Hi,

I had a few bones to pick with this paricular article, and I'm sure you'll 
all agree.

# 9:Lugia: A great attack for a Water, fire, and lightning energy.  Good 
with plenty of rainbow energy and recycle.

Even in, say, a mono-R/W/or L deck and 2 Rainbow Energies, you have to 
discard them all when you attack. 20 damage has been self-inflicted, not 
including whatever damage your opponent did while you were trying to get the 
really obscure Energy cost. Big damage, but hardly repeatable and way too 
slow. A Clefable's dream, and not even great in casual play.

#7:Recycle: A great card for bringing back non-basic energies, ev. cards, 
and trainers.

A trainer that requires a coin flip to do anything or else it's just a 
waste. Even if you get a heads, you can only pick ONE card and it goes on 
top of your deck. If you really needed it, that's a bad place to put it. 
Next turn, your opponent can do something to shuffle your deck, and then 
what are you gonna do? Too many risks for not that big of a prize.

# 6:Super Rod: Giving cards like Charizard, Mr.Mime, and others a second 
chance.

Just like above, even though you get an effect no matter what you flip, what 
if you have no Basics/Evolutions in your discard? And there a lot of better 
cards to do these jobs. Ever hear of Nightly Garbage Run?

The rest of the list was compiled of, what I felt, anyway, pretty good 
Pokemon that would help out decks of their respective colors. I don't think 
they could be considered the BEST you could use, but it's certainly a list 
of pretty underrated cards, even though they're all rather new, which is a 
shame.

Jeff "Tangela Kid" Betten
simpson_fan21@hotmail.com

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