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nidochads rise up
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WeezingGODS run these threads
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>>56907337
>>56907331
Poison keks...
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buff gengar
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NERF PIKACHU
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>>56907355
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>>56907377
haunter should do 20 or 30 dmg and sleep frl
whole line is so weak
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>run into Mewtwo deck
>one shot Mewtwo for 160 damage
>guy brings out Gardevoir
>one shot her too
I LOOOOOOVE GAMBLING
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>>56907361
>articuno ex 52% win rate
based coin flippers
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>>56907389
UNGA ME THROW BONE
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>>56907361
i have fucking zero of these decks
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>>56907361
The new raichu tech is insane, 140 damage slap after swapping out your pikaex

busted shit
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>>56907361
I've seen people try to post "ummm actually starmie ex isn't that good, haven't you looked at the tournaments?"
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>>56907361
Nope, pika isn't op, it's just usually played by intelligent people who like the deck for it's overall consistency (as opposed to only retards playing mewtwo)
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>>56907361
Articuno having a positive win rate is disgusting.
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>>56907361
I was wondering why mewtwo was so low, it has the most enters out of every deck there 23% of the players compared to pika 9%
No wonder there isn't more fighting decks entered, there's too many mewtwos killing them off before they run into Pikachu kek
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>>56907407
its the most braindead retarded deck bruh at least with mewtwo you have to think a little if you dont get gard quick
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>>56907361
I feel that I've made a huge mistake exclusively opening mewtwo packs after seeing this.
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>>56907361
>Dragonite not even on the list

its over
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>>56907361
Tournament meta =/= ladder meta btw, play what you like and if you aren't shit you'll climb eventually
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>>56907361
>Highest fire deck is Arcanine
THEY ALL CALLED HIM THE WEAKEST EX. NOW WHAT SAY YOU?
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>>56907389
Cool, I got double tails 3 times in a row the one game I played her.
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>took 3 tries but nidos somehow beat fighting deck
GG's my dude
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>>56907444
>>56907389
I beat a marowak netdecker with my dogshit dragonite deck, that had both oaks and dragonites as the bottom 4 cards in my deck, he rolled 3x tails THREE different times
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>>56907421
kek, kinda same, I'm 29 packs in and questioning if I should start opening some rat packs for variety's sake at least.
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>>56907322
>no letter
Come on, anon. Do better
https://x.com/PokemonTCGP/status/1856819952713453683
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>playing Misty deck
>"if I get 3 heads Misty will make out with my sister and force me to watch
>get 3 heads
Fucking slut
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>>56907442
it's weird how much bad rep it gets while having a good matchup against pikachu
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>>56907413
Mewtwo needs that setup and it's hard to come back when the opponent starts dishing out 90 starting turn 2
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>>56907458
the one time I saw arcanine used in a tourney it killed itself and then lost the match
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Whoever recommended the arbok/pidgeot deck
FUCK YOU
every opponent can turn 1 basic EX or turn 2 stage 2 EX while the time it takes to gather pidgeot and arbok can take 10 turns or more. And then the ability doesnt do shit for when the opponent has 3 benched mons with 1 retreat cost, defeating the whole purpose of being able to move them
The only thing that can stop a EX turn 1 or turn 2 is energy removal but the goddamn game isnt balanced for that
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>you have to skip through like 5 different animations every time you get a new card
fucking stop
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>>56907361
>mewtwo at 50%
>literally wins or loses based on initial coin flip
lmao Fuck you and your helmet deck. Mewtwo is (sadly) the most boring thing to play against, and it’s fucking everywhere.
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>>56907442
Arcanine got glow-up when most figure out that it's a PITA to get a Charizard deck going while you can start throwing punches with Arcanine as early as turn 2
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Running a fire deck in: vpnx
No coin flips no ex no dragonite

Nidobro I felt bad running type advantage

Also I should have saved that giovani
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>>56907449
post list
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>collect/achieve everything I want until next drop
>start conceding turn 3 in pvp to give away wins
community service
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>>56907483
>Running a fire deck
did you steal my fire deck
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>>56907466
yeah weezing with arbok is faster. also I don't think you need to be gusting that often anyways. two sabrinas will be more than enough.
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>>56907488
I just play my solo Slowpoke deck. Sometimes they even concede.
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>>56907499
It would help if i could choose the pokemon
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THAT IS IT
CURSE LAPLAP
IM BUILDING A PIKA DECK
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>>56907498
Nah it’s just a junker with a charizard and rapidash, though, if that’s what your deck was, I’m sorry
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Will the chansey pick come back?
I dont see how one would be able to get 10 meowths for all the flair before it leaves
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theres no ranked ladder in this game?
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>>56907485
Not him, but I think he’s onto something. I’ve been running a very competitive pikachu deck, and the mewtwo matchup is a pain in the ass if I have to go first. If I go first and my opponent opens with two mewtwo ex, the game is effectively over. I’m starting to think raichu may be the most viable build for pikachu decks, but that still runs into the issue of needing gio / surge plays.

People are still figuring the meta out.
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>>56907525
Pay up, piggy
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>>56907361
>tfw Marowak positive personal winrate
Guess I am lucky.
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>>56907361
>Made a Mewtwo deck
>got the entire Pika deck a day after making it
Kek guess i'll switch to the rat
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>>56907533
What's the decklist for Raichu?
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>>56907533
I should've been more clear, I do actually want to see the list.
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>>56907553
spent 5 minutes thinking about it and then ask again
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>>56907559
>thinking
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I put surges into my deck instead of Blaine’s, need a rematch: vpnx
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>>56907535
nbo.....................NONONONONONO
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>56907361
Charizard is severely, severely undervalued due to shit players who don't understand stall and probably filled their decks with garbage like Centiskorch and Heatmor instead of Rapidash, and then concede when they miss a couple of coin flips. Big deal. I use it exclusively and my winrate is probably around 80%, and I only have one Moltres ex. I can hold my own without ever drawing the damn bird. Rapidash can take one shot of full power Pika ex, and regular Moltres can tank one hit from Starmie. I then have enough flexibility to let them both go down, or retreat them with X Speed, as long as I can keep supplying Zard with energies. The longer the game goes, the more likely it is that I have Zard on the bench already with enough energies to sweep the whole enemy team, and a number of X Speeds to counter any Sabrina plays. In essence, despite being based around coin flips, the odds are in my favor. The only real threats are Jynx and Alakazam which punish overizealous energy hoarding, and Blastoise who also relies on stalling, has type advantage and doesn't lose energy on attack.
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>>56907553
Haven’t ironed mine out since pulling 2 copies of zapdos ex. I’ll probably try 2 each of pikachu ex, zapdos ex, pikachu, raichu, and (maybe) pincurchin. I’m thinking pincurchin needs to be at least at 1 copy for pikachu consistency. Might try 2 copies of gio for mewtwo ohkos. Surge might be a 1 of.
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>>56907553
Idk about what he’s talking about, but this is what I run with 2 raichu and a single megneton with 2 pika ex and a zapdos ex, and it’s really good, let’s me stall or rush, and keep my back line full for ex’s
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Metal is treating me well.
Think we'll get mega evolution cards? If I could buff up Mawile somehow, then I may take it over Bisharp.
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>>56907578
MY SHINY MEOWY AAAAAAAAA I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE AGGRESSIVE IN GETTING THEM AAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>56907525
There is already a better meowth with kino full art of him looking out over [place], Japan.
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>>56907617
oh, ok......guess i'll cope with that once I collect ten of those... somehow
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Open the trading, I have so many ex duplicates and not a single fucking Blaine.
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>>56907470
an autoskip feature would be gigabased
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>>56907601
>>56907587
Very similar to the counts I was trying to describe (only with magnemite over 1 copy of pincurchin and 2 surge instead of 2 gio). Should be good. My only worries are in running two different stage 1s in a deck that wants to go fast + surge being a dead card in hand. I might also run another x speed over potion.
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>>56907442
Just bad card evaluation in a new game. Happens all the time. Arcanine's the first pokemon you see and it reads as really bad until you know the game better. People dismiss it, never take a second look, and never think about it again.

The fact that it easily goes over Pikachu and Starmie while being fast and consistent enough to go under Mewtwo and Charizard is something People naturally wouldn't notice until later. I definitely didn't.
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>>56907607
>Will we get mega evolution cards
Definitely yeah.
They might even try to time it to match the release of Legends Z-A for the whole 'Return of Megas' thing they're using as part of the marketing for that game.
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>omastar is so shit no one uses the evo line in the misty deck even though it guarantees you get articuno on turn 1
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>>56907607
>end turns on Mega
Is it really worth it to skip an attack?
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>>56907585
I think it's really funny that Charizard beats Venu and Blastoise "beats" Charizard, but Venu doesn't beat Blastoise.
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>>56907659
>6 card slots
Just because they can't attack doesn't mean they can't just switch out
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>>56907644
Surge and raichu are needed for hot swapping to and then surging and you can do that 2 turns in a row insulated if you wait to gen with magnetite on the turn you surge. That’s how you mainly take out the big problems I’ve noticed. Pikachu EX can’t really handle them unless he’s got the speed advantage.

That deck could also use another x speed and I only have 1 magnetite still, I’d like to be running 2 with raichu.
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>>56907466
this, i have a bunch of ex mons so i've been playing blain only but got tired and decided to play this shit.
either im always bricking or my opponend ex mons have so much hp for my amazing 60 damage arbok
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>>56907673
>6 card slots
that's the point, isn't it?
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>>56907466
Most of the niche decks, especially ones requiring stage 2 require your opponent to do nothing to work, so I don't know why you are surprised at all
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>>56907687
That's not a squid, anon. That's a birb
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>>56907700
yes but the concept is the same
>mulligan guarantees articuno because you aren't running any other basics
>2 pokeballs only hit your other articuno
>actually have a backup revenge attacker for 1 energy if things go bad
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>get bad hand and draw
>just concede turn 3 and jump to the next game

it's faster this way.
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>>56907669
I actually managed to lose a game to Venusaur once but I've only seen that deck used that one time, so I can't assess whether that was bad play on my part, bad luck, or did it actually have an advantage. Charizard beats water decks like Lapras and Articuno pretty easily if stalled properly. It's just that Blastoise is the only thing in the game that can one shot the ultimate one shotter, Charizard.
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>>56907451
>he rolled 3x tails THREE different times
That might have legitimately been me.

