Chaos And Emeralds Edition>I want to learn the game, where do I begin?Download PTCGL at https://tcg.pokemon.com/en-us/tcglThe 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/guideThere's also the old /tcg/ guide at https://imgur.com/a/W4NkOu6After 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/decksFor online events, go to https://play.limitlesstcg.com/decks?game=PTCGFor japanese events, go to https://pokecabook.com/archives/1417Previous thread: >>59555029Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
I really want to see someone pull off a Sylveon Box deck.
If dragapult was banned today what would change about the meta?
>>59595102F. Lead or Zam meta.
>>59595086This guy just posted a flygon/ sylveon deck where you attack with flygon which lets you switch sylveon into the active for your opps turn. https://youtu.be/XBoYHxEM9FA?is=ZQpIVc_biSqCL1Po
>>59594885>t. snorlax stall player
>>59595102it would be just as bad. but I'm biased because I love dragapult and zoroark, and zoroark probably completely dies out if pult is gone but decks like festival and zam are left
>>59595357Festival rotates with pult
Less than 24 hours until we see the BIGGEST update in the history of PTCGL, maybe the BIGGEST UPDATE EVER! It’s going to be tremendous. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. It’s going to be GREAT! Believe me.
>>59595619Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Is 20th coming with the update? I kinda wanna test the new Mew in Mega Lucario
>>59595619>Some cosmetics for the ugly avatars>Expanded full of bugs >Expanded dies in a week to regidrago>Absolutely nothing else >UI is still shit, cards still brick, game still crashes
>liveLMAO!
>>59595619I've hyped myself up for full expanded I'm scared it's not going to be that now
>>59596279sparkly
Taking a look at Expanded™ before any change>MutedI know I'm a bitch, no hair to pull though.
>>59596311I also mute, I don't want to see anyone's shitty avatars, mine included.
When are they adding the 30th anniversary set to live?
When's the update
>>59596681it's in my front pocket why don't you reach in and give it a squeeze
>HE THOUGHT THERE WAS EXPANDEDOHNONONONONONONOhttps://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/26006/letter-to-the-community-september-15-2026Enjoy an absolutely NOTHING update
>liveLMAO DOG SHIT!!!
>>59596755this fucking sucks lmao
>where you can relive both the glory and the meta game of the 2024 Pokémon World Championships.who is nostalgic for 2 years ago
>>59596755I love the standing up and looking down while playing on a short table irl. Thank you for adding my POV
>>59596780>Camera and layout changes improve the legibility of cardsBy making them half the size and impossible to read? Look at the size of the benched mons what the fuck are they talking about
>>59596775Can't wait to go back to my second least favorite format to date. I'm sure to love it even more with time. Maybe next year we can go to 2025 format and I can remake this post but remove the word 'second' from it. That'll be a fun callback.
got the dragapult holo energy first try this is a sign to play 100 more matches with dragapult
>>59596823Would look great if not for the ugly stamp in the corner. That ruined every card in 25th why did they bring it back>>59596775>>59596780They're so out of touch with the game it's not even funny at this point
Any new codes for Live?
>>59596836I think its just these so far
>>59596823>Owned: 23
>Can't even craft the new pikachuslol?
>>59596877The first 3 of these are expired btw
where do you get the multicolored sleeves that say train on in ptcgl?i cant find anything about it and i forgot to take a picture. they're new, right?i hope i didnt miss a code...
>>59597377if you're talking about these sleeves then they were login rewards
>one of the biggest updates>some UI and cosmetic changesWe don't hate PTCGL team enough.
>>59597586Fuuuuck ok yeah thanks that's the one
>he thought expanded was coming this update>yes, yes I did. I hope every single person on the PTCGL team gets laid off and replaced with people who actually plays the game and knows what's best for PTCGL.
>literally can't play my fucking deck because metal maker desyncs with my opponent every other game guess I'll just raw dog this deck irl
>"BIGGEST UPDATE EVER">All it added was rewards for completing a master set for each setImagine thinking we were getting expanded or tournaments haha..
I've been staring at the set list for hours and the only good new card is Mew ex and it still is not a Dragapult counter.
