Transcript:
Steven:
I’m here with Brady Bourgeois, who is the winner of the TCG Seniors division at
this year’s tournament. And Brady, we just have a few questions. First of all,
where are you from?
Brady:
I’m from St. Louis, Missouri.
Steven:
So yep, we get people from all over the country. And what was the deck that you
decided to play for this tournament?
Brady:
Giratina-Seismitoad.
Steven:
And what made you choose that particular deck for this tournament? Were you
expecting a certain metagame? What went into the strategic choice there?
Brady:
I knew there was going to be a lot of Night March and Vespiquen bees and
Vespiquen. So, I decided that Giratina-Seismitoad would have amazing matchups
against those. And it also had a good matchup for Mega Rayquaza, because of
Giratina’s ability blocking Mega attacks. And it also had a good matchup
against Mega Manectric. So, I knew it had good matchups most of the way around.
It had a bad matchup to Greninja, which people thought was going to come. I
thought I was going to hit a few Greninjas today, and might lose a few matches,
and might get kicked out of the tournament.
Steven:
Well, you certainly didn’t in the last couple rounds on your way to the
championship, so that was pretty fortunate. Were there any fine tuning
adjustments? Any specific cards you balanced out of the deck? Any adjustments
you made there for this specific tournament?
Brady:
I got rid of Hex Maniac and all the Super Scoop Ups and AZ and Garbodor, a
two-one Garbodor line to block Abilities to further beat down Night March
because of Mew, so that they can’t use Mew anymore, and I also have a better
matchup against Greninja.
Steven:
Yeah, being able to shut off abilities is obviously very important. Now
obviously, your Giratina has one, but unless you’re playing against a Mega, you
don’t have to worry about that too much. Alright, so you had your deck, you had
your strategy there. Let’s go to the finals. You were on-stream for those, as
well as the top 4, if people want to take a look at that. But let’s focus on
the finals. You were pairing up against a deck that was playing Mega Manectric
against Jolteon EX. So obviously, Giratina has a good matchup against that,
just Jolteon EX is something to watch out for, isn’t it?
Brady:
Yeah. You have to keep pressure on really early. And you have to use your
Giratina to make sure that it can’t attach Double Colorless Energies so their
Jolteon doesn’t get setup really fast. And you also try to use Crushing Hammers
and Team Flare Grunt and other Items that discard energy to get rid of all of
the energy on Jolteon until you can Lysandre it up twice and knock it out.
Steven:
Yeah. Jolteon, because it had the attack that makes it temporarily invulnerable
from Basics, is obviously a big problem. But, you work very effectively around
that. Although, you did have some help in the finals. First of all, you hit
heads very heads very consistently on the Crushing Hammers that you played to
get rid of the Energy on your opponent’s side of the field. Even though earlier
in the day, you had a streak in the top 4 where it just wasn’t coming for you.
What’s it like with that card when you going from both the positive and the
negative, how does that make you feel?
Brady:
Well, when you hit a ton of tails, it just gets really annoying because your
opponent gets a very big window to get back in the game in Energy. So, they
might get a big attack off and knock out one of your main attackers, and it’s
just annoying. It’s not fun. But when you get heads a ton of times, it helps
you very in the long-run. Your opponent runs out of energy slowly. And, you’re
also preventing them from attacking you.
Steven:
Alright so, if folks have watched the finals stream, if folks at home have done
that, then what they might have noticed is that during the finals match, there
were a couple things that kind of got through for a little bit that shouldn’t
have happened. Mainly on your opponent’s side. But, the first one happened, I
think in game 1. He played a Rough Seas in order to get some damage off one of
his Pokémon, even though you had used Giratina’s attack and he couldn’t play
Stadiums. That was rewound fairly quickly. But, in the second game, there was a
more major error. Your opponent actually had Parallel City out. And he had it
pointed to him so that he could only have 3 on his Bench. And all of a sudden,
he put more on, including a Shaymin. So, how did that all resolve out, and when
did you realize that he had made a mistake?
Brady:
I didn’t really notice it at first, because I usually have Parallel City
pointed at me, because that’s the only Stadium I play in my decks. So, I’m used
to having about 3 Pokémon on my Bench. And I didn’t notice it at the time,
because it didn’t really matter. Actually, before they caught it, I was
thinking about playing my own Parallel City in my favor to lock out his
Parallel City. But, you can’t do that, actually now that I think about it. But,
he got a major penalty, but it was only one Prize Card and it didn’t really
affect the rest of the game. And they effectively just took the Shaymin, the
cards he got from the Shaymin, and put them back on the top of the deck after
showing me. It didn’t really affect the game too much, so it wasn’t a big deal.
Steven:
It would be nice, obviously, if they had caught that a little bit sooner,
before he had progressed and they could have at least gotten a warning instead
of you getting a Prize for that. But, stuff like that does happen. And people
can get a little nervous and move forward a little too quickly sometimes and
that can happen. Alright. Well, of course, next month is Worlds in San
Francisco. And there’s kind of a big question mark over this one because we
have another set, Steam Siege, that comes out very early in August. And they’ve
changed the legality rule so that it will be legal for Worlds. Do you have any
opinion on that? Or, are you going to be planning anything out based on what
happens with that set?
Brady:
Not too much. I know I’m probably going to switch my deck from
Giratina-Seismitoad to YZG or something else. But the reason why I don’t want
to play Seismitoad anymore is because I think Night March is going to have a
falling out with the new card that shuffles all Pokémon from both discard piles
into the decks. So, Night March will not be played as much, which is one of my
best matchups. So, I’m thinking about whether or not I want to play
Giratina-Seismitoad or another deck.
Steven:
Yeah, that’s the big question mark with Steam Siege. There’s a card coming out
as a promo in Japan called Karen that is sort of a less broad Lysandre’s Trump
Card, because it only shuffles Pokémon in. But, we’re not 100% sure if that’s
going to come out in Steam Siege or somewhere separately, or it could even be a
while. So, that’s the big question mark and we’ll know a lot more in a couple
weeks. Alright. Well, thank you very much, Brady. This has been Steven Reich
from the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio at the Pokémon US
Nationals 2016.
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