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1st Battle Roads - @ Rising Phoenix Games
I decide to play my Froslass/Bronzong spread deck at this tournament. Before the tournament I tech in a 1-1 Houndoom instead of playing my 1-1 Cresselia in my deck because the New England players are mostly playing Torterra, Leafeon, and Bellosome varients.
Round 1 - Matt M - MagKiss
I open with snorunt and collect with bench. He players magmortor, with a togekiss, and claydoll and im in a deep mess by Turn 3. Somehow I manage to keep up with him and bring the game to 1-1 prizes. Late game I do 80 + Sleep to his Magmortor Lv.X. Now if he flips heads, he wakes up and kos me but if he flips tails, he stays asleep and I KO him next turn. He flips heads and KOs me for the last prize. Amazing Game! 0-1
Round 2 - Alex F - BlissLutions
He starts with chansey to my snorunt active and baltoy / bronzor benched. He attaches and passes and I collect for a card. He attaches Call Energy to Chansey and gets to bench. I do 40 and start spreading. If he did T2 blissey I would have lost. Anyway I come out strong and get a nasty spread going. 1-1
Round 3 - Patty L - Garchomp
My hands so bad I cant setup to save my life. But somehow I can stall and buy time to setup. She cant draw a rare candy to evo to garchomp. So I keep de-evoluting her Gabite. She keeps flipping tails with gabites 2nd attack so Im able to try and setup for a bit longer. As soon as she gets setup I get setup the turn after so im in good shape. She also flips tails on sleep check twice which crippled her from completly demolishing me. Late game it was 1-1 Prizes like the first game which it came down to a coin flip. She flips heads and wakes up and koes me. Another awsome game coming down to the wire! 1-2
Round 4 - Unknown - Torterra
He gets up a turn 3 torterra and I have froslass out with 2 other froslasses. My setup is shaky so I have to stall with destiney bond and on top of that he misplays attacking my froslass when I used destiney bond. I koed his torterra Lv.X with no damage and 4 energys on it. Hes a new player and I tell him if he didnt KO me I probably would have lost because I could have only done destiney bond for 3 more turns. 2-2
Round 5 - Marky Mark - AmphVire
I get my T2 Froslass w/ triple bronzongs and my spreads going crazy. He trys to fight me doing paralysis but that only bought him 2 turns just preventing my massive spread which I koed 3 pokemon in one turn three turns later. 3-2
2nd Battle Roads - @ Batter Up
Before this tournament christian calls me up telling me how he got killed by kingdra in NJ in top 4. He told me the deck played Unknowns, Poke Radars, Pokedex, and Dusk Balls. Basicially just a bunch of burn cards and after you use them you drop an uxie and draw usually 4-6 cards. I liked the idea with kingdra except the unknowns because you could get rare candy kingdra pretty easily. I make my own version and I get T1-T2 Kingdra everygame. The list looked boss so I decided to give it a shot. The only thing I disliked about my list is that I cant run call energy in this deck.
Round 1 - Unknown - Torterra
Kingdras hardest matchup is torterra because if torterra gets going you cant beat it. Not to mention im not using any plus powers. On my side his set up is lousy so im able to get 2 to 3 kingdras going. He oaks visited early game and was looking for torterra but drew into torterra lv.x with sceptile in play. After I koed 2 grotles he couldnt recover. 1-0
Round 2 - Hanaan - EmpoKing
The judge comes over and tells me he had an illegal decklist and that he would have to get a game loss. I asked the judge if we could still play and he agreed. He had to face me with one empoleon in his deck because two were part of an illegal decklist. I get kingdra T2 and sweep his deck without seeing any emps. 2-0
Round 3 - Jon B - BlissLutions
I made a minor misplay early on by not spreading 20 to his leafeon that had no damage on it. Instead I spread on the one with 80 forgetting I cant warp point + Snipe because of Espeon. The match comes down to the wire. He kos a kingdra with leafeon active with 80 on it. I have kingdra in my hand and Horsea active. I top deck rare candy and upstream for my final prize. 3-0
Round 4 - Chris C - Infernape w/ Typlosion
He wiffs on the candy to T2 me because I went first with 0 bench. He played the plus power and tried it but failed. I get going and weakness just allows me to OHKO anything active. 4-0
