PTCG/O General: Special Doggo Edition

Is 5ban really that cheaper than hiring 2D artists? Isn't creating a model expensive?

I just want good FA cards damn.

>>33453441
>Is 5ban really that cheaper than hiring 2D artists? Isn't creating a model expensive?
Not if it's an in-house artist.

>>33453438

Look up builds for Weavile/Eggs and Celebi/Genesect, those are the top-tier decks for Legacy.

>>33453469
Yeah but, those are extremely pricey, especially Celesect.

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Can't play it. What's wrong?

>>33453576
The code dun fucked up, you should report it.

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>>33453525
You asked for good decks, not cheap ones. VirGenCel is BDIF, so if you can cough up the packs for the Celebis you'll roll. Here's my Weavile Eggs build, Computer Search and Smeargle are the only really pricey parts, and Smeargle is optional and you could always play Life Dew over Comp Search with Junk Arms to pull it back.

>>33453441
It's better than just slapping already existing artwork on a generic background

twitchtv/metapodcasttcg
Ft Wayne stream, Garde vs Waterbox right now.

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>>33453622
Say that again fucker not online and see what happens

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>chaos wheel for one energy
>2nd attack: 20x the number of cards in your opponent's hand

so they saw garb take 6 of the top 8 at worlds and decided it needed more partners lmao

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****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

Pokémon - 11

* 2 Groudon-EX DEX 106
* 1 Groudon-EX PRC 150
* 3 Primal Groudon-EX PRC 151
* 1 Mr. Mime PLF 47
* 4 Wobbuffet PHF 36

Trainer Cards - 39

* 4 Puzzle of Time BKP 109
* 3 Professor Sycamore STS 114
* 1 Computer Search BCR 137
* 4 VS Seeker PHF 109
* 1 Mega Turbo ROS 86
* 1 Escape Rope PRC 127
* 2 Robo Substitute Team Flare Gear PHF 102
* 1 Assault Vest BKT 133
* 2 Focus Sash FFI 91
* 1 Weakness Policy PRC 164
* 3 Tropical Beach PR-BLW BW28
* 1 Professor's Letter BKT 146
* 1 Colress PLS 135
* 2 Nest Ball SUM 123
* 1 Float Stone BKT 137
* 2 Pokémon Center Lady FLF 105
* 1 Super Potion EVO 87
* 1 N NVI 101
* 2 Lysandre FLF 104
* 4 Korrina FFI 111
* 1 Enhanced Hammer GRI 162

Energy - 10

* 1 Psychic Energy CL 92
* 5 Fighting Energy BLW 110
* 4 Strong Energy FFI 104

Total Cards - 60

****** Deck List Generated by the Pokémon TCG Online www.pokemon.com/TCGO ******

By God, I love this deck...

The trade board is kinda cool but it's still a pain in the ass to get specific cards you need. It'd be nice if I could like trade in the 20 charmanders I have for a booster or something.

>>33453765
I'd love it more if Tropical Beach wasn't Fuckexpensive. I saw an old post about Tropical Beach price when it first rotated, talking about it dropping to 19 packs and calling that 'still pretty expensive'. Still hoping we get a reprint next year, but I guess they decided a Worlds promo that was actually decently useful was too much.

I've recently got back into the cards (trying to collect a pokedex of cards) and in each pack there's a code with stuff for the online card game. I'm debating wether or not to get into it, bc Pokemon already takes up so much of my time (main series games, the duel app, etc), so can someone tell me if it's worth it? Give a general feel of the game? Thanks in advance

>>33453785
>Still hoping we get a reprint next year, but I guess they decided a Worlds promo that was actually decently useful was too much.

Pretty much, a few Worlds-winning decks also packed it as well.

>I'd love it more if Tropical Beach wasn't Fuckexpensive. I saw an old post about Tropical Beach price when it first rotated, talking about it dropping to 19 packs and calling that 'still pretty expensive'.

Whoever posted that was an idiot, the main two reasons why Champions' Festival is so cheap is due its terrible effect and the fact that it's more accessible due to the code cards included in World Championship Decks.

>>33453785
If they actually made that the promo every year it wouldn't be nearly so expensive, they've really screwed the pooch by replacing it with useless ones, the price will only get higher until they ban it from expanded which is also a stupid solution since it's not a broken card at all, just a hard to get one.

>>33453820

>>33453435
>http://i.imgur.com/HoY1IaG.jpg (embed)
>https://pastebin.com/XDU1wEnz (embed)

>>33453839
Already banned in Japan for being hard to get.

>>33453837
The online codes in the WC decks don't actually give you the cards, just deck box, sleeves and coin. I'm holding out hope that, with TPCi showing more official support for Expanded this year, we might see a Best of BW set, reprints that don't alter the legality, like they did for XY, even if we didn't see most of Best of XY outside Japan.

>>33453933
>The online codes in the WC decks don't actually give you the cards, just deck box, sleeves and coin.

That's really odd, I could've sworn I got mine by redeeming a Worlds Championships 2013 deck code card.

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Is this a fair trade? no idea what vivid sets are worth nowadays

>>33453760
should be a fun card, i like the art alot

>>33453933
>Already banned in Japan for being hard to get.

IIRC, that's only true for Palace format and that format has some odd rules.

>>33454046
40?

How goes the Greninja revival efforts?

>>33454716
The Vivid box and sleeve sets were only available for Gems for a short time years ago, so there's hardly any copies in circulation. The Victini ones will fetch the equivalent of thousands of packs.

>>33454707
What's Palace format?

>>33454945
A format that allows cards from DP-on, but certain cards have a point value of 1 to 4 and you are only allowed 4 points total in your deck.

>>33454945
It's basically DP-on but it has some restrictions. The way it works is like this...

>Build a 60-card deck.
>Certain cards have a point value between 1 and 5, your deck cannot exceed 4 points. Cards that have a point value of 5 are banned from the format.

And here are the point values...

