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Bumping for OP

>>32114682
>Canadians btfo edition
eh? why?

>>32114844
A
FUCKING
LEAF
BLOWER

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>>32114867
KEK

5th for the game's rigged against me for being too good

Darkrai and Yveltal only. Other legendaries need not apply.

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all on trainer cards, its gunna be a while before im able to get a full deck after spending this much on just trainers....

>>32115084

>68 cards almost totaling $100 after S&H

I'll need the dossier to see if you overpaid

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>>32115117

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>>32115117
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>>32115117
last one

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>>32115145
>Vileplume

>>32115117
paying for 2 shipping ppl since not all the cards are on one provider

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>>32115157
>walking garbage

>>32115151
>>32115145
>>32115135

>spent $100 and didn't even get the actually expensive cards

Im gunna buy a couple of booster boxes when guardians drop. That's too good to pass up. May god like pulls come my way

>>32115430
They're going all out in May

>new set with a ton of good cards
>finally a cheap way to get 2 of the old Ho-oh-EX
>new Battle Arena deck that will probably include a bunch of value trainers though its a bit more expensive than the old KVR one
>box with FA Jolteon-EX
>tons of cool new cards for my Lurantis deck
>tons of cool new cards for my Raikou deck

>>32115430
I can barely contain my erection

>>32115415
first time getting into meta pokemon tcg. those are all the the essential cards with those i only need the pokemons left

Standard format going to be perfect when they announce the ban of FoGP in may

>>32115713
>make Sea of Great Waves instead
>multiple Greninja Break on first turn

>>32115749
I would kms I hate meme froggers
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I had a dream last night about a torkoal/torkoal gx combo that played like volcanion. Baby torkoal has a 1fire attack that does 30 and you attach 1 energy from the discard to the baby torkoal and a 3fire attack that does 90 and you move all energy attached to torkoal to your bench in any way you like. Torkoal gx has an ability to discard a fire energy and reduce all damage done to your active fire poke by 30 which stacks like steamup, then you have a 3fire attack that does 30× the fire energy on all your pokes and a 3fire gx attack that does 50× for each fire energy you discard off all your pokes
Did my dream recreate the volcanion powerhouse well? If it was in the same standard format as volcanion you could use damage reduction and steam up together

>>32116173
some memers use a torkoal in volcanion as it is because of that paralysis chance.

is day of the rake canon

Did a league challenge today, my boy and I went 3-1 in our respective divisions. I was one of 4 Volcanion players... I was expecting more owls, but it was a lot of Volcanion, Darkrai, and Gardevoir.

League Cup next weekend, bigger prize pool. Not sure if I want to compete, desu. Might just help judge.

>>32116327
The enlightened use Heatmor

>one energy
>50 damage with fighting fury belt
>70 with choice band

madmen use torchic with barrage

>>32116413
when victini comes out torchic will actually be legit.

quick questiuon are there any cards with crossdfressing?

>>32115713
Any actual chance of this happening?

>>32116508
We already have a fliptini in expanded. Shouldn't it be already played if it works?

>>32116527
Probably not, the only two things they've banned were leagues ahead of fogp in terms of pure bullshit.

Granted one of the things they banned was 100% due to FOGP.

>>32116554
expanded volc has too many other things going on that are way better than victini, namely blacksmiths which greatly accelerate how fast you can get your daddyvolc cycling online.

>>32116527
Probably not. While it might be somewhat unfair, it's not as absurd as flat-out losing the game without being able to do anything (Shiftry) or essentially resetting everything but the board state and timer (Lysandre's Trump Card)

>>32116522
Gardevoir, Primarina

>>32116587
>flat-out losing the game without being able to do anything
That's how most turn 1 item lock games go

>>32117004
And if they ban FoGP then they can unban Shiftry, too.

>>32117004
>>32117062
Trevenant's been doing this for literally 2 years is arguably less clunky and more consistent. Yet we've somehow managed.

>>32117084
>arguably
Wally is not more consistent than a stadium and revitalizer.

>>32117729
When you run 1-2 Jirachi, it is.

>>32117734
Thought you were talking about old standart

>>32117750
I think even in Standard before last year's rotation people were able to get Wally on turn 1 fairly consistently with Battle Compressor.

How crazy was pre 2010 era standard compared to today's meta? I've been seeing archetypes that look like they are far weaker compared today, but did wackier plays, especially the trainer cards.

>>32116522
Why are you here? Get out

>>32117964
If I had to cut this game up into definitive eras, I'd say there's five major eras

Base era (Base-Gym Challenge)
Characterized by extremely fast draw, extremely powerful disruption and using energy efficient basics, if it couldn't attack with one attachment it was basically worthless except Blastoise was kind of a thing (but way, way worse than Haymaker). Hitmonchan/Electabuzz were star cards. Scyther and Magmar joined them in the upper echelons of the haymaker archetype. Ditto, Movie promo Mewtwo, Dodrio, Muk, and a few other pokemon became tech cards over time. Wigglytuff and Blastoise were the only evolutions that really saw play but were generally considered weak to haymaker

Neo era (Neo Genesis to Expedition or so)
This was the first 'rotation' that removed base set1/2 as well as fossil and jungle, removing the Haymaker deck as well as most of the retardedly broken trainers from base. Characterized by coinflip bullshit. Really, it was awful. Pichu and Cleffa were both common, and had an ability where you had to flip a coin to successfully attack them. Cleffa was kind of the Shaymeme of the set. Sneasel became the first card to be banned for being too broken (could do 140 damage on turn 2 back when 'big basics' had like 60-80hp). Slowking was the second (translation fail made its poke power bench playable, made your opponent flip a coin every time they played a trainer and it was stackable). Slowking/Dark Ampharos was the most miserable deck to play against ever. Feraligatr was a good card and enjoyable to play.

E-Reader era
Game starts to look more modern, the differentiation between supporters and trainers is introduced. Scizor/Furret was big at the start of the era, but I quit after Skyridge so I don't know that much about how the game was for those early Nintendo years other than that the first -ex cards dropped. cont..

>>32118625

>Riptide Feraligatr
>Enjoyable to play when it was borderline T0 and almost feels like solitaire with Misty's Wrath and Trash Exchange

>>32118625
Gen 4 era
Gen 4 had the craziest shit, it's really hard for me to characterize it, but there was so much just outright janky shit being played. Metal and dark energies finally became basic energies. Poison types switched from grass to psychic type cards. Uxie and Claydol were the draw pokemon. Draw supporters were comparatively weak, shuffle support got really good with PONT in HGSS. Uxie was literally better than Shaymemes. HGSS introduced a lot of cool shit like Primes.

The meta was actually slower despite Uxie being better draw support than Shaymin, and Claydol being better than Octillery. In fact most decks ran both of these, while today nobody uses Octillery because taking two turns to get it out is considered too slow.

BW on
The introduction of Juniper and rebirth of pokemon EX gave us a return, in some ways, to base era style play. Blazingly fast draw, super strong basics, no time for that evolving shit.