>marowak netdecker
Why do you feel the need to put "netdecker" here? Marowak is a mid tier deck at best, it's just kinda fun for the lulz. Also, this game has 20 fucking cards in the deck. You just put 2 Pokemon lines, maybe 3, into a deck, and then you add Sabrina and Giovanni, or Misty if it's water. That's literally every single deck. 2 or 3 Pokemon and then trainers. "Netdecking" cannot even possibly be a thing in this game. You could just use your 2 favorite Pokemon in a deck and accidentally "netdeck" by your standards.
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>>56907711
Aerodatcyl only occupies 3 slots at most. That's why most decks have been teching in it and Amber Fossil for chance to win that coinflip
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>>56907737
yeah but that guy is wasting slots on double red card double scope cause he's specifically trying fill his deck with crap that isn't articuno, not because >scope is good
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wonder picks are so useless
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>>56907466

I run that deck and I mentioned here before, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you wanna fuck around and get funny meme wins.
It might be better with rare candy or something, I dunno.
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>>56907759
Wonder Picks should recharge faster
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>>56907585
Guess I should post the deck. Regular Moltres is a necessity in my case, but there are upsides to using it instead of the second Moltres ex.
For one, it's only 1 retreat cost instead of ex's 2, so I can scoop it up from active with X Speed without spending that turn's energy, which could be crucial to powering up Charizard.
Second, 100 HP is usually enough to withstand the same number of hits Moltres ex would've. From my experience few people run Starmie ex with Giovanni, but I could be wrong.
Third, regular Moltres awards only one point so it can be sacrificed to buy more time for Charizard.
Basically, stalling is a viable alternative to having increased chances of drawing Moltres ex, whose role is just to wall and give energies to Zard. Obviously, the earlier Moltres ex is drawn the better the odds of winning the match, but it doesn't need to be relied on.

Oh, and FUCK RED CARDS. But you guys are obviously welcome to use them and unbrick my hand.
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LETS FUCKING GO NOW I ONLY NEED
1 CHARIZARD EX
1 MOLTRES EX
2 CHARMELEON
1 CHARMANDER
2 SABRINA

WE ARE SO IN THERE
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>>56907783
>2 charmeleon
I hope you get them before the year ends
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>>56907783
Fire event is coming up in a week or so so you have a good chance.
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>corner someone's ex pokemon with Arbok and put them in a lose-lose situation no matter what they
>watch them panic as they try to figure a way out but they eventually concede

god, I've had more fun with Arbok than any of the big flashy ex pokemon I have
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>>56907361
Pidgeot Arbok is an honorable deck
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The event Mankey is a beast. I'm straight RAPING all these meta game weezing fags. And of course the pussies rage quit instead of playing to conclusion.
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>>56907361
>>56907816
Pidgeot Arbok

That's all, folks!
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>>56907783
That deck is already obsolete.
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>>56907778
I have 1 moltresex from wonder pick. Haven't pulled any char packs but I might try and make a centiscorch varient. He's basically budget charizard.
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>just won a kino match where I got 0 energy from 2 Moltres EX coinflips while staring at a field of 2 Gardevoir and 2 Mewtwo EX
That was fun.
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I lied about getting full art Japanese Sabrina earlier.
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Incredible how watered-down and babyfied Pocket is.
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>>56907828
>rage quit
It's just faster, bro. Conceding means that you are aware enough to know that you can no longer win, and it's a sign of respect to not waste everyone's time playing it out.

The true rage quit is when they just AFK and it says "waiting for opponent to reconnect" until the timer runs out, and then you're left there still needing to play out the game while their timer counts down.
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how come there's no ingame messaging in this game, i want to call the coinflip relying fag a tranny
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>>56907847
>i want to call the coinflip relying fag a tranny

this is why there's no in-game messaging
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>>56907841
Pocket is much better. This is the way the TCG was always meant to be played.
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>>56907841
I'm hoping they won't keep this "only EX get 2 moves" policy for too long.
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>>56907407
Pikachu is literally this game's baby aggro deck. Then they fuck it up by making stall options really weak. We have Sabrina at best for disruption and stall.
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is there a pidgeot deck other than arbok pidgeot
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>>56907629
Trading and how they implement it will be the make or break factor on whether or not I decide to stick with this game or delete it.

Getting the cards you need is unreasonably difficult in this game. And the situation you described is exactly why. I'm sitting on a bunch of unneeded copies of full arts and ex Pokemon, but can't get many lower rarity cards I need for deck building, let alone the high rarity cards I actually want like Full Art Sabrina, Zapdos ex, the Immersive Charizard. Meanwhile, I've got like 5 full art Alakazam, and like 7 full art Glooms. And this is after 300 packs opened.

This is why other games have crafting systems where you can dismantle junk. That way when you open a pack of complete garbage, or high rarity garbage, you at least get points toward being able to craft what you actually wants.

Given how greedy the Pack Points system is though, I don't have a lot of confidence trading won't be some extremely Jewish crap as well.
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>>56907864
Somehow I didn’t even notice that. I really hope they tweak the cards a bit, and don’t just repeat what Pokémon did irl and just powercreep the hell out of it.
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>>56907863
Maybe if you're a 5 year old or a woman
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>raichu on a wonder trade
>fail
I'm sad now.

>>56907361
>Raichu focus
Ok, I'm curious.
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I wish the cards were real and I could hold them in my hands.
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>>56907828
>weezing
>meta
>conceding = ragequitting
bait or just gargantuan faggot?
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>>56907887
But they are
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>>56907801
Do we have any more details about this? Reading that previous datamined stuff about a fire event making things easier to acquire is why I haven't bought my 2 charmeleon from the store yet despite already having 2x zard and 2x tres. Hopefully I haven't wasted my time waiting.
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>>56907837
Centiskorch is to Charizard ex what Cinccino is to Pikachu ex, more or less. What makes Charizard so good is that it's the only card that can one-shot every other card in the game, AND can tank every attack including from Mewtwo ex, and up to two full-power strikes from Pika ex (the only things that kill it in one shot are boosted Blastoise ex and in some cases Alakazam and Jynx). Even the meme Marowak ex can't handle the almighty Zard. You could see some success with Centiskorch, it doesn't even really need Moltres ex since once it's up to four energies, it can go on as long as it's active/alive. Expect trouble from Articuno and Lapras, though.
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>>56907877
Yeah in Magic: Area duplicates over 4 give you a token of their rarity that can be exchanged for cards and then full art cards take like 4 tokens of their rarity or something. It works really well in that game.

It seems like everything Pokémon constantly suffers from being both geared towards kids and also massively popular with adults. Like world championships have been decided by coin flips, it’s absurd af.

This is why we need to keep the vpnx meta strong. Refuse coin flips, refuse EX cards, the more people that do, the more difference it will make.
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>>56907864
I didn't connect that it's EX only, just that it's very limited.
I doubt it'll stick though, you already have Abilities on non-EX and even non-fully evolved mons.
Just a way to ease newbies to the game, really.
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>look at some of the teams on the pocket tracker website
>read up on a primeape+kabutops team
>oh that sounds neat
>immediately run into one online
>know the strats and how to counter play
Get fucked BrendanFrasier
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>>56907322
So is Pokepoke going to be like Standard where they rotate cards after 2 years? Or will it take the Yugioh approach and let you use any card that has ever been released?

Also they need to hurry up and release more expansions fast, Pocket feels too shallow to be entertaining…
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>>56907913
>>know the strats and how to counter play
...this game has pretty much the least amount of strategy that a card game could possibly have.
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>>56907879
Pikachu and Starmie are already so obscene. Immense power creep is the only way forward.
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>irl TCGs
>It's standard to concede when you see an unwinnable boardstate instead of having them go through the motions of going about their turn
>Somehow people think it's ragequitting if people do it online
I don't get it. It's also faster for people to go about their turns irl than in this game and even then people just concede.
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>>56907837
Centiskorch is just a regular Charizard downgrade. If you're missing Charizard EXs, just run Charizard(regular one), Fire Blast does 150 damage which is the sweet spot for one shotting the meta EX. You also won't dilute your PokeBall tutors with another basic card.
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>>56907901
https://pocket.codex.gg/missions/?schedule=SC_EV_0002010_MI_03
I woke up I found it that's all I know
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>play a non-meta deck for fun
>opponent Gets 4 heads in a row with an
Aerodactyl

