<?color><?param 0100,0100,0100>Sniff...sniff....there's something in the air. No, not Hypno farts. I wouldn't be conscious if THOSE were lingering about.

I'm talking Thrashings! I enjoy a good dissemination of a not-so- thought-out deck like this one.

To clear up the air surrounding Thrashings, I'm going to explain why I do them. I regularly receive letters from players saying that I'm here to help, not to rip on innocent kids. That is true, to a degree. I try to help those who deserve it. Anyone who shows that they are earnestly trying to build a deck that will win using a solid strategy gets my assistance.
Those who submit decks that look as though they were built by tossing quarters upon a pile of cards as a selection process usually get the axe and find their way to the "Deleted Messages" bin.
Every now and again though, I get that special deck whose blatant diregard for the fundamentals of Pokemon is so severe that simply discarding it would be doing an injustice to everyone. Sometimes the best example is a bad one, that way we can all see an extreme which to avoid.
Bear in mind that often I see the same Haymaker or Wigglytuff deck over and over, just submitted by different people. While there's no fault in this, it certainly wears upon a person to be asked to fix the same deck countless times. I like variety and if you haven't noticed, I tend to fix a wide range of decks and sometimes avoid the archetypes on purpose. After seeing a string of really poorly made decks or the same deck type over and over, I just need to vent steam by doing a good Thrashing. That's all there is to it.
I need to vent once in a while. The person who submits the deck on the receiving end obviously isn't trying very hard to follow the rules of the game or the ones I require for deck submission. If you don't put much into a deck, don't expect a lot out of me. You reap what you sow folks.
With that on to the Thrashing!




<?/color>Greetings, Dr.Crash , me and my dragonite would like to present another
deck for evaluation. I am the one who presented DreamWeaver, which was
made in honor of your Hypno.This deck has a stradegy by using the rules
to your advantage. My "Flying Sickle" deck uses the rule if you have no
pokemon in play you lose.The goal is to throw and blow the opponent away!
Now onto my deck.


3 Machoke ( it doesnt matter what kind you use )
2 Team Rocket Machamp ( to toss your opponents pokemon back into the
deck )
2 Pidgeotto ( mirror move helps with a defender )
1 Pidgeot ( this is where Flying comes in and hurricane attack supports
the theme )
2 Kangashkan ( with Machamps weakness he helps fight psychic )
2 Scyther ( this fits the theme with sickle )
2 Clefable ( to be one of your begining basics and her ability to to
crush pokemon for half the energy )
1 Venomoth ( to shift weaknesses and venom powder is really good in a
sense )
2 Ditto ( he has a share in fighting anything )


3 Bill
2 Professor Oak
2 Pokeball
2 Computer search
3 Defender
3 gust of wind
2 scoop up
2 Nightime Garbage Run
1 The Challenge
3 Energy Search

10 fighting
5 grass
3 double colorless
2 full heal energy


MMM-HMMMM. Sure. May I ask you one simple question? This won't be hard.

WHERE ARE YOUR BASIC POKEMON??

Did you forget to include the royal title in your e-mail address? Are you exempt to the rules? The child of an ambassador perhaps? Do you carry diplomatic immunity? I severely doubt it.

The sun does not shine out your rear end. You have to follow the rules just like everyone else does.

Oh, but I know...I know...Having to start out with all those inferior Basic Pokemon is so dang inconvenient. Wouldn't it be better if we all just agreed to lose those annoying 10 damage attackers and go right for the powerhouses like Machamp?

No. No it would not.

Just in case you've been living on an island owned by CBS for the past 2 years, I'll recap the fundamental plot of Pokemon.

The premise is...take notes child, there will be a quiz...you are a Pokemon Trainer. You capture, raise, train and evolve Pokemon. Evolving means that you must start with a Basic Pokemon and work your way up. Is any of this sinking in? Quit picking your nose with that pencil!

Here is the quiz I mentioned. Four questions. Simple as can be, correct? We'll find out.

1- A Dratini becomes a Dragonair by means of what process?
A: Corporate Takeover
B: Evolution
C: Long Forgotten Magicks
D: I don't know, let me ask my McDonald's manager....

2- Which of the following comes before the others in the Pokemon TCG??
A: Stage 2 Pokemon
B: Basic Evolution
C: Stage 1 Evolution
D: Oh wow! It's a Holofoil! Oooohhhhh...sparkly....

3: You have a Poliwrath in your hand. Which of the following must you already have in play in order to lay down the Poliwrath?
A: Porygon
B: Lapras
C: Poliwhirl
D: I can't lay the Poliwrath down at all because I forgot to wash my hands after eating that fluffernutter sandwich.

4: Charles Darwin is the controversial pioneer of what theory?
A: Evolution
B: Cold Fusion
C: Black Holes
D: The theory that I bathe more than once a month. Some fools will believe anything.

How did you rate? Compare your score and see!

0 Correct: ....Starmie...nanggg..nanggg..ew, taste icky...

1 Correct: Why do the peoples stare whens I scratches my butt in public?

2 Correct: I can get dressed all by myself!!

3 Correct: The doctor says I don't have to take those pills anymore.

4 Correct: I completely understand the concept behind evolution. How could I have built such a deck like this? Oh how I have erred.

This deck is so flawed in the exclusion of Basic Pokemon that tossing it out would have been too good.

As for the strategy itself: Honestly, I've never seen a deck that worked in the way this one hopes to. You can only remove one Pokemon from play at a time. Since the opponent can go right ahead and drop the Basic once again the following turn, it's not an effective strategy. Against a Haymaker, you may be doing him a favor by removing all damage from his Big Basic Pokemon.

In the meantime, go watch some people play a few matches. See how they start with those puny little guys like Pikachu and Clefairy? They're playing by this system we call "The Rules". You should try it someday.

Now I smell something else in the air...it's kind of funky smelling...oh no, it's Vileplume powder! I'm...getting...must fight..sleepy...still better...sleepy...than Hypno farts....


Good...Luck!
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