From: KuRSeTHEblue@aol.com Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:33 PM To: cardtips@pojo.com Subject: my Rebuttle(pokemon... A dying phase) I just got through reading Ness's letter about how wizards is planning to eraticate the 15+ division. Guess what... he's right. I do enjoy playing pokemon, I have been to 2 STSs, i've taken top 20 twice, I have won a QT, I am ranked first in my state(I'm ranked like 2,000 globaly though), I am about to turn 15, I have not played pokemon since September 15--I got 3rd at the wcsts QT. Concerning me not playing... Why haven't I played in 3 months? My card store went out of buisness about 8 months ago.(end of sob story) Concerning title... Why is Pokemon a dying phase? Is this a bad thing? no. What? the dying phase is not 15+ there are to many people willing to fight for that cause. the phase that is dying is the phase of... um... how shall i say "scrubs playing." Yup no more easy trades. we are finally getting a good change. Concerning Magic... Yes my favorite game on earth. No it didn't start that way I did start in pokemon. Yet magic contains more strategy and in my eyes is funner. Yes I know this is what wizards set up for me to do, yes I know wizards makes more money this way. Yes I know this was all just part of wizards evil plot. But what the heck its fun and it has lots of different decks especially in extended. Concerning standard format... There was a post on wizpog in about july about the next sts being standard. I was the biggest supporter of modified. but modified is all luck, its all about the first energy placement, yah thats perty much it. Standard should pratically be the only format for the STSs. better yet lets have seasons like magic. and switch off from standard and modified. Does anyone remember prop-15 everyone hated it but if you think about it it was a perty good format I say better than modified. thanks for reading this article I know it really sucked but if you took the time thanks. All mail sent to KuRSeTHEblue@aol.com Kelly Smith(KuRSe on any known message boards)