Just a little background information, I hadn't been to Nats since Origins '07. It was easily one of the most fun experiences of my life. After an extremely good rookie and sophomore season as a player, I took a 2 year long hiatus around the time SF came out. Gengar and Machamp basically ruined what was once a game based on skill, at least in my opinion.
I came back to the game this year for Regionals. I picked up the LuxChomp deck from a friend and went 4-4 after starting out 4-0. The format still seemed extremely "auto-pilot" and luck based. I had almost decided to just pick up playing again next season, until the mid-season rotation was announced. Immediately, Bobby and I made plans to go to Nationals.
Our plan was basically this: Wait until the LAST minute, scrounge up some money, make it to Indianapolis. The plan worked. Bobby's mom let us borrow her car since Bob and I's whips are... whipped.
Once we arrived, we hung out with Sabelhaus's, Dan, Kershner, Burnanating Torchic, and the rest of the AG/WinonTime crew. The night before Nats, BT and I decided to play Legends, which is essentially the best deck in the format. I had amazing hands and starts all night and was 100% confident in my deck choice. I could have chosen to play literally any deck, but Legends was my baby I had been working with since I started playing again, and it was probably my last chance to play it competitively.
Bob decides to play Chinkdra, and Kersh decides to play Combee.
Round 1 - Craig Abley - ZPS
I went first. Started with cleffa, eekd. Don't remember much except him telling me that Legend Box just never works as I hit a fully powered RDL, searched out an ERL, dropped a shaymin, and had both legends fully powered. I won this game 6-1.
1-0
Round 2 - Dude - Gengar
So the guy starts by telling me he just beat my friend Kershner the round before... I started zekrom, went 2nd, and drew passed all game. He ripped a pokemon t1 with mime jr and hit some verrrrry favorable flips, but what ya gonna do. He also got up a t3 Vileplume!!! In the end, I took 5 prizes with a lone zekrom, and he topdecked twins for Lost World the last turn of the game.
1-1
Round 3 - Rob Downs - Donphan/Serperior
I've heard of Rob and know he's top 4'd Nats and is a well respected player. My kind of game. I believe he went first. I remember him getting up 2 serperiors somewhat quickly, but I got out a Ho-Oh legend just as fast. With Indigo Plateau in play giving Ho Oh 170 hp, plus the fighting resistance, there's really nothing donphan can do to it. Didn't help that his only backup with fire weak. VERY enjoyable game from a very solid opponent. Looking forward to more in the future, Rob!
2-1
Round 4 - Dude - Donchamp
I started Shaymin, junk arm, junk arm, junk arm, fire energy, fire energy, flower shop girl, then topdecked a zekrom. i drew passed for 4 turns til i topdecked cleffa. he had a full field of donphan and machoke/champ. i sent out cleffa, seekered my shaymin, and eeked. i drew full ho oh legend, DCE, DCE, legend box, PONT. aka OMFG I JUST WON. EXCEPT, he seekered and ko'd cleffa with machoke.
2-2
Round 5 - Cheater - Cheating Deck
Basically the guy was playing Mew/Muk/Plume/Jank. At the beginning of the game, he pokegear'd and didn't show me what he got. Shuffled his hand, then goes "OH I GOT COPYCAT." Ok, i thought, it's cool, maybe he messed up. I also don't like calling judges unless it's 100% necessary. I am frantically playing my legend boxes knowing Plume is about to hit play. I hit a Ho-oh, but with only 1 energy. I am failing to get anything going, and he gets up a vileplume t3 or 4. I basically had to let my ho-oh die because I couldn't draw any energy to retreat!! Eventually, I play a Shaymin and take a prize, putting the game at 4-2 in his favor. Time is called. It's my turn 1. His field is 2 mew, plume, 2 HURT yanmegas, I had been preparing a move during his previous turn. I would Seeker my Shaymin, move my energy to my ERL, allowing it to be able to attack twice, while still leaving a DCE on both of my benched Zekrom's to be able to retreat if he Sludge Dragged, effectively giving me an out and probably the win, since he would be 3 shotting my ERL which has free retreat, and anything I have in play and ohko anything he has in play. Unfortunately, I forgot to discard my supporter from the turn before, and the kid IMMEDIATELY says I already played it, and that if he called a judge, it would be his word vs mine. I looked around, saw 3-4 of his friends watching our game READY to agree with this kids lie, and decided it wasn't even worth it. There was no way I could prove I hadn't played the PONT, since my hand had 6 cards in it as if i had just played it, and I DID leave it next to my active accidentally. Either way, the kid is a huge cheater and knows what he did. His name was Cory something, so if you're reading this, just know that you're a huge scumbag.