Round 5 - Andrew C - Rhyperior
I open with horsea to his rhyhorn and do 20 because of weakness. He plays bebes search for baltoy and plays evoluter on rhyhorn and evos to rhydon. I play warp point and rare candy kingdra. I ko his baltoy and put 20 on his rhydon. He picks up his cards and scoops. 5-0
Top 4 - Shaina - AMU
Game 1- She opens with azelf 60hp. Im 2nd with rare candy and kingdra in hand with horsea active. She plays 2 bench which prevents the turn 2. My rush early game crushed her setup so by the time she got up a mespirit lv.x the game was out of reach and upstream took the auto ko. 6-0
Game 2- Its really similiar to game one. Except she opens with mespirit 60 hp. Im also 2nd with rare candy + kingdra again but she plays 3 bench preventing the turn 2. 6-0
Finals - Con L - AMU
Game 1- This game was tight we traded KO for KO almost all game. If I played one or two counter stadiums it would have been over a long time ago but I dont so my sniping abilitys were useless and he god blasted me for the win with 1-1 prizes. 6-1
Game 2- This game was like game one except It was 2-2 prizes and I was going to dragon pump for the win double prizes. I use dragon pump with 11 energys in the discard pile and mewtwo lv.x has 130 damage on it, Uxie Lv.X has 100 damage on it. On cons turn time is called. Con plays 2 energy switch, a call energy from his hand, and a bucks training to do 130 to my kingdra and win on time. Wow! I then asked the judge had I done upstream the turn before and time was called on his turn then it would have been sudden death 1 prize card. Glad to know the ruling for the future. Definetly the best game all day. I also pulled uxie lv.x in my 4 packs!
6-1
3rd Battle Roads - @ X9 Comics & Games
Before the tournament I noticed at the last tournament I really needed plus powers in my decklist. A perfect example would be doing 60-20 to mesprit and when they bring up a mespirit lv.x its got 90 hp with 20 on it and you can only do 60-20. So doing 70-20 would open up some nice situations. It also would help my terra squad, leafeon, and bellawsome matchup. I take out 1 warp point, an energy, a poke radar, and an uxie lv.x and add in 4 plus powers.
Round 1 - Unknown - Spread
He opens with cresselia to my horsea. Im first and I do smokescreen. He attaches and does 10. I triple plus power + rare candy + kingdra + Dragon pump for 90. DONKED 1-0
Round 2 - Cara - AMU
I got a T2 Kingdra and my plus powers opened up the situations that I needed which I didnt have the day before. The best play I did was doing uxies attack with 4 plus powers and then putting them on the bottom of my deck. That was an amazing combo too bad azelf lv.x was in play though. 2-0
Round 3 - Unknown - Torterra
He opens with turtwig and I open with kingdra with double plus powers for the auto KO. He attacks with sceptile and trys to stall and setup. I have three kingdras ready, he doesnt have a chance. 3-0
Round 4 - Unknown - Unknown
I have no idea who I faced this game but all I know is I won this round. 4-0
Round 5 - John F - Spread
This game was close. He needed heads with zapdos and hit to draw 2 prizes early game. It ended up coming down to 1-1 prizes. He de-evolutered for the win. 4-1
Top 4 - Aaron - AMU
Game 1 - This game was close but I was able to respond with a kingdra every time one was koed. My plus powers helped out alot. I ended up using 6 kingdras all game. 5-1
Game 2 - He missed a crucial T1 energy drop and I had T2 kingdra again. He almost recovered but my swarm was too big and I've already drawn four swarmed prizes. 5-1
Finals - Adam Y - Kingdra
Game 1 - He opens with baltoy and does psychic balance. I open with kingdra and T1 him. 6-1
Game 2 - I open with baltoy and he opens with horsea. I psychic balance. He rare candys.......INTO SEADRA!!! Hes one energy off from doing 50. I then put horsea on bench + candy + kingdra + retreat and just start to cleanup. We fooled around this game telling jokes which made it interesting but then I did an illegal move which wasnt a big deal because he let me do it and the judges werent put on a huge spot. 6-1
4th Battle Roads - @ Disposable Heroes
I decided I'd use the same decklist as I used the day before because I didnt have too much problems with it. I still want 1 or 2 counter stadiums in kingdra but until its essential I wont put any in. I wanted to play AMU today but the cards were at my friends house who wasnt home.
