Muk decks are a good reason to put together an AeroMew deck:  If Muk appears
before Aerodactyl, the only ways to get Aerodactyl working are to either use
Mew's Devolution Beam on Muk, or to Gust Muk out and knock him out the hard
way.  My AeroMew deck now consists of:  Four Fossils, three Aerodactyls,
four Mews, four Hitmonchans, four Scythers, and four MrMimes.  While I was
acquiring Hitmonchans, Scythers, and Mimes, I filled in the gaps with
Machops, Hitmonlees, and Gastlys (originally Drowzees, but Fossil Gastly is
slightly faster than Drowzee).  With four Energy Removals and some DCE, this
deck inspires terror in the hearts of people depending on Gyardos or other
powerful Stage1 and Stage2 evolutions.  It combines evolution denial with
devolution, damage denial, and quick powerful attacks.  The antidote for
this deck would be a Fire/Psychic deck containing powerful Basic Pokemon
with small, status-changing attacks, like Fossil Magmar and Fossil Gastly. 

On a related subject, I recently put together a Muk deck, and was astonished
to find that it IS possible to construct a nice deck with Muk that has no
other Pokemon with Special Pokemon Powers.  Mine has Grimers, Muks,
Eggxecutes, Eggxecutors, Drowzees, and Jynxes. Only Muk has a SPP, and yet
all of the Pokemon are nice and tough.  Kids, DON'T waste your time building
a deck that has Muk in it if Muk will mess up your other Pokemon's SPP!  I
saw a kid with Muks and Venusaur together!  That's just plain nuts!

Alison
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