Spin Around The Rosid 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: >>56762587Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
I hope she still is
>>56797020wrong threadbut also I'm surprised people who decided to get eeveelutions haven't given up
>>56796889Always, even when she's late.
>>56797082based>>56797020join us here >>56790417
>>56797333Who's willing to bet leafeon ex wont hit 170 on it's normal grass attack? It will only hit that or above with the stellar 3 rainbow attackAfterall, we can't have a good attacker into ZARDOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>56797994We can always have a card that can do that but is otherwise shit
>>56798082Difference is as an eeveelution it would fit perfectly in the eevee deck. A random stage 1 grass shitmon wont get the benefits an eevee deck does (ie not being useless outside zard match ups and easy acceleration with flareon and trumpet)
>just got into the TCG a few weeks ago>bought 3 decks from TCG>most of the cards weren't here last week, figured they would be here this week>MOST of the cards are here this week but still missing 2-3 cards from every deckGOD DAMN IT, I was hoping to go play paper today but I guess not. maybe if they show up by the end of the week I can drive to a shop a bit further and play there.
>>56798696>
>>56798707legends say that when he reaches the 1000th time posting that, people will start caring
>>56798696Go outside
>>56798696damn you posted a baby now the thread is fixed
>>56798720He's gonna lurk in the thread and complain about everything regardless
>>56798696ok retard, we'll keep doing it
what do you do with this thing on your bed
>>56800885punt
POCKET IS OUTI REPEATPOCKET IS OUT
>>56801619not on my machine
Sucks to suck then, lmao
lol
>liveLMAO!
>>56801619Who cares
>>56801895meant to reply to >>56801856
>>56801619>Have to level up three times before I'm even allowed to touch the battle menu>Have to play 6 stages of a tutorial before playing a matchthis js lame
cry
>>56801841>>56802034The state of Miraidonfags
bros how do I stop being a blingfagmy charizard deck is worth over $600 and it feels like a problem
>>56802354>worth over $600Your deck is only worth what someone is willing to pay. There are opportunities to be had though playing expensive decks at local events.
>>56802354please tell me you're at least double-sleeving>how do I stop being a fagthere's nothing to be done
Is there a way I can play this game for free?I've debated getting into the TCG, but want to try it out first before throwing money at it.
>>56802447IRL? Sadly no you're gonna have to pay upOnline client is totally free, and very f2p friendly. You get so much stuff for free you don't need to buy codes at all
>>56802447The game client, pokemon trading card game live, is 100% free. It's on PC and Mobile, there's not even an ingame shop to spend money at.
>>56802484what do you mean? pocket has a shop
>>56802540live =/= pocket
>>56800885Show it my hand.
>>56802447go to walmart or target and crack open a prebuilt battle deck in a deserted isle if you're a poorfag
So what now? Are you guys gonna play both PTCGL and Pocket? I don't wanna have to do double the daily chores.
>>56803380Pocket sucks so no.
>>56803380Ill mainly stick to live since Ive been playing irl
>the fuck you looking punk
So this thread is for Pocket discussion or should a separate thread be made?
>>56804659depends on how booty blasted the live/irl people are about Pocket
>>56804659There's already a thread for it, and I assume it's gonna stay alive for quite some time >>56795677
>>56804722>threads pussy's hurtlmao, ok. later fags
what does that even mean
Zoroark VStar seems to be super good with Area Zero. You can just fill your whole bench again with Gengar even if the stadium's discarded
No thread for tcgp bros?
thoughts on perserker v as a stall answer in gholdengo?ability punishing scizor being exactly 140 hurts pretty bad, makes metal lab necessary as part of his setup, which itself would likely just get played over
>>56804666I personally don't care but the games and cards are so different that I think the discussions will naturally form separate communities anyways.
Is there any fucking point in cracking packs?I keep getting pack opening videos on my feed, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, everywhere it's like a plague. But anyway, in a lot of these videos (like 95% of them) they NEVER pull a profit. Even old packs, I see these guys spend upwards of $300 on a single pack and not pull jack shit. New ones are bad too, they'll spend 5-10 bucks on a pack (currency per country changes) and go ballistic when they pull a $1.20 card like you didn't get shit, tf you yelling about?I just genuinely don't understand it, I've never seen a tcg with such bad pull rates besides Flesh and Blood
>>56805903>>56795677 though it'll need a new thread soon>>56806515Yes, 'investing' in the TCG is not a good ideaThe sooner people find that out the better
>>56806131Good luck with Mimikyu
>>56806528I think the only good "investing" technique is to buy packs/boxes and never open them. But of course, buying TCG stuff with the intention of making a profit in the future is insanely stupid. There's no telling what future generations will think of our little cardboard beanie babies.