After this I just dropped and hung out with friends, which is the whole reason to go to Nats anyways.
Props:
Bertolli's Pizza
Beatin' It
the AboveGround/WinOnTime team
Legends
BT
j-wittz bustin a Rap for me
justin sanchez, a florida player, florida is the best, etc
Captain Morgan and Admiral Nelson. Thanks guys.
budew
shiftry
blaziken
fire energy
torchic
nuzleaf
EVERYONE I GOT TO SEE THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN IN FOREVER. LOVE ALL YOUZ GUYZ.
Slops:
Cory the Cheater from round 5.
my deck crapping out on me and BT
Indianapolis aka Methville
EDIT: FORGOT DECKLIST
Redshark 4.00 Deck List
Date: Mon Jul 18 18:02:10 2011
Name: LEGENDBOX
Comments:
TOTAL CARDS: 60
POKEMON: 20
Legend: 12
2 : Ho-Oh LEGEND (2/2), GS-112
2 : Entei & Raikou LEGEND (1/2), UL-90
2 : Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND (2/2), UD-90
2 : Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND (1/2), UD-89
2 : Entei & Raikou LEGEND (2/2), UL-91
2 : Ho-Oh LEGEND (1/2), GS-111
Basic: 8
1 : Tyrogue, CL-36
4 : Cleffa, Promo-112
2 : Zekrom, BW-114
1 : Shaymin, UL-8
TRAINERS: 24
Trainers: 13
4 : Pokemon Communication, BW-99
2 : Switch, BW-104
3 : Junk Arm, TM-87
4 : Legend Box, UD-75
Supporters: 9
4 : Professor Oak's New Theory, CL-83
1 : Seeker, TM-88
4 : Copycat, CL-77
Stadiums: 2
2 : Indigo Plateau, TM-86
ENERGY: 16
Special Energy: 6
3 : Rainbow Energy, GS-104
3 : Double Colorless Energy, GS-103
Basic Energy: 10
4 : Lightning Energy, DP-126
6 : Fire Energy, BW-106
Only thing I would've changed is -1 cleffa -1 zekrom + 2 manaphy... also there was a Flower Shop Girl but I can't remember what I dropped for it..
I came back to the game this year for Regionals. I picked up the LuxChomp deck from a friend and went 4-4 after starting out 4-0. The format still seemed extremely "auto-pilot" and luck based. I had almost decided to just pick up playing again next season, until the mid-season rotation was announced. Immediately, Bobby and I made plans to go to Nationals.
Our plan was basically this: Wait until the LAST minute, scrounge up some money, make it to Indianapolis. The plan worked. Bobby's mom let us borrow her car since Bob and I's whips are... whipped.
Once we arrived, we hung out with Sabelhaus's, Dan, Kershner, Burnanating Torchic, and the rest of the AG/WinonTime crew. The night before Nats, BT and I decided to play Legends, which is essentially the best deck in the format. I had amazing hands and starts all night and was 100% confident in my deck choice. I could have chosen to play literally any deck, but Legends was my baby I had been working with since I started playing again, and it was probably my last chance to play it competitively.
Bob decides to play Chinkdra, and Kersh decides to play Combee.
Round 1 - Craig Abley - ZPS
I went first. Started with cleffa, eekd. Don't remember much except him telling me that Legend Box just never works as I hit a fully powered RDL, searched out an ERL, dropped a shaymin, and had both legends fully powered. I won this game 6-1.
1-0
Round 2 - Dude - Gengar
So the guy starts by telling me he just beat my friend Kershner the round before... I started zekrom, went 2nd, and drew passed all game. He ripped a pokemon t1 with mime jr and hit some verrrrry favorable flips, but what ya gonna do. He also got up a t3 Vileplume!!! In the end, I took 5 prizes with a lone zekrom, and he topdecked twins for Lost World the last turn of the game.
1-1
Round 3 - Rob Downs - Donphan/Serperior
I've heard of Rob and know he's top 4'd Nats and is a well respected player. My kind of game. I believe he went first. I remember him getting up 2 serperiors somewhat quickly, but I got out a Ho-Oh legend just as fast. With Indigo Plateau in play giving Ho Oh 170 hp, plus the fighting resistance, there's really nothing donphan can do to it. Didn't help that his only backup with fire weak. VERY enjoyable game from a very solid opponent. Looking forward to more in the future, Rob!
