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Pokemon TCG/O General - Expanded Edition

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>>28731557

New? Start here
>http://i.imgur.com/HoY1IaG.jpg (embed)
>http://pastebin.com/gPEnw6GW (embed)

How to progress in PTCGO, tl;dr edition:
>complete all Trainer Challenges for loadsa packs to kickstart your collection
>play through using basic decks to unlock them for versus play
>grind prizes/coins on Versus Mode theme ladder
>enter theme format tournaments whenever possible using coins
>using your winnings from the last two steps, enter ticket tournaments. You'll get tradable shit from those
>trade packs/chests for the cards in a deck you actually want to build
>don't open packs before you have a solid deck, YOU EARNED THOSE, DON'T WASTE THEM ON SOME SHITTY HOLO RARE AND 9X KRABBY
>public trade is like the GTS, if you want proper results, put up your own offers
>occasionally the thread isn't entirely anti-social and can get you deals on cards

To see what your PTCGO stuff is worth right now, look for the PTCGO forums in the trading section.
>Your old IRL cards are probably fake or not worth caring about. Check TrollandToad, eBay, and TCGplayer instead of asking.

TotT: Who's your favorite expanded deck?
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fucked up on the TotT, supposed to be What's your favorite expanded deck?

No more yokai watch and monster rancher shitposting :^)
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>>28755222
Wait until the old thread is actually about to get bumped off, retard.
You already had your threads deleted once for your retarded spamming.
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>>28755312
I actually didn't repost it yesterday, all I said that I won't be reposting because I was lazy and the crossthread shitpost begun ;)
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How do you guys deal with odd prices?

People are not going to give up a two garchomps for one SS pack, but people will not give one SS pack for one garchomp. If I'm learning correctly, that means the actual price is closer to 1.5 SS packs per garchomp.

Since I want 2, I don't feel like posting 2 SS pack for 3 garchomp. Do you just trade close to the value and then try to trade the extra back or get some lower value boosters or?
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>>28755365
Do like 2 SS packs and some kind of extra random card you don't need
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do you guys collect cards of your favorite Pokemon?
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>made volcanion deck
>played 9 matches, all winning or people giving up
>thought I try it out in events because I am on a lucky strike
>win the tournament

I'm afraid, I never had so much luck and good draws on a single day

I bet I will have shit luck when opening boosters next time
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>>28755467

I have several collections going on at once

Charizard collection
Legendary collection
Dodou collection
Eeveelution collection
Supporter collection
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>>28755467
Nope I only collect shit cards from shit packs :^)
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Just pulled this from Ancient Origins.

Pretty hype.
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>try this game out
>grinding the AI a bit
>play this Zach faggot who 1v1'd my 4 energy Gyarados with his fucking Fly Tranquill who kept becoming immune from bullshit coinflips
This shit is fucking garbage.
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>>28755590
>If I attack, I win the game?
>Wait a minute, I need to play this supporter, search my deck for a bunch of cards, switch my pokemon, play a vs seeker, use these abilities to get cards, use these items and-
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I've never really been interested in battling with the cards, but I used to collect them for the pretty art when I was a kid.

Do people still do that? Or would it just be a waste of money?
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>>28755867
git gud famalam
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>>28755867
What seems to be the problem? Do ya like Snorlax?
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>>28755875
Right now the prices for them cards are skyrocking because of muh cash prizes, people still play this tho like us and maybe some local game shop league near you
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>>28755222
>TotT: Who's your favorite expanded deck?
Shedinja/Mew.
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>>28755923
Ah well it's always kind of always been expensive around me. Around $9 for 1 pack I think (Canadian here). I just don't know if I would like to start collecting them just to put them in a binder, ya know?
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>>28756026
a lot of the old cards should be dirt cheap online, just the old cards with good playability will be expensive if you're looking to collect just for the art
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>>28755921
>play simisage
>win
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>>28755467
yes
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>>28756403
>liking the flying fetus
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>>28756468
>not liking the flying fetus
What's it like being a monster
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>>28755867
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Can someone post the shaymeme hentai edit?
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>>28756764
>shaymeme hentai edit?
I have no clue what this is but I'm interested
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>>28756764
I want it too.
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>alll your exs except hoopa get prized
rng is shit sometimes
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>>28756848
>>28756873
found it
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>>28757212
This isn't what I was expecting at all.
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>>28757212
Disappointed.
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>>28757212
oh that one i was expecting something much different
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>>28755467
Not really, but I once bought a Flygon theme deck and a Flygon-EX box because of the Flygon.
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>>28755867
This is the part when you bend over
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Spiders are dying, how much diid you make?
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>Won a Legacy tournament
Do I
Do I open these
I already have every card in Standard other than Ultra Balls and Max Potions
Pulling a Smeargle would help me get into Legacy
What do I do
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MLP vs Fug was great. I was able to build Legacy Eels after scraping enough packs together to get the four Oak's New Theory and a Junk Arm. Now I just need a Computer Search.
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>>28755872

That's why you have to have doubles or at least not play your rarest supporters
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>>28757753
I'm making a steady 5+ AO boosters per day right now, which isn't a lot but multiplies itself rather quickly.

I love that you can just trade them 1:1 into SS packs by trading through chests.
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>>28757033
Even better.

>all your EXs except Megas get prized
>in Despair Ray Gardevoir
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>no Feraligatr in Standard
>no Feraligatr-EX
>Mega Feraligatr never
>M Feraligatr-EX never ever ever

Being a croco bro is suffering.
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>>28759220
Play Legacy, where it's a slightly shittier Blastoise.
PHF Feraligatr wasn't actually a bad card.
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>beating basic blue with basic red
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>>28759220
Being a Johtard gets you exactly what you deserve, you mean.
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>>28759154

Praise the spider
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>sloppily put together a GyaradosEX Greninja Break deck for standard
>want to test it out rq
>have to mulligan literally 12 times first match
>opponent goes afk the whole time
I-I just wanted to play...
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>>28759427
But I'm not using the spider anymore, anon.
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>>28759451
Your loss, dude.
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>>28759529
Why would I jump onto an already sinking ship when I found a sweet new ride already?

