This article is a response to Thunda's Top Pokemon In America and Jungle. (By the way, I thought the Pojo said no more top tens...even if it has fifteen cards, it's still a top card list...) I'm not going to say "Oh this card needs to be on the list, not that one." This is about the information in the article, not about the choices made in what it covered. My first problem with this article is the highly inaccurate information about the Jungle cards. First, the author is just fine, right on the money about what Charizard can do. I don't know anything about what Raichu can do, so the author could very well be right. It isn't until the author begins mentioning Jungle cards that the information becomes blatantly wrong. In choice #3, the author claims that Pidgeot's Hurricane Attack will "switch all there Pokemon and take away all the energy cards attachet to it." Beyond the obvious grammar flaws, this person has obviously never seen a Pidgeot card long enough to read Hurricane's attack text, or only has information from a spoiler taken from a less than accurate source. The attack reads as follows (I'm taking this directly from the card that's sitting in front of me right now): Hurricane 30 Unless this attack Knocks Out the Defending Pokemon, return the Defending Pokemon and all cards attached to it to you opponent's hand. There is no switching around of "all their Pokemon" involved. It simply removes the defending Pokemon from play. PERIOD. As for taking away all the opponent's Pokemon's energy, it just goes back into your opponent's HAND. It is still there, just no longer in play. The author also says that this attack "does 30 but slowly does the job." The damage only occurs if it knocks the Pokemon out, otherwise there is no damage so Pidgeot can't slowly kill anything with Hurricane. I am not saying Pidgeot is a bad card (It's actually one of my favorite cards that I have in my main deck), or contesting this top card list. I am simply stating a fact that the author has inaccurate information and then giving the correct information. #4's description f Venusaur is just fine except for the reference to "leaf energy." Many players don't know the proper names of the 5 colors. They are: Grass (the green cards) Electric (the yellow cards) Fighting (the brown cards) Fire (the red or orange depending on when they were produced cards) Psychic (the purple cards) #s 5 and 6 I can't say anything about because I've never seen either card. The author's description of Vileplume is just a little off when describing it's Pokemon Power (Heal). Again directly from the card, Heal reads: POKEMON POWER: HEAL Once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. If heads, remove 1 damage counter from 1 of your Pokemon. This power can't be used is Vileplume is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed. As you can see, the damage counter you remove doesn't necessarily have to be on Vileplume, and you only have a 50-50 shot at taking one off. As for Petal Dance (not Petal Dances as the author writes), I can't even make out what he wrote about it. Basically, you flip 3 coins and do 40 damage times the number of heads. It also confuses Vileplume, rendering his power useless. (Again I'm not saying it's a bad card. That same deck with Pidgeot uses Vileplume, too, so I must like it!) #8 states that Blastoise's Rain Dance let's you switch energy around, just like Venusaur's Energy Trans. It doesn't. The text on the card reads (from my scan of the card I used when I listed it on eBay--it sold for $16.00): POKEMON POWER: RAIN DANCE As often as you like during your turn (before you attack) you may attach 1 water energy card to 1 of your water Pokemon. (This doesn't use your 1 Energy card attachment for the turn.) This power can't be used is Blastoise is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed. There is no moving. You can take a WATER ENERGY card FROM YOUR HAND and put it on a WATER Pokemon. Onward we go, wading through more and more inaccurate information... I've never seen a Jolteon, so no comments there... Ninetails, now here's a card I know a little about. He was my first holofoil, and now I have two of them, so I guess that means I know a little about it. For once, so does the author. The information was right on the money! Chansey (not Chancey, read the card) has correct information, too! It looks like the author finally got to some cards he or she has! As for Scyther and Mewtwo, I've never seen them in person so I can't comment on anything except this ( the second problem I have with this article)--if this is a list of the top cards, why put Mewtwo on it if it "suxz so bad!" I guess the same thing would apply to his section on Chansey (or Chancey if you have the same reading ability, or rather lack thereof, as this person). Why put cards on a top card list if they "sux?" A top card list is by definition a list of the TOP (a word generally assumed in this context to mean "best, hottest, or most useful") cards. Apparently the author thinks these two cards are not the top cards. The third and final problem I have with this article applies to several articles I've read. I understand that most of Pokemon players tend to be younger. My fellow 18-year-old-and-above players are a small minority, an exception to the rule. That still does not excuse the incredible lack of spelling and grammar in these articles. A few typos and punctuation problems are understandable (as I am sure this article contains), but at least try to make a coherent sentence. And as for spelling, the only real problems are the names of cards. It's not that hard to just LOOK AT THE CARD! Honestly! Just pick up the card--the name is right at the top. And if you don't have the card, go to the Wizards of the Coast site and look at the full listing of all cards in both the basic and Jungle sets. It's not that hard to look over 64 names and see that what you call Joltion is really Jolteon. Well, now that I've opened myself to all sorts of flames with this little article, I guess it's as good a time as any to tell everyone my email address is ericj@csranet.com (and as a side note to the Pojo, I KNOW that my email address is in HTML. I can't get this email program to stop it even in Plain Text Only mode.) and my name is Eric Williamson, the same Eric Willamson who brought you all the article "No Tourney Blues."