1 point
>Unown R (Legends Awakened 77)
>Azelf (Legends Awakened 19)
>Stark Mountain (Legends Awakened 135)
>Poké Drawer + (Stormfront 89)
>Crobat G (Platinum 47)
>Weavile (Undaunted 25)
>Hypnotoxic Laser

2 points
>Forretress (Legends Awakened 28)
>Time-Space Distortion (Mysterious Treasures 124)
>Cyrus's Initiative (Supreme Victors 137)
>Junk Arm (Triumphant 87)
>Mew (Triumphant 97)
>Archeops (Noble Victories 67)
>Keldeo-EX (Boundaries Crossed 49)

3 points
>Claydol (Great Encounters 15)
>Porygon2 (Great Encounters 49)
>Uxie (Legends Awakened 43)
>Broken Time-Space (Platinum 104)
>Shuckle (HGSS Promo 15)

4 points
>None

5 points/Banned
>Kecleon (Rising Rivals 67)
>Miracle Diamond (Battle Road promo)
>Mysterious Pearl (Battle Road promo)
>Wonder Platinum (DPt-P Promo 33)
>Shiftry (Next Destinies 72)
>Tropical Beach (BW Promo 28)
>Lysandre's Trump Card (Phantom Forces 99)

Fuck off Sylveon

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>>33453760
FINALLY, a good counter to Machine Gun Stomp Metagross

>>33455167
>>33455059
Neat, I always hoped Pokemon would get an equivalent to Modern format. Shame it's Japan only.

>>33455167
So, for example, you can only have one copy of Uxie and one copie of Azelf OR 4 Azelf OOOR 2 Mew.

Am I right?

>Pablo got rekt by Sylveon GX

>>33455456
Dude can't catch a break, near flawless runs until he gets on camera and gets smashed.

>vespiquen player thinks he's such hot shit and emotes at me after a flawless t1 putting everything into discard, burning through all of his acro bikes and compressors
>immediately karen him and he concedes

Why do bad players love playing vespiquen and night march so much?

>>33455583
Cheap cards that hit big numbers, I would imagine.

>>33453435
>Least favorite part of the TCGO?
Trade UI, bar none.

>>33453435
>Least favorite part of the TCGO?
5ban and Ken Sugimori's stock images with a generic background. Both in physical and online.

>>33453435
>Least favorite part of the TCGO?
The hands it gives me. Also the disgusting avatars. And the endless theme vs grinding.

>>33453576
Uninstall and reinstall. nothing else you can do.
>>33453525
Weavile is budget, but warning the animations for eggs takes forever you have to ask really ask yourself if those 20 minutes of pure card animations were worth the win. Celebi/Genesect is overrated. You lose to any 1 prize attacking deck, which there are plenty of. 6 prizes while they only need 3 ex knockouts, believe me the deck is good but outclassed by 1 prize attackers. The best thing about the deck is it can set up on your first turn (going 2nd) and take KOs before the opponent sets up.

>>33453779
might be able to trade those 20 charmanders for 1 chest. good luck getting a booster for them however.

>>33453785
They were dirt cheap during new pack releases. Could pick them up with 10 flashfire/furious fist/phantom forces for the first release week yhpe. If they wanted to make money, they could make an alternate reprint of Tropical Beach, that way its not standard legal but people can get copies to play with. That said without a reprint it will only get much more expensive. Its one of the few items in game worth investing in.

>>33453820
Online game will possess your soul, go back mortal.

>>33455620
>>33453435
Trade interface is so fucking garbage. Just spam 8 hour trades so nobody can load the 24-48 hour trades that way you get prime advertisment space for being active, throwing offers incessantly hourly while the newer ones might as well not exist. They need to ban all the alternate account abusers as well. Infinite tokens makes it impossible to trade fairly versus those guys. They dont even hide the alternate account abuse, have names like "alt069", "freetokensguy" "whydidUbanme" etc.

>>33455774
gotta turn off that music man.

>>33455847
>20 minutes of pure card animations
Things like this make me wish there was an option for disabling most animations.

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Got these from a bunch of packs I won at Dave & Buster's yesterday. How'd I do?

>>33455932
There used to be

trade are fucking slow today.

>>33455932
>>33455970
Back in 2014 animations were optional, this made games super fast. When I played with my Speed Lugia deck in legacy I could go through my whole deck in 1 minute.

>>33455963
Lele is always a great find, and FA Koko and Sylveon are nice. The rest are cool, but those three are standout finds.

>>33455970
Got my fingers crossed that whatever the new TCG game they're working on has QoL improvements like that.

>>33453820
I enjoy it more than duels.

Duels just felt like shuppet racing mobile "sacrifice to make bigger" crap, like GO.

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>>33453820
If you're not gonna use those codes, why not give them to us?

>>33455932
There is one for simpler animations.

Anyone have a Noivern GX decklist or any ideas for one post-rotation? I was running it and doing very well competing with tier 1 decks before.

previous builds i was running were koko promo+magearna+eveelutions+espeon ex and koko promo+magearna+garbotoxin+espeon ex

I don't think no DDE is going to be as big of a hit to the deck as people think; being unable to attach DDE to noibat limited how fast i could charge one up to being the same amount of turns or slower than normal energies would be, unless i had a turn 1 wally. the main way i see it limiting the deck is by making acerola weaker.

>cheatawat

'no'

Opinions on this Volc/Turt build? I'm trying to make the Gardevoir match-up a bit more fair.

Pokemon - 11
x2 - Volcanion
x3 - Volcanion EX
x3 - Turtonator GX
x1 - Ho-Oh GX
x1 - Tapu Lele GX
x1 - Drampa GX

Supporter - 17
x4 - Professor Sycamore
x4 - N
x3 - Guzma
x2 - Acerola
x2 - Kiawe
x1 - Brigette
x1 - Fisherman

Item - 10
x4 - Ultra Ball
x2 - Switch
x2 - Rescue Stretcher
x2 - Field Blower

Tool - 4
x2 - Float Stone
x2 - Fighting Fury Belt

Field - 4
x2 - Brooklet Hill
x2 - Po Town

Energy - 14
x14 - FIRE Energy

Bright Flame + FFB + 2 Steam Ups is 230 damage. The 230 HP from FFB also ups the energy requirement for OHKO from from Infinite Force from 7 energy to 8. Ho-Oh is still here just so Drampa isn't my only Water/mirror match check.

I kind of want to drop something for 1-2 Plumeria, as well as 3-4 Lusamine when she comes out, though deck space is already pretty thing. Any suggestions on that as well?

>>33453639

anyone know what top 8 decks/players are?

>>33456444
3 guzma, 2 switch, and two float stone?

>>33456466
By-product of what was once originally a purely Volcanion deck. I'm still very nervous about being Guzma'd into an energy-less Volc/Turt, with no out.

