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>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 Pokรฉmon.
>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
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>>58018618Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
hoping it's good one day, the damage is there but she can't do it alone
>'ZAM edition
did brina anon make this one?
>>58034871carries ho-oh gamegame
if stage2s ever get support emboar will work with it too, but there's no irida and budew/item lock runs the format
they should just make a supporter that functions like rare candy (not tree which needs the stage1)
Which one is the standard size for playmats?
>>58034584 (OP)What was the best Alakazam card to have seen competitive play?
>>58035215probably this, although I cannot speak for the e-reader era alakazams
damage swap alakazam was also okay but more of a meme than anything
what's the chances BWR/monochrome cards stay a thing? gold cards are kinda ugly
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>>58035191pokemon makes two sizes, the big one for most mats like from pokemon center and the shiny eevee collection. And a small one like in the charizard or arceus UPCs.
Small is ~22 1/4 x 11 1/2
Big is ~24 x 14
>>58035481Thanks m8. Very helpful.
>>58035512no thank you for more brina pics
btw, when are you gonna let yourself be groomed by the other guy
>>58035607I like girls, bro. I also haven't seen that dude since my return.
>>58035623cool don't let him scare you, just keep posting more of one of the most beautiful women of the franchise
>>58035215There's not been many akalazams period, since that guy copy righted the evolution line for YEARS. Even forgotten mons like golem have more than alakazam
>>58035716and then of course there's this fucker...
>>58035744almost worse, charcadets
>>58035916that does at least evolve into 2 different mons. lechonk is just 1 line and gets so many cards despite it. even applin which has 4 evolutions, only has 8 cards.. would have a lot more if vmax werent big basics ignoring prevos
>>58035646>one of the most beautiful womenTHE most beautiful woman. Get it right.
>>58035716Well now that the whole Kadabra thing is over maybe Alakazam will get a good card. Maybe he will even get a sweet Mega Alakazam card.
>>58034584 (OP)playing my alakazam and mind jacking it
I LOVE BUDEW
I LOVE ITEM LOCK
I LOVE ABILITY SPAM
I LOVE IONO
I LOVE NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME
WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS PLAY ANOTHER ROUND BRO GOOD GAME!
>>58036286It really isn't that bad after playing Yu-Gi-Oh for so many year. Switching to Pokรฉmon feels like taking off the weighted training clothes.
>>58036286skill issue
play a new game, chud
They seriously do need to print an ability that prevents item locking in hand tho. There's no counterplay
Did you anons have this? It was my first experience wirh playing the TCG. Anyone know if there's a way to play it? I kind of want to experience it again for the memories
I'm thinking you just need to git gud :)
>>58036353I remember that my computer didn't even support 16 bit color to run this for some reason, old pentium 2 crap
this was just kind of a demo anyways, the GBC game was much better and complete
>forgot counter gainer needs a prize difference and scooped on a win
oops
anyways my opponent needed a victory more than I did, he was piloting a black woman avatar
>>58036605>anyways my opponent needed a victory more than I didBike cuck
>>58036643I lose nothing from a loss but my opponent was one losing screen away from suicide by my reckoning
I would lose 100 battles if it meant a highrolling tranny suffered for even a day longer
>Ability: Wild Growth
>Each Basic [G] Energy attached to your Pokรฉmon provides [G][G] Energy. You can't apply more than 1 Wild Growth Ability at a time.
>[G][G][C][C] Solar Beam: 140 damage.
Does this work for Hydrapple or Ogerpon? They both boost damage for each energy attached to your/both active Pokรฉmon. So does this ability double that or do the attacks only count explicit attached energy because Meganium's ability says the energy 'provides' 2 grass?
>>58037322>Does this work for Hydrapple or OgerponWorks for both. They say "each energy" and not "each card" which is usually used for discard effects like raging bolt ex.
>>58037322>Fighting would've loved this>but no energy help for fighting>enjoy your shitty garganacl as a worse blazikenGrass is the type least needing this currently lol. Well now we know hydrapple will be one of the goats in mega format post rotation, it's the only surviving deck which can ohko megas
Water better be shilled to the moon with the greninja set
I've been waiting for exactly this kind of nonsense.