>>32118867
>almost feels like solitaire
I'm the type of person who prefers masturbation to sex. I play plume lock unironically these days.

>>32118907

>Gen 4
>Forgetting the dreaded word of "Psychic Lock"

To be fair, SP Pokemon was the starting point of Big Basic's return. However there were enough good evolutions to keep them in check

>>32118928
>I play plume lock unironically
Kill yourself

>>32118625

To add on to this wonderful anon's post -

Gen 3 had both slow death by spreading damange counters (Desert Ruins, Cursed Stone, Toxic Nidoqueen, Holon Raichu) andone-shoting a pokemon, often a support pokemon (Lugia EX, Steelix Ex, Blaziken Ex, Weezing). Dedicated search was very strong in this era (Pidgeot, Magarcgo, various specialties like Team Rocket/Magma/Holon) as was trying to disrupt the other player's search abilitiesy/trainers (Battle Frontier, Medicham Ex, Magnetric + Mew EX). Many decks ran 4 stadiums to keep the adventagous stadium in their favor. Early leads were very shake due to the strength of comeback cards (Rocket's Admin, POW, Scramble Energy).

>>32118625
Tell me more about neogenesis-the start of expedition. I'm playing in that era on tcgone but Crobat/Umbreon stomps my shit out.

>>32118625
Thank you for the insight. As a person who started competitively in BW, these were fun to read.

>>32119158
Just play Feraligatr/Parasect my dude. it's literally the only deck I played after Sneasel was banned. I never even got a full playset of those sadly, I do have 3 of the shit ones they introduced in discovery or revelations (fuck if I can remember what set that was in) though.

If you're not playing with Aquapolis/Skyridge you don't even really need to deal with SMT. I don't even remember crobat/umbreon being a thing honestly, probably because I could play that deck without seeing what the opponent was even doing and still win ~80% of the time.

>guy selling a huge lot of Pokemon cards obviously from his son after moving out or some shit
>asking $200 for like 3000 cards from all the way back to base set
>I spotted umbreon and espeon gold star in toploaders
>nofuckingway.jpg
>ask if they're still available
>he says they are
>tell him I'll take the lot for asking price with no mucking about
>2 days later messages me back saying he looked up prices for some of the cards and is no longer selling them for so cheap
Just fuck my shit up senpai

>>32119487
You should've just bought the lot immediately. Messaging him about specific cards was probably what made him look up the prices.

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Whats the current best theme deck to play in the events tournaments?

>>32119545
I didn't say anything about specific cards. I just asked for some more photos. When I said he had a deal he just didn't respond until he mentioned he looked up prices

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>4 Crushing Hammer
>4 Team Flare Grunt
>4 VS Seeker
>Trash Tentacle

>>32119623
>play energy keeper carbink

Nice energy discards nerd

Did anyone get the 777 coins? I got 2x77 after playing three games.

I feel like this deck could be a bit better, any suggestions?

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

##Pokémon - 17

* 3 Eevee SUM 101
* 3 Cosmog SUM 64
* 1 Cosmoem SUM 65
* 3 Lunala-GX SUM 66
* 3 Espeon-GX SUM 61
* 2 Remoraid BKT 32
* 2 Octillery BKT 33

##Trainer Cards - 33

* 3 Trainers' Mail ROS 92
* 2 Rare Candy SUM 129
* 2 Assault Vest BKT 133
* 2 Lysandre AOR 78
* 3 Professor Sycamore BKP 107
* 1 Super Rod BKT 149
* 4 Max Elixir BKP 102
* 3 N FAC 105
* 2 Float Stone BKT 137
* 4 Ultra Ball FAC 113
* 3 Max Potion BKP 103
* 4 VS Seeker PHF 109

##Energy - 10

* 10 Psychic Energy XYEnergy 8

Total Cards - 60

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

>>32119778
Maybe replace assault vests with enhanced hammers?

>>32119562
>best current
The fire one
>current best
The giratina one

I was just curious what keeps you guys playing PTCG over playing other established TCG games?

>>32120168
It's the cheapest one, by fucking far.

Magnezone/Evo Charizard

Meme tier or waste of time?

What is a good place to buy PTCGO codes from?

>decide to do some volcanion versus tonight
>8 straight losses purely from bricking
Why do i bother

>>32120168
>dropping $2,000 on a deck for MTG

>>32120412
What hast he intended one to infer of this?

>>32120168
Basically free to play online

Can someone please appreciate this with me?

Game Log Output Begins Here:
1. TeaBiskuit flipped 1 coin(s), resulting in 0 heads and 1 tails, for Beginning of Game.
2. It is now duane112's turn (Turn #1).
3. duane112 drew a card.
4. TeaBiskuit drew Grass Energy.
5. duane112 drew a card.
6. TeaBiskuit drew Kangaskhan.
7. duane112 drew a card.
8. TeaBiskuit drew Grass Energy.
9. duane112 drew a card.
10. TeaBiskuit drew Big Malasada.
11. duane112 drew a card.
12. TeaBiskuit drew Bounsweet.
13. duane112 drew a card.
14. TeaBiskuit drew Ultra Ball.
15. duane112 drew a card.
16. TeaBiskuit drew Grass Energy.
17. Kangaskhan became TeaBiskuit's new Active Pokémon.
18. duane112 drew a card.
19. duane112 played Steven.
20. duane112 drew Tierno.
21. duane112 drew Grass Energy.
22. duane112 attached a Grass Energy to Nincada.
23. It is now TeaBiskuit's turn (Turn #2).
24. TeaBiskuit drew Nest Ball.
25. TeaBiskuit played Nest Ball.
26. TeaBiskuit put Paras onto the Bench.
27. TeaBiskuit attached a Grass Energy to Kangaskhan.
28. TeaBiskuit's Kangaskhan used Cross-Cut and did 30 damage to duane112's Nincada.
29. It is now duane112's turn (Turn #3).
30. duane112 drew a card.
31. duane112 played Wally.
32. duane112's Nincada evolved into Shedinja.
33. TeaBiskuit took a Prize card.
34. duane112's Shedinja was Knocked Out.

Game Log Output Ends Here

>>32120578
Pretty good meme. Reminds me how every time my garb is knocked out and i put fright night into active only living off FFB and he dies

Anyone else think TPCi so damn greedy for limiting your prize wheel spins and for making the tier three rewards max out at 200 wins?

>>32120695
Go outside once in a while, nerd

>>32120722
I do, retard, hence why I think 200 wins is too many.

Try thinking before you post.

>>32120738
From reading it seems as though youre complaining that theyre greedy for limiting the amount of free stuff you can get no matter how much you play. From that it worked in my head that you are maxed out on prize wheel/wins and you want to play more. If thats not what you meant i got no idea

>>32120756
You spin a wheel every win so that you have a chance to simply land on a prize that you've already claimed. At least they could remove the prize spaces that are already claimed so you don't feel ripped off for winning.

Nice one-dimensional thinking by the way bro.

>>32120771
I can only read it how you wrote it fampai

>>32120785
However you gotta spin it to make yourself believe you aren't a fucking retard, buddy.

