Hello. I'm going to respond to this guys second E-mail. Lets' take a look:

<,Let me clear things up in nice american english>
::sigh:: Should I really critique any grammatical mistakes you've made in
either of your letters? Nah. That'd take too long.

<You said because I haven't played in any tourneys that
I haven't faced any good competition.  Untrue, I have
played my best friend, who is the same age, started
playing TCG when I started, and has 7 decks of all the
basic types.  I played him 3 times, all three he lost
to my Feraligatr/Blastoise/Kanghaskan deck.  I also
battle adults at my pokemon league and have beaten
them too.  So I don't just play kids.  Thank You.  My
Abomination Water Deck, 20-1. Period.>

So you played against your friend and some people at the Pokemon League.
That's nice. But playing in an actual tournament is a world of difference
then playing at the Pokemon League against people of different ages. I'm
undefeated in my local League as well, but Tournaments are much, much harder
to do well in.

<<Second, super energy removals.  Too easy to be abused.
 Even if both players have 4 in their decks, it is
still a luck card.  Do you know what "luck" means,
anyways?  The person that is lucky enough to get the
super energy removals at the right time will have the
advantage,>>
Umm...the time you get the cards in your deck is the whole point of the game.
If you stacked your deck it wouldn't be any fun, now would it. And of course
the card gives you an advantage! That's why people use it. Advantages=Win.
That's what you usually try to do in games.

<< because they will strip energy from your
active pokemon, not allowing you to attack in most
cases, and THEY will still be able to attack.>>
So if they will be able to attack anyway, why are you complaining about the
card? -_-
 
<<Super ER's are luck cards, whoever is lucky enough to get
them at the right time, say when your opponent brings
out a stage 2 with a 4 energy cost move, you super
energy removal, making it so they can't attack.>>
My God, that's a long run on sentance. The point of removing energy (and
therefore, the card Super Energy Removal) is to do just that: Stop the
opponent from attacking.

<< They ruin all strategies because I don't know of any deck
that can do anything without energy on their pokemon.>>
Elekid can do that. But once again, that's what Energy Removals are for. To
stop opponent from attacking/retreating.

<<Worst case is you have a match where your not even
able to attack at all because the opponent gets all 4
super ER's out at the begining of the match.  You say
that never happens, well it does.  Try battling
someone 15 times that uses 4 super ER's in their deck
every time.  My friend did that because his deck could
not beat my decks.  It got so boring playing against 4
super ER's that I instituted the ban on them. >>
I'll say it again: the strategy of Energy Removal decks is to remove energy.
It certainly may destroy your plan, but your friend seemed to be doing just
fine. So what your saying is you ban cards that make you lose?

<< See! Period.>>
All I see is that you're acting like a very sore loser. Period.

<<FYI, I did not ban super energy removals from my
matches against my current water deck because they
hurt my deck.  My water deck is fully capable of
surviving super energy removals.>>
Then why did you ban them? And how did you get the power to ban cards -_-
<< And I don't ban
cards now in hope that I can enter a tourney.  I live
in Kalamazoo, MI.  Any Idea where one is around here?>>
You don't ban cards in hope that you can enter a tourney? Let me try to
figure out what you were trying to say
...
...
I'll guess! Are you saying that when you play in a tournament, you won't say
"I ban this card because it's beating me"? Do you understand how stupid that
sounds?

<<Stadiums:  They give an advantage to a certain type of
pokemon.  Cinnibar gym helps blaines fire pokemon.
Brocks stadium (forgot what it is called) helps brocks
pokemon.  Erika's gym helps erikas pokemon.  Misty's
gym helps misty's pokemon.  Get the drift.  But there
is no stadium that helps my water deck.  I use
Blastoise/feraligatr/kanghaskan.  I use lots of
trainers, they help the deck too much to use chaos
gym.  I am going to super energy removals just because
the opponent can with my ban lifted, so eco and no
removal gym don't help.  So what stadium helps out my
deck, huh?  See my point.  Period.>>
So now you are going to use one of the evil "Luck Cards" becaues you are,
once again, using your God-like power to ban cards to unban it? @_@.
So there aren't any current stadiums that help your deck, in your opinion?
Then don't use one. That's not too difficult to comprehend, is it? But you
can't stop your opponent from using them if they help their deck. I really
don't see any point in that paragraph. Were you trying to say that you don't
want to use a stadium in your deck?

<<multiple energy types.  if you have say 3 energy types
in your deck, that means logically, you must use less
of each energy.  That means its much harder to get the
right energy at the right time.  Now say you have more
than one evolution that takes 3 of one of the types of
energy to attack.  If you only have 6 of the three
types of energy, that means you have to get 3 energies
on that pokemon, each with only a 1 in 10 chance of
getting one. >>
But most potpurri/haymaker decks don't have evolutions, and they don't need
much energy to attack. So there goes that theory.

<< I'm not am mathmetician and can figure
out the odds of getting 3 energy when you only have 6
in your deck, but those odds do suck, I know that for
sure.  I almost always annialate multiple energy type
decks.  Even my friend who doesn't believe hardly
anything I say realizes that good decks only have one
energy type. >>

<sarcasm>Hear that, everyone? All your haymaker decks are horrible. Tsk Tsk.
It's not like anybody's one any STS's with them. </sarcasm>

<<Sure my loss was to an electrabuzz deck, but it was my
weakness, and I'm not gonna feel sorry for it.  Too
many problems in that match.  Guess you can't have
good luck all the time.  [Note to self:  get rid of
luck factor in pokemon tcg.]>>
Get rid of the luck? How!? Stack all the decks, no coin flips...then the game
would be boring.

<<I have around an 85% winning record against everyone
i've faced.  No one has been able to consistently beat
me thats battle me more than twice.  I even have a
winning recond against my closest friends who I myself
taught how to make good decks.  Yeah, I know thats a
little cocky, but its true>>
So you're saying that your good against people who you've taught, but you've
never really played anyone in a tournament scene? You'll be in for a rude
awakening if you ever play in a tournament.

<<Mark "MSJ" Yake
-m_yake@yahoo.com>>

Signature 1

<<I forgot to justify why I now want to go to
tournaments.>>
This is an E-mail. You can just copy and paste this paragraph in the body of
your essay. Is this a PS?
 << Beside the fact that it is getting kinda
boring not getting much good competition, its getting
real annoying that people are trying to make decks
specificially to beat my water deck. I want to battle
people with good decks of their own, not ones made
just because you know what deck I'm going to use.>>
That's nice. But did you beat those people using your "bans" and any other
rules you made up? You can't do that in a tournament.

<<Word of wise, make your own good decks, not ones
specifically made to beat other peoples decks.>>
Word of Wise? Do you mean "Words of the Wise" or "Words of Wisdom"? Or did
you kinda combine those two?
You should be honored that people are changing the decks they play to beat
you! Or could it be that they are just starting to use a slightly faster,
more efficient deck than the one you have?

<<-Mark "MSJ" Yake
-m_yake@yahoo.com>>

Signature 2. You don't sign after a PS. -_-

Well, that was fun. Feel free to e-mail me.

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