2-1
Round 4 - Dude - Donchamp
I started Shaymin, junk arm, junk arm, junk arm, fire energy, fire energy, flower shop girl, then topdecked a zekrom. i drew passed for 4 turns til i topdecked cleffa. he had a full field of donphan and machoke/champ. i sent out cleffa, seekered my shaymin, and eeked. i drew full ho oh legend, DCE, DCE, legend box, PONT. aka OMFG I JUST WON. EXCEPT, he seekered and ko'd cleffa with machoke.
2-2
Round 5 - Cheater - Cheating Deck
Basically the guy was playing Mew/Muk/Plume/Jank. At the beginning of the game, he pokegear'd and didn't show me what he got. Shuffled his hand, then goes "OH I GOT COPYCAT." Ok, i thought, it's cool, maybe he messed up. I also don't like calling judges unless it's 100% necessary. I am frantically playing my legend boxes knowing Plume is about to hit play. I hit a Ho-oh, but with only 1 energy. I am failing to get anything going, and he gets up a vileplume t3 or 4. I basically had to let my ho-oh die because I couldn't draw any energy to retreat!! Eventually, I play a Shaymin and take a prize, putting the game at 4-2 in his favor. Time is called. It's my turn 1. His field is 2 mew, plume, 2 HURT yanmegas, I had been preparing a move during his previous turn. I would Seeker my Shaymin, move my energy to my ERL, allowing it to be able to attack twice, while still leaving a DCE on both of my benched Zekrom's to be able to retreat if he Sludge Dragged, effectively giving me an out and probably the win, since he would be 3 shotting my ERL which has free retreat, and anything I have in play and ohko anything he has in play. Unfortunately, I forgot to discard my supporter from the turn before, and the kid IMMEDIATELY says I already played it, and that if he called a judge, it would be his word vs mine. I looked around, saw 3-4 of his friends watching our game READY to agree with this kids lie, and decided it wasn't even worth it. There was no way I could prove I hadn't played the PONT, since my hand had 6 cards in it as if i had just played it, and I DID leave it next to my active accidentally. Either way, the kid is a huge cheater and knows what he did. His name was Cory something, so if you're reading this, just know that you're a huge scumbag.
After this I just dropped and hung out with friends, which is the whole reason to go to Nats anyways.
Props:
Bertolli's Pizza
Beatin' It
the AboveGround/WinOnTime team
Legends
BT
j-wittz bustin a Rap for me
justin sanchez, a florida player, florida is the best, etc
Captain Morgan and Admiral Nelson. Thanks guys.
budew
shiftry
blaziken
fire energy
torchic
nuzleaf
EVERYONE I GOT TO SEE THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN IN FOREVER. LOVE ALL YOUZ GUYZ.
Slops:
Cory the Cheater from round 5.
my deck crapping out on me and BT
Indianapolis aka Methville
EDIT: FORGOT DECKLIST
Redshark 4.00 Deck List
Date: Mon Jul 18 18:02:10 2011
Name: LEGENDBOX
Comments:
TOTAL CARDS: 60
POKEMON: 20
Legend: 12
2 : Ho-Oh LEGEND (2/2), GS-112
2 : Entei & Raikou LEGEND (1/2), UL-90
2 : Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND (2/2), UD-90
2 : Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND (1/2), UD-89
2 : Entei & Raikou LEGEND (2/2), UL-91
2 : Ho-Oh LEGEND (1/2), GS-111
Basic: 8
1 : Tyrogue, CL-36
4 : Cleffa, Promo-112
2 : Zekrom, BW-114
1 : Shaymin, UL-8
TRAINERS: 24
Trainers: 13
4 : Pokemon Communication, BW-99
2 : Switch, BW-104
3 : Junk Arm, TM-87
4 : Legend Box, UD-75
Supporters: 9
4 : Professor Oak's New Theory, CL-83
1 : Seeker, TM-88
4 : Copycat, CL-77
Stadiums: 2
2 : Indigo Plateau, TM-86
ENERGY: 16
Special Energy: 6
3 : Rainbow Energy, GS-104
3 : Double Colorless Energy, GS-103
Basic Energy: 10
4 : Lightning Energy, DP-126
6 : Fire Energy, BW-106
Only thing I would've changed is -1 cleffa -1 zekrom + 2 manaphy... also there was a Flower Shop Girl but I can't remember what I dropped for it..
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