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>>33456448

>>33456444
I like the thinking here focusing on Turt because of Gard GX. Po town can possibly get you 60 damage counters on those Gards too. I like the list a lot. I would try to fit in 1 more Lele, since you run 2 Kiawe and if 1 lele is prized you got the 2nd one. Brigette seems bad without an octillery line/starmie line or something though.
My suggestions: add in 1 more Lele GX.
My personal choices: add in a starmie line helps those Steam Up KOs, 4 max elixir. I personally love max elixir, and you already run tons of energy so it fits in well. Course it powers Garb up too, but energy accelration is so good.

>>33456569
>No frogs
Thank god.

>>33456569

who /turtonator/ here?

>>33456507
Which explains some, but maybe too many outs.

>>33456569
>not a single Trev
I'm surprised, Trevenant Necrozma was getting hyped up as BDIF. Cool not to see any Greninja for once at least.

NM mirror in top 4

>>33456704
How about

x2 Guzma (-1)
x3 Float Stone (+1)
x0 Switch (-2)

Makes room for x2 Plumeria or a 1-1 Starmie line like >>33456581 suggested.

And I used to run Max Elixir, but I felt like between it, Baby Volc, Turt GX, and Kiawe, I was grabbing too much energy from too many different places for it to be effective. At the very least, a Starmie line could help thin out my hand of Kiawes, UBs, and Brooklets I no longer need mid-late game.

>>33456802
Can't slam the Pram.

>>33456852
Plumeria for waifu purposes? What match up does it help?

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I'm looking for a good Ho-oh pick for a new playmat, anyone know where can I look for it?

>>33457071
Thin out early game cards I no longer need in exchange for lowering Gard's damage output by 30 (60 if they're wasting DCE on it).

I've been running with it for a few matches, but haven't really seen it be a game-changer or hindrance. Had one game against some really awful Eeveeloution/A-Ninetales deck where it and Drampa shut them down as they were only running DCE/Rainbow, but that probably has more to do with their deck efficiency rather than Plumeria's.

>>33456854
>cheatalot in the finals, again

amazing how he always manages to top cut and draw exactly what he needs. Very lucky guy

>Cheat wins lol

Groans...

>>33457217

You know what could REALLY fix up that problem?

Automatic deck shufflers.

>>33457182
Yeah its awesome vs decks that need 2 energy attachments, like drampa and even espeon GX. But standard is defined by many 1 energy attackers, or decks with too much energy acceleration making Plumeria very niche.

That chat, lol

>>33457246
Automatic deck shufflers are pretty bad

Having table judges do an extra shuffle on streamed games would be far more efficient

>>33457308
>pramawatt pays off judges to cheat shuffle for him

nothing personal, kid

>>33457317
Now you're just being paranoid.

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nice stream

i'm new to the pokemon tcg thing

can anyone explain me why this Tropical Beach card is so good and so valuable?

I've seen it mentioned quite a few times already

>>33457352
Lets you draw cards instead of just ending the turn doing noting, its only viable in expanded. Its valuable because they're tournament promos.

Please win Chen
Don't let the Cheat cheat

>>33457352
It's not an especially good card, it's really good for a few decks, but if it became standard legal tomorrow it wouldn't be a must use card in the same way that Tapu Lele is and Shaymin was.

It's only special and valuable because it was a worlds promo for a few years and there's no longer any way to get them. There's one really good expanded deck (Primal Groudon) that heavily relies on them and some other lists have used one or two of them as a situational card.

>>33457352
It's free card draw without using your Supporter for the turn. Obviously it's not great use every deck and every turn, but for slower decks, ones that won't be attacking every single turn (Primal Groudon being the prime example), it can be amazing for setting up a load faster.

>ultra ball 2 lampents

l m a o

>>33457378

he literally just tried to flip Chen's GX counter on the first turn.

Does his brazen cheating know no bounds?

>>33457427
then he just got 2 more marchers with a ball

he has 4 in discard without using a compressor lmao

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>Thought I had two sets of tropical beach
>turns out they do the inferior Champion's Festival now
why even go to worlds anymore

it looks like if you do VGC they automatically give you the promo cards on TCGO but don't bother giving you the physical cards

I can't wait for the cheat to top deck a sycamore or N...

>>33457481

Pramawat getting exactly what he needed off that ghetsis. How did he even know he was going to draw 2 off that ghetsis? Must be looking at his opponent's hand too

>>33457504
He was going to get them with Oranguru if not Ghetsis.

Okay guys, here's a hypothetical...

>Night March is reprinted.
>But it has a damage cap that prevents it from OHKO EXs/GXs. The older Night Marchers are also banned from Expanded.

What happens to the meta?

ONE MORE GAME CHEN!

>>33457645

if Night march can't take OHO's it becomes unplayable trash.

Also night march is hardly meta breaking now, 2/8 in top 8 isn't that big of a deal

>>33457665
>Also night march is hardly meta breaking now, 2/8 in top 8 isn't that big of a deal

It is when one of the guys playing it makes Gino look like a saint.

for fuck sake...

We need more 8 man Smash guy

>>33457697

in this case it's not the deck being broken, but the player using it

>>33456718
I think Turbo Dark was hyped more and that should be able to eat Trevs. It also looked like everyone was teching for trev too with upped lysandre/guzma and Giratina based on pre-hype.

I still think Trevs a good deck but 3 silent fear and a Black Ray GX can be hard to pull off perfectly every time when you're opponent knows your game plan.

>>33457698
>stream goes down
>pramawat wins when camera isn't recording

not suspicious at all

Fucking bullshit
Fucking cheater

>>33457733

Which is why >>33457308 needs to be implemented for Top Cut.

What's a good/cheap deck that can win for expanded? I'm trying to do this challenge and going up against all of the crazy combos I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed...

TFW you finally get 3 Tapu Lele's and can make/play any deck you want

>>33457822
Expanded Greninja is basically pre-rotation Greninja. Garbodor/Golisopod is very similar to how it plays in standard too.

NIGHT MARCH BEST DECK OF ALL TIME

>top decks teammates

PREDICTABLE

Cheet does it again, what a good player!

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FUCK YOU!

>>33457926
I love you, whoever you are

>>33453760
Radical.

>>33456569
>2 golisopod
Feels good.

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Post Rare card collection

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>>33458076
#2

>>33458067
>>33456569
Damn I love Golisopod. Such a good card to flip.

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>>33458086
#3

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>>33458092
#4

>>33458090
I have a regular gx and full art gx. What's the best way to flip them? Especially the fullart

>>33458114
the regular worth 7 GRI pack so you could try trading it for 7 or if you want to be sure trade it for 6, the full art worth 8.5 pack so for 8 you probably will trade it fast

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Sam Chen will win Worlds 2018. MARK MY WORDS.

