Cathemeral Edition>I want to learn the game, where do I begin?Download PTCGL at https://tcg.pokemon.com/en-us/tcglThe game has a quick tutorial and a bunch of decent decks to get you started against other beginners or against the AI. Some of those decks are very close to meta too. You can also go to your local game store and see if people are playing Pokémon.>I know how to play, how do I make my own deck?You have a decent beginner's guide at https://www.justinbasil.com/guideThere's also the old /tcg/ guide at https://imgur.com/a/W4NkOu6After that, look up meta decks and try to reverse engineer them to see how things work.>Where to find meta decks?For big irl events, go to https://limitlesstcg.com/decksFor online events, go to https://play.limitlesstcg.com/decks?game=PTCGFor japanese events, go to https://pokecabook.com/archives/1417Previous thread: >>58243685Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
>>58290179>Already made obsolete before he released
>>58290331Multi-prize turns are fake and gay.
Codes>>58290768
>pathetic
>no card OP>thread diesCOME THE FUCK ON DUDE!!!
>>58292453this wouldn't happen if a certain spiky cutie was here
>>58292453>card op>thread still diesYour schizo ramblings are as worthless as you.
>mega gallade coming out just before rotationgardybros I'm feeling pretty good about this
>>58293776it's this year's drago
>>58293776>2 mega raichus eventually>Dynamotor will rotate by the time DLC megas are out
>>58293972Megas probably won’t last very far into the J block. It’ll surely be legal. The bigger problem is that stage 1 megas are antithetical to what mega Pokémon do in the tcg.
>>58294429They renamed the TCG sets to mega series. We'll be getting them for a few more years yet, especially if they're drip feeding mega additions like the kalos starters and DLC to keep changing champions meta. Gen10 is nowhere near if they haven't teased it yet so it'll be mega for a long time. Then maybe a new gimmick towards the end like radiant/rainbows/prism. Since all ace specs will leave by 2027
>>58294675HGSS was it's own block and it was 5 sets. It's going to be something similar.
>>58294752HGSS was planned to stick around for longer but they rotated it sooner because the old cards interfered with the BW card/rule changesWho knows if we'll get another big system overhaul of rule changes for gen10, which would cause an early rotation of mega era pokemon
>>58294995Nah they have cards planned out over a year in advance. They are likely designing cards and commissioning art for cards that are coming out in late 2026 at the moment. Given that the HGSS block lasted one year, they knew everything that was going to happen before it did. The next generation will be holiday season 2026.
>>58294995Also with 8 megas per major set and 4 per mini set. There's 48 megas existing + 27 in ZA + 2 DLC at the very least. That's at least 9 sets worth of megas assuming 8 per set. Before accounting for any shiny/reprint sets we'll undoubtedly also get. Let alone all the DLC megas after raichus tooSo yeah we have a good 2 years of straight mega content for set releases
>>58295030they didn't give every mega a print before and they certainly won't be giving them all a print this time
>>58295043You can assume that but I don't think they would. Megas are fan favs and with how popular collecting is these days, they'd be trolling if they didn't release a card for every mega this time. Paired with the name change to mega series there's a higher chance we get all the megas than not. ZA likely doesn't have latis/rayquaza yet we're getting cards for them still.
>>58293398Can't prove it since there's been no card OP in forevercheckmate, fucktard
>>58292932Sorry, I've been pretty absent from TCG in general recently so I haven't been here to provide these threads with some much-needed pep.
>>58295933It must be a sad life having a brain so small you can't remember the second to last thread.
What decks are you going to play once the update hits? I'm going to play the upgraded Hydrapple ex as well as Lucario. I don't know how much I'll stick with Lucario but it's free and I love an unga deck.
>>58296851ArchScizor w/ Mawile
>>58296851ceruledge with the lun/sol engine, mega mega manectric ex, grimmsnarl with lillie to see if the deck is playable now.
gardevoir is already dropping the m gardevoir for m diancie. I knew that card bulk.
>>58297662*was bulkI don't see people messing around with m gengar at city leagues either anymore. I wonder if it was even played at the last JCS because it wasn't on the day 2 stream like diancie.
>Gardy shitter loses to premade Lucario >rage quits but does not time out after a minute>still does not time out after 15 minutesYou would think they wouldn't add back a bug from a year ago, but here we are. FYI, if they do not time out after a few minutes, you can restart the client and it will still count as your win.
>liveLMAO!
