Ideally Truthful 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: >>57988192

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

First for shit mon

>>58018688
>6 DMG counters.
It's a shame the attack costs two energy. If it only cost one, then this Absol would actually be quite good. It'd be a very good sniper if so.

Set up your targets with double Monkeedori, then you drop Absol, attack energy, send to front, and gust them up for the kill. It would have been a pretty decent partner for Jellicent if it worked that way.

>more supportive garganacls
>still no Maxie’s to get it out quickly

We now have one that attaches fighting energy, one that heals 20 between turns, and now one that boosts damage.

>>58019186
>garganacl gotten 4 cards now
>baxcalibur still only has 1
fucking favortism

also they can shill fighting all they want but until they add acceleration outside attacks it's garbage

>>58019413

It has acceleration outside of attacks. The issue is the same for Garganacl as it is for Bax, it’s way too difficult to get them in play when compared to how easy it is to gust KO them.

>>58019432
>>58019413
Garg will be good in Mega Lucario.

Run 2, and now it one shots everything in the format.

>>58019455
>garg on an item card
fighting didnt need anymore amps, it needs energy acceleration. all the good attacks cost double fighting so crispin doesn't work or it's 3 costs

>>58019455
Blessed Salt Garg will be a good counter to Monkeedori decks.

Though Lucario himself gets wrecked by Gardevoir.

>>58019462
There's a Garg for that too.
Energizing Rock Salt.

>>58019186
>>58019413
Best friends. This thing can hit for ridiculous damage now.

>>58019473
>now
it always has. it just had problems setting up finding the energy for blaziken, and then it just ate shit to cornerstone. least reuiniclus works for that now

>>58019413
>baxcalibur still only has 1
Just let it go. What good would it do if he got an ex now?

>>58019502
I know...
I hoped he got an ex earlier so you can use it together with the rain dance bax, but that's rotating soon enough so the dream is dead

>>58019473
I wanted Mamoswine to be good so bad...
I think that any deck that needs Pidgeot ex to function is basically unplayable nowadays.

>over half of my Festival Lead deck arrived today
Holy crackers!
Also hello friends

Has a McDonald's Pokémon ever been good?

>>58020237
I think this is the first unique mcd promo in general if I remember right

>>58020308
Then have any of the McDonald's reprints been good? I have some of the old McD promos from the BW era but I didn't play back then

>collector shit

>>58020326
2019 collection, was used in dragapult vmax (mid 2020)

>>58020326
2023 collection, contender for best deck in the format because it is the only legal kirlia.

>>58020353
I was just curious if a competitively viable card had ever been obtainable from a happy meal
>>58020359
Ok cool

>>58020368
That's funny. Im going to buy 2 McDonald's Kirlias for my deck. I'm lovin' it

>>58020409
>I'm lovin' it
kek

Eat your hamburgers, Iono

>>58020421

>>58020487
What a fat fucking bitch. Is her appetite insatiable? Holy shit

Would he be good at Pokémon? Keep in mind he has the ability to basically top deck any card in his deck when he needs it.

>>58020535
>topdecks nemona

>>58020535
>Guaranteed 4 dusknoir on the bench turn 1 every game
He would make any inconsistent deck broken. And he can just tech enough cards to beat any control deck.

>Ability: Lunar Cycle
>Once during your turn, if you have Solrock in play, you may discard a Basic [F] Energy card from your hand in order to use this Ability. Draw 3 cards. You can't use more than 1 Lunar Cycle Ability each turn.

SURELY the solrock will accelerate a basic fighting energy from your discard to one of your pokemon if you have lunatone in play.... they're definitely going to give fighting acceleration right...

>>58019484
>ate shit to cornerstone
I've seen a few versions of Mamoswine that run Cynthia's Garchomp as an answer

Ethan's definitely feels much better with bangle now.

>>58021078
It's what I mean climbing the ladder with.

Is Brave Bangle a straight up replacement for Vitality Band in the Festival Lead deck or should I run both?

I love this game, anons. I play like 6 different decks now. I wish I could go back and play this game from the start and watch it evolve into what it's become. I was only a collector as a kid.

>>58021116
Most seem to run a mix of both, some use defiance still too
https://pokecabook.com/archives/122302

>>58021197
Looks like they've all abandoned the Hydrapple build too

>>58021193
>I play like 6 different decks now
which decks do you play brina anon?

>>58021259
>Alakazam EX
>Festival Lead
>Rocket's Mewtwo
>Zekrom/Miraidon
>Gardevoir/Jellicent
>Charizard/Pidgeot
I built Gardevoir and Charizard to learn how to beat them. Actually ended up really liking how Garde plays

>>58021279
meme deck
meme deck
meme deck
meme deck
actually good
meme deck

Miraidon will win worlds this time, zekrom will carry it

quite enjoy this meme deck

>>58021445
It's pretty competitive and will run you over if you whiff a turn. Still waiting on live to fix prism energy so I can play it there..

>>58021463
what's wrong with prism? Also why is Live always so glitchy? It seems better than when I first started playing but my game will still randomly lock up sometimes after certain actions.

I was able to get some boosters today for once. Hopefully your luck is better than mine

>>58021490
Its maintained by like 3 people and a bag of chips apparently. When I started playing a few months ago they'd let you play during maintenance which completely baffled me

>>58021499

>>58021506
God i hope i didn't fuck these up

>>58021510
I got this one. Thanks, anon

>>58021541
>Feraligatr
oh goody. you can make another shitty meme deck

>>58019984
Post list nerd.

