Listen you lamebrained psycho, there are a couple things about your article that, mabye i should say were WRONG?? 1. What is this deal with retreating a pokemon by discarding energies from your hand? ::snicker:: Read the rule book on pg. 10: "You my switch your active pokemon with one of the pokemon in your bench. To do this, you MUST DISCARD ENERGY ATTACHED TO THE ACTIVE POKEMON equal to the retreat cost that is written on the lower righthand corner". Dont like it? Well mabye you should stick your head between your knees and kiss your own head, i mean @ss. 2. Charizard is not the best card around. Everybody who says that really hasn't actually played the game because it all matters on strategy. Mime could beat Charizard easily! Blastoise could whoop Charizard anyday! But they all have weaknesses too so there is no "best card" Do you have tears in your eyes from hearing a blastoise beating your big and powerfull wittle chawizad? ::snicker:: Well you can call 1-800 BOOHOO and ask for extension WAAWAA! :*( 3. Fire pokemon aren't the strongest of them all! It all depends on strategy. A haymaker could beat your fire deck ::snicker:: any day because the whole point of a haymaker is to dish out fast damage, so by the time charizard has done fire spin, whhhooooo!! 5 more prizes to go!! And best of all, fire decks are very weak to energy reamovals! Whoo! This did wonders for my heart! Jimbo10020@aol.com J.K.