Yoz ppl. Spending one whole day at home is pure boredom! Lol. Nothing much I can do other than watch TV and stare at comp. Anywayz, today I shall talk abit about Pokemon Trading Card Game since I've got nothing better to do =P
Here's what the game is about:
The game is centered on the concept of the Pokémon battle. All Pokémon cards have attacks and Hit Points (HP); by doing damage to the opponent's Pokémon equal to their Hit Points, the player can knock them out and send them to the discard pile.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokemon_TCG
Anyway, I started playing this game since primary 6. My friends were all playing so i decided to learn abit as well. Hehe. Stopped playing after sec 1. Omg. that's so long ago. Recently, I read an article online mentioning about the World Championships 2006 competitions by William Hung. Omg I din noe he plays pokemon cards -_- That got me sort of curious to go see the newer generation of cards and study abit on the tournament decks.
Here's a deck used in the finals that caught my interest
Name: B-L-S Deck
Owner: Hiroki Yano - Champion for 10- category
Here's his deck list
Pokemon
2 Lugia Ex
3 Blastoise Ex
2 Wartortle
3 Squirtle
1 Steelix Ex
1 Onix
1 Shining Latias
2 Pidgeot
1 Pidgeotto
2 Pidgey
4 Plusle
3 Holon's Magneton
2 Holon's Electrode
Trainer
4 Rare Candy
2 Steven's Advice
2 Copycat
3 Celio's Network
1 Professor Elm's Training method
4 Rocket's Admin
1 Warp Point
2 Pokemon Retriever
3 Power Tree
Energy
11 Water Energy
Ok. This deck kicks asses. I tried playing it with different decks and all ended up beaten flat.
The powerhouses of this deck
Blastoise Ex From Fire Red Leaf Green Set: Energy Rain enables player to keep attaching water energy to their pokemon. Deadly combos can build up quickly at the cost of 10 dmg.
As for the attack Hyper whirlpool.. It allows the user to discard the energy cards of the defending pokemon if they keep getting heads. Well. Good luck to the opponent if u get 4 heads. 4 energy cards gone. Lol.
Main disadvantage of this card: Opponent gets to draw 2 prize cards if Blastoise Ex is knocked out.
Shining Latias From EX Deoxys Set: Shooting star does a good 150 dmg to pokemon-ex. Good for 1-hit K.Os since most pokemon Exs' hp are 150 or below. Has resistance to psychic and fighthing type. Another advantage of this card is that opponent does not draw 2 prize cards if they knocked latias out. Hehe. Only weakness is colorless.
Lugia Ex From the Unseen Forces Set: The main damager of this deck. 200 dmg for 3 different energy cards. In this case. It can knock out almost any pokemon. Except Wailord Ex(200 Hp) from the Ex SandStorm set with a defender. lol.
Steelix Ex From Unseen Forces Set: Poison Resistance. Nice Poke-body. Gives it immunity to poison. Its attacks are also great. Metal charge does 70 dmg to opp and 10 dmg to itself for just 3 energy. And the ultimate power move is the Mudslide which does 100 dmg to any of ur opp's pokemon for 2 fighthing energy.
Disadvantages of this card will be its high retreat cost and its weaknesses to both fire and fighthing. So if a pokemon that is both Fire and Fighthing type damages it, it does 4x dmg -_-
The Supporters
Pidgeot From Fire Red Leaf Green Set: Main purpose of this card is to use its Quick Search Pokemon Power to search for ANY card. Good for finding cards like holon's magneton or electrode for providing energy.
The Holon's Pokemons
These pokemon are used to provide 2
energies rather than battle. 1 of these pokemon + a normal energy attached to Lugia Ex is sufficient to use its Elemental Blast. After these pokemon go into the discard pile, use the pokemon retriever to put them back to the deck. Hehe
Basically. This is the deck with one of the most perfect combos that I've seen. Almost unstoppable oso. Hehe. Anyway, i did some modifications to the deck. Here's what I changed:
* Modified cards are marked with bold
BLaSt! deck
Pokemon - 27
2x Lugia Ex
3x Blastoise Ex
2x Wartortle
3x Squirtle
1x Steelix Ex
2x Onix
2x Pidgeot
2x Pidegotto3x Pidgey
1x Shining Latias
3x Holon's Electrode
2x Holon's Magneton
3x Plusle
Trainers - 22
3x Celio's Network(s)
3x Rare Candy
3x Power Tree(stadium)
3x Rocket's Admin(s)
1x POW! hand extention
2x Copycat(s)
2x Pokemon Retriever
2x Steven's Advice(s)
2x Professor Elm's Training Method
1x Warp Point
Energy - 11
11x water energy
Changes
Onix - Originally in B-L-S
Lets see. The Onix used in B-L-S has 80 hp. A stupid 10-or-nothing attack. Not that good imo.
This Onix provides higher hp, a better attack (able to do 10 dmg to 2 pokemon for just an energy)
2 Pidgeottos Instead of one
Reduces the need for Rare Candies. Which can be useful when playing of trainer cards is disabled.
3 Plusle Instead of 4
Since its purpose is to only get more basic pokemon, there's isn't a need for 4 of them. Save a space for better cards ^^
Added POW! Hand Extention
Its main purpose is to either move and energy from opponent's active pokemon to one of his benched pokemon or to switch his active pokemon with 1 of his benched pokemon. Good for disrupting combos or slowing down combo building.
2 Professor Elm's Training Method instead of 1
Gives better search power. Increases chance of getting out evolution cards like Pidgeot, Holon's pokemon and Blastoise.
Phew. I am quite surprised to see that the game has changed so much compared to the last time. Older decks dun stand a chance against the newer decks. Most older pokemon require lots of energies to power up for dmg. New cards can do MORE dmg with lesser energy cards. Haha.
Ok. Gotta end this post. Have to go makan supper. Hungry Hungry.
Sry for the long winded post. Hope the readers wun get bored or fall asleep from reading this. =X
Signing off now. TaTa ^^