I currently habe around 10 different trades open over night, buying and selling AO packs, the cards and chests while also liquidating parts of my AOs every day into SS packs.

This is going rather smoothly so far.
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>>28759529
Not him, but as great as Ariados is as an intro to how trading is supposed to work, it's not a very good spin, nor is this type of spin the optimal way of generating packs.
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>>28759586
>>28759621
You guys do know that he's going to spike come Evolutions when Raticate BREAK becomes a top meme deck, right?
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>>28759451
I'm trading other stuff too, but i'm still going to use spiders.
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>>28759667
Raticate Break is not a good deck.
Evolutions has nothing in it to change this.
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>>28758784
It's more like so:
>Opponent just needs to attack and he wins
>Spends five minutes fucking around with trainers instead of attacking and winning the fucking match
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>>28759741
>Evolutions has nothing in it to change this.

The new rattata does have a good ability and radicate has a good meme attack running on special energies
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>>28759741
Educate yourself, oh ignorant one: https://youtu.be/TUt57sCwfu8
Reminder, that's what they said about Night March before it broke out too. Just so you know.
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>>28759621
low risk, medium reward. it's alright
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The first one to post his username will get two copies of this slut.
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>>28759979
why
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I'm new to this stuff here, how do I know what something is worth online?

I have:
>Blastoise EX
>2 Mega Blastiose EX
>Latios EX
>Mewostic EX
>those 2 promo Mew and Mewtwo EX from that $80 box

My fullarts are:
>Gardevoir EX
>Mega Garde EX
>Sylveon EX
>Shaymin EX

Not sure if anyone is here, so I might repost in the morning.
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>>28759979
I'll bite.
Cedarbridge
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>>28760046
Which Shaymin EX
If it's the one with the ability you struck gold
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>>28760249
This one says "Set Up"
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Is not worth, isn't it?
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>>28760269
No, Lando is uasable in legacy. the other cards are useless in all formats.
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>17 sceptile decks back to back while playing decks weak to grass
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>28759979
Thanks anon
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What's the point of having trade locked promos for old as fuck sets? sets which are underpowered as fuck and have garbage cards due to power creep?

I regret wasting my coins on this.
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>>28760431

uh oh

did you fall for the bundle meme?
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>>28755222
>Dragon Burst
What are you dicking me? What has the TCG become. This is YGO tier.
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>>28760526
What are you on about
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>>28760495
Of course. The other advice bundled with it wasn't bad.
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I'm going to kill everything with my 4 energy 80 damage attack that discards two energies and shieeet.
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>>28760526
Lol don't worry famalam, it's an old card unless you're triggered on any card
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>>28760550
Put on your critical thinking cap and ask yourself those questions before you spend your tokens.

They're collector items/rogue deck fun cards that are otherwise obtainable.

You'll eventually have as many Shaymin as you want, but there are some things you literally cannot trade for.
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>>28760495
Bundles are always memes unless if it's something like the stardust Hitachi off famalam
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>new battle arena deck comes with a non holo of the promo N

That's a strange choice.
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>>28760642
If it were real cards, then fine. You can collect them, resell them, play with your friends using the same set or whatever.

Bad cards in this game are just that: bad cards. Since they are trade locked, it's not even like you can trade them or anything. Yeah, consider the lesson well learned, but in the end, buying boosters for the current sets that contain cards that are still useful is a much more solid investment of tokens as far as trade locked cards go.
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>>28760353
>>17 sceptile decks back to back while playing decks weak to grass
thanks for the win
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>>28760046

Do your fullarts have ridges?
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>>28760693
You missed a critical part of that post.

Eventually, you will have everything you can reasonably trade for. No amount of tokens will bring you closer.
But you won't be able to trade for those promos. Your collection will be incomplete. You'll be hardlocked out of fun decks simply because you wanted to have three extra chances at pulling a Shaymin - which you wouldn't have, and which you will eventually have several playsets of.

And most importantly, it's not like you only get shitty promos. You got three CoL packs, which have some pretty critical Legacy cards in them.
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>>28760265
oh fuck
yeah you got it
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>>28760381
>trading three whismurs
you fucked up anon those whismurs will play a large role in the 2017 metagame
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>>28755531
Could you post the deck list?
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>>28760802
That's one wismurr chief.
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>>28760779
Fine, you have a point. I still would never tell new players to spend their coins on promos. It's basically a waste when they are looking to move out of the shitty themes game mode. Especially when they will be locked out of basic blue in a few days and will want to get the fuck out of that mode even faster.

Each pack may contain cards that you won't have to trade for. And thus, speed up their way out of there. Where the promo packs have nothing for them.
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>>28755467
I've got a pile of 3 ex-era Sceptiles I used to run. Lizard Poison is my pride and joy.
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>>28760850
the new decks look alright no filler pokemon at least.
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Is pokemon a real card game?

Like...

If cards became an olympic event, would it be absurd if pokemon was an event?
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>>28760850
>locked out of basic blue in a few days
hol up I just started this game and I'm grinding those trainer challenges

what is going to happen?
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>>28760908
Yes.
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>>28760908
If the 2nd biggest game with cards isn't a card game, then I don't know what is.
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>>28760917
XY: basic blue will be replaced.
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>>28760850
>Where the promo packs have nothing for them.
But promos come in all flavors, including RS.

>>28760938
Third biggest in the world.
Guess the top two. Protip: Magic isn't even in the top five.
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>>28760955
>Magic isn't even in the top five.
Huh? Did it ever rank, tho? It's always felt real big with a large presence in every shop I've ever gone to. Maybe it's only big in america?
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>>28760955
#2 yu gi oh

#1 regular cards
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>>28760955
Poker and Go Fish?
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>>28760955
>Guess the top two
If Hearthstone is in there I quit.
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>>28760381
>Trading the whismur

Your loss anon
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>>28760686

Remember that the Battle Arena decks are designed with the Expanded format in mind.
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>>28760955
>Protip: Magic isn't even in the top five.
Kek, I'm going to need a source on that.

