Max is getting better kinda

I am probably annoying you all at this point in time since I've done two posts in two days but no matter because I actually have something to say today and its my locals report for my mix and match again, however I achieved slightly better this week but we shall get into that all in due time, First I must admit that at the moment I am acting like a deck slut im just sleeping with every deck and its over after a week first it was frogarchs but they couldn't win then it was wind ups but they weren't fun after a while then it was dragon rulers then I realised the price tags and left them alone, but now I feel as if I have finally found the most cheap fun competitive deck that I will find around and it is........................................ SIX SAMS that's right ive been playing them like crazy on the dn and the dev pro and I have found them spammy but need skill as well as fun and not auto pilot and they win and they are not tooooooo expensive so if any one has those I am in need as usual! Any way nuff of that and lets get on to my day as usual I woke up too early 6:45 and got ready then watched youtube then I picked up my friend Leroy a newcomer to the competitive world and we were on our way, we showed up a tad late but made it in time to vs each other in the first round.... however I did buy a tachyon pack... and pulled a super hysteric sign

ROUND 1 MAX VS RANDOM DECK
I beat his random deck down with mine and in no time at all it was over, after the match we went over and grabbed him some sleeves and the sam warlords structure deck and spent the entire time sleeving like crazy, which we barely got finished before round two...
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ROUND 2 MAX VS NOBLE KNIGHTS
To put it simply I got beat harder than meat at the hands of an extremely angry cook. He destroyed me beyond compare and there was simply nothing that could be done, but he was a nice guy and we had a small chat afterwards before I went and talked to Leroy and bought 4 Tachyon packs that I had no time to open till the end of...
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ROUND 3 MAX VS RANDOM
This was someone that Leroy had already vs'd and got beaten and told me to be careful, however I beat him down pretty hard and claimed my victory, then I opened the 4 tachyon packs and pulled no holos but one tempest!
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ROUND 4 MAX VS NOBLE KNIGHTS
Game one he started off well but I had spell and trap answers until he went into a utopia and I creature swapped it and chilled on it for a long time until I finally finished him then he beat me down to claim the match
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ROUND 5 MAX VSBATTLIN BOXERS
got dealt with by troy nuff said.


Thanks for reading this and please comment and stuffs HAVE A NICE DAY

Max makes post because i am a follower

Well, since the other two posted I now feel obligated to as well. First and foremost I must give an apology, I have not attended a yugioh event since the box! There is a few reasons for this one is money in which I have too many things to spend it on and not enough money to satisfy any! The second is exams which are all done and out of the way now so I'm glad for that. Third is about last weekend specifically, now most of you wont believe this but its true I swear, I was going to go on Saturday but through the week I picked up a gf and she took auto priority as we went to see catching fire (sorry boys). Last but not least is that my parents don't want to take me that often since we live pretty far away (golden beach and currimundi). However all of that aside I want to ask a few questions since I personally would like to see the responds and comments and that sort of thing for these posts go upward! So first question is, would anyone like to make a ridiculous bet about six sense and the next ban list? Second is what do you guys think is the best winning cheap deck at the moment for new players coming in to the game (my friend is coming on Saturday). Third and final is does any body know the spell book player who needs the grand tower because I have it and we arranged to sort something out but I couldn't make it the next week? Any way sorry for such a short/meaningless post, I will have a report up tomorrow! Have a nice day and remember I need wind ups!

Catching Some More!

Hey guys, it's your favourite Pokemon Professor here to talk about some more Pokemon TCG events happening over December! Why do I do this? Because I want to see lots of people come and play a game that I enjoy immensely.

The last couple of events apart from the Legendary Treasures pre release didn't have a whole lot of people show up, but since it's going into the school holidays I'm hoping that this perks up a bit. It seems to be the best times for it anyway, if the past is any indication. Speaking of the past, that Kakuna there is an example of the kind of cards I collected when I was a young'n, which now that I'm thinking about it seems to not be as bad as some of the other early cards are in comparison to newer versions. Go figure that one.

Anywho, onto the tournament times. For those of you who don't check the Card House's tournament page (really, it's a great way to see when events you might want to go to are on), there are three Pokemon TCG events to be played in up until the end of the year.

The closest one is actually on this Sunday 1st of December, so hopefully this won't be too short a notice for some of you. Next up is the end of year Pokemon event, which is on Sunday 15th December. If you only end up going to one of the three events, this one is the one you want to attend if for nothing else but the fact that there are some extra goodies to give away.The last event is held on Wednesday 18th December, and this one is a $5 entry as opposed to the usual $10 entry.

