sage's, and debate on whether I should add in the poketurn/Chatot G/ Crobat engine. Danny Altavilla and Danny P save me with collectors and junk, Tyraniking hooks me up with some collectors as well, and I get an uxie X from Tony. Let me tell you something. Without Uxie X, I wouldn't have been undefeated.
Round 1 vs Tony B. (Dialgachomp)
Cool. I play one of the coolest guys ever (and he's sick at Pokemanz). So i figure, OK, I got this. Just gotta be very careful. We start and I have 3 fighting, a uxie, a uxie x, a mesprit, a communication. I go first, topdeck collector. He locks me up with Roserade and my Mesprit can't move. i have a warp point though. Phew, that was a close one. Start setting up Regigigas Drag Off, Psychic Bind him with Mesprit, Q Uxie, etc. We exchange a few prizes. I have a belted Gigas with 6 energy on it. He literally drops Lucario GL, Metal, Gain, galactic switch into energy to Luke, turn, KO. My mouth dropped, MIND=BLOWN. W/E. Uxie X says hello, and slices it for another prize. I start setting up another Gigas Drag Off. I have a crobat in my hand. he snipes out Uxie X with garchomp C X, and we are both trying to set up again. I draw a poketurn, but my bench is full. I discard 2 cards with Regice, "Snackrifice" for some energy after I rescue my Giggles X, and then I Ko an Azelf. He sends up Uxie and I only have 3 energy. He attaches to Garchomp and passes, he has game next turn. I drop Crobat G, play a Sages training, pray for an expert belt out of 8 cards, and rip it! Attach the belt, drag off Garchomp for the game! Incredible game, Tony!
1-0
Round 2 vs Jon V (Jumplock)
(Jon's a BOSS)
I knew his whole deck, and he knew mine. I helped him work with a sort of sablelockish Jumpluff build. I start and have 3 fighting, a uxie, a mesprit, and a collector. Alright, i can work with it. Collector for Drag Off Gigas, Uxie, Q. Q Uxie, he has an active sneasel. I power lock and attach a DCE. He benches a few basics and passes. I attach again and drag off a hoppip for the KO. I belt gigas as well. He claw snags my Gigas X out of my hand, and luckily I have a Pokemon Rescue to get it back. I level up, sacrifice, cyrus initiative (2 heads) get rid of his supporters, use Chatot G to give him a BTS (one was already in play), SSU Mesprit and Bind again. I think I binded for 8 turns out of 10 this game? I know that I chatot at least 4 times. I pretty much steamroll him from there, he can't setup.
2-0
Round 3 vs Mitch P (Gyarados)
Mitch is another one of my great friends and an incredible player at that. He's playing Gyarados with some sick techs that I don't want to mention. We both start and they are some pretty horrific starts, I have 4 energy (LOL). I start setting up a Gigas and he tries to get a Sableye active. I mess with his top decks and seriously bind him horribly. eventually I am set-up and I start taking prizes like mad. My field is almost ideal with a Regigigas drag off with a belt active, belted benched fully charged gigas, Crobat G, mesprit, uxie X. I take some damage from promocroak but sacrifice it off and return KO. He then gets up a Gyarados, but doesn't have a belt. i judge him the turn before and rip his hand up. So he swings fro 90, I sacrifice it off, and return KO with a bat drop. From there, he has nothing left. GG
3-0
Round 4 vs Dawn G (Luxchomp)
My deck was used last format to eat Luxchomp alive, so I had to try and do it again this format. The thing is, I cut down a little on my disruption to help fit in Abomasnow tech, so i only play 1 Initiative, and 1 Judge. Oh well. We both get pretty average starts. I collector for Gigas, Mesprit, Uxie and being to setup. Basically we exchange prizes like mad. I get hit by Promocorak and sacrifice it off, take a prize, she snipes a prize, and it gets down to 1-1 prizes. She has a charged Luxray and I know that she has the X in her hand, she has game next turn. I Psychic Bind, and she scoops.