Only other game besides Pokemon in the states is Flop of Will and the shell of once was Yugioh.
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>>28760996
>shell of
Confirmed never attending a Konami sponsored event.
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>>28760967
>Maybe it's only big in america?
Bingo. Meanwhile, Japan, Korea, China, the Phillipines, and the rest of SEA buy a shitload more TCG products than all of the West.

And in those regions, you see:
>#1 YGO
>#2 Duel Masters
>#3 Pokemon
>#4 Vanguard
>#5 Z/X
A few years ago, Vanguard used to be much higher. And believe it or not, Duel Masters was the #1 most sold card game global for most of the 2000's, until Yugioh 5Ds pushed it into #2.
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>>28761004
I've literally never seen anyone play that game at my LGS.

>Konami
I don't support cancer either.
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>>28761025
S
O
U
R
C
E
?
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>>28760996
>shell of once was Yugioh.
were yugioh cards always an entire paragraph long?
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>>28761026
>I don't support cancer
Poverty is a choice anon.
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>>28760526
What about this card is "Yugioh" to you?
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>>28761056
Most used their text box space for a mini paragraph fluff description instead of a mini rulebook of text.
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>>28760994
>being this obtuse

The last ones came with DE N. Making a non holo of the league promo for a card that has many reprints is strange.
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>>28761056
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>>28756403
Seeing these cards makes me want to start collecting them again.
Especially after seeing those old EX and holon monsters.
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>>28761074

It was probably included for the same reason as the VS Seekers, the promo N was going for 5-8 bucks when Fates Collide was released.
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>>28761025
>Duel masters
Neat, I remember it being a pretty good game back when the gamecube was out. It kinda seemed to die completely in a few months, tho.
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>>28761078
the worst part is how simplified the card could have been if they used key words and moved how to ritual summon onto the card that does it.
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>>28761025

Vanguard went down after that nastiness occurred at their WCS.
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>>28761140
such as?
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>>28761025
I don't even take the yu-gi oh card game even seriously because of the meme tier season 1 anime
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>>28761111
You really have no clue what you're talking about. The promo N didn't exist in non league promo form until now.
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>>28761025
I believe MtG has grown quite a lot in Japan recently, and overall has the biggest international presence, maybe only next to YGO.

In some Japanese card shop I know things go like:

1. YGO
2. Duel Masters
3. Vanguard
4. Buddyfight
5. Weiss Schwarz
6. Luck and Logic
7. MtG
8. Ange Vierge
9. PTCG
10. Wixoss

It's not very indicative besides top 2 though, PTCG is usually third or fourth in popularity for example.
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>>28761118
But only the first line is about how to summon it, the rest is in the spell card
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>>28761204
Wew why the hell YGO decks are crazy expensive like +200$, but of course ptcg it's in its way there
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>>28761265
its already there with shaymin alone
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>>28761263
oh yeah it was uhh tl;dr
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>>28760629
energy assist latias is neat.
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>>28761265
>+200$
>crazy expensive

Anon... Sit down, we need to seriously talk about card games.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/modern#paper
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/legacy#paper
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/vintage#paper

http://yugiohtopdecks.com/top_decks?filter=Last+Year
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>>28761203
>Liking those disgusting league promos
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>>28761370
>https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/modern#paper
fuck mayn
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>>28759586
> sinking ship

how so? It has literally been a week.
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Does this guy suck? Anyone have deck profiles for him? I'm interested.
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>>28761518
It's garbage
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>>28761527
Well i'm still wanting to hear fun ideas for it. I already have two GOOD decks, now im looking for a FUN deck (with Breaks)
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>Trade-locked

I hate this game
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>>28761571
But you need it for decks, and it appears you only have 1 anyway. But thats all you probably need. :^)
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>>28761370
>Decks with litteraly the price of a used car if not a new one

What the fuck man
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Couple days ago I posted about modifying the Noivern theme deck. Was curious if the Break Noivern was worth running. At least with the Noivern the theme deck comes with.

The other legal one I've seen is quite different.
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>>28761370
Wew, anyway to profit from this because that's crazy
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>>28761676
I'd say yes. Add cards like Judge, Battle Reporter and N.
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>>28761704
Only if you have inside information on what the chase cards are going to be and hit them before the market reacts.
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>>28761676
he can be pretty ok with the Phantom Forces Hydrigon if you are ok with expanded

.>>28761370
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lyfYxCP5qs

Some dude took a 2nd mortgage just to afford nekroz
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>>28761986
Was hoping to keep it standard, unless I can reliably find that Hydreigon.

Also funny on the video with how quick Nekroz was banned into the ground.
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Stupid question. In Versus, do you get matched against people using the same type of deck as you (Standard, Expanded, etc)?
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>>28762033
hydriegon basically recycles energy for you making all you would need for noivern would be an energy in the grave and a DDE which is a lot better than feeding it something every turn.
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>>28762070
Certainly useful and digging around can find them cheap and well stocked. Thanks.
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>>28762138
oh that was just for PTCO memes i wouldn't build it IRL
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>>28762155
I only play with family I've been tending to, kids 8 to 12. So I'm not planning on going to tournaments and such but the kids aren't slouches at the game relative to most so I'm just looking for competence and something to wow them a bit.
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>>28761165

A single card practically ruined the format after it came out last year and said card ended up being restricted to 2 right after this happened in the Bushiroad World Championships

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ZI0GuIh1U

>Created new mechanics that requires both players to be at Grade 3 (Stride and Legion)
>Ended up making cards that allowed certain decks to "Gradelock yourself at 2" in order to prevent your opponent from Stride/Legion (Sanctuary Guard and Ripple)
>BWC 2015 happened

And I laughed way too hard when I saw the video

>>28761204

>All those card games

I occasionally wonder how can the Japanese card game economy not implode when there is basically a trillion different games
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>>28759832
Holy shit, I want my time back. I'm glad I set it to 2x speed immediately, because I don't think anyone can justify sitting through this drivel's intended runtime.

