Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Mechanicsville 1st place report

drmario

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I and my 3 brothers and my dad drive down to mechanicsville. I am using Lucario/Dodrio. It takes about an hour to get there. We get there register then play.

Round 1 Vs. Walrein/Feraligatr
I start out ok in this one, then completely stall out. Every card I could not possibly use I draw. I have terrible luck, and my opponent does not. I lose

0-1

Round 2 Vs. Vespiqueen/Torterra

This is a very slow deck, but it has a LOT of HP. I get set up with a dodrio and have 3 energies attached. After 21 minutes I have taken one prize card and my opponent has taken none. I also drew 8 cards with my opponent's speed stadium. I end up getting some momentum and my opponent concedes about 2 turns before I would've beaten him. Win

1-1

Round 3 Vs. Lucario/chingling/budew/milotic

This deck was basically straight lucario with milotic as a tech. I get set up quickly with lucario and take advantage of dodrio's resistance. I win

2-1

Round 4 Vs. Roselia

This person did not know the rules very well. She tried to rare candy budews into roselias and tried to take an elm's with a budew. I start with a lone riolu and she starts with the DP heracross. I forget that heracross can do 30+30 more with a heads, and almost lose t2. I used a castaway on my first turn instead of using a celio's to take basic. Luckily on her turn she gets tails and lucario demolishes the rest of her deck. I win

3-1

Round 5 Vs. Michael (my brother

I wasn't happy about this since it meant that only one of us would make top cut. Michael was also using kricektune and that is not a good matchup for my deck. I start with riolu, he starts with, guess what, a kricketot! I go first and get heads with wild kick. I then get t2 lucario and galatic his hand, which was apparently really good. I then do t3 lv. X which is another way to spell "doom" for kricket decks. I end up taking the last prize with dodrio

4-1

SE

First round Vs. Ryan S. (Duskqueen)
Match 1
I was really worried about this matchup since Ryan went 5-0 in swiss and he has my weakness. He starts with a lone castform and I start with riolu, he goes first, passes, then I go. I get tails with wild kick. He then gets basic on his next turn. I get t3 Lucario lv. X, and he never sets up however. I proceed to obliterate the rest of his pokemon.
1-0

Match 2
This one I start with a riolu and go second. I get t2 lucario and was poised to have another t3 lucario lv. X. I search my deck and it is prized! I still somehow manage to win though. I get it down to 3 prizes left and then KO his mighteyena ex and his nidarino and win.

SE Round 2 Vs. Pablo(meganium Delta/quagsire)
I played Pablo at Rockville and beat him their with the same deck, so I was fairly confident I could win.

Match 1
I set up and get yet another t3 lucario Lv. X., attach cessation and then wipe him out.
1-0
Match 2
I mulligan 5 times then get a lone riolu start. I play quickball and don't get a lucario. He wins.

1-1

Match 3
This was by far the best match I have ever played. It starts out really bad for me, he manages to KO 2 of my pokemon before I can even evolve one. I then start using my evil, free retreat, resistance to fighting type dodrios. I get 3 in play, one has three fighting attached to it the other has no energies, however I had plenty of boost. I hit 2 meganiums and a ledian for 30 each. He uses delta reduction for 20. I then retreat and put out another dodrio, attach a boost and do the same thing. This goes on for several turns, I eventually KO both meganiums, by then I had Lucario lv. X up and then KO his last 2 pokemon. This was the best comeback I had ever had. It was one of the battles where you draw a celio's when you have one basic and get another one just so you survive.
I win first and get 17 boosters, I pull a Magmorter Lv. X and a AH blissey.
My final record is 6-1 which is a major improvement over my first to battle roads where I went 2-3.

Props
Good Judging
Aardvarks for augmenting prizes
Me winning about 90% of the galatic's I played
My family winning 1st in the senoirs and masters (the 2 divisions we had players in)
My little bro going 7-0 en-rout to winning 1st in senoirs

Slops
The fly at table 4
No food
Playing my brother
 
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I can even evolve one. I then start using my evil, free retreat, resistance to fighting type dodrios. I get 3 in play, one has three fighting attached to it the other has no energies, however I had plenty of boost.
He sure did. I was amazed.

Me winning about 90% of the galatic's I played
Yeah, that was somethin'.:thumb:
Everytime I judge and notice an RPS match, I look closely to see if anything wierd happens (like a player's selection displayed a fraction of a second after his opponent); I never find anything like that though- guess some people are just good at it!

My family winning 1st in the senoirs and masters (the 2 divisions we had players in)
Keep it up, Peter. You got a good team.

My little bro going 7-0 en-rout to winning 1st in senoirs
Yeah that was impressive. That last match against Jac was very close though.
 
I win first and get 17 boosters, I pull a Magmorter Lv. X and a AH blissey.

I thought the winner always got eight boosters. Anyway, congratulations! I sure wish I could have been there, but I had an extremely large amount of homework.:frown:
 
I thought the winner always got eight boosters.
Aardvarks for augmenting prizes
The really good TOs (myself included) augment the prizes. At my last Battle Road, 1st place in each age division received the standard prizes, 2 more boosters, and a Holon Transceiver. Always fun to be competitve and outdo your competitors.:smile:

You can count on Tara augmenting the prizes for City Championships as well.
 
The really good TOs (myself included) augment the prizes. At my last Battle Road, 1st place in each age division received the standard prizes, 2 more boosters, and a Holon Transceiver. Always fun to be competitve and outdo your competitors.:smile:

You can count on Tara augmenting the prizes for City Championships as well.
I concur.
 
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