>From: GoDZero21@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:17:22 EDT
>Subject: trading card strategy
>To: ThePoJo@thepojo.com
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>                        UnBiased Huge PokeArticle
>ok maybe there's some bias involved but mostly it's a good article.  ok ok 
>first thing on the list. hmm the jungle cards. what can i say. they are what 
>an expansion set should be. however i feel they should have included foils of 
>other pokemon. the top pokemon for the jungle set is ........ kaghaskan, 
>scyther, snorlax, and venomoth comes in way at the bottom. all the other 
>cards are ok. mr.mine is pretty useful or so everyone says so. i have never 
>seen a card of him so i can't tell you the truth. kanghaskan is arguably the 
>most useful pokemon in both sets. he has high hp, is a basic pokemon. he lets 
>you draw a freaking card if you have at least one energy and his comet punch 
>is a powerful weapon if you get the luck of the flip. scyther is a new member 
>of the bash brothers clan. the bash brothers clan includes hitmochan, 
>electabuzz ,jjinx and it's newest member scyther. these guys are a must in 
>every deck. have at least one of these guys in every deck....i'm serious. hmm 
>the evee chain isn't bad either. check those out. the rest of the jungle 
>cards just suck.......! well now on to another form of business. ever since i 
>sold my charizard i have realized that it isn't an all that great card. i 
>used to think that this guy was THE man but now i just think of him as one 
>big target. you know i always say to myself and it always is true. how often 
>do you get to fully evolve charizard in a regular tourny battle? i'd say one 
>out of 20 times if luck really hates you. 1 out of 10 times if luck is with 
>you all the time. i have played againest many people and no one seems to use 
>charizard anymore. he is just out of style. my deck is made out of fast and 
>easy utilizing pokemon that can strike hard and strike fast. i can usually 
>kill a charizard in 3 turns or less. if a get one of my energy 
>removals........hehehe. charizard is just really big and all. i think i can 
>kill off his little basic evoltions in one turn. no one can get by a 
>tournament without getting one of their charmanders killed therefore 
>destroying the hopes of evolving it into charizard.  and where the hell do 
>people go off saying that chansey can stand a chance of beating this giant 
>crimson teddy bear? chansey can't kill charizard in one turn and neither can 
>charizard do the opposite. however is all depends who goes first. if chansey 
>is charged up and it attacks first and if charizard is also charged up then 
>he attacks.......chansey is gone for. i don't know it all depends on the 
>circumstances. most of the time chansey will die after she hits herself then 
>charizard attacks or charizard hits her and then she kills herself. i don't 
>know it's  a very different situation but i do not think that chansey can 
>stand up to charizard. hmm what else. yes now onto deck generalization. it 
>all depends on what kind of deck you want. if you want a huge deck with alot 
>of evolutions.....you're win per game rate is going to be at around the 50 
>percent line. if you however decide to go with a quick strike 
>team......you're win per game rate will be pretty darn high depending on what 
>kind of a trainer you are and what kind of trainers you put in your deck. if 
>you're an experienced player you can probably get a win per game ratio of 
>about 9/10. well i know that the evolved pokemon have high hp's and 
>everything but most of you don't even have charizard. just because there 
>evolved and final form has humongus hp doesn't mean that they will always 
>make it there. most of the time your opponent will kill off the basic or 
>first evolution of your high chain evolution type gamestyle.  so that is a 
>downside and always risky since most basics have weak attacks and even worse 
>low hp. the quick strike style however is the one to go with. i suggest the 
>bash brothers personally with a dash of chansey or  kanhaskan if you can get 
>your hands on it....... these pokemon are all stage one and can kill off 
>charizard before he can get his wings ready for a fire spin. all of these 
>pokemon hit hard and have reasonable hp. they can all be played right off 
>your hand since they are basics and they all are in teh top 10 cards of 
>pokemon in my opinon. if you have the right trainers say energy removal you 
>can stop charizard before he can even get down a fire energy. trainers are 
>the essence of the battle. your pokemon can always do the work but your 
>trainers are like gadgets. yes they are like gadgets to james bond. james 
>bond can always get the job done but the gadgets save his butt time and time 
>again. either defensive trainers(energy retrievals, search, trader, breeder, 
>etc.) or offensive(removal, super removal, and can't think of anything else.) 
>gadgets are your ticket to staying alive. trainers are always the backbone of 
>your game. don't enter a tourny without at least 10-15 trainers. don't put 
>one of every trainer. put the ones you really need. bills, retrievals, 
>potions, super potions etc. whatever fits your style. i hope this little 
>articel helped you in at least a little way. time for a background check. i 
>am 13 years old and i have experience in magic, star wars, battletech and 
>pokemon. i have been playing magic but not recently. neither have i played 
>star wars or battletech lately cause i've switched to pokemon. i am a very 
>intelligent expert when it comes to building decks. i think i'm on par with 
>the mechanics int eh pojo. maybe. i win alot of games and my decks all do 
>pretty good. i don't spend a ton of money on cards so you know i'm not just 
>another rich kid who buys everything and puts all his foils into his deck. to 
>tell you the truth i only have 2 foils in my deck right now. they are 
>kanghaskan and hitmochan. well until later guys......chill and peace out!
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