Most of us have heard about the dominance of haymakers and wigglys in the west coast super trainer showdown. And most of us have heard about how wizards is considering putting a rule in effect to limit each deck to only having fifteen trainers. Mostly everyone has said that it would make the game boring and dull and not as fun. So i will share my opinion with you.

If wizards did put the fifteen trainer rule in effect you would see about the same trainers in every deck, but with all decks having fifteen trainers that would leave fourty-five whole deck slots open for trainers and energy, fourty-five whole slots. My deck, called cornhusker, would have to under go a lot of changes, (if you do not know what my deck consists of it is under the 8/10 killer deck reports under fire-electric.)

If anyone was to play haymaker if the fifteen trainer rule was put into effect, this is about what the trainer count would look like:

4 oak

4 computer search

3 scoop up

2 gust of wind

2 pluspower

See, now haymaker and wiggly will be at a disadvantage, not having much room for disruption cards like gust of wind, er, and ser. A lot of trainers will never see use again, such as bill, many people will disagree with me on this one, but is it really worth using up three or four slots in your precious trainer count just to draw at maximum eight cards, you may disagree with me here, but i don't think i would use it. Energy removal may not see much use either, with the limited trainer space. One more card that may not be used much any more is item finder, the reason that people ever used this card is because trainers were the center of their decks, whose isn't, but now, with trainers being taken away from the center of the deck, i just don't see much use for it.

Also, if they put this rule in effect, the trapper deck just won't be able to do well at all, it would be forced to have much more pokemon and energy while taking away all of its trainers. There are four trainers that would be a neccessity to that deck, and they are: The Rocket's Trap, Professor Oak, Imposter Professor Oak Revenge, Computer Search, and item finder(i know i said you shouldn't use it in a deck with 15 trainers but the rocket's trap makes this deck an exception.

some trainers may see more use with this rule in effect, (i'm not sure with these, but these are just my predictions) such as pokedex, with card drawing and searching hindered, you could use this to make sure you draw what you need, when you need it. Another one may be pokeball, since the focus of decks would swap from trainers to pokemon, you could get any pokemon you needed it with the luck of a coin flip.

Some pokemon may see a lot  more use if this rule becomes in effect such as: nidoking, venusaur, beedrill, eggsecutor, dodrio, fearow, dewgong, arcanine, rapidash, charmeleon, alakazaam, raichu, hypno, dark weezing, dark arbok, and lots of others.

I can think of 2 pokemon in particular that are widely used that could see a lot less action, one being blastoise, is it worth using up four slots for breeder just for blastoise, or you could just use wartortle but you would be sacrifice a turn. Another one is Aerodactyl, you would have to have at least 3 mysterious fossil in your deck just for aerodactyl.

To conclude my article i would like to say that the fifteen trainer rule would put a lot of different decks out there to play with, and it would make the game a lot more unpredictable. I think Wizards should have some non-sanctioned tournaments with these rules and see how they work out and decide from there. In my opinion i think that the fifteen trainer rule should be put in place.

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