I am V-man and this is my article about unused cards. I have reasons
that they are unused for all of them. (if you use these cards and depend
on them im not doing this to get you mad)

Ekans/Arbok So many grass choices, there are better ones: Venasaur,
Pinsir, Nidoking
Arbok's Poison Fang is good but Ekans is a weak basic. Other weaknesses
include low HP and arbok's high retreat.

Sandshrew/Sandslash Not much new here. Resistance to Electabuzz but
birds resist them. No high damage and sand attack does not help in the
lategame.

Paras/Parasect A good reason. Low HP, sleep is bad and an all colorless
attack that does 10 damage for each energy.

Meowth/Persian Meowth has a crummy attack and persian isn't all that.
Persian is nice as a backup pokemon but lacks anything overpowering to
be top cat.

Victreebel I see people use weepibell but vitreebel is pathetic. There
are a lot of better grass stage 2 than pear guy.

Shellder/Cloyster One of the worst families. Read a spoiler of it and
find out why. Nuff said!

Base Gastly/Base Haunter (see above)

Krabby/Kingler Nice attacks but low HP and high retreat make them
useless in most water based decks.

Cubone/Marowak Cubone is bad and Call for Friend seemed good but got
boring.

Weezing We all know koffing is evil but weeizng just sux

Goldeen/Seaking W=10, WC=30 wow!! what a boring card!

All the fossil evolutions except for aerodactyl ( not the set, omanyte
kabuto etc.)
The use of mysterious fossil and weak damage prevent people from using
them. Butterfree would make a better rare then Kabutops.

V-man cutepokemon@hotmail.com (anyone know of any tourneys in the san
fran area)Bye