>>59597855The Unown is funny
>>59597855Mew lets mega decks attack with a 2 prizer instead of 3 prizer. Being psychic for dragapult/fighting is just a bonusYveltal, gengar, greninja have potential
if maushold mill is a real deck I will forgive TPCI for not giving us delta reign first
>{\"chance\": 0.0001, \"locId\": \"tcg_rarity_rgb\", \"assetId\": \"tcg_rarity_rgb\", \"dropTableID\": \"cdt-me5-5m-rgbrare_0.0\", \"rarityCode\": \"RGB\"}RGB mew has a 1 in 10,000 drop rate on ptcgl which is a bit extreme. Dupes are worth 8000 so the crafting cost is probably at least 50k.
>>59597995>{\"soft\": 0, \"hard\": 0, \"trade\": 1000000}Are you ready to pay 3 million credits just to complete the master set of 30th anniversary on live?
>>59597995Pretty good flex if you get one since it's a meta card too
Ok mega slowbro is based
>>59597982This one looks like a good base I would take out the two fans and put in petrels then take out the stick and put in a unfair stamp
>>59598110>>59597982It really does need retry badge huh..
>>59598160Megas really do need a tool to remove weakness. They suck so much as is and get blown up to 2x too easily
>>59598160So is anything weak to Psychic just unplayable now?
>>59598226When were they ever? Psychic is always meta
>Now we got missions too! Aren't you happy? Ok where's the catch this time?
I'm still playing Mega Lucario
>>59598263Dhelmise, smack him
I literally expected this update to give us full expanded format. I hate PTCGL, I HATE EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS GAME. Product owners, developers, UI designers, every single one of them must perish in hell. None of them actually plays this game. How the fuck can this game REGRESS EACH UPDATE? How the fuck are cosmetics, some shitty background music and sounds, and UI changes far more important than giving us a functional game with minimal bugs and cards that were originally playable in PTCGO to mimic IRL?
Thoughts?
>>59598500meme
>>59598500Boss meganium
>>59598500Boss the Ogerpon you have to Energy Switch from.
>>59598500Munkidori frosslass 150 damage and boss meganium and then queue into a real deck
Has the 30th Anniversary Greninja finally managed to make Mega Greninja a good deck>30th anni gren in active, mega gren with air balloon on bench>surfing beach to swap them>mega gren pings 60 onto the bench>retreat back to 30th anni gren>bench snipe for 180>repeat
>>59599064No. You need 2 stage2s plus switching plus spare energy all for that. It's still as clunky as before
If the deck is not attack or supporter + attack, then the deck is not good. End of story.
>>59599064You're still so reliant on Neo Upper to get M-Greninja attacking efficiently
>>59598124maybe a split of both badge and counter gain because the deck is a bit slow to set up and you won't need to run anything other than mist. I thought about keeping the balloons and replacing budew with tatsu as another way to set up, but it might be better if I'm playing petrels and secret box and mostly going second anyways
>prized 2 Mega Lucarios out of 3>close the game and go do literally anything elseI just do not have time for this in my life anymore
>>59599064No but it pairs really well with DusknoirI think it might be a little better though, 60 + 180 is already more damage then Mega Greninja
>>59599064Just play dragapult, has more damage and less clunky
>>59599444Tards will still defend prize cardsYour strategy? Sorry prizedYour tech cards? Sorry prizedYour opponent's tech card designed solely for countering your deck? Nah that wasn't prized
you won't ever lose to bad prizing if you don't prize check in the first place. simply stop acknowledging that the card's presence is missing from your deck and you'll stop losing games because of them.
found this in my room, apparently its rare?? https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pokemon-promo/pikachu-1st-edition-error-1had it since 2005 and had no idea i thought it was like a 3$ card lol
>>59600434pic of back
I won a league challenge today. Only 185 more points to go for ace trainer :)
>>59600434>>59600435Wrong thread. >>59598900
>>59600050This is the way
>>59600050back when I was running a 3-2 line of my mega I prized both of them. started running 3.
Why are all the Japanese crustle decks running cornerstone? Surely the win vs flead isn’t worth adding the possibility of a bad starter since you can win pretty easily with kang and fan + healing. What else are you using it on?