im going back to pikachu
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>>56907893
You got somewhere to be? Play to completion nd take your beating like a good boy.
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>>56907922
I think it's just a mixture of underageb&, third worlders, and chronic shitposters who have that disposition themselves and project it onto others.
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>>56907877
This game lives and dies on the trading system and how they handle new sets coming in. If they fuck up either then Pocket is gonna find itself having the Duel Links problem, where picking the game up late feels like utter dogshit because it's hard to get your hands on any cards outside of whatever the current focused packs are. Imagine someone joins in January and they have to come back to GA to hard-pull Pikachu
Wonder pick as a system will get worse too if we have to split our attention across packs, come to think of it
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>>56907922
I’d argue that it’s bad etiquette in locals and in funsies, unless you don’t have time or simply have an issue with the person / their deck. Online play is closer to that than a bigger tournament.
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>>56907943
Duel Links real problem is nearly all of the monsters suck and no one has any attachment to any of them unlike Pokemon.
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>>56907922
Almost every card game general has newfags thinking conceding is rage quit. That's because the newfags lack the game sense to realize if they still have an out, so they relate concede to rage quit.
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>>56907922
Unironically just zoomzooms playing their first TCG
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>>56907960
>the newfags lack the game sense to realize if they still have an out
People routinely scoop way too early in online play. The lack of game sense cuts both ways. And are we seriously pretending that people don’t get salty in games like this? lmao
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>>56907879
pikachu should be a 20 damage attack that does 20 more for each benched electric so that he tops out at 80. Starmie you could just drop it to 80 too. 90 HP is a big threshold for non-EX pokemon who can get online at the same speed so it'd be a significant nerf. I dunno if that's possible though. There's probably some law about nerfing something someone paid money to get.
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>>56907918
>Also they need to hurry up and release more expansions fast, Pocket feels too shallow to be entertaining…
Lucky for you they just announce a nameless expansion coming in before the year ends.
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>>56907977
The people that get salty over casualized pokeTCG are actual newfags to TCGs, yeah.
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>>56907977
not the guy your responding to but the games are so short, and there's a decent amount of rng and coinflipping that it feels hard to get mad before the game is already over. It's not a grindfest like some formats of magic or endless combo FTK shit like yugioh. babys first TCG moves fast and feels low stakes
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>>56907984
In normal gacha there's not really a culture of nerfing. But in digital cardgames it's absolutely on the table.
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>One shots all of Pikachu EX deck
>Giovanni makes it one shot all legendary birds, Executor EX (160HP!) & Starmie Ex deck
True meta stomper
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how the fuck is Pikachu ex and raichu a good deck
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>>56908002
Agreed. I can't fathom anyone conceding out of salt here with how the game plays if they had any experience with YGO or Magic.
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>>56907977
It's still not salt though, it's being bad at the game.
No one should scoop at this stage. Inexperienced players don't know when they've actually lost, and inexperienced players will make misplays when they should've won, so even good players shouldn't scoop.
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>>56908007
I've tried running this thing without moltres and it's suffering to get it up and running.
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>>56907863
>Stage 2s viable
>Basic Energy don't take up deck space
>ex as the only rule box cards, no GX-Star-Ace Spec-Shining (yet)
>No deck search cards, only RNG card grabbers in Professor and Pokéball
>Supporters not as potent as main TCG counterparts (Draw 2 vs. 3 or you choose the opponent's new basic).
I even think you could get away with a 30-card, 6-prize format (keeping the 2x card restriction).
You could even bump the bench size to 5 in that mode if Do The Wave/Circle Circuit drop to 20 damage per benched mon.
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So what's the most fun deck? I've played Mewtwo, Pikachu, and Marowak. I wanted to like Marowak, but it's too flippy, and I think I like Mewtwo more than Pika
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>>56907984
>There's probably some law about nerfing something someone paid money to get.
There isn't, but it's a popular misconception that they're not allowed to. The reality is that it's just very rare for a gacha to make balance adjustments because it can set a bad precedent and discourage people from rolling for strong characters/cards in the future.
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>>56907940
Everyone has somewhere to be, anon. Sorry they don't want to devote 30 more of their seconds of life to you
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>>56908007
And if you don't go over four energies, Alakazam can't kill it without Giovanni. It also awards only one point. Charizard is still preferable but it's a good alternative if you're on a budget or need to clear some of those missions in solo.
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>>56908032
>I think I like the strongest meta deck
yeah you and everyone else bud.
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>>56908043
I'm asking what the most fun deck is because I probably have enough pack points to buy it if it isn't Mewtwo or Pikachu.
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>>56908032
Dragonite, because you can get double or triple or quadruple kills and it is hilarious when it happens.
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i play pikachu because i like to win
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>>56908033
>they're going to fuck it up
DROPPED! So glad I didn't paypig this shit game.
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>>56907999
>>56908002
I’m with you. The only thing that has gotten under my skin so far has been bad luck with the initial coin flip in the pvp event. I’ve heard the matchmaking gets tougher as you progress, and that seems to be true based on my experience. So when I have a play session where 5/6 games have me going first against nothing but mewtwo / pika decks, that rng starts to teeter on the line of funny and annoying. Even worse when I manage to brick on top of it all. Makes for long, difficult games.
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>>56908053
Double hypno on any psychic deck. Forces an obnoxious amount of coinflips to your opponent.
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>>56908058
seething mistycuck
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>>56908009
Pikachu kill everything, if Pikachu can't kill it Raichu kill it.
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>>56908033
Thank you, it's so rare for people to actually point out that no, there is no laws for this shit.
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>>56908032
I like Arbok/Weezing, just because it's hilarious when something like a Zapdos gets stuck in the active position and just has to sit there until it dies.
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I'm too nervous to play real people. I hope they ass more solo missions.
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>>56908099
just play in the normal queue instead of the event one. There's plenty of people in there with suboptimal stuff who don't remember weezing can attack besides applying poison.
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>>56908085
I'm running it too, but I also have a 1-1 Muk. I'm conflicted about it because it's not terribly useful a lot of times, but sometimes I surprise my opponents that take out my Wheezing by throwing out a grimer and evoing him to nuke them. Sometimes holding back the evo can make a nice jumpscare.
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>>56908040
It's a lot easier to set up than Charizard too because it's only 1 evolution, so if you get lucky with a triple Moltres heads it's GG
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>>56908102
>just play in the normal queue instead of the event one.
Do you only get event points in the event queue though?
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>>56908033
>The reality is that it's just very rare for a gacha to make balance adjustments because it can set a bad precedent and discourage people from rolling for strong characters/cards in the future.
not a gacha but this happened with helldivers 2. The devs nerf based on usage stats because none of them play the game much thus the game had a pretty harsh nerf cycle. A lot of weapons were used not necessarily due to their strength but because they didn't feel like shit to use. So when new premium weapons come out and keep getting nerfed shortly after their release players stopped buying them as much. If your shit isn't even going to function the same at the end of the month why bother paying to get it faster?
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>>56908099
Go and play a few rounds and it'll get better.
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>>56908103
koga makes that deck a lot better because you can grind them down with weezing and then pull him before he dies to finish the job with grimer.
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>>56908109
obviously? You don't get anything for the event besides the little ribbon, it doesn't do anything.
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>>56908109
yes
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So the nips came up with this. Are you gonna try it or remain a spot loyalist?
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>>56908124
Incorrect.
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If Marowak is Las Vegas Bonehead what are Zapdos/Jolteon/etc's funny nicknames?
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>>56908124
And a big sack of stardust for 50 wins.
But I think all of the pack hourglasses are just playing, no wins necessary.
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>>56908129
Retarded nonsense.
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>>56908136
You just need to participate 10 matches for the 24 hourglasses
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>>56908129
Fake and gay just like bent corner packs
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there's koga and sabrina are the 2 trainer cards that can meaningfully change the board state so of course playing weezing is more fun
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>>56908129

i'm too tired of doing this schoolyard make believe bullshit
i'm just gonna pick whatever
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>>56908134
Compulsive gamblers?
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>>56907361
Grasslads? H-hello?
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>>56908136
oh yeah you get the hourglasses for playing but you can instant concede to save time. The dust is basically useless because the game gives you so much of it and you still need the actual cards if you want to get flairs.
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>>56908099
I'm like you, it gets easier the more you play. Take it as a personal challenge, there is nothing on the line. The game doesn't even track losses.
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>>56908153
No I want them to have their own nicknames!
I'm gonna call Jolteon Las Vegas Perro.
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the gigaleak is finally over it seems, so now we get /ppg/ all to ourselves
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>>56908129
>card counting in a digital card game
is this the secret knowledge you unlock when you learn moonrunes?
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>>56908129
I will never abandon my allegiance to Bottom Right.
It's gotten me too much good shit.
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THAR SHE BLOWS
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>>56908099
as someone who hates ranked in games and just got to 45 wins in the event, you should not be nervous. There's no win/loss ratio, no chat, no real interaction besides the thanks you autoclick after the match ends. It's frankly the most chill versus mode I've seen in a while. They're barely better than the lapras AI and half the time their decks are worse. If my jank half complete pile can do it without much trouble, you definitly can.

Just pretend you're playing against solo bots.
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>>56908196
How many cards total in that account?
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>>56908196
>level 48
this guy is farming flairs for his favorite full arts, good lord.
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>>56908160
We don't play comp. We'll beat your meta decks in the Versus, the real jungle.
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Think we'll be able to trade for chancy cards?
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>>56907361
WEEZINGSISTERS??? OUR RESPONSE??
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>>56907361
moltres arcanine is better than charizard?
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The Pokemon Pocket experience.
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>>56908129
Nah, I've had a full art Dragonite shown in WP as bottom right, and after shuffling it stayed bottom right
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>>56908175
Zap and Jolteon flip too many coins to be las vegas. The gambling part only comes into play when you need to hit 3-4 flips to get a KO. Something like "The Pling Kings" would be a more apt moniker.
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>>56908219
Weezing's matchup against Pikachu isn't great.
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>>56908111
Balance is such a funny thing where it's not easy (and may be totally impossible) to get everything in a game in perfect equilibrium, but at the same times some devs are so fucking retarded and know nothing about their own games that they make it look a million times harder than it actually is to get things reasonably close. And that's not even getting started on Blizzard Balance where devs just randomly nerf and buff things not because it's going to increase the overall balance, but because regularly changing what's strong and what's weak drives engagement as people hope to get "their turn" at being King Shit.
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>go first
>lose
How do we fix this?
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>>56908242
weezing or exeggcutor ex for the turn 3 evolution and 1 energy attack
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>playing for my 35th pvp event win
>take turn 1
>opponent plays a lone staryu
>evolve blitzle on turn 3, x speed it in
>game ends
That’s rough.
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>>56907922
I only concede if it's early in the game and I know I'll lose. Otherwise, I let my opponent enjoy winning outright.
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>>56908242
give energy on turn 1 but no attacking or draw.
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>>56908230
That's not funny though...
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>>56908221
I wouldn't have thought it before, but I see it.
>only one evo
>only needs 3 energy and can get it in one flip
>120+giovanni will kill most things early
>solid 150hp buffer to take the self damage and then some
I would run it but I can't give up doing 200 damage
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>>56908221
No, it can't even one shot Mewtwo. I don't know why they keep memeing that deck. Evolution really is not that big of an issue. Unlike Mewtwo Gardevoir, you can set Charizard up before it evolves, and the longer the game, the more likely it is that it evolves. Arcanine's recoil and low HP is a problem, but you can probably set it a bit faster so impatient zoom zooms like running it more.
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>>56908160
It's rough out here in the grasslands
>If you don't want to use a normal type your closest equivalent to a fat basic is Eggs ex (hexs good but it's entirely possible it can get kiled before evolving
>Our energy acceleration is tied to a stage 1 mon and needs two energy to get going
> Venusaur doesn't do big dick damage like the other two in favor of bringing in the age of fatso

