Hello! it's me! the Tinkaton ex player again! I just won my first locals today!

After weeks of tinkering with the deck. and a few suggestions from Reddit. not only have I optimized my list the version you see here. But this is also the list that I used to win locals today.

This is very exciting for me because not only is this my first win at a Pokemon locals, But this is also my first win in any game at a local game store ever.

here are the matches for those who were curious

Round 1(won): Kyurem Vmax. this one was easy, my opponent was an older man who didn't understand what my deck did. he also played terribly slow.

Round 2(Won): Charizard/Pigdeot. this one was a little closer, but my deck has a pretty good matchup into zard so I was pretty confident I could take this game. he tried to use a heroes cape to prevent a knockout for zard, but I was able to clear it by draw a ton of cards. also, he did Iono me, which kind of hurt, but I was able to get back up to 10 thanks to lucky helmet and my dudunsparce's

round 3(Won): Chien-pao/Baxcalibur. this match was super close, and arguably the hardest of the bunch. we were both pretty even in the prize trade, and my opponent was smart enough to avoid my jirachi so I didn't get ahead., but, with the help of some smart counter catchers to take down Bax, some clever KO's, and using Ursaluna for the first time to close out the game. I was able to win the match, as well as the whole tournament.

Pokémon: 19

3 Tinkaton ex PR-SV 31

1 Tinkaton PAL 105

1 Tinkatuff PAL 104

4 Tinkatink PAL 102

4 Dudunsparce TEF 129

4 Dunsparce TEF 128

1 Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex TWM 141

1 Radiant Jirachi SIT 120

Trainer: 35

4 Rare Candy PAF 89

3 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking TEF 145

3 Arezu LOR 153

3 Clavell PAL 177

1 Morty's Conviction TEF 155

1 Boss's Orders PAL 172

2 Lucky Helmet TWM 158

3 Pokégear 3.0 SVI 186

4 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TEF 144

4 Nest Ball SVI 181

4 Great Ball PAL 183

2 Counter Catcher PAR 160

1 Switch SVI 194

Energy: 6

1 Neo Upper Energy TEF 162

4 Double Turbo Energy BRS 151

1 Gift Energy LOR 171

Thank you to those who gave me some good suggestions for improving the deck. I probably wouldn't have done it without ya!

this is only the beginning though. I'll keep tinkering with this deck as new sets come out. this game has been super great so far and the community especially so.