The entire video was him stating the most obvious shit, such as:
>If your opponent has two special energies in the discard, that's 120 damage!
or some bluntly incorrect statements, such as:
>M Mewtwo will struggle to take KOs on a 60 or 110 HP Pokemon that needs a DCE to attack without a DCE of its own :^)
>Ariados suffers to Garbodor lock, so maybe Golbat might be a good option to get around it :^)
I'm genuinely surprised he didn't suggest using Lysandre on Garbodor to hit with Rattata, because saying something like that would have cemented him as an absolute retard.

But actually analyzing Evolutions Raticate, it's pretty obvious that it won't do well. The only relevant decks that use special energies are M Mewtwo, Ray, Rainbow Road, and Giratina variants, and they each run exactly 4 specials. In order for Raticate to actually get an OHKO on any of those decks, there will need to be 3-4 specials in the discard. That's completely unrealistic, even in a game where your opponent isn't respecting Raticate's damage and discarding them willy-nilly. You don't even see all four DCEs in a NORMAL game, much less get them in the discard even if your opponent is running some autistic 4-Enhanced build.

And if your opponent is running either M Gardevoir, Scizor, Yveltal, or Volcanion, you literally cannot do damage.

>Reminder, that's what they said about Night March before it broke out too. Just so you know.
No one fucking said that. People said LTC, which was printed in the same exact set, would make it difficult for NM to compete. And surprise, NM fell pretty fucking flat and ended up in Tier 4, staying there even after LTC got banned.
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I am bored as shit
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>>28762476
If the card dealt less damage per special energy, but used your own too, them maybe it would be worth a shit. Relying on your opponent to carry a card type is dumb as fuck. Fucking noctowl is better.
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>>28762581

The card's premise is fine. Like the video alluded to, it's very similar to a card that previously saw play. Unfortunately Plasma isn't around to make it worth running and it's not going to be hitting for any weaknesses unless you're also running some eeveelutions. It simply isn't the time to release this card. But who knows, the format could be fairly different by this time next year, where Raticate is still likely to be in standard.
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Is there something wrong with the site?
Trying to create a trainer account so I can play TCGO but it wont let me

Keeps reloading the create account page when I click continue with password field blank
Doesn't say anything wrong with my password
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Waifu material
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>>28755222
>who is your favorite expanded deck
>who
what kind of monkey nation are you from?
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>>28763283
you're my favorite expanded deck, anon
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welcome to the pokemon trading card game
do you want to build a deck?
no problem out of those 60 deckslots you are allowed to chose 24 freely or your deck is trash
4DCE might swap places with 4 max elixir
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>>28763301
Hoopa, Escape Rope, Town Map, Trainers' Mail, Hex Maniac, Ranger, Parallel City, Float Stone, and Double Colorless Energy are not mandatory staples.
The ratios for Shaymin, Lysandre and N are higher than normal.

If you're going to shitpost, at least do it with enough copies of your full arts.
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found this in a yardsale today for 12€! straight from a pack
also got a ton of staples like FFB, N, Max Elixir or Acro Bike for 0.1€/ea
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>>28763424
If it was from a yard sale how do you know it was straight from the pack?
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>>28763436
i know the seller and the card has no imperfections, so i'm inclined to believe it's the truth (though I couldnt be 100% sure)
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>pull mega fug from a roaring skies pack today
>still no Primal Groudon from either Ancient Origins or Primal reversion to go with the other two
Needless to say I'm somewhat pissed.
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>>28763301
>3 count of Shaymin
>Hoopa
>Rope
>Town Map
>Mail
>VS Seeker (Vileplume builds don't run it)
>Hex
>3 count of N
>Ranger
>Parallel City
>Float Stone
>DCE
Rest you got right though. Good on you.
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>>28763522
>Primal Reversion
Primal Clash*
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>>28763522
what are you even trying to say?
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>>28763561
I have shit luck when it comes to pulling cards I actually want or need.
Basically I've pulled like 7 Kyogre EXs/Primal and this Fug but still no Primal Groudon/EX outside of the promo card.
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>>28762063

Yes.
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>>28755222
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Do we have a discord, and are there any /vp/ tournaments for packs and what not?
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>>28763867
lol
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Why aren't any Steam Siege theme decks in the shop yet?
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>>28763941
They have banned cards in them
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>>28763946
Ninja Boy?

If they ever fix it, are either of the decks worth getting?
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>>28763301
I always reccomend people to get pic related when they are starting out in Standard.
They dont all go in all the decks but they are the base of every current standard deck.

2 Shaymin
1 Escape Rope
1 Super Rod
4 Trainers Mail
4 Ultra Ball
4 VS Seeker
2 Lysandre
2 N
4 Sycamore
2 Float Stone

These go in ALL of my decks no matter what.

If the deck is EX heavy (most of the decks in the format are) I add a copy of Hoopa.

Then I either chose between adding 2-2 Garbodor and bumping Float Stones to 3 or adding 2 Hex Maniac.

If the deck doesnt run 3 Float Stones and has many tech mons with heavy retreat like Regirock then I add a couple of switches.

If the deck discards many energies like Volcanion-EX or Greninja BREAK I add a copy of Fisherman.

If the deck runs megas I add a copy of Skyla.

If the deck attackes uses a basic + dce like Xerneas or damages depending on the ammount of energy like Yveltal-EX and Mega Mewtwo-EX then I add 4 DCE.

Stadiums vary too much to suggest a specific one. Fairy Garden, Faded Town, Silent Lab, Forest of Giant Plants, Rough Seas, Scorched Earth, Sky Field, Shrine of Memories are all useful. Decks ussualy run 3-4 copies of them or 2-3 copies + Delinquent.
Owning this cards will make deckbuilding easier since once you decided and get you main attacks and tech mons you will only have to get a couple of rogue trainers (like hammers or ffb) to finish your deck.
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>>28763179
>Not this semen demon
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>>28760804
sure anon here it is
maybe I gotta change a few things more
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>>28765861
Are the switch worth it? I find the float stones and escape rope to be enough. Here's my list if you'd like to compare, it's been doing good and feels pretty consistent
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>>28766062
>hex maniac
>pokemon ranger

Literally useless in this deck.

