Dear Pojo, I notice you constantly mention what a great card Scyther is
and I personally have no problem with Scyther,it's a great card but I was
curious why Kadabra is so often overlooked! I think Kadabra is one of the
better psychic cards in the game! I say this not only due to its super psy
attack which knocks out many of the strongest fighting/psychic/grass
pokemon(Machamp, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan,
Alakazam, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, all the Mewtwos,Hypno...)in one hit. But
also because of recover which allows Kadabra to regain all its health!
I write this letter speaking from experience, I've won many games by using
Kadabra, and I'll give you one example of a way you could win with it:

             Say you have A Kangaskahn out and its taking
             a severe beating at the hands of your opponent's
             Hitmonchan. Lets also say you have a benched Kadabra
              with two damage counters on it and two psychic energies
             in your hand. You retreat your Kangaskahn in favor of
                Kadabra, then putting a psychic energy on Kadabra and
                using recover to regain your HP.
                     Your opponent then uses special
                   punch for forty,so you add a psychic energy
                and destroy your opponent's Hitmonchan. Then you
                upgrade to Alakazam and use confuse ray to K.O.
                the Hitmonlee your opponent sends out on your
                 next turn your opponent then decides to stop
                   playing around and sends out the powered up
                   Machamp that he has on his bench,and seismic
                    tosses you,knowing you wont be able to one hit
                     K.O. him with confuse ray and leaving you
                  hanging on by a thread with 20 HP left. But
                          you use devolution
                      spray, evolving back into kadabra, super
                     psying him to defeat and drawing your third
                        prize card of the game.


                   So you see, Kadabra may have a high Retreat
                   cost for an uncommon and it might not have
                    "70 HP phenomenon" on its side, but if you
                    play it right, with the right trainers,
                     you can (as I demonstrated above)win
                        half the game by using three cards.



                          -Nathan Howard
                               North Pole AK