1 — Ho-Oh EX — BREAKpoint (92/122)
3 — Latias EX — Plasma Freeze (85/116)
2 — Arceus — Legendary Collection Hoopa Box (XY83)
2 — Sableye — BREAKthrough Blister Promo (XY92)
4 — Latias — Dragon Vault (9/20)
2 — Drowzee — Evolutions (49/108)
2 — Hypno — BREAKpoint (51/122)
Trainers [28]
1 — Computer Search — Boundaries Crossed (137/149)
3 — Professor's Letter — X&Y (123/146)
3 — Ultra Ball — Flashfire (99/106)
2 — Steven — Roaring Skies (90/108)
2 — Professor Juniper — Plasma Blast (84/101)
3 — Pokémon Center Lady — Generations (68/83)
3 — Cheren — Dark Explorers (91/108)
4 — N — Fates Collide (105/124)
3 — Chaos Tower — Fates Collide (104/124)
4 — Fighting Fury Belt — BREAKpoint (99/122)
Energy [16]
1 — Fairy Energy
1 — Steel Energy
2 — Lightning Energy
2 — Grass Energy
2 — Water Energy
4 — Fire Energy
4 — Physic Energy
Epilogue
Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you're all planning to eat up, because this wild turkey is starving, and it wants its belly filled with as much delicious stuffing as possible!
This deck utilizes some very powerful Pokémon, that would traditionally be very difficult to make use of due to their diverse energy needs. Thankfully, Native Americans are like magic, and we're at the Native American Casino, so we're about to have us a magic show!
For our first trick, we're going to make a baby appear! And for the grand finale, we shall invoke the Great Spirit, in hopes for it to give us its blessing, and remove all of the bad luck from our lives in the year to come. This invocation begins with the grand feast we've prepared here in honor for the Great Spirit, revolving around Professor's Letter, Ultra Ball, and our pair of little Indians Latias & Sableye.
Our shaman (Latias) and our witch doctor (Sableye) will be our guides for the ceremony this evening. Between them, our shaman is the main guide, because its much more reliable here. You see, in order to maintain good standing with the spirit world, shamans must revere spiritual purity, and that makes shamans our most trusted medium to the Great Spirit.
Whereas witch doctors by nature tend to dabble in dark things, and that makes them less reliable medium to the Great Spirit. We never know when he might try to put a curse on us instead. And we also have to consider that the Great Spirit may just reject the witch doctor's call entirely—in hopes this rebuff of the wicked leads the witch doctor to question his or her ways—and come to his or her senses.
Either way, to begin the ceremony, we will always want to play first. This hopes to give us time to prepare everything—and ensure that great feast and all its partakers are in their proper place. Once everything is prepared, our spirit guide can begin using their talents empower a spiritual guide to protect us.
One would think that the ideal spirit for this would be the Great Spirit itself—for its great power. Yet the Great Spirit sees us through the eyes of loving parents, and as their children, it is asserted that we must learn do for ourselves, if ever to become perfectly competent (mind, heart, and soul—intelligence, beauty, and devotion) as the Great Spirit once became for itself by this very same method. And so it is by this principal, that the Great Spirit only extends its hand to us for the task of simple things.
Akin to this, for the task of more technical things, we will want to call upon the spirt of our ancient shaman ancestor—Latias-EX—to watch over us in place of the Great Spirit.
Our ancient ancestors' [Barrier Break] has the power to bypass the effects of all Pokémon, whose curses might otherwise hold us back from victory in life. And by the power of our ancient ancestors' {Bright Dawn}, its purity further protects our ancient ancestor from the damage of other Pokémon with Abilities, making our this a very worthy (and mighty) guardian in the place of the Great Spirit.
Our ancient ancestors care as deeply about us as the Great Spirit, and that is the primary reason why their presence is so strong here. There is another reason as well, which revolves around the fact of how immense the needs of the Great Spirit are, and how the nature of this ceremony doesn't fully support the opening presence of our the first Great Spirit—Arceus. You see, this great feast is a very particular ceremony, that doesn't provide us with any dynamic sources to [Gather Light] from and quickly empower the Great Spirit Arceus right away as would be needed to protect us.
And this absence of power and support is even moreso true for our second Great Spirit—Ho-Oh-EX—making it the LAST Pokémon you want to end up with as your starting Pokémon here. You see, the Great Spirit Ho-Oh is very high maintenance, and demands a lot a special care. That without—leaves this Great Spirit with no will to carry on at all—let alone fight to protect us from the wilds of space and the forces of evil.