>>56806554thats what scizor is for
>>56806515>>56806557I'm so fucking butthurt. I bought a booster bundle for Shrouded Fable and about 90% of the cards were duplicates, considering previously I'd only opened 3 boosters from the Pecharunt promo triple pack.Honestly I wish I'd got more packs when I was younger, the ex series had some really cool cards but I was a kid when they were out so I had very limited money.
>>56806730When I was a kid I got packs all the time because they were cheap where I lived. Delta Species, EX series, all that jazz. Estimated value of those cards today would be in the thousands and yes I still have them. Worst fucking case scenario; turns out most, if not all, of them were fake. The ones I remembered and estimated having a high value; fake. Holo rare cards; peeling and fake. Gold star cards; unbelievably fake. No wonder they were so cheap...
>>56806774That hurts man. Luckily mine all appear be real, but then I was that autist in the school playground upsetting other kids by telling them that their cards were fake (big fucking surprise I was right and it was so goddamn obvious).I know it's probably never going to happen but I really wish Deltas would come back. They were such a fun concept and even though Teras use the different type gimmick they function differently with weaknesses and the energy they need. Plus bringing back dual typing would be fun. It doesn't seem likely though with ZA coming out soon, unless we get like two sets in mid 2025 but that's just copium.
>>56802618its not a poorfag thing, it's just not getting too into another TCG when I'm already a big digimon-fag.I've heard pokemon can be pretty budget friendly. it's more just I don't know where to start with it.
>reach lugia tier>get enough bricks to make an apprentice tradie sweat>derank to ho-oh>get practically custom hands and mostly easy wins>repeat steps 1 through 4I am genuinely convinced that blubbery lardass bird is cursed, manages to procure the worst hands known to man no matter what deck I'm on when I reach it, all the while necrozma gets a laugh at how much I ping pong between the twin tower birds >>56808004one option is to wait for the charizard pidgeot structure deck to drop in a couple weeks, majority of it is gonna be good to have on handotherwise most cards are practically pennies in value if you've got a deck in mind to build, wouldn't be too costly to just order singles for most of them. cards being minimum of double digit value aren't too frequent, and even then they're often gonna see consistent use anyway and make up for the price point with how versatile they arenot sure how pricey digimon gets, but coming from yugioh its been refreshing how cheap it is to build any kind of deck
>>56808113Digimon's largely been pretty budget friendly, but Bandai's been short-printing sets in a rush to get to global release windows, and some sets have had wonky ratios, so cards have been getting a bit more expensive.I'll mess around on TCG Live and see how it feels. One thing I do like in Pokemon is that it at least seems easy enough to throw a decent deck together. I'll say as well that Pokemon has some gorgeous alternate arts from what I've seen so far.
>>56808185most of the starting decks are at bare minimum good so you can't go too wrong with your initial choice. just remember to swap off the arcanine deck after the tutorials that deck is trash
>pocket is a typical mobile game with ladders and timers and shopssad! I just spent 15 minutes in tutorials and clicking on random ladder notifications
>>56808352It's another money grubbing micro transaction app... Idk who wants that desu
>>56808394Normies that just like looking at shiny cards whenever they open a pack
>>56808455>Playing real games is for autists>Spending money on shiny digital ones is for normiesThe state of this world
try pocket and yeah it's a baby mode for normie
you open the app once a day to open packs and then put it down
>Pocket generalStrong and vibing>tcg generalweak and botsYeah, hand holding other websiters killed this general. and that's sad!
>>56809452Is this supposed to convince people you're not baiting or something
>>56809452bot
>>56809452Go outside bot
I have a question about two Pokémon games I know they're different, but, between the new TCG phone game and Unite, which game do you think is more enjoyable to be an active player? I'm very autist to play two games at the same time in my phone
>>56810395do you like MOBAs? if so go for unite, if not go for pocketwhy not Live though?