At least we have nuts healing thanks to Erika
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>>56908242
pack misty and your choice of EX lapras or EX articuno
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>>56908129
I've picked top right every single time and I've never gotten a single fucking thing I want but I'm still not going to change because I'm just going to end up seething no matter which spot I pick.
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>>56907940
It's a game I'm probably playing while taking a shit or on a break I'm not going to wait for you to play a bunch of cards when you could have killed my mon when the turn started. No extra points for you, slowmo.
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>>56908230
so why is two coins vegas then?
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>>56908230
Not him but "it's more coins so it doesn't count" is stupid if anything it makes MORE sense
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what are all the Promo-A cards?
it looks like i have all of them but theres empty spots still
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>>56908318
There's more promo events planned. Check the OP for the data mined events
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>>56908318
Missing a premium pass mewtwo, another drop event that has 5 cards and a chansey-like event with 2 cards
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>>56908318
turn on the missing cards toggle then go into search and go all the way to the bottom, there's another toggle there that'll show you all the missing promo cards
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>>56908298
>>56908312
the more coins you flip the more likely you are to land somewhere in the middle. With say seaking it's all or nothing, maximum vegas. Marowak is 2 so getting double heads or double tails is very possible and the damage is big so even 1 coin can make or break a match. With Zapdos and Jolteon you will frequently get two heads, sometimes get 1 or 3, and almost never see 0 or 4, so you take that into account and usually don't end up in a situation where you're solely depending on luck.
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>>56908346
Stupid reasoning and you don't know how statistics work.
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This is a fun deck. You should try it if you have the cards.
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>>56908274
both fighting and grass heavily suffer from not having a basic EX
dark only survives cause it's non EXs are real good
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>>56908323
>>56908329
>>56908339
oh so the next update will still be called Promo-A?
i thought it would change to promo-B
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>>56908367
it's promo pack A series 2
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Im cumming
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>>56908359
What's so fun about it?
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>>56908357
>flip one coin to do some or no damage, flip 2 or 3 or 4
wow I wonder which option gives me the highest likelyhood of some kind of return on investment. Doesn't take a stats major to figure that one out.
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>>56908357
He's semi right.
The chances to 50/50 dont change between number of coins.
What becomes less likely is hitting the edge cases.
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>>56908274
Liligant barely even counts as energy acceleration. It's more like a slightly stronger version of Rapidash that doesn't work going first.
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>>56908382
1. bugs
2. no ex
3. fastt
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>>56908387
Exception single coin flip is true gameble since you have only "edge" cases.
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>>56908381
can't wait until they add crobat and he's not complete shit
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>>56908129
truck mew type of shit
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>>56908398
I really want to see some more tertiary evo's added. Would love if they put in steelix and scizor to flesh out metal more.
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>>56908381
that art is better than some ex
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When you lose during the lapras event does it consume the stamina? Also this thing using a 12-hour stamina system is kinda dogshit. Everything in this game taking 12 fucking hours is dogshit in general, this is the kind of stingy shit gacha games release with then get heavily reduced when the devs realize it's far too insane.
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>>56908415
>When you lose during the lapras event does it consume the stamina?
no
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>>56908382
crashing and burning, it seems
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>>56908412
brock could also really use onix having a useful evo instead of being ass too
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6 cards left
>5 of them are 2x mewtwo, 2x oak, 1x pokeball
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>>56908415
it doesn't, you can keep retrying till you win.
>12 stamina sucks
they want you to whale. not really for the event though, that's pretty easy to get through normally unless you're desperate for that ex lapras.
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>>56908428
good bait
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>>56908426
Trust the plan.
Comes Jan, people will call NERF BROCK...
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>>56908437
nvm all the steelix's are basics

RIP BROCK
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>>56908381
With a hole that big?
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>>56908450
brock only gives one energy anyway. They could change steelix for pocket and make him an evo
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>>56908437
why does pokemon love coins?
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>>56907389
>wizards are nerds you can easily punch
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>>56908395
>gets destroyed by any half competent deck of any type
It sucks actually.
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Honestly, I don't think pika needs to be nerfed. It's won percentage is so high because it mops the floor with bad decks.

Mewtwo and Pika are solidly tier one IMO.
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>>56908477
no need for nerfs if it gets power creeps within the next main set
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>>56908477
does it beat bad decks or does it beat most decks that don't also get started immediately?
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>>56908477
I also think that Mewtwo and Pika don't need nerfed. I think they're a good baseline for top tier decks. Just print similar power level decks of other types. In doing so, there might also be better anti-meta decks created.
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>>56908386
"Return investment" means nothing if you don't get the kill, retard. It's also more exciting when you get 4 heads over 2 heads.
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>>56908501
>more likely to kill if you manage to do any damage
fancy that
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>>56908129
This would be so much harder to build as a dev than actual random. Same as the coin flip. Fake as fuck.
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>>56908474
Not if you kill them first
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>>56908129
Top middle, like a fiddle.
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>>56908477
The problem is that "bad deck" means "deck that loses to a 90 damage attack on turn 2",
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>>56908507
Except that the coin flip both literally works, and would be harder to code to be truly random while also making it obey the flip like it does now.
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>>56908032
You're missing the point of the first post, my dude.
>doesn't bother trying the deck
>wants other people to just give them their experiences so he can skip to the finalized product

I'll say it again, redditor.

Try the deck for yourself.

Throw whatever shit you want into the deck and find out what works.

Try thinking for once.

What felt good and what didn't?

What slowed you down? Are there any alternatives that are faster/cheaper/stronger?

What are the trade-offs?

Figure this shit out instead of asking for strangers to spoonfeed you.

Holy shit, how do you even enjoy the game if you don't want to play it?

Are you honestly telling me that pro-players never try their own shit out and just wait for a bunch of nerds on /vp/ to theorycraft for them, Mr. "Professional TCG Cicle"?

There, I even put breaks in between each sentence to help with your reading comprehension.
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Are we excited for Gen 3?
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>>56908506
I wouldn't expect you to get it
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>>56908530
Do all dragon mon have stupid energy requirments?
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>>56908526
You're retarded. The flip animation has no bearing on the result. It would be so much harder to build that.
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>>56908527
Stop posting this shit
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>>56908538
Yes
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>>56908538
they be the slow endgame decks
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>>56908538
Yeah it's their gimmick
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>>56908521
Fair enough kek. It really does feel like Pika and m2 are the only playable decks.
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>>56908532
cynthia please stop getting eaten by the pokemon...
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>>56908527
>reddit spaced shitpost
This would be a great post if this was a game where everyone had every card unlocked by default. However, this is a gacha game, not everyone has every card, and some people (like me) have to pick and choose what they buy with their pack points.
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>>56908538
Yes. In the Pokemon TCG Dragon is a meme type that is basically just multi-color, rather than being an actual energy type of it's own.
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I wanna see where they go with water types in the future. Feels like Misty would be a spectre to all future water type designs.
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Thanks to whichever one of you watched my gay stream, even though I punted that one game and we lost a lot. The beginning of the stream I was 5-0 then a viewer came and I lost a ton :(
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>>56908543
You can literally see the flip animation. They had to code it do work the way it does, and making it somehow force itself to be heads or tails instead of just following the result the flip naturally leads to would be way harder.
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>>56908557
my charizard+moltres has been shitting on mewtwo decks recently but it still goes even against pika decks. not having a good starting hand really hurts against pika
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>>56908571
Why does everyone suddenly want to fuck Misty?
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>>56908571
Misty and Starmie ex are so fucning good. It's just sharticuno and Lapras ex suck
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>>56908579
>suddenly
been that way since the 90's
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>>56908530
Not if this is the level of quality we can look forward to.
These cards are fucking terrible.
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>>56908571
blasting all my energy into misty
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>>56908586
>>56908574
.... Sir they just start a predetermined animation with an RNG. Are you trolling me?
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>>56908538
Yes. Even before the Dragon type was added, that was the gimmick Dragon Pokemon had (although they went back and forth on it a few times). They just made it an official type so they could do dragon-specific support, like Rainbow energy that only work on Dragons.
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>60 damage for one energy
Pikafags, your response? KNEEL.
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>>56908580
Lapras EX has exploitable weaknesses but is a tanky guy.
Dude is like water venusaur
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>>56908591
And yet, players can have a near 100% success rate if they know what they're doing. Curious.
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>>56908577
I wanna battle you. I've been doing fly well against zard with m2, but people are fucking awful, so ot doesn't mean much. Same goes for the average m2 player. This game is quite intricate.