>2 Float Stones instead of 3
You have 4 heavy retreat cost bench warmers in 3x Volcanion, and 1x Hoopa, 2 Float Stones are not enough.

>no fisherman
You will be discading a lot of fire energy to boost your attacks one you set up and Baby Volcanion + 1 Super Rod wont cut it.

Personally I prefer to play 4x Volcanion-EX and only 1 Flareon-EX.
Also I play it with Sky Field x1 and Scorched Earth x2 instead of just 2x Scorched Earth.

Also I play with 2 N and 2 Shaymin instead of 1 Shaymin and 3 N.


>>28765861
If you want to play Swich remove Escape Rope, never play both.
Either play 3x Float Stone and 2x Switch or 3x Float Stones and 1x Escape Rope.
Energy Retrieval is inferior to Fisherman.
Energy Reset is shouldnt be played at all.

The other anon has a better list, look into it and copy it if you can.
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Been doing shit like pic related for the whole week, funniest one was maybe Mandibuzz with Wide lens + Vaporeon/Jolteon/Flareon on the bench for quatro typed 60dmg snipe attack allowing me to KO Shaymin and few others and 2hko Volcanion etc.

Now its time to start playing properly since I will get my Battle arena decks next week for dem sweet Octillerys and all the good stuff like 4x vs seeker.
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How much can I trade a fullart Shaymeme for?
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>>28766287
this >>28765861 anon here

thanks a bunch - well I only have 1 shaymin so I am bounded to this one ,so I skip the energy retrieval shit for more fisherman ?
I will remove the escape rope and take one float stone more into it - like I said, I still need to change a few more things
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>>28766287
Thanks for the advice. Why cut one Flareon though? I don't find the Volcanions to be better attacker than it is
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>>28766453
Flareon is a bad attacker.

It does only 20 more damage than Baby Volcanion but it gives up 2 prizes.

By removing one Flareon and adding another Volcanion you have the option of doing 1HKO to megas with Baby Volcanion (100 + 10 + 120 = 230) and still have the option of charging up a Flareon-EX in the bench for a late game sweep.
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Why can't I get rid of my FA Sycamores? I have like 8 now, and nobody seems to want them.
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I miss you bae
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>>28763301
town map. um.
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>>28766980
Maybe because you are trying to sell them for more than they are worth.

They are worth around 8 SS now and you are probably jewing trying to sell them for 12+
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>>28766062
Don't listen >>28766287 about Ranger. He's a important supporter to have, helps against random effects and allows Volcanion EX to attack twice in a row, which is a bigger deal than people think.
Also you need to play 4 Volcanion EX so you don't end up short on damage if you prize one or even two of him.
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>>28767396
>helps against random effects
Pokemon Ranger is only used for:
Regice
Glaceon
Jolteon
Giratina

Regice doesnt affect you since you attack with Baby Volcanion.
Glaceon doesnt affect you since you dont have evos.
Giratina doesnt affect you since your strategy doesnt revolve around Stadiums or Special Energy.
Jolteon kinds of fucks you up but its not used AT ALL in the tcgo meta.

Adding a Pokemon Ranger for the offchance of matching up against a Jolteon-EX which would be less than 1 deck in every 100 you face is retarded and even then you can play around it or KO it before it sets up.

>and allows Volcanion EX to attack twice in a row
If you use Volcanion-EX to attack you are using the deck wrong.
You should ONLY attack with Baby Volcanion and MAYBE with Flareon-EX
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>>28767309
I started with them at 10 for a few days. The past couple I've been asking for 9, only one went at that price.
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So these trainer challenges, should I grind out boosters in the gold league or just keep going until the City Championship?
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>>28767714
Might as well just get your boosters m8
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I want the garbomeme to just die already
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>>28769386

Garbomeme will never die as long as reliable means of Tool removal doesn't exist
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I can't stop playing night march. My winrate is, like 60%-70% and I don't have a single EX in that deck.

Almost any other viable Expanded/Not-banned in standard deck requires weeks worth of fucking grind in EXes and that's not counting Shaymins.
The moment I switch to anything else (I have a couple of Steelixes and 1 Sceptile) it turns into an evening of getting completely fucking destroyed by people who set up their shit in a single turn with 4 fucking Shaymins, 8 fullart Mewtwos and Yvetals and shit. Then I get into trenches where I can stay with a shitty 50% winrate or switch back to Night march and get a 20 win winstreak.

People treat me like shit. They start bitching and talking trash the moment they see types in my deck. Granted, it's super fun to fuck up a cocky cunt who goes "GG" after setting up his Trevenants and Hoopas 2 turns into the game and still loses, but still...

I want to get off but I can't. This deck is worse than heroin.
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>>28769454
>requires weeks worth of fucking grind in EXe
I make more than 25 packs in profit every day.

Thats enough to make any standard deck minus the shaymins.

just git gud fgt
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>>28769454
Have you seen any Karens famalam? If not I'll just abuse meme march until everyone has karen
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>>28769487
>I make more than 25 packs in profit every day.
Not everyone has capital to start their business.
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>>28769487
Teach us your ways
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>people still merching the meme spiders

lol
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>>28769544
And ruin my own business like the spider faggot did?
No thanks.

>>28769514
Get smart, research the market and invest properly.

You only need one pack to start trading for profit if you know what you are doing.

Give me a new account with 1 Steam Siege pack and I can have over 100 packs in less than a week.
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>>28769487
Oh shit, that's fucking hardcore dude. You get 25 virtual packs of pokemon cards in a single fucking day? Str8 ballin, my man. Fuck.
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>>28769766
this is the words of a bullshitter if ever I heard one. going infinite is a meme.
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>>28769766
How do you make sure you have a market? Or do you trade for a smaller than optimal profit? My issue with making packs quickly is just how slow the market seems to be. It can sometimes take over a day for my trades to go through.
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>there will never be a new Kadabra card in the TCG again
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>>28770046
indeed

>>28770077
I have more than 20 differnt cards like ariados for trade at any given time and they go through AT LEAST once a day.

