Charles Randall L-L

Not pictured: Beets. I started playing Blastoise during the Cities season of 2015-2016 during some Expanded Cities in Missouri. I fell in love with the deck. You can hit high numbers, and it gives me a rush when I successfully execute Archie's Ace In The Hole. I have personally received a lot of questions about the list as well as seen people requesting a Blastoise list on Heyfonte. I thought I would put the list here and explain card counts and matchups. Here is my current list: --- Pokemon: 15 2 Keldeo EX 1 Articuno 1 Tapu Fini GX 2 Exeggcute 2 Blastoise 2 Shaymin EX 2 Tapu Lele GX 1 Lapras GX 1 Wishiwashi GX 1 Oranguru T/S/S: 34 1 Computer Search 2 Field Blower 4 Superior Energy Retrieval 4 Battle Compressor 4 Ultra Ball 2 Acro Bike 4 Trainers' Mail 4 VS Seeker 2 Muscle Band 1 Float Stone 1 N 1 Lysandre 2 Archie's Ace in the Hole 2 Professor Juniper Energy: 11 11 Water --- 2 Keldeo EX Ke...

Hey guys! I recently got Top Eight at Iowa States. Luckily, my win-and-in Round Seven was captured on film: Thank you to Ryan Alperstein AKA Bullados for recording and posting the video. You can check out his channel  here , he puts out some really cool content. Also, look forward to a set review of Fates Collide coming up sometime in the near future. I hope you enjoy!

How I felt about Standard coming out of Cities Before States, I had 119 Championship Points, and every single one of those was from tournaments in the Expanded format. At the Standard Cities that I played in, I felt lost and I couldn’t escape the feeling that I just didn’t have a good handle on the format. I was spoiled by the speed and consistency of Expanded. I did make top cut at a few Cities, but they were all Expanded; I was still fumbling around in the dark when it came to Standard. Luckily States has now passed netting me eighty points. In the process, I got to play a deck that I hadn’t gotten to play with before in my frenzy of Expanded Battle Compressor-focused decks. At the end of Cities, I watched the Some1’s PC video regarding Gallade/Octillery and after playing some games with the deck, I was enamored with it. It seemed so improbable that a deck without Shaymin that ran minimal Ultra Ball could succeed, but it functioned! It got my wheels spinning as to how t...