Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

My 7-0/9-0 Nanuet, NY City Championship Undefeated Victory with Gengar!! :D

TheDarkTwins

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So after yesterdays incident of losing because of 3 factors and because top cut was messed up, I take out my 1-0-1 Noir for a TSD and another Bebe's Search. I feel good after how well my deck did the day before and I expect a good day.

Incase you didn't read my title, I played Gengar. :tongue:

R1 - Lori D. (Dusknoir)

I go first and prevent her from using trainers. She only had one pokemon in play (I don't remember what it was), however next turn I candy and Poltergist FTW.

Win (1-0)

R2 - Luke D. (Mirror)

I get a much better start to his okay start. He falls too far behind and just can't keep up with me as I was now full set up. I think that T3 Claydol did him in when he wasn't able to locate his all game pretty much.

Win (2-0)

R3 - Brian C. (Dusknoir)

I get a really good start as I usually do, however I get him down to 2 prizes and he ends up getting a few as I was forced to ko his Noir Lv. X which I don't like doing to get down to one prize. However I play a Warp Point and he sends up a pokemon that I think he didn't think I could knock out, however I hit him with Uxie for 20 and win the game by taking my final prize. If he doesn't make that mistake it would of been EXTREMELY close.

Win (3-0)

R4 - Mike (Dusknoir/Bronzong)

I know I have a tough matchup, but he makes a few key mistakes and proceeds to lose 6-1/2. Him having a Unown G prized didn't help as he had to put down Azelf which led to a free prize via Gengar.

Win (4-0)

R5 - Darrell M. (Dusknoir)

I start with Baltoy vs his Unown G. He goes first. I have a RC, a Gengar, and an Energy in my hand. I was also lucky enough to have 2 Poke Radar in my hand. I then use the first of the two and whiff completely. I play the second one and rip a Gastly and my ONE Unown Q. I proceed to T1 him.

Win (5-0)

I am the first seed and we have a Top 4.

T4 - Eric (Kingdra)

G1 - In this game he starts with Unown G. I believe he goes first and plays down a horsea he topdecked. He retreats and then attaches G to Horsea. I attach and I have to retreat so that I can stop him from using trainers. He then evoles to Seadra but has no energy. I attach to Gastly and proceed to use Pitch-Dark for the third straight turn. He draws fails on the Speed Staduim he played on turn 2 and passes. I RC into Gengar and Poltergist for 150 on my 3rd turn and the win.

G2 - He chooses to go 2nd. I go first and attach to the Gastly that I started with to his Horsea. I use Pitch Dark. He draw, attaches to Horsea and smokescreens. I then RC into Gengar and Poltergist for 150 on my 2nd turn FTW.

So, I win in T4 in a total of 5 turns.

Win (6-0/7-0)

T2 - Darrell M. (Dusknoir)

G1 - I get a great start to his awful start. I am able to build a huge advantage by just sniping his bench. He is able to get around my Gengar by hitting me with a Uxie and returning it to the deck. He scoops when I only have 2 prizes to his like 5 and he sees I have the game in less than 2 turns. The one issue I had was with 3 prizes to go I still had both my Haunters prized which made it difficuly as I wasn't drawing into my rare candies.

G2 - He chooses to go second. I go first and start for the first time with Unown G. I have an Unown Q on the bench. He goes and proceeds to get 2 Dusknoir and still have a good size hand on T1. I go and I am able to somehow get a Gengar up and get a Claydol started. I attach Unown G to Gengar and start sniping his bench. I start getting an advantage in prizes. He starts to Night Spin my Gengar. I am able to take a 2 prize lead when I flip a heads on fainting spell. After I take another prize and I hit my second heads in a row for Fainting Spell, he conceeds as time expires as I have the game in one or two turns as I have a 5-3 prize advantage.

Win (7-0/9-0)

So, I win going undefeated. I went 13-1 this weekend with Gengar losing my one game only because I had an awful lucky on some flips and some draw. I fix this and my list becomes much better.

Props -

Lori D. for driving me to the event.
James for helping me test and helping me with testing
Dustin for helping me test the deck during the week.
Going 13-1 this weekend and most likely gaining about 81 points during the weekend. :biggrin:

Slops -

The JETS losing to the 49ers and collapsing in their last two games. As some would say "You're Better Than That!!"

Thanks for reading,
Drew
 
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Congrats on the win Drew. I'll give you a better game next time. I sent you a PM about the Matt's mat. Let me know if you have it. Thanks.
 
GJ on the win Drew you deserve it (and btw it's eric not alex :tongue:)

Thanks, I fixed it, I was sooooo tired, I couldn't remember and for some reason I thought it was that. I did like your report about our games, it was sort of funny. I am sorry that it went like that, I wish we could of had better games.

Congrats on the win Drew. I'll give you a better game next time. I sent you a PM about the Matt's mat. Let me know if you have it. Thanks.

Thanks!! However, I don't mind a better game if it ended with a similar result. :tongue:

I do have the playmat, however, I won't be at league for some time as I go to the City Championships. I sent you a PM back letting you know.

Drew
 
slops.
Me not going either weekend lol..

props..
having a life out side of pokemon =]]

Gj drew =] hopfuly i see you at the Neutral grounds one or kings games one
 
^Sounds like an amazing prop to me Chris. :) Anyways, GJ Drew, though it sounds like you had amazing hands every game. X_X
 
^Sounds like an amazing prop to me Chris. :) Anyways, GJ Drew, though it sounds like you had amazing hands every game. X_X

Thanks, I didn't really, I had some awful starts, but I was able to recover from most of them as I have lots of options to help me setup.

slops.
Me not going either weekend lol..

props..
having a life out side of pokemon =]]

Gj drew =] hopfuly i see you at the Neutral grounds one or kings games one

:lol:, Chris, I should be at both. Thanks for the congrats. :biggrin:

Props on ur win. I can't believe u hit four dusknoirs in swiss and one in top 4. Gengar >>> Dusknoir!

Thanks, I was a bit shocked that I did hit that many. However, I made my Gengar have an advantage to Dusknoir. However, it is NOT an easy matchup, I just know what to do. It is really funny because my area is pretty much all Kingdra and Dusknoir and then there is me playing Gengar, lol.

Drew
 
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