Base Arcanine - Possibly one of the best stage one pokemon ever.  Let's examine it.  No resistance.  Weak to water.  100 HP (awesome).  Well, I would counter the no resistance argument with the line "most grass pokemon are weak to fire".  The water weakness is it's biggest flaw. 
 
The attacks:  Flame Thrower 2 fire + 1 colorless discard one fire for 50 damage.
                    Take Down 2fire + 2 colorless for 80 damge, does 30 to itself.
    Well, big damage here and that spells fast kills.  A flame thrower kills scyther, take down kills just about everything other than a lickitung, chansey and some evolutions in a single hit.  His biggest fear is anything energy removal.  Use energy retrievals with him and double colorless for take downs.  Use big pokemon to stall until you can power him up (scyther, chansey, lickitung, fossil magmar).  There are some excellent combos with him.  Defender will stop the 30 to yourself and leave it at 10, a few potions make him very awesome and almost unstoppable, and plus powers to take out those tauros and jigglys quick.  OH, and most importantly, he kills wiggly tough in one hit...yeah, that rules.  full heal energies may help in case he get's confused.  Turbo Arcanine decks?  That could be an interesting counter to turbo wiggly decks.  Gust of winds are a must so you can choose your targets.  The best part is he's UNCOMMON.  I give this card a rating of
 
    9.0.
    Excellent card.
 
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