hello pojo-people.
Merryfred ( :)Fred ) here. I was looking over my collection of articles that
I had printed off the pojo over the last couple of years when I came across
one from Chad Mills about Deck building. glancing over it I noticed that he
had building a raindance intertwined with the article. I took a look at the
final deck list and noticed something quite weird in today's pokemon gaming
circle.

Guess how many trainers this raindance had in it? 20-30? Wrong it had 14.
"What" you say a raindance with only 14 trainers in it! I said the same
thing. How ever you must remember this article was written 1 or 2 years ago
when people when saying things like 19 trainers seems to much in a deck with
only 60 cards in it and most players were swapping their cards for the
"mighty" Charizard ei a bit after Jungle was released.

Ok now that the intro is over let's narrow in on the point. if you look over
the older (1-2 years ago) decks you will notice that most of these decks
would fit perfectly or nearly perfectly in to the sts format. This was the
period when the archeotypes of today where just beginning to form and not
many people knew about them. Is it possible that Wotc is trying to return us
to the days when decks could win tourney's with only 2 bill and 1 oak
(because if you took any more you would deck yourself:) and Charizard decks
where rampant?

As a small secondry thought to those of you who are saying Raindance is dead
under the new format look at this;

Chad's raindance
-4 Squirtle
-2 Wortortle
-2 Blastoise
-3 Magikarp
-2 Gyrados
-4 Seel
-3 Dewgong
-2 Kangaskhan

-24 Water NRG

-4 Bill
-2 Oak
-2 Comp search
-1 GOW
-3 Poke trader
-2 Poke breeder

Now with some small changes this deck can become sts legal. Take out a
sqiurtle, seel, Gow and bill and add, 1 Oak, 1 comp search, 1 NRG Retreival
and 1 Water NRG. As Chad said "It's not perfect, but it's a nice start."
:)Fred