How much damage can you do on the first turn?
Here's the rules...

-You won the coin toss; the other player hasn't
gone yet.
-You can have up to three "heads" coin flips. The
rest must be tails.
-You may assume anything you want to about the
configuration of your deck and your opponent's deck.
-You may choose your starting Pokemon as well as
your opponent's.
-We're not playing under 15-3c... use up to four of
any card in your deck.

That's the challenge. What can you come up with? I
have the best answer below -- I think. Can you beat
mine?









Solution: You start with Misty's Psyduck, and your
opponent has Blaine's Magmar as his Active Pokemon.
You attach a Psychic Energy to Misty's Psyduck,
then attach four Misty trainers and four Pluspowers
(you'll need to Oak a few times). Then, you attack:
flip three heads, which allows you to Metronome
Magmar's second attack:

Lava Burst - Discard the top 5 cards of your deck.
(If there are fewer than 5 cards in your deck,
discard all of them.) This attack does 20 damage
for each [Fire] Energy card you discarded in this
way.

Assuming the next five cards in your deck are Fire
Energy, that's 100 Base Damage. The Damage is:

100 [Base] x 2 [Weakness] + 80 [Misty] + 40
[Pluspower] = 320 total damage.

And you thought Erika's Jigglypuff was powerful!

--Moogle1 (moogle1@wizardmail.com)
(Can you beat my solution? E-mail me!)