Inb4 we rehash this conversation and someone says it's le simple play chess.
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>>56908594
is this dude top tier in the tcg too?
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>>56908532
Not even in the game yet. If you're going to spam, get your catchphrases right dumbass
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>>56908589
Ill show you something even worse
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>>56908594
this specifies -EX, pikachu in this game is ex, they're completely different
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>>56908543
It did until a few days ago. The Japanese found a way to always flip heads, so they quick patched the coin so there's always variation in its velocity now.
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>>56908594
You mean 10, because my active isn't an EX when this thing is in front.
>>56908607
2015, I didn't play at that time but seems kinda mid to me.
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>>56908595
3 to retreat and 3 to swing is baaaad. Sabrina drawing one out is always game.
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>>56908612
>>56908614
What's the difference between EX and ex... dafaq
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>>56908594
>weakness x2 to electric
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>>56908609
>This is what passes for a 'legendary' pokemon in the tcg
Literally weaker than the leek slapper.
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>>56908613
>It did until [headcanon]
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>>56908607
Not that one. Pick related was absolutely meta for a while a decade ago, though.
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>>56908603
Proofs?
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>>56908622
This is 2004. EX from that era would be weaker than the ones we have in Pocket.
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>>56908620
theres 3 different "ex" types throughout the tcg, ex, EX and, like your rayquaza-EX shows, -EX. the attack on rayquaza specifies "Pokemon-EX", which is not "Pokemon ex"
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>>56908628
cant wait to see our boy in pocket bros...
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>>56908609
Not as bad as the crystal cards at least. How embarrassing!
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>>56908628
>Guaranteed 120 damage MINIMUM for 2 energy
I can see why it was meta.
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So as somebody who only played Yugioh i just got into this game recently

my question is, whats stopping people from just having an all EX deck since it's the quickest way to kill your opponent?
most EX only need 2 energies to do 40+ damage
why waste your time with a 1 energy chump that does 30 when you'll end up only doing 60 at best and your opponent will have an end game 80+ monster in 3 turns?
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>>56908594
You're three generations of keywords ago pal. EXs were a Gen 6 TCG thing, we're in Gen 9 and back to ex cards in the real tcg. Gen 7 was GX, and Gen 8 was V/V-MAX, so I can understand being a bit confused.
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>>56908628
Seems quite strong kek but the new cards are like 1 colorless energy draw 7 cards kek
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>>56908032
I like Exeggutor EX and Venusaur EX for relatively easy set-up and constant healing
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>>56908606
6869169271546237
it's late my timezone but if you friend me we can run a ft3
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>>56908650
For consistency, you'd need those EX to be the same type.
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>>56908357
>>56908501
More coins = more 50% chances = more likely to land somewhere in the middle. Law of averages and all that. For something to be considered "las vegas" it needs to be volatile. A low number of extreme outcomes. The more possible outcomes you have the less likely you are to get all or nothing. For example, a Marowak that flipped 16 coins for 10 damage each wouldn't be nearly as fun. Because if you had to flip 16 heads to kill something, the odds would be astronomical. 16 heads in a row is basically pointless to try, you'll never do it outside of maybe one crazy lucky day. But 2 coins? Now you've got a chance. Now you can actually roll that dice and have a feasible chance of coming out a winner. With that only happens in the few occurances where you need exactly max damage to kill something, and the more likely chance to hit an average means you naturally play to avoid these situations since you can somewhat reliably expect around 40-80 damage, and you'll only risk the slim chance at 4 heads if you're forced into a position where you have no other choice.
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>>56908650
EX Pokemon give two prizes. So non-EX decks like Blaine or Weezing/Arbok can win just by killing two Pokemon before your opponent can kill three.
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>>56908650
ex losing two points when they're ko'd can fuck you if you're just spamming those without any normal cards
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>>56908641
Can you tell me about the barcode thingy on these cards?
I won a MTG tournament for FNM and they were out of MTG packs so I cracked 1 pack of thise set. Obviously this was ages ago. The pack had charizard and foil charizard
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>>56908673
That's an ereader barcode. You could scan them on a gba with the ereader attachment to download dex entries, minigames, and some other shit.
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>>56908653
what is the difference?
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>>56908676
Sorry I'm so retarded, but what's the name of that set? I wanna see if these zards have any collector value
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>>56908673
nigga do you know how expensive crystal charizard is
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I wish trainer cards had flavor text
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>>56908682
expedition or skyridge
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>>56908673
I had an e-reader as a kid. Basically, you swipped the card with the GBA e-card reader and it would give you a program. The bottom barcade just gave you a Pokedex entry. The side barcode did all sorts of crazy shit. From coin flipping programs to minigames to a weird "build your own 8 bit platformer" thing. A few cards even had secret attacks you could only see if you scanned the card (like when you scanned it, it would show a 2 energy attack that did 50 damage and applied a random effect. You pushed A every time you used it to see what the random effect was).
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>>56908682
If you're talking about pic related it's the crystal charizard from skyridge. One of the rarest zards of all time.
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>>56908650
EX Pokemon deal like 20-30 more damage than non-EX, while having 20-30 more HP than non-EX Pokemon. In exchange for this 20-30 HP advantage, they give the opponent 2 of the 3 points they need to win.

As was already mentioned, something like a Blaine card (+30 damage) gives you one turn of "EX" power. Ninetales, for some reason, does 90 damage already, which is Pikachu EX levels of damage, but Ninetales isn't EX, and if you use a Blaine card with the Ninetales, you can one shot a Pikachu EX with a non-EX card very early. When your Ninetales dies, you only give up 1 point, compared to the 2 points Pika gave up. There's also Alakazam, which essentially one shots every threat in the game other than Exeggutor.

I'm not saying this is god tier busted or anything, but an argument can definitely be made for not playing EXs. There's also more "honor" in not playing EXs.
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>>56908684
I have the basic shiny char, but unfortunately it's slightly played condition. It was like 100s of dollars last I checked. I traded a kid in summer camp a poptart (not both but just one of the 2) for it kek. I love that story
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Weezing deck is kinda fun. Needs a big attack though.
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>>56908692
>>56908641
I hope they fired whoever came up with this idea.
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>>56908702
put it with nidoking
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>>56908692
Oh no, it's expedition zard. Looks to be worth like 75 bucks for the foil tho
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>>56908650
>whats stopping people from just having an all EX deck
Nothing. Articuno, Pikachu, Charizard, and some starmie decks are almost entirely EX. The game is just in it's early stages so there aren't a huge number to choose from, so people are using normal pokemon to stall while they set up the big EXs since they can afford to lose 2 of those.
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>>56908704
They literally unironically did since skyridge was the last WOTC printed card. TPC took full control shortly after their release.
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Am I getting jewed out of my hourglass if I burn 2 with 1.5 hours to go, or does it carry the minutes over to the next
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>>56908710
you can optimize those EX decks with fossils so you can throw those up as meat shields when necessary and unlike basic cards, pokeball doesn't search for fossils so your more likely to pull the EX's you need.
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>>56908704
You've gotta remember 2 things: The E-reader cards had a VERY low power level compared to other sets (it was meant to be a hard reboot, but shit happened) and weakness was 2x at the time. A Pokemon who could exploit multiple weaknesses worked as a fun gimmick, even if they saw no tournament play.
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>>56908717
it doesn't carry over the minutes, it resets back to 11 hours 59 minutes. Don't get tricked into wasting hourglasses to save 5 minutes
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>>56908727
No it doesn't?
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>>56908678
EXs were all basics, but exs have to be built up to. Comparing two on-meta decks in the real tcg, the core card for both is a Gardevoir, but you could get the EX online and blasting much faster than you can the ex, in my experience.
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>>56908648
>or
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>>56908717
yeah the minutes carry over
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>>56908236
Things they should patch
>make the promo Mew card one colorless energy to use, so people can put it in any deck like meowth
>make Bulbasaur’s attack 1 energy, 20 damage, heals him for 20
>Meltans gather energy should do 10 damage
>remove all coin flips from the game
>Make scyther and hitmonchan do 40 damage or nerf farfetched down to 30 or make farfetched 2 retreat cost, it makes no sense that little bird is better than 2 actual cool moms and they have maybe a slight hp edge
>petlils heal has never ever in a single game ever come into play or made a difference, make its move do 0 damage but give it an energy, or do 20 damage, or just heal itself for 20 and do no damage.
>vulpixes tail whip should do 10 damage
>desu Moltres’ inferno dance should do 10 damage
>charmander should not discard energy with its move, it could even stay 30 to make it not a shitmon, or go down to 20 and be fair
>I want to say buff poliwrath nuts it has so much and it still sucks somehow, maybe give it 10 more hp.
>Cloyster is easy, it’s shell armor should do -20 damage, and maybe more hp/ either or
>seadra’s water arrow should do 20 damage to the active Pokémon along with its damage
Lots of mons would be fixed with lower cost attacks, omastar is a good example, give it the watergun attack that omanyte has and it’d fix it.

