1. Make sure your whole deck is in your E-mail!  If you forget to put a couple of cards in the decklist, I'll just figure you didn't have enough cards in the first place and suggest cards to put in so it's an even 60.  So double check your decklists before you hit the Send button!

2. Give me a screen name for me to call you!  Some of you have your real names tied to your E-mails when you send them.  I'd like to keep all of your real names private, and when I need to use your name in my deck review I wanna use a screen name instead.  Like, "Dugtrio" is obviously not my real name.  =P  I wouldn't want my real name up all over the world, so I use the nickname "Dugtrio" for my section at Zeo, Instant Messanger, etc.

3. When there are two or more versions of a card, tell me what level the card in your deck is!  This is another essential thing for your deck review to be completed.  Let's take Arcanine for instance.  The Base Set version has 100 Hit Points, an attack for 50 damage that discards an Energy from itself, and an 80-damage attack that does 30 damage to itself, with a Retreat Cost of 3.  Then there's the Promo #6 version with 70 HP, an attack that does 10 or 30 damage, and another attack that does more damage for the more damage counters that are on itself, with a Retreat Cost of 1.  Obvioiusly, there are some big differences between the two and both are played differently and in different decks.  PLEASE, if your Pokémon has a couple different versions, tell me what Lv. your Pokémon is at when you send the deck.

4. Have a strategy for your deck with the E-mail.  This isn't absolutely necessary, but it will help me fix your deck better.  Even if it's just a sentence or two, it's something to show me what you were thinking when you put together your deck.

5. Give your deck a name.  This isn't really needed either, but it would be very nice of you.  =)  Just think up a little name if you don't normally name your decks and put it in the Subject line of the E-mail or at the beginning of your message.  If you don't name your deck, though, I'll have to think up a silly one for you.  =P

That's it, five fairly simple guidelines.  Now that you know how to send me a deck, why don't you get to sending it?  =D

     -Dugtrio