For this reason, the presence our two Great Spirits have been lessened, in hopes that their power may be experienced in full when they do appear.
Now, even despite the power of the greatest spirits, the wilds of space and the forces of evil should never be underestimated. And therein lies the importance of reinforcing the power of our guardians as much as we can! Fusing all of powers alongside the mystic Hypno (and magic of the Chaos Tower) we can use a special ritual to immortalize our guardian spirits as they watch over us.
This ritual involves first always placing the Chaos Tower dark-side down, which aims to protect us from being paralyzed or put to sleep, and then enables our mystic Hypno to use the power of its {Goodnight, babies} Ability, and put our opponents to sleep without risk of us falling under its spell! This ritual is sure to be especially helpful to our guardian spirits—whenever their power might be waning.
We need to care for our guardian spirits as they care for us. For the dynamics of love could never support the life of two being one-sided, and so we must all understand the importance of working with the physics, and always strive to return to those (in some part or portion) the love that we are given by them. It is only through this dynamic exchange, that the cycle may never be broken—and the power of love to leak out—to possibly be the death of some less fortunate soul.
Our guardian spirits take up our care by the goodness in their heart, and if we are ever to perfect the science of this for ourselves, we must also strive to live by the goodness of ours. And that is the symbolism behind Fighting Fury Belt (the love in our hearts—or the bonds of love) further accessorized by our full array of Supporters.
This array of Supporters represent our extended family under the Great Spirit, all happy and full, and giving thanks for the joy that makes life worth living. For without this joy, life would be made so miserable, that it would not worth living, and the meaning of life would be stripped from us entirely. But altogether, our care for one another (and our reverence to what is pure and true)—brings glory to our ancient ancestors—and fills the Great Spirit with otherworldly joy (making life amazing for us all).
It is in this same style, that our collection of Supporters primarily incorporate a straight draw tactic, that involves various cooperative efforts, which collectively aim to bring us all together under the graces of our ancient ancestor, and the Great Spirit itself.
The first of these cooperative efforts includes the array of Professor's Letter, Ultra Ball, Cheren, and Steven—which make up the bulk of our straight draw consistency. Professor's Letter retrieves the crops we need for the grand feast, providing instant resources for the grandeur of Ultra Ball, all the while thinning out two cards from the deck for free, and further increasing the potency of Cheren's draw. Cheren can also be a provider to Ultra Ball in the same way, a classic combination that becomes a powerful suite between the potential of all our other resources here.
Steven for example—is our prime accessory to all this. Helping to further thin the deck for more consistent double plays with Cheren, while also being able to bridge the gap between Cheren and our other more dynamic Supporters. Steven also provides access to specific energy needs—further reinforcing one of our most prominent needs for this ceremony. Steven is a good provider, but could never cover the full scope our needs by himself, and that is why Steven has been included in a tactical-split here alongside Professor Juniper.
Professor Juniper holds the power to cater to our most excessive and desperate needs like no other. Yet in this season nears towards desperate times itself, where we can't truly afford to be too excessive or wasteful. Akin to this, there lies a particular liability towards any heavier reliance on Professor Juniper, which strongly suggests by all considerations of wisdom, the we would likely only end up doomed in famine, if we allowed Professor Juniper to extend her talent to us any more than is provided here.
Taking precaution for this, N takes a commanding presence here as our main man and chief of the tribe, given that his powerful wheel effect offers the best measure of coverage and adaptability to the flow of the cards. Simply put—no other Supporter could perform and fill the gap as good as N does. N provides a wide range of resources at the start of the game when they are desperately needed most; takes out all the liability of discarding precious cards we can't afford to waste; can act as disruption against our opponent's retrieval cards at any time; and combos very well with a follow up play from our second most consistent supporter—Cheren.
The preservation that N provides is simply very important—especially for our single most important Supporter—Pokémon Center Lady. Because the tender care that this Supporter provides is something we simply could not live without. Pokémon Center Lady literally breathes life into us.
Our few resources are all we have here, so the last thing we can afford to do is excessively discard a Supporter that is the very lifeblood of our existence.
Having someone to turn to is one of the greatest treasures in life—and therein could lie the true spirit of Thanksgiving. As dark as the history might be, the story that unfolded from it may not have come to pass if not for the unfolding of an even darker story before it. Where the love between our collection of company was simply too thin—and there just wasn't enough power or faith between them—for any guardian spirit to take wing on.
So let us not repeat the past, and turn to others as often and as best we can—with the tender care—of a guiding hand.
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