>>56809452Literally all they do over there is ask what the best card to reroll is>>pocket general>Full of babies trying out some new shiny toy>>tcg general>Autists complaining about other autistsFTFY
I want to win the game in 2 attacks.
>>56811471do itbelieve in yourselfbelieve in the magic
>>56811471You only need 1. Attack a one-prizer in the active with Crobat's Critical Bite (3 prizes) taking 2 Chanseys with Lucky Bonus (2 more prize) then Wonder Kiss for the last prize.
nom
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13952/version-1-20-0-patch-notes>Economy/system updates—more info coming soon!>Economy/system updates—more info coming soon!>Economy/system updates—more info coming soon!QUICK BUY CELEBRATIONS BEFORE THEY NERF IT
>>56813019>Match timer has been reduced from 25 minutes to 20 minutesI think the longest games I had still had them on 6-7 mins left but better than nothing I guess
>>56813034I don't know if this is a buff or a nerf for stall players
I bought a bunch of card packs around when X&Y came out.They all had an insert with a QR code telling me to unlock stuff in the online TCG. I never used them, but I kept all of them.That was about a decade ago.Will those codes still work?
>>56813394Probably yesBut you won't ba able to use any of the cards, just look at them
>>56813408fine by meI like collecting
live gave me two more fucking copies of hydrapple ex todaystay tuned for future updates
>>56813489standing back and standing by
>>56813394>had a whole stack of them>went to where they were supposed to be>they're not thereha ha OH NO
gardevoir is dicks. how did this ever do competitively>topdeck nothing to a kirlia for ages>tm evo after most my board is gone>both are prized
>>56813877Skill issue
Pulled this today. Should I sell?
>>56814212it's like 15 bux, just keep it
>>56814212wrong thread, retard
>>56813877i sometimes wonder how consistent even tournament topping lists are with some of the ungodly hands and long turn counts of unplayablesat least cards like iono exist
pika?
The stadiums that gives/takes HP paired with Tsareena ex is funny.>buff your opp's mons with +30 HP>put damage counters until both basics and stage 2s have exactly 30 HP left>bump the basic +30 HP stadium with the stage 2 -30 HP stadium>watch them all go down one by one, taking multiple prizes at onceNo need to setup Hisuian Bravery with this
>>56815239Of course I forgot the image.
>>56815203Riza.
>>56815203cpao sisters... not like this...
>>56815365RIP Peein Chow
>>56815203>2 single prize decks>2 stage 2 decks>Rest are all big basic or stage rule boxesThat's pretty degenerate if not even irida can carry chienpao what does that say a out other stage 2s without that supporter.. it's over...
>>56815606There's three stage 2 decks
>>56815755Gardy doesn't count
>>56815245gonna try this
>>56815203That has to be from before super electric breaker, there's no way not a single addition got a usable deck
>>56816925Not sure how they calculate it, but it's from thishttps://pokecabook.com/archives/26148To be fair, Duraludon ex is there.
>>56817072Duraludon's from paradise dragona is the thingthis image implies it's after electric breaker but again, nothing from it thereguess I'll have to see for myself SSP releases
>>56815755If every stage 2 deck had a kirlia tier draw engine they would all work. Sadly no they're stuck using rare candy combos since their stage 1s are pack filler
>>56815203>KlawfBased
>>56813489It's given me 6 SCR Blastoise ex so far.
Clefairy On Mars
i actually like X Speed
This any good?
>>56819318it's the premium pass promo cardso no
>>56818854deepest lore
>>56815245you will never be japanese
>>56819280On some decks it's just switch so works for me>>56819400Some sugimori edits are really something
>>56819416That's fine. I just want to share some fun deck ideas I found.
>>56819428This is a funny one.
>>56819428>>56820236I hate how lazy these are
>>56820621Be the change
They're reworking the battlepass>Only 1 battlepass now>Not split into free/premium like before>It goes to tier 74 at least>Pikachu deck unlocks are 1-30>Archaludon unlocks start 33 through to 60https://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/pokemon-tcg-scarlet-violet-surging-sparks-battle-pass-deck-strategies
>>56822241What am I supposed to spend my crystals on now?
