Rock Polish Edition

>I want to learn the game, where do I begin?
Download PTCGL at https://tcg.pokemon.com/en-us/tcgl
The game has a quick tutorial and a bunch of decent decks to get you started against other beginners or against the AI. Some of those decks are very close to meta too. You can also go to your local game store and see if people are playing Pokémon.

>I know how to play, how do I make my own deck?
You have a decent beginner's guide at https://www.justinbasil.com/guide
There's also the old /tcg/ guide at https://imgur.com/a/W4NkOu6
After that, look up meta decks and try to reverse engineer them to see how things work.

>Where to find meta decks?
For big irl events, go to https://limitlesstcg.com/decks
For online events, go to https://play.limitlesstcg.com/decks?game=PTCG
For japanese events, go to https://pokecabook.com/archives/1417

Previous thread: >>57940190

Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA

>>57961980
Then grab a ditto with the rotom then transform it into ogerpon.

dark patch rereprint when?

>>57962056
oh nonono typlosion sistyers watch out!

>>57962067

brother you must read

>>57962056
>Hydreigon
>Acceleration energy
>Crisis punch
Easy game

>>57962075
>All this effort and setup for 3 prizes
Hey man, there is this pokemon called dragapult that will blow your mind.

This guy got 22nd place in a 526 player tournament. Is Pichu really better than cleffa?

>>57962152
It’s better in the specific circumstance of playing a deck that wants to get out from under Item lock as quickly as possible, which non-Pult Zards obviously want to do because its only draw engine is a Stage 2.

What will happen with Raging when Sada's vitality rotate, will it be dead?

>>57962167
Afraid so.

>>57962167
Absolutely fucking dead unless they either reprint it or print a card that’s functionally the same.

>>57962167
Yes. Unless you wanna cope with crispin or iono bellibolt versions

>>57962171
>>57962175
>>57962277
surely they don't let the deck just die right????

>>57962283
Why wouldn't they? Decks dying means players have to buy new cards.

>>57962283
bro... like trainer pokemon. future, ancient and tera pokemon wont get anymore support..
it's the era of megas now

>>57962294
More like in 3 moths but yeah. At least Tera are competitive, trainers are in the gutter. Not even brave bangle could make any of them meta.

The guy that recommended the Amazon sleeves, thanks. Just ran a couple matches using them and they’re pretty good, gotta break them in to remove the sleek back. About to order another 1000


You guys have any recommendations for acquiring cheap deck boxes? Need to grab at least 10. Saw Amazon had 20 chinese ones for $20 but apparently they’re flimsy

when’s a good time to sell raging bolt like around october? I honestly doubt itll “die” once vitality rotates it still has Tera box and some utilities coming up

Why would an H card fizzle out? It’s not like it’s gholdengo

>>57962363
sometime after megas maybe? it and dengo are the 2 unlimited cap damage dealers who can ohko megas so they'll be hyped up. as long as you're not fussed about not enjoying it in that meta
funny that both bolt and dengo who are capable of deleting megas both rotate.. even chienpao does too. there's no other similar attackers to fill the gap yet

>>57962373
Bolt stays for another year. It’s the ancient trainer cards that are rotating. it’s gholdengo that’s rotating out despite acquiring new tools that boosted its usage rate up in these recent sets . When are the megas releasing this year? Might sell my dengo and zard decks by october

>>57962352
https://burgertokens.com/products/perfect-fit-deckboxes

I've heard good things about these. Was eyeballing the sleeved 80 size but I use oversleeves so I doubt they'd fit

weird no one is talking about gardevoir rotating out. whats going to replace it, i enjoy its playstyle. going to miss it like lugia

>>57962389
>whats going to replace it,
The next broken Gardevoir they print, lol

>>57962387
These look pretty neat thanks for the link, about to order a couple. unfortunately the only boxes that will work with double sleeves are the commander boxes. Had to order one when I had PC misty sleeves

>>57962380
lets be honest bolts dead without sada and earthen vessel. you may as well sell them off while they're worth something still
it bellibolt raging bolt ironically becomes a meta thing ill kneel

>>57962414
A lot of people on here shit on iono bolt, obviously compared to pure bolt it’s bad but iono deck isn’t shit whatsoever. I’m assuming people say it’s shit because they’re not seeing japs running it to copy off of

>>57962422
This level of delusion must not be healthy.

>>57962389
>going to miss it like lugia
fuck no im tired of it surviving every rotation despite losing important pieces. because ptci KEEPS giving it more and more support

>but they're supporting for when it leaves-
THEN WHERE WAS ALL THE GOOD SPECIAL ENERGY FOR WHEN LUGIA LEFT.
FUCK GARDEVOIR FAVORTISM

>>57962440
forgot the image of this absolutely retarded broken card
>stadium to draw 6 cards
????

>nobody plays this deck in Japan
>nobody plays this deck in Europe
>nobody plays this deck in the US
>“Clearly, that means it’s good.”

>>57962466
I know that you're talking about archaludon. in the omnipoke video?

>>57962522
Archaludon is seeing play right now sitting in tier 3
>>57962466
You’re delusional. Iono bolt will be the next big thing soon

Holy shit check this out, I just unpacked my second one of these daaaamn I aint even open that many packs

*

>>57962635
>>57962632
>playing pocket
>getting excited for gacha
lmao what the fuck

>>57962645
What's your fucking problem?

>>57962758
This is the thread for the actual game, your kin is not welcome here.

Bros????
I thought Bangle was going to make Apples and Ethan's good. What the fuck happened?

>>57962904
caquinha

>>57962900
Ethan's rank went up as well

>>57962912
Weird, I see a couple gholdengos among the top decks from the japanese championship yet not a single typhlosion, curious!

