From: Justin Hogan [justinosparce@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 7:14 PM

Subject: RE: Rant. Perspective on WotC and Pokimon in general.

Dear Wizards and PoJo and Ness,

     I am 13 years old (what is that::counting on
fingers::two years left...?) and love the game of
Pokimon!!!  I have been playin Pokimon for 1 and a
half years now and it has grown on me like a cheap
pair of shoes.  When i was little i started playin
Magic (alpha) and quit two months later (that tells u
alot!) and then started again like 5 months earlier
when I was at summer camp and alot of people played
it.  So I bought a theme deck (Burial from
Apocalypse::cant spell worth my life::) played it for
about two seconds, and thought to myself, "Hmm. This
game does has a little more strategy then Pokimon but
it is a little complicated.......Pokimons flat out
better!!!"  

     Well what I'm tryin to say is that I like the
game Pokimon better then Magic.  Like I said before is
that I have two years left in Pokimon (IF IT EVEN
LASTS THAT LONG!!!) according to WotC until I'm kicked
out, brainwashed, and forced to play Magic
::UGHHHH...::.

     One reason why I like to play pokimon is because
it is rookie-friendly.  At Comic Chest (local league)
there is an assortment of players, from Pokimon to DBZ
to magic to Mage Knight.  This is what I see: a DBZ
clique in the corner playing by themselves, booing
when there are Pokimon announcements and allowing no
outside contact.  Magic is a little better with that
issue, but still doubting Pokimon's awesomeness (had
to put that in there).  I have no beef with's Mage
Knight, even though they are SOOOOOOO zoned-in on
their game, about to bite u when u interrupt there
game (I am exaggerating a /little/).  But overall,
this is what I see when I go in Comic Chest to play
Pokimon: We're all sittin at our tables, battlin our
battles.  When we see a new little kid, we welcome him
over, let him watch our battles, play a turn for us. 
We ask them if they want to battle us. WE hold Deck
Fixin sessions every week. WE hold an easy,
rare-tourny every weekend to keep Pokimon form
becoming a dying fad. WE care about our game.  All
these reasons tell you about the kind of people who
play, and care about, the game of Pokimon.

     So lets rally together to put a stop to this
madness (Isn't this kinda reminiscent of the Union
Leaders in the 30s rallying against the Big Business
leaders?!?!) that WotC is trying to put upon us! 
Don't take me wrong; I'm not tryin to bash WotC, it
PROVIDES us with Pokimon.  I'm just trying to say that
they probably got higher forces (big corporate
high-honchos) telling them what to do, a.k.a ELIMINATE
15+. It's not all there fault, they've just been under
the influence of greedy money-hoggers.  The MTs will
probably not let this go on, so we have to support
them, and stop THIS!!!

Loyal member of Team Chaos,
Justinosparce, 13, VA 

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