Wow. It's been 2 years. 2 Years of Pokemon cards. And look how things have

changed. Here's what lead up to today's awsome play enviornment! I said

awsome!

Base

This started it all. Haymakers, Stall, Raindance, and Dragonair Removal.

Haymakers ran on speedy Hitmonchan and Electabuzz. Raindance brought out

Blastoise, Degong, and Gyrados. Stall with Alakazam and Chansey. Dragonair

teamed with Super Energy Removal to create a feared deck. And did I

mention...Mulligan Mewtwo. A cheap deck using all psy. energies and a few

Mewtwos to be invicible. Other notable decks were Charizard, Venucenter, and

other decks that sucked.

Jungle

This set gave us Scyther, who showed up in every speed deck, and introduced

Copycat. A deck taking advantage of your opponent's pokemon. Bye Charizard.

And then came the one who dominated. Wigglytuff! The only Arch-type card, I

used. It dominated STS.

Fossil

This set Gave us Aerodactyl, for evolution stopping, Muk, for Pokemon power

stopping, and that's about it. Oh yeah. Ditto helped out Copycat. Articuno

was added to raindance, and Moltres began his own form of stall.

Base 2

This set Pissed me off. I wasted my money on what I allready Bought.

Rocket

Dark Vileplume came as the first form of Trainer denial, but had negative

effects, disabling your trainers too. Everything else sucked.

Gym Heroes/Challenge

I put the sets together, because I don't know which set alot of cards are

from. Rocket's Zapdos screwed up The Meta-game badly. The first Zapdos to be

used alot, he is resistant to Fighting and not weak. Lightning resistant to

fighting. You now play Lightning to stop fighting! Blaine's Arcanine was a

big hitter. Erika's Weepinbell gave us some status changes and Sabrina's

Alakazam showed up helping out Psychic decks. Too much emerged here to tell

it all!

Neo Genisus

This set kicked Dark Vileplume and Wigglytuff behind. Sprout tower

permanantly disabled Normal, and a new bench powered poop was here. SNEASLE!

A card so strong it was banned from STS (WOTC has to stop making bench

powered pokemon) Slowking arrived only disabling your opponents trainers!

Murkrow improved on an old deck I didn't mention, LOCK. Meganium's power

charged up Grass pokemon. Feraligatr was bad, but in ROCKET ON! He dominated.

Typhlosion made a notable appearence. Steelix and Skarmory became an

Arche-type. Metal and Darkness energy showed up even without Darkness Pokemon

and Metal Pokemon.

Neo Discovery: Unowns show up hurting Normal, Metal, Darkness, that's it.

Tyranitar showed up combining with

Unown D. And The biggest thing: Igglybuff. He stopped Aerodactyl, Dark

Vileplume, Slowking, and Foretress. Oh yeah, Fortress! He was good.

Honestly, I love the current enviornment. Don't bash me, or tell me to stop

complaining; I love it!

Well that's a wrap. And a note to Wizards! We've poured our money into your

pockets forever. You wanna make more money? DON'T RELEASE VS! Either we quit,

and start playing Magic, or we stay on pokemon VS. It's a win-win situation

right? Wrong. You release VS, I quit Pokemon Cards. I don't quit Pokemon,

Pokemon CARDS. And I stop playing other card games too! I think I speak for

many other trainers.

~Jerm who rules

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