>Have perfect 2 card hand for game (1 pokemon and proton for the other 3 pokemon)
>Opponent Ionos me for 2 new cards
>Draw the perfect 2 card hand for game
All according to plan

>>57962389
gardevoir is basically played liked pult and grimmsnarl now so just pick either of those decks

Why is this thread so dead, anyway? Isn't this supposed to be one of the most popular card games? Does the pocket general hog all posters or what?

>>57964054
The popularity means nothing when the bulk of people who care about it just want to jerk off over shiny cardboards and grading numbers.

>>57964179
Oh no I know collectors are the majority but still the 5% of the fanbase that actually plays is massive.

>>57964191
Most people talk on other sites. 4chan has a reputation that means most people avoid it. TCG is relatively niche, Pokémon is just massive so PTCG ends up being big. This all means that among the anons interested in Pokémon, only those who are into *playing* the TCG and can be bothered to post in this thread will be contributing.

>not one flareon player runs umbreon
Why? They went out of their way to play leafeon but not umbreon? How do they deal with gardevoir and now jellicent both having huge hp?

>>57964453
>How do they deal with gardevoir and now jellicent both having huge hp?
Flareon can ohko Jellicent. Leafeon will also ohko Jellicent if the try to use the bonus damage (either 5 energy in play because of munkidori, or at least 3 damage on Jellicent from attaching 4 energy). Of course nothing is predictable when item lock shenanigans are involved.

>>57964453

because it's incredibly telegraphed and doesn't work most of the time

you drop a shit card and take the tough matchup

>>57964453
flareon lists dropped umbreon because even with the 2x weakness advantage it's still very mediocre in the garde match up. the current lists just play gravity mountain which you can grab with jewel seeker. umbreon coulbe be picked up again for jelli,but like another anon said 270 isn't a hard number for flareon box to reach

what the fuck happened last thread

>>57965185
Just a regular old schizo melty. Probably because pic rel got mentioned a couple of times.

>>57964809
sylveon shuffling all gardy energy back in the deck feels stronger than umbreon. you honestly brick their deck and they have no more discard synergy to get rid of it

>>57965185
Jankshitters drive competitive players away.

>>57964054
>one of the most popular card games
The designers are mentally retarded, so there is nothing to talk about. The meta is free energy acceleration, so you can attach to munkidori every turn. Decks without munki all have free draw engines. The best deck is their gardy pet deck that gets support every other set release.

Gargancl deez nuts

What is the most chudpilled deck?

>stick the Path to the Peak and pray was always considered a garbage strat
>Gust into Active and pray is considered a good strat
?????????????????

>bad joke
>incel post
>history revisionist

you guys are really on a roll here

>>57965329
Marnie deck

>>57961975 (OP)
How much would you pay for a shiny version of this card?

>>57965197
>>57965185
STAY MAD AND SEETHING COON

CYNTHIA'S FATE IS FERTILIZER LIKE ALL HER AMCESTORS AT AUSCHWITZ

STAY CRYING ON WLEFARE AND HUFFING JENKEM MOONCRICKET

kukuku, shaunberg, the cowardly kike, tried to sneak back in at an ungodly hour out of sheer cowardice. Unfortunately for him, his humongous nose can be seen from miles away.
Don't worry, I'm here now to ruin his orgasms and to remind the world that shaunberg is a filthy kike who tries to pretend the holohoax was real. His complete inability to admit the holohoax was a judaic fabrication used to sieze land that never belonged to Khazar larpers like themselves outs him as either a fed or a bona fide yidsraeli. And since shaunstein could never hold on to a real job and never will, that marks him as an actual kike who was kicked out of Nasser Yorat University and not New York as he tries to imply, and was rejected from the University of Tel-Aviv and not UTM.

>>57966238
Meds. Now.

>>57966238
MY NAME ISNT SHAUNBERG AND IM A WHITE AMERICAN CHRISTIAN

GO BACK TO POLAND PEDOPHOLE DIDDLER

GO BACK TO KHAZARIA KIKE

kukuku, kikes like shaunberg aren't """white""" no matter how much he tries to infiltrate and subvert the nations of his betters. In fact, since his fellow shartyniggers and shitcord troons try to pretend he's an American, that's the surest sign that only the opposite is true.
Remember that shaunberg, the kike from tel-aviv, tried to pretend he had an """iphone""" at first, then a substandard (((prebuilt))) """desktop""", then a Samsung, and now some IBM (compatible) shitbox. Like all his kind, he'll never be able to get his story straight. After all, he tried lying about being from (((Stern))) despite his IQ and SAT score being far too low for anything above a shithole like CAS. The fable his fellow shartyniggers try to spread about him being an American, therefore, is an outright fabrication from some yidsraeli who can barely speak English. He even has to wait until this hour to use some shitbox without permission, after supposedly """buying""" (stealing) some useless machine to post from. One can't help but notice how it's always the kike shills and their hired shitskins who support him, or his filthy jew family that buys shitphones for him and lets him reset their routers, or his fellow jews who let him beg them for freebies.
He'll never be able to deny this because shaunberg, as a yid, has no spelling errors when typing in his native language, yiddish. Meanwhile, whenever he tries to type in English, so many typos abound. This alone is enough to out shaunstein as a filthy jew, who was kicked out of Nasser Yorat University and not New York as he tries to imply, and was rejected from the University of Tel-Aviv and not UTM. As a member of a (((tribe))) with a professional victim complex, shaunberg's only available instinct when punched by a single pajeet was to curl up and beg for mercy, then play the victim later, rather than fight back like a real man would.