>>28770116
Just see whats popular and get those and trade them, you can also predict what will become popular and get those cards in advance before they get their prices up.

They only hint im gonna give you is:
4:1
8:2
12:4
16:4

Thats the ammount of cards you should ask for 1 pack and the ammount of cards you should offer for 1 pack, varies depending on what card you want to get into.

The more popular the card the faster it will sell, but the harder it is to restock.

For example, you can get 16 Ariados for 1 pack and you can trade 4 Ariados for 1 pack, this isnt as efficient anymore since its being spammed as shit right now thanks to the anon that made it public.

Something less popular but still effective would be something like getting 4 Garchomp, Greninja or Talonflame for 1 pack and selling them for 1 pack each.

Or Getting 8 Lysandre for 1 pack and selling them at 2 for 1 pack.


Not gonna go in detail on whats hot right now because it will hurt my profits, but its not hard to deduce, its a simple game after all and there arent many useful cards in it.
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>>28770291
What's hot right now?
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>>28767511
>If you use Volcanion-EX to attack you are using the deck wrong.

I'm not on my PC so I don't have access to my excessive reaction image folder, but I just wanted to let you know that that shit was funny.
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>>28765775
who the fuck is she even

i've never seen her in the game anywhere. is she just on that one screen?
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>>28770291
Stop ruining muh profits famalam
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>>28770291
I think I have an idea of what's hot now. I guess I've just been focusing on the more expensive cards, though. When I do manage to trade, I'm making around a 30 pack profit. But it's so slow that I don't even know if it's worth it. I don't even have anything I need to get though, it's like I'm looking to trades to be a game of their own.
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>>28770344
You can attack with Volcanion-EX, but its not the main attacker of the deck and you dont need Pokemon Ranger to do it.

You can attack with it and retreat to a Baby and then charge it again with the Baby or you can just use a Float Stone to have free retreat and retreat to another attacker.

Running Pokemon Ranger just for that is dumb.
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>>28770401
sorry
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>>28770440

Having all those plans when it's as simple as using ranger is dumber.
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>>28770535
The whole point of the Volcanion deck is wining the prize trade by giving up only 1 prize.

If you attack twice with the same volcanion-ex you are going to get KOd in this meta and it defeats the purpose of the deck not only giving even prizes but also cutting your damage by 30.
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>>28770291
>For example, you can get 16 Ariados for 1 pack and you can trade 4 Ariados for 1 pack, this isnt as efficient anymore since its being spammed as shit right now thanks to the anon that made it public.
>Something less popular but still effective would be something like getting 4 Garchomp, Greninja or Talonflame for 1 pack and selling them for 1 pack each.
>Or Getting 8 Lysandre for 1 pack and selling them at 2 for 1 pack.

I haven't tried flipping for a long time, but isn't this terrible advice? If you're targeting new players who aren't aware of card values, why would you expect them to have 4 tradable copies of a specific rare? Even 8 tradables of an uncommon is a bit extreme.
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>>28770600

That's like saying the whole point of Darkrai and Yveltal of the past were to win the prize trade. No, it's to soften up/knock out your opponents attackers while powering up bigger threats. You play 4 Volcanions and a super rod, losing Volcanions isn't the end of the world.
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>>28770675
I get around 64 Ariados a day, 16 cards for 1 pack every time and sell them 4 for 1.

You are not targetting new players, you are targetting the people that opened boxes and boxes of boosters and have hundreds of copies of each card and cant bother to maximize profits.
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>>28756403
why no ancient mew promo card? that's the only one I have
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>>28761571
>Anal Perversion
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>>28770759
>64 meme spiders a day

The curse of the shaymeme lottery :^)
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How many ariados do I need to get a shaymin?
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>>28771502
Assuming you're able to get Ariados x4 <-> SS x1, and that 1 SS = 1.5 RS.

Shaymin = 25 RS (roughly)
25 RS = 38 SS
38 SS = 152 Ariados.

If you're going with AO instead of SS, the ratio would be 2 AO = 1 RS, so you'd need 200 Ariados.

You'd also need some additional packs starting out to get your hands on the Adiaros. My assumed pack values ratios and value of Shaymin might be off, but in short: you'd need a lotta spicy spiders.
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>>28770291
>I have more than 20 differnt cards like ariados for trade at any given time and they go through AT LEAST once a day.
so name one. it's hardly going to crash your economy if you have 19 others. Until I call big man internet bullshitter trying to convince himself he's a special snowflake.
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I just made my first deck ever for PTCGO. The only experience I have with card games is Hearthstone, and that's significantly different from this.

Did I do a good job? I won my first game by just getting a Delphox on the field with a Double Colorless, 3 Fire Energy, and a Float Stone.
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Is there any particular reason why some of the Generations cards have keychains on them?
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>>28771348
Hoopa is one of my favorite Pokémon, so I couldn't not make this.
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>>28771890
Call me whatever you want, I dont care.

I wont reveal the cards I profit with because I dont want them to become the next Ariados.

>>28771696
Off a 12 pack investment you can buy 192 spiders.

Selling them at 4 spiders for 1 pack you can get 48 packs which should be enough to buy a RA Shaymin-EX.

It will tell you a while to sell 192 spiders though since the market is saturated.
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Anyone got a decent Ray/Eels deck for Expanded?
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>>28771990
>Multiple evolution lines
>No VS seekers at all
>All those mons and just 2 UBs
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>>28772027
In Japan, those cards were included in the sub-set PokéKyun Collection. In the rest of the world, the sub-set is called Radiant Collection (hence the RC next to the numbers on them) and it was combined with Generations.
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Is there a cheat sheet for the value of cards?