Round 1 - Tiffany - Bellawsome
I open with uxie with 2 night maintenance, 2 claydol, 1 rare candy, 1 energy. She starts with azelf and double oddish benched. I do 40, and she evos to gloom and attaches energy. I ko azelf and still get no basics. She evolves to bellawsome and rare candys into another and kos me. My next card was a baltoy but I turn two'd so many people with kingdra I had no complaints. 0-1
Round 2 - Unknown - Luxray
This game was so intense. I've played against luxray alot and im very familiar with the matchup. He rips his energy switch when needed. He used 3 on me all game. He also was 2 for 3 on energy pickups which hurt me because after each kingdra he was auto koing them. It comes down to 1-1 prizes which he energy switches + attaches for the win. 0-2
Round 3 - Bye
1-2
Round 4 - Andrew C - Magnezone
I make two misplays which he capitilizes on. His setup was shaky but eventually got up. His palkia lv.x got him the nessecary prizes to win this game and I tottally underestimated that card in Magnezone because I thought it wass only good in AMU. Late games its 1-1 prizes. He does 80 and paralysis and I cant retreat. My warp points are all used. He attacks next turn and auto koes me. 1-3
Round 5 - Todd - Gliscor w/ Mime
I know what mr. mime does. He annoys me alot but I play smart with energy attachments. I get mutiple kingdras out and just attach t3 energy to each and make sure I have six energy in my discard at all times. My plus powers saved me in this matchup because I was able to one shot mr. mime not two shot it. He ends up scooping after he sees my options. 2-3
So far im liking this format. Six out of seven of my matchups that I lost to came down to 1-1 prizes which have been amazing games to play. Theres also been a lot of creativity with the decks that I've seen from all of the players at battle roads so far. Ive seen the Lv.Xs actually see alot of playing time in decks and play some good roles in the deck. I've also seen alot of players get better and progress down near my region. Im 16-7 so far this season and it looks to be another great one!
Props
Momma Rock for the rides to battle roads
Jon, Alex, and Con for setting the tone
The NE Judging Staff and Tom Shea for holding awsome events
Players from the North East that are progressing
The new 40 minute rounds and the Rules for Game two in top cut of a significant game
Team Underground for winning over 10+ BRs in the past two weeks
Slops
Pizza Hut for having awful cinnamonsticks
Upcoming Tournaments
@ The Game Castle 10/4
@ Die Hard Games 10/5
@ The Grid 10/11
- Its G-Note Baby!
I decide to play my Froslass/Bronzong spread deck at this tournament. Before the tournament I tech in a 1-1 Houndoom instead of playing my 1-1 Cresselia in my deck because the New England players are mostly playing Torterra, Leafeon, and Bellosome varients.
Round 1 - Matt M - MagKiss
I open with snorunt and collect with bench. He players magmortor, with a togekiss, and claydoll and im in a deep mess by Turn 3. Somehow I manage to keep up with him and bring the game to 1-1 prizes. Late game I do 80 + Sleep to his Magmortor Lv.X. Now if he flips heads, he wakes up and kos me but if he flips tails, he stays asleep and I KO him next turn. He flips heads and KOs me for the last prize. Amazing Game! 0-1
Round 2 - Alex F - BlissLutions
He starts with chansey to my snorunt active and baltoy / bronzor benched. He attaches and passes and I collect for a card. He attaches Call Energy to Chansey and gets to bench. I do 40 and start spreading. If he did T2 blissey I would have lost. Anyway I come out strong and get a nasty spread going. 1-1
Round 3 - Patty L - Garchomp
My hands so bad I cant setup to save my life. But somehow I can stall and buy time to setup. She cant draw a rare candy to evo to garchomp. So I keep de-evoluting her Gabite. She keeps flipping tails with gabites 2nd attack so Im able to try and setup for a bit longer. As soon as she gets setup I get setup the turn after so im in good shape. She also flips tails on sleep check twice which crippled her from completly demolishing me. Late game it was 1-1 Prizes like the first game which it came down to a coin flip. She flips heads and wakes up and koes me. Another awsome game coming down to the wire! 1-2
Round 4 - Unknown - Torterra
He gets up a turn 3 torterra and I have froslass out with 2 other froslasses. My setup is shaky so I have to stall with destiney bond and on top of that he misplays attacking my froslass when I used destiney bond. I koed his torterra Lv.X with no damage and 4 energys on it. Hes a new player and I tell him if he didnt KO me I probably would have lost because I could have only done destiney bond for 3 more turns. 2-2
Round 5 - Marky Mark - AmphVire
I get my T2 Froslass w/ triple bronzongs and my spreads going crazy. He trys to fight me doing paralysis but that only bought him 2 turns just preventing my massive spread which I koed 3 pokemon in one turn three turns later. 3-2
2nd Battle Roads - @ Batter Up
Before this tournament christian calls me up telling me how he got killed by kingdra in NJ in top 4. He told me the deck played Unknowns, Poke Radars, Pokedex, and Dusk Balls. Basicially just a bunch of burn cards and after you use them you drop an uxie and draw usually 4-6 cards. I liked the idea with kingdra except the unknowns because you could get rare candy kingdra pretty easily. I make my own version and I get T1-T2 Kingdra everygame. The list looked boss so I decided to give it a shot. The only thing I disliked about my list is that I cant run call energy in this deck.