Enjoy your life with sub-90 IQ.

Theme is so boring jfc

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>>32120800
Sure thing kiddo

>>32120578
Kek

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Some older codes, but I have some more to post if you guys want.

>>32121160
>Some older codes, but I have some more to post if you guys want.
oh, yes please

>>32121198
I want to see what these have first but I will post the rest in a bit

>>32120812
Standard's much more interseting when you start, but as you climb the ladder you see much less variety

>>32121160
>>32121218
I hope these are still here when this update finishes

I still have more even if these are taken. just remembered I left my code tin at my friends house but I have them on a text document

(NINE)DT-MFM(FIVE)AFH-AJ(THREE)

Is this a Good way to type them to keep away from bots?

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>>32120695
>>32120738

Honestly, your first post does make it sound like you're complaining that you don't get anything for playing beyond the 2000 points. That's certainly how I read it; before reading your butthurt explanations.

>>32121268

>Is this a Good way to type them to keep away from bots?

Wait and see if somebody posts pulls. If pulls are posted, it's not a bot.

>>32120800
>>32121278
I agree, it sounds like you're yapping you can't win get prizes past 2000 points

>>32121323
Plenty of ballbags just claim packs to trade away

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>>32121342

>Plenty of ballbags just claim packs to trade away

Yeah, this is true unfortunately. I don't get why people are so scummy about that. PTCGO packs have essentially negligible value and so the only reason codes are given out is so that physical players can vicariously open their online packs; yet people still steal them

>>32121268

If no pulls are posted anon, you could just email codes to people, rather than posting in the thread. I imagine you're more likely to see pulls that way.

>>32120812
why are you still playing theme then? Better to play a somewhat shitty standard deck than any theme. Surely you can put together the cards for something like a Swampert deck or some such shite.

>>32121395
True, it's starting to look like people took the codes and left.

>>32121160

LL(SEVEN)-MX(SIX)M-CKP-QXK

(SIX)SJ-Q(SIX)(SIX)(SEVEN)-P(THREE)L-VK(FIVE)

CKV-XE(SEVEN)A-Y(FIVE)(SEVEN)-EEB

XUB-M(FIVE)VQ-RMD-T(NINE)W

(SIX)(THREE)Q-Y(THREE)(NINE)Y-KRE-AAL
Okay I'll just finish off the codes I was going to post, and hope some kind anon actually shares. going to post the last few in just a min so if you want them I would advise being at the ready. after this it will be a bit before I feel I have enough to share. Probably wont post directly to /vp/, but I'll see if there's a better way to go about it.

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>they'll never add pre HGSS cards to the game so you can play true unlimited online

>>32121538
all redeemed already lmao.

>>32121545
They scrapped unlimited as a format anyway (which was just HGSS-on with LTC and Shiftry) and replaced it with Legacy.

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>>32121538
last codes.

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>>32121580
Someone is really fast. I managed to get 1. Thank you.

>>32121602
you're welcome, and thank you for posting pulls

SHAYMEME EX BEING REPRINTED IN BEST OF XY

>>32121619
Glad to see Japan's standard format will look even more different than ours next year. Cool.

>>32121630
ITS GETTING TO THE WORLD

>>32121630

Are we got getting best of XY? >>32121619 Where was this revealed?

>>32121639
No, we're not getting Best of XY.

>>32121639

Are we not getting*

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>>32121619

Nice source, my dude.

>>32121580
I hope the guy who took the codes and didn't post the pulls die a horrible death

>>32121648
I WORK AT THE POKEMON COMPANY
WE ARE REVIVING GRENINJA

>>32121660
Next time I'll make an email for sending codes so I can moderate who gets codes based on if they actually post pulls or not

>>32121751
I started doing email giveaways too since first time I posted the codes the codes were taken away in few seconds. No pulls posted.
Emails are better. If someone doesn't post their pulls you can just adbomb their inbox.

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Haven't played or visited this board in about 3 weeks. Anyone else gotten this?

Is the pokebeach forums really the best place to find deck lists and discussions?

>>32121826
Nah, and I gg on first turn all of the time when shit like vileplume and whatever comes into play.

>>32121858
pretty much since nobody discusses new memes here outside of the first few weeks after a new set launches.

>>32121858
>>32122000
r/tcg is another one

>>32122000
Well yea we all know what happens to people who share their memes, scams, or ideas.

Anyone bored enough to spoonfeed an anon an engine for a grass deck or a psychic/steel deck?

>>32122901
what, a draw or an energy acceleration engine?

>>32123032

Draw for Grass, energy for Psychic/Steel.

Is Special Charge the only way to get back DCE/DDE?

>>32123184
Puzzle of Time.

>>32123079
draw engines look virtually identical deck to deck especially in standard. The one card that grass gets is revitalizer.

There is no good energy acceleration card for steel in standard, bronzong PHF is your boy in expanded. Lunala can kind of work as psychic acceleration but it's only pseudo-acceleration in that all of the energies have to be attached prior. Lunala can also move rainbow and mystery energies.

Will the new set in May be coming out with any theme/starter decks?

>>32123629

It will come with two theme decks (Solgaleo and Lunala)

>>32123595

Glad I pulled some rainbows from boosters IRL.

Are they rare? Also is there a site that has the values for each card?Is Amazons pricing a safe barometer for these things?

>>32123642

GX? Or regular?

>>32123676

>Implying TPCi will ever give us anything of value in theme decks

Those will be regular ones that are in the SM1+ set in Japan

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Strength_Expansion_Pack_Sun_%26_Moon_(TCG)

Why don't any of the topping builds run Oblivion Wing in Yveltal/Garb?

I haven't played PTCG in a while and I have a lot of rotated stuff so I don't have much, what is the cheapest decent deck right now? Volcanion?

>>32123700

I see

Thanks dude

>>32123651
rainbows are uncommon but not hard to find. They're worth half a pack on a good day online.

>>32123724
seeing as Greninja was ruthlessly murdered, there's no deck that runs well without Shaymins.

Unless you're a god tier patrician such as myself and play modified unlimited and can use Uxie.

>>32123816

I don't know, does Shaymin-EX get rotated this year?

>>32123860
99% chance. But that's 6 months off, we don't even really know what the big money card will be at rotation, we have Guardians coming and then SM3. The only card we know is in SM3 is Olivia, probably Necrozma-GX and Ho-oh-GX too.

Newfag here. I wanted to start playing TCG competitively but rotation has me concerned that my cards wont be worth it if I buy older sets.

So clarify for me please. Standard is all editions from Clash to SM? And is expanded everything? I heard some card shops play a tossup of standard and expanded.

ATM I have only bought SM cards and have almost completed the set.

>>32124077
Standard: Currently Primal Clash onwards (Rotates once a year.)
Expanded: Black & White onwards
Legacy: HGSS & BW sets only

>>32124097

Ok just wanted to know because the pastebin says Roaring Skies is more valuable ATM but I dont wanna get a bunch of cards that will be deprecated in 6-12 months.

Im guessing Break will be good for another year or so?