4-0
Round 5 vs ???(Charizard)
Lol. Charizard? I should have no trouble.....oh man. I go first, bad start. Oh man, candy into Charizard? Oh boy. I'm screwed. The first 3 turns, he takes 3 prizes. Finally, I start to go on the offensive and drag up his Typhlosion on the bench. His bench (Ninetails, charmander, charizard, charizard fully charged w/belt, uxie, uxie). My bench (Mesprit,Uxie,Gigas, active belted 3 energy gigas). He doesn't attach to anything and passes. I'm like...wut? So whatever, I drag off again (this time belted) and don't move Typhlosion, meanwhile I Psychic Bind. He draws and then passes. I Drag off Uxie for 50. He attaches to Uxie, Retreats, and brings up Charizard (Belted) hitting me for 130. I have been silently building Abomasnow. I evolve, attach, retreat Gigas, and hit for 90+paralysis. He draw passes, and I then snow play for 3 prizes, bringing me back into the game. The prizes are tied 3-3. He brings up a Charizard and quickly "KO's" me, but I show him my body and he's 10 off. I retreat into Gigas, sacrifice Mesprit, Pokemon Rescue it, and Nail his zard, goodnight =]. From there, he has nothing left. I drag off a damaged Azelf for 50. He attaches, retreats, candies into Charizard. I take the 50, and Drag off a damaged Uxie for game.
5-0
Top Cut as the #1 Seed
Top 4 vs Mitch P. (Gyarados)
Game 1:
We both get pretty crappy starts but deal with them. I actually turn my band start into an incredible one and get a T2 Gigas. There's really nothing much that happened. I dragged off, took KO's when I needed to, and sacrificed all of the damage off of me.
Game 2:
Identical to game 1
Top 2 vs Dawn G (Luxchomp)
Game 1:
Really lame. mesprit/Uxie start. She gets an amazing start. I can't get anything going really, I get up a Regigigas but it is quickly knocked out by Lucario GL after I KO 2 Garchomp C's. So lame. I tried to SSU 3 times, 0/3 on flips. Figures, right?
Game 2:
Basically summed like this. I try to Initiative to rid her of 1 spray to go haywire on her field. 0/2, and 0/3 on SSU once again. Oh well, I played the best I could.
2nd with Giggles.
Props:
Giggles <3
Jon V
Mitch P
Alex K
Drag off, skrait up G
Danny P
Danny A
Larry A (throws the best events in SoFla, if you live in FL, it's worth it to drive to Cool Stuff games next week for his next Battle Road).
Packs were pretty good Ebay bait.
Slops:
Tails
Forgetting my wallet
Average MTG pack
Alex really wanted to play my Gengar/Vileplume. I built a mediocre Gigas list and played him and got steamrolled. I then built Sablelock and got steamrolled again. I was really getting aggravated. I figured that if I played Gigas, I could make a pretty solid list. Last BR season i took 2nd with Gigas, so the rotatoin couldn't hurt that badly, could it?
So anyways, we get to the event and I forget my wallet -__-. Ma boy Jon (LtheGreat) saves me again and hooks me up with the cash flowww, ya diggg? So whatevs I build another Gigas in 10 minutes balancing Disruption/Damage Output/Speed (DDS I like to call it). DDS is vital in all decks, and everything must be balanced, or it throws your decks ability to function out the window. I drop a few energy for some Sage's, and debate on whether I should add in the poketurn/Chatot G/ Crobat engine. Danny Altavilla and Danny P save me with collectors and junk, Tyraniking hooks me up with some collectors as well, and I get an uxie X from Tony. Let me tell you something. Without Uxie X, I wouldn't have been undefeated.
Round 1 vs Tony B. (Dialgachomp)
Cool. I play one of the coolest guys ever (and he's sick at Pokemanz). So i figure, OK, I got this. Just gotta be very careful. We start and I have 3 fighting, a uxie, a uxie x, a mesprit, a communication. I go first, topdeck collector. He locks me up with Roserade and my Mesprit can't move. i have a warp point though. Phew, that was a close one. Start setting up Regigigas Drag Off, Psychic Bind him with Mesprit, Q Uxie, etc. We exchange a few prizes. I have a belted Gigas with 6 energy on it. He literally drops Lucario GL, Metal, Gain, galactic switch into energy to Luke, turn, KO. My mouth dropped, MIND=BLOWN. W/E. Uxie X says hello, and slices it for another prize. I start setting up another Gigas Drag Off. I have a crobat in my hand. he snipes out Uxie X with garchomp C X, and we are both trying to set up again. I draw a poketurn, but my bench is full. I discard 2 cards with Regice, "Snackrifice" for some energy after I rescue my Giggles X, and then I Ko an Azelf. He sends up Uxie and I only have 3 energy. He attaches to Garchomp and passes, he has game next turn. I drop Crobat G, play a Sages training, pray for an expert belt out of 8 cards, and rip it! Attach the belt, drag off Garchomp for the game! Incredible game, Tony!
