Minnesota Plasma Freeze Prereleases

[bullados]

Minnesota Plasma Freeze Prerelease​

Team Plasma’s frosty assault on Unova continues in the Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Freeze expansion!

The struggle will be bitter as Team Plasma releases a blizzard of Team Plasma Pokémon, including Deoxys-EX, Thundurus-EX, and all of Eevee’s evolutions, backed by Team Plasma Energy, Item, and Supporter cards. But, with the Legendary Eon Pokémon Latios and Latias standing by your side and a host of Pokémon-EX ready to do battle, your opponents will find that now is the winter of their discontent! Don’t miss all-new ACE SPEC cards in the latest expansion, as well—cards so effective that you can carry only one of them in your whole deck!

Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Freeze is the newest expansion to the Pokémon Trading Card Game and will be available in stores May 8th, bringing more than 110 new cards to collect and play.

Key Features of Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Freeze:

• More than 110 cards in all
• Team Plasma cards with unique blue borders and Plasma shields adorning each card
• Six powerful new Pokémon-EX cards including Deoxys-EX, Thundurus-EX,Latios-EX, and Latias-EX
• Two new ACE SPEC cards to choose from!
• Each new Pokémon TCG: Black & White—Plasma Freeze theme deck and booster pack includes an in-pack code card that unlocks virtual cards from Black & White—Plasma Freeze for play in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.

Outpost 2000
Sunday, April 28th
538Northdale Blvd. NW
Coon Rapids, MN 55448
(763) 585-1049

Prerelease: 2:00pm Registration, 2:30pm Start
Theme Deck Challenge: Noon Registration, 12:30 Start

Legion Gaming
Saturday, May 5th
3128 West Highway 13
Burnsville, Minnesota
(952) 895-1989

Prerelease: Noon Registration, 12:30 Start
Theme Deck Challenge: 10:00am Registration, 10:30am Start

Dreamer's Cards
Sunday, May 5th
3015 Utah Ave South
Saint Louis Park, MN 55426
(952) 938-8163

Prerelease: 2:00pm Registration, 2:30pm Start
Theme Deck Challenge: Noon Registration, 12:30 Start


- Plasma Freeze Prerelease -
Main Event​

Cost: $30 for 6 boosters to build the deck you'll play in the tournament, plus a special Promo Card and a cool Promo item for everyone, while supplies last! And I CAN tell you that you'll love them! Plus 2 more packs at the end of the tournement!
So you get more than $35 worth of products for only a $30 entrance fee!
And before they even go on sale to the public! Such a deal!!

Main event - Each player will receive 6 booster packs of the new set (to keep) and may start opening their packs when we tell everyone to go. Players will each build their own 40 card deck to play (using only those cards from the 6 packs, no trading cards with others until after the Tourney) and will also decide how many energies they will want to include in their decks (basic energies are provided at the event). Everyone will then have 30 minutes to build their decks, using only the cards from the packs they received. That totally levels the playing field... because from the best player around to the newest youngster there, everyone has an equal chance at this tourney because you never know what cards you'll get in your packs! That's what makes it so fun!

And don't worry, it's not really that hard to build your own deck... generally there aren't a whole lot of trainers in a set, so you'll usually want to include as many of them that will be helpful as you can. You want to make sure you have as many basic Pokemon as you can, and include any evolutions that you might have been lucky enough to get as well. Try to keep your deck to 2 or 3 types, like Fire and Electric or whichever, because that will be helpful to you in drawing the particular energies you need for your Pokemon's attacks. Of course Colorless type Pokemon can fit nicely into any type of deck since they can use any type of energy you happen to have. Since your deck needs to be 40 cards in total, a relatively simple rule of thumb would be 20 energies and 20 in any combination of basics, their evolutions (if you got any), and trainers. Then, just decide how many of which type of energies you'll need to get by looking over the energy requirements for your Pokemon's attacks. And that's pretty much all there is to it!

But why am I telling you all of this, when you can just watch the vids and see what you could potentially get at a Prerelease ^_^.​

- Theme Deck Challenge -​

Cost: $30 for a Theme Deck (complete with themed coin, damage counters and instructional playmat) to keep and use to compete against others in the Theme Deck Challenge, plus a special Promo Card and the cool promo item for everyone, while supplies last!​

This special tourney will be run at the same time but separate from the main event and follows a much more casual format. Great for younger players, parents, or those who may not be as familiar with deck building on their own, but would still like to participate. If you don't know how to play, we can teach you! Each player will choose one of 2 different Plasma Freeze Theme Decks to use to battle others who also choose the Theme Deck Challenge, and the nice thing about playing the Theme Deck Challenge is that each Theme Deck also comes with an instructional playmat, a special coin, and your own damage counters, all very useful tools for the newer players.

And all participants in this Theme Deck Challenge will ALSO receive 4 more Plasma Freeze prize packs for participating in the tourney, in addition to the decks they played.
(making a total of: the Deck, 4 booster packs, plus the cool promo item and Promo card).
So you get more than $35 worth of products for the $30 entrance fee!

But, again, why tell you all about the Theme Deck Challenge, when I can just show you what you can get? Pretty cool, right?​

For all your Minneapolis Premier Tournament information, be sure to check out the Midwest Pokemon website.

I will be recording various games and openings throughout the weekend. I'm hoping to get an entire Theme Deck opening on tape, if not both of them, as well as at least 4 openings from the weekend. We'll see what I'm able to get ^_^.

Information thankfully stolen from Pokemama's website.

 

[bullados]

The insanity starts in just under 4 hours. Luckily, we won't have to freeze before getting our Freeze on! Who's coming?

 

[cadethian]

I'll be heading out to Legion today.