>>32124250
Most people are figuring that BREAKthrough will be the rotation cutoff but there is no guarantee of that.

Also just because cards rotate into expanded doesn't necessarily reduce their value. Good cards like shaymin in particular tend to appreciate falling a sharp drop upon rotation.

Shaymin's currently worth like 50 value. I expect it to drop to 20-30 value for the first week or two after rotation, but over the next few years it will increase in value unless there is a better set up pokemon introduced (unlikely).

Also the pastebin is a bit out of date, early xy packs are already rising, FCO isn't evo tier in terms of value atm either. PLF pack value fucking plummeted because of the holo changes, the SM ultras are drawing blingfags in like moths to a flame, even though the PLF version is still rarer.

ROS, NVI and HST are the trifecta of high value packs atm.

welp i pulled the trigger and bought 101usd worth of trainers. My meta TCG career finally starting

>>32124379

Considering I only have SM cards ATM what would you suggest I do?

>Wait till May expansion and just go forward

or

>Start collecting a little bit of XY/ORAS editions while collecting May expansion

Should I be concerned with staple cards or will they mostly get reprints?

Sorry, just really uncertain.

>>32124551
I was sick with buyer's remorse when I made my first big order, but I was super hyped when I actually got them. It's just nice to hold and shuffle physical cards.

Hid a cheeky roaring skies booster amongst my moms groceries at walmart

LF9-UVHC-7VH-XFD

Post pull if decent!

>>32124097

When is rotation usually? August?

>>32124722
Deffo start collecting, do not expect reprints, a lot of staples are staying around for at least another year or two since it's extremely unlikely that all xy sets are rotating and Sycamore is getting a new promo art so he'll be legal until Evolutions rotates.

The money cards that are rotating into expanded are VS Seeker and Shaymin-EX. And again, if you ever want to play expanded, you will need those guaranteed unless they print something better. I think it's a newbie mistake to even worry about rotations into expanded. Worry about new cards making your old cards obsolete, that's what kills their value on the long term.

Rotation into unsupported formats like legacy or unlimited is the other way to kill a card's value, so if anything you should worry about the values of early BW stuff, but not for another year or two at least and possibly never. Some people believe that TPCI just wants to make expanded into a less retarded unlimited using BW as the baseline.

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>>32124970
Whoa. You have my sincerest thanks.

rate my guardians jank

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>>32124972
After worlds.
Probably September

>>32125013
Np famgoon

>>32125000

Thanks anon

Btw what staples do you suggest? Im thinking fogp and revitalizer at least

>>32125213
i wouldn't really call those staple cards except for grass decks. Staples are more like every deck runs it (shaymin, sycamore, lysandre, n, vs seeker, ultras, common tech cards like parallel city, delinquent, olympia). After that comes situational cards like stadiums other than parallel city, situational supporters like skyla and whatnot, items like level balls, dive balls, revitalizers.

Aside from Shaymin and VS seeker though, the staple cards in this game are mostly cheap. You'll spend a bunch the first few times you buy big lots of staples but once you have those, each successive deck is cheaper to build.

>>32124963
plus you cant really go anywhere past online in online only. With real cards you can actually go to local events or even just casual stuff but in real life and get awarded maybe even money or more packs. Real better than online imo

Collecting newfag here
Confused on the best ways to complete a set. Unknowingly bought the Sun/Moon elite trainer boxes and the 3 Sun/Moon starter decks thinking they were all just packs.
I'm currently looking at Derium's Pokemon for booster boxes but I don't want to have too much excess cards.

How many packs should I open per set before I start buying individual cards?

>>32125660
you can just sell your excess cards all back to card sellers and buyers like troll and toad or tcgplayer

>>32125685
How much do shitty commons and uncommons usually go for?

>>32125732
between 25 cents to 75. If you buy like 4 or 5 booster boxes it adds up and you prob get back around 80 or 90 dollars back

daily reminder that Lurantis is actually the most consistent lock partner for Vileplume in both standard and especially in expanded.

>>32125789
I'm looking on tcgplayer and but the buylist options seem to be for magic cards. How do I change that?

how do i buy on tcgplayer?

I'm interested in collecting only holo rares and i put a couple cards in the cart. do i pay more if i have more dealers?

>>32126031
No, it just gives you one grand total for all of them. So if you have like $2, $4, $6 worth of stuff spread out between three different vendors, you'll just pay the full $12 at checkout.

This is neat, but only really has good explainations for stuff 10+ years old

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Deck_archetype_(TCG)

>>32126162
Probably because the game's popularity waned after first rotation until it began to pick back up again in late BW/early XY era.

I think the game's kind of in its second most popular era atm. GO pulled a lot of normie hype back towards pokemon even if the game itself didn't last that long.

>>32126128
thanks senpai.

also, which sets are the most aesthetic?

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Did I make the right choice?

I was checking out Walmart and they had restocked tins and saw this Hoopa one and picked it up. I heard something about it being the best one but why?

>>32126651

The initial batch that came out in 2015 were even better since it had Roaring Skies packs, but it is still a Hoopa EX so its usefulness carries on in Expanded

>>32126674
and standard

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Had to go through hoops to find the right cards but I think I might out pretty good.

My set of 4 is now complete.

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Have a bunch of coins saved up, should I buy sun & moon booster packs or another set? Please help

>>32126748

Save your coin for Guardians Rising.
It's the best set since Roaring Skies.

>>32126651
ehh, imo unless you love the thrill of pulling packs, you still get better value for buying tin cards, especially cards printed outside of tins as individuals.

>>32126735
that's a retardedly good trade value wise, there's what, like 20ish value on your side at most and the ultra is worth 50+

>>32126748
If you don't have 4 shaymins, still a good idea to open those packs. Either that or save up for Guardians.

>>32126795

I honestly think it was some kid who wanted some cool looking cards.
Chandelure was a bitch to get. I threw up a trade for older set packs from XY and got it in 10 mins.
I'll have to get another Salamence but fug it. Totally worth it.

>>32126674
Yeh, mine came with Evolutions.

I only opened it a bit to check the promo and see what it did so I only saw the first pack

>>32126795
I love opening packs but I find it hard to justify buying a pack when I can just buy singles. But sometimes certain products are good enough to buy packs for in both Yugioh and Pokemon

Why are pokebeach's premium articles so expensive? I can get a year of National Geographic or any number of full magazines for $30-40 and these guys are charging like $15 a month for a handful of articles.

>>32126735
Damn, you won 29 SM packs, and when SM rotates, the Ultra Ball value will rise.

>>32126891
cause being ahead in the meta game with top of the line strats can give you an advantage to winning tourneys with money on the line

>>32126973
Those articles don't get you 'ahead' of the meta, though and most of what they present are very minor optimizations for already common strategies you find on the online ladder, which are usually netdecked from lists from recent event lists anyways. Most of the tier lists and shit they present are things that anyone who plays regularly will know about, aside from a few of the lower tier decks like primal groudon you will run into them online.

>>32126759
Isnt there usually a 3 month delay or something from the set relase and the cards being on ptcgo?