>>33458114
Pick up the reg or FA for 6 or 7 each. Then trade 3 of them for 1 FA Guzma. Trade the Guzma for 1 Tapu Lele GX REG OR 25 BUS/GRI . Trade the lele for 30+ packs or use for your deck.

>>33458263
Word nigga. I've been doing the 25/30 regLeLe flip for a bit and have a bit over 150 packs right now from my original Lele pull. Lele is the top flippable card right? Or is there a more profitable one? Ultra Ball? DCE?

how much do you think those two are worth in-game

solgaleo sm16
lunala sm17

thanks

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>>33459024
forgot pic obviously

>>33459040
Better off trying to up trade them into something better because they sell terribly. Those 2 for 1 Necrozma reg, OR espeon gx or something, then sell that for 2-3 BUS.

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>>33459062
Yeah i'm already familiar with flipping( pic related) and i fucking love it, so maybe like .75 each?

>>33459111
try to ask for 2, .5 packs like steam siege. or ask for 4 chests each. then you can trade 3 chest for 1 bus usually, or flip the chest. Its worth noting if you trade a full line/playset like 4 lapras gx, OR 3-4 umbreon GX with 3-4 eevee or whatever family of cards you can squeeze out a bit more trading power, usually gives you +1 or 2 value extra but those are more advanced techniques. Good uptrade targets that are low value are Darkrai GX, Metagross GX,Necrozma, espeon Gx,turt etc.

>>33459111
>>33459111
>Turtonator for Fini 3h7
>Fini for Turtonator 7h44

Wut?

>>33459197
If i had to guess its a Turt Reg Art for Fini Hyper Rare. The reg art fini is like 1 chest, then uptrade to reg Turt. Then keep climbing.

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>>33455981
trades have been okay today. nothing crazy but I picked up 8 Tapu Lele Reg GX flipping crap cards. dont know whether to sell them or hold out for a price increase in the next big standard tournament.

>>33459197
>>33459210
3h07 is FA fini for FA turtonator
7h44 is FA turtonator for UR fini
it's slow climbing like .25 pack per cards but the trade are fast and easy

>>33453622
>It could be worse, so it doesn't need to be good
Legend cards were awesome and weren't either recycled art, nor 3D models.

It probably has a reason to be like that (maybe kids find this kind of art better) but don't say that's the better of two options when it's actually one of the worst among incountable others.

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OH SHIT

Does anyone have a ptcg/o YouTube channel? Love to watch, need some tips and strats

>>33459564

Literally pulled this earlier today

>>33459952
Darkintergral and Yellowswellow

How do I make a deck build around A-Muk? I need help since I'm new):

>>33460302
i got destroyed by a A-muk / Salazzle deck earlier

might also combo decently with the More Poison seviper

What's a good exp deck that btfos Turbo Dark? I was considering trying Landorus but it doesnt OHKO with CB + Stronk Energy

>>33460208
DarkIntegral is almost pure clickbait and missplays. He has good ideas but bad ejecution almost every time.

>>33461418
Could try Marshadow GX and Mewtwo EX? Discard Mewtwo, DCE Choice Band X Ball from Marshadow for 220 with Weakness on any Darkrai EX with two energy, OHKO even with a FFB.

>>33461455
Agreed, he's the most "Let's Play" of the TCGO Youtubers I can think of, going more for entertainment than playing particularly well or with particularly great decks. Yellowswellow is decent, tablemon's good and you know he is with coming top 8 at Worlds, ptcgradio is cool for info on new cards and potential strategies though his "good moooooooorning ladies and gentlemen" can get a little grating. Rare Candy, omnipoke and Team Fish Knuckles all show decent plays, as does Seagrove who also does some interesting interviews with pro players. Aurabomb, Token Minorities and Trainer Chip also come to mind, but with all of them, your mileage may vary.

>>33461559
mmm sounds interesting, I'll make a proto deck list.

>tfw you don't play the TCG and you're just here for the card art

>>33461593
Shame you're in one of the worst blocks for full arts.
>5ban everywhere
That SR Mewtwo GX from Shining Legends has me hopeful they'll do more interesting ones like that in future.

So I won that 24 ticket expanded tournament, now I have a bunch of old but relatively expensive packs. What should I do with them? Convert them to GRI? Will people accept my trades for cards and stuff if I put up old packs for trade? Considering the demand, it's easier for me to offer GRI and BUS, no?

****** Pokémon Trading Card Game Deck List ******

##Pokémon - 11

* 4 Marshadow-GX BUS 80
* 1 Jolteon-EX GEN 28
* 1 Espeon-EX BKP 52
* 2 Mewtwo-EX LTR 54
* 2 Tapu Lele-GX GRI 137
* 1 Glaceon-EX FAC 20

##Trainer Cards - 41

* 4 Battle Compressor Team Flare Gear PHF 92
* 4 Professor Juniper DEX 98
* 3 Fighting Fury Belt BKP 99
* 3 Field Blower GRI 125
* 4 N FAC 105
* 2 Lysandre AOR 78
* 4 VS Seeker PHF 109
* 2 Skyla BCR 149
* 4 Ultra Ball SUM 135
* 1 Dowsing Machine PLS 128
* 1 Lillie SUM 147
* 1 Ghetsis PLF 101
* 4 Crushing Hammer GEN 60
* 2 Energy Loto GRI 122
* 2 Fighting Stadium FFI 90

##Energy - 8

* 4 Rainbow Energy SUM 137
* 4 Double Colorless Energy SUM 136

Total Cards - 60

****** Deck List Generated by the Pokémon TCG Online www.pokemon.com/TCGO ******
This is the proto deck I built. Any suggestions on removing + adding? I know allot of the cards are unusual( Energy Loto & Espeon EX), those are for Energy Acceleration and Defying Alolatales, and Hoopa. Fighting Stadium helps me hit higher numbers to EXs.

>>33455583

PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY LELE

SEARCHER OF TECHS

>>33461693
energy loto always makes sense in 8 special energy decks.

Anyways, lock decks in expanded tend not to work as well. One hex maniac and your lock chain is broken and Marshadow is not hard to OHKO in expanded. If you're gonna play a deck like this you should take more advantage of the fighting support in expanded. Focus sash and Korrina in particular.

Shaymin is also really important for a deck like this and honestly you should run 2. Sky return is a very good attack to have in discard. I don't really like Lillie and crushing hammers here, and you should trade one of those Lysandres for a Guzma because you have no switching items at all.

