No, but we WANTED that Bastiodon. LoL Still friends with that person, and it's a good joke. Luckily we were able to trade for Claydols without any trouble.
I stated the day base set came out. I played in a few tournaments with hay maker and did pretty well. I quit after the neo series.
Then one day my little brother found my old cards in my closet and demanded I teach him how to play. That was right after holon phantom came out. I loved the delta species and miss them . The high point of me playing was when at last years provincials I came in 2nd place by Pwning all the little SPs with autozone . I now plan on playing until the game dies in the hopefully distant future.
I started collecting during the Base Set days, then took a break during the Neo days, and started collecting again during the EX series.
It wasn't until July 2008 that I decided I might as well learn how to play the game if I was going to own all these cards. And so I began to play the TCG... the rest, as they say, is history (not really, but it has been fun. I'm even a league leader now )