>>32126803
I have 2 shaymin-ex that I saved packs and traded 4. Dont really see the need for getting a 3rd or 4th with some of the decks I use. Have thought about trying to trade for a shaymin and trading that shaymin for packs+cards

>>32127044
Nope. This ain't magic.

>>32127044
Nope, same day. Our delay is between Japanese release and English release.

>>32121436
This general discouraged me but you're right, I'll go build something for it.

Thanks anon.

>>32121278
>Making assumptions and immediately calling names based on assumptions
Maybe just ask >what did he mean by this
It's not so hard to not make oneself look stupid.

>>32121602
I got that Lapras irl in my first pack I bought in more than a decade, it's pretty cool.

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Why does every faggot who plays Incineroar look like this?

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>>32127332

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>>32127264

>Maybe just ask >what did he mean by this

Given that at least 3 people misunderstood what you wrote, perhaps you should try to make your points more clearly?

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$10 on Kijiji (Craigslist type of website in Canada). There's also 6 online codes, is this worth it?

>>32127546
>bunch of dogshit cards from a dogshit set

no rofl

>>32127546

You get around $10 CAD or so worth of Pokemon cards (M Pidgeot EX sells for around $6 CAD), as long as the foil cards are not scratched up and you are happy with what you get then sure. Otherwise >>32127584

>>32127584
There's a cool Machamp break and Mega Pidg Ex, are those not worth?

>>32127604
Hm. You give me second thoughts.

>>32127617
If you're collecting, maybe if you like the cards

but not a single one of those cards is worth anything from a play or resale perspective.

>>32127617

Nope, Machamp BREAK and M Pidgeot EX are worthless. 401 Games (one of the largest LGS in Toronto) sells them for $1.50 and $6 respectively

>>32127646
Oh, damn. And the other foils are cheap as well and the commons are a pittance right?

This guy also wants me to go to him for this and time is money so I guess I will tell him thanks but no thanks.

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Have the code cards from my Hoopa tin. It was a meh tin. I just like my Hoopa.

The Hoopa code card gives you a Hoopa EX right?

>>32127347
>>32127332
I think its a default avatar, thre's loads of identical ones

>>32127617
You paid $10 and got $10 worth of cards

>>32127665

Hitmonchan, Machamp, and reverse fire are around $1~2 and yes the commons are a pittance

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>>32127666
Darn, too slow again. Very kind of you however.

>>32127713
Ah, better luck next time.

I don't buy products often so I just give them away because I don't play the online game. I'd rather someone get use of them.

is there a discord chat for tcg somewhere? pokebeach have one?

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>>32127666
I'm gonna catch shit for this, but I'd rather post pulls and have people mad at me for being quick than leave you high and dry. Thanks mate.

And nice trips.

>>32127760
>mostly evo and fac

nobody is mad m8, that was a really good fac pack though. I think people are starting to figure out that fac and other sets like flf/fuf were undervalued.

>>32127670
I didn't buy it, but I guess I'll tell him it's a longer bus ride than I care to take (it's the truth). If he offers to come to me then I'll go for it. Thanks.

>>32127760
>I'm gonna catch shit for this, but I'd rather post pulls and have people mad at me for being quick than leave you high and dry. Thanks mate.
I'm actually very glad this happened
Fair play

I wasn't going to fire up my client for Evolutions though

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Home come Nest Ball isn't used more often?
I only really see it used in Monkey meme decks.

I can understand it not being useful to for cards with abilities like Shay and Hoopa.

Is it because putting cards in the discard is worth it for future use like VS Seeker for trainers or Mega Turbo for energy?

>>32127922

And don't forget the most important part, that Ultra Ball lets you fetch anything from the deck. Mind you Nest Ball can be useful in decks that needs to fill up the Bench as quickly as possible, it is not as powerful as Ultra Ball since there are less restrictions on what you can search and the added "utility"

>>32127922
>I can understand it not being useful to for cards with abilities like Shay and Hoopa.

>When you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench
Those cards don't work when played straight from your deck

It could be more useful with Darkrai decks

>>32127922
It's just in this weird place where in most decks, when you want more search cards than your token 4 ultras, you prefer either level or dive balls. Dive balls are just outright better when you're running a water box and level balls are better for decks that need to search low HP evolutions (raikou, vileplume lock variants).

Decks that run EX attackers usually have no issues at all finding pokemon with hoopa, and non-EX decks other than Passimian (namely Rainbow Road and Raikou) just don't benefit much from the card.

Nest ball only works really well for non-ex basic swarm decks, and Passimian is the only deck that really meets that definition atm.

>>32127995
What deck were you using?

>>32127981

>Rainbow Road doesn't benefit much

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the thought of thinning out the deck quickly in Rainbow Road decks seems to be beneficial. It might not be a 4 of due to Ultra Ball into Hoopa EX for Bandit Ring shenanigans but it is still not bad to fetch out Xerneas and other small Basics

>>32128003

Volcanion with Starmie. He was playing Darkrai/Salamence.

>>32127995
I need to start saving these, my 3 most played decks atm are laserbank yveltal, umbreon/hammers and expanded lurantis lock with 4 AZ. I have like 30 people on my friends list and only 4 of them are actually friends.

>>32128017
You want Xerneas in your deck, you only want one active and one on your bench at any given time and you don't want them in your hand until you need them.

Again, ultra > hoopa is more than enough search for that deck.

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My first deck, I just put it together now, please don't bully. I tried standard and a memetwo fag kicked my ass.

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Is this card a shitty meme? Wouldn't it be impossible to rely on consistently because you never know the type of energy your opponents pokemon will use unless you know the person you're playing?

>>32128059
It's pretty bad but it's your first deck, at least with Glaceon you can cheese some wins with the protection. I'd dump the Tiernos for literally anything, that card is terrible. Maybe a super rod or two, some elixirs, anything that isn't that card.

Lapras GX aren't expensive either, keep an eye on them. I'd also include 1-2 Ninja Boys as a way to put an Articuno in play for extra prizes on kills you set up with Glaceon, will allow you to shave off a turn on some games that will protect you from that N to 1.

>>32128076
it's worthless, so are most promos.

>>32128126
Yeah, that's what the articunos are in there for, the Ninja boy tip sounds good. I'll replace tierno with them. I have a Lapras gx, I'll put him in there...

Btw why are the "draw three" cards bad?

>>32128142
>>32128126
Damn, I don't have any Ninja Boys. I liked that suggestion because it is exactly what I have articunos for. But tell me, in standard, am I even going to encounter non EX/GX pokemon enough to justify having articuno? Same goes for the Glaceon thing, will I even encounter evolution pokemon much at all?

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>>32128076

It's a meme for sure. For instance, this card saw a tiny amount of play back when it was a thing, but it's more versatile.

>>32127995
Wtf post more

Also report him and post results.

>>32128171
I remember playing a copy in M Ray as a 1-prize mirror match attacker. Its attack is what makes it playable, the ability is just a cute gimmick.

Got a win-a-box tourney coming up. Bo1 standard, probably 5 or 6 rounds.