>>59601710maybe its for mega ray since they play the 4 of the stadium that shuts off evo abilities. crustle can't reliably knock off their stadiums so maybe the cornerstone is their only wincon. but I'm just guessing
>>59602035This could be kind of cool in some psychic decks like alakazam or slowking, but I don't think the former has space for it and the latter would just kyurem you for 3 prizes anways so this might just be useful more later like most cards they release are. The more annoying thing is that psychic gets so many more tools than other types for some reason and I hate it
>>59602180Costing 2 Psychic is the real problem IMO because even with Wonderous Patch you still have to go through the set up of getting your opponent low and then taking the KO with Unown
>>59602204Yeah, it's cool in theory to take sneaky additional prizes on things like budew both early and late or weakened pokemon but energy in both of those decks are kind of too high value to be frivolously spent in this way considering neither deck probably benefits enough to do it.
>>59602180Psychic gets everything, it's always meta. Half of the worlds winning decks are psychic
Get the fug out
>>59602299LET'S FUCKING GO LUCARIO
>>59602299>Moments before the great lucario cuckening of 2026
>>59602299Is stevens metagross not good? With mew it seems pretty cool now. You can throw your skarmory snipes up with a 2 prizer instead. Unown lets you farm budews
you guys want some codes?
>>59603445At that point why not just attack with the metagross instead of leaving free 2 prizes in the active? Boss->suppmon is a common strat and you are saving them the boss.
>>59603464Stevens metagross is different to normal metang evolution line. Metagross itself only does 200 but it lets you flex in psychic attackers compare to metal maker metang
>>59603460yes plz
>>59603633for you
>>59603656based thx anon
>>59603693someone took them all before I could scan, thanks anyway.
>>59603445the ability is decent but the deck feels very jank. also trolley decks are a bit weaker in tournaments because if your opponent plays budew and they know you play it they're going to choose second and scam you
>al the anniversary card prices are going down FAST>all the ones I wanted are below 20dlls and going down>they printed a lot of themholy shit do we have an idea of how are the scalpers taking this? This set might end being perfect order tier by next week
>>59603778I'm so glad the couple playable cards are already cheap, was worried that mew would get gouged to death.On another note, fuck scalperniggers lol they get what they fucking deserve.
>>59603778>>59603805great news all around
I think this seller is lying to me.
>>5960380525th anni playable cards were dirt cheap too it's never been a problem. Only time it's a problem is if the set is so god awful for collectors they don't want to open it like shrouded fable, otherwise there's tons of low rarity fodder
>>59603778Not well, and it’s fucking hilarious.https://x.com/camolNFT/status/2100944933376946179
>>59604526Fake btw
>>59604526>NFT in the name>immediately plugs his crypto e-trading shitAs much as it would be funny if this were real, this is just a grift
Was it just me or was the season longer than normal? Felt like it's just dragging
>Player chat>They both talk like absolute faggotsLol lmao
>>59603778please let pokemon kill scalpers
Anything cool being played today or just dragapult?
>>59604778Well yeah they said they extended it because the new set drops in the middle of the month
>>59603482Where is that list from? Looks fun
>>59606493>>59603482I kinda wanna try this but brainlet question I don't get why rocket's mewtwo is here
>>59606531I'd assume it's for Mew to copy. Easy 280 damage if you discard energy from the bench.
>>59606531>>59606704The Mew can use the attack because it ain't got the ability that restricts Mewtwo itself from doing it
>>59606493LDF did a video for that one in particular but it's always been a dead anyway. Mew just helped it a ton now >>59606531Beatstick attacker for 280 yeah, you ignore mewtwos ability downside.
>>59606745>>59606711>>59606704I see, I was fiddling with it just now and i swapped mewtwo and something else for some switches [2 out of 3 matches i did my latias was prized] but maybe dropping empoleon would be betterThe damage reduction is alright but you can kinda also get that with genesect. I almost got memed by a cornerstone before i realized thats what fez and mega skarm are forI feel like it could use some spread but that might just be low elo problems, that anniversary igglybuff is kinda funny
>>59606806Empoleon makes the alakazam match up a 100% free win which is why it's in there. It's immune to the damage counters
>>59606962unless it's ZamNoir which can kill the Piplups on bench
>>59606965Well yeah, same with bossing it up. Recovering a piplup vs dusknoir needs another dusknoir or boss. Anyway it's a super free match up if you don't happen to prize them
Honestly I didn't expect to be mostly Dragapult right from Togepi rank. Do you go through this everytime? Just chatting
I think i'm too stupid for this metagross/mew deck. feels weird having like 20 basics and still getting mulligans like fuck>>59607464Climbing the ladder is usually people netdecking whatever they find on a "pokemon tcg best deck" google search, whatever freebie deck the battlepass gives you, or whatever gets dailies done [sometimes 2 and 3 are the same thing]
way too many people misuse clefairy. they pick the worst times to bench it and just give me an easy +2 prizes
Are they not streaming TCG?
