Hey there

For those of you who don't know, what the Pokeflute does is let you take one of your opponents basic pokemon from the discard pile and put it on their bench. By itself, the common reaction by most people is: Why would you want to do a stupid thing like that? With the right strategy, there are a number of fun combos available.

The most commonly thought of combo. The idea is to knock out your opponents oh, I dunno.. say Blastoise for this example and you have Raichu out and powered up. Next turn.. you bring the squirtle back and put it on the bench gust of wind it up to the active pokemon and then smack it down with your raichu all over again.. quick and easy prize.. be sure to pack some item finders and repeat the fun..

Never thought of this one did you? You're looking at your opponents deck.. He's got that kick ass Hitmochan that he's just been waiting to play... pokeflute that base diglette that you wasted earlier back up and fill the bench so he doesn't have any place to put the hitmo.. granted, this is a specialized case and I wouldn't go basing an entire deck on that idea..

This is a variant of the Gust of wind idea.. bring that colorless or electric poke back to life, just so that you can suck him into the active position with drag out.. and snag a quick prize..

What better way to fill up your opponents bench for Bench manipulation. Sure there is challenge, but they always have the option of saying no and making you draw two cards. Save up your flutes till late in the game.. building up the Dark Hypno while you're at it. They think that they've been clever, keeping their bench small. then bam - bam bam.. it's the wiggly deck in reverse.. Plus you have several low powered pokemon ready to be slapped around your next turn. Throw in some plus powers and you're doing gross amounts of damage.

Well.. that's all you've got from me. This is my first writing.. so don't be too harsh. Comments and criticisms can be sent to me... Bill at DarkTouch@unbounded.com