>>58296851probably a psychic/fighting deck assuming there's missions for those.gonna have to go through and update all my decks now lillie is a thing
question for the threadi was playing raging bolt ex with the new meganium on live. i thought that wild growth would let my grass energy count for 2 when discarded so i could do a stupid amount of damage, but it didn't work, and the game only counted the grass energy as 1.is this intended? i used to play charizard ex from 151 with burn brightly charizard from the go set on live, and when i used explosive vortex (discard 3 fire) i could discard 2. i thought wild growth would work similarly. anyone know why it doesn't?
>>58298109Text on Raging Bolt>This attack does 70 damage for each card you discarded in this way.Raging Bolt specifically counts the cards discarded. Charizard ex only wants you to discard three energy.As another example, any cards that count attached energy like Ogerpon ex or Hydrapple ex's attacks will count each grass energy as two with Meganium in play.Remember to read the card text, it's very literal.
>Lillie is treated as a trainers cardThese devs are very smart
>>58298156thank you, i missed the second line of the attack and was confused since i didn't see a reference to cards
>>58298268Supporters are trainer cards, what's the issue?
>>58298968I meant the trainer's(owners) card mechanic. That visual is for those cardsYet lillie has it for some reason when that supporter has nothing to do with journey together/destined rivals lillie cards. The code looks like it's only validating for the term "lillie's" instead of the actual lillie's cards
>x5
I am very happy to be playing with Lucario's new card.
What's the general consensus on the Lucario deck? Is there any decent tech for dealing with Gardy?
>>58299153They overdid the glares on the megas, you can't see the regular form silhouette in the background now..
I found this decklist online that suggests pairing Lucario with N's Zoroark, I've been playing with that and have been having initial success.
>>58299186It's good. Gardy is genuinely unwinnable if they didn't brick turn 1-2. Just scoop there's no way to win if they're set up
>>58299186>Is there any decent tech for dealing with Gardypulling a knife out on the gardy player can give you the edge you need to make the match up winnable
>>58299186steal a card while they aren't looking and then call a judge over because they're playing a 59 card deck
>STILL can't craft a card from 2 expansions agothey need to do the pocket route and make them craftable when the next set is out, if they're going to keep this shitty timegating thing
I love the luna sol engine. solrock also being a 110 hp rotom is nuts
>>58299214>>58299240>>58299246I don't know about bricking but they very kindly put 4 energy on their Gardy so I could KO it. Three games so far and it's been one inactive and two concedes so it's hard to gauge how good the deck is overall but it feels very unga which I like. >>58300282Are there any decks other than MLucario and Ceruledge that like having fighting energy in the discard?
>>58300350Ladder just reset and there's missions for psychic types so there's probably a bunch of bard gardy players around right now. Gardy in general just destroys you because 2x weakness is far too abusable. Even if you tried using solrocks to attack all game you're never gonna make it. With how good gardy is naturally beating other decks, being 2x weak to it on top of that ain't fun, they don't even need to use munkis in the match up>>58300350>Are there any decks other than MLucario and Ceruledge that like having fighting energy in the discard?Currently no but it's got potential in future. Shame it has to be basic fighting energy though, if it would be a modern day radiant greninja package
>>58300365Oh yeah I'm not expecting to win against them normally, it was just nice to have a freebie on my game couple of games. >Shame it has to be basic fighting energy thoughThey seem to be leaning more into type-specific cards at the moment. Obviously some of it is around whatever megas are in the set, but hopefully we'll see some more in general. It won't prop up every archetype but we could get more viable rogue decks this way.
>>58289911WHATS THE GO TO BUILD FOR DARKNESS FOCUSES DECK
>>58290331What obsoleted this?
That feels when you flip heads on togekiss
I used to use Jungle totem Venusaur and tag team rowlet executor and its so nice having that combo back with meganium and grand tree
>>58299298>regular card is craftable>but i want the artwork card now waaahPull it then
enjoying manectric is suffering
>>58301397Why? It's good
>try a jank deck>first opponent is Gardy, I dead draw three turns in a row>second opponent is a Zard deck>either complete shitter or trolling, discard Zard and Rare Candy to Ultra Ball another ZardMy time is limited and I am suffering.
>>58301800I knowbut everyone and their mother are running shilldog and it's an uphill battle against the pokemon company's designated winnerit's great into venusaur and gardevoir and especially reams older decks like bolt but having 4/7 matches be against lucario and then one of the remaining three being a bolt with a teched in lucario feels like shit
>>58301395It's an online client with no trading. why the fuck is it timegated anyway. irl you could go buy/trade for the card, but here you're cucked for no reason
Ceruledge is officially good and fun.Any other decks that can OHKO the megas consistently?
Is Raging Bolt or any of the other big basic decks going to be good in Mega Evo format? I'm kinda done with all the Stage 2 decks.
