Bellawesome
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So I'm in a similar situation as last weekend, since I know I won't be attending worlds OR nats this year, and last year may have been my last nats for a long time. This ultimately ends up being why I scoop in top four, cuz im not a fan of wasting $300.
I stay at Con's the night before and we test my gardy deck vs his luxchomp. If i miss a turn 2 gallade/gardy, i usually would lose this one. We stopped after 1-1 though. I liked my deck, and since I'm not really going for the win, I decided to challenge myself and play it. I had outs vs almost every deck. I ran a bat, a luxray line, a lucario gl, and some turns.
The morning of, we get there within 10 minutes of opening time and next thing I know we're all scrambling around writing decklists or EVEN MAKING DECKS....alex.... for 50 minutes straight. My hand got tired. We all hang out and round 1 goes up fairly quickly.
Round 1 vs Patty L. (Garchomp Sv)
So i know how to play this matchup, and i do a good job of getting gardy out with 5 energies on it. I jump into the lock with a wager that I think I won, and i take her first chomp. After one more, she maintinences and gets the third and fourth. Since I had also gusted a dol with luxray, I needed just two more prizes to win and there was no way to take the chomps, so I got them off her fresh dol and benched tomb. GG patty.
1-0
Round 2 vs Nick C. (Gengar sf/tomb/lotsastuff)
I see his insanely teched deck unfold quickly, and my start is kinda junk, but i tomb a setup somewhat well. He gets out a pair of sf gengars and I'm wondering what the heck is going on. I am quickly forced to fight with luxray and make a good play of using it to bash his fainting spell later on when he sniped it to leave it at 120 when it was belted. He nailed the heads, and if he didnt he would have been 10 short at the end of the game b/c of turns. SPEAKING OF TURNS, i didn't see one all game. At the end, i needed to pick up a bat with 50 on it to prevent him from ending them game with triple bat/ ko on active, but he rips the last turn to KO them. GG.
As a side note, he didn't learn that i ran 3 wager until after my top match because i didnt see one of those all game either.
1-1, Record as the earliest round I've lost all year now.
Round 3 vs James L. (FLyTrAp)
He gets turn 1 flygon and dol via bts...... and i set up slowly...... but he tries to trap a baltoy with fly x and memberry but i evolve, retreat with dce and lock his small hand. I come back slowly, and eventually i win because he belted instead of trying to memlock me when we were tied in prizes.
2-1
Round 4 Vs Randy (Random poke lines)
While I didn't understand his deck, he set up with what he had well, using igglybuff and no supporters to draw 3 twice, then dropping his mom's kindness cards as we fought. I saw no wager until too late, but i had a solid setup and a turn 3 gardy swinging. Luxray helped me make sure i didnt get any nasty surprises and i end up winning 6-0
3-1
Round 5 vs Gary L. (Quagsire/shuppet/walltechs)
I remember now. He sets up, so do i, and i triple wager him to death with a plox the whole game. The third wager made him unable to put a shuppet back down, and i win with 3 prizes on his board.
4-1
Round 6 vs Dave C. (Flygon/Queen/Noir)
I get my only turn 2 PLOX of the day. Too bad he had a devoluter in his opening hand. Good thing i had a kirlia as well. Too bad even though i had a belt, telekinesis doesnt hit weakness on uxie. Good thing he didnt have much going. He finally gets a fighting flygon and gets my gardy to critical damage, and i nail 80 before getting ko'd. I realize that the trash in my hand is enough to make uxie ko the flygon with bat/turn. I do that, and he sends up a queen, does DCE, and passes. I draw dol, draw 2, evolve my charged kirlia in to gardy, retreat bat, and search for luca to OHKO my last prize.
5-1
Round 7 Vs Dude with leather jacket (Gengar sf =/)
Alex was MAD about losing to this guy, but hes not that bad. He just had a really low rating and did really well with a deck his friends got online. I was paired up to him, and he was the last undefeated. I was most likely gonna lose if he set up well enough. I open Ralt, belt, rosy, turn,junk. He starts q, attaches and does 30. You know the rest
6-1.
I'm seeded third, and i can't beleive i actually pulled that record with what seemed like a sketchy play. Con, Dylan and I find we're all paired against shuppets. Con had to fight the toughest one, and I got the 2nd toughest i think.
Top 16 vs Stephen J. (Tissue)
Game 1: I open my only tomb this game so i was psyched, but he opened rosy and played through it quickly. He blowers a gardy but doesnt ohko. I charge the benched ralts, dol my candy/ gardy needs, and win a wager, and my gardy lives another turn. He eventually gets a partial shuppet back, but i wager again and lose but he comes 10 short of the win and i take it. Couldn't beleive I won.
