Playing in St.Albert Alberta today
Even tho I won with Reshiboar yesterday, I played sabledonk today since I had my crobat....it's also my birthday so I probably had some extra luck.
Round 1 vs Garchomp sv/Weavile/Ambipomb lock
He opens with lone gibble and I open crobat with uxie in hand and enough trainers to get the donk fairly easily. 10 second game easy.
Round 2 vs ?
She wins the coin flip and starts with lone Boufalant and revenges my crobat for 20. I don't remember what my hand was like but was able to get the donk relitively easily.
Round 3 vs Frealigatr & Samerott
I can't remember what he started but only had 1 or two pokemon. This game I actually started with sableye and donk for the third game in a row.
Round 4 vs Reshiboar with Tomb
He opens tomb and I open sableye with darkness energy and a bunch of trainers.....tis a shame I didnt have a crobat in hand for the win. I go to impersonate for my collector and get out regice, turns out I forgot to put it in the deck....great.
One his turn he collectors for a tepig tomb and reshi.
Long story short I'm unable to donk / keep up with the prize exchange. I scoop once my second dark energy hits the discard.
Before top cut I find out I put pokedex and not pokedex 910 on my decklist and am forced to switch them. Thankfully it didnt hurt TOO much, but it could have cost me huge.
3-1 2nd seed. Top 4 vs Zekrom. Ampheros. Rotom.
Game 1. he starts lone mareep and I start crobat, I lose the flip and he has a collector for zekrom rotom and smergle. I manage to take 4 prizes as he has energy shortage however after expert belting uxie and psychic restoring zekrom a couple times to set up a ko with sableye, he hits a crutial potion to avoid the ko. After a long drawn out game, I end up scooping while leading the prize count with two left to his 4 or 5 as i no longerhave any damage output.
Game two i start saybleye and he starts with zekrom and a mareep. My 7 card hand is 2 poketurn, a regice, good rod, 2 junk arm and a seeker. Despite going first i am unable to do anything, I impersinate just to shuffle cards around (not having a collector really hurt me here). I dont remember how the game developped from here, however I manage to get a uxie off a quickball / junk arm / q.b. i believe. At one point I was forced to attack an active zekrom with a single energy attahced with my sableye with ebelt risking losing it being ko'd should he get an energy. Luckily for me he wiffs, SSUs zekrom plays it on the bench, promotes smergle and portraits forcing himself to use my seeker picking up his rotom and ending his turn. Since he forgot to play rotom back down I play my seeker on his zekrom and ohkoing smergle.
Game three I start crobat he starts Rotom was forced to use PONT and hits a single basic. On my turn time is called however I manage to get seeker and donk with sableye.
Really a sabledonk game went to time?!?!
Finals vs Sabledonk-Cinccino.
He starts sableye to my crobat and unown r. He sets up t1 Cinccino with expert belt and DCE with two uxie and a crobat on the bench for the KO on crobat. On my turn I chose not to overextend my resources, and simply ko belted cinccino with belted sableye. He manages to set up a 2nd cinccino without the belt and net a return ko for his 2nd and 3rd prize. I also manage to return ko, using my last e-belt and darkness energy. Despite having his third cinccino prized, he nets a ko with 3 flashbites and a darkness energy on his sableye. With no energy left I scoop for game two.
Game two.
he opens with Mincino and unown q, i open crobat and choose to go first, and get the donk.
Game three.
I luckily start Sableye for the 3rd time today and override his choosing to go first.
He opens with crobat and uxie, and after a few minutes of fishing for the seeker and darkness energy I get the donk and the win.
5-1 (7-3 with 6 donks, 4 of which happened before they got a turn)
