OK, so I finished 3-4 in the Nationals but I was actually quite satisfied with that result. I was using a Terrakion\Groudon deck. No Mewtwo or Tornadus as Jordan was using those in his deck. I was expecting to play against mostly electric and dark decks, both being weak to my fighting Pokes. I knew that most of the other masters' decks would probably have Tornadus and to counteract this I padded my deck out with Lost Removers and Enhanced Hammers to get rid of the DCEs that would be attached to Tornadus to halt its attacks, giving me a chance to get some good hits in. Most of the time this worked well and was quite effective, especially using additional Crushing Hammers if the dice rolled in my favour.
My first game went to the wire but I was outclassed by a much better player - Tom Hall, who had already earned a trip to the Worlds. My second match was against an all electric deck and my opponent never took one prize card.
The next 3 matches were all against Darkrai\Tornadus\Mewtwo - lost 2, won 1 but even in the 2 games I lost there was only one prize card in it and all 3 games went to the time limit.
In game 6, I came up against Cobalion. I'd never played against that deck before so didn't know what to expect. Unfortunately half way through the game I made an error by using double Lost Remover on the wrong Cobalion. In the end, even though I only had one prize card left I couldn't do enough against his other Cobalion with an Eviolite and 4 special metal reducing the power of my attack and he took me down with Iron Breaker.
In my final match, I played the one deck type I didn't want to come up against - Vileplume's Trainer lockout. My deck depended heavily on trainers - Hammers, EXP share, Catcher and Switch and without being able to use those I knew it was going to be difficult and to top it all my opponent was our very own Joanna. The game went to time and somehow it went my way, but only just.
I think I'll continue with Terrakion and Groudon for a while, I know Tornadus will be staying around for a while but at least Vileplume will be out of format soon.
Glenn
My first game went to the wire but I was outclassed by a much better player - Tom Hall, who had already earned a trip to the Worlds. My second match was against an all electric deck and my opponent never took one prize card.
The next 3 matches were all against Darkrai\Tornadus\Mewtwo - lost 2, won 1 but even in the 2 games I lost there was only one prize card in it and all 3 games went to the time limit.
In game 6, I came up against Cobalion. I'd never played against that deck before so didn't know what to expect. Unfortunately half way through the game I made an error by using double Lost Remover on the wrong Cobalion. In the end, even though I only had one prize card left I couldn't do enough against his other Cobalion with an Eviolite and 4 special metal reducing the power of my attack and he took me down with Iron Breaker.
In my final match, I played the one deck type I didn't want to come up against - Vileplume's Trainer lockout. My deck depended heavily on trainers - Hammers, EXP share, Catcher and Switch and without being able to use those I knew it was going to be difficult and to top it all my opponent was our very own Joanna. The game went to time and somehow it went my way, but only just.
I think I'll continue with Terrakion and Groudon for a while, I know Tornadus will be staying around for a while but at least Vileplume will be out of format soon.
Glenn
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