Game 2 : We open jank, and neither of us does much unti i get double dols rolling and he nails the rosy. I play out the same plan as last time, but it comes down to him sending up an uxie he thought was q'd. He misses a scoop up with all his pluspowers down and scoops as he just dropped his chance at winning entirely. GG
7-1
I almost did a backflip after winning this. Couldn't beleive it. Con also won with Azul missing 5/5 game winning flips in game 3 on time. Dylan lost but actually took a game vs shuppet with dos.
Top 8 vs Vikas (Dos)
Game 1: I set up, he rushes a dos, but i have the quick gardy x thanks to my single tomb start again. As i ko him i wager, but i find out he runs suicune so i have to deal with another. At one point I Gust his regice and put tomb back up and resetup. At the end of this game, with his regice at 60, and my gardy about to die from poison going into my turn, he gets a dos down that i would have needed an NM to ko, but he leaves sabeleye up as i have 2 prizes and he'll only need one more. I triple bat his ice and KO the sabeleye with gardy, never having to ko the dos.
Game 2: I get moving very quickly again with the only tomb in my deck that i keep managing to start with:smile: and I use what i learned from game one to play the matchup right. I hold my nm and use gardy x to prevent his ohko and wager after each ko. He didnt nail any recovery cards except suicune so he didnt do much for a bit, but then his rosyrade gl comes back again and gets my gardy close to ko again. i plox, and poison leaves me at 10 after my turn. He leaves rosy up, and i double bat and ko then next sacrifice he puts up leaving me at one prize, and THEN he nails the dos. He sees my charged luxray on the bench, guesses i have a turn in hand, and saw me search out lucario gl earlier so i show him and he scoops. GG's dude.
8-1
Top 4 vs Alex (Gengar switch/techs)
I sign the slip and we chill till he plays Con in the finals. I get third and Con wins it all again.
8-2.
Had fun, and also had no idea I'd do so well with a plox deck, even if it had that spin on it.
Props:
SPlox
Con
Frezzas
Judging staff for doing well
Amazing event
Staying up late to play pokemans...
Aylam for winning
Starting my only spiritomb 3/4 top cut matches i played
Slops
No worlds/nats for me
Alex losing points to a 1600
Only one day of our 2-day Regionals....
TT not doing as well as we hoped
I stay at Con's the night before and we test my gardy deck vs his luxchomp. If i miss a turn 2 gallade/gardy, i usually would lose this one. We stopped after 1-1 though. I liked my deck, and since I'm not really going for the win, I decided to challenge myself and play it. I had outs vs almost every deck. I ran a bat, a luxray line, a lucario gl, and some turns.
The morning of, we get there within 10 minutes of opening time and next thing I know we're all scrambling around writing decklists or EVEN MAKING DECKS....alex.... for 50 minutes straight. My hand got tired. We all hang out and round 1 goes up fairly quickly.
Round 1 vs Patty L. (Garchomp Sv)
So i know how to play this matchup, and i do a good job of getting gardy out with 5 energies on it. I jump into the lock with a wager that I think I won, and i take her first chomp. After one more, she maintinences and gets the third and fourth. Since I had also gusted a dol with luxray, I needed just two more prizes to win and there was no way to take the chomps, so I got them off her fresh dol and benched tomb. GG patty.
1-0
Round 2 vs Nick C. (Gengar sf/tomb/lotsastuff)
I see his insanely teched deck unfold quickly, and my start is kinda junk, but i tomb a setup somewhat well. He gets out a pair of sf gengars and I'm wondering what the heck is going on. I am quickly forced to fight with luxray and make a good play of using it to bash his fainting spell later on when he sniped it to leave it at 120 when it was belted. He nailed the heads, and if he didnt he would have been 10 short at the end of the game b/c of turns. SPEAKING OF TURNS, i didn't see one all game. At the end, i needed to pick up a bat with 50 on it to prevent him from ending them game with triple bat/ ko on active, but he rips the last turn to KO them. GG.
As a side note, he didn't learn that i ran 3 wager until after my top match because i didnt see one of those all game either.
1-1, Record as the earliest round I've lost all year now.
Round 3 vs James L. (FLyTrAp)
He gets turn 1 flygon and dol via bts...... and i set up slowly...... but he tries to trap a baltoy with fly x and memberry but i evolve, retreat with dce and lock his small hand. I come back slowly, and eventually i win because he belted instead of trying to memlock me when we were tied in prizes.
