First off, I live in Central Cali, Fresno CA to be precise, which is 4 hours away from most tournaments either far up in NorCal, or way down in SoCal, so you can imagine how life sucks trying to play the Pokémon Trading Card Game driving to a tourney in a GT with terrible gas mileage making these trips worth fitting in Disneyland and a trip to Mexico all at once. This one fortunately was only 2 hours away, which isn’t quite as miserable.
So I wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning to do my hair like a woman with a pounding headache from staying up all night playing with myself (you know, when you really pathetically imagine someone’s in front of you playing, and you talk to yourself and pretend they put a Pokémon in front of you and you never get Power Spray’d and all your dice rolls are heads?) asking myself what was the better play: “Lady Gaga” (LuxChomp), DialgaChomp or BLG and decide to roll with DialgaChomp. I pick up my girlfriend, we hit up McDonald’s, fill my tank up with $40 worth of gas to last me a couple mins of driving or so, and take off.
We get there and we meet all our PokeFamily, most notably my boy in Seniors that takes 1st at literally every single CC’s in Cali, and some other consistent players with plenty of new faces. There were 20-some people in Masters and there were to be 4 rounds with a Top-2! As for my deck list, it was really just the standard list minus Expert Belt because of my stigmatization of Blaziken FB…no names were remembered either I’m afraid. >_< Round 1 VS Cherrim / ???
I’m afraid I don’t remember what happened next because it was a T2 donk. I go 1st and start with Crobat G active and he flips over a Cherrim. My hand is really situational; I remember a PokéTurn, Uxie, and Roseanne’s Research. He has no other means of getting another Pokémon out and passes. I draw another PokéTurn (bad shuffling?!) and activate Roseanne’s, search out my 2nd Crobat G and Bronzong G. Drop my 2nd Crobat with 2 PokéTurn’s, use Bronzong G to switch the energy from the first Crobat to my Uxie, attacked with Psychic Restore and that was game. Took me a minute to think that one out. Sorry for the donk. =/
1-0
Round 2 VS SP Toolbox
This guy’s really sweet, he starts with a Beedrill G, and I ask what it’s for and he said to KO Claydol, and at this point, I ask myself what I’m going to be in for. It turns out, this guy has a plethora of basically every kind of SP there is in his deck. I flip over Dialga G and start Deafening the first couple of turns and patiently wait and ask myself what this guy’s up to. I see Roserade GL, Empoleon FB, Weaville G, Luxray GL, etc on his bench and he starts attaching Special D Energies to his Weaville G.
We exchange prizes back and forth, and there was a certain point we were both stalemated and he used Empoleon FB to continuously move my energy drop from my Garchomp C LV.X to my Uxie and my Uxie LV.X is prized, so I end up all out of energy and having to Psychic Restore Uxie back into the deck and time gets called when I have 1 Prize left and I believe he had 3. Good game!!!
2-0
It’s lunchtime and the Sausage Egg McMuffin’s turning in my stomach, so I just suck down a Diet Coke and end up having to go poopoo right before the 3rd Round and almost get a loss. =/
Round 3 VS Gengar
We both have a pretty crappy start, but I end up improvising and Deafen him to death. He got things progressively set up but unfortunately didn’t draw one energy. After the game he shows me his 3 Poké Drawers he had sitting in his hand and I tell him Dialga G’s a real jerk. =p
3-0
Round 4 VS LuxApe
We both start off REALLYYY BADDD!!! I start off with Skuntank G, and he with Uxie. He lets out a very subtle *sigh* and shuffles around the cards in his hand and dropped them in front of him and looked away. I comment on how bad my hand is as well, and it didn’t seem to be much consolation to him. I draw a Conductive Quarry and activate Poison Structure and ask myself if it’s really worth investing energy into Skuntank and if I can get the Smokescreen donk f…t…w on my next turn. He draws into nothing, attaches, attacks, and passes. I do Smokescreen again and win. He showed me his hand full of Power Sprays, Night Maintenance, and some other non-playable stuff.
4-0
Top 2 VS LuxApe
The same guy again, except this time God didn’t call in sick for him and gave him an awful “God Hand”. In other words, Deafen didn’t help at all, and Garchomp C LV.X was a bit slower than his Luxray GL LV.X putting out more damage per turn. I had no chance. X_X The second game we exchanged prizes back and forth, but again, I have to wait an extra turn to attach enough energy to Garchomp C LV.X to do some decent damage since Dialga G is out of the picture, he ends up taking board control right toward the end, and he wins.
Slops:
-Poor gas mileage
-Hating Infernape4 more than Blaziken FB
-Pulling the Arceus LV.X that just hit Wal*Mart’s department store floor with every kid in the neighborhood just ripping it out of the tin in the bathroom
-Awkward starts
Props:
2nd Place!!!
Great job,Nice deck.
