hey!  I haven't written any single card tips lately, in fact i have found them quite boring to write lately, but now that all these new rocket cards are out it's my pleasure to type these articles!  I'd like to talk about two cards that you can fit into your rain dance or venusaur decks- promo venusaur and dark blastoise.
 
Name- Venusaur
Type- Grass
HP-100
retreat - 2(?)
weakness - fire
resistance - none
PKMN Power- once during your turn heal both active pokemon in play of status changes.  this may not be used if venusaur is asleep, confused or paralized.
(GGGG) Mega Drain - (40) heal yourself by half the damage inflicted( round up )
 
This is a pretty sweet card.  its attack is pretty nice and its power is good, and even though it also heals your opponents pokemon of status changes, it isnt often both of the active pokemon are affected by status changes ( besides, not many poké's in energy trans change status ).  This guy sucks if he is not being used in an energy trans because he isnt worth the evolve without basic venusaur.  have only one of these in your energy trans deck(that's enough).
 
name-Dark Blastoise
HP-70 (that sux)
Type-Water
weakness-E
retreat-2
resistance-none
(WW) HydroCannon - (30+) Does 30+20 for each extra W energy on this card (can'e do any more than 70 damage in this way)
 
(W2) Rocket Tackle - (40) Does 10 damage to itself.  flip a coin.  if heads, prevent all damage done to dark blastoise during your opponent's next turn(other effects still happen.)
 
This card is overlooked.  Rocket tackle is iffy but Hydro Cannon kicks major #$#@!$!#$.  normal Blastoise does 60 for 5 W, but he does 70 for 4 and this is a big increase.  normal blastoise needs a pluspower to kill most haymaker pokemon in one hit and this guy doesnt need that pluspower.  it has no raindance and 70hp sucks but he is still good.,  my brother put one in his dance and he was kicking the $#1+ out of the hitmos and scythers in my wigglytuff deck.  have only one in a raindance deck.  anywhere else besides a raindance deck he really sucks a lot.
 
Later everyone!
 
Tyler C. at tymy1223@directweb.com or TheGrassKing@aol.com (tymy1223@aol.com got closed)