Latest from Troy "You'll think of a witty title Chad,"

Hi everyone, it's your favourite Lucario/Photon fanatic again! Some of you might remember my last blog post on Pokemon TCG, and now that the second Pokemon tourney of this school holidays has come and gone I'm gonna report on it again.

For those of you who are still reading, you're awesome and should point and laugh at those who didn't keep reading. Anywho, this tournament was great fun as the number of attendees rose to twenty eight. For those of you who pay attention, that's close to the number that attend your average Yu-Gi-Oh! event on Saturdays. So for those of you who are a bit iffy about coming due to a lack of people remember this - if you come, that's one more person who came. It's also one more person who gets to play a fantastic game, and contribute to the possibility of regular Pokemon tourneys on Saturdays.

Onto how the tourney went. I personally had a great improvement on last weeks result, managing 6th place and earning the honour of being able to tell people what I beat them with as placings were called out. For game results, I came at about the bottom of those who won four out of five games. Funnily enough, it was the first game of the day that I lost, being stuck against a Zekrom and not drawing any energy to fight back with. I'm sure that more than a few Magic players understand that feeling of not drawing the lands you need. In fact, my first opponent went on to win the Young Player of the Day award if I recall correctly, so good on him.

Second opponent was using a fire and water deck, but while he loaded up his White Kyurem-EX with energy I was setting up my Plasma Steel Klinklang which nullified his Pokemon-EX and let Cobalion tear through his Pokemon like Goku through one of Chi-Chi's meals. Third opponent had an electric deck, which had me worried when I started with Durant (Dragons Exalted 83/124) as my only Pokemon staring down a Zekrom-EX. But then, in a heroic feat that little steel ant took down his monstrous adversary over two turns (not including the first turn as it takes two energy to use Iron Head). I still can't believe my luck in that moment.

Game four wasn't particularly of note, mostly because it went too fast for anything interesting to happen. Game five was similar, and for both games Cobalion was the star as I don't believe he got knocked out in either game. I think I shall find a Cobalion and a Durant in my Pokemon White version and raise them up in honour of their performances today.

What interested me the most for today's event was the appearance of several high tier tournament decks. Of note were Rayquaza/Eelektrik, Darkrai/Chandelure, a Mewtwo/Gardevoir deck and everyone's favourite My Little Pony- er, I mean Keldeo/Blastoise (the overall winner and only one to get five out of five wins). Frankly I expected more Keldeo/Blastoise decks to happen ever since the release of the Keldeo-EX tin, but I suppose one still has to get the Blastoises to actually make it. The one thing that probably did me some good was that first loss, as a first round win has a tendency to match you up with nasty decks like that. Then again, if it had any limbs Klinklang (Plasma Storm 90/135) would probably just extend a giant middle finger in the direction of most of them, all the while cackling about how invincible it is.

I can't particularly say that I learned much about my deck this week, although getting my hands on a couple more Blend Energy (Lightning/Water/Steel/Fighting) so that I have the maximum amount wouldn't be a bad idea. Today was actually great fun, from watching the younger players trying to dibs prize cards like a flock of Vullaby to the dad who approached me after for an intro game (although a first generation deck vs Plasma Steel was never going to end well) so he could play with his kids, I don't think I've had a more enjoyable tournament experience.

One thing before I finish this post, I think I'll make a nice friendly deck for those of you who want to learn to play and don't want to get mauled by the Plasma Steel deck. Feel free to ask me for an intro game if you're looking to get into Pokemon TCG, I'm the handsome guy who usually wears Pokemon themed shirts. I'm also happy to help you out with any questions you might have about the game.

Your favourite Lucario/Photon fanatic, Troy.