Welcome, today we will be discovering the vast world of the new pokemon expansion fossil. My name is Jared the Explorer guy, and I'll be your host. Don't forget your hardhats and pick-axes and watch out for wild Ekans! Here we go... 1-EKANS- A fairly good basic, especially for his 2nd attack! His first attack is ok and great to use while you pumping up for his 2nd attack it lets you poison the opponent if you flip a heads, but it does no damage. His 2nd attack is great, for 1 grass and 1 colorless it does 20 and can paralyze! 2-ARBOK- Very nice with his first attack for 1 grass is just like whirlwind but you need to flip a coin for it to work. His next attack is what's lethal for 2 grass and a colorless you do 20 damaage and instantly poison! 3-RAICHU- Great for bench dissruption! This lil guy packs a punch with Giga Spark, it does 30 damage for 4 Lightning plus you SELECT three pokemon to give 10 damage to! 4-SANDSLASH- This Stage 1 really isn't worth it, it's decent but nothing speacial. For 2 Colorless it does Tackle for 20 and for 2 Fighting it does a possible 20 damage (if you flip 2 heads). 5-ZUBAT- I love this guy, Supersonic waves costs 2 colorless to attempt to confuse the opponent, next up is Leech Life which is just like Venonats. So confuse the opponent and 6-GOLBAT- Another weak yet good Stage 1, he has wing attack for 3 colorless which does 30 and a better Leech Life for 2 grass and one colorless, it does 20. 7- PSYDUCK- I love his first attack! Headache doesn't let the opponent use trainers! This will keep those ER's off your back for awhile. He also has Fury Swipes which is just like Nidoran(Female)'s. 8- GOLDUCK- This guy's got potential! You can stall for a bit with power of the mind which costs 1 psy. Then unleash Hyper Beam, which is just like Dragonairs but for 3 energy!! 9- TENTACOOL- I suppose he could be used for stalling but in my opinion he's not worth it. He has a power that's basiclly like a scoop-up that can only work on Tentacool and 30HP plus get this... FOR ONE WATER HE DOES 10 DAMAGE!! THRILLING EH? 10-TENTACRUEL- Don't even go through the trouble to evolve this guy, he has supersonic for 1 water you know what that does. The for 2 water he does 10 and poisons the opponent. His second attack is decent and he has the power to confuse and poison the opponent...hmmm maybe I was wrong. 11- GEODUDE- Interesting, if you feel lucky throw him out, his attack does 10X as many heads as you can flip. But once you flip a tails it's all over, I highly doubt this attack would go more then 30 though even 30 would be very rare. But he does have 50HP so give em a shot. 12- GRAVELER- He can stall until you get golem out with harden (just like Onix's) or do rock throw which is a good deal, 2 Fighting and 1 Colorless and does 40 dmg. 13- GOLEM- I think he'll be under-estimated. Look at this though, first of all he can take out one or two pokemon with Boulder that does 60 damage for 3 Fighting and 1 Colorless. Then right before he dies call out Self Destruct as your last shot, which is just like Magnetons only it does a whopping 100! 14- SLOWPOKE- Pretty much crap, he has an attack which lets you try to flip a heads if you do you get to remove a damage counter from Slowpoke. His other attack could be put to use but I wouldn't waste a prize for it, you have to discard an energy card to search your discard pile for any Trainer card. 15- SLOWBRO- His power is like Damage Swap only all the damage has to go to Slowbro, this could be used to heal your pokemon and then you could try to keep Slowbro on the bench. But is it worth deck space? I don't think so. Psychic is decent, it does 20 damage and can paralyze the opponent. 16- MAGNETON- Magneton's bigger and... badder? He hasn't gained any HP but he has Sonic Boom which does 20 and isn't effected by Weakness or Resistance. In my mind it's basiclly just like doing 20 damage, beacause not only will it not be effected by resistance it won't be effected by WEAKNESS EITHER. He also has Self Destruct which is just like Golem's. 17- GRIMER- His first attack only does 10 for 1 colorless. But for 1 grass you can reduce damage that Grimer takes by 20. That would be great for getting the powerful Muk out! 18- MUK- One of the cards that will make a huge impact on the world of pokemon, Muk is t he famous Aerodactyl buster! His Pokemon Power doesn't allow any other pokemon to use pokemon powers INCLUDING YOURS. Be careful with this guy, beacause once you put him on the bench, or in the active spot you can't turn his power off, unless he gets K.O'd. His attack isn't half bad either it does 30 for 3 grass and can poison the opponent! 19- SHELLDER- He kinda sucks, with 30HP but he's a fairly good staller, his first attack is supersonic and he also has Withdraw which can prevent all damage. 20- CLOYSTER- I kinda like him but it's a gamble. He has only 50HP so once again he won't be around for long. His first attack can do 30 damage AND paralyze the opponent if you flip a heads, if not you just waisted an attack bud. Spike Cannon does 30X the number of heads, decent...decent. 21- GASTLY- You know the old Gastly to Haunter evo? I think it's price just dropped to $0.5. Gastly sport a 10 damage/possible paralysis attack for 1 psy, and this is what's so good about him. If you do 10 damage to Gastly you can take up to two energy cards from your discard pile and add them to your hand! You deffinatley won't have an energy shortage for Haunter and Gengar! 22- HAUNTER- His pokemon power is a free sand-attack that does no damage! This will keep him safe while he puts the defending pokemon to sleep with Nightmare which for a psy and colorless energy does 10 damage and makes the opponent fall asleep. 23- GENGAR- Another pokemon that has set new standards, his power lets you move 1 damage counter from one of your opponent's pokemon to another! This could K.O an opponent, or make use of un-needed damage, just swap it to the bench! What I mean by un-needed damage is like when you do 30 damage to a 50HP pokemon, you can afford taking 10 damage off that pokemon beacause he'll still be K.O'd next turn. His next attack lets you do even more damage to the bench it does 30 and lets you do 10 damage to a benched pokemon, for 3 psy. Well we end at that, I would go on but I fear one of my comrades has been bit by an Ekans, he could be paralyzed so I guess we better take him to the local Pokemon Center, errr Hospital. What? You say you want to hear about Aerodactyl, Zapdos, and Moltres? Be patient all in good time! -Jared the Explorer guy Questions and comments go to: protoss_warrior@hotmail.com