First, I will announce my new name on Pojo. I will henceforth be known as... (Drumroll Please) Shadow Assassin- The Dark and Mysterious Destroyer of Archetypes and Bashers.

Secondly, I am horrified and the unprovoked bashes made by Tim Svenson. I could see maybe a little talking to if someone was claiming jungle Goldeen rules, but Muk! Muk is good. At the pokémon leauge in 2000, I always lost to a Wiggly/ Chansey/ Scyther/ Muk deck. It killed me every time. So I am starting a protest! Tim knows he can get away with it now. I'll probabally be bashed myself for this article. But everyone, if you join the protest, maybe we can stop him. In every article you type, put a protest of bashing and Tim untill Pojo refuses to print anything with author bashes in it, like they said they would.

Now, Shadow Assassin's First Card of the Day

The card I will do today is Neo Revelation Houndoom. My favorite pokémon aslo makes a powerful card.

First, quotes:

Blaine -Makes me wish I also trained Darkness.

Sabrina - But Blaine, Houndoom's Fire as well.

Blaine - Oh, right, it is. I knew that!

Unnamed Basher - Anyone who plays Houndoom is STUPID, and shouldn't be... Hey... good Houndoom... please let me live! Moooooommmy! (A blood-curdling scream blares across the room as Houndoom brutaly dismembers the basher)

Claire - Its the first pokémon with a built in darkness recoverer.

Koga - Hey, one of the Houndours poisons!

Ok, now we look at the card. 70 hp isn't bad, but isn't great either for a stage 1. No weakness and Pyschic resistance are standard dark issue. Be careful of Chansey and Rocket's Zapdos. His Dark Flame attack is powerful, because it is the only attack besides Mewtwo's which allows you to recover dark energies, and Mewtwo isn't dark type. His second attack has good synergy with the first- Every darkness energy attached can deal 10 more damage. With 4 Dark Energy, you deal on average 90. That is pretty hard to do though. Using Rainbow Energy and Porygon2, you can have more than 4 Dark attached. That means more damage.

Now, a look at the Houndours

The Fire one is usbetter. Its ually first attack poisons, and the second builds up for some Dark Flaming with Houndoom. The Dark type has 10 less HP, but you can play Dark on it without penalty. Usually 3 Fire Houndour and 1 Dark Houndour is a good proportion to 3 Houndoom.

In Standard I give Houndoom a 6.5/10. Chansey and Wiggly as well as others can more easily take him out.

In Modified, he gets a 7.5/10. He has all the cards he needs, and none of those Base set annoyances like Super Energy Removal.

You can E-mail me for Deck fixes (I will do some deck fixes as articles, with your permission), comments, questions, or suggestions at james_Gundam@hotmail.com

-Shadow Assassin, Dark and Mysterious Destroyer of Archetypes, and Foe to bashers on Pojo.