Konichiwa and good day!

Yesterday I got my first Neo Discovery cards, a Brain Wave deck and a
booster. A few of the cards really caught my attention:

Eevee.

If you don't know, this cards power says that when an energy is attached to
Eevee, you flip a coin. On a heads you search your deck for an Eevee
evolution of the same type as the energy and put it on Eevee.

Ok, this card goes great in the old Eeveelution decks, but wait! Combo it
with promo Eevee and bingo! All Eevee's evolved on turn one! 30 HP is a
downer, but it can evolve for more, breathing new life into evo decks. But
the best bit is...

Espeon!

Woohoo! Psy is my favorite type, this card has more power than girafarig! Use
a promo Eevee, you could try the above combo, to get Espeon into play on turn
one, stick DCE (double colorless) on it and you have a possible 30 damage on
turn one.
Could this be the start of a psy haymaker?

Natu.

Wow, they have seriously improved this guy since genesis! Not brilliant, but
a hay's nightmare with a heads on confuse ray. Only 1 energy for confuse ray
is good, but this guy would still be unplayable if not for Xatu. I don't know
witch Xatu's my fave, but that can wait 'till another article. What combos
can we pull with this dude?
Hmmm...Stall with confusion, then pull out the big hitters like Movie Mewtwo.

Omanyte.

Ok, picture this, you just buy a water/psy deck and flick through the cards,
huh, there's a fighting pokémon in here??? What's going on??? Then you read
the attack.
Ok, it's stronger than fossil omanyte, and the pic is better, let's see about
a strategy. Put one mysterious fossil in a deck and use eggs for the rest.
(You need a fossil, 'cos eggs are unreliable.) Now you can put in Kabuto,
Omanyte AND Aerodactyl, with only 2 or 3 trainers. Hmm, we could base a deck
around this...

We'll just use the one fossil, we can cpusearch for it. Add a couple off eggs
to pull those evo's out of the deck. Omante has a nice power for the theme,
and his evolution rocks! We'll play him 3/2. Fossil Aero is a nice colorless
fighter so we'll use 1 of him. I don't want to use anymore, because he can
weaken our own cards. Grass is our weakness here. No problemo! It's
overlooked nowadays, but charmander and charmeleon are pretty good. Ok, I
think we have the basis for a new deck here. Go on, make an original
fire/water deck (Yeah, I know it has no actual water types in it.)
who knows, you might even win a bit.

Finally, I want to recognise two amazing cards that i pulled from the
booster...

Kakuna and Butterfree!!!

Kakuna.

..........broken..........that's the only word for it. Base gastly could have
been a good stall if it wasn't for discarding energy, but this beauty can hit
the bench and poison, with no penalty! This thing makes a great stall card
and it's evo is meant to be great!
Combo it with the butterfree I'm coming to and you can make one heck of a
good status deck!

Butterfree.

Why didn't this thing come out in jungle??? If kakuna is broken, this thing
is shattered into a million tiny pieces! Hold off the opponent with Kakuna,
then bring out this little gem and confuse, poison, paralyze and sleep your
way to victory. This guy can heal itself too! It can shut off pokémon powers
with status effects, and Hitmonchan? What Hitmonchan?

Next time, unown and some tough combos, but only if this one gets posted, I'm
not wasting my time.
Mail me, hate mail if you must, to webpidgeon@homestead.com.

Goodbye and may the Ponyta be with you!

P.S. I need a nickname for my Mew.