>>33459564

>even a regular EX Espeon is worth more

>>33459564
>Locked
It's junk.

>>33461693
No reason not to use Prism Energy over Rainbow Energy, save yourself 10HP per attachment.

>nephew starts collecting Pokemon
>wants to trade with me
>give him some of my old good cards from the 90s
>find out later he traded them to kids on his playground for jack shit

Fuck this. I'm gonna scam all his good shit off him and give it back when he's older

>>33455583
Based Karen

>>33456345
>>33457217
>>33457239
>>33457378
>>33457773
>>33457481
Can I have context please?

>Playing Volcanion
> Mulligans
what the actual fuck?

>>33462309
guy has won 6 regionals now and has habit of just randomly getting exactly the card he needs with his skillfully 'random' shuffles.

I really like Burning Shadows, the increase in night march players on the ladder makes doing KO challenges so much easier. Against decks that don't play the trade game they just concede after you KO their first EX, you get 3 KOs max per game.

What decks are doing fine on Standard and Expanded? I used to play Xerneas Rainbow on standard before is pretty much dead...

>>33462491
Golisopod/Garb and Greninja are the two decks I can think of that still play pretty similar in both formats.

>>33460320
Do you have a possible list of the deck? Or do you know what cards would work well?

>>33462315
All energy/trainer hands do happen on occasion

>>33462455
Right?

>>33461455
I like his meme decks, but his deck building skills and playing skills are terribly bad. Considering PTCG is his job you think he would have better habits in those areas.

>>33461593
>Playing TCG and fapping to Full Art waifus
Truly the best thing ever

>>33462058
Better teach him value. People make mistakes, help him grow as a person.

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Beedrill – Grass – HP120
Stage 2 – Evolves from Kakuna

[G] Sudden Stab: 10 damage. If this Pokemon evolved from Kakuna during your turn, your opponent’s Active Pokemon is now Poisoned and Paralyzed.

[G] Sharp Needle: 60 damage.

Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 0

>>33461559
>>33461559
>Yellowswellow
Can't stand watching him he is up there with Darkintergral in terms of misplays.

I would say Omnipoke as they are fairly informative and they have streams where other high end players will join the chat and mock them. (and at least Joe from Omnipoke tends to notice when they misplay almost right away and will then explain it.)

Tablemon and Team Fish Knuckles is also informative but can be fairly bland TFK less so but Tablemon has better prestige having gotten so far in worlds recently.

ptcgradio I blame his faults on having to get videos out of some very small leaks but quite a few of his videos are overhyping cards.

>>33463758
Pairs nicely with evo beedrill

>>33463758
Would have been neat if the first attack worked with 0 energies, Forest is dead anyway

>>33463881
Only Alola forms get 0 costs

>>33463758
i get the sense they designed this card before deciding to ban FOGP.

is it me or has game been pretty ded recently. I guess we are getting a new "set" soon though.

>>33464086
We just got a new set and rotation just hit. Worlds happened so some people are in a coma though we've already had the first event of the new season.

>>33464086
two new sets.
shining legends the 6 October and crimson invasion in November

>>33463787

my only issue with him is the mental gymnastics when talking about shit cards like today with the Beedrill. I like the historical meta stuff but I want to know more stuff about the RSE era but that is beyond his anectdotal scope since he started playing seriously by the time DP era stuff was about to leave.

>>33464149

So what is happening with Shining Legends? Are we going to have a Jolteon EX repeat of stupidly expensive cards because of lack of availability with possibly Zoroark GX?

>>33464239
we still don't have the complete set list

>>33464260

that's not the problem. we're going to have another Generations problem where we can't buy booster boxes for guaranteed pull rates and have to rely on meme overpriced pin collections and boxes.

>>33464279
Oh yeah that for sure, Nintendo not called Jews for nothing

>>33464279
>>33464239
Holy fuck I remember that fiasco. Jolteon ex Regular Art was 30 something packs for a whole month. then it dropped to 20 packs and it was a 1-of at best

>>33464217
>my only issue with him is the mental gymnastics when talking about shit cards like today with the Beedrill.
Yeah that shit really sucks.

>>33464325

that wasn't the only issue. they REMOVED the FA version and stuck it in a random box set long after it mattered. Fucking TCGi I swear.

when will we get bo3 events? I'm seriously fucking sick of losing in 3rd/4th to jank decks because I go 6 turns without a supporter or consistency card. I don't care if I have to sit for an hour and a half to do an event.

>>33464418
been a pipe dream for a lot of players for a long time anon. :(

>>33464418
I would support this. This best 1 out of 1 is wholly unrealistic to the TCG competitive structure.

>>33464395

>stuck it in a random box set long after it mattered

Shaymin EX says hi! At least we get to play with with best boi N for 9 months of standard with his new FA.

>>33464418

wasn't the main issue always time constraints? Bo3 can take easily take over an hour or so and that depends on the format.

>>33464465

This think this was bad now? You should have played when DonkChamp was a thing.

>>33464418
> I don't care if I have to sit for an hour and a half to do an event
The other players do.

>>33464621
Then you have two kinds, one for bo1, one for bo3.

>>33464519
I dont get it, we are talking about the online game, specifically tournament structure being 1 game per round. In paper the game is played best 2 out of 3. there are also time constraints as well, but the online game claims to be as consistent to the real paper version, yet they still dont have best 2 out of 3 formats.

>>33464687
The game "claims" to be fun. Speed beats consistency.

been using my solgaleo and bronzong deck for a while. Anyone here used rayquaza and solgaleo deck yet? Wanna play standard

>my time: 20:00
>opponents: 12:00
I wont get my FA because of this fucker

>>33465280
I run Solgaleo with Ray.
Ray is its best option and always include a baby Sol

so 2 gx sols and 1 baby sol you run?

25 MINUTES UNTIL NEW LADDER!

What's the new fullart for the ladder?

>>33465435
>expanded-only rewards

>Expanded ladder

y tho

>>33465672
>>33465698
That's a real kick in the teeth to new players.

>>33465410
Nah I put 3gx 2baby sol
Makes it more consistent especially if you prize a gx

to give night march a pat in the back

>>33459525
This.

>>33465698
watch, i'll get a SR ultra out of one of the no-trade PLF packs.

Trying to get back into the TCG. How do y'all keep up with all the sets, every month there seems to be a new one.