This is because of the going first disadvantage, because of shitty evolution jumps in energy and game pacing, it becomes impossible to attack for 3-4 turns sometimes, Bulbasaur is a good example of that, you can either choose to evolve and not attack, or risk it, your opponent doesn’t have to make that choice.
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>>56908635
Okay, that's nice.
When will they release PokemonS-EX as a card type in the tcg though?
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>>56908765
when you finally stop jerking off
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>>56908753
>moltres inferno dance should do 10 damage
>charmander basic attack shouldn't discard energy
I play this team and I'm telling you, that's way too good. If anything moltres or charizard could be nerfed. Nothing currently even has 200 health and getting to flip 3 coins for energy when misty doesn't give you shit 50% of time is kind of absurd. But rather than nerfing anything, I'd rather the other archetypes get better energy sourcing support. maybe some abilities for the lesser played basic mons
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someone give me a dark deck to kill all mewtwo trannies
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>>56908753
there's so many completely dogshit cards that they would never do it, it's on purpose
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>>56908793
Arbok/NidoKING
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>>56908793
I've been having fun with Weezing/Arbok. Very funny when you Giovanni one of the Gardevoir, then Arbok ensures it can't retreat.
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Arbok sucks.
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i think its cool that a deck is made up of only team rocket pokemon like Arbok/Koffing
very cool
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>>56908793
the weezing arbok deck beats it handily
muk and nidoking are too slow usually
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Weezing is the most flexible card in the game debate me
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>>56908809
Arbok is amazing. 2HKOs Mewtwo for only two energy plus prevents it from retreating to safety.
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>>56908825
If you keep it out to try and actually kill anything, it's not that good at that. It's good for forcing switches but against the heavy hitters it folds quickly.
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Are there any Charizard EX decks that don't have Moltres EX? I just got the immersion art for my 2nd copy of it, but I have no Moltres and I really don't have any interest in a Charizard deck anyway
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>>56908822
even pikachuds bow before the king
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>A lucky Wonder Pick sends me down the path of opening Zard packs for a second Starmie ex
>A lucky Wonder Pick gets me a second Starmie ex
It must be my birthday. OH WAIT, IT IS.
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Picking the same one every time or random for wonder trade? My bottom left only strategy isn't working all that great.
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>>56908111
So booster packs are assumed to be limited time, meaning you’ll only be able to trade and maybe wonder pick these cards at some point? I wonder how the rotation will work with that, or if cards will every rotate but maybe just become not viable?
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>>56908842
happy birthday anon
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>>56908793
As a mewtwo tranny, arbok weezing is all you need
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>>56908842
Happy Birthday, Anonkun!
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>>56908844
I'm guessing you'll always be able to wonder pick or roll for the cards but they'll probably make it so you can't trade for cards from the latest booster pack
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>>56908129
Does he mean 3 places cuz the numbers he’s saying only makes sense if he means 3 places.
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>>56908832
Moltres is the best card in that deck and that color, so no
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>>56908842
Scorpiochads stay winning. Happy birthday anon, here is a Magmar Pepe for you.
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>>56908854
That’s gonna be fucking awful if you want a full art card that you might have to keep rolling instead of being able to buy it after a set amount.

Literally pray that the people running this game and Pokémon company in general grow a brain someday soon.
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>already have 2 Mewtwo EXs
>get the immersion art Mewtwo EX
>still don't have Koga or Weezing or Exeggutor or any of the other shit in that pack
>don't even have Gardevoir
Why can't I dismantle the cards I don't want and turn them into pack points? Even if this card only gave me half of what it cost in pack points, I would be cool with that.
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>>56908753
Make Misty only work on psyduck, starmie, and gyarados. Make Erika heal 70 but work only on vileplume, victreebel, and tangela then add in an aroma lady supporter who does what Erika did previously so Venusaur still works. Make pikachu deal 20 damage naturally but only gain 20 for each benched electric. Make golem only deal 20 damage to itself and let brock work on Geodude too.
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>>56908874
exeggutor is charizard pack, I should know
'cause I can't seem to get a second one or any of the other good shit in that pack, goddamnit I just wanna move onto another pack
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>>56908889
I guess I meant Venusaur then. Just anything. I don't have anything at all from this pack except 2 regular Mewtwo EXs and an immersion art Mewtwo EX. It's very frustrating. No Marowak EX, no Koga, no Articuno EX, no Weezing, no Pidgeot, no Golbat, no regular Mewtwo, nothing.

I really feel like I should be able to turn it into pack points or something. Hopefully the trade fixes this, but it's not coming until January.
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Choosing the booster pack doesn't matter when pulling singles, right?
I got a god pack sometime ago and my superstition was to always pick the 7th pack.
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>>56908926
yeah, each pack is different, when you pull 10 you're just opening each pack that would've been in the circle
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>open 10 mewtwo packs
>no Mewtwo
>no Giovanni
>no Gardevoir
>no Koga
>no Muk
>no Weezing
>no Venasuar
>2 Aerodactyl
>1 Articuno ex
Feels like a waste.
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>>56908957
Never open 10 packs. My schizo theory is that your RNG seed is rolled only once for the 10 packs. It's either god tier or shit tier, with like a 90% chance to be shit tier.
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>>56908926
No, the result is determined when you hit the button.
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>>56908957
>2 aerodactyl
it's a sign. Go forth and flip coins.
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>>56908926
No it doesn't matter which pack you choose.
The cards are decided when you hit the 'open pack' button, before the 'pack wheel'.
The wheel is just meant to create the illusion that you're picking a pack like in an IRL store.
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>>56908129
Crazy I have the exact setup the example gives right now.
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>>56908129
Forgot pic, let’s see if it works.
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>>56908959
That's not how seeds work anon.
If all 10 packs used the same RNG seed, they would all produce the exact same result.
Also no gacha company would ever be insane enough to use fucking system time for their RNG seed as it's one of the easiest for players to predict and therefore manipulate to get the pulls they want.

Most gacha use a combination of unique variables to create a compound seed unique to each pull, this way it is impossible for players to manipulate or predict the seed in order to control their pulls.
I can guarantee that this game almost definitely works the same way, though only the developers of the game would know what variables are used to create the seed.
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>>56909003
Here we go..
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>>56909006
Don't care. Obviously I mean "good seed" or "bad seed". I play by feel, and that's how I feel.
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>>56909010
Wow he's cute good luck
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>>56909015
based feeler
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>>56909015
this is how I have everything I want on FGO. I believe esoteric things like hot periods and bad luck strings. It has no factual backing, the opposite in some cases, and yet it still works.
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>>56909018
>>56909010
Big fucking waste and the position of the cards proves this doesn’t work cuz Squirtle was in the same place he started during the pick :’( I’m gonna puke
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>found out you can turn packs before opening them
Okay this is cool. I do that IRL too. I don't know if it means I'll be seeing the rares first though.
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>>56909037
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>>56909044
>>56909037
Lol
Bottom Right for life.
Never lets me down (except the times it does but those don't count).
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>>56909038
Myth, busted?
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>>56909044
even if it worked you picked the wrong one. It would be on the top right.
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>>56909044

>doesnt know bottom right is always right
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>>56909054
3 stamina Liligant
kek
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I actually think the card is predetermined before picking a card and choosing it just a visual flair
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>>56909066
No shit.
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>>56909044
Just curious but what was Meowth position when you chose it?
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>>56909052
I'm a top right purist myself
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I believe in the heart of the cards...
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>free premium expires
Welp, guess it's time for 2 packs per day
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>>56908842
Happy birthday Anon !
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>>56909085
You had a 2/5 chance of a good card, but I think the Porygon is cooler
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>>56909094
I already had that Pory but didn't have Venusaur, my stamina was about to max out anyway so I just pulled whatever
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>>56909096
>completely empty bench
I don't think I've seen this happen once to an ex pikachu player.
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>>56909100
Wow you really took a risk on a duplicate Porygon glad fortune favored the brave
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>>56909092
mr stark.. i dont want to go...
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>>56909096
>>56909101
Should have a single Zapdos
And Mewtwo should have a Kirla and Ralts or double Kirlia just acting like retarded children he needs to babysit, that or a Gardevoir waiting on a bus or something.
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>>56909117
I think the joke is that mew two is supposed to be more consistent because gardevoir always nets one extra energy, but setting up gardevoir is *slightly* harder than pikachu just having any other pokemon to sit on the bench.
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Wheezing ability should work from the bench.
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>>56909129
But who else would be doing the tanking then?
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>>56909092
personally I'm waiting til the new packs release to start my free trial of winrar.
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>>56909129
that's why I love hypno, you can have two of them on your bench sleeping your opponent and if they use sabrina to swap in one, you still have a back up to keep putting them to sleep.
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it's only a matter of time til we get this
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>>56909135
Your mon that gets a damage boost against a poisoned opponent.
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>>56908903
Same here, only difference is i got a marowak
I want to build a dark deck but i already have a mew(2) deck ready. It is what it is, i'll save the secret t0 nidoking deck for last.
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>>56909145
if anything they'll only make it work with one specific type, I doubt they'll power creep x speed that fast
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>>56909145
No, that's why X Speed exists.
It's this, but worse, because it would be disproportionately good.
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>>56909145
>>56909152
YOU CALLED?
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>>56909139
Redpill me on the free trial
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>>56909161
Yes I am aware of Scoop up but dis nigga scoops up your koffing TOO and then you just play it down so it's like asdfghdsf its good we love Koga in this thread
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>>56909161
>gets rid of the grimer/koffing when shuffling their evos back into your deck
yeah nah
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What if the miniset is about the elite 4 but it's Johto's elite 4? Koga support and Karen to usher us into a dark age? Could be fun.
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>>56909174
It would make too much sense..
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>>56909169
>gets rid of the grimer/koffing when shuffling their evos back into your deck
I think you mean healing back the grimer/koffing when moving them to you bench
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>>56909168
this early 2000s 3D weedle is so cute
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>>56907322
I miss back when the pokemen had levels
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>>56909183
weedle had a hard life
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>>56909174
Miniset is obviously Kanto E4, with a heavy focus on Dragons. Definitely a Dragonite ex. The E4 each get a trainer card too, definitely. Probably more Items as we're definitely lacking in deck building options.
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>>56909160
eh I don't think it would be that bad. X-speed is effectively a switch for most of the meta decks. switch would just make those heavy cards like gyarados, onix, lapras, and snorlax more viable.
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>>56909101
I have.
It was hysterical.
Then on turn 2 he played a second Pikachu EX to his field, this time a crown rare version.
Then on turn 3 he conceded.