So there ya go, a fair few excuses to come on down and play some games of Pokemon. That's not to say that Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh! are short of events, and there are definitely a couple that I'd like to get to. The big one for me is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Teams on the 14th, because I love team events and want to compete in as many of them as I can.


Well, I don't really have much else to add onto that. I'll just leave it at that for today, and I look forward to feeding you all to my Dragonites seeing you all at the Pokemon events!

The Pokemon Professor, Troy

Where's Blue Duston?

Hey Cardhousians!

I just finished my 3-day e-course on writing through writer's block; so I'm just following through with what I should have been learning, instead of chatting on Omegle. Apparently lesson 1 is just to type whatever random stuff that comes to mind, so here goes:

Fluffy pink unicorn getting a shave and horn filing... (Lesson 2 is to delete the crap that has nothing to do with the subject matter.

WANTED: Blue Duston, REWARD to be Negotiated.

I saw that several players were making new Yu-Gi-Oh decks, so like a black sheep I am following the crowd and doing the same.

I have chosen to do a Duston Deadbeat deck, where I special-summon Dustons to fill both sides of the field, and have them sit around and wait for Goblin King to get off his throne... But I'm still short 2 Blue Duston, despite having bought 3 packs of Shadow Spectres last week, and it's a gods-be-damned common no less! I found Wally with less trouble then this!

I'm going to break the unwritten rule, as well as swallow my pride like a can of coke: If you have any you can spare, and want anything that Kev doesn't have in exchange, please FB me.

Yes, I know the unwritten rule of no trading because it hurts the Card-House, our refuge in daylight hours; that's why I specified that Kev can't have it in stock. He was out of Blue Dustons as well, and I can't source them from any online seller to get one of the girls to pick them up for me. Even if the wording is violated like the Public's Trust in the Government, I believe that I'm working in the spirit of the rule.

Unfortunately, I can't offer to name my first-born, second-born, third-born, fourth-born, etc up to 24th- born in exchange, I already offered them as payment / betting collateral, and I keep my word... even if it means that my first-born's name is to be "Gaylor DeMathafocker Manning"... Why I agreed to that bet, even I'll never know...

I also want to remind you that the next draw is in 5 days time; In 5 Days time, one lucky cardhousian will be rewarded just for following.

Some content created by other Cardhousians would be nice too, but we gotta walk before we run, and I haven't done much of either in a while.  

Finding Treasures

It just occurred to me that I didn't write a blog post to talk about the Legendary Treasures pre release for Pokemon TCG. Well, I'm here to rectify that!

Unfortunately, I have to open this blog on a sour note. Those of you who played in the pre release and borrowed energy from other players, PLEASE RETURN THEM!!! I am down six grass energy and five psychic energy, and I know I'm not the only one who didn't get their loaned energy back. Next pre release, don't be surprised if I'm stingy to the point of not giving out any of my own energy for other players. I'm sure if you simply take them in Kev can hold onto them until he sees us.

With that out of the way, let's move onto the best part, shall we? New cards! Well... with a few reprints mixed in as well. I'll be honest, going into the event I was expecting to see Mewtwo-EX and Darkrai-EX everywhere since they were the two big names to be reprinted, though I didn't see very many at all. Actually, Meloetta-EX was probably one of the most commonly seen cards of the day, along with the absolutely hilarious Cedric Juniper card.

 Do you fancy yourself a Pokemon Master? This card will definitely put you to the test! When played, you choose a pokemon from your hand and place it face down on the table, then tell your opponent it's name. Your opponent then has to guess its height. If they get it right they draw three cards, but if they get it wrong then you draw three cards. From a competitive stand Cheren is a much better card as it simply lets you draw three cards, but who can pass up the opportunity to make your opponent sweat a little? Oh, you guys should definitely use this against me with Lucario or Gardevoir. They're the only ones I can't remember the heights of...

I think my favourite draw of the day was Victini-EX. With its Turbo Energize attack, I can attach two energy cards from my deck onto any pokemon on my bench. Having it in my open hand along with a single fire energy meant that I could get set up very quickly, and Intensifying Burn mean that Victini-EX can punch above its weight when confronted with opposing Pokemon-EX.

The games themselves were enjoyable, mostly due to the fact that everyone was on equal footing. For starters, with the promo card being Tornadus-EX it meant that everyone had a big pokemon to play with and getting an unlucky few boosters wasn't as much of a problem. Which for the most part is what happens to me when I attend a pre release.

