Hello, people of the Pojo. I just wanted to update you on the status of the
deck. The tournament wins are up to three, and the record of this deck is
now 28-3. I decided to make some changes to help the speed and effectiveness
of the deck, and now the deck has become much stronger than the version used
to win those three tourneys. Here is the deck in its current form:

Trainers:
4 Energy Removal
4 Bill
3 Professor Oak
2 Energy Retrieval

Pokemon:
4 Nidoran Male
3 Nidorino
4 Tangela
4 Abra
3 Kadabra
2 Jynx
2 Mewtwo
1 Clefairy
1 Farfetch'd

Energy:
11 Grass Energy
10 Psychic Energy
2 Double Colorless Energy

I thought I'd explain some of my choices. First, I removed the Bulbasaur
string and replaced it with 4 Nidoran Male, 3 Nidorino, Mewtwo, and
Farfetch'd. This helps the speed of the deck dramatically, because the first
version's only first-turn plays were Abra, Jynx, and Clefairy. Not very
strong options. Now, the deck is significantly faster for using the
farfetch'd and the nidorans. Also, for those of you keeping track, the deck
only uses three holofoils now.  The speed will help you win against haymaker
and raindance, the two biggest decks in the environment. I added four energy
removal to combat haymaker mainly, since raindance never has to worry about
energy. The only problem is Nidoran's randomness, but if you "perfect" the
Chansey coin flip, you'll get heads most of the time. I believe that the key
to success in Pokemon is playing strings of evolution that are awesome at
all levels, of which not many are present in the basic set. Jungle adds
Nidoran Females, which are awesome, and will probably be added to the deck.
The pokemon which used two energy for their attacks usually died to haymaker
before they could get a shot in, much less kill a Hitmonchan. The only
weakness this deck has colorwise is Magmar and the Abra string. Magmar is
the best fire pokemon right, but he is sorely underused, and that weakness
was taken care since i have only the Tangelas that are weak against fire.
The abra string isn't something i have to worry about right now either,
because the Nidorans can take them out in one hit. That's about it, and
remember, Charizard is a bad card that should never be played. Sorry I don't
have a tourney report, but I will post the next tourney I go to, probably a
week or so.

Email me at unistaff@msn.com
Kenny Crawford,

Proud member of Team "We wish we were on Team Winners" :)
Kenny Crawford
Jeremy Blake