Hey! HunterJ here.
I attended my Local Heart Gold/ Soul Silver prerelease on Friday 13th February.
I came out of it with great pulls and had a great time (and an empty wallet).
Upon paying I received 8 packs and some sleeves and the prerelease Pichu. I then sat near I friend of mine and tore open my packs. I pulled Typhlosion Prime and Meganium Prime in my first 2 packs! I was so happy! I then opened the last 6. I pulled Holo Hitmontop, Holo Noctowl, Reverse Hypno and some basic rares and some uncommons and commons.
I quickly set up my deck and it turned out like this as I didn’t get the cards I needed to be able to use Primes:
| Pokémon X19 1x Hitmontop 1x Noctowl 1x Hoothoot 1x Azumarill 1x Marill 1x Hypno 1x Drowzee 1x Sunflora 1x Sunkern 1x Ledian 1x Ledyba 1x Croconaw 1x Totodile 1x Pichu (Prerelease Edition) 1x Jynx 1x Mantine 1x Clefairy 1x Cleffa 1x Delibird |
Trainers X9 2x Bill 1x Copycat 1x Energy Switch 1x Full Heal 2x Pokémon Collectors 1x Pokémon Reversal 1x Switch |
Energy X12 6x Grass 2x Water 2x Psychic 2x Fighting |
When you take a look at this deck your first thought would be…hmm…looks okay, but I don’t think it will do too well. So let’s see how I did with it.
Match 1
My opponent hadn’t turned up yet so I played someone in Juniors who didn’t have an opponent. I taught them how to play…I was nice and tried to lose but won anyway. LOL
1-0
Match 2
This was a really fun match as it was so tight. I had gotten out Hypno, Azumarill, and Noctowl with Pichu asleep in the active position. I was using Noctowl to boost my hand and I switched it out with Pichu when it woke up as we each had 1 prize left. I damaged him, but he evolved out Blissey Prime! I thought “I’M SCREWED!”. It did 60 to my Noctowl and I decided to retreat for my Jynx. I then used Energy Switch and put a Psychic Energy on it and used Lick, getting heads for paralyze. My turn came again and I did it risking everything on one dice roll with Lick…I got HEADS! I won the match on my next turn using one more Lick for the KO.
2-0
Match 3
This was between me and a guy named Richard who was also competing for the 1st place spot with 2 wins and 0 losses. It instantly became a tight match when I had Hitmontop owning the field and ended up with 2 prizes to his 4. He then played the dreaded Slowbro. It decimated 3 of my Pokémon, however I got it down to 10 HP. I played out Noctowl and knocked out his prize Slowbro. He drew a Prime, but I never found out what it was as he never used it. I then used Copycat which boosted Noctowl’s “Extrasensory” to 80 damage.
I had an unbeaten streak. 3-0
When I looked at Richard’s deck I was amazed he had Blissey Prime and Feraligator Prime in it. I thought to myself PHEW glad he didn’t get to play them.
Match 4
This match was against my friend Alex.
We started off and he drew no basics so I drew another and played down another basic Pokémon. He finally got his hand and we began. Three turns later I won as I knocked out both his Pokémon using just Hitmontop and one fighting energy and getting 3 heads both times.
I had won the Masters and gotten an unbeaten streak. I received free 2 packs for participating until the end and I got a free folder for winning.
I then searched around and did some trading.
By the end of the night I had another Lugia bottom half, Ho-oh Top-Half, and all Primes except Donphan!
Overall I was really happy with how I did and looking back at when I saw my opponents decks after the matches I thought …hmm I’m very lucky getting the cards I needed when I needed them and that all my matches could have gone either way.
Let me know how good you thought my deck was and check out my YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/banditclay2
Thanks!
HunterJ OUT