What's the better play: Volcanion, because of general consistency and slightly easier Owl matchup, or M Ray, because of good matchups across the board? What do people even pair with M Ray in Standard these days?

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>>32128126
How's this? Also please read my other post >>32128170

>>32128076
I'd rather use evolutions clefairy. It hits dragons for weakness :D

>>32128272
I'd try squeeze in a Regice or two. Also get rid of a couple of nest balls and one rough seas for some Max Elixir if you have it. If you're adding in some max elixir I'd get rid of some of those special water energies too. Try and trade for some VS seeker if you can. If you do add some VS seeker you don't need that many Lysandre, I'd maybe swap them out for a Kukui.

An escape rope would do good, and some tools like fighting fury belt/poison barb.

With that you'd have an okay waterbox to start playing with.

>>32128201
Actually, its ability would allow you to copy a psychic infinity for one energy with dimension valley to knock out a 6 energy MM2 in a single turn (ok, that would happen once in a lifetime)

>>32128381
Or ko an x ball mewtwo

>>32128022
I wonder if he plays Darkrai because he thinks he's edgy or if it's the other way around...

>>32128212
Of those two, I'd go with MegaRay. Those times when you're staring down a Garbodor with no Lysandre in sight makes playing Volcanion depressing.

>>32127264
>This general discouraged me but you're right, I'll go build something for it.
>Thanks anon.
Best advice is to ignore all advice in this general just in general. Just throw a deck together, the elo will keep you matched against decks of similar standard. Just save your tournament tickets until you have a deck you are confident can at least get past the first round.

When I started I got by on a Gengar/Wobbuffet deck that was far from tiered, and an energy mill malamar creation. Both won me plenty of packs and now I have the cards for a build for every meta deck.

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>winning with a hydreigon break deck

>Have about 20 misc packs that I was hoarding
>Decide to crack them all open
>Genesect Ex, full art Lunala GX
>full art mega gyarados ex
>omastar break
>full art sycamore

I'm satisfied

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>>32128272
This is an example of what you should be eventually shooting for. I know you don't have the value atm but you can look at the list and see cards that you can include as you accumulate value and build your deck.

Aqua patches will be vital for this deck when they come out as well.

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How good is this guy?

>Ability - Aero Trail: When you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench, you may move any number of Lightning Energy attached to your Pokémon to this Pokémon. If you do, switch this Pokémon with your Active Pokémon.

>LLC - Sky-high Claws: 130

>LLC - Tapu Thunder GX:
This attack does 50 damage times the amount of Energy attached to all of your opponent's Pokémon.

>>32129096

Pretty good in a format where it isn't threatened to be one shot, since it'll win trades with the help of it's stadium and it's naturally fast because of its ability. It'll hardly do shit if it's FFB is being blown off and Darkrai is hitting it for 200 damage a turn.

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>gets into tcg after 13 solid years of collecting pkmn cards
>builds very first deck
>is fairy type, cause hardly any fairy decks to buy
>deck tests with my brother today
>plays 3 rounds 2 of me using my custom fairy deck and 1 of him using it and me using his deck
>My deck loses all 3 games
>MFW

Help I think just have bad luck when i draw or my deck is shit

>>32129304

>bad luck when i draw

I think this may be due to a lack of consistency cards/draw Supporters. Competitive decks are built to be consistent and to implement their strategies almost every game (unless you're facing Vileplume lock). You don't really want to be relying on luck when you draw; you always want to have cards which will help you get what you need.

Could you post a list/picture of the cards in your deck so more specific advice can be given?

>builds very first deck
>is fairy type

In general, it's not a great idea just to build around a type. You want to focus on 1 or 2 main Pokemon, with a specific winning strategy. If you are running multiple evolution lines, this could possibly explain your bad luck when drawing.

>>32129096
Good now, will be really good after rotation when lysandre is gone since it lets you rescue injured shit.

>tfw you get a ROS from your KO daily challenge

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this was a pretty spicy meme

>>32129665

This.

For most TCG's, deciding what your wincon is, then describing multiple methods to achieve that wincon, is the basic strategy for competition play.

>>32129955
its like a shittier talonflame/typhlosion. I can see it being good with Mallow around though since she can guarantee you 120 damage every turn you can use her.

So is the US release of Gaurduans Rising gonna include Islands Awaiting for You, Moonlight of Alola, SM2 and SM Strengething?

>>32130146

It is only the two SM2 sets, SM1 Strengthening (SM1+) and whatever leftovers, SM2 Strengthening (SM2+) will probably be in English SM3

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New promo booster when? I don't want to drop 700 coins on some deck-dressings.

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>>32130278
unless the promo cards are good or it's a rotated set you want cards from it's seldom a good play to buy those.

I bought 3 of the PLB bundles when they were in the shop a few weeks ago though, picked up a FA Jirachi-EX, SR shiny Virizion, 2 silver bangles and a scoop up cyclone from them. Sadly Guardians is rendering Jirachi and silver bangles obsolete and the shiny virizion is more of a collector's item and has little use in the digital game.

>>32130379
Neat. I just want something to spend my coins on so I usually buy the promos.

>>32130477
Save for Guardians, that set has so many fucking great cards in it. It's the new ROS.

By the time Guardians drops I should have enough tokens to buy 2 booster boxes worth of no trade packs. Even if I don't get the god pull of Lele most people will want a playset of choice bands and some other cool stuff. Even a lot of the mediocre rares in the set look at least mildly interesting compared to the utter dogshit that most non-GX rares were in SM.

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Someone please explain. This doesn't even have an in-game justification...

>>32130579
You mean the 250 token booster packs?

Is it just impossible to build a decent deck without Shaymin? Even on ptcgo it's a real pain in the ass to get one. I just want to play casually.

>>32130604
Budget decks rely on Octillery and Oranguru. They're not as good as Shaymin but you get what you pay for.

Orangurus can be gotten from the Incineroar deck.

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Round description is poorly worded. What's it refering to? It could be refering to all the cards I have in my collection that have the attack (obviously this isn't the intention).

Does it refer to all the pokemon in my deck that have the attack? So all the pokemon in my hand, discard, and on the field?

Or does it just refer to the pokemon in play?

>>32130600
Yeah, the no-trade boosters. It's good to be able to buy a shitload of them, see what pulls you get, then you can spend trade value to fill the holes instead of trading first then getting a shitload of pulls you already had.

And as for that attack, it's self explanitory. If you only need to claim one more prize, you use that attack then game's over, you win.

>>32130604
It's impossible to build a good deck without shaymin, decent decks you can definitely build. You'll typically want to build a shallower deck, acro bikes and trainers' mails let you basically have less cards in your deck which increases the probability you get cards you need when you need them. Octillery is slower and less consistent than shaymin but usually gets you more cards over a long game.

Some memedecks like typhlosion and haxorus prefer talonflame for the precision draws it offers you (though these are disruptable). Some decks like stand alone lucario don't even use draw support (but are always less consistent because of it)

>>32130743
It's your pokemon in play, it doesn't say benched pokemon because your active is included. Those attacks all refer to pokemon in play unless they specify otherwise (ie in discard pile like bee revenge)

>>32130780
Okay, thanks.