I actually felt a little bad for the guy, bricked like a motherfucker. Was still fucking funny though.
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>>56907361
It's exactly how the other anon said, Pikachu is the most consistent strong deck and will win against luck based decks, aka the other 90%, on average. However, if they get lucky, you just lose without any chance to fight back as you cannot pull out a Misty or Moltres out the ass, or perfect Gardevoir lineup. It's the only deck that doesn't rely on energy stacking haxx and uses honest Lt Surge at most
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>>56909214
Futureproofing is a bitch like that.
Now, I would expect they'll eventually do something like the ACE trainer cards, where you can only have one of those in a deck, Switch could be one of those. Having to pick between that and other ACE cards makes it a choice that would benefit those large cost mons.
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Dragon needing multiple element is still weird in this game. Energy generation is more restrictive here.
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>>56907601
This looks so unoptimised, a line with just 2 cards is gambling.
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>>56909209
Is Gengar ex in the game?

If each of the E4 get an ex, then what is it?
Slowbro ex for Lorelei?
Onix ex for Bruno
Gengar ex for Agatha
Dragonite ex for Lance?
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>>56909246
it is but no one plays it
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>>56909209
I hope this happens. Dragons don't have any support and neither does Metal which is barely an archetype.
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>>56909246
Onix Ex isn't something they'd do, since it's not a final evolution.
The rat is an exception.
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>>56909246
Gengar, Lapras and Machamp already have ex versions so if they add Dragonite the elite 4 is covered.
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>>56909259
Dragon, Metal and Dark are the types that are lacking in variety and support in the initial release set.
So it wouldn't shock me if the mini set focuses on those 3 types with some bits and pieces for the other types.
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>>56909246
Gengar ex is in the game, but it's less optimal than mew two so you hardly see it. 3 energy to attack and only does 100. It is tankier and it's ability denies support, but denying support matters less in later turns when your opponenet has most likely played their prof oaks and shit already.
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>>56909246
each pack has 5 ex's
i'd say dragonite and gary are locked in
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>>56909267
>3 of the Elite 4 already have EX cards of their ace pokemon
>They're all terrible
lol
lmao
Hopefully Dragonite EX doesn't suck ass. It'd be nice if at least one was actually decent.
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>>56909231
Statistically they should brick way more often than they actually do. If I struggle to find my Stage 1s most games, Pikachu should be struggling to find 4x basics. I can only imagine that 90% of their bricks happen during matches against each other and they never happen against me.
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>>56909259
No shit steel doesn't have good support in the set based on the gen where it didn't exist. Skarmory, Steelix and Scizor will be here in a couple months.
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Would you rather Immersive Dragonite or Immersive Gyarados?
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>>56909274
Dragonite is already a very good card, just lacking the support to make it consistent to set up. If they give EX a 3 or 2 energy attack on top of draco meteor that would be huge.
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>>56909281
Can't wait for Steelix and Scizor. Steel type has a bunch of cool pokemon but I really don't like mawile.
>>56909285
if they did a johto themed pack, we could get a lake of rage red immersive gyarados
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>koga: always here before you need him
>girl cards: never there even in a pinch
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>>56909291
>we could get a lake of rage red immersive gyarados
that would be so cool man
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>>56909294
Sabrina has never failed me and Erika always seems to be there for my opponent. Misty can suck a dick tho
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>>56909281
I think it'd be cool if the steel cards had one card that used Steel, and one card that used their colour energy. So e.g. Scizor would have a 1 steel 1 colourless attack that did 70 damage, and a 1 grass 2 colourless attack that did 90.
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>>56909285
gyarados blows him out of the water no contest
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>>56909269
Metal and Steel are obviously gonna get a lot of support set 2. Which should be gen 2. It'll also likely introduce tools you can attach.
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>>56909286
>>56909274
Personally, I feel that Dragonite ex should take dark energy somewhere instead of water and electric
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>>56909294
Erika is always there.
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>>56909310
>redo stadium
>everytime you flip tails on your first flip a turn you may flip again and try for heads
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>>56909271
Slowbro ex also seems extremely likely to me.

We also don't have a colorless ex. Yet either.

We could also maybe see a viable Mew. Or Mew ex.
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>>56909317
>we also don't have a colorless ex
wigglytuff
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>>56909317
holypowercreep

give me it
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>>56909262
It happens occasionally
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>>56909317
wigglytuff
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>>56909326
They're trying to shill Sprig through the anime, right?
Though to be fair, I'm not familiar enough with modern, so maybe it actually is something they do now.
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>>56909326
they might reserve these alternate pre-evo's for the promo cards instead of as proper EX cards.
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>one more pack untill 500 pts
>still mising my 2nd Zard EX
I'm too tempted at this point. Trading when?
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>>56909316
Oh PLEASE!!!
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>>56909317
>We also don't have a colorless ex. Yet either.
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>>56909333
they announced trading is getting added in january. But the dataminers found the next event is going to be for firetypes and Arcanine, so it might be worth holding off on crafting
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>>56909324
>That card draw effect
Holy AIDS that would be the fucking worst thing ever, it's a basic too so people could just plop it on the bench on turn 1 and cycle through their whole deck by turn 3.
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>>56909326
What a stupid name
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>>56909326
DUDE
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>>56909341
WEED
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>try to theory craft a weezing kabutops deck to counterpick both the top decks
>kabuto just cleanly dies to pikachu
>kabutops just cleanly dies to raichu
I'm not smarter than everyone else...
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>>56909333
>>>still mising my 2nd Zard EX
Hold out until black friday, that's when the new set of events drop

APPARENTLY the fire event has boosted fire mon rates
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>>56908221
No. That placement essentially invalidates the whole list
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>>56909324
>>56909338
>free retreat cost too
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>>56909326
>heal 30 damage from this pokemon
Is anyone else bothered by this wording?
It just sounds really awkward.
I feel like "Remove 30 damage from this pokemon" or something would be better.
"Heal from" just sounds like something someone who doesn't speak english would write.
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>>56909349
ESL?
Heal X from Y works fine and remove damage only sounds fine if they say remove X damage counters from Y
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>>56909335
>>56909328
Forgot about this one.

So then, Dragonite ex, Slowbro ex. Maybe Onix ex. Maybe Gyarados ex. Pidgeot ex also seems possible. All E4. Some form of trash interaction, like a Revive. Better draw/search. Maybe an Ultra Ball. Mew ex? Maybe something like Research.
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>>56909349
This one bugged me way more. >>56908735
Back in my day, it definitely wasn't "This Pokemon recovers from all Special Conditions"
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>>56909337
>>56909345
>Fire mon drop rate boost
I'm happy and, yet at the same time, malding at this news desu
I already used too many hourglasses
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>>56909354
Remember it doesn't need to all be Kanto.
The first set contains pokemon from other regions.
Actually now that I think about it are all the EX mons currently in the game Kanto?
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>>56909360
Yes, everyone with an ex or full art is KANTOOOOO
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>>56909345
>tfw the one pack I haven't been pulling is the Charizard pack
Fucking based.
I'm almost done with the Pikachu and Mewtwo packs too so I'm gonna go ham on the Charizard packs when that event hits.
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>>56909344
Kabutops is weird, it has a healing effect on attack, but doesn't do that much damage or have that much health compared to other stronger mons, and it's basic form is a fossil which for better and worse is not searchable by pokeballs. I honestly think it's the worst of the three fossils. Omastar hits harder at 70 and has the bonus effect of not letting the enemy attack, and Aerodactyl has a 50% chance to make the opponents 4 energy, 2nd stage wincon return to deck.
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>>56909345
I've been wondering what the fuck that even means.
In the boosters? I hope they make a separate boosters for it so that you can still roll normal odds if you want.
In Wonder Pick? Shit's supposed to be based on boosters, so no?
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>>56909359
you'll get more from the new singleplayer event, it's not that big a deal if you're out now.
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>first time using zard deck
>vs matches me with venu ex
Is the AI trying to please me and then show me endless pikachu and articuno decks?
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>>56908450
>>56908460
This is not true Steelix EX and Steelix V are basics because all EX and V cards are basics. Normal Steelix and ex(Lower case) are stage 1s also if steelix got a GX it would have been a stage 1 aswell because GX function like ex's with a big super movie. So if steelix gets into Pocket it will evolve from onix
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>>56909373
>articuno
it's only really bad if they get lucky with misty early, I find Articuno to be very tolerable with a charizard deck. Helps that charmeleon and charizard can both tank blizzard
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>>56909371
When is the new event dropping next week?
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>>56908495
I could agree to pika but mewtwo needs nerfs. It needs to lose 10-20 hp and its 2 energy attack needs to lose 20 damage
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>>56908018
>please let me get the last hit
No.
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>>56909382
according to the datamine it starts 22nd
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>>56909366
it duels the annoying EX basics over 2 turns, especially pikachu
it's dogshit against tier 2 themed decks
it also requires almost no energy investment, which is better than omastar and makes it work in a 2 colour deck, although oma is fine with multicolour too
that being said it's not bulky enough for it to actually pan out I think and I'm not crafting 2 kabutos to find out
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>>56909344
just play your normal deck but replace your kanga with mienshao
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>>56909391
I don't give a shit about that. I'm all for people conceding early, especially if they still have a chance to win. I'm just saying that they shouldn't. For their sake.
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>>56909360
The other non-Kanto mons are mostly filler it seems. So we will see other non-Kanto mons but who they are is impossible to guess.
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TRIARchads, we win again.
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>>56909408
But the good card was bottom left.
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>>56909413
ideally you would have both
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>>56909344
Raichu is still an uncommon build so it's rare for Lightning to be able to burst it down outside of a lucky Zapdos flip. It's healing 70 every hit versus Pikachu EX, so the rat will mostly run away
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You should be able to reduce any card of a specific rarity into currency to flair that specific rarity, i.e., reduce two 1* Rapidash and one 1* Squirtle to flair a 1* Charmander three times.
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>>56909388
I don't agree. The game would be too slow and drawn out if so. Better to bring up the overall power level of the game to that standard. The biggest problem right now is the lack of consistency due to there being too little search and draw power, and every deck running the exact same suite of support cards since there's so few options.
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>>56909427
yeah having to pull dupes of rares to flair them is really annoying. I guess that's how you hook the whales to rip 500 packs so they can have their gold ex pikachu with hearts
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>>56909427
You should. But they won't let you. I agree it's moronic though.
>Here, dust multiple copies of this extremely rare card for a cosmetic effect.
>No, not the junk you've collected multiple dozens of copies off, that shit is literally useless.
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finally ran out of wp hourglasses and I haven't gotten a single good card from wps. shit ass mechanic, 20% my ass.
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>>56909429
>too slow and drawn out
every game is done in under 5 minutes unless your fighting the rare stall deck. the pacing is very fast for a tcg. I would be interested if they added a ft6 format in addition to the ft3 we have now. Might lead to more comebacks and strategies that don't favor hyper rush decks like pikachu ex
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>>56909443
The deck builder seems to imply larger deck sizes will be possible. So we'll see. It's a possibility.
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>>56908032
I really like Lt Surge. Raichus, Magnetons, and Electrodes, no Pika EX. The engine is fun and swapping in the Raichu for the Lt Surge is fun, and Electrode has no retreat cost so its like running 4 X Speeds.
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>>56909396
>I don't give a shit about that
>but please let me hit you for the winning blow
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>>56909461
I'll register you as a retard then.
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>>56908692
This shit is supremely ugly
>captcha: TNDW2
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>>56908793
Weezing/arbok
Weezing/nidoking
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>>56909354
Slowbro ex for Lorelei
Onix ex for Bruno
Arbok ex for Agatha
Dragonite ex for Lance.
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you'd think they'd give you a special badge for getting all 226 cards instead of pack jpegs for profile pics
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>>56909443
Even the stall decks I run only take 10 minutes for games to finish. The only real matchup that will take 30 turns to draw is Kabutops vs. Kabutops and I've only been part of that once.
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>if you go first, you usually lose
>best deck in the format only has a 55% win rate
>this barely outperforms
>not to mention shit draw RNG
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>>56909505
you already have special pack themed badges in the shop
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>>56909505
The 3 bird emblems are kino
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>>56909515
just need articuno and I'll finally have this...
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>>56908196
for me it was seeing all the people with immersive mews on day 1
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>>56908658
>>56908606
>>56908658
WHO WON?
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wheres the new thread? i aint posting my shit in a dead thread
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>>56909244
>This looks so unoptimised, a line with just 2 cards is gambling.
elaborate
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>>56909526
umm page 10 bro...?
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>>56909498
>Slowbro ex for Lorelei
Plausible. Slowpoke has a full art and the Slowbro we currently have is dogwater. A good EX would give us a reason to play those Skowpokes.
>Onix ex for Bruno
Or a Steelix. He gets those eventually.
>Arbok ex for Agatha
I could see that or a Crobat EX
>Dragonite ex for Lance.
Or a Gryarados EX or even an Aerodactyl.
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Muk, Wheezer deck is pretty fun.
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>>56909429
>Mewtwo player thinks that making mewtwo weaker would make the game slower

