RE: Rummage's 2012-2013 Season
I wanted to play Blastoise/KeldeoEX, however, the borrowing of Tropical Beach fell through and I had no deck. After some late night chatting I decided to use DarkraiEX/MewtwoEX with Sigilyph and Meloetta. I wake up this morning, make the deck, and off we go! This was a cool day because it was my sisters first time judging and event.
*Note: Some of the match details might be a tiny bit off, however, the main parts I did remember.
Round 1: Charizard/CelebiEX
This was the first time my friend and I were battling in an official tournament. He opens Charmander, attaches and passes. I open DarkraiEX. I draw, attach a Darkness and Eviolite. Pass. He Rare Candies to Charizard, drops a CelebiEX and uses N. He gets early Split Bombs going, but I decide to just leave him with a single Charizard and take out everything else as he tried to set it up. I proceeded to take out 3 Charmanders and CelebiEX. I finished off the game by doing 90 with Meloetta for my last prize card.
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Round 2: Durant/Garbodor/Sableye
I really didn’t want to play against this deck, mainly because of Crushing Hammer. I get a couple early prizes off of Pokemon Catcher of Trubbish. He gets his stream of Hammers going and I would estimate about 5 turns in a row went as follows: He uses two Crushing Hammer, I Junk Hunt for Energy Switch and Dark Patch. I eventually got down to two prizes, however, two crucial Durant mills that resulted in me losing: Computer Search, Energy Retrieval, 2 energies, and 2 N. Good game though!
[1-1]
Round 3: Empoleon/Garchomp
I knew that there was no way he played a MewtwoEX in his deck and I also knew that MewEX was no longer being played in Empoleon decks, so I went agro MewtwoEX. It had six energy on it at one point. I got three quick KO’s via Pokemon Catcher before the game slowed down a bit. It ended up becoming 1 prize to 2 in my favor when I drew my Computer Search. I got a Pokemon Catcher and KO’s his Emolga for the game via my MewtwoEX (Emolga had an energy and 30 damage from a prior DarkraiEX attack).
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LUNCH – TIME TO PLAY KAIJUDO!
Round 4: Zekrom/Eelektrik
Zekrom is just an annoying card to deal with, especially with Eviolite. Prior to this game I said that I was worried about opening Meloetta, although not a lot of people were using MewtwoEX in their deck. So of course, I open with a lone Meloetta. Luckily he flips over TornadusEX and simply attaches a Double Colorless Energy and does 30 damage. I sacrifice the Meloetta and get my DarkraiEX ready. I do take a prize via MewtwoEX/Pokemon Catcher on Tynamo and Pokemon Catcher on TornadusEX that had 100 damage, doing 30 to an Eelektrik. He ends up getting the dreaded Zekrom + Eviolite going. He used Pokemon Catcher on a Sableye to KO it. I bring up DarkraiEX and to 70 + 30 to an Eelektrik. The following turn I Pokemon Catcher’d a fresh Eelektrik after powering up a new DarkraiEX and took two prizes to make it 2 to 1. We are both out of Pokemon Catcher and I retreat DarkraiEX to get Sableye, using Junk Hunt to get back a Pokemon Catcher. I Pokemon Catcher Zekrom next turn and KO it for game.
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Round 5: DarkraiEX/Terrakion
Unfortunately this game wasn’t that exciting. He opened Sableye and used Bianca, and that was the only Supporter he saw the whole game. I just waited a couple of turns until I had a MewtwoEX powered up and KO’d the Sableye for game.
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Top 4: I make it in as the #4 seed
(1) DarkraiEX/Terrakion v (4) DarkraiEX/MewtwoEX
(2) DarkraiEX/LandorusEX v (3) DarkraiEX/Sableye/Crushing Hammer
Top 4: DarkraiEX/Terrakion
Game 1: I don’t draw a Darkness Energy for the first four turns of the game and scoop.
Game 2: I go all out MewtwoEX (I believe it ended up with 6-7 Energy on it) and he couldn’t recover from my fast start.
Game 3: He opened Terrakion to my MewtwoEX. He drew – passed from his first three turns and I won on that third turn.
(2-1)
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Top 2: DarkraiEX/LandorusEX
Game 1: He opened strong and got his DarkraiEX up and swinging fast. I dropped down my Sigilyph and the game slowed down. I did have a DarkraiEX and MewtwoEX on the field, so I knew that he could get down to a single prize (He had already KO’d my Sableye). He went for the agro Terrakion approach to take out my Sigilyph’s, however, I was able to Pokemon Catcher them and get rid of them fast before they did any real damage. I was 3 prizes to 2 in my favor when I decided that I wasn’t going to wait to him to retrieve his Terrakion’s with Super Rod, and I couldn’t attack with Sigilyph at the moment. I had a DarkraiEX on the bench with 150 and decided that I was going to put the pressure on him to get his Eviolite on his next turn or the game would be over. I drop another DarkraiEX and Double Dark Patch and attach, that way if my other DarkraiEX was KO’d… I still had an out to win. I attacked his LandorusEX and did 90. He was able to KO my DarkraiEX, but failed to get the Eviolite (turns out it was prized), and I won on the next turn.
Game 2: I open Sableye, him DarkraiEX… attach pass. I drop down Sigilyph and then Confuse Ray… heads. He gets LandorusEX and does 30. I draw and attach a Psychic to Sigilyph… Confuse Ray… tails. He draws and plays Pluspower… knocking out my Sableye. I bring up Sigilyph and do 70. He drops a Terrakion and attaches… passing. I Pokemon Catcher the Terrakion, drop a Sigilyph, attach to the benched Sigilyph and do 60 damage. He ends up attaching, using Energy Switch, AND playing an Eviolite on Terrakion so that I couldn’t revenge KO with Psychic. I bring up Sigilyph, drop MewtwoEX and use Computer Search to grab a Double Colorless… KO’ing Terrakion. He brings up LandorusEX and does 30 (Turns out an N that I played on my last turn really messed him up since he has 150 on my MewtwoEX). I draw and drop another Double Colorless… doing 100 to KO the LandorusEX. He gets DarkraiEX and KO’s my MewtwoEX eventually (not before I was able to get it up to 150 damage). I bring up my lone Sigilyph. I check his discard pile and see that he has already played 3 Energy Switch, so I knew that I was safe from a surprise Terrakion drop along with the Energy Switch for KO’s. I attach a Darkness to Sigilyph and pass. He ends up using Super Rod and putting back Terrakion along with 2 Fighting Energy. He then proceeds to Junk Hunt for 2 Energy Switch I believe. I draw and play a DarkraiEX, use double Dark Patch, attach, and retreat for the 3 prize KO on Sableye and DarkraiEX.
(2-0)
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So I won! This brings me to 87 CP this season (I know it isn’t that impressive, but hey, at least I have some!). My ½ box had CresseliaEX, LandorusEX, and Full Art Bianca.
Props:
~ Winning
~ The Judges
~ Everyone who helped with the decklist
~My sister’s judge box having FA KeldeoEX, FA LandorusEX, Gold Potion, and Computer Search.
Slops:
~ Crushing Hammer
Well… thanks for reading!
