>Hi My name Is *CENSORED* and I use mainly Dragon Pokemon, could you please
>tell
>me how to tune up the stratedgy/cards in the following deck?
>
>Deck name: Dragonlord's Revenge
>
>Deck Type: Colorless (Dragonair) /water (Gyarados) /fire (Charizard)
>
>Energy: 30
>2 DCE (to put on Charizard as the 4 energy you need to Fire spin!)
>12 Water (energy)
>18 Fire (energy)
>
>Trainers: 8
>1 Impostor Prof. Oak (If your opponent starts smiling, Hello Impostor
>Prof.
>Oak!)
>1 Breeder (to evolve Charmander quickly to Charizard)
>3 Gust of wind (If they have  bulbasoar and Venusaur but no Ivysaur,
>bye-bye
>Bulbasoar
>3 Switch (It allows you to change active pokemon w/o paying retreat
>cost)
>
>Pokemon: 19
>
>1 Charizard (He is a good attacker, and 120HP to boot)
>1 Charmander (Charizard)
>1 Rapidash (good attacker, 70HP and agility also make him a good
>staler)
>1 ponyta (Rapidash)
>2 Gyarados (100HP as well as two solid attacks w/ a chance of
>paralysis)
>2 Magikarp (Gyarados)
>2 Lapras (low attack cost, good attackers)
>1 Articuno (a solid attacker, Blizzard is good but chansey. Besides, I
>hope
>to replace him w/ Blastoise soon)
>1 Wartortel (staler. I hope to replace him w/ pokemon Breeder soon)
>1 Squirtel (evolution)
>1 Chansey (to stall until you can get the cards you want on your bench)
>1 Kangaskahn (fetch is good, 90HP as well as comet punch)
>2 Dragonair (to keep with the them and Hyperbeam is cool, 80HP)
>2 Dratini (evolution)
>
>Strategy: Now this deck is good so far, the main strategy is the get
>Chansey
>stalling until you get the dragons (Charizard, Gyarados, Dragonair) on
>your
>bench and powered up. It also has a few quick charge attackers thrown
>in to
>faint pokemon and get some of your prizes. The best opening hand I have
>gotten so far is Chansey, 4 fire energy, charmander, Charizard and a
>water
>energy (One sweet starting hand) If you win the toss up a good first
>draw is
>a Gyarados, a Dragonair or a Breeder. Well, that's Dragonlord's
>Revenge,
>please tell me how to Improve it.

VULPIX: You want me to tell you how to Improve your deck? Well, you're in luck. I have just the solution for you.

1) Sell all your holos

2) Buy one of the Base Set 2 theme decks

That should get you on the right track. The truth is, this deck is pretty much done for. You mention a "good" draw you got once, but what happens when you get one of the other 386,206,920 possible draws? With no way whatsoever to search or draw cards (well, Kangaskhan, but good luck getting it) you're pretty much up the proverbial creek if you get stuck with a Dratini or Magikarp. Lapras, Kangaskhan, or Chansey are the bright spots here--everything else is not present in nearly the amounts that you'd need to make it work effectively.


As Spike mentions elsewhere in this update, Fire and Water is the sort of combo you want to think twice about in the first place. You haven't made matters any better by choosing two of the most insane families for this deck--Gyarados and Charizard. Gyarados is good in its own right, and Charizard can be made to work, but together they are the Pokemon equivalent of an air-raid siren. In other words, when you see them, you want to find a hole to hide in and not come out until all the explosions have stopped.. Given that you've got a 2-2 Gyarados evolution, you might see it actually hit the board sometime, but with no way to search, you can pretty much write off your chances of getting Charizard. Unless you stack your deck, which wouldn't surprise me.


Trainers actually make a bit more sense. The 3 GOW and 3 Switch are okay, and taken by themselves, would lead to the false impression that you're the sort of guy who puts multiples of sensible cards in his deck. Imposter Oak is good if you play against the sort of people who display their emotions like that, which would make sense given your intimations that this deck has a winning record. And we have Breeder, which gives you a chance of getting Charizard out. About the same chance as winning the lottery, but a chance nonetheless. By the way, did you know that if you put a little hat on a snowball, it can last a long time in hell?


32 Energy. I'm just going to throw that figure out there, and not comment on it or anything.

Spike?


SPIKE: Okay. A dragon deck is not altogether unworkable, but dem Fire Pokemon gots to go. Gyarados and the dragon family, plus some stuff like Lapras and Kangaskhan/Chansey, should make a pretty decent deck. As for trainers and energy, those will follow pretty much the same format as 95% of the decks I fix. Have a look around--good examples are everywhere.


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