I’m still in master rank did it not reset yet? I like picking a deck and taking it all the way to master.
>>59604526Im sad this is fake but Ive seen some stuff in socials that align with it (scalpers getting fucked).Im not from USA and I really hope such high supply reaches us too.
>>59607976There's some bug with rank resets, apparently if you login on your phone it should fix it
I will be purchasing stacks of the 30th energy with the ugly stamp for 15 cents a pop. they look too good to care about the stamp
I wanna say thank you to the posters ITT for helping me figure out what to do with the BOOster packs. My cousin needs something that requires brainpower.
>>59608251Hey cousin want to go bowling?
Kira is cute
>>59595065Are you enjoying the Baltimore regional championship so far?
>>59608382I don't watch until top cut. The people who didn't make it don't matter to me.
MY FUARKING HEROINE
this game is embarrassing
>>59608492Holy shit, DO NOT drop coins near that thing. Or maybe do, as a distraction to run away swiftly.
Who is supposed to be the underdog in this situation?
>>59608537Doesn't Cali just autowin?
indian niggas named potti
>>59608539I'm not watching the stream, but pult can always win through hammers/stamp/red card/watchtower to prevent the clefairy chain.
>>59608541It says right there he is from the US
>>59608537I guess I'm rooting for the chubby male, not the skinny one.
>>59608557that thing is not american>dragapult vs anti dragapultnext format please
>>59608539There is not one deck that's an auto-win vs. Pult, not even the decks designed specifically to beat Pult.
>>59608637that new orleans deck aka the slop trough as I call it, was extremely good at beating pult but that shit died free to basically any other deck
>"Kongaskhan"
>>59608492>His slopbox and optimism: gone
>>59608687and penis and dignity and testosterone
>>59608539Appearently not.
>>59608539
Get the tranny off the screen already. The whole stream has been the "Here, look at this troon" show
In what society is this acceptable?
sometimes all you can do is laugh.
>>596091603 of 3 or 3 of 4? you really only need 1
>>59609155Ask them >>59607795 if they know.
>coin flip metajoke format
>>59609241there were 12.5% odds that he won that game
>>59609285I guess that's okay then. I didn't realize how much luck was involved.
I am brain fucked. I am looking for the best way to screw over the new baby deck without jobbing to other decks. I am thinking of just screwing them in the ass with Arboliva and using modern ways to tech against pult so I don't get destroyed by pult.
>>59609670That's not even a real deck retard. Just play munkidori.
>>59609688So you're telling me I have to play slop for the next 6 months?
>>59609693Yes, then add whichever 30 damage spread attacker you want. Ting lu is the cheapest.
>>59609715Oooof. That is going to work for me dog.
9-4-1 at baltimore :)
>>59609777congrats on the run and the trips, how did you feel going into the tourney?
>>59609670Just play grimmsnarl lol, although I like arboliva so I would rec it too but as the other guy said this shit is not real. Even the expanded version is just a gimmick that loses to good decks
>>59609670>I am looking for the best way to screw over the new baby deck without jobbing to other deckswhen the anons needed him most, he vanished
genuinely might quit PTCGL, the ladder bug is one of the last straws
>>59609930I had to do a reinstall on a different device in order for mine to reset. it's incredibly dumb
>>59609930>>59609933I finally fixed mine by clearing the cache/storage on android.
>>59609160>Just run 4 copiesbut when 3 are prizes how do you get your 2nd mon out?>>59609930isn't it as simple as just reinstalling
>>59609949I don't know why I even bothered resetting my rank>queue up pult>game 1: give opponent 4 mulligans with 11 basics against owls terabox. Lose>game 2: crustle. No crustle counters>game 3: receive 3 mulligans against pult noir. Bench wiped on turn 3 because they have pult+neo upper+2 dusknoirs (3rd dusclops on turn 2 to ko my budew) under item lock
