>Hi. Here is my Damage Swap deck. It is based on the Alakazams
>and Chanseys. Sometimes it works fine but if I don't get an
>Alakazam on my bench, it's almost impossible to win. Could you
>please help me with this a bit?
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>The tactic is to get a Mr. Mime as the active Pokemon, and at
>least 1 Alakazam and a few Chanseys on the bench. Then swap all
>the damage counters to the Chanseys and heal them with Pokemon center.
> Ê
>Alakazam's damage swap:
>Ê
>16 Pokemon
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>4 Abra
>3 Kadabra
>3 Alakazam
>3 Chansey
>3 Mr. Mime
>Ê
>24 Trainers
>Ê
>2 Plus power
>4 Defender
>3 Switch
>3 Gust of wind
>3 Energy removal
>3 Computer search
>2 Imposter Prof. Oak
>2 Pokemon center
>2 Bill
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>20 Psychic energy
>Ê
>Thanks for reading this letter
Ahh... the famous damage swap deck rises from the ashes. Or, so it should. The age of Fossil has been upon us for several months now, and the unfortunate side of it is that this deck has lost a lot of luster because of it. But, Damage Swap earned a very formidable ally with Fossil, one you probably never thought about before... Moltres.

But how can you put Moltres to use, you are probably asking? Well, let's take the concept that you've got here and let us add the bird in...

Pokemon (13 Basic + 6 Evols = 19 Total):
4 Abra
3 Kadabra
3 Alakazam
4 Chansey
2 Mr. Mime
3 Moltres

This deck is a true-blue stall deck. Its only attacking power really is in the form of Chansey using Double-Edge, as the Psychic and Moltres attacks aren't going to cut it in most situations.

So, let's prepare our deck with mostly Fire energy to use Moltres' Wildfire attack ;)

Energy (18 Basic + 4 DCE = 22 Total):
13 Fire
5 Psychic
4 Double Colorless Energy

Our last step is trainers. To make an effective stall deck, you'll need 4 Pokemon Centers to get rid of those damage tokens. And ways to put cards back into your deck. Fuji, Gambler, Lass are some of the popular choices... at least until Team Rocket comes out next week. We've got room for (60 - 19 - 22 = 19) 19 trainers.

Trainers (19 Total):
4 Bill
2 Pokemon Breeder
4 Pokemon Center
3 Mr. Fuji
2 Imposter Professor Oak
2 Energy Retrieval
2 Item Finder

Best of luck!