Most people take a look at the "shiny" card and assume it HAS to be good 
since it's a holo... No offense... not all holos are good.

I'm here to put down some overlooked cards that haven't recieved the kudos 
they deserve...

1)  Venusaur- While most people worship Charizard and that Fire Spin 
attack.... they overlook what in my opinion is one of the best cards in the 
entire game.  High HP, Good Attack and easy energy access with Energy 
Trans... also only 2 energy to retreat....  Good team player and can disrupt 
a whole game.  Not many people that I've seen use this card.  One of the best 
Pokemon in the game.

2) Energy Denial-  Almost all the best decks involve energy denial... the 
people with no experience just look at the card and say "Big Deal" and got 
suckered by someone who knows what the're doing with a bad trade.  The key 
thing S.E.R. and energy removal do is manipulate the other player's cards and 
disrupts and stalls the attacks.

3)  Bills and Oaks- Once again, card advantage is a major part of winning... 
if you run out of cards... you're out of luck.... Oak and Bill may be common 
and uncommon but are powerful cards... every deck should have these!

4)  Poliwrath- Fits the Energy Denial profile..... Whirlpool is just an 
awesome attack and can be easily accessed with a Blastoise... any Rain Dance 
deck should include this one.  Just a solid Pokemon.

The rest of the spectacular cards are already being used widely like Scoop 
Ups for Haymakers, Gust of Wind(manipulation), colorless basic Pokemon, the 
70 HP basics with the one energy attacks(Jynx, Hitmonchan, and Electabuzz) so 
I'll stop my ranting and raving for now =].  I also think that the best cards 
coming out in Jungle are Scyther and Clefable.

Thoughts and comments to:
Andy Li, Chicago
wasal88@aol.com