Round 1 - Unknown - Torterra
Kingdras hardest matchup is torterra because if torterra gets going you cant beat it. Not to mention im not using any plus powers. On my side his set up is lousy so im able to get 2 to 3 kingdras going. He oaks visited early game and was looking for torterra but drew into torterra lv.x with sceptile in play. After I koed 2 grotles he couldnt recover. 1-0
Round 2 - Hanaan - EmpoKing
The judge comes over and tells me he had an illegal decklist and that he would have to get a game loss. I asked the judge if we could still play and he agreed. He had to face me with one empoleon in his deck because two were part of an illegal decklist. I get kingdra T2 and sweep his deck without seeing any emps. 2-0
Round 3 - Jon B - BlissLutions
I made a minor misplay early on by not spreading 20 to his leafeon that had no damage on it. Instead I spread on the one with 80 forgetting I cant warp point + Snipe because of Espeon. The match comes down to the wire. He kos a kingdra with leafeon active with 80 on it. I have kingdra in my hand and Horsea active. I top deck rare candy and upstream for my final prize. 3-0
Round 4 - Chris C - Infernape w/ Typlosion
He wiffs on the candy to T2 me because I went first with 0 bench. He played the plus power and tried it but failed. I get going and weakness just allows me to OHKO anything active. 4-0
Round 5 - Andrew C - Rhyperior
I open with horsea to his rhyhorn and do 20 because of weakness. He plays bebes search for baltoy and plays evoluter on rhyhorn and evos to rhydon. I play warp point and rare candy kingdra. I ko his baltoy and put 20 on his rhydon. He picks up his cards and scoops. 5-0
Top 4 - Shaina - AMU
Game 1- She opens with azelf 60hp. Im 2nd with rare candy and kingdra in hand with horsea active. She plays 2 bench which prevents the turn 2. My rush early game crushed her setup so by the time she got up a mespirit lv.x the game was out of reach and upstream took the auto ko. 6-0
Game 2- Its really similiar to game one. Except she opens with mespirit 60 hp. Im also 2nd with rare candy + kingdra again but she plays 3 bench preventing the turn 2. 6-0
Finals - Con L - AMU
Game 1- This game was tight we traded KO for KO almost all game. If I played one or two counter stadiums it would have been over a long time ago but I dont so my sniping abilitys were useless and he god blasted me for the win with 1-1 prizes. 6-1
Game 2- This game was like game one except It was 2-2 prizes and I was going to dragon pump for the win double prizes. I use dragon pump with 11 energys in the discard pile and mewtwo lv.x has 130 damage on it, Uxie Lv.X has 100 damage on it. On cons turn time is called. Con plays 2 energy switch, a call energy from his hand, and a bucks training to do 130 to my kingdra and win on time. Wow! I then asked the judge had I done upstream the turn before and time was called on his turn then it would have been sudden death 1 prize card. Glad to know the ruling for the future. Definetly the best game all day. I also pulled uxie lv.x in my 4 packs!
6-1
3rd Battle Roads - @ X9 Comics & Games
Before the tournament I noticed at the last tournament I really needed plus powers in my decklist. A perfect example would be doing 60-20 to mesprit and when they bring up a mespirit lv.x its got 90 hp with 20 on it and you can only do 60-20. So doing 70-20 would open up some nice situations. It also would help my terra squad, leafeon, and bellawsome matchup. I take out 1 warp point, an energy, a poke radar, and an uxie lv.x and add in 4 plus powers.