>>57966266
YOU STEAL AND PICKPOCKET GYPSY SIMP

GO BACK TO INDIA AND DROWN IN SEWAGE PUNJABI JEET

kukuku, the only thing stopping a dirty kike like shaunberg from picking pockets is how huge his nose is. It'd bump into anyone he tries to approach, so it'd tip them off instantly.
Remember that shaunberg, the kike from tel-aviv, tried to pretend he had an """iphone""" at first, then a substandard (((prebuilt))) """desktop""", then a Samsung, and now some IBM (compatible) shitbox. Like all his kind, he'll never be able to get his story straight. After all, he tried lying about being from (((Stern))) despite his IQ and SAT score being far too low for anything above a shithole like CAS. The fable his fellow shartyniggers try to spread about him being an American, therefore, is an outright fabrication from some yidsraeli who can barely speak English. He even has to wait until this hour to use some shitbox without permission, after supposedly """buying""" (stealing) some useless machine to post from. One can't help but notice how it's always the kike shills and their hired shitskins who support him, or his filthy jew family that buys shitphones for him and lets him reset their routers, or his fellow jews who let him beg them for freebies.
He'll never be able to deny this because shaunberg, as a yid, has no spelling errors when typing in his native language, yiddish. Meanwhile, whenever he tries to type in English, so many typos abound. This alone is enough to out shaunstein as a filthy jew, who was kicked out of Nasser Yorat University and not New York as he tries to imply, and was rejected from the University of Tel-Aviv and not UTM. As a member of a (((tribe))) with a professional victim complex, shaunberg's only available instinct when punched by a single pajeet was to curl up and beg for mercy, then play the victim later, rather than fight back like a real man would.

>>57966125
How new are you? Path and pray was always considered a desperation tactic.

Bros
I just found two shiny charizard tins for only 5 over retail in some tourist shop
Feeling so good

>>57966617
Should've bought singles with that money.
Wrong thread.

>>57966498

>play a specific card in your deck
>play it when it's most effective
>call playing it 'desperate' and 'garbage'

next time you'll tell me that attaching energy to your pokemon is a garbage desperation strat

>>57966810
Are you the kind of person to spam the angry emote when you try to gust trap the opponent and they just Research Switch anyway?

>>57966808
I made it back with the pulls :^}

>want to test a deck I created against meta decks
>everyone on Live is using meme decks too

> Cinderace - Fire - HP160
> Stage 2 - Evolves from Raboot

> Ability: Explosiveness
> If this Pokémon is in your hand when you are setting up to play, you may put it face down as your Active Pokémon.

> [C] Flare Turbo: Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Energy cards and attach them to your Benched Pokémon in any way you like. Then, shuffle your deck.

> Weakness: Water (x2)
> Resistance: None
> Retreat: 0

>>57967045
Amazing ability being better than Joltik but the setup requirement is tough. Really tough.

>>57967045
looks like a really cool card. I know some people will try to make it work just so they can use cinderace

Any way to make regular Armarouge work? The ability seems like it has potential

>>57967155
With all the Munkidoris flying around? No.

>>57966937
who?

>>57967045
it's probably worse than these
these usually force an iono while 3 energy is whatever. 50 damage is often irrelevant outside budew and sometimes a downside vs munkis
there's so much energy cheating and acceleration in the format anyway. all the top meta decks are decks able to cheat out energy. even joltik box has fallen off for zekrom now, joltik is too "honest" of a deck

>>57967045
Nice

>>57966889

I bet you’re calling your opponent desperate when they’re drawing a card for turn. I’m always so curious as to how sad the life must be of someone who projects emotion onto tcg plays. Like people who say their opponent ‘ragequit’ when they concede. It must be so miserable to feebly grasp at human emotions in a card game.

>>57967045
this will see play (if any) in quad decks like thorns or some cracked basic/stage 1 mega. Maybe mega aerodactyl will be playable so you can play fossils and will always start cinderace

>>57967575
They're gonna have to give some ways to cheat out fossils
>Budew and jellicent just prevent you ever getting them into play
Also they didn't even give trashalanche tirtouga a fossil regulation update. once the fossil in H block rotates you literally can't even use the tirtouga or carracosta from I block..
they just hate fossil pokemon for some fucking reason

>>57967475
Cope all you want, shitter, gust trapping is a cringe tactic.

>>57967045
Raging bolt is saved!!

>>57968351
Isn't Raging Boner one of the best decks right now? It gets into the final cut in almost every single regional.

>>57968357
yes but next rotation Sada's vitality rotates
it was mostly a joke too

I hope they hard reprint adp. Let it be not only the only gx, but only tag team in standard when they've been out of standard for over 3 years

>Roaring moon
>Chienpao
>Gholdengo
>Raging bolt (sada)
Who else is left in format able to ohko 360+ HP pokemon?

>>57968581
TM devo + triple munkidori

>>57968587
TM devo is gone too. There's no way to get around these giant megas..

>>57968581
Hydrapple with a bench full of ogerpons

>>57968581

gardevoir :)

>>57968581
Just field a Mega of your own

>>57968581
Mammoswine ex
Heatran

Otherwise just hit fro weakness. Box-type decks are all the rage, lately.

>>57968710
Mamo loses pidgeot and TM evo. Man stage2 decks are gonna suck ass in the next format trying to evolve... Considering budew is still around

>>57968779
>>57968596

why are you mentioning rotation when the original post literally mentions chien-pao, gholdengo, and roaring moon?

CHADRIZARD oneshots the only mega that matters (gardevoir)

>>57968831
Because ALL of those are gone anon. That's the point. All the methods to reach 360+ are gone. Your only option now is dusknoir combos who is easily countered by psyduck, and it still doesn't reach high enough even with attackers like dragapult.
360+ is a range unable to be one shot as it stands, with wally being revealed that's very much abusable. The metas going to become 3 prize only decks again..
Without dark weakness how are you dealing with a mega gardevoir hitting 350-400 per turn for 1 energy while it can fully heal up every turn

>>57968667
Mega Ray will one hit everything

think we'll get the primals?

