After playing Pokemon since it 1st came out, if there are a few thing i learned. 1) i have to agree W/ Tylor with what he said with putting to much in a deck..keep things relativly simple. 2) Be Creative! ive only played in 2 tourny's of about 20 people (soon to be a 3rd Saturday) i have to admit that there were not major tournys but they did have alot of serious players. I took 1st both times by using differnt decks...the 1st was a poison deck w/ energy removals to slow down the opposing deck will poison slowly kicked in. The other was a Psi energy removal deck... which worked great because when the defening pokemon did atack Abra usualy moved the damage away....for this next touny i might try a confusion deck.. all i know is that if you be creative...how do oyu think people came up w/ the 3 "big" decks? and now poeple will find ways to get around those decks... Ryan Craven elvenbane01@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com