Subj: My pkmn deck
Date: 3/11/00 10:05:52 PM Central Standard Time
From: Lordalfacenturi@aol.com
To: thelady@pojo.com

i am Lord alfacenturi as the email adress says,
greetings miss pokemon lady i have a deck of my own creation (of course) that
i call: MIND BLAZE. from the name you probably already guessed its a
psychic/fire deck.
I play the card game same as the expert rules but instead of taking my own
prizes i play to win the other cards *with the deck i made it is very risky
because i could lose my charizard but i have an awsome deck i made so i
havent lost it yet ^_^)
well heres the cards fer it ^_^

 

 

POKEMON

mewtwo:2
kadabra: 2
moltres:1
charmeleon:1
vulpix:2
jynx: 1
ninetails: 1
charmander: 1
abra:2
Hypno: 1
charizard: 1
alakazam: 1 drowzee:1
eevee: 1
magmar: 1
mr mime: 1
flareon: 1 arcanine:1
growlithe: 1

TRAINERS

pokemon center: 2
imposter prof. oak: 2
pokedex: 1
prof. oak: 1
computer search: 2
pokeball: 1

ENERGY

Psychic: 13
Fire: 15

 

Ok, friend. I'm going to be very gentle about how I tell you this, but...
if you play for keeps, with a deck like this, you are

<< <<< <<< STUPID >>> >>> >>

ASIDE from the fact that I NEVER play for keeps (BECAUSE IT'S A DUMB IDEA) and I think people who play for keeps are BIG STUPID DORKS WHO CAN'T FOLLOW RULES I think that I would LOVE to play for keeps against a deck like this. Why? Because I think YOU would you be likely to lose to a very poorly built Geodude/Horsea deck with 4 energies, and just the fact that you claim you play for keeps with a deck as bad as this one made me laugh so hard that I hit my head on the floor as I fell out of my chair.

You have psychic and fire Pokemon, which is just fine, but only 1 of each of them--and your trainers... How did you construct this deck anyway? Did you just draw a circle on the ground, take all the fire and psychic pokemon you own and throw them up in the air, and put whatever fell inside the circle in the deck? No, I don't think you did. If you'd done that, then maybe your deck would actually WORK.

Hey, have you ever considered working for WOTC? They hire people like you to design thier theme decks. I'm sure that if you sent them this deck and a cover letter, they'd hire you in a nanosecond.

Now... enough rant. Onto the fix.
Start by taking EVERYTHING out of the deck. Now, put back in:

 Pokemon (14)  Trainers (18)  Energy (28)
2 Mr. Mime
3 Jynx
3 Charmander
2 Charmeleon
1 Charizard
3 Magmar (fossil)
2 Pokemon Breeder
2 Pokemon Trader
3 Bill
2 Professor Oak
3 Switch
3 Gust of Wind
3 Energy Retrieval
 03 DCE
10 Psychic
15 Fire

There. Now for the advice.
1. Don't send crappy decks like that to us without reading our other suggestions/fixes first.
2. Don't claim you have an awesome deck when it has more singles in it than a StarTrek/Dr. Who Convention.

Pardon my annoyance. TPL.