>>57969090
Probably, considering mega lati is in when it's highly unlikely to be one of the returning megas. The TCG doesn't follow the game pokedex, we'll get a bunch of megas not in ZA
They can shill bundle them with another team magma vs aqua collector set

>>57968606
or with 6 energies in hand

>No abilities
>Abomasnow is pure water so fuck crispin
>Camerupt is an emboar slave
>Absol doing 200 for 3
holy these are gonna be filler arent they

>>57968606
>>57969126
based applebros

>>57969269
>No abilities
This means you can Salvatore them turn 1 or straight from hand to bench for a quick setup or comeback
>Abomasnow is pure water so fuck crispin
Bax is dead so I don't actually know how to salvage this, maybe if the Snover has some self-acceleration?
>Camerupt is an emboar slave
Could be good if the damage/effect is worth it
>Absol doing 200 for 3
Again, depends on the attack effect. It could be a stronger Phantom Dive to justify the 3 prizer.

>>57968997
Why are you worryng about something 9 months in advance? New shit is gonna be released until then so we don't know if we will be able to oneshot megas after rotation.

>>57969269
>holy these are gonna be filler arent they
When has it ever been different? The vast majority of Ex are utter filler so expect the same with megas.

>>57969269
>Absol being absolute dog shit ex AGAIN

>>57968581
Festival Lead Dipplin with Max Belt, Black Belt and hitting twice.

>>57970030
But then you are stuck playing fucking apples.

>>57970036
as god intended

>>57968876
>CHARIZAD was made Dark type just so it would be one of the few pokemon able to take down Gardevoir
you can't make this shit up.

>>57968876
>>57970339
Charizard? I dunno anyone by that name. You mean that washed up lizard who rotated in 2026?
Mega charizard X is likely to hit 400 tho, they've treated that one as a kill anything attacker

>>57970356
>Dragon type
You better low your tone when speaking GAWDevoir.

this card was fun back in the day

>>57969106
Mega Lati@s were coded in XY and the Chatelaines used Lati@s

>>57970965
Mega Camerupt wasn't among the original set of mega Pokemon in XY. I'm not sure what you are trying to prove with the Latis.

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND TELL ME IF WE'RE GETTING MEGA FLYGON ALREADY THIS TIME, THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW REEEEEE

>>57971106
Nothing, just replying to "highly unlikely" part. There's already multiple ORAS megas shown for Z-A so far anyway

>>57971145
> There's already multiple ORAS megas shown for Z-A so far anyway
The point was moreso that latias/rayquaza/groudon/kyogre were core tied to oras. Them returning wouldnt make much sense in kalos ZA. ZA isn't a core series game, it's like PLA, stuff will be cut we wont get everything like main series games do.
The TCG doesn't care about that and we have what seems to be a trademarked set "Storm Emeralda" for mega rayquaza already. If ray is getting a card then the primals almost certainly will as well, even if none of them are in ZA

10 points for a win in Live is way too little.

Question: Is there anything like Edison or Goat format for Pokemon TCG? Any old tournaments still run on a simulator?
Just curious cause it would be cool to watch really old metas

>>57971368
Not really, considering you don't even lose points until ultra ball. And even in there is only scales by 2 points per loss every tier

>>57971393
I mean once you're in Arceus League.

>>57971396
That's the point. 10 for wins 10 for loses. You'll only climb if you have a positive WR. There's no rewards in arceus so it's epeen flexing and what better way for that other than pure WR

>>57971464
>epeen flexing
Aren't many of the top players in the high 1600s 1700s? There's only a couple of exceptions like Alloutblitzle who does nothing but ELO grind, and Azul who playtests a lot.

would one million points for a win make you happy

>>57971523
I'm sorry, I didn't understand your post. Perhaps you could rewrite it using basic English grammar and capitalisation? Maybe you could ask your teacher in Bombay to teach it to you?

oh no he's retarded

Who are you even talking to?

I don't want to @ him because he seems mentally unstable

In other words, you haven't even learned how to use this site and how to reply to posts.
It's OK to admit it.

he's still coping, seething, and hopefully dilating

don't worry, I'm sure mommy will give you a bunch of big boy points to make up for the fact that you can't win a fucking game at arceus rank

Who asked?

i asked

I'm sending a ticket to tpci just for you buddy

1 trillion points per win for mommy's special boy

>>57971566
Who is "you buddy"? Who are you talking to?

>>57971119
the real question is are we getting yanmega2?

>>57971998
Today I learned superscript does not work here

What fighting type Pokémon are there for Mega Lucario to power up? I've been looking at Salvatore into Mega Lucarios T1 as some kind of hyper offense deck, but it's a lot of moving parts to get Salvatore and TEF Drilbur in hand on the first turn, and I don't actually know what would be worth powering up.

>>57972162
you can use it to power up lycanroc so it can hit for 500 damage t2

>>57972162
Here's how glimmora can still win

>>57972162
Likely best used as a quad lucario deck. Powering up other ones. Then turo/wally heal between turns

>>57972162

They clearly mean you to play it with hariyama

Why isn't the crystal used more with dragapult? I have a feeling being searchable with arven is a huge plus.

>>57974454
Well, for starters, because most lists aren’t running Arven in the first place to play around Item lock. Sparkling Crystal still requires 1 Energy; Neo Upper pays the full cost. Crystal loses to Jamming Tower, which many decks (including Pult) are on at least a copy of.