NEW CARDS ALERTEEVEELUTIONS TIME
Rescue stretcher for 5 pokemon/energy. One of the worst ace specs since gholdengo/chien pao/raging bolt prefer prime catcher.
https://www.pokebeach.com/2024/10/all-eeveelution-cards-revealed-from-terastal-festival-ex
>>56822545I'm definitely using this in my Slowking deck
>Draw 4>If you end this turn with 5 or more cards in hand, discard your whole handMaybe good in ceruledge or new rabsca.
PCC - Psych Out 160Discard 1 random card from your opponent's hand.GPD - AmethystDevolve each of your opponent’s evolved Pokémon by shuffling the highest Stage Evolution card on it into your opponent’s deck
WCC - Heavy SquallThis attack does 60 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon ex. Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for this damage.RWL - Aquamarine 280This Pokémon can't attack during your next turn.---So far eeevees look utter trash wtf are these garbage ass attacks
>>56822555>No draw support eeveelution to justify having 8 eevees in your deckMissed opportunity
LC - Flash Spear 60+You may discard up to 2 Basic Energy from your Benched Pokémon. This attack does 90 more damage for each card discarded this way.RWL - Dravite 280This Pokémon can't attack during your next turn.
The non-ex eeveelutions are just reprints of the 151 ones, lame.
>>56822587240 damage for one (counter gain and benched orgerpons) isn't terrible but it's hard to justify using jolteon over raging bolt
GC - Leaf Typhoon 60xThis attack foes 60 damage for each Energy attached to all of your opponent's Pokémon.GRW - Moss Agate 230Heal 100 damage from each of your benched Pokemon.--->Can't OHKO charizardAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHGOD DAMN THEY ARE WANKING ZARD SO MUCH
>>56822567Is this better Sylveon?
>>56822599Raging Bolt with a damage cap is way worse
WC - Frost Bullet 110This attack does 30 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.GWD - EuclaseKnock Out 1 of your opponent's Pokémon that has exactly 6 damage counters on it
>>56822564Hisuian Arcanine
>>56822604Just use the second attack bro. And who's to say your opponent won't have 3 energies out?
>>56822627Arcanine wants to have your hand empty *before* your turn ends.
>>56822604>Charizard searches for 3 energies
>>56822639>And who's to say your opponent won't have 3 energies out?If a zard sees it's an eevee match up they're obviously not going to put 3 in play to get ohko. That's common match up knowledge
>>56822604>This attack foes 60 damage for each Energy attached to all of your opponent's Pokémon.Bring back the high retreat cost damage multiplier you cowards.
>>56822624Unironically better than dragapult
>>56822652Take advantage of that with crushing hammer
>>56822659How? It can't KO two mons at the same time
>>56822604>Even with grav mountain it still can't kill it>Only hits 240 >You need defiance + grav to kill it if there's only 2 energy in playbruh
DCC - Moon Mirage 160Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Confused.LPD - OnyxDiscard all Energy from this Pokémon. Draw 1 Prize card.
And the already revealed ones. Sylveon is a reprint
>>56822689Good late game checkmate, I guess? Otherwise you do not want to ever use that 2nd attack.
>>56822689I could see this being a control deck by the time it rotates. You have stamp to get the opponent to a low hand size and the new blaziken-ex to provide energy acceleration.It's missing some kind of top deck control like hiker to stay alive for 6 turns.
>>56822567>>56822573>>56822587>>56822604>>56822624>>56822689>>56822702>320 vs dark weakness>320 vs psychic weakness>220 vs water weakness (Other attack is 560)>260 vs fire weakness (Other attack is 560)>300 or 480 vs lightning weakness>120x vs grass weakness. 240 for 2 energy, 360 for 3 energy. (Other attack is 460)Well it /can/ OHKO everything weak to any of the eevees types. Leafeon is the biggest loser being conditional damage outside stellar attack. Besides grass and water the rest are all reliable OHKOs without needing the rainbow stellar attacks which will help with consistency
cudgelbros...
>>56822771Are you suggesting someone is going to run them all in the same deck?
eevees looking sus
>>56822782That's pretty much the devs intention with the eevees anon. That's why they're all 160~ attack range because they want you ohkoing stuff for weakness. All kinda sub-par outside a weakness deck
Now where's my Rainbow Force Xerneas
jolteon might just be the best eevee because it has free reteat lol
>>56822810Right here KEK
>>56822810>>56822816I'll raise you this.
espeon ex is a fucking menace against charizard and dragapult, holy fuck
>>56822771It looks like it just auto loses to raging bolt, terapagos and dragapult. You can't hit 230 base reliably and dragapult is always a 2hko no matter what attack Meme deck for sure>>56822826Or you could use sylveon and just shuffle everything into the deck
How does the worst of the VMax eeveelutions compare to the ex ones?