Like, is it as easy as check the card on TCGPlayer, divide by booster cost, trade card for that much or another card equivalent?
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>>28772564
lol
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>>28755222
wats the most op meta deck in the game rn? Someone gimme the full deck list, ill just buy all the cards in singles online
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anyone got a good ebay sniper that isn't just a phishing site?
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>>28772564
yeah its called having a phone with data and google to look it up wenever u want
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>>28769487
>i make $12 in profit every day
w.o.w. a true guru
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>>28760955
>>28760967
It's hard to get concrete stats, but it seems that MTG may not actually even be the largest TCG in the west?
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SDB-8U4V-7QV-DLR
DAM-7QU6-NGX-5GX
3RS-BWE8-RQY-7BK
ABG-6J7P-8TH-FFF
ASV-4XSF-MYY-MK4
Enjoy
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>>28772612
The second code says invalid. Can you check it again?
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>>28771990
It's a good start. Since your strategy is centred around Delphox, you should add another copy and more Ultra Ball/Rare Candy so you can get it out quicker and more consistently. For support, cut the evos and Charizard, add Entei and Volcanion if you have it. For items, look at decklists to get a general idea. I will say that with Delphox, you don't need so many N/Sycamore; use supporters like Skyla and Teammates that allow you to draw specific cards.
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>>28772691
DAM-7QU6-NGX-5G8
My bad
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>>28772760
Now it says redeemed. I didn't get it, but thanks anyways.
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since you are a beginner I try to help you a bit, since I kind of had the same deck when I started.
If you can buy yourself the lugia fates collide deck with coins from the shop, if you have some blacksmith put him in there, (if you play in expanded) otherwise you could get yourself (if they finally put it up) the xy steam siege deck with volcanion in it (which is a pretty good card) and the other delphoxes from the lugia theme deck - then put some rare candys in if you have - if not play some evosoda+ wally. also check up if you have a VS seeker.
also invest in roaring sky decks to get yourself some shaymin ex.
throw torkoal, the birds, charizard, buffalo, kangashkan and the horses out - get in there at least 13 energys - you can maybe put in some miltank and throw out the escape rope and maybe put in one more switch. also put in some skyla.
get ride of the double colorless energys, also add 2 more ultra balls and bring in 3 scorched earths (then proceed further and earn yourself some nice boosterpacks to make a better deck)

if you look for some fire deck set ups you can check those 2 out

>>28765861
>>28766062
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>>28772811
was to >>28771990
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>scheduled maintenance
>10 am to 14 pm

do these niggas know how time works?
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Bought a Generations ETB at Target and ended up with this. Rate my pulls with an email address and Ill send one of you lucky cunts the code. Better post fucking pulls though
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>>28772584
There is none. Pick a deck and play it.
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>>28773061
You got the two best EXs in the set with M Charizard and Jolteon EX.
Pretty nice

my mail is [email protected] if you want to send me the code
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what are some good places to order cards from?

>>28773061

2nd best gardevoir art
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>>28773061
I really love the gardevoir one, my lucky friend pulled one out

mail above
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>>28773061
Great box dude. Made bank with that Jolteon pull. M Charizard's getting his link. M Gardevoir is always fun to play. Circle Circuit meme power too strong.
Flareon is the eternal firebro.

10/10

[email protected]
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This login bonus Ancient Origins pack is way too spicy for me. Damn it Zach, I've already finished testing my luck on the spider stock market.
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>>28771286
First page of binder
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This deck's been doing okay on ladder. I don't think I've settled into my proper mmr or however this game works since I've only just started playing Standard (my first deck) and been mainly beating people with random thrown-together decks.

What I have noticed though, is that I've had to Mulligan at least 2 or 3 times EVERY game. Is this kinda normal, do I need to fit in more basics, or am I just having some bad luck?
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>>28773585
i have less basics and i dont mulligan that much so i think its unlucky
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>>28773565
I miss my old cards.
Someone stole them a while back and all I have left from them is a damaged Machamp.
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Is Energy deletion the best strategy for a player with no cards vs most players with access to a lot of cards?

I'm pretty new to TCG and every time I play energy delete heavy I seem to have a far easier time against opponents who have what seems to be a lot of rarer cards. Anyone know?
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its so much fun when i can get multiple Msceptiles set up and keep swapping them to fully heal them each turn
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>>28772980

The TCGO staff uses a 24-hour clock, you know.

They're basically saying that the maintenance should end at 2 PM Pacific Time, but given their track record I wouldn't be surprised if it was delayed.

>>28774181

Too bad you get your shit kicked in by most Volcanion decks.
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>>28774064
Rarer cards are generally shitty because they're just riding on their own rarity instead of being the good "decent attack for a small amount of energy" that makes a card worth its foiling. Look at the glalie example in the OP.

It doesn't work great against meta, but it's amazing against shitters.
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>>28769766

>ruin my own business like the spider faggot did?

My "business" isnt ruined for telling others about one of my tricks.
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>>28755222
>playing someone named "fibol" online
>see I'm down to seven or so cards
>feeling of imminent decking out increases
>type "gg, going to deck out"
>see he has six cards
>plays sycamore
>he pulls the rest of his deck
>he's going to deck out the instant I press end turn
>he says, "yup faggy boy"

It's Pokemom and not only did you lose, you conceded right after saying that.

I thought I was going to deck out, if you weren't an emotional cuck you could of decided not to play Sycamore and watch me lose
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>>28775134
He has one prize card left to my five btw, the dude was irrationally impatient to instigate his own demise
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So, I just got started last week, and I've been grinding the trainer challenge and the theme ladder for free shit.

Is there any way to know if the stuff I pull from trade locked packs is decent or not?
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>>28775134
>Literally calling each other fags in a children's game
Maybe they were right in banning the game chat altogether
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>>28775542
Having people talk to each other is never a good idea
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>>28775134
He probably misunderstood and thought you meant HE was gonna deck first?
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>>28760545
>>28760640
>>28761061
I was talking power-creep wise. That attack is fucked, especially in tandum with its first move. That being said, is that just the norm these days?
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>>28775661
Yeah but then you throw on this part >>28775151 and it looks like that anon was just matched with an idiot.

