Hackman's The Analyst


Welcome to The Analyst, your guide to the strategy of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. From ways to beat common cards to format-specific analysis, this is your one-stop source for deck-building ideas.

If you have stuff to share, send send it over to me,
Hackman (hackman@sugarshock.net), whether they're combos or requests or anything else!


 

 

Newest Issues



 

Post-ECSTS 2001

Southern Islands
Number
Date
Cards Featured
Author
30
8/1/2001

Rainbow Island (1-9)

31
8/2/2001

Tropical Island (10-18)


Neo Discovery
Number
Date
Cards Featured
Author
23
7/10/2001

Igglybuff and the
Resistance Unowns

24
7/16/2001

Tyranitar, Umbreon, and the Houndoom Family

25
7/18/2001

Magnemite, Scizor,
and Forretress

27
7/23/2001

Yanma, Butterfree, and the Beedrill Family

28
7/26/2001

The rest of the Unowns, Espeon, and Wobbuffet

29
7/29/2001

Tyrogue, Hitmontop, Poliwrath, and Omastar

28
7/26/2001

The rest of the Unowns, Espeon, and Wobbuffet

32
8/10/2001

The Kabuto Family, and the Poliwag-Politoed line


Deck Reviews
Number
Date
Decks Featured
Author
33
8/14/2001

Rainbow Wave of Death and [Fossils + Skarmory]


Fan Requests/Humor Analysts
Number
Date
Cards Featured
Author
26
7/19/2001

Blaine's Arcanine (GMC)

26 1/2
7/22/2001

Grass Energy

 

 

 






 

ECSTS 2001 Strategy

Card Strategies
Number
Date
Cards Featured
Author
11
4/23/2001

Searching for Cards
under Rock(et) on! format

12
4/25/2001

Drawing Cards
under Rock(et) on! format

13
5/16/2001

Card Manipulation
under Rock(et) on! format

14
5/27/2001

Stadium Cards

15
5/28/2001

Those Damned Baby Pokemon...

16
5/30/2001

How to beat Rocket's Zapdos

17
6/1/2001

How to beat Rocket's Moltres and Sabrina's Alakzam

6/6/2001

How to beat Steelix

6/18/2001

How to beat Slowking

6/19/2001

How to beat Slowking #2, How to beat Baby Pokés!

6/20/2001

How to Bench Manipulate

6/22/2001

Gameplay Tactics!



 

 

Previous Analyst Issues

Card Strategies
Number
Date
Cards Featured
Author
1
11/03/2000

Sabrina's Kadabra, Chaos Gym

Hackman
2
11/06/2000

Rocket's Zapdos

Hackman
3
11/12/2000

Rocket's Mewtwo

Hackman
4
12/01/2000

Base Set, Dark, Misty's, Giovanni's and Shiny Gyaradoses

Hackman
5
12/06/2000

Dark Vileplume, Nightly Garbage Run

Hackman
6
12/18/2000

Ecogym

Hackman
7
12/26/2000

Erika's Bellsprout and family

Hackman
8
12/27/2000

Professor Oak, Professor Elm

Hackman
9
1/3/2001

No Removal Gym, Sprout Tower, E- Flow, TR Trap, Erika's Bellsprout

Hackman
10
1/7/2001

Rainbow Energy, Darkness Energy, Metal Energy,

Hackman


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