>>56822827Sylveon can't target the active
>>56822833This would be pretty good with Ciphermaniac and Deduction Kit
Oh there's new foil energy you can craft for 40 credits. Tied with the 151 ones for looks
I can't believe it all shit
>>56822654Spidops does thatBut the new latias kills that anyway, giving basics free retreat so you deal 0 dmg
>>56822573>>56822624Could you use some combination of these and either Tsareena or Froslass? The issue would be finding bench space for a draw engine.
>>56823525Tsareena has easier supports >>56815245Froslass is probably good with Glaceon
Best support for water
>>56823962...is about to rotate
>>56823992;_;
>>56823962... is very erotic
Eng name for eeveelution expansionWill these be harder than they should be to buy singles of because they're eeveelutions or will it be cancelled out by Teras being ugly
Is everyone who plays a fire deck brain-dead? I faced someone playing Arcanine ex, he had his Growlithe set up with energy last turn, Ultra Balled an Arcanine and passed his turn, so I just knocked out the Growlithe. He went on a losing spiral, powering up his Pokémon and immediately dying the next turn, but he had the chance to evolve his main Pokémon and just didn't for no reason.But this seems to be common across anyone playing Arcanine or Zard variants (let's be honest those are the only fire decks right now). I get that they're unga decks but it's like anyone playing gets instantly lobotomised.
>>56824527Anyone playing Arcanine is 99% a newbie. And there's other fire decks in the meta, like Gouging Fire.
>>56824559>mfw I realise I've been bullying newbies with Mimikyu Alakazam
>>56824297>harder than they should be to buy singles of because they're eeveelutionsalways yes
squawk me and seize me daddy
Retarded question but can we use the old codes in the app? Debating on downloading
>>56825443pretty sure yeah
>>56825443You can but RN you can only really play standard
>>56823962At least Lumineon and Rad Greninja are rotating out with it
Thoughts on this deck? It's fun but it always feels a bit precarious. Like I can beat some decks without a problem but I have no answers to any counterplay.
So, what's the difference between battling in begginer, intermediate and advanced mode in Pocket in PvP mode?
>>56826149the decks get stronger
>>56822573>>56822587>>56822702Say the line Bart!...This Pokémon can't attack during your next turn...God forbid a stage 1 with 3 rainbow energy cost could hit 280 for multiple turns lol
Bought two already, worth buying more?
>>56826365wrong thread
Since the eeveelutions are terrible, this ratfucker had better be good or else we are stuck with the stellar crown format until March.
I don't like my local community. I have a handful of friends, but the majority of the rest, I can't stand.
I have one good player who travels to regionals, one girl, and the rest of them are bots playing bad decks who wonders why I beat them badly every single time. All the bots need their hands held by the judges when they play in store tournaments, lol
>>56826469That's disrespect to bots, a bot can play the game on its own
>>56796856PTCGP was my first time trying the TCG and it was fun enough I went and bought some precon decks for my kid and niece and nephew (and me). Now they treat the game very seriously and it's funny as hell.
>>56827209good to hear they're having fun lol
>>568260252 Energy Retrievals is overkill, especially since you're bringing 9 energies (you only need 7 tops) and 2 Tulip. I feel like you'd benefit with adding a Xatu line or two. Helps with your draw and setting up your Alakazams.
>>56826443>3 years later>Meta is still SwSh eraRotations need to kill off cards sooner. We're almost out of gen 9 and the gen 8 cards haven't fucked off
>>56828243>Silver Tempest was released on November 11, 2022, and is the final main expansion of the Sword & Shield Series
>>56828243>We're almost out of gen 9Gen 10 and AZ won't be in the same year. Gamefreak is finally off of the three year cycle.
lmao get fucked chartard
>>56828433And rotation happens in 2025 spring, so yes 3 years of lugia shitting up the meta and ruining any chance of good special energy being printed
whenever i see moltres ex all i can think of is that justinrpg pic with moltres taking a huge stinky shit
frostmoth trolling is fun
>tired of not drawing any energies>take a break and play some m*gic>draw no lands
>bought 20 ETBs of prismatic evolutions so resellFeels good, man
>>56829049I'll never forget all the times I saw trailer trash meth heads coming into my local shop to buy Evolving Skies packs for "Moonbreon". People who looked like they'd never touched a card in their lives.
