Hey everyone, this is just a bonus quickie. I got this request for a deck
fix and just wanted to share with everyone the textbook definition of a bad
deck.

    Without further adieu:


Hi my name is Steven. My deck is the bast of all it has
>6 charmanders and 5 R charmanders
>4 dark charmeleons and 6 charmeleons
>4 dark charizards and 6 charizards
>4 energy retrieval and 20 fire energy
>  so how do like that mail me later by by.


   WOW! Is this deck illegal or what?? Let us count the ways that make this
such a bad deck!

   1) It's illegal! It has only 55 cards to start with, a severe handicap.
It boasts 6 of some card and 5 of another. I'm shocked he didn't add more
Energy Retrievals to even out the illegality. Well it just goes to show, if
you're going to cheat, cheat like a skunk. Just remember, skunks stink.

   2) It only uses one line of Pokemon, the infamous Charizard. Yes, the
lonely ten-year old's dream Pokemon. Why bother with the subtleties of
strategy and skill when you can make enemies for life by toasting them to
death??!

   3) It's all fire. Yeah Fire hurts, but what happens when this poor kid
comes across someone with a clue and a Raindance deck? You know your deck
sucks when the opponent's Magikarp stands a fighting chance.

   4) The only Trainer is Energy Retrieval. There's no card drawing power
here. There's no search power here. There's no rescue ability here. There's
no metagaming here. Oh wait! Here's something! Nope. I was mistaken, there's
still nothing here. Might as well turn back, Captain. There's no treasure in
this box.

   5) He has chosen to use Charizard and has somehow managed to leave out
the Double Colorless Energies. While this isn't as blatantly egregious as
the first 4, I see no point in being lenient. C'mon, for all the dopey
"Charizard rules!" decks I see, most of their creators have at least one
lima bean rattling around in their tin can skull telling them to use Double
Colorless Energy. Let this be a lesson to all that running yourself head on
into a brick wall just to impress your friends DOES have its drawbacks.

   Why does every kid with a Charizard and an axe to grind against society
build this type of deck? This is not the first Charizard deck I've received,
by far. It IS the worst though. I cannot imagine the type of impressionable
fool who would tolerate playing against this monstrosity of a deck. My
suspicion is that the creator doesn't play anyone. Well, not anyone
conherent enough to understand what is going on. This person's biggest
difficulty when playing is probably trying to keep his opponent from
coughing up hairballs on his nice valuable Charizards. And after a while,
I'm sure even the cat will begin to suspect that this deck is illegal.

    For crying out loud. Remember that thick bundle of colored glossy paper
filled with all those annoying words that came with the Starter Deck? That's
a rulebook, and, like the name suggests, it contains the rules. Yes, there
are rules to Pokemon, but you'd never know it by seeing decks like the one
above, would you?

    If anyone reading this has a deck that even remotely matches this one,
get a rulebook, a rosary and quit wasting everyone else's time.

                             Good Luck!!
                           Dr. Crash Landon

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