>>57974454
Current builds don't even run crispin to cheat energy, it's all manual attachments and playing slow with budew. Crystal benefits a lot from crispin allowing you to cheat ahead in attachments.
I still think no crispin, crystal or neo upper in dragapult is griefing, you get early ko'd you're just fucking dead. And there's no spare time to attach to munki or for retreating in that scenario

>>57974454
I used to feel the same way until I started running a modified version of some decks that did well in New Orleans. Crystal is great if you run Rare Candies and 0/1 Drakloak, but then you get fucked by Budew. If you go the slower, draw-heavy route with zero candies and 4 Drakloaks, you won’t need the crystal or Crispin since it’ll take multiple turns to get a Dragapult anyway, making a single turn setup unnecessary. Those pre-stage 2 turns are used for searching, pulling with Drakloak, and attaching energy as needed. Also, Jamming Tower is great to run yourself if you ever encounter a Cynthia deck or any team that uses Bravery Charm. Also also, Crispin doesn’t work with special energy, so you’d have to go Psychic (and maybe dark for monke) energy instead of Luminous.

>>57974462
Ah I see, makes sense really. Guess I'll have to run unfair stamp because neo upper is impossible to get around here lol

>>57974692
It’s $3 on tcgplayer.

>>57974700
Is it really?

>>57974850
Disable your filters.

what are some fun decks to build?

what do you guys listen to while dueling on TCG Live? in game music sucks. I'd rather these ones but it gets tiring after a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhNX2XJ5Jk&list=PL00nN9ot3iD8DbeEIvGNml5A9aAOkXaIt

>>57974850
I’m seeing 145 listings right now, 135 of which are near mint.

>>57975100
YouTube videos and podcasts

>>57975081
Do you want fun or good? Personally I find Rocket's Porygon really fun with how quickly you cycle through cards and dealing upwards of 300 damage with single prizers. The issue is that it's not very good, so if you want to consistently win then it's not a good choice.
Some people also find mill decks fun but it's all personal taste.

Is there ever a reason to use Shaymin over Rabsca? It just feels so consistently useless.

>>57975432
Rabsca covers more for the price of being a stage 1. You can Nest Ball Shaymin and it's good to go, Rabsca needs either another turn of setup or TM evo to start protecting, plus its basic stage has 50hp.
Also if you run two Shaymins and prize one you've got a spare, if you prize either Rellor or Rabsca you've got nothing.

>>57968581
Rabsca EX will be deleting fully set up Mega Venusaur. The Psychic attack rounds up exactly to 380 when Venusaur has 4 energy, lul.

Missed a case tournament today because the worthless fucking faggot nigger trains decided to skip my stop to make up for delays elsewhere. A FREE ENTRY case tournament.

uh, ok

What Ace Spec do you think Mega Venusaur decks will end up using? Hero's Cape is in theory very strong but Tool Scrapper and Jamming Tower limit its effectiveness. Is there a case to be made for Grand Tree to get Venusaur online as quickly as possible?

>>57975814
>psychic (attack)
>grass 'mon and cost
nice

>Do you have any Pokemon cards here?
>Sure! Take a look!
>*brings out Paradox Rift singles*
...okay

Is there a bug in Live where Buddy-Buddy Poffin doesn’t let you select the first mon? I just tried to get my Budew out and it straight up wouldn’t let me select it. It wouldn’t even highlight it when I hovered it. I had to use an Ultra Ball afterward.

>>57976403
yeah its a bug with all search cards I think. it'll pop up once in awhile

>>57975915
Heroes cape probably. Currently most JP decks dont run any tool removal, those that do is just 1 jamming tower. Obviously if hero cape/megas/new tools happen they'll start being run more
380 HP is already difficult for most decks to break, 480 is impossible without fire weakness.

>>57976861
fuck. At least I won thanks to that ultra ball. I’d be extra pissed if it cost me the game.

>>57976995
Yeah the clients kinda buggy sometimes you just can't delete cards or put energies on certain mons

>>57976977
>480 is impossible without fire weakness
my baby deity birb will incinerate them all

>>57976977
>480 is impossible without fire weakness
ENTER Raging Bolt

>>57977000
i still cant figure out what card he means by this

>>57977056

>>57977083
bwo... what is 160x2...

>>57977095
NTA but he's probably gonna be the only person on the planet using this with black belt I guess??

>>57977021
Bolt isn’t realistically getting the 6 Energy necessary to hit 480 in one turn because as soon as they start stockpiling on a Teal Mask you just Boss it up. They would need 3 Teal Mask 3 Grass in hand, Vitality with 2 Energy in Discard + 2 Ancient, and 1 more for the turn’s attach. This might seem feasibly possible, but M-Venusaur can straight up ignore Bolt to Gust up Teal Masks because Bolt’s never KOing without them.

>>57977219
the humble Iono's Bellibolt and Levincia and Superior Energy Retrieval would beg to differ

>>57977250
>Belli-Bolt
heh

>>57976977
>800 max damage built up in a single turn in your path

>>57977374
As far as I can tell, you can only guarantee 2 energy max from ciphermaniac + 1 from your hand, and penusaur isn’t weak to steel.

>>57977405
Of course it's a meme. You aren't going to get 16 energies from your metangs and swing for 800 damage. You are going to get 16 energies and attach 1 from hand for 850 damage.

>>57977473
>spoiler
I realized I overlooked that after posting thanks for the correction!

>>57977496
don’t pretend to be me

I'm retarded and forgot again, is this the general where I can drop my code cards?

>>57977698
yep

>>57977737
Thanks man
I finally find some Destined Rivals out in the wild for the first time and no hits on either one. Not even a single Porygon, which is all I want. I haven't been buying much of anything else lately, but I still saved the code cards for you guys. Hope you have better luck than I did

>>57977742
no thank you
I got a ho-oh from the left one

Zard is rotated
I sleep

>>57978577
Interesting that there's never been a solo female frillish card.

because girls are the ick

Why are you guys pretending mega venusaur will be played like at all?