>>58302889take the apple pill
>>58302875AI's getting really good
Half my games since the patch has been against Venusaur.
>>58302889I can't think of anything other than bolt. maybe terabox. jengo and bolt are the only ones that have enough damage to take out gardevoir or pult and those decks will probably be really popular again. I don't think the meta will change much from pittsburgh
>>58303046It'll be unplayable after the next set thanks to the new Zard, so people have to play it now.
>>58302888I thought ceruledge struggled to get enough for 330 before even with an empty deck you just couldnt run enough energy. How is it hitting 360+
>>58303221>It'll be unplayable after the next set thanks to the new Zard, so people have to play it now.That's my mentality on TCGO decks, if I know somethings unplayable next expansion or rotating I'll play it before then. I should've played more bax before irida left..
>>583032295 fire, 1 legacy, 12 fighting. Garde kind of sucks to get there, but Lucario isn't that big a deal.
>Confusion, Burn, Paralyze, Sleep and Poison exist in the tcg>Frozen has never been a thing at allHow would you make it work?
>>58303827Can't draw a card until you flip heads at the start of your turn
Don’t really play or collect, but I was wondering how bad the scalpers really are. I’ve noticed a huge uptick in magic the gathering of this kind of behaviour, so I’m trying to brace for the worst
How's Salvatore in Mega Lucario ex? Anybody tried it? I assume it's bad because hitting by your first turn (going second) isn't really impacting much anyway.
>>58303927You have a better chance at winning the fucking lottery than you do at beating scalpers to preorders of literally every single PTCG product. The newest record is when they recently took advantage of a site/listing bug and bought out all the stock of a product that wasn't even for preorder yet.
Is Mega Kangaskhan the new Fezandipiti? It's just so useful in decks that already have Latias.
>ETBs put the code card behind the promo now>ETB videos never open the promo plastic wrap>Can't grab the code for the sleeves Hopefully they do a twitch promo for them
>>58304059Pretty much, the decks that run latias are often big basics like raging bolt/ogerpon/miraidon anyway, so them killing kanga for 3 prize cards doesn't matter when it's 2:2:2 or 2:3:2, 3 knock outs either way
>>58303967I actually had just seen people scalping pokemon codes for one of the games in a parking lot. It’s why I came here to ask. It seems like an extreme since I don’t even collect and hear about it quite often.
MegaGardevoir is so unnecessary
MEGAEVOLUTION25Free kanga and venusaur SIR
>>58304205Thx.
>>58304064Aren't codes like 2¢? The odds you'd be the first leech in line are pretty low anyway.
Why are there so many dawn cards than others cards?
>Went to Mega Evo release at my LGS yesterday.>7 people in line for 4 boxes and 3 ETBs>Literally 1 for everyone as owner said you can only buy 1 per person.>Nobody goes for ETBs>Pull Mega Venusaur ex SIR from ETB>$200>ETB cost me $75 + Tax>Put it up for sale in a small local discord for $100 cash only because I want to promote my LGS.>No responses.You people are not trying hard enough. Literally giving away $100. I don't know what the hell is wrong with my local scene. The people only care about buying packs. Also go outside fucking schizos. Video games are for retards.
Do you nivpers play live with eachother
>>58306122It removes the evolution constraint except on the first turn.
Early season is great. Played my stupid jank deck to clear a challenge and beat a scrub with the free Lucario deck.
>>58304838Eventually once the collectorfags stop hoarding products and never open them
The Alakazam deck is wicked fun
>>58306772How is it compared to Tinkaton? Also got a decklist?
>>58306841Never played tinkaton so I'm not sureThis is my list though I just stole it from LDFPokémon: 101 Abra TWM 80 PH3 Dudunsparce TEF 1291 Fezandipiti ex SFA 921 Togekiss SSP 721 Togepi OBF 834 Dunsparce PAL 1563 Abra MEG 54 PH3 Alakazam MEG 56 PH4 Kadabra MEG 55 PH1 Shaymin DRI 10Trainer: 152 Boss's Orders RCL 1894 Buddy-Buddy Poffin TWM 2234 Lillie's Determination MEG 1842 Artazon OBF 2292 Exp. Share SVI 1741 Nest Ball SVI 2551 Lt. Surge's Bargain MEG 1201 Night Stretcher SSP 2511 Sacred Ash DRI 168 PH3 Great Ball PAL 1834 Hilda WHT 841 Bill's Transfer MEW 1942 Tulip PAR 1811 Counter Catcher PAR 2643 Rare Candy PAF 89Energy: 21 Enriching Energy SSP 1915 Basic {P} Energy SVE 13Total Cards: 60