I'll admit that I made a huge mistake in my first game, in that I forgot to keep track of my prizes. Since we only play with forty card decks, only four prizes are used and I fed one into the grinder when I really shouldn't have. That'll learn me for making a mistake as bad as Ash thinking he would only need one pokemon to beat Elesa!

In spite of that, I somehow managed to sneak into 6th place at the end of the day. Either way, a fun day was had by all I would hope. Besides, there were plenty of shiny new cards to be picked up on the day (including a very gold and full art Reshiram!) and I'm quite interested in picking up a few more boosters of Legendary Treasures when I can. Although I'm definitely looking forward to the arrival of the first X and Y sets starting in February, and the coming mega evolution cards! Because they evolve from Pokemon-EX, that means there's going to be a Lucario-EX and a Gardevoir-EX for me to collect!

Before I head off, there is some important news. From the 8th of November (I know it's kinda late at this point, but we've only had a pre release at this point so I'm sure it'll slide) there are some rules changes to the game. I figure we need to see this because of the tourney coming up on Sunday the 17th, and I'll be enforcing these rules in all of my games. They are as follows:

• First Turn: Before drawing your opening hand, flip a coin. The winner of the coin flip decides who goes first, and the person who goes first can't declare an attack on their first turn. 
• Errata - Pokemon Catcher: The new effect for Pokemon Catcher is "Flip a coin. If heads, switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with his or her Active Pokémon."
• Professor Juniper and Professor Sycamore: Both Juniper and Sycamore are identical in effect, but you may not contain both in your deck. You can have up to four copies of Professor Juniper or four copies of Professor Sycamore, but you may not include copies of both in your deck even if they only add up to four between them.

The official announcement can be found on the Pokemon website.

Well, that's all I have to say for now. Signing off, Pokemon Professor Troy.

Max the newbie on the block's first tourney where he has to use his own bad cards!

Hello Card-Housians, how are you today? Today I'm going to be talking about Saturday's win a box, although this is a little late as I hope to do these on the night the event takes place I was without a computer so sorry. Well as usual I woke up way to early excited and got ready and took off with 40 bucks in my pocket. Rolled up and bought my entry and 3 order of chaos packs, and a bag of tokens cause I run scape goat that's why. So I had my mix and match cards that are standing for a deck while I build wind ups unfortunately I spent all my money and couldn't buy any but I made a decent trade for some stuff I needed/ wanted. I played a practice duel and was happy to even hold my own and take 4000 lp off the battling boxer guy I was playing with and I knew what I had simply wasn't going to cut it today. (P.S I need wind ups so if anyone has them and is willing to trade/ sell I am needing them). Anyway I got on and prepared for first match and I was against ......... infernities. I got trampled in a 2-0 beat down where I got spammed and could do nothing.
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2nd round I played against someone who I cant quite remember but I do remember that the game went to him really fast twice. Nothing much to say with a mix and match I needed to draw perfect and obviously that's never really going to be the case. UGH.
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3rd round was against a guy named Kayden he was playing dragon rulers and smashed me game 1 so I scooped. Game two he combo'd and got out tons of dragons I drew got no outs and scooped again, he had wind ups but I had no money :/.
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4th round was against constellars again got 2-0d quick, nothing I can do against them with my deck. (I cannot stress this enough I NEED WIND UPS).
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Went into game 5 pretty beaten I didn't feel on top of the world that's for sure but I was still having fun and gaining exp, and this is where I ran into...... SPELLBOOKS and guess what I had opening hand of game 1 MISTAKE, that's right baby now adding spellbooks for you get owned buddy. Then I opened well and he didn't so I got a lead and I held it till time for game! He needs some more cards and I have one so yeah but I did get a win!
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So I walked away with 1 shadow pack and 4 order of chaos packs and no holos were pulled that day UGH :(. Anyway guys thanks for reading and I want to just back up what chad said me and the winner were the only ones in the draw come on! don't you guys want free packs just join. Hey you never know you might get a tachyon and in turn a free dracosacc! Well that's quite enough of my rambling for one night. Have a nice day!

Winner of first Monthly Draw!

Cardhousians;

Firstly I appologise for posting the pre-release article yet. I am still working night-and-day with my elven assistants to get a full round-up of the new archetypes!

I gave my word; I promised that on the 3rd of every month, there would be a 3-pack prize draw.

So keeping my word, the draw has been done.

Before I announce Aaron Ford as  the Winner, here is a copy-pastable infographic demonstrating how I did the draw;

I'm going to be straight-up honest and say this: I'm surprised that Only 2 Cardhousians are willing to go into the running to win 3 booster-packs of their choice... What the actual Hell?