1-0
Round 2 vs Jon V (Jumplock)
(Jon's a BOSS)
I knew his whole deck, and he knew mine. I helped him work with a sort of sablelockish Jumpluff build. I start and have 3 fighting, a uxie, a mesprit, and a collector. Alright, i can work with it. Collector for Drag Off Gigas, Uxie, Q. Q Uxie, he has an active sneasel. I power lock and attach a DCE. He benches a few basics and passes. I attach again and drag off a hoppip for the KO. I belt gigas as well. He claw snags my Gigas X out of my hand, and luckily I have a Pokemon Rescue to get it back. I level up, sacrifice, cyrus initiative (2 heads) get rid of his supporters, use Chatot G to give him a BTS (one was already in play), SSU Mesprit and Bind again. I think I binded for 8 turns out of 10 this game? I know that I chatot at least 4 times. I pretty much steamroll him from there, he can't setup.
2-0
Round 3 vs Mitch P (Gyarados)
Mitch is another one of my great friends and an incredible player at that. He's playing Gyarados with some sick techs that I don't want to mention. We both start and they are some pretty horrific starts, I have 4 energy (LOL). I start setting up a Gigas and he tries to get a Sableye active. I mess with his top decks and seriously bind him horribly. eventually I am set-up and I start taking prizes like mad. My field is almost ideal with a Regigigas drag off with a belt active, belted benched fully charged gigas, Crobat G, mesprit, uxie X. I take some damage from promocroak but sacrifice it off and return KO. He then gets up a Gyarados, but doesn't have a belt. i judge him the turn before and rip his hand up. So he swings fro 90, I sacrifice it off, and return KO with a bat drop. From there, he has nothing left. GG
3-0
Round 4 vs Dawn G (Luxchomp)
My deck was used last format to eat Luxchomp alive, so I had to try and do it again this format. The thing is, I cut down a little on my disruption to help fit in Abomasnow tech, so i only play 1 Initiative, and 1 Judge. Oh well. We both get pretty average starts. I collector for Gigas, Mesprit, Uxie and being to setup. Basically we exchange prizes like mad. I get hit by Promocorak and sacrifice it off, take a prize, she snipes a prize, and it gets down to 1-1 prizes. She has a charged Luxray and I know that she has the X in her hand, she has game next turn. I Psychic Bind, and she scoops.
4-0
Round 5 vs ???(Charizard)
Lol. Charizard? I should have no trouble.....oh man. I go first, bad start. Oh man, candy into Charizard? Oh boy. I'm screwed. The first 3 turns, he takes 3 prizes. Finally, I start to go on the offensive and drag up his Typhlosion on the bench. His bench (Ninetails, charmander, charizard, charizard fully charged w/belt, uxie, uxie). My bench (Mesprit,Uxie,Gigas, active belted 3 energy gigas). He doesn't attach to anything and passes. I'm like...wut? So whatever, I drag off again (this time belted) and don't move Typhlosion, meanwhile I Psychic Bind. He draws and then passes. I Drag off Uxie for 50. He attaches to Uxie, Retreats, and brings up Charizard (Belted) hitting me for 130. I have been silently building Abomasnow. I evolve, attach, retreat Gigas, and hit for 90+paralysis. He draw passes, and I then snow play for 3 prizes, bringing me back into the game. The prizes are tied 3-3. He brings up a Charizard and quickly "KO's" me, but I show him my body and he's 10 off. I retreat into Gigas, sacrifice Mesprit, Pokemon Rescue it, and Nail his zard, goodnight =]. From there, he has nothing left. I drag off a damaged Azelf for 50. He attaches, retreats, candies into Charizard. I take the 50, and Drag off a damaged Uxie for game.
5-0
Top Cut as the #1 Seed
Top 4 vs Mitch P. (Gyarados)
Game 1:
We both get pretty crappy starts but deal with them. I actually turn my band start into an incredible one and get a T2 Gigas. There's really nothing much that happened. I dragged off, took KO's when I needed to, and sacrificed all of the damage off of me.
Game 2:
Identical to game 1
Top 2 vs Dawn G (Luxchomp)
Game 1:
Really lame. mesprit/Uxie start. She gets an amazing start. I can't get anything going really, I get up a Regigigas but it is quickly knocked out by Lucario GL after I KO 2 Garchomp C's. So lame. I tried to SSU 3 times, 0/3 on flips. Figures, right?
Game 2:
Basically summed like this. I try to Initiative to rid her of 1 spray to go haywire on her field. 0/2, and 0/3 on SSU once again. Oh well, I played the best I could.
2nd with Giggles.
Props:
Giggles <3
Jon V
Mitch P
Alex K
Drag off, skrait up G
Danny P
Danny A
Larry A (throws the best events in SoFla, if you live in FL, it's worth it to drive to Cool Stuff games next week for his next Battle Road).
Packs were pretty good Ebay bait.
Slops:
Tails
Forgetting my wallet
Average MTG pack