Really cool report. I know what it feels like living far from tournaments nearest to me is about 2 hours away. Oh well thats life. Good job coming second.
same!
well except you get a lift from me LOLZ
thats true btw how is your deck looking? care to post it?
ha i played you in carpinteria CC before it started
Hahaha, right on bro, you probably would’ve had that match too if they hadn’t requested decklists during our game… =p
You know how I started with Promocroak in our game?!
Well something happened and I started with him in all 5 of my games, and he WOULDN’T LEAP AWAY, AAAGGGHHH!!!
man i lol’d a the whole “poopoo” part. Great job and congratulations on the 2nd place success!
Hahaha, thanks, I have always the most unfortunate things happen when I go to an event like starvation, or stomache cramps, i’ll start my period, idk… =p
gratz on second place
Great job,Nice deck.
Really cool report. I know what it feels like living far from tournaments nearest to me is about 2 hours away. Oh well thats life. Good job coming second.
same!
well except you get a lift from me LOLZ
thats true btw how is your deck looking? care to post it?
ha i played you in carpinteria CC before it started
Hahaha, right on bro, you probably would’ve had that match too if they hadn’t requested decklists during our game… =p
You know how I started with Promocroak in our game?!
Well something happened and I started with him in all 5 of my games, and he WOULDN’T LEAP AWAY, AAAGGGHHH!!!
man i lol’d a the whole “poopoo” part. Great job and congratulations on the 2nd place success!
Hahaha, thanks, I have always the most unfortunate things happen when I go to an event like starvation, or stomache cramps, i’ll start my period, idk… =p
gratz on second place
I know what your going through man. Im at a bad place for pokemon too. So whenever there is a tournament in the state I have to drive hours and hours to get to it. And that also means I have to do a lot of testing by myself (Like you did). I know the struggles.
Just wondering, why do you dislike Infernape 4 more than blaziekn fb?
@ jimbo and pikkdogs:
We need to ask Regirock to move the land closer, ask Regice to part the seas between, and Registeel to correct the magnetic pulls so Celebi may open a dimension and we can insta-travel to nearby events. =p
I personally hate Infernape 4 more than Blaziken FB because if Infernape goes first and gets the first energy drop, and I do T2 Deafen, awl they need is a Roseannes or Cyrus chain to get enough energy on the 3rd turn to High Jump Kick me for 50×2=100 HP OHKO, and it goes simply downhill from there because they’re set up enough to continually KO any Dialgas; whereas Blaziken FB LvX may require only 2 energy drops to OHKO me with Jet Shoot, I still have a chance of exchanging prizes because of the +40 that happens back to him.
I know what your going through man. Im at a bad place for pokemon too. So whenever there is a tournament in the state I have to drive hours and hours to get to it. And that also means I have to do a lot of testing by myself (Like you did). I know the struggles.
Just wondering, why do you dislike Infernape 4 more than blaziekn fb?
@ jimbo and pikkdogs:
We need to ask Regirock to move the land closer, ask Regice to part the seas between, and Registeel to correct the magnetic pulls so Celebi may open a dimension and we can insta-travel to nearby events. =p
I personally hate Infernape 4 more than Blaziken FB because if Infernape goes first and gets the first energy drop, and I do T2 Deafen, awl they need is a Roseannes or Cyrus chain to get enough energy on the 3rd turn to High Jump Kick me for 50×2=100 HP OHKO, and it goes simply downhill from there because they’re set up enough to continually KO any Dialgas; whereas Blaziken FB LvX may require only 2 energy drops to OHKO me with Jet Shoot, I still have a chance of exchanging prizes because of the +40 that happens back to him.
I was just curious to know what is “BLG?” Perhaps, “Blaziken FB, Luxray GL, and Garchomp C???????”
Yup, yuuup!!!
I’m sorry, I should’ve at least explained the abbreviation.
“BLG” was one that I didn’t readily identify when I first saw it either, and now I just became the person I hate and didn’t explain it. =)
I like the deck, but I don’t think Garchomp C LvX’s Healing Breath has as much synergy as it does with Dialga G.
Flash Impact recoil damage always ends up on a dead Azelf, and i’d be surprised if Blaziken FB LvX survived after Jet Shoot’ing, so Garchomp C never had much place in the deck to me. =/
I was just curious to know what is “BLG?” Perhaps, “Blaziken FB, Luxray GL, and Garchomp C???????”
Yup, yuuup!!!
I’m sorry, I should’ve at least explained the abbreviation.
“BLG” was one that I didn’t readily identify when I first saw it either, and now I just became the person I hate and didn’t explain it. =)
I like the deck, but I don’t think Garchomp C LvX’s Healing Breath has as much synergy as it does with Dialga G.
Flash Impact recoil damage always ends up on a dead Azelf, and i’d be surprised if Blaziken FB LvX survived after Jet Shoot’ing, so Garchomp C never had much place in the deck to me. =/
awesome and congrats on 2nd!!
Nice job! Dialga/Chomp is soo good!
awesome and congrats on 2nd!!
Nice job! Dialga/Chomp is soo good!
lol Who are you and where have you been? Not interested in joining the Fresno League?
lol Who are you and where have you been? Not interested in joining the Fresno League?
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