Round 1 - Unknown - Spread
He opens with cresselia to my horsea. Im first and I do smokescreen. He attaches and does 10. I triple plus power + rare candy + kingdra + Dragon pump for 90. DONKED 1-0
Round 2 - Cara - AMU
I got a T2 Kingdra and my plus powers opened up the situations that I needed which I didnt have the day before. The best play I did was doing uxies attack with 4 plus powers and then putting them on the bottom of my deck. That was an amazing combo too bad azelf lv.x was in play though.
2-0Round 3 - Unknown - Torterra
He opens with turtwig and I open with kingdra with double plus powers for the auto KO. He attacks with sceptile and trys to stall and setup. I have three kingdras ready, he doesnt have a chance. 3-0
Round 4 - Unknown - Unknown
I have no idea who I faced this game but all I know is I won this round. 4-0
Round 5 - John F - Spread
This game was close. He needed heads with zapdos and hit to draw 2 prizes early game. It ended up coming down to 1-1 prizes. He de-evolutered for the win. 4-1
Top 4 - Aaron - AMU
Game 1 - This game was close but I was able to respond with a kingdra every time one was koed. My plus powers helped out alot. I ended up using 6 kingdras all game. 5-1
Game 2 - He missed a crucial T1 energy drop and I had T2 kingdra again. He almost recovered but my swarm was too big and I've already drawn four swarmed prizes. 5-1
Finals - Adam Y - Kingdra
Game 1 - He opens with baltoy and does psychic balance. I open with kingdra and T1 him. 6-1
Game 2 - I open with baltoy and he opens with horsea. I psychic balance. He rare candys.......INTO SEADRA!!! Hes one energy off from doing 50. I then put horsea on bench + candy + kingdra + retreat and just start to cleanup. We fooled around this game telling jokes which made it interesting but then I did an illegal move which wasnt a big deal because he let me do it and the judges werent put on a huge spot. 6-1
4th Battle Roads - @ Disposable Heroes
I decided I'd use the same decklist as I used the day before because I didnt have too much problems with it. I still want 1 or 2 counter stadiums in kingdra but until its essential I wont put any in. I wanted to play AMU today but the cards were at my friends house who wasnt home.
Round 1 - Tiffany - Bellawsome
I open with uxie with 2 night maintenance, 2 claydol, 1 rare candy, 1 energy. She starts with azelf and double oddish benched. I do 40, and she evos to gloom and attaches energy. I ko azelf and still get no basics. She evolves to bellawsome and rare candys into another and kos me. My next card was a baltoy but I turn two'd so many people with kingdra I had no complaints. 0-1
Round 2 - Unknown - Luxray
This game was so intense. I've played against luxray alot and im very familiar with the matchup. He rips his energy switch when needed. He used 3 on me all game. He also was 2 for 3 on energy pickups which hurt me because after each kingdra he was auto koing them. It comes down to 1-1 prizes which he energy switches + attaches for the win. 0-2
Round 3 - Bye
1-2
Round 4 - Andrew C - Magnezone
I make two misplays which he capitilizes on. His setup was shaky but eventually got up. His palkia lv.x got him the nessecary prizes to win this game and I tottally underestimated that card in Magnezone because I thought it wass only good in AMU. Late games its 1-1 prizes. He does 80 and paralysis and I cant retreat. My warp points are all used. He attacks next turn and auto koes me. 1-3
Round 5 - Todd - Gliscor w/ Mime
I know what mr. mime does. He annoys me alot but I play smart with energy attachments. I get mutiple kingdras out and just attach t3 energy to each and make sure I have six energy in my discard at all times. My plus powers saved me in this matchup because I was able to one shot mr. mime not two shot it. He ends up scooping after he sees my options. 2-3
So far im liking this format. Six out of seven of my matchups that I lost to came down to 1-1 prizes which have been amazing games to play. Theres also been a lot of creativity with the decks that I've seen from all of the players at battle roads so far. Ive seen the Lv.Xs actually see alot of playing time in decks and play some good roles in the deck. I've also seen alot of players get better and progress down near my region. Im 16-7 so far this season and it looks to be another great one!
Props
Momma Rock for the rides to battle roads
Jon, Alex, and Con for setting the tone
The NE Judging Staff and Tom Shea for holding awsome events
Players from the North East that are progressing
The new 40 minute rounds and the Rules for Game two in top cut of a significant game
Team Underground for winning over 10+ BRs in the past two weeks
Slops
Pizza Hut for having awful cinnamonsticks
Upcoming Tournaments
@ The Game Castle 10/4
@ Die Hard Games 10/5
@ The Grid 10/11
- Its G-Note Baby!
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