Got home late on SUnday, working on monday, real tired. 3 hrs to go until I go to work (afternoon shift today), so I thought I'd write this up.

Still going with banette, with a few changes. Added a new "power" combo using ralts-d and holon ruins. Power my ass...

Round 1 - Vs Crawdaunt Ex/seaking support

I played against him last week during league, and only won once due to a REALLY bad draw. So I had expected this to be a tough match, since we both use a T2KO deck idea.

Match 1: Started even, but considering that I can only do a max of 100 using only one banette, I couldn't sweep him that fast. Actually, the worst enemy was removal 2, which made my energy droughts even worse, since I can't exactly Energy Jump with gardy if there's no energy in the 1st place. So much for killer combo. A couple of boost energies later and he was done.

Match 2: Lucky break. We tied even, after he made the mistake of using 2 removals early on, I lured him to get rid of his last 2. Next was his warp points, but he started to play smart then. Tried building up as many banettes as I could for OHKOs (switch banette and I can do 110 with 2 shady moves). He couldn't find his crawdaunt OR seaking, and ended up betting his luck on goldeen's supersonic. Tails you fail.

Sudden Death: No time, no choice. None of my decks have ever done well in SDs before, and I was already ready to give in the towel. And then BAM shuppet in my hand and 2 supporters, all I ever needed. He went first, goldeen, supersonic, tails. My turn, ascension, TVR, his turn. Got seaking, but no crawdaunt, did 10. Dropped another supporter with mentor, total 3 in discard, shady move plus 10, total 70.

Good game.

Round 2 - Vs Raieggs

It's silly how a deck designed to only have an advantage on only one type of deck can do so well. Why? Because it attacks powers. Guess what mine's based on.

Match 1: Not short, not long. Cessation crystal and raichu combo killed enough to take prizes faster than me. His dice backstabbing him on removal2 didn't give me much of an advantage.

Match 2: Exeggutor had more action here to kill off mawille and spread damage, but CC/raichu combo stopped my banettes again. 'Nuff said.

Round 0 - Vs Dbl cheeseburger, fries and coke

No big deal. Finished it off fast but not-so-furious.

Round 3 - Vs random deck

This guy wasn't much. Like most of the younger players that day (even though he's much older), he joined for fun. The real pkmn tcg lover here. Too bad his skills never matched his passion.

Round 4 - Vs Swampert

Small kid. Tried hard not to trash him too badly. Failed miserably.

Ignoring age groups, I was a miserable 8th, even though 6 other ppl got the same number of wins as me. Only 2 got straight wins. Fortunately, one of them wasn't in my category, so I settled for 3rd in mine (must be the age problem again, sux to be older). Got 5 packs of DF, did so-so.

Mental note: Remove delta/ruins combo. By the time they arrive, I already have enough supporters in the discard pile.

My friend suggested playing Bandoom to counter all those removals/warps. Suggestions? It's good, I know, but hey, you know me. I just hate playing conventional decks.