EFFECTS OF EXPANSIONS
Hi Everyone, Scott im writing this and i don't know if you'd like to post this
but ill write it anyway.
Ok im gonna talk about all the expansions and what's come out of them from base
to fossil around January of last year tcg hit the stores with base set coming
out. Base cards are still widely used in games today. When it first hit starter
sets were getting bought steady and fire and fighting was widely used. Then some
people with stratagy made what is now known as rain dance a very good deck
especially with all that fire running around, haymaker also came out hitmochan
farfetched electabuzz who was really good against rain dance. Stall decks with
alakazam and chansey were being played also but haymaker was still number one
and unfortuneatly still is.
When jungle hit the seen players got a new look at stratagy. Mr. Mime was a fave
among players to shut down big cards. Scyther and wigglytuff fit right in with
the dreaded haymaker, but at least a new energy was being used. Venusaur had
some friends he could use scyther and pinsire finally gave grass good basics.
Also effects deck came in to try and shut down hay with vileplume venomoth etc,
with rain being widely played fire was diminished and grass had an upper edge.
Although fire got what i think is one of their best cards still in rapidash,
even raindance cant harm him if your lucky with agility. Speking of agility
fearow was also used a little. Colorless pokemon got what it needed attackers.
Kangaskhan, Wigllytuff, Tauros, Persian, lickitung, clefable they all fit in
every deck most rsistent to psy which was not somethig all that good since psy
was mostly reduced to staling still, but they were weak to fighting which
reduced their play tremendously because of hitmochan. !
Lighning and fightning never got that much except jolteon but either is still
barely used alone.
Fossil hit the seens along with some movie promos next and was my favorite
expansion. Why you ask because most of its cards rely on stratagy yes thast
right no more brute force like hay or luck but stratagy. Its holos had cards
built around them in deck aerodactyl and muk to shut down cards, moltres to run
your opponent out of cards, ditto and magmar fit nicely into hay but again
atleast stratagy was needed for these. But the biggest gain from fossil and
promos rain dance and psy. Raindance is very dangerous now with the like of
articuno and lapras running around as basics, and finaly it can kill mr. Mime
with lapras these two are very deadly. Psy took a big jump as it went from
stalling to an attacker, mewtwo promo and gengar stole the show with their
ability to attack and move damage around. Gengar worked good with mr. Mime to
get more energy on the opposing active. A few new decks came in like decks with
energy removals with golduck slowpoke and so on. Trainers werent much!
gambler is so so recycle is not bad. The last card from this recently came out
was the mew promo this card was in decks right away to try and shut down rain
dance and it also works well with aerodactyl. Another good thing about fossil
was we got good psy pokemon and a lot of fighing resistent pokes which will not
let fighting be played mono but we wont get rid of hitmo for a while.
Im gonna combine the 4 japanese expansions in one (rocket, gym 1, gym 2, and
neo) when these came out i might add i didnt like them i didnt like to use them
or play them. (Im talking about apprentice) but of course a lot of peeps used
them. Rocket gave us some better cards of old pokes and some new evil guys but
the biggest thing id say was their new trainers. Brand new trainers brought
brand new stratagy although some might have been to good like graceful attack
(ill get back to something to good later).. Gyms were the same pokes again but
better ones, gym leaders had good pokemon and good trainers which brought more
stratagy and skill in deck building. Ill not talk to much about certain ones
until later. Neo recently came out in japan and brought pokemon from the gold
and silver pokemon games. This was kinda like a new base set with the big three
stage evolves with pokemon powers with new powers again brought new deck making
and stratagy.again i wont go to much into detail o!
f the cards if you want you can download the patch at pojo to see for yourself.
In neo a new stage came in called baby pokes, they have a built in shell that
makes opponent flip before attacking (like fossil haunters power) and got little
attacks that can be big especially erekiddo the baby of electabuzz ill say more
of him later. I went to download the patch and as i said i only used english
cards until i read some of the cards. I found a certain combo that i thought
would be almost unbeatable turns out i was right as my deck is now 29-0 and
counting. I don't know if wizards is gonna make errata out of pokemon (errata is
banning certain combos) but i think they should. This deck is really good and
probably just as easy to play as haymaker which is scary. Im not trying to make
this deck popular but yet tell players how boring it is it requires no skill to
play and id advise players if they play to play without this deck. Well i know
what your saying that whats the deck and i w!
as debating whether to say it or not just incase an outburs!
t of this occurs but ill take my chances. Well here it is
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MIND GAMES
2x kangaskhan
3x mewtwo (movie promo)
4x abra rocket
4x sabrinas kadabra
4x erekiddo
4x recycle
4x computer searches
4x professor oaks
4x item finder
4x sabrinas ESP
4x gust of wind
4x bill
2 switch
13 psy energy
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Now for all our non apprentice users or those who don't know what the cads do
ill tell you, the stratagy is to get all the erekiddos on the bench that you can
and get a kadabra active,
erekiddo has the baby power i mentioned but he has a pokemon power that lets you
flip at the end of your turn if heads the defending pokemon takes 20 yes 20
damage. Ok this is very good but theres more. Sabarinas kadabra for one psy
energy lets you lose life down you flip a coin if heads put damage on the
defending pokemon so it has 10 hp left (note i discussed this with spike the
deck machanic and it seems that it doesnt do damage but just puts it on so
weakness resistence and plus power have no effect) wow right now your probably
imagining how good this is with erekiddo if you flip heads well that brings up
my next card sabrinas ESP this card lets you attach it to it before you attack
to one of sabrinas pokes if it has to flip a coin you may repeat the flip once
more if you want. Ok yes this is very good you have kadabra active use esp then
you got a 75 percent chance of doing the attack then you can flip for your
erekiddos, yes it mostly means one hit kos you have 20 traine!
rs to get the cards you need switches for mewtwo and kangaskhan gust help to
kill blastoise or something in one hit i also might add that all atacks take one
energy but there 13 just cause i need them when i want them, all in all this
deck is really to powerful im trying to think of a deck that could beat it but i
don't know if theres any hopefully wizards or hasbro whatever it is now can
place an errata on erekiddo and the kadabra. So in closing i wouldnt recommend
this deck sure it is good but like hay and raindance it is a copy of someone
elses deck be original make decks youve never heard of it will make the game of
pokemon a way better game if people would just be original, you know what i mean
if you play in tourney where you play 4 games and all four are haymaker it is
really boring this way, pokemon is supposed to be a fun game so lets make it
just that a game of fun stratagy and creativity. Id like to thank all the people
who took the time to read this, the people who!
play original decks and to the deck machanics at pojo to f!
ix up those original decks to make them better and hopefully good enough to win
tourneys, trust me people original toureny winning decks are out there I've used
many and seen many just take the time to build one and play it and youll see
that they are just as good as others with stratagy a true pokemon master goes
his own route not copy someone else.
Thankyou
Edge
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