We are supposed to be mostly gen X/Y, self-entitled [[inset choice profanity here]] who won't turn down free stuff!?

While I thank you for restoring some of my faith in humanity, with your reluctance to take my free stuff, It would still be great if you can add yourself as a cardhousian, then I will set you up with the option to post whatever musings you guys have. That way if you wake up at 2am in the morning and want to make your first post, you need not wait for me to be dragged out of my bed like I was by my mother (kicking and screaming).

Without Further Ado; the Winner is Aaron! Hooray for Aaron!

Feel free to pick-up the 3 packs of your choice when you go in next mate! (I paid Kev for them already, so take your pick.)

So we have almost a whole month til the next draw; are you going to be in it to win it?

Hallow's Eve game night!

Halloween was a fun night, crazy decks, crazier costumes and all that.

Anyway, not much more needs saying; so I'll begin the photo dump and witty captions!

This pic demonstrates that Anonymous is on par to god-hood, sitting and chilling with Thor and Odin.

Was getting rowdy, and not a drop of 'happy juice'.

some poor Anon learning the hard way that Graham is a Wizard!

More gamer girls then you can shake a deck at. :-)

two turtles, a barbarian and Odin/Thor... sounds like a great sit-com premise!

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The girls got more into the costuming then what the guys did... unless you count the blonde trap on the right...

You can only save one: Either warn Satan about Freddy, or Finn about the Splicer!

I don't really need to caption this, do I?

Splicer no splicing! You've had enough ADAM today!

Max the newbie on the block's first tournament!

Hey guys, me again and this time I have the tiniest amount of competitive experience under my belt and I'm here to talk about how good and fun the Shadow Specters pre-release was. So let's start at the beginning shall we? Woke up too early simply because of excitement and nervousness :(. I woke up at 6 AM. That's ridiculous but anyway I sat on my Ipad and scrolled on the internet and before I knew it, it was 8 o'clock and time to move! I got ready and me and my mum set on our merry way, dropped in to the 7/11 to grab a coke and a sausage roll (we needed change for a 50) then we made it to the card house. I signed in and my mum was off I was on my own and it was time to duel! In about 40 minutes. While waiting I met Jacob a guy roughly my age maybe younger and we had a practice duel with what we had just in case (his warrior deck and my mix and match). The results were inconclusive as time ran out and we were all dealt our packs and promo cards. I opened my packs and pulled rather nicely with plenty of ghost tricks, a secret mistake,  a super Celestial wolf lord of blue Sirius and a super Ghost trick alucard. I was pretty happy with this but thus made the mistake of putting too many cards in my deck :/. Rookie mistake. Anyway I was getting questions of am I trading the mistake and celestial but I said maybe afterwards although I wasn't ready to give them up today, maybe next week! I was pumped and ready for match 1. I played against someone (sorry I forgot name) and lost game one, won game two, and lost game three.

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Then I compared with Jacob he too had lost that game so I didn't feel to bad at least :). Game two rolled around and again I forgot who I was versing but sadly I got 2-0'd pretty quickly and that was pretty discouraging, but he was a very nice guy and we played a game three for fun (which I lost again!)
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I compared with Jacob and I think he lost too I cant remember exactly. But onto me I versed Chad and we had a very good game one and grinded hard until I only just came out victorious. Game two and I beat him within 2 turns! that was a huge confidence boost and I felt really happy then he complimented me on my blog and bought me a booster (tachyon nothing good pulled).
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I compared with Jacob he too had won. My match 4 was a good one and against none other than.......JACOB! It was on like Donkey Kong. I grinded out and won game one. he did the same for game two. Therefore we didn't have barely any time on the game three and I just pulled ahead when time was called. Another huge confidence boost
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Match 5 was against someone I forgot name sorry and I summoned pumpkin and just used it for 7 turns until he scooped. Then we grinded out game two and I had game..... then I misplayed and didn't set my monsters back and they got destroyed and I got gamed :(. Game three again barely any time and he came out on top and I must say he played well.
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Unfortunately I didn't get a mat but I placed 19th out of I think 26 and I got an extra booster (so did Jacob) so I ended up getting another specters and a tachyon. Nothing from the specters but from the tachyon I pulled a secret............. Torrential reborn (insert more disappointment here). Then my ride was there and I had to leave but I had so much fun and everyone was so nice! I am coming back another week and trying to build wind ups. Have a nice day!