Hey Chipmunk ....

What is the Metagame?
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Metagame is when you use outside information to change things.  In 
pokemon, it ranges from changing cards in your deck to your complete 
strategy from knowing something that you don't know.
   One example is this.  I know that at almost every tourny I go to, 
everyone is Scyther crazy.  Scyther appears in almost every deck.  ALMOST is 
the word, but more than 50% of the decks I have seen use him.  Well, I 
METAGAMED this knowledge and put in Ponyta.  I METAGAMED my strategy and 
tried my best to NEVER start with Hitmonchan as active.
   Another METAGAME example is deck types.  If you want to be real good, you 
need to build more than one deck, and then play them off the METAGAME.  
Basically, if you know that TONS of people play Fire or Haymaker, you run a 
Raindance.  If you know that people are playing Mime/Meditate decks, you run 
Haymaker.  See Tyler's article for the Paper/Rock/Scissors on the 3 popular 
deck types.

I hope this clears up any confusion on what METAGAME is.