>>32130758
The slowking move just seems unfair.

>>32130758
>>32130737
So if I have the cards to build a popular deck (Volcanion, Yveltal, etc.), I can just replace Shaymin with Octillery/Oranguru and be a little worse off for it?

>>32130758
>If you only need to claim one more prize, you use that attack then game's over, you win.
The card reads like you win if YOU only have one prize card left.

>>32130871
basically yeah, it's slower and takes more space in the deck (you need to run it 2-2 instead of just 2) but it will work reasonably well.

>>32130882
Your prize cards are the ones on your side of the board, from your deck, the cards your opponent draws from from KOing your pokemon are his/her prizes, not yours.

That slowbro is basically useless, might be reasonably okay if it was DCE instead of CCC but being a stage 1 and needing two attachments for that play is kind of shit. I've literally never seen it played, I've seen the slowking from the same set much more often (aka like 2 times total)

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Guys, did I do good?

>>32131020
no rofl, they're giving those away for free, at least the non FA version.

with ROS, its colorless fug/megafug, SR vs seeker/trainers' mail or shaymin, all other rares in the set are basically worthless.

>>32131020
It is worth 1 pack so not much. Also M Latios is really shitty.

>4 SR Ultra Balls
>4 SR VS Seekers
>4 SR Trainer's Mail
>4 FA Sycamore
>2 FA Lysandre
>tfw no FA N

Being a bling fag is suffering.

>>32131192
Start saving value goy, he's only going up from here, a playset'll be 200 packs at this rate.

>tfw can't stop myself from playing coinflip luckfag decks
>every expanded deck I make has laserbank except for my item lock decks
>in standard i only play 2 decks regularly, umbreon/hammers and mega mawile/slowking
>already saving value to drop on a playset of victini

somebody stop me from being such a ramblin' gamblin' dude.

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>its a blastoise deck with lapras and fucking mahaphy
>when keldeo does both
I know some opponents run on budget but nobody believes this is good right

>>32131395
expanded ladder has more dogshit jank decks than standard.

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>>32131395
speaking of archie's how is this for a modern archie's list? I just made it from cards I currently have, idk if I want to trade very much to improve it since it's meme tier at this point. I still get an archie off first turn ~60% of the time at least.

What is the best site to sell cards based on ease of use and price?

>>32131897
Change the elixirs to superior retrieval when you can and remove teammates.

>>32131395
I would guess that's because people are just gradually modifying the Rayquaza vs Keldeo battle decks?

The Lapras and Milotic are the first things that should be removed from that deck though.

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Is it worth grinding the rest of versus or should I be doing something else? I'm stuck with theme and I'm pretty burnt out.

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never bought a booster pack in my life.
little brother gave me one for Christmas just opened pack today
did i get lucky?

>>32132576

It is not that great anymore (went out of style) but still pretty lucky

>>32132576
It's a FA version of a Mega. It's a nice pull even if it's not really competitive anymore. Good job!

>my lgs got an earlier street date for GR

Tempted to pay the extra 10 bucks and get a box there.

>>32128481
This anon is right, I started with a deck that used Lugia and the bird trio, Electrode and Whimsicott. It was really fun and my opponents would be on similar level, I was able to get about 1500 points within the 10 days there were still left till the ladder restarted.

Even now, I play Volcanion/Ninetales Break without any Shaymemes and was able to win a couple of standard events.

Some people here are just too narrow minded, they listen to someone say "you must play like that" and assume every deck you make must start with the same set of 20 or so cards.

>>32129665
Hey! Sorry anon fell asleep.
I will get the list going for you right now

>>32129665
Fairy Energy x 15

Diancie EX XY43 x 1

M Diancie EX XY44 x 1

Gardevoir EX 78/114 x 1

Marill x 2

Azumarill 77/114 x 1

Jigglypuff 65/124 x 2

Wigglytuff x 2

Clefairy x 2

Clefable x 2

Snubbull x 2

Granbull x 1

Swirlix x 1

Klefki x 1

Mr. Mime x 2

Cottonee x 2

Whismicott x 1

Kangaskhan x 1

Bent Spoon x 2

Gardevoir Spirit Link x 1 *Don't have Mega Gardevoir Yet*

Fairy Drop x 3

Fairy Garden x 2

Prof Letter x 3

Roller Skates x 1

Tierno x 2

Shauna x 1

Max Revive x 3

Super Potion x 1

Potion x 1

Captivating Poke Puff x 1

That's It annon, again sorry for late reply

>>32133303

dat draw probability tho

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Someone asked for ways to get special energies from the discard pile. I found pic related but I can't find the post to quote.

>>32133338

It was this post: >>32123184. They mentioned Special Charge.

>>32133358
There's also Milotic iirc

I need cards that let me rearrange the top cards of my and my opponents' decks. I found a few after going through my cards:

>Pokedex
>Aipom (Fiddle Around - attack)
>Alolan Diglett (Spelunk - attack)
>Xatu (Future Sight - attack)

I was hoping there was a pokemon with an ability to do this but I had no luck finding such a monster. Can you guys recommend anything?

>>32133358
Oh, oops. Thanks. I thought they mentioned VS Seeker.

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>>32133358
Oh, also this.

Is anyone's pokemon tcg client crashing before logging in too? My phone apk works, but laptop isn't working atm. Should I just uninstall the client and reinstall it?

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What decks you boys playing with atm? Are they big and hard? I'm looking for a new deck can play with on TCGO.

>>32133720
Actually what's the strongest deck in the meta atm. Decidueye?

How do you run a volcanion deck, seems like you screw yourself out of a move

>>32133745
When the Volc moves out of active for any reason the cooldown ends

>>32133546
Please respond

What does "for review" actually do?

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>>32133732
strongest is subjective. I'm of the opinion that decidueye is actually not the best plumelock support, Lurantis didn't get as many top 8 spots but had far more top 32 spots across all events since SM. Being able to run a much thinner pokemon line combined with the ease that Lurantis sets itself up allows you to outlast the enemy.

The tier list in the pastebin is kind of accurate except the plume lock archetypes are probably tier 1/2 now instead of 2/3 as people have refined their lists. This is my current favorite expanded list atm. I can turn 1 item lock almost every game with this list with battle compressor/revitalizer/extra shaymemes to search vileplume pieces. 4 AZ lets you recover your injured Lurantises, with FOGP you can play them the same turn then use flower supply to pull the discarded energies back on to an active Lurantis. If I were to go to an event I would absolutely bring this deck.

My WR when moving first is 85% in the past 50 games. Moving second is a little sketchier but still over 60%.

Another good deck atm is Raikou/Eels but that deck gets a LOT better in May since it'll gain even more beef with aether paradise, Koko as a way to deal with mega mewtwo and field blower to deal with garb cancer.

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I love this meme

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>>32131264
Do you use trick coins?

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new player, is this gold vs seeker card worth anything? also how do i level up faster?

