A deck came into the PoJo, and the Dragonmaster asked to give it a deck deconstruction.   So we let him.  If you want him to do more of these ... send him your decks:


1x Arcanine - This is a good card. It can dish out serious damage while 
taking some in return. A must for any fire deck 
1x Beedrill - Good choice of a Grass Pokemon. Very strong. 
1x Charizard - Not that good in a deck with only 27 energy. You need AT 
LEAST 30-35 energy for a Charizard. 
4x Charmander - Needed for Evolving 
2x Charmeleon - I'd add another one of these, since you can't just rely on 
Charizard. Charmeleon is really good against Grass. 
1x Double Colorless Energy- This is for.....? 
1x Energy Removal - More of these. Most good decks have at least 2 or 3. 
2x Energy Retrival- No more than 2 even in a Charizard Deck. 
17x Fire Energy | MORE 
10x Grass Energy | ENERGY! 
2x Growlithe- Needed for Arcanine 
2x Kakuna - Too many for only two Weedle 
1x Koffing - Really good if your in a bind. 
1x Magmar - More. He's an Awesome Basic Pokemon. 
1x Nidoking - Good for Poison, but thats about it. 
3x Nidoran - 4 of these if you want two Nidorino. 
2x Nidorino - Good Grass Pokemon. 
1x Plus Power - Get rid of this. 
1x Poke`dex - Not really needed. 
1x Ponyta - Get rid of this crappy card. Until Rapidash comes out (Agility 
like Raichu but 30 damage, No retreat cost, pretty awesome) 
2x Potion 
1x Switch - 
2x Weedle- More of these if you want two Kakuna. 

This deck first disables the opponent with Grass Poke`mon, and then deals a 
whole lot of damge with large, powerful, Fire Poke`mon.


This deck is missing a lot of good cards: 
-Pokemon Trader (or two) 
-Bill 
-Tangela- The best grass basic to date. 
-Bulbasaur} WICKED GRASS 
-Ivysaur } 
-Prof. Oak
Those are only the really important ones. This deck would get wasted by a 
Mono-Fire, a Mono-Water, or even a Mono-Psychic. A Mono-Grass would have an 
OK chance of beating it. This deck is only good against Fighting. 

~~~~From..... the.. Dragon Master!
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