Dark Explorers Prerelease

[Palbert6393]

I just went to the Dark Explorers Prerelease in Brighton, Michigan on Saturday. I figured I would tell you as much as I could about it.

Notable Cards 1st 6 packs:
2x Enhanced Hammer
2x Rare Candy (1 RH)
2x Twist Mountain
2x Ultra Ball
1x N
1x Hooligans Jim & Cas
1x Accelgor (RH)
1x Palpitoad (RH)
1x Carnivore (RH)
1x Crustle (RH)
1x Torchic #15 (RH)
1x Klinklang
1x Galvantula
1x Aerodactyl
1x Blissey
1x Scrafty
1x Bisharp #72
2x Plusle
2x Minun

Well, already this looked far from great from making a deck... but thats before you look at which cards I cannot use.
Enhanced Hammer - There are no special energy cards in the set
Rare Candy - No useable Stage 2s
Crustle - no dwebble
klinklang - no klink or klang
Bisharp - no pawniard.

I eventually settled on this for my deck
2x Chansey #81
1x Blissey
1x Aerodactyl
2x Plusle
2x Minun
1x Shelmet
1x Accelgor
1x Carnivine
1x Joltik
1x Galvantula
2x Scraggy
1x Scrafty
2x Twist Mountain
2x Ultra Ball
1x N
1x Hooligans Jim & Cas
6x Dark Energy
6x Electric Energy
6x Grass Energy

So my deck really had everything except a real attacker...
My first game was odd for a prerelease... we hit time, I had a scare with decking out because of Plusle (saved by N as my last card), and I almost ran out of energy because I was constalty retreating. We were tied with 2 prizes a piece when time was called. He had a blissey up, and had chosen not to attack for a few turns. I had Scrafty up and Aerodactyl on my bech (those werent all, but they were the important ones). With the last energy in my deck I was able to retreat my Scrafty to pull up my Aerodactyl which hit for 100 and knockout on turn 2.

My second game I don't remember too much of. I just remember that I took the final prize the turn after he benched KyogreEX

My third game wound up losing to a zoroark and espeon. espeon's ability prevented me from using carnivine to get zoroark out of the active spot.

So 2-1... much better than I was expecting for the cards I pulled

Final 2 packs notables:
Eelektross
Zoroark
Plusle (RH)
N (RH)
Dark claw

Boy do I wish I had gotten Zoroark in the beginning. Oh well.

No EXs for me, however my girlfriend did pull a DarkraiEX which was the highlight of the day.

So enough about my prerelease, lets hear about all of yours. What were your best cards? What did your deck focus on? How did you do?

 

[58384]

Thats a rough start! I didn't get a chance to attend a Prerelease (all the more reason I need to start up this local league, make the PTO see there is a need for one). Its a good report on the event but I'm disappointed that you didn't get anything better ;_; I'll let people who did go discuss their experiences.