Should I just buy code cards?

thanks alot guys, I never feel alone knowing that this thread exists to talk about TCG

V7X-MTR7-LDH-WKL

if you don't want to spend alot of money, just make online decks. As for physical decks might want to think carefully since real cards are worth more.

>The full art is Bianca
Dropped.

Is it too late to get into physical Pokémon TCG now as an MTG player? I don't need another late/huge timesink

>>33465829
in TCGO, you save tokens and splurge on 20-30 no-trade packs between sets once you've pika pack flipped to get all of the staples and don't need to scrounge value.

That'll get you a full set of everything.

>>33466006
Virizions are good though, when Venusaur SHL comes out they'll be able to attack for one attachment. If FOGP wasn't banned...

>>33466100
Why would it be too late? The most expensive staple card is $40 and you only need two of them. After that your other staples combined are like $15-20 total and the rest is just pokemon which run $5-30ish depending on your deck.

There are some stupid expensive decks like Primal Groudon and to a lesser extent Mega Rayquaza, but they're mostly expanded only.

>>33466122
>The most expensive staple card is $40 and you only need two of them.
>$40

Tapu Lele-GX is around $60, hoss.

>>33466204
>implying i kept up on price after getting my three

It could be $100 and it'd still be cheaper to build in this game than in Magic. But they really do need to do something to keep that price down. Lele's going to be around for years.

I have about seven or eight Reg LeleGX in live cards. Should I sell now or wait?

>>33466770
I see no reason to expect the price to fall so long as the format is what it is. There's no alternative and unlike Shaymin there's not even a compelling reason not to run it in terms of it being a prize liability.

The lack of VS seekers makes Lele extremely important for consistency in most decks. People are upping their Lele counts, 3 feels like the new standard, 4 isn't unreasonable. The only 'budget' replacement really is Random Receiver which is kind of shitty because it's a filler item that feeds Garb.

So what cards are you guys using for flipping packs now that the new rotation is out?

The new Octielery with Contrary Malamar
Oh shit dude

>>33465829
Flip for high demand cards like Tapu Lele GX. Keep like 10 of them or convert into packs. When new set drops you can pick up anything at your leisure. Its worth letting the hype to go down so you end up paying much less for cards. However codes are the fastest way and easiest to keep up.

>>33466823
Lele GX, Octillery. I had a few Dark Patches from long ago traded those off thanks to the hype, easily sold them for 6s all day/.

>>33465848
yeah, I am glad they are finally shifting the meta up a little bit.

>>33467457
new octillery?

What's this season's FA reward?

>>33467984

Bianca.

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>>33453435
Updated for Standard
Somebody tell me if this is good to go or needs further adjusting.

I tried to make it less wordy more visual while I was updating because it seems like a lot of newfags don't bother reading big blocks of text.
I also connected the deck examples to the guidelines provided by labeling what guideline each card fulfilled, and tried to explain "why EXs aren't broken" about as succinctly but more thoroughly, highlighting exactly the situation in that Raichu XY matchup Glalie EX.

Also, it's small enough to post now.

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>>33468629
Use a cleaner and smaller font, the old was alright

>>33466675

nope. Lele is the new Shaymin EX. Enjoy your reprints never ever. Gotta keep those Guardians Rising pack in demand!

>>33466787

>3 Leles

most setup/evolution decks don't have room for 3. 2 definitely. Lele GX has to fight Tapu Koko for utility card support. Golisiopod GX loves Koko for easy swap ins. BuluVolt needs to set up Garde GX KOs. It's the best card to open with in any deck it is played in.

>>33469547
>Lele GX has to fight Tapu Koko for utility card support.

Pretty much this. I swapped two of the VS Seekers in my Metagross-GX deck for Tapu Kokos due to replacing my Lysandres for Guzmas and that spread attack decimating some decks.

>>33465708
>playing expanded
>my opponent set the whole fucking night march army in his first turn
>like 13+ pokemon in discard pile
>use 4 battle compressors, 3 ultraballs, computer search
>my turn
>UB, Lele, Karen
>ragequit

Kek

Aggron – Metal – HP170
Stage 2 – Evolves from Lairon
[M][C][C] Revenge Cannon: 10+ damage. Does 10 more damage for each damage counter on each of your Benched Pokemon.
[M][M][C][C] Buster Swing: 120 damage. This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance.
Weakness: Fire (x2)
Resistance: Psychic (-20)
Retreat: 4

>>33469621

>had this exact situation happen
>Karen was prized

Gladion can't come sooner.

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>>33469634

>>33469634

even if you have a full bench and you just got hit by a Koko's Flying Flip you are only doing 110. Not even enough to KO said Koko because resistance. Trash.

>>33469634

>HEY GARDEVOIR GX IS GETTING POPULAR SHOULDN'T WE MAKE SOME BASIC OR STAGE 1 METAL TYPES TO COUNTERACT IT?
>NAH LET'S PRINT NON GX STAGE 2s INSTEAD!

Still waiting on Scizor GX TCGi.

>>33469547
World Champion deck ran 4 in a stage 2 deck. Make room or accept that your deck won't be as consistent.

>>33469657
Kartana exists but falls just short of OHKOing. Any spread damage from Koko will let Kartana KO though.

This Aggron is ass though, unless we get a better self bench damage basic to go with it.

>Make cards helping Garb
>Make cards stopping Gard

Fuck this shit

>>33469829
>World Champion deck ran 4 in a stage 2 deck. Make room or accept that your deck won't be as consistent.
>Lying through your teeth.

The Gardevoir-GX decks that won Worlds ran 2-3 Leles (Junior champ and 2 and Masters champ ran 3), get your facts straight.

>https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/worlds/2017/tcg-juniors/
>https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/worlds/2017/tcg-masters/

>no N
>no Sycamore
>no EXs
Will next years rotation be the new golden age?

>>33470017
Why are you talking of next rotation when we just got the last one?

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Aside from only having 1 Lele, how shit is it

>>33470206
People are always looking forward thinking the next rotation will be the one to make the game "fun again".

how does one get the flying flip koko promo in tcgo?

>>33470248
You can get rid of the Dragons and the Vulpix, up the Yveltal.

>Wish baton
Son, please.

>>33470549
Buy the code cards off of ebay.

>>33470551
Baton is dank, man

>>33470571
How much value have you gotten out of it on a consistent basis?

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sup complete noob to the TCG here. decided i wanted to start collecting cards again so i bought a cheap Korean booster box to start off with

i pulled this mega lucario, is it any good/worth anything?

