2318 hours. Must do Letters. Must put last night's wild chat and the very disturbing dream that followed it behind me. More caffeine? Don't mind if I do.... *gurgle*


>Subject:Flaming Rain Dance
>
>To:Aaron@pojo.com, crash@pojo.com, dux@pojo.com, griffen@pojo.com, jared@pojo.com, >kittyfox@pojo.com, elravager@pojo.com, pokemonlady@pojo.com, satoshi@pojo.com, >souper@pojo.com, spike@pojo.com, taylor@pojo.com, z@pojo.com, bryan@pojo.com, >chipmunk@pojo.com, cj@pojo.com, mayo@pojo.com, rehd@pojo.com, scott@pojo.com, >wood@pojo.com
>
>
>Energy: 28
>17      Water
>11      Fire
>Pokemon: 18
>4       Squirtle
>3       Wartortle
>2       Blastoise
>4       Charmander
>3       Charmeleon
>2       Charizard
>Trainers: 14
>4       Bill
>3       Pokemon Breeder
>3       Energy Retrieval
>2       Pokemon Center
>2       Professor
>I don't know why people don't make this kind of deck, power up your
>Charizard
>with Rain Dance and use Energy Burn. This is pretty unbeatable, but it
>could
>be better


Okay. Here's how NOT to get fixed: Base a deck around a blatantly illegal strategy and send it to every deck mechanic, including several whose addresses you just made up.

Next slide, please...


>Subject:Poke Flute
>
>I happen to think that poke flute is a good card. Ex. if you have
>ninetails
>out with 4 energies on it, make one of your opponents fainted pokemon,
>with
>less then 80HP, come back, then use gust of wind to bring it to the
>active
>position. Then attack, make it faint again and take another prize card


Well, nice try sucking up to me by using a Ninetales in your example. =) And I don't deny that most cards can be used to good advantage in specific situations. The trouble is, most decks are scrounging for space to find the trainers and Pokemon they want to run, and there are usually many trainers that can use the space more effectively than the Pokeflute in your aforementioned example. Sorry.


>Subject:Fossil Magmar
>
>Hiya Spike!
>
> Just wondering..Say I have a Scyther out againsta Fossil Magmar, and the Magmar uses >Smokescreen. I retreat the Scyther in favor of a loaded Wigglytuff, and do the wave. Is smokescreen >still in effect or does the Smoke end when I retreat?
>
>Just wonderin.
>
>K' Thanks!


Do I look like Brian Brokaw to you?

In all seriousness, I'll answer your question, mainly because I play with Mag a lot and I get PO'ed when people can't get the rules on Smokescreen right.

Smokescreen is an effect done to the DEFENDING Pokemon. If that Pokemon evolves, devolves, is knocked out, or goes to the bench, the effect is removed. So yes, in your example, Wiggly would be smoke-free and healthy. Gusting Magmar to the bench, knocking it out, or wadding it up into a little ball and cramming it down your opponent's throat... those don't do jack.


>Subject:Hello
>
>Sorry for giving you a ruff time last time I e-mailed you. Get well
>soon Vulpix! Oh and I was wondering which Promo cards you would recommened
>me putting in a deck. I have all of them except Eevee #11, Mewtwo #12,
>and Cool Porygon.
>                       ~ Nintenfreak ~


The best promo card for actual play, is, of course, Movie Mewtwo. Other than that, Mew and Arcanine look like good bets, as does League Promo Pikachu (with the appropriate Raichus, of course.) I'd stay away from most of the others, although you could probably make any of them playable if you worked hard enough at it.


>Subject:(no subject)
>
>Are you and Dr. Crash rivals? (If Vulpix burns me, my Gyrados will BURN
>him) If you are, sorry, I'm voting for him. You're still #2, though.


I don't know that we're rivals. I do know that he's funnier than me. I have tried mightily to equal his brillance, but I cannot. Oh well. At least I've got the hair. And Vulpix has enlisted my Jolteon and Meriipu to guard him. He asked me to tell your Gyarados "Vulpix pix vul vulpix!" which, as nearly as I can tell, translates as "Bite me." Which is similar to the sentiment I myself was about to express.


>Subject:Hey ummm
>
>is it true that spike is fired I mean vulpix might answer his e-mail
>now but
>ya know


Okay. There is no truth whatsoever to the "Spike gets fired" thread, which was started by someone who shall remain forever nameless. I was apparently confused with Griffin, who was taken inactive a while back. But I'm here, and I'm here to stay. (Or so I hope.)

Regrettably, that's all our letters for this week!

Hehe.

SPIKE'S RANDOM THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Random thought, huh? Good word for it. Because right now, my brain is short-circuiting due to too much caffeine. I wrote up a touching remembrance to a friend of mine, but decided not to post it because it might upset some people who can't handle the darker side of life.

How's this for a random thought:

"I should really make a deck based around Silkenfist Order and Sand Squid"

In case you're wondering, those are Magic cards. And yes, I have been thinking all day about making a deck around them. Well, actually just the Order, because a friend of my brother's has a zillion of the damn things, and for some reason I find the artwork to be side-splittingly hilarious. I'm thinking of adding Sand Squid because, let's face it, squids are cool. Is there a Squid Pokemon? If there isn't, there should be.

Hehe. 1:37 AM on Sunday. All my online friends have abandoned me. Crash is partying. Most of the rest have gone to bed. Some have even gone to sleep. I should really get some cereal and go to sleep myself.

Now, at the very end, let's summon up a bit of seriousness and have a moment of silence for a young man named Corey Sullivan. He will be missed. If anybody who reads this knew him, please write to me.

-Spike
spike@pojo.com



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