So today I tried out my new deck at "The Only Game In Town" in Somerville NJ, which allowed XY cards for their League Challenge. I don't want to give away much of the deck, but it runs new XY stuff like Aromatisse, Muscle Band, and if you want to believe it or not Emolga EX (for Yveltal EX / Lugia EX). It also ran Rayquaza DV, Virizion EX, and Xerneas EX.
Round 1- Joe Figliano (Tool Drop)
I had a terrible start with Rayquaza, but I drew well enough that I could one shot the trubbish's with Rayquaza's second attack. When he misplayed and N's me to 5 I started to get going and sweeped his team.
1-0
Round 2- Max Kevelson (Mewtwo EX / Crobat?)
I really kind of forget how this match went, but I remember once I got set up it was an easy win.
2-0
Round 3- Nick Moffitt (Blastoise / Keldeo / Delphox)
I liked playing this opponent a lot, but I thought he was going to win from the get go. He got up a turn 3 blastoise, delphox, an almost set up Keldeo EX, and a benched BKEX. With my OK start I thought I was doomed. He takes 3 prizes and wipes most of my energy, but then I bench my 'Quaza and OHKO his BKEX. He return kills with Keldeo EX. Then I top-deck return kill with Virizion EX and Band (had 30 damage on it already from Xerneas EX). He brings up mini Black Kyurem and for some reasons wastes a whole bunch of cards to set up another Delphox, realizing that if he Mystical Fire's then he decks out. So he can only use mini BK's first attack. I bring up Xerneas EX and OHKO it. He then has nothing else to attack with and loses next turn. This game was probably the most nerve-wracking of the day.
3-0
Round 4- Christian Ciochou? (Darkrai / Yveltal / Hydreigon)
What was funny was before this match he had a deck check and one of his Deino's were mis-named, so he had to replace it with a darkness energy. I thought I had a terrible start at first with an Emolga EX, but when I saw he place down a Yveltal EX (he had saybleye and Darkrai down) I was jumping of joy on the inside! I managed to get a pretty good set up and started rolling. Unfortunately he tried every turn to get a Hydreigon up, but it literally never got there the whole game. That helped me a lot, and I managed to win even through his stalling in round 1 of time.
4-0
As the only 4-0, I know I make the cut and will probably win.
Round 5- Nadia Bakky (Blastoise)
I scooped to her, as a 3-1 before because I knew it wouldn't matter if I won and she lost, and we are good friends anyways. We played a fun game anyways. She pretty much had the game from the start and I had a bad set up, so I was happy I had already conceded in the first place (she got 3rd luckily).
4-1
There was a whole variety of decks. I saw many Darkrai / Yveltals from Seniors, and a lot of Rayboar / Delphox from the Masters. There were more Blastoise from Seniors and Trevenant decks from Masters. Empoleon was pretty scarce, I think the deck will die out by next format. I only saw 1 DarkGarb and 2 Plasma. I think both are viable choices but just weren't shown today. VirGen was also prevalent in the Masters. Some Hydreigons loomed around both groups.