On that note what was in play at the time anyway?
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>it comes to the last turn of the game where opponent will win by just attacking
>they play everything out dragging it on for another 3 minutes unnecessarily
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>>28775852
>not conceding on your previous turn in an unwinnable position
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>>28776384
Those coins add up mang
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>>28776384
>Either I or the opp will win if they have Lysandre/switch/whatever or not
>They have/draw it, play and in position to win
>proceed to do a bunch of other shit before attacking
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>>28773061
Dumping Pulls
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>>28775852
And those are the same faggots that come on here after their opponent leaves and bitch that they can't get their dailies done.
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>>28776742
wew
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>>28776706
>>28776721
>>28776742
>>28776762
>>28776781
>>28776806
>>28776828
>>28776842
>>28776859
Stop spamming Zach, I don't believe your lies :^)
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>>28756228
Did that earlier today. Shit was so satisfying
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>>28775692
Well, Yugioh's power creep is minimal. There're a lot of decks that are over a decade old that would be competitive in the current meta, but are only held back by a banlist because they want to sell new product. There would be no reason to buy new sets if you could just play the same deck for years.

In Pokemon it's the same thing. They might scale up the numbers from time to time, but that's it. The abilities or attack effects aren't any better. Blastoise from Boundaries Crossed (2012) is Blastoise from Base Set (1999), Vileplume from Ancient Origins (2015) is Dark Vileplume from Team Rocket (2000). Garbodor from Dragons Exalted (2012) is Muk from Fossil (1999). M Rayquaza-EX from Roaring Skies (2015) is Wigglytuff from Base Set. Really powerful cards from early sets like Computer Search, Oak, Itemfinder, Goop Gas Attack, etc, all got modern equivalents but with a harsh, once-per-turn clause.

So instead of a banlist, Pokemon sells new products with rotations. But if we look at the Expanded format, the oldest format with 24 sets in it, we see that decks all across the timeline (2012-today) are successful, indicating that nothing's really changed since the beginning of the BW era. And as an aside, S&M doesn't plan to change that since their new mechanic doesn't seem all that meta-defining so far.

Believe it or not, this Rayquaza EX is just an example of a decent card: low resources for okay damage. 95% of the cards printed in this game fuck up this formula by requiring way too many resources or doing poor damage, or both even. But this Rayquaza EX is actually good and not just decent because there's a consistent engine for accelerating Lightning energy. This increases its damage ceiling making it much more viable.

But this isn't the norm now, this has always been the norm since the TCG was created: either do decent damage for low resources or disrupt your opponent from playing at all. We still do this, but the numbers are just higher. That's all.
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>>28773061
Thank you based broski
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>>28776828
>Meowstic EX

Don't fucking remind me. It's so bad it hurts.
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Would Wally Trevenant Item lock be viable in Expanded? I figured with Jirachi it could be extremely consistent.
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>>28777232
Why wouldn't it be? Nothing in the deck has changed.
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>>28777249
I haven't payed attention to the tcg since wally was released. Was it played in expanded or something?
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>>28777363
Ever since Trevenant BREAK came out in BREAKpoint, the deck has been consistently one of the better decks Standard and Expanded. Although the deck is now limited only to Expanded, I expect it to still be really good.
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>>28777473
Neat. I'll look into it. Thanks friend.
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>>28777498
Here's a contemporary deck list if you need help getting started.
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>>28776603
>not conceding once they lysandre/switch
you get what you deserve
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>>28777548
Awesome. I was looking through the site and only seeing standard results.
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what can I do to boost the win rate? I really don't think I need garbodor, hasn't helped me yet.
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Anyone have a Dual-Type Rainbow Road deck list for Standard/Expanded?
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>>28778144
mine, not the best but it works.
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I didn't make this but what do you think? Sorry for low res
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>>28778189
trying to figure out how you made that picture 4mb
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>>28778189
>low res
>4mb pic

I think it's the other way anon
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what are some cool standard decks that AREN'T:
Mega fug
mega scizor
mega mewtwo
darkrai/giratina
volcanian
rainbow road
?
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>>28772027
>>28772507
The little keychains, ornaments and ribbons are cute as fuck.
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>>28778682
That are good?
Mega Gardevoir
Mega Gardevoir
Yveltal/Yveltal
Primal Groudon
Primal Kyogre
Mega Rayquaza (Dragon)
Sceptile
Mega Sceptile
Mega Alakazam
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>>28776603
>>28775852
>People do this
>then they come onto this very thread and complain that people are conceding and they can't get their dailies done
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>>28778682
Xerneas BREAK/Giratina
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>>28778701
>>28778712
ok, what looks like it might be good when Evolutions set gets introduced?
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>>28778726
What cards do you think are in Evolutions?
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>>28778726
Dragonite EX will be good in M Ray and M Garde

Ratatta will be good for Raticate BREAK

M Venusaur looks fun with FoGP

M Charizard looks decent with Blacksmith in Expanded

The non-ex Mewtwo is good against M Mewtwo ironically

Everything else is garbo
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>>28778754
I dunno, dragonite looks solid in m gardevoir, the starmie (not break) looked promising for greninja or maybe volcanian but is shut down by garbodor. M Charizard might become viable, but probably not. Maybe Electrode but probably not?
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Get ready to make a new thread, I'm lazy again and don't make it a yokai watch shitshow again :^)
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Hows Jolteon/Glaceon?
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We need abilities that ignore abilities that shutdown abilities.

We also need effects that ignore effects that ignore effects.
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>>28779081
>We need abilities that ignore abilities that shutdown abilities.
We do, though.
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>>28779101
??
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>>28779114
???

On an unrelated note, has anyone noticed the simultaneous increase in newfags and uneducated shitposts? Do you think they could be related? Where are they coming from?
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>>28779184
>>28779184
>>28779184

NEW THREAD
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>>28779143
New games, new season, revived interest from go, anniversary. etc.
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>>28773585
Looks like a DarkIntegral deck
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