>>58038712pokemon know people are reatrded
I myself had to explain over about 10 matches to my new friends that play that when it only states the energy symbol (pre SV era) it's a basic energy no matter what the rest of the text says. It's great pokemon now specifies basic (symbol) energy but it causes these things
>>58038755I thought the "(before you attack)" part was the issue and I was going to say that that being an issue is stupid since a misinterpretation puts only the user at a disadvantage, but reading it over I see the energy thing you're talking about and suddenly the ruling seems a lot more reasonable.
>Run 2 iron hands
>Both prized 25% of the time
suuure
>>58036353i can dump the ISO for you, as i still have a physical copy. you'd need to run it on windows xp, which you can do with vmware. let me know if i should bother
>>58039306yeah it's due to retards not capable of reading a special energy card
>>58039503NTA but I'd appreciate it if you do
>its another enemy Iono into Boss's Order topdeck to win what was otherwise a lost game
Uninstalling until those two brainless cards are rotated out next year
>>58039759>clown into prime catchers you
>>58037602but raging bolt doesn't specific cards discard, just energy. so would this count as x2 for it?
>>58040050oh im retarded i missed the secondary line, yeah nevermind
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lmao kids today. both boss and hand disruption used to be an item. hell there was even hand disruption on a fucking pokemon.
>>58040359Why are you using stupid and gay sunmoon cards to make this point instead of the awesome weedle tornado
>>58040359I can see this one getting reprinted
Repel reprint for when boss, counter catcher, and iron bundle rotate.
>Discard the top two cards of your deck
It's no battle compressor. Almost no deck wants a blind discard.
>30 times attached water energy and pivot
A regular ex in the mega era.
>When your active Dark pokemon takes damage from opponent's attack, place 1 damage counter on the attacker
>Discard top card of opponent's deck
You'd rather use two munkidori to set up mega absol. Maybe the math matters for some kind of charizard-ex with underdepths deck.
>>58040488Every single water ex is just Chien Pao ex but bad. Literally every single one. Shivery Chill was what made Chien Pao ex (slightly) viable until Budew came around and was also the reason that running Baxcalibur with basically anything except it (and maybe Kingdra ex) was impossible and terrible
Retreat lock. I feel like this is a re-used yveltal art.
Your opponent chooses:
>each player draws 1 prize
>you draw 4 cards
>When you play basic pokemon from hand, put 2 damage counters on it (except dark pokemon)
>Search deck for basic fighting energy or basic fighting pokemon, put in hand
Helps grab a piece of the lunatone draw engine.
>During your next turn, all your metal pokemon take 30 less damage from attacks
Helps mawile survive a turn and makes metagross/duraludon tankier.
>Once per turn, switch a card from hand with top card of deck
Remember when this ability was on a basic with 120hp?
>If you have 6 prizes remaining, +200 damage
>heal 30
>If you have an additional 2 energy attached, 140 damage
I don't think venusaur needs more than Tapu Bulu's 220 damage very often
>Once per turn if this pokemon has grass energy attached, you may heal 30hp from one of your pokemon
Awful, it doesn't even move the damage to the opponent's side of the board.
>Basic immunity
>You may discard all energy, +130 damage
Hits for zekrom-ex numbers before giving up prizes, lacks the survivability of pikachu-ex, but is also another candidate for repeated wally usage.
Probably the third best mega behind gardevoir and venusaur.
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>20 damage spread and puts opponent's active to sleep
>Devolve one of your psychic pokemon. (It cannot evolve this turn)Another tool for garde if you think having no 2-prizers in play is better than your kirlia getting sniped.
>>58040569I didn't see that reprint yet. Any other legality refreshes in that mega starter pack?
>When this pokemon evolves from hand, look at top 4 cards of deck. Attach any basic energy you find in any way you like, shuffle other cards into deck.
Might be okay with the devo item but probably not.
>Call for family for 3 different types
>Cannot use this attack next turn
Bad because it isn't a colorless attack. Maybe it somehow sets up mega gardevoir's board.
>Once per turn, switch your active water pokemon with a benched water pokemon
Not bad for palafin-ex. 340hp, 250 damage, 2-prizer, and a minimal drawback.
Forest of giant plants reprint. Except it cannot be used turn 1 and no cross-type evolutions.
Now venusaur can use turo instead of wally.
>>58040615HydrappleGODS....have mercy.....
Please don't evolve hydrapple and meganium turn 2 hitting 400+ DMG...
>>58040615Does this allow you to evolve twice in a turn? Or do you need to rare candy to play a stage 2?