>>56829049damn people are really falling for the investor memes
>>56829027>play deck that has almost no energy>3+ energy in hand consistently, usually 2 prizedthe only way you'll get mana flooded is if your total energy is the size of a puddle, this should be obvious by now
>>56829027shuffle issue desu senpai
>>56829049The eevee FAs will be worthless because the pure white background with shitty tera hat that ruins themThe SIR might be ok, but compare to giant eeveelutions no way is it going to sell betterPlus recent set will be printed more. Laughing at people thinking this set will sell well
Can't wait to run Stall and watch that new pikachu do fuck all
>>56829307we'll have to see if its actually easy to stall it out. every list I've seen that uses pikachu uses the blissey that lets you move energy to any of your pokemon on the board. which will probably make handheld fan useless. it also uses chanseys with an attack that hits for 70 or 80.
>>56829220play stall
>>56829638>>56829220Or Frosslass Hisuian Arcanine.
>>56830627Sex
>>56830794Kamitsure is for Fuuro. Please refrain.
How the hell hasn't baxcalibur or kingambit not gotten an ex card yet
what are you expected to do against dragapult as an evolution deck? utterly lost.
>>56830870Have more than 200 and 60 HP.
>>56829049
>>56830870your 70 HP basics?your enamourous?your jamming tower/lost vacuum?
>>56830870Play big basics or die.
Noob question here, at the start of the game when I'm setting down my first basic, can I set a fossil like this? Or does it have to be a pokémon?
>>56831573It appears not. It makes sense because there's a specific line on the Snorlax doll that says you can play it in your first turn.
>>56831573You can't .On your hand it was an item card and you can play item after the game begin.
>>56831625>>56831626Thanks people!
>>56830870Play Genesect
I just start playing PTCG Live yesterday, and I only have 780 crystals on my hand. Should I buy the premium pass? It seems a new season is coming soon I'm not sure if I should buy now or wait until next season.
>>56832346buy it, apparently it will be removed in future seasons so might as well get what you can
>>56832346With the new update in a few days the battle pass will reset and there won't be any more premium pass. But if you haven't gotten too deep in the tiers maybe it's best to keep it so you can stock on Celebrations packs and get credits that way.
>>56832359>>56832755What's replacing premium pass? What am I supposed to spend crystals on now?
>>56832755Right now my ladder is only on pikachu and my battle pass tier is only at 2
>>56832820Yeah you're better off keeping those crystals.>>56832788Nothing's replacing them >>56822241 in fact, they're just removing it wholesale and is just making the battle pass twice as long lmfao guess you'll just have to play daily for a whole month to get that Duraludon ex deck and spend your crystals on Celebrations packs.
Will Haxorus' Bring Down the Axe attack fail if the opponent's active Pokemon has Mist Energy attached? KOing is an effect of the attack right?
cue bot reply, even if the answer to the question is a simple>>56833032>Will Haxorus' Bring Down the Axe attack failYes.
>>56833071Sometimes it's hard to determine what counts as an "effect of an attack" so thanks for the answer. Mist Energy is broken af then.
>>56833123basically anything in the attack's text that doesn't influence how much damage it does, is an effect>This attack does 30 damage for each energy in whatevernot an effect>This attack does 10 less damage for each whatever, and your opponents pokemon is now confusedthis is a mix, you calculate and do damage, but don't confuse>Your opponent's pokemon is [stauts effect], knocked out, or devolvedthis is 100% only an effect
>>56833123>>56833182also>this attack does 100 to the active, and place X damage counters however you likethe 100 goes through, but placing damage counters directly is always an effect, and it's blocked by mist
>>56833123>Damage is not an effect.Mist Energy will block any extra effect that isn't damage. If an attack says something like "This also does X damage to Y", that counts as damage. It stops Sableye's Lost Mine and the 6 damage counters from Dragapult's Phantom Dive because they're not doing direct damage, the attack's effect is placing counters.
>>56831025Reselling to people is my job. Already taken some pre-orders for the TPC ETBs for $100 each and broken even without even selling them all kekIf I hold on the rest, I'm sure I'll get even more in a year or two.
