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Ok, you may look at the title and think... Charizard
sucks, what is this guy thinking. (Hopefully, you'll
get past the title before trashing this...)

Anyways, I think Charizard doesn't suck as much as
most people think. But I still don't use him!

Here's the deck:

Energy (24)
4 Double Colorless
8 Fighting
12 Fire

Pokemon (16)
3 Charmander
2 Charmeleon
3 Ponyta
2 Rapidash
3 Scyther
3 Hitmonchan

Trainers (20)
1 Scoop Up
2 Item Finder
2 Professor Oak
3 Gust of Wind
4 Plus Power
4 Energy Removal
4 Bill

This deck is incredible with a decent starting hand.
Start Scyther if possible. He opens up everything from
your bench. Don't start Ponyta. He dies quickly unless
you go first. Between Hitmonchan and Charmander, I
usually will start Char for the lower retreat cost,
and nothing has resistance to it. Onto the strategy.
Charmeleon and Hitmonchan are the power-hitters. Try
to build one up ASAP so you can start laying the boom
down on anything they put out. Rapidash's free retreat
and awesome attack (Agility) are very valuable in the
early/middle part of the game. Scythers are toasted by
this fiery horse. Scythers in the deck are there for
their resistance, free retreat, colorless attack and
high HP. The trainers are pretty much
self-explanatory. Bill and Oak for drawing power. This
deck takes a little longer than Haymaker, so only 2
Oaks are used. Energy Removal to give you more time to
build. PlusPower and GOW for that kill shot. Scoop Up
is very useful, but only 1 is in because of the
evolutions. Item Finder to get just the trainer when
you need it. This deck will be reconstructed totally
when Fossil comes out, but that will be saved for
another time.
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Nice deck.  Main thing that I would change is that I would take out the Char 
family and put in Growlithe and Arcanine.  They work much better and dish 
more damage.  Just look past the discarding energy and the damage to itself 
and you'll see the great pokemon in Arcanine.  Trust me, he's better if you 
don't play Charizard(and who would play Charizard?).  I would take out a 
+power, Bill, and a removal for 3 Comp. Searches, so that your deck can go 
off faster.  This deck is great though, and after those changes, it's going 
to be even better.