2-1
Round 4 Vs Randy (Random poke lines)
While I didn't understand his deck, he set up with what he had well, using igglybuff and no supporters to draw 3 twice, then dropping his mom's kindness cards as we fought. I saw no wager until too late, but i had a solid setup and a turn 3 gardy swinging. Luxray helped me make sure i didnt get any nasty surprises and i end up winning 6-0
3-1
Round 5 vs Gary L. (Quagsire/shuppet/walltechs)
I remember now. He sets up, so do i, and i triple wager him to death with a plox the whole game. The third wager made him unable to put a shuppet back down, and i win with 3 prizes on his board.
4-1
Round 6 vs Dave C. (Flygon/Queen/Noir)
I get my only turn 2 PLOX of the day. Too bad he had a devoluter in his opening hand. Good thing i had a kirlia as well. Too bad even though i had a belt, telekinesis doesnt hit weakness on uxie. Good thing he didnt have much going. He finally gets a fighting flygon and gets my gardy to critical damage, and i nail 80 before getting ko'd. I realize that the trash in my hand is enough to make uxie ko the flygon with bat/turn. I do that, and he sends up a queen, does DCE, and passes. I draw dol, draw 2, evolve my charged kirlia in to gardy, retreat bat, and search for luca to OHKO my last prize.
5-1
Round 7 Vs Dude with leather jacket (Gengar sf =/)
Alex was MAD about losing to this guy, but hes not that bad. He just had a really low rating and did really well with a deck his friends got online. I was paired up to him, and he was the last undefeated. I was most likely gonna lose if he set up well enough. I open Ralt, belt, rosy, turn,junk. He starts q, attaches and does 30. You know the rest
6-1.
I'm seeded third, and i can't beleive i actually pulled that record with what seemed like a sketchy play. Con, Dylan and I find we're all paired against shuppets. Con had to fight the toughest one, and I got the 2nd toughest i think.
Top 16 vs Stephen J. (Tissue)
Game 1: I open my only tomb this game so i was psyched, but he opened rosy and played through it quickly. He blowers a gardy but doesnt ohko. I charge the benched ralts, dol my candy/ gardy needs, and win a wager, and my gardy lives another turn. He eventually gets a partial shuppet back, but i wager again and lose but he comes 10 short of the win and i take it. Couldn't beleive I won.
Game 2 : We open jank, and neither of us does much unti i get double dols rolling and he nails the rosy. I play out the same plan as last time, but it comes down to him sending up an uxie he thought was q'd. He misses a scoop up with all his pluspowers down and scoops as he just dropped his chance at winning entirely. GG
7-1
I almost did a backflip after winning this. Couldn't beleive it. Con also won with Azul missing 5/5 game winning flips in game 3 on time. Dylan lost but actually took a game vs shuppet with dos.
Top 8 vs Vikas (Dos)
Game 1: I set up, he rushes a dos, but i have the quick gardy x thanks to my single tomb start again. As i ko him i wager, but i find out he runs suicune so i have to deal with another. At one point I Gust his regice and put tomb back up and resetup. At the end of this game, with his regice at 60, and my gardy about to die from poison going into my turn, he gets a dos down that i would have needed an NM to ko, but he leaves sabeleye up as i have 2 prizes and he'll only need one more. I triple bat his ice and KO the sabeleye with gardy, never having to ko the dos.
Game 2: I get moving very quickly again with the only tomb in my deck that i keep managing to start with:smile: and I use what i learned from game one to play the matchup right. I hold my nm and use gardy x to prevent his ohko and wager after each ko. He didnt nail any recovery cards except suicune so he didnt do much for a bit, but then his rosyrade gl comes back again and gets my gardy close to ko again. i plox, and poison leaves me at 10 after my turn. He leaves rosy up, and i double bat and ko then next sacrifice he puts up leaving me at one prize, and THEN he nails the dos. He sees my charged luxray on the bench, guesses i have a turn in hand, and saw me search out lucario gl earlier so i show him and he scoops. GG's dude.
8-1
Top 4 vs Alex (Gengar switch/techs)
I sign the slip and we chill till he plays Con in the finals. I get third and Con wins it all again.
8-2.
Had fun, and also had no idea I'd do so well with a plox deck, even if it had that spin on it.
Props:
SPlox
Con
Frezzas
Judging staff for doing well
Amazing event
Staying up late to play pokemans...
Aylam for winning
Starting my only spiritomb 3/4 top cut matches i played
Slops
No worlds/nats for me
Alex losing points to a 1600
Only one day of our 2-day Regionals....
TT not doing as well as we hoped
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