>>57979210
Why wont it? 240 is a good number to hit

>>57979210
It’s very bulky and Ogerpon exists

New to the card game, what makes iono a bad deck compared to the top decks? Is it the attackers? So far all decks seem to function the same. all can suffer by opening with bad hands or using the same items such as pokeballs to get to what you want

I can still open badly with dragapult as I would with iono so idk

Oh and where do you guys go to see the decks being played now? All I see are gym battle decks with the link provided in op which isn’t what youtubers use to see tournament decks

>>57979359
Yeah it just doesn't have good iono pokemon to attack with. Your best attacker is using raging bolt but raging bolt has better partners instead (ogerpon+noctowl)

>>57979366
https://limitlesstcg.com/

>>57979375
Thanks I’ve used this but the youtubers use the pokeka link to view decks but it isn’t the gym battle ones it’s something else and I have no idea how to navigate the site
>>57979373
Is that it for these journey together decks or are we getting a part 2 with more cards?

>>57979401
>Is that it for these journey together decks or are we getting a part 2 with more cards?
That's it sadly. No more iono, or rocket, or marnie etc pokemon. Same with tera, future and ancient pokemon. They're moving onto mega pokemon now
Maybe there's synergy for bellibolt for lightning types having energy flooded on board later but who knows. but even as discard fodder spidops is just better

>>57979413
well that sucks. iono is the reason why I wanted to get into the game again since I love her card designs. why release them half assed to begin with? saw people complaining about steven deck being awful too which is absurd considering the trainer is strong in the game and show

>>57979421
>why release them half assed to begin with?
They're mostly collector sets, that's why they got so much support within the set because they're 1 time thing, even tho it's still not enough to compete vs decks that have had years of support.
>which is absurd considering the trainer is strong in the game and show
The TCG doesn't really follow the game power levels, which I think is a good thing. It means there's often times where bad game pokemon end up with strong meta cards. Budew is one of the best cards currently despite being completely forgotten everywhere else in the pokemon franchise

>>57979431
Thanks, that sucks. That means we’re not seeing more of ionos collection then.
I know what you mean I can appreciate that too. I like how obscure pokemon end up being strong in the card game such as fezendipiti being a staple for all decks or scream tail and drifloon seeing competitive play along with hydrapple.
Last time we saw something like this was in 2014 worlds with pachirisu

>>57979421
Eh, be happy Iono herself is one of the most powerful cards and run in pretty much all decks.

Why did they change color of the card borders? What was wrong with keeping it yellow? This silver looks cheap

>>57979827
japan has been using the gray borders for awhile so I assume the change was to make the card designs more uniform between regions

>>57979827
Silvers are cleaner
and also them focusing on collectors with every set having like 50 full arts, makes silvers look better. the yellow looks gaudy on full art cards

Black Bolt/White Flare
>Based on preliminary data, the English pull rates appear to be as follows:
>A double rare Pokemon ex in every 5 packs.
>A Poke Ball reverse holo in every 3 packs.
>A Master Ball reverse holo in every 15 packs.
>A full art ultra rare card in every 16 packs.
>An Illustration Rare in every 6 packs.
>A Special Illustration Rare in every 76 packs.

>A Special Illustration Rare in every 76 packs.
Wait, were they always that rare? That's even rarer than the gold secret rares used to be.

Every time I play Raging Bolt, thinking my opinion will finally change, I come away with the same exact thought: I just really do not like this fucking deck.

>>57980188
I love it too, Boltie(bestie + bolt)!

nom nom crayons!

>>57980200
How’s that deck? Is it unironically as bad as many claim it is?

>>57980250
bolt is the best deck ever
every variation of it is great

>>57980268
Don’t lie to people

>raging crayon
you must be 18+ to post here

>just realized that I have over $700 of store credit at my lgs from winnings over the years
>all their product is 2x msrp and they sell no singles

fug as a competitive player what the fuck do I even do

>>57980356
could trade it to someone for their singles if you're friendly with people there

>>57980356
Give it to me

>>57980356
>they sell no singles
How soulless.

>>57979827
Yellow looks like shit and I don't get why you would think it looked "expensive".

>>57980356
Get sealed product then trade it for singles and maybe get a couple play accessories like sleeves, deckboxes, playmat and so on depending on what you'll need to replace first. Otherwise just open the sealed product, might get a couple collector cards you can trade away and it's not like you were counting on those 700 anyways.

>>57980551
I hope you’re only pretending to be retarded

>>57980566
Not an argument. At least silver has a neat gradient to it, yellow borders were just a plain solid color lol.

The only reason for liking the yellow ones is nostalgia

>>57980623
TRUTH NUKE

>>57980623
I like the blue ones.

>>57980565
>>57980606
>have a favorite pair of tennis shoes
>they get replaced by a pair of crocs
>complain that the crocs look cheap
>some drooling retard in a diaper hops out of the bushes
>"Oh, so you think your tennis shoes look expensive then, huh????"
Unfortunately, I was wrong. You really are that stupid.

Shedinja - Psychic - HP60
Stage 1 - Evolves from Nincada

Ability: Fragile Shell
If this Pokémon is Knocked Out by damage from an attack from your opponent's Pokémon ex, your opponent can't take any Prize cards for it.

[P] Damage Beat: 20x damage. This attack does 20 damage for each damage counter on your opponent's Active Pokémon.

Weakness: Darkness (x2)
Resistance: Fighting (-30)
Retreat: 0

It's bad going into a format where you need to ohko 380hp pokemon. It doesn't even have good synergy with the ninjask.

Ninjask - Grass - HP80
Stage 1 - Evolves from Nincada

Ability: Cast-off Shell
When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may search your deck for Shedinja and put it onto your Bench. Shuffle your deck afterward.