>>33470820
>is it any good
It's alright. Not the best, but you can make it work with the right deck.
>worth anything
Korean cards are barely worth anything due to being much cheaper, and also not legal in any formal tournament outside Japan.

>>33470820
No

>>33470248
>Wish Baton

That shit is only good in Primal Groudon and only if you attach it after you evolve Groudon-EX.

>>33468896
Eh, MS Paint. I'd have used GIMP but GIMP is like trying to steer a car with the wrong wheel, you may eventually get there but it's a huge pain.

>Oops, yeah, forgot to copy the header. My B.

>I had 4-0-4 as screwed by item lock and 1-1 as super risky because the previous guide said as much. If you say they're equivalent now I'll take your word for it. We did lose FoGP Vileplume, so item lock is certainly less a threat, even with NoivernGX.

>You're right, Speed/Control is a better way of explaining those.

>I probably would have left the letters that said the role of each card in their respective deck, but if you feel it was a bad idea, either too confusing or self-explanatory, again, I'll defer to your judgement, I'm still new-ish.


>>33469641
Rotomdex yo. I've been using it in Passimian for nearly two months.

>>33469657
What do you think Registeel is?

Friend is just starting to play PTCGO, what deck should he make? Preferably something cheap, simple and based on a theme deck, doesn't have to be very good.

>>33471045
Passimian Mew is probably the most budget budget deck.

>>33470017
No N
No Sycamore
No Skyla
No Wally
No Bridgette
No Ranger
No Team Rocket's Handiwork
No Team Flare Grunt
No Pokemon Fan Club
No Float Stone
No Puzzle of Time
No Bursting Balloon
No Fighting Fury Belt
No Max Elixir
No Evo Soda
No Professor's Letter
No Super Rod
No Devolution Spray
No Fairy Garden
No Special Charge
--------
No EXs
No BREAKs
No Zoroark
No Greninja
No Yvetal
No Darkrai
No Volcanion
No Talonflame
No Mew
No Toxin Garbodor
No Xerneas
----
No Burning Energy
No Rainbow Energy
No Strong Energy

It's really gonna mix some things up unless we get a lot of reprints or effective reprints

>>33471089

Given the way rotations have been going, we're most likely going into Steam Siege-on come the 2018-2019 season.

what's the FA card at the end of the bracket?

>>33471143
Bianca

>>33471103

>counting Generations as a main block set

SuMo onwards looks like the safest bet for 2018-2019 Standard.

>>33471239
whats the likelihood USUM will bring ultra forms and they'll be cancer in the tcg

>>33471239
that was my thoughts exactly.

>>33471251
What would those even be? Breaks/Megas for GXs?

>>33471089

>literally everyones Supporter lines right now will be gone

Either we are due for reprints via another inbetween set (remember we don't know what is going to be our Shining Legends set list) or shit is gonna get real slow unless we get a new Sycamore or N replacement. Lillie only works turn one and and Hala only works after a GX play.

>>33470531

we just lost Night March, Ball Trick/Ace in The Hole, Forest of Giant Plants and Vespiquen. This format might monotonous for trainer builds but i say this is the best format we've had for standard in a while.

>>33470878

a niche card in a meme toolbox deck

>>33471239
>counting Generations as a main block set

TPCi seems to think it is given that it's displayed alongside other main sets.

>>33471251

Ultra Beasts might have specific support. Just because we are not getting a Beast energy doesn't mean trainers are off the table. Not to mention we still haven't seen Celesteela, Xurkitree, or Pherosoma GXs yet. At least one of which will NOT be in Crimson Invasion.

>>33471335

I would count it as much as Double Crisis or Dragon Legends. As in they ARE sets but not traditionally released sets. Filler if you will.

>>33471259
if they end up being something like forms that transform after using Z-moves in the vidya, it could be some bs like "After you've used your GX attack only" but a new level of brokenness

>>33471336
I meant more like if USUM reveals Z-forms /ultra forms of mons like some rumors suggest

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>>33460320
Here's what I've been using, with moderate success. Don't know what to do against A-Ninetails yet

>>33471407

can always throw in Oranguru for desperate attacking

>>33471391

I figured GX attacks filled in the niche of one time use super moves without incorporating Z Cancer. Not to mention I think TCGi realized how much of a mistake Megas were. Were they even remotely played outside of Mega Mewtwo Y and Mega Fug? I know Mega Sceptile had potential but being weak to Fire then is like being weak to Psychic or Fairy now.

>>33471407
Nihilego GX and Chaos Tower might be an option. Or maybe Hypno BKP.

>>33471453
Manectric, Garde and Scizor saw some play. Not a huge amount, but some. Glalie was a fun meme, and of course Audino taking Worlds.

>>33471476
Meant to reply to >>33471440

>>33471307
It can turn 1 KO a Ralts while accelerating a benched, and with choice band 2HKOs Garde with its first attack or OHKOs Garde with its second.

If you have two, the first one sets the second one up for sweep. There's also max elixir.

Any metal/rainbow deck can run it to good effect, not just Regi toolbox.

There's also Aggron, which can do marvelous things with Po Town. Metal and a DCE, 3 damage on 3 benched you're OHKOing Garde.

>>33471384
Think we'll get flip cards?

>>33471407
good proportions, fine synergy. Screwed against special condition protection.

>>33471505
Special condition prevention and the new alolan ninetails. Not sure what to do about that.

>>33471505
what special condition protection is even run in standard? A-fox seems the bigger counter to worry about

>>33471521
I think I got your counter: Power of Alchemy A-muk as a one-of. Just can't drop your salazzles when it's down but you can use the GX attack to get your special conditions in then

>>33471555
Power of alchemy won't work on non-basics. Good for my salazzle, but bad against alolan ninetails unfortunately.

>>33471555
Devo your own muk, drop your salazzle, then evo the muk back. Seems fine.

>>33471724
i fucked up becuase Alchemy only stops basics from using abilities, won't stop Aninetales' GX immunity

hey I know this is really out there but

I have like 7 packs codes and I dont play pokemon tcg.

i got 2 gxes in those packs: metagross and gardevoir

I'm looking to trade them for a copy of Skullgirls on steam.

if you're interested hit me up

>>33471407
Put a hex maniac,
also a oranguru they eat ninetales.

Im a A-ninetales player.

>>33473025
I could be wrong but didn't Hex Maniac rotate out

Im having real trouble flipping my golisopod. I bought for 6, site says it is worth 8 but no bites in like 48 hours.
Am i doing this wrong?
New to PTCGO and flipping

>>33473309
just bad like, in my opinion.