Stall this, nigger
>>56829283FOMO niggers like this deserve the rope
>>56833397Damn I'm lookin' and it's already sold out on pokecenter too, US and UKMaybe it's a good thing the eeveelutions seemingly won't be good gameplay wise so they can be ignored?
>>56833420The last one standing is Australia, because we haven't had it on sale yet
>>56801841when did live get a ptcgo skin? Might actually play again just for that.
>>56833452What? That's the default look like it's always been.
What's with the influx of all the people playing control on live at the moment?Every other game is somebody with Great Tusk, Wellspring Ogrepon, Snorlax, or Mawile.Every time I grind them down, I just start slowplaying and spamming the thumbs up till they concede.
>>56833557I've seen people say they're picking up snorelax because they keep getting farmed by zard and noir. it could also be people thinking they can get easy wins by playing control and climb the ladder before the next season starts
Perhaps there is some shame in bullying the disabled.
>>56833557Because Snorlax beats just about everything by a pretty wide margin.
>>56833722>28% win against lugiabad deck. this is why Ill be playing pidgeot control
>>56833805They can't trap you if everything can be powered up for free.
help me choose a deck for my local cup, pure gardy, gardy banette, or banette dusknoir
>>56833838ZardNoir
>Queue ranked>Waiting for opponent>Nothing happening>You concede>I did nothing, it auto conceded>Lose points for nothingUnless some fag knows about an exploit that bricks it like spiritomb did
>>56808352>play pocket>I can’t build any decks so I have to wait and open a bunch of packs resetting to get some of the cards I need>still don’t have everything so I’m cracking packs every day>finally build deck>no ranked mode so my wins don’t matterWho approved this shit game
>>56835170it ain't for playing chump
>Want to use it to counter dragapult>All the fidoughs are 50 or 60hp>No way to prepare one vs dragapultKinda gay. 70hp one when
It's always funny when you import a deck and realize you pulled zero of a common through the whole battle pass.
Just hit level 69 on live B)
>>56835893Finished lvl50 today so went to craft everything I had on plan to get. And saw I didn't pull a single scorbunny
pokemon pocket tournament hosted by streamers 3 days after release>4.5k views>TCG physical hosted by official pokemon channel only had 1.4k viewers earlier todaypocket won... it's actually over for tcg live/physicalhttps://www.youtube.com/live/hZAMxTTk0KM?si=r8eOjc6Kbsmky-lS
>>56837176Very funni , froghttps://www.youtube.com/live/EslMvsYulBs?si=VWpubIcueuC19ecd
>>56837176what yuropean casters will do to your viewership
>>56837319What tournament is this?
>>56836184nice congrats>>56837319>fluttermane with lugiabased. I never played lugia before but I will now
>>56837438elite4
>>56839128The perfect Ace Spec for Pikachu.
>>56839128>>56839154sure
tord on stream lookin a little puffybro needs to lay off the lefse
trickle inhttps://www.twitch.tv/pokemontcg
>>56822654>grass dog pokemon>attack name: grass knot>scales in damage as the amount of parties witnessing the attack increasesWhat did they mean by this?
>>56824603The game shouldn't ever match newbies with experienced players because it has a back-end Elo match-making system even used on the ladder. Are you twinking/smurfing? Then you would have been cognizant of what you were doing... I don't understand.
>>56840037kill yourself
>>56840084Well either I'm getting matched with newbies or complete cretins because I'm not smurfing.
>>56840240Why?
m u n k i
>timing out in fucking terapagoswhy isn't this guy banned from slow playing
Tord threwIts overThe west has fallen
>tord losing because of timeit’s kino
>>56841804Alberto actually won with that radzard at the end, didn't need the pity timer win by passing
GET FUCKED SHITTER
alberto kept whiffing and tord still couldn't get a win lol.
You laugh but you will never be at their level. These are masters of the game at work.
>>56841838Tord failed simple math, he attempted to take 2 prize cards after removing temple to attack. He thought he had the knock out
>>56841838these guys are good but they also make the same misplays as I do. like forgetting to read the opponents cards
>>56841838Why do people feel the need to defend pro players? Doesn't matter how good they are, they make mistakes like everyone else and can be criticized for them.
>>56842119Why do some people feel the need to spit in a God's eye?