>>58041227Twice, you just can't do it turn 1. Turn 2 you can drop a bulbasaur on board and go ivysaur and venusaur the turn you played bulbasaur
To note evo skipping items like rare candy do not work with it. Bulbasaur would have needed to be in play a turn like normal. Since rare candy text clause overwrites the stadium
>>58040622Where did you find this? I don't see it in the new reveals and they don't match that set number
>>58040473I hate these kinds of cards, they don't let me tab out on live. I don't want to interact with the game during the opponents turn, I hated the escape rope spam before
>>58041427I get you point, but gust has been a staple since day 1 in many incarnations. Let's just be grateful you can't have 4 boss's as items. Although we do have one guzma as an item kek.
just started playing tcg live last week
new to the game
i made a team rocket's mewtwo ex deck it's fun
what's another fun deck i should try? i like big setup big payoff
>>58041447Boss/guzma are fine since the opponent picks which without your input. Escape rope/repel/bundle make YOU decide what to promote
Lost box was obnoxious as shit with the escape rope spam, you couldn't ever tab out vs them as the game would wait until you pick your new active every time they wanna switch comfey
>>58041466When you say big setup do you mean throwing down lots of cards quickly or setting up over several turns?
>fast and bigZekrom ex is pretty fun, a lot of sacrificial play and energy acceleration
Raging Bolt ex is made for doing big numbers, though it can struggle against single prize decks
Hydrapple ex can accelerate and draw cards really quickly and you hit for big numbers
>slow and bigEthan's Typhlosion can set up quickly, but the general play is to slow down your opponent so you can set your board up and swing for 280 every turn
Rocket's Porygon Z is bad but it's very funny to hit for 360+ with a single prizer by the end of the game
There are plenty more and aside from Raging Bolt and Typhlosion I've given you rogue decks. The current meta is mostly chip damage and slow games and there isn't much call for unga right now, sadly.
I am also far from an expert so take everything I've said with a pinch of salt.
>>58041277https://www.pokemon-card.com/card-search/index.php?keyword=&se_ta=®ulation_sidebar_form=XY&pg=&illust=&sm_and_keyword=true
>>58040567My boi is back, I used to love to play this fuck with Head Ringer back in the day.
mega venusaur haters got real quiet
>>58041580The Nest ball is still in G. Maybe the Quickball reprint?
>>58041580Oh mA is the set name
from the new trainer toolkit list. I guess JP doesn't use the normal set identifications for their toolkits
btw switch and energy switch there also is confirmed for I regulation too. when it otherwise wasn't
>>58041723Probably, maybe level ball-like item returns, make it 80 HP or less so it can't fetch stage1s like drakloak. We should see a lot of core/amazing trainers being printed in these early sets in prep for next rotation
>>58040579>>58040588>>58040591This ones definitely the intention on how to use mega gardy post rotation
In reality you're just gonna use terapagos/owls/trumpet or spidops
>>58040607We need far more water support than this. Mega abomasnow is so awful. Those who missed it
>100x damage. Discard the top 6 cards of your deck. This attack does 100 damage for each Basic [W] Energy card you discarded in this way.>200 damage. During your opponent's next turn, this Pokรฉmon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/07/mega-brave-and-mega-symphonia-all-126-main-set-cards-revealed
>>58041851>this Pokรฉmon takes 30 less damage from attacks why do they keep resisting 30 damage like we're not living in a 200 damage meta
>>58041851That's really cool. Get it? Because it's an ice type. What cards let you stack the top of your deck?
>>58041871fucks over mons who can only hit for 370
why can't they just print good cards, I wonder
are they trying to scale back power creep by printing nothing but bad cards until rotation?
>>58041871The new filler text "During your next turn, this Pokรฉmon can't attack.". At 350 hp it might matter. but those energy costs immediately kill it ever standing a chance. Water has no synergy currently yet people complain about fighting type
>>58041900Night academy or
>>58040533 the only other is ciphermaniac which stacks 2. None of these work with each other, so you can't stack more than 1-2 guaranteed
>>58040615Boss killed my rabsca huh?
>Drop rellor>Evolves back immediately Now what dragapult scrub?
>>58041934>blows you up with dusknoir
>>58041956Nice brick! shouts my psyduck from the bench
>>58041900kek I think I found your Twitter
>>58040481>play scoop>discards two supporterspokestop is back!
>>58040569another 3 years of ghetsis... hopefully we get more characters to choose from. I'm kinda bored of the current boss selection