>>33473309
In my opinion you should start with something cheaper if you're just getting into flipping, I recommend something worth about 2-3 packs. Set out trades buying them for 1, then after you get about 3-4 of them, turn them around for 2-3 packs each. Flipping isn't an instant-money process, there's things like card demand and how affordable the card you want to flip is. Cheaper cards are easier for people to buy so you get more reliable turnouts flipping those than you do the more expensive stuff. Sometimes people just won't touch your trades this week even though they were flipping like crazy last week. Try looking at Top 8 lists for recent events if you want solid cards to try and flip, everyone loves to copy pro decks. You should also be looking at how many other people are trying to flip the same card you are, clogged markets are harder to get into.

>>33473486

Pretty much this, I've been flipping Zoroark BKT and Octillery BKT for a couple of days and it's been easy goings.

I'm also investing in Espeon-EXs but I've only gotten luck getting FAs for a pack.

So what's the best Garb variant right now? Is it still Espeon? I'm seeing a lot more Golisopod/Garb now

Is 2 max elixir for a GRI decent?

What does the advantage means on the loading screen? Higher ELO?

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>>33473618
Probably still Espeon, but Golisopod does better with mirror matches.
I want Goli to be freed from the Garbo shell menace and become it's own thing.
>>33473800
If you are trying to trade them for a pack, good luck, most people try 3-4. If you are buying them, oh shit nigger what are you doing trade that shit for like 1-2 pika packs it's not worth a GRI.

>>33473872
Yes

Is there an app version for phones?

>>33474750
yes, but the play store on android says it's only compatible with tablets, but if you download the apk from another souce and install it it works just fine on phones

>tfw wanna play ptcg because the art is pretty and full card but I don't really like that I can't interact with my opponent on their turn heavily or do jank shit

Forever cursed to play mtg...

Can I get a price check on Greninja BREAK and Octillary? Want to make a Froakage deck.

>>33474906
But you can play without worring about being interrupted. You can also do some planing during your opponents turn and, since you also can't interrupt them, it's a lot easier to analyze their strategy.

I know it's not as dynamic as mtg or ygo, but it's fun in its own way.

>>33474764
Where exactly, anon? I never install anything other than playstore apps, do I need to jailbreak first for that?

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>>33474906
You can definitely do jank.

As for interaction, it's more about planning and counterplanning. Preventative measures (like Bursting Balloon) and impending threats (like Lysandre/Guzma). Forcing hard choices and playing mind games.

Though back in BW there were some cards that worked like mtg Counter instants, or maybe closer to Yu-Gi-Oh traps except played from hand. Pic related.

Honestly, other than variations of countering/negation I don't even know what you would do on an opponent's turn.
And it feels way more tactical to manipulate things so they're afraid of repercussions rather than to just say "nuh-uh."

>>33475193
Nope , just have to set your permissions to install unlicensed software

I used this
https://apkpure.com/pok%C3%A9mon-tcg-online/com.pokemon.pokemontcg

>all of the good artists make cards that won't see play

this guy and the one who made the wooly tynamo, goomy and poliwag are my favs honestly, give them a fucking gx you fucking hacks

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>>33475278
fuck forgot my pic

What are the sites to see the top deck lists again? Been out of it so long that I don't know what good anymore

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>>33475282
GX/EX's can't have comfy art, that doesn't get across the idea of what they are.

I do feel like the FAs look pretty awful though (they're just badly posed vectors), and 5Ban's work is way too cluttered.

Something closer to this hypothetical InceniroarEX would be closer than what we got for its GX.

>>33475406
Whoever does the art for Full Art trainers, that's the person who should have done the Full Art GXs.

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>>33475406
FA GX's are the worse

Compare to old full art EX's they just look awful

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>>33475429
>Ken Sugimori

That explains it.

>>33475018

>Greninja Break

10 bucks

>Abyssal Draw Octillery

8 bucks and climbing due to Gard GX winning Worlds. there is one in the Rayquaza/Keldeo Battle Deck

>>33474906

>MUH TRAP/INSTANT CARDS

you're in the wrong game ese.

>>33471476

>of course Audino taking Worlds

talk about no one seeing that coming

>>33475664
as a huge fan of that deck, because of how cute it fucking is to use, the only reason audino took the championship, was entirely due to the lack of fighting pokemon back in the day. Nobody was playing carbink/zygarde, and so, Audino went smoothly to the top. A single fighting deck, not even a well made one, but a decent one, can destroy mega-audino instantly.

>Solgaleo GX/Metagross GX

When did this start becoming popular on ladder?

>>33476218
see
>>33475648
>climbing due to Gard GX winning Worlds.

>>33474906
Try the online game at least, yeah the meta is very simple but it's relaxing to play from time to time, specially since you can do something else while you're waiting the opponent.
The game being focused on KOing really ruins any sort of real planning but it can't be helped.

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>>33471298
In the client it says it's banned in Expanded but I don't seem to be able to use it in Standard either.
Do you know if that's intentional?

>>33477053
Expanded is where the rotated sets from Standart go.
FoGP and Archeops are banned in expanded.

>>33477080
My mistake: I didn't realise FoGP rotated out as well as getting banned.

>create a trade
>none of my packs are viewable episode
I hate reruns

https://youtu.be/C40AjGhQf3I?t=24

uhmm, ultra red card?

>>33477314
So what does it do?

Is the lack of theme tournaments with packs as rewards a permanent change?

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>>33471407
Why so many balls? Here's my build. Po Town/Acerola to keep recycling the Raichu. You could use that with Salazzle ofc. But imo, the Paralysis is so much better than the Poison/Burn combo despite the lesser damage. You can just fuck them in the ass and leave them helpless.

Darkrai into Multi Switch is a lovely little move too, but ofc baby Muk stops it from happening. But since you're not running it and all (why not tho?)

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>>33453435
Newfaggot here, starting playing the Pokemon TCG beginning of July with a shitty Lapras GX deck and now playing this Greninja Deck since 4 days. Working pretty good, what can I improve I know some things aren't that optimal.

How consistent are the types in terms of play style (like mana colors in MTG)? Has this changed over the years?

e.g. Fire - discard energy attacks and stuff to fuel them
Psychic - special conditions and attacks that punish the opponent for energy
Fighting - low cost raw damage attacks
etc

>>33475278
There's also a woolly Marill
Also new thread when?