The Mewtwo-Fuji Recycler

The Movie promo version of Mewtwo is one of the best
Pokemon cards available.  Here is just one of its
uses, due to the following attack:

  (psychic) - Energy Absorbtion  Choose up to 2
  Energy cards from the discard pile and attach them to Mewtwo

Perhaps you like using Double Colorless Energy (DCE) for other attacks,
and wish there were a way to use DCE more than four times during a game.
But the Energy Retrieval trainer card only allows you to recover basic
Energy cards from your discard pile, which does not apply to DCE.
Solution: Mewtwo's "Energy Absorbtion", which has no such limitation.

So instead of using Double Colorless Energy only 4 times per game, you
now can use it up to 36 times in one game!!!  Here's how:

Suppose you have drawn and played all 4 of your DCEs, and all 4 have
finally ended up in your discard pile.  You make Mewtwo your active
Pokemon and use Energy Absorbtion at least 2 times, to attach all 4 DCEs
to Mewtwo.  Then you retreat Mewtwo, paying the cost with basic energy,
and use a Mr. Fuji trainer card to shuffle Mewtwo (and all cards attached
to it) back into your deck.  You have just recycled the 4 DCE's, as well
as Mewtwo.  After the 4 DCEs have been drawn and played again, and are
once again in your discard pile, you can repeat the process, using Mewtwo
and another Mr. Fuji card.  So each Mr. Fuji card can work with Mewtwo
to put 4 DCE cards back into your deck.  If you have 4 Mr. Fuji cards,
you could recycle 16 DCEs.  And if you also have 4 Item Finder cards,
you could recycle the 4 Mr. Fuji cards, for another 16 DCEs!
That's the original 4 DCE cards + 16 + 16 = 36 DCE cards.  Wheeeee!!!

Of course in reality you wouldn't want to wait until all 4 DCE cards are
discarded before you begin this process.  But if you do it each time
after only 2 DCE cards are in your discard pile, then you would still have
a total of 20 DCE cards for use during the game (4 + 8 + 8).

Bruce Long
bruce@asu.edu