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From: "Jason Moon" <alakazam75@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 05:15:26 GMT

>l'm building a deck but i need some help with it. it is a charizard deck the
>deck list is:
>4 charmander
>3 charmeleon
>2 charizard
>4 electabuzz
>2 chancey
>2 doduo
>
>4 bill
>4 oak
>2 computer search
>2 switch
>2 gust of wind
>2 scoop up
>2 energy removal
>2 energy retrieval
>2 pokemon trader
>2 lass
>
>21 electric energy
>
>the strategy: use electabuzz and doduos cheap attacks while powering up a
>charizard.or use chancey to stall. or use electabuzz to hit the whole
>game.the probelm im having is A. decking out
>                              B. not getting charizard out fast enough
>basically electabuzz covers charizards weakness and doduos covers chancey
>and electabuzzs weakness i have spent alot of time thinking about this deck
>but i cant get it right please tell me what u would suggest
>thnx
>
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In the saga that is creating the greatest Charizard deck of all time, I came across this deck garage submission...

Two main things struck me while looking at this deck.
 
1.  Electabuzz
What a great addition.  Yes, I know you guys are sick of seeing this guy in every deck.  Uncreative decks are boring to play and boring to watch.  However, Electabuzz actually has an excellent reason to be in a Fire-based deck!  Fire's greatest weakness has always been water, and Electabuzz more than compensates for this as 99% of playable Water Pokemon are weak to Electric! 

My only concern is that by adding another Energy type to power up Electabuzz it becomes more difficult to get 4 Fire Energies onto Charizard, which brings us to the next point...

2.  Charizard doesn't even need Fire Energy!
I'll admit it, I forgot about Charizard's Pokemon Power Energy Burn!!! 
(DUH!) A Charizard deck doesn't really need to be a "Fire" deck, since the whole line has "colorless" attacks!

Of course the flip side to this is no Ember or Flamethrower attacks from the rest of the Char' line... what do you folks think?!?!?

The quest continues...
Aaron