[G][C] U-turn: 90 damage. Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.

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

>>57981274
okay but this could create the funniest fucking deck possible
build a deck explicitly designed around recycling cards, have this thing as the only pokemon, and just watch as certain matchups are left completely stalemated lmao

>>57981285
It is worse than every other wall card in the current format.

>>57981104
would've been cool for the rockets pokemon to have a black border
i hope we get an evil teams set with different borders like plasmas blue and team flare red again

Why isn’t neutralization zone seeing more play especially in japan? Seems like it would be perfect in Ethan typhlosion. Last time I saw it was in slowking decks

>>57982074
Lot of decks run stadiums atm, often 3-4. so it's hard to make zone stick.
Also ethans loves having other ace specs

>>57979827
yellow was fine for most cards but the full arts look like shit with it
the silver is a less saturated neutral color that works way better

>dab on a dragaqueen player where they did 1000+ damage and took no prizes
>they hack my game and wipe my account

it's over

>>57982126
>0:n0

>>57981187
>>have a favorite pair of yellow tennis shoes
>>they get replaced by the same shoes except gray
>>complain that the gray shoes look cheap
?????

>Tfw just found a lgs in my city where most people play off meta and fun decks at weekly league
MY PULT DEMANDS BLOOD
I have to drive for longer but the prizes are worth it.

>>57982347
dont do it anon, you'll make them play meta and ruin the comfy vibe
play something fun before a metafag comes along and ruins it, it's a rare chance

>>57982450
What if I find meta decks fun? Gardevoir probably has the most engaging gameplay you can find out there.

>>57982490
sure as hell aint engaging for your opponent sitting there 5m a turn while you play exodia

>>57982518
Well that's a design flaw within the game itself and it's not like jank decks can't have long turns either.

>>57982250
What you are describing right now is an opinion. Whether you agree or not is purely up to personal preference.
The reason I’m calling you retarded is because here >>57980551, you’re conflating “gray looks cheap” with “yellow looks expensive,” which is something even a toddler wouldn’t do.

>>57982569
Saying gray looks cheaper than yellow is the same as saying yellow looks more expensive than gray, are you perhaps autistic?

doesn't yellow look "cheaper" tho? it reminds me of plastic more than anything luxury

>>57982490
>No no, I just happen to find the top meta deck the most fun. It's a total coincidence that I also used to play Lugia VStar too.

>>57982771
Winning is fun :^)

>>57982347
I went to a new lgs here yesterday and it was pretty similar, I think I only saw one bolt and pult. I played hydrapple and everyone had a lot of fun.

>>57982490
>>57982518

Feels like people really have an outdated view of gardevoir in general. It was that way, back when your turn was fog crystal (shuffle) into refinement into level ball (shuffle) in refinement into fog crystal (shuffle) into refinement into shining arcana into ultra ball (shuffle) finally using a supporter into mysterious tail (shuffle) and then finally getting around to actually using psychic embrace. Nowadays you have one longer turn with secret box and then the game plays itself.

Any deck with Owls is legitimately slower because people cannot handle choices.

Me and the boys otw to your locals to spend 10 minutes on a turn

>>57982821
>Applefag
Hmmmm grayons :D

>>57982884
JUUUUUUUUUDGE

oh no he netdecks

>>57982959
Never understood the kind of retard who wholeheartedly thinks netdecking is le bad.

well I found a store too and re-met a guy who is no longer a guy

>>57982992
My condolences. There is nothing worse for a tcg community than a tranny forcing everyone to engange with his mental illness.

>>57983012
>well, shit, I have to behave now
me as soon as I found out

>>57983026
You better start looking at a backup lgs for when you inevitably get banned from that one after you misgender xir once.

Tried going to locals for the first time and accidentally went to the black part of the city so it was just minorities playing Yu-Gi-Oh and One Piece. I will try again tomorrow in a white area.

I just got the last few cards I needed for baby's first dech so hopefully i can try going to locals once my job that pays me money stops kicking my ass

>Got a 40 man Cup this Sunday
>Local meta is mix of Grimmsnarl, Bolt, Pult and Typhlosion
>The bad players are maining Typhlosion and the good are on Grimmsnarl and Bolt
What's the play, fellas? I'm bad at meta calls

on the pronoun talk when did they stop translating cards as "his or her deck/hand etc. it just says your pokemon/opponents pokemon or in the case it being a mirrored effect, each player.

Been away for a minute. Not sure if you anons remember me. But I finished building my Alakazam deck. Well now it's probably 2 sets behind. Either way I'm thinking about just going to my first locals with it as is. What's the best way to actually find a locals?

>>57982992
>a guy who is no longer a guy
He still is

>>57983212
Pult is good into all three, assuming you know how to pilot it.

>>57983286
>locals
check the official event finder page on pokemon dot com
>Not sure if you anons remember me.
Hey, cutie :)

>>57983309
>check the official event finder page on pokemon dot com
Thanks
>Hey, cutie :)
I like girls, bro

Some of my coworkers play pokemon casually and have random decks like Lycanroc and Joltik box with electivire, what deck can I build to match them and not suck out the fun, all I have is raging boner and Marnie

>>57983478
Go jerk off then come back and ask your question again.

>>57983483
nyo

>>57983281
I think during sun/moon the late series of XY still used his/her.
Although to be honest I can't be outraged about it because their is literally the same thing.

>>57983503
nyes

>>57983478
If you got the marnie prebuilt then just bring that.

>>57982991
>casual game night using devolution, meowscarada, mill, galvantula, one guy using his favorite non-meta mons
>bro stinks in with this sweaty drag deck

>>57983689
And then who won?

>>57984176
sex

>>57984176
>sky forme
Gross.