It would speed things up Mewtwo is the premier stall deck. The whole game plan is to not lose until you have a stacked mewtwo with gardevoir in the back. Mewtwo 150 hp makes it unfairly bulky for a basic no card benefits from potions like mewtwo does. Its 50 damage is down right obnoxious as it's in range to 1 hit a bunch of baby pokemon with and without Giovanni's help and it 2 shots almost all non ex stage 1s. The retreat cost could also stand to be nerfed, 2 is too low for what its capable of.

I dont want hear any more mewtwo down playing I've played 100 matches with mewtwo, pikachu and starmie decks and I can say with complete confidence that Pikachu and Starmie half to get LUCKY to beat mewtwo, that deck just starts on the path to victory whether it goes second or first
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>>56909515
How do you get this?
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>>56909541
all 3 full art birds
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>>56909548
Just need Moltress.
Too bad I'm not opening Charizard packs lmao.
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>>56909538
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>>56909360
Come on bro you know how it is...
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Pika EX is insane. Mewtwo deck is pure cope in comparison.
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>>56909567
I think they're basically the same power level, and some people might argue that Mewtwo is better.
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I want to take a forever nap. Fuck this.
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>>56909587
yeah, wonder pick can be quite the headache
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>>56909587
>bottom lefter
eh
expected
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Pikachu = aggro
Mewtwo = midrange
Charizard = stall
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>last 5 matches, I have gone first
>lost every match
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>>56909615
take the wheezing or kanghaskhan pill
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>go first
>red card
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>>56909587
>Wonder Picking for anything other than EX cards
You SHOULD take a forever nap if you're this retarded.
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>Zebrastrike a Staryu on bench
>it doesn't apply weakness
>evolves to Starmie next turn and kills Zebrastrike
This is fucked up because weakness does apply when it's the active pokemon
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>>56909626
This got me early on because the real card game specifies that it doesn't apply to the bench on such an attack.
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>>56909632
THey're not very clear about stuff, like the status effects like sleep n shit, how are you spose to know baka..
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>>56909586
then you look at tournament results and pika shits all over mewtwo
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update:
>already have 2 mewtwo exs
>pulled a immersive art mewtwo ex earlier
>pulled another one just now
>4 mewtwo exs
i still don't have anything else that comes out of the mewtwo pack like koga or weezing or gardevoir or marowak or articuno or pidgeot or golbat or regular mewtwo
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>>56909662
Mewtwo is literally a FtM transexual look at those hips
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>>56909669
or it's just an animal that happens to have large thighs
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>>56909669
You seem to know a lot about this.
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>>56909344
Raichu deck already exists to ‘counter the too decks’. Those wr stats are scraped from tournaments and Raichu is playing other Pikachu decks, which it has a very good matchup against because it can ohko every card they have. Arcanine also does well in tournaments because it’s specifically anti-Pika meta
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Finished the tutorials, when do I use my pack hourglasses?
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>>56909639
Did you not play the guides they give you? They tell you where to find status effects and the stuff about only active mons take weakness damage is said in the actual guides too
Put subway surfers away and read lmao
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Do you get opponents that disconnect instead of concede?
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>>56909697
do the solo battles and advance missions
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>>56909669
What makes them FtM hips
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300$ so far
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>>56909713
oink oink OOOOOOIIIIINKKKKKKKKK
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>>56909395
>Golbat beats Mewtwo
>Mienshao beats Pika
>Heliolisk beats Starmie
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>>56909713
W/L Ratio?
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>>56909725
how do you see L
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>>56909701
I've had maybe like 5 of them do that. They just close the app or walk away or something
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Does the tutorial give you a guaranteed EX? I remember misclicking the pack I wanted and got Mewtwo EX in it, when I wanted to open the Zard pack.
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>>56909735
You are forced to open the Mewtwo pack as your second pack, but what you get is random. You got lucky and got a Mewtwo EX
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I miss my 3rd pack anons...
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>>56909755
same...waiting for the black friday deal to see what it does tho
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>>56909713
My collection after only buying the Gardevoir cosmetics
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>>56907322
Anyone up for some battles? I don't mind Meta or no EX.
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>>56909713
Mine

I've only put $100, and I don't intend to put more. The game's refusal to give me full art trainers is also extremely irritating.
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>>56909796
>>56909762
>>56909713
>tfw literally everyone in the universe except me has immersive rares
I'm gonna fucking kill myself.
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>>56909799
pay up lol
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>>56908129
>>56909003
>>56909010
https://files.catbox.moe/aqyoih.mp4

didn't work for me
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>>56907455
damn im burning all my extra cards for the bling bling effects
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GardevoirEX meta deck when? Mewtwo is fucking awful.
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got the gold emblem using my based marowak
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>>56909796
>I've only put $100
That is a lot anon, don't kid yourself
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>>56909796
>>56909713
>>56909762
>100
>300
>Only one purchase
You guys need to get your numbers up, you wouldn't even be considered dolphins with those low amounts spent, let alone whales.
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>>56907361
>Venusaur EX is E-tier
I fucking knew people were gaslighting when they said it was any good.
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>>56909928
Yeah it's ass.
Way too slow for what you actually get.
Gets absolutely blitzed by other decks most of the time.
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>>56907361
If you play any of these then you're a meta slave
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>>56909925
Problem is, that's not a Hoyoverse game. You barely need to spend 100-200$ to get the whole collection already. More if you really want to pick specific cards and you're an ultra lucklet I guess.
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>Spending xxx on a few week old card game
It's already losing players, game will be dead in 3 months.
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>>56909952
Not if they keep spending money
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>>56909952
It's actually earning more than it was at launch
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How much Pokegold is it for 10 packs?
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>>56909975
60
1 Pokegold = 2 Hourglasses
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>tfw trapped on 44 wins
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Please tell me metal gets better. Also why is there not a single Johto Pokemon in this game, fucking hacks.
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>>56910017
the 2nd set will clearly go hard on gen 2
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I hate the wonder brick!
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I love the Wonder God!
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>>56910046
>>56910046
>>56910046
FRESH BAKED THREAD!
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>>56909669
I figured that tail wasn't natural, way too big and girthy
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I'm sure any Fire deck can ruin it, but I'm surprised how resilient this deck can be
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>>56909427
It sucks for people that might like it, but thankfully I can't stand flairs. It feels like putting cheap stickers on them.
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>>56909439
You're only supposed to use WP hourglasses when a pack has two or more cards that you want
Otherwise, just use the stamina
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>>56909669
I am on my hands and knees begging to know who asked



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