>>32134496
It is a tradeable pack?
If yes it's worth around 8 Roaring Skies packs, that are more or less 12 Sun/Moon packs.

>>32134076
There is a fighting type Gallade that works as a free pokedex every turn.

I don't know much about changing your opponent's deck order, though. Trick Shovel let you take a look and discard if you want, if only knowing the next card helps.

>>32134461
Me too, it's a little too inconsistent atm but I think it's one of those decks that's like one good support card from being broken.

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>>32134526
It's for camerupt's eruption attack.

If you can set up opponent and yourself to have energy at the top of your decks when you use the attack, then it does 200 damage. If you can gaurantee just you have energy at the top then you can do at least 140.

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>>32134496
>>32134496
Just spent a few packs buying VS Seekers for my girlfriend. Come here to read some shit and see this. Open up her one roaring sky pack. See this.

god dammit

>when he gets the right coinflip 4 times in a row

>>32134856
A 1/16 chance isn't that unlikely.

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>Just won a random match on the expanded ladder with my favorite deck, Greninja Break
>It was the first serious deck I built and it still has a special place in my heart
>Last week I got a Greninja Break in the booster of the login reward, thinking the game knows my bond wth the card
>I reached the first chest of the ladder
>This happens
Praise KEK

>>32134917
literally ded archetype with a 0.0001% chance to win against any fogp item lock deck.

>>32135135

Has there been a deck that died faster than Greninja?

>>32134595
In that case, Trick Shovel would be nice, in the worst cenario, you can anticipate a non-energy card and discard it.

But really, setting everything up seems a bit hard.

>>32135147
M Audino EX.
Lasted 1 month.

>>32135160

Wasn't that just a "Meme" deck for Worlds and then it disappeared since the rotation basically killed the deck it is supposed to beat (Night March)?

>>32135185

It was hardly a meme in Japan. It's no coincidence that a ton of Japs showed up with many variations of Audino.

>>32135152
I'm just getting into deck building so I'm trying different things. Thanks for the tip, I'll check out trick shovel.

What pack is Pokedex in btw? Or could anyone trade with me? I have lots of cards I have >4 of.

>>32135234
Pokedex was reprinted last in evolutions. It's a cheap card, I'd risk putting an uncommon chest for 4

I have 40 SM packs and don't know what to invest them in.

>>32135291
Keep them and trade for GR when it's out, it will become the next ROS

>>32135291
SR trainers

>>32135363

SM will lose its value once GR hits.
Gotta trade em off for things that will keep their value with the new set.

>>32135364


Maybe FA Sycamores?

>>32135381
I would probably get some SR Random Receivers if you don't have any. Their price will double after rotation unless there's a VS reprint in August's set.

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First deck I have enough cards to build

How did I do?

>>32135848

Didn't Random Recieve get printed in Fates Collide so it's gonna be awhile before rotation.

>>32135869
No more VS Seeker means RR becomes at least a one of in every deck, its max rarity version is way back in Plasma Storm.

>>32135865
Cut all the critters but the carp and the Gyardos who runs off the single DCE (and put two more of the latter in), add 2 Shaymin, 4 team magma base.

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How's this?

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

##Pokémon - 11

* 3 Rattata BCR 104
* 2 Raticate BCR 105
* 3 Froakie KSS 12
* 2 Frogadier XY 40
* 1 Greninja XY 41

##Trainer Cards - 35

* 2 Energy Retrieval PLB 80
* 3 Archie's Ace in the Hole PRC 157
* 4 Pokémon Fan Club FAC 107
* 2 Professor's Letter XY 123
* 2 Aspertia City Gym BCR 127
* 4 N DEX 96
* 3 Hard Charm XY 119
* 1 VS Seeker PHF 109
* 2 Rocky Helmet BCR 133
* 3 Dive Ball PRC 125
* 3 Level Ball NXD 89
* 3 Giant Cape DRX 114
* 3 Caitlin PLB 78

##Energy - 14

* 7 Water Energy Energy 3
* 4 Double Colorless Energy NXD 92
* 3 Splash Energy BKP 113

Total Cards - 60

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

>>32136146
>3, 2, 1
NEVER
It's 4-4-4-3.
If your deck is based around a stage two as an attacker it's 4-4-4 or 4-1-4 with rare candies.

>>32136171
Yes sir. Not sure what 4-4-4-3 means but I know what you mean by 3,2,1 And 4-x-4.

I just tested against the computer and realised that I forgot about the tool card rule. I also need more energies to discard.

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>>32136227
> Not sure what 4-4-4-3 means

>>32136237
Ohhh okay. Yeah, I still don't have enough trade value to get all the cards I need. I'm thinking I'm going to take greninja out and replace him with blastoise ex (I'll need a few of him, only have one atm) and putting in something like Dodrio for the retreat assist. Maybe some light stones.

>>32136285
You should consider manaphy ex, it's way better than dodrio in water decks

>>32136422
Thanks, I'll check that out.

>>32131897
Just on a quick glance I'd bet the reason you only hit the T1 60% of the time is due to clogging. You have far too many non-disposable cards. e.g. the Archies Blastoise that won worlds had 6 supporters and 2 stadia. You have 12 and 4. That is a shitload of cards that can get stuck in your hand and not allow you get that T1 Archie. An archie build is quite atypical in that you need to trim the supporter count to the bare essentials. Sacrifice that draw power all in the name of getting the Archie out.

You're also cutting it close on cards that will either cut your hand size down by being disposable themselves, or by putting other cards from hand to discard. Superior Energy Retrieval, Acro Bike, Trainers Mail, Random Receiver, Computer Search, even Maintenance. Lose half the support & Stadiums and replace with some of these.

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I asked on /g/ cause it's more of a technical question but 1. does any one know what it's looking for?
see pic
2. why is it that some apps on the play store "aren't compatible" with my phone but when I download the APK they work fine a lot of times? I had to do that with Pokemon Go originally on my tablet.
So now it's the TCG that I have to get the APK for, any idea why this is? I never understood why 1 can but the other can't.here as well

>you can't use the "test deck" feature with a deck you don't have all the cards for

New to tcg, I wanna make a metal deck. What are the must have cards for one to work besides shaymin?

>>32137368
You don't build around a type, you build around an attacker or two and its/their support squad.
The only good metal out is Solgaleo GX, goes well with Lurantis GX.

>>32137245
It's bullshit probably meant to support buying packs. If you could just test a deck and know which singles to get, would you ever bother with random packs?

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>>32137083
1)
I think you made some random link to the installer as mentioned by the "PokemonInstaller.msi" in the error message.
Try to reinstall. It should just install by default in C:\Users\Tarra\AppData\Roaming\Pokémon Trading Card Game Online\PokemonTradingCardGameOnline and give you a shortcut on your desktop.

Additionally, if you install successfully on some computer and just copy the entire folder over you can just play it from there.
Protip: type %appdata% into the address bar in the file explorer to quickly access the folder.
2)
It's cause the devs are shit and they want you only to be able to play on a tablet/whatever device they feel comfortable with. I had the same problem.

>>32134856
>That pic

>>>/mlp/