>guy bragging about using meta in a casual setting is a dbz posting latinx
kek Every time. It’s even funnier when they bring meta over and can’t even play it properly or even do basic things like shuffle

Why does every idiot resort to using nostalgia bait as an answer to everything old? Removing the yellow borders just removed what made pokemon unique from other card games. The silver border looks like shit especially on grass and fire types

I did not think about the borders before they changed and I have not thought about them since.

I like the rainbow borders. I was playing sv again and realized it's the colors they used for the compass loading icon.

Hi Azul!

My LCS is starting to host Pokemon TCG soon and I've been playing Marnies Grimmsnarl on live for awhile, do you think that's too meta? I haven't really made any of my own decks so far just played around with tweaking other ones

Thoughts?
Unfortunately even one Psychic or Luminous Energy hurts the consistency pretty bad so I don't think I can fit one in.

>>57985466

just bring more than one deck and read the room

>>57984732

>>57985490
>more than one deck
Going to cost me more than opening packs at this rate, what good casual decks are there or do you just make your own? I saw an applin deck that seemed pretty fun and gimmicky

>>57985561
>gimmicky
It's not gimmicky in the slightest. It's genuinely frightening to play against.

>>57985561
I would build my own if it's casual. Pick a pokemon you like and build around it. or you could pick a meta deck and deliberately make it bad.

>>57985482
I play sacred ash in my mewtwo TR deck and I've never needed more than one. you can take one of those out and add in a psychic or luminous energy instead

>>57985638
That's a fair point. For me though the second Sacred Ass is not so much about needing more then 1 but about finding it or prizing it if I don't play more than 1.

>>57985561

it's a gimmick, the applefags here are insane

>>57985567
>>57985788
Do you have any decklist examples for Applin?

>>57985848
They're honestly quite varied. Some of them run the Hydrapple engine, some run the Ogerpon engine, some run Arboliva ex, some run 1 Gust or 4 Gusts, some run with or without the Seaking engine.

I know the deck isn't good, but how would one beat joltik/iron hands with a yanmega deck?
Wait for mega venusaur?

>>57986149
Your only hope is Maractus trapping late game.

>>57986149
probably a triple gust game
>yanmenga a miraidon
>iron hands joltik
>yanmega/ursaluna finish up
lot easier if they don't use pikachu. else you could try fitting in a short line of crustle

>>57985518
I love this baby in GLC

>>57985848
NTA, here's mine:
https://pokemoncard.io/deck/apples-119945

>>57986639
Oh interesting, I was thinking of the Festival Lead apple deck but this one looks fun too, maybe I'll try both on Live and see which seems more fun

>>57986640
I never liked the festival one, but as soon as I saw that hydrapple I knew I wanted to build it. If you encounter decks that are basics only, just have the dipplin in active with nothing on bench for a fun time :)

>glc

kadabra is draw 2 when you evolve and alakazam is draw 3 when you evolve

alakazam does 20 per card in hand

mega alakazam will make or break their viability, I think

>>57987266
Nah, they would need to print a broken mega alakazam to make that trash evoline viable which I doubt they will.

Free decks are reshiram and zekrom as expected
https://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/pokemon-tcg-scarlet-violet-black-bolt-and-scarlet-violet-white-flare-battle-pass-deck-strategies

They don't reveal the rest of the SR/SIR on battlepass now unfortunately

>lgs is running a league cup on the 18th
>Already prepared a deck with old balloon and scrapper cards I had laying around
Fuck I just need to get genesect ex early that day so I can freely win with my dengo built.

>>57987596
Black bolt/White flare comes out on the 18th, but isn't legal until the first of August.
Nice try though

>>57987651
>but isn't legal until the first of August
Wait is that true? Fuck I thought it was allowed as soon as it released. Oh well I will go with the current build then.

>>57987657
When a new set is released, you have to wait two weeks until it's competitive ready to play

>>57987662
Anon should ask around his store. Mine allowed Rocket cards from the prerelease onwards.

>>57987678
If its a normal store tournament, yeah anything goes. But if it's a Challenge or Cup and they accept new set immediately, I'm filing a ticket

Just in time for dragapult to stop running the ghosts

>>57987690
>You got a loicense for those cards?

>>57987710
Eh I'd rather just get the psyduck for a couple cents. Buying boosters is a scam.

when's the fookin' drop?

>build yugioh deck
>Spend 20 minutes trying to find cards to fill the remaining 12 slots in a 40 card deck with 3 copies each. use deckthinning tools as much as possible to fill the gaps.
>build GLC deck
>keep running out of room in a 60 card highlander

What causes this phenomenon?

>>57987266
We've had the ability before, but it was alongside scoop up net. I don't remember which meme big hand attacker was used with golbat/crobat.

>>57987710
>vaguely competitive card with blister
nice, love when they do that

>glc

>>57974052
>single card oracle as its ability
>energy stacking attack
>energy cheating secondary non-ability effect
>non-ex
>released same set as archie, ignored for dark explorers empoleon from 3 years earlier
>never received a shiny/gold reprint
Swampert status: raped

>>57987736
>Psyducks held hostage by scalpers
least itll still be cheap

>>57974052
>>57987928
I prefer the REAL MVP

>>57988055
Budew is still one of the most powerful cards in this meta yet nobody dares selling it for over a dollar. I think psyduck will be fine. Honestly they could at least have the blister one have some sort of stamp so it feels more special than the regular ones.

>>57988080
Won't the blister Psyduck have the cosmos foil?

>>57988080
There is no normal psyduck it appears, it's got the black star promo icon so it's not even an alt print of a regular psyduck
>>57988142
>No normal version
>Only version is cosmos foil
>Wont match the rest of the deck
my autism

>>57986670
>>57987922
I want to play glc

New

>>57988192
>>57988192

>glc