Battle for the excitement, for the challenge...and for the victory! In the Pokémon Trading Card Game: HS—Triumphant expansion, you'll find what you need to put triumph within your reach. Dialga and Palkia combine as an incredible Pokémon LEGEND. Machamp, Gengar, and a half-dozen other powerful Pokémon appear for the first time as Pokémon Prime Cards. New Trainer, Supporter, and Stadium cards-plus a new Special Energy card-give you new strategies and deck ideas. The only thing missing is a Trainer who battles to win...and that's you!
With more than 100 cards, the brand-new Pokémon TCG: HS—Triumphant expansion is perfect for beginner and intermediate Pokémon TCG players of all ages! Packaged with a holographic treatment, two theme decks—each including one guaranteed foil card—will arrive in stores nationwide on November 3, 2010!
Features of the new Pokémon TCG: HS—Triumphant expansion:
Legendary Pokémon come back in pairs as LEGEND cards—Dialga & Palkia and Darkrai & Cresselia!
Amazing new Pokémon Prime cards that include Celebi, Machamp, and Gengar!
New theme decks, Verdant Frost and Royal Guard that let players send shivers down their opponents' spines while unleashing devastating attacks with incredibly powerful Pokémon!
When: Sat Oct 23rd
Where: Rantoul Public Library
106 W. Flessner, Rantoul, IL 61866
Time: Registration opens at 9:00,
and we'll start the tourney about 9:30am
Cost: $25 (over $35 value!) *see details below!
*NOTE:
The first 30 players will be Guaranteed to receive
a pack of 60 cool Promo sleeves and a Prerelease Promo Card .
Supplies are limited, so Contact Ryan or Camille to reserve your seat and Preregister now!
Want to earn even more packs?
You'll get a Free Pack for each new player you bring who hasn't played at our events before! So bring along your friends, neighbors, cousins, parents... you get a pack for each one you bring!
AND...since it's close to Halloween, we're goin' Spooky Style!!
Bring or wear something Halloweeny and you'll be entered to win a special booster pack door prize!
We always have a blast seeing people come in their costumes!
Now keep in mind the spirit of a Prerelease is non-competitive, with no real pressure to win, which is why everyone will receive prize packs at the end. The main objective is to have fun and check out all the new cards! But don't worry, we'll have LOTS of random pack giveaways throughout the day! Plus, I'll give out a free Pass to our next Prerelease worth $25, (can be used in either Rockford or Rantoul) as well as some other great door prizes! You can be sure we'll all have a good time!
*************Triumphant Prerelease************
- Main Event -
Cost: $25 for 6 boosters to build the deck you'll play in the tournament, plus a special Promo Card and a cool set of sleeves for your decks for everyone, while supplies last! And I CAN tell you that you'll love them!
So you get more than $35 worth of products for only a $25 entrance fee!
And 2 weeks before they even go on sale to the public! Such a deal!!
Main event - Each player will receive 6 booster packs of the new set (to keep) and may start opening their packs. Players will each build their own 40 card deck (using only those cards from the 6 packs) to play in the tourney and write down their decklist, deciding how many energies they will want to include in their decks. ( no trading cards with others until after the Tourney) Basic energies are provided on loan, and for this Prerelease we will also have special Proxie Basic Dark and Basic Metal Energies. Everyone will then have 30 minutes to build their decks using the cards from the packs they received.
And don't worry, it's not really that hard to build your own deck... generally there aren't a whole lot of trainers in a set, so you'll usually want to include as many of them that will be helpful as you can. You want to make sure you have as many basic Pokemon as you can, and include any evolutions that you might have been lucky enough to get as well. Try to keep your deck to 2 or 3 types, like Fire and Electric or whichever, because that will be helpful to you in drawing the particular energies you need for your Pokemon's attacks. Of course Colorless type Pokemon can fit nicely into any type of deck since they can use any type of energy you happen to have. Since your deck needs to be 40 cards in total, a relatively simple rule of thumb would be 20 energies and 20 in any combination of basics, their evolutions (if you got any), and trainers. Then, just decide how many of which type of energies you'll need to get by looking over the energy requirements for your Pokemon's attacks. And that's pretty much all there is to it!
Remember, it's a tournament for fun, so don't stress over building 'the perfect deck'... just have fun with it!
Once the decks are built, the tourney will begin with 20 minute rounds and play for 4 prizes. The number of rounds we will have will depend on the total number of players there, but probably 3 or 4 rounds.Prizes: ALL participants who finish will receive 2 more Triumphant prize packs at the end of the tourney
(making a total of 8 packs, PLUS the surprise gift sleeves and the Promo card)
*********** Side Events ********* After the main event we'll have a
- Theme Deck Challenge Side Event -
( after the main event and a lunch break, approximately 12:30pm)
Cost: $25 And all participants in the Theme Deck Challenge will ALSO receive 4 Triumphant prize packs for participating in the tourney, in addition to the decks they played.
So your choice of one of the 2 Decks plus 4 Triumphant booster packs for only a $25 entrance fee!
This side event is separate from the main event and follows a much more casual format. Great for younger players, parents, those who may not be as familiar with deck building on their own, or those who just want the new Preconstructed Theme Decks! If you don't know how to play, we can teach you! Each player will choose one of 2 different Triumphant Theme Decks to use to battle others who also choose the Theme Deck Challenge, and the nice thing about playing the Theme Deck Challenge is that each Theme Deck also comes with one of the new Rulebooks and playmats, a special coin, and your own damage counters, all very useful tools for the newer players.
PLUS There will
definitely be a $5 Modified, so bring your best Modified Deck along... Everybody gets a pack. 1 pack per player into the prize pool per age group.
Then after that, probably a $15 Draft as well.
(1 pack for every 2 players into an overall prize pool)
It's fun to make a whole day of it, so why not stick around and keep playing for some more packs? We want you to have a really enjoyable day of playing Pokemon with your friends so we'll squeeze in as much as we possibly can!
Be sure to come to the Prerelease so you can get to see what's inside before they even go on sale to the public! Check out the OP website for more info!
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