>>56842220So it's just idol worship, then. You're starstruck over someone who's good at the thing you like.
>discussing a person who doesn't know you exist
so I recently started collecting Pokemon cards because I went on a trip down nostalgia lane, rewatching Indigo League/Orange Islands. I really like a lot of the S&V sets so I’ve mostly been collecting those. I even started watching the German dub of Pokemon Horizons because I’m studying it as 2nd language, and I didn’t think I’d like it but it was surprisingly actually alrightI thought I’d actually try the game for once, because I only ever collected in the past, and figured it might be worth trying and seeing if it’s actually fun. I searched for a LGS that seemed at least somewhat cool and not super corporate or ran by weird hardcore christians or whatever, and found a decent place ran by chill Mongolian looking dudes. I asked the guy who worked there if they do Pokemon stuff. They mostly do it during the week (only Thursdays) -- unfortunately not on weekends -- and it sounded like a bit of a younger age group, maybe a mixed bag. It’s probably not the best place for me to get started, so I was wondering how you guys approached finding places to play in-person games when first starting out. Did you just bring friends to play on weekends, did you do official events, did you learn on the Live PC game first, did you focus mainly on going to higher traffic bigger/corporate gaming stores, etc.? I’m not really familiar with the Pokemon TCG landscape as far as in-person pick-up games goes, or if it’s even worth getting into beyond collecting, and/or beyond mainly sticking with the online PC version of the game (I'm in Milwaukee btw if that matters. There are a decent amount of stores)
>>56842672I played on live for a while and then went to a prerelease to get some experience with irl play and to check to see which shops near me I was most comfortable playing regularly at.
>>56842731hmmm that’s about what I imagined it would be like. The thing I’m worried about is what the playerbases are like at different shops. Since the demographic Pokemon is targeting is younger, is it harder to find players that are 20s/30s? Seemed like it at the store I went to. If it’s like at least 50% older players then that would be good. Also, I’m guessing that it being a comfortable place to play is the most important part. So, even if this shop doesn’t host scheduled Pokemon stuff on weekends, it might be worth going just for open play. I might be able to convince one person I know to go, so maybe that’d be enough. Are pre-releases just days expansions are coming out so they host open play sessions or something? Maybe I’d have better luck at other stores that have scheduled events. Either way I’ll probably just start out with the Live PC game to learn and figure it out from there
>>56842672>enjoy pokemon at age 9 >have cards>think this is for kind at maybe age 13 >forget about em and toss em till covid days>also found new friend that likes poke>walk by fusion strike ETB in mall>what the hell it's okay to like poke>see code in packs and play in Online>get friend and others into building decks>realize mall store had other store with tables>biggest store, not far from getting to small corp>mixed group, on weekend kids and adults, weekdays only adults>play local league and hear about other 2 stores from players >check them out, smaller but still official and only adults>play in all 3 when possible
Hey anons, I haven't played Pokémon since Neo Discovery, but the new mobile game has me curious about getting back into the TCG proper. What is the current equivalent of base set? Where should new players start out?
>>56842982Read the OP.And if you only care about the new mobile game, go to >>56842846
>>56842807>is it harder to find players that are 20s/30sat my shops Ive seen a mix of kids and older dudes that have been playing since base set. it just depends on you area, at least for casual events.>Are pre-releases just days expansions are coming out so they host open play sessions or something?pre-releases are events where they let you play new sets before they're released. they give you a pre constructed deck and some booster packs that you can use to build with and play with other people at the event. typically these events have a lot of new people there that have no idea to how to play the game. also you can only use the cards you got at the event so you dont have to worry about building or playing optimally. so I used pre-releases as a way to scope out stores to play at and to get more experience with playing paper
New>>56843128>>56843128
>>56843048Reading the OP didn't help answer me question at all, but thanks for the cross thread link.
>>56843281the op is ancient and useless, just go to https://limitlesstcg.com/ and pick a deck that looks fun the charizard battle deck comes out this month (I think) and will be a good value for new players
>>56843335That link is literally in the OP you retard.
>>56843335Do they not do the edition themes anymore? Like how there was Jungle, Fossil, Rocket etc?
>>56843404no, only tier 1, 2 and 3 decks, 3 being close to meta decks
>>56843532Ah well that kind of sucks, I liked having collections of the different sets.