>>58021116
I run both and it's fine, Vitality Band helps a lot when the opponent gets cute and promotes Munki to soak up a hit (perfect 110 when you have a full bench and Band attached)

>>58021193
yeah same here. Ive been trying out the gameboy games to experience some old formats that I missed out on because they looked fun.

>>58023638
She's so beautiful i wanna marry her.

>>58023707

That’s a he.

sirs, you know what to do

>>58025814
Wait for maintenance to end?

>>58026058
what that mean?

I'm just a regular sir, that wants a (you) from you fine sirs every other month and can only offer this simple code. Is it already redeemed?

>>58026121
The game is down for maintenance. I appreciate you dumping codes all the same.

>>58025814
eh, newsletter code

>>58025814
Thanks

>>58026759
I appreciate newsletter codes. They remind you to check whether you are still getting the newsletters or if it's time for a new account. (My second account's newsletters lasted from fusion strike to journey together)

>>58026759
do not dispresect me sir

>>58018618 (OP)
>These would sell millions

>>58018618 (OP)
>At league challenge
>Cast Iono
>Have a brainfart and draw 6 cards instead of 4
>Opp immediately calls judge
>Judge grants 2prize penalty
>He had exactly those 2 prize left
Was this a reasonable punishment? I feel like it was too much as I haven't made any decision at that point. I got very angry at myself because I was about to win but throwed the match from that dumb mistake. I could have won with no hand at all but the judged still granted the win.

>>58028016

seeing extra cards is a textbook 2 prize penalty

>>58028113
That seems kind of skewed towards catchup decks that want their opponent to go down in prizes, but I guess it's a lesson to learn anyway.

What are my options if I want to play a Steel deck? And Gholdengo doesn't count. That kind of seems like its own thing.

>>58028323
Hop, Steven, Archaludon

I fought a funny Kingambit deck the other day, single prize deck using relicanth and uxie

>>58028201

I don't know what you mean. All decks and players are punished equally for that kind of offense.

>>58028493
It is just an observation about how that punishment doesn't affect all decks the same way.

>>58021553
Didn’t gatr win a bunch of tournaments a while back?

>>58028608
That was only before anyone had figured out the meta.

>>58028591

But it does?

>Mega dragonite
Damn that set really will be mega gren then. Hopefully it's water, that desperately needs support. People talk about fighting being bad but water is worse now irida is gone

https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/07/mega-evolution-booster-pack-configuration-changed-includes-one-less-card

>50/50 chance if you get a code card OR energy card now
it's fucking over... live is dying

>>58029779
>Reduce the amount of crafting currency
>Reduce the amount of irl code cards
(You are here)
>Remove irl code cards completely
>Add micro transactions to live

>>58028323
genesect/metagross seems really promising now

>>58029779
>Last week, Pokemon TCG Live updated their in-game booster packs to now provide 10 cards instead of five. Thus, you'll now get double the cards.
huh
I was very dumb to not notice this lol

>>58029845
They nerfed the dupes amount by half, so this is a 33% nerf on credits despite gaining +5 more cards. The extra cards are commons/uncommon so you'll need to craft less of those anymore, but it means you're getting like no crafting credits per pack

I need to stop going so hard with draw/search cards. I won but I keep playing into Iono.
>>58029806
>>58028346
Thanks bros. Metagross is one of my favorite mons so maybe I'll do that.

just started playing again after a long time. doing the battle pass, i have been rewarded with packs and I can't seem to use the cards from it. i am pulling full/alt art reshiram and zekrom but they don't show up when i go to make a deck.

also, can i get a qrd on:
>is the current meta fun?
>how soon is the next set?
>when is(was?) the latest rotation?

>>58029801
It's pretty obvious this is the direction Live is headed with all the changes they've been making.

The moment they do that though, I quit.

>>58030310
When you edit the deck, make sure your filters are set to all cards, search for the card, click available and you should see all versions of the card.

Current meta is pretty new, set just came out, who knows.
Next set is the mega set in September.
Rotation should be next March/April.

I have a bunch of these from back when I was a collector. I can still use them in decks right? Because there's a "G" research that's legal right now, right?

>>58030398
Same. I like live because you get to play the fucking game instead of spending the entire time trying to uptrade in PTCGO

>>58030821
Likewise. But I think it's clear they're leaving money on the table making the game totally free. There's no way it'll be like this forever. If it becomes impossible to fully f2p Live, then I'm done. However, not letting us craft new Full Art Rares for 26 weeks is already an extremely bad sign. There's no reason for them to do this unless they intend to monetize it. Right now it feels like the frog in the boiling water. Temperature is slowly but surely increasing. Many changes seem innocent, until you consider monetization.

>>58030628

>>58030926
Yes

>>58030934
How far back does this rule go? BW?

>>58030938
I have no idea.

>>58030938

it goes back to base set

>>58030950
You can still use those old cards even if they aren't labeled as Item/supporter/tool as long as there's one that's currently legal?

>>58030938
To the beginning of time https://pokegym.net/current-standard-legal-card-list/

>>58030955
Correct.

>>58030895
Live barely has a playerbase as is, they never advertise it anywhere besides code cards and soon those are going. Trying to monopolize this with micro transactions is just going to kill the game

>>58031360
I never have problems finding games, they just need to directly push it more instead of only appealing to scalp niggers.

>>58028016
git gud fag