Magnetic Storm 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: >>58576629Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
A cute
>>58628689A cute!
Team Rocket's Honchkrow - Darkness - HP130Stage 1 - Evolves from Team Rocket's Murkrow[C][C] Rocket Feathers: 60x damage. Discard any number of Supporter cards with "Team Rocket" in their name from your hand. This attack does 60 damage for each card discarded this way.[D][C][C] Hammer In: 100 damage.Weakness: Lightning (x2)Resistance: Fighting (-30)Retreat: 1
Team Rocket's Dugtrio - Fighting - HP100Stage 1 - Evolves from Team Rocket's DiglettAbility: PotholeWhenever your opponent's Active Pokemon moves to the Bench during their turn, put 2 damage counters on that Pokemon.[F][C] Mud Shot: 50 damage.Weakness: Grass (x2)Resistance: NoneRetreat: 1
>>58628836Hell yeah, definitely adding at least a 1-1 line to my Porygon Z deck
Unless they print some insanely powerful support for it, I'm still not playing with TR mewtwo. That guy sucks, I'm all in on the spider.
I made it to top 16 at at nationals today with grimmsnarl
>>58629661good job cutie
>>58608932I was joking I didn't think it would happen. Honchkrow and dugtrio look pretty terrible tho. At least they're leaving into the porygon archetype, because mewtwo's discard being capped is unredeemable
>>58630233Porygon will never be good, strictly speaking, but Honchkrow definitely gives it a boost in the early game. It's not difficult to get 5+ supporters in your hand and Proton is pretty much dead wait past the second turn.This also pushes Secret Box more than Brilliant Blender, as a fun bonus.
>las vegas stream day 2 has 1k viewsits over...>>58628768>>58628689i love maractuswhenever i order cards i always check if they have it
>>58630419No twitch drops so I aint bothering to watch. The current meta is boring why would I wanna watch it
>>58628569so a Pokeball, got it>>58628689>>58628768Cutie overload!
Why do I suck so bad at playing Absol box? Every single turn feels like an ass-clenching pray they don't gust my monkeys or have a way to get out of Yveltal stall (they do, every single turn, in every deck).
>>58631060it's a hard deck to play and it's something people are learning how to beat after milwaukee. it seems like a deck you can do well with if you understand what the tournament's meta is and how to counter it.
>>58631323It won Brisbane too.
>>58631652it looks like it might win vegas as well lol
>>58629661congrats bro!
>Tord keklev >Open cornerstone ogerpon>Brilliant trolley into the second one>Stall the whole game against a N's Zoroark deckWhat a shitty final
>>58632414Hey, gotta do what you gotta do when money's on the line.
>>58632414I think that's just how it needs to be played out as absol box because you can't hit into zoro. it is boring but if you want to win then you have to do those cheese strats
anyone up for some deck testing on tcgmasters?
I just want a fully functional expanded mode, is that so much to ask? Standard is so fucking boring.
>>58634258I swear, if I never see a Hypnotoxic Laser again it would be too soon.
>set up retarded board>knock out mega gardie>winlole
>>58634783You just need to run two stage 2 lines no problem
>>58634806yeah man, its easy :)
>>58634258>Standard is so fucking boring.And regidrago Vastro mirrors aren't?
>>58634806like pult/dusknoir and zard/pidgeot?
>>58635549The later runs 3 lmao
>>58635549Are you being purposefully disingenuous?
years ago i had the idea to revamp pokemon tcg to make it more magic-like so ppl would actually play it and now riftbound has stolen that idea. i could have been a millionaire and they would be richer if the pokemon company would just listen to me.like i had the same rune deck idea in the form of like pokemon gym badgesand the champion legend and unit was similar where your team was already setand the combat was more similar and magic like riftboundand your deck is more like combat and support cards.like for instance instead of professor oak it would have been like professor oaks intuition, dodge the attack, draw a card or some shit like thatlike imagine if your champion legend was like ash's charizard or misty's starmie or something like that and it had affects like boost fire attacks by +2 or somethinglike imagine ppl actually playing the game instead of scalping it
>>58635680lol play one piece instead
>>58635751no, the art is terrible and low effort. it's just cropped images of the manga and anime. and not to mention oda's artstyle is ugly af and they all look the same
>>58635680>like imagine ppl actually playing the game instead of scalping itthe latter makes tcgi a lot more money, so why would any sane businessman listen to you?
>>58635680PTCG events have the highest average turnout of any TCG on the market btw
>>58635913please do not tell this to yugioh/magic/one piece players they will cry and then they might switch over to pokemon which would be awful
>>58635913I find this unlikely. People play Magic, people collect Pokemon.
>>58636100Nobody plays Magic except Commander players, lol. Enjoy your identity-less Fortnite card game, you faggot retard.
https://limitlesstcg.com/tournamentsMaybe it was the case it the past, but Pokemon is definitely getting more players now and Magic players seem fed up with their standard format.
>>58636100How bout you play with my balls lil nigga
>>58634258>Standard is so fucking boring.Expanded is in the worst state it's ever been. The grass is not greener on the other side
>MOM, I POSTED IT AGAIN!!!
>>58636590>>58636654MTG chads are laughing at your shit game
>>58636658>MTG chads are—BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPThis is your game now.
>>58636660YO, WHAT THE FUCK IS A LIBRARY!?!?
>>58636671Where Calyrex works out
Hoping for a card to save Steven’s archtype.
>>58636660What does 2-life mea? do you die or something?
>>58636660I'd ironically play with a with a deck full of those cards
>>58636660It's real, holy shit! I'll never make fun of Magic players again, because Hasbro is already doing it while taking all their money.
>>58636712Just make your own proxies, id be fun.
I made some more changes to the Tinkaton deck after a bit more testing. I'm only a few cards shy of taking it to locals as well. Just need Team Star GruntHandheld Fan is huge and has to be one of the more diabolical tools in the format right now. I'm surprised stall/control decks aren't running it, either that or I'm just lucky to not have to play against someone that has it. Unfortunately Team Star Grunt will rotate, even the ghetto alternative in Giovanni's Charisma is rotating too. Hopefully they'll print something similar for the next rotation.I'm lukewarm on the stadiums, Neutralization Zone has won me a few games but other times it just gets discarded on the same turn I placed it, Full Metal Lab could probably be replaced with Battle Cage.Fuck Mega Charizard XMight have to run an Air Balloon perhaps to help with potential Genesect starts, the one switch may not be enough.Every deck I ever make will contain a Enhanced Hammer as long as it's in format because I still have PTSD from the DCE days.
>>58637328Has Marowak ever had a good card?
>>58637844this saw a little bit of play in then era of infinite item lock
>single prize charizard ex minus the energy acceleration>damage ramp is in it's ability so you can use relicanth to do bonus damage + draw 2 or retreat lockmite b cool if they ever make an ex it could play around
>>58637949
>>58637949>damage ramp is in it's ability>Crisis Punch
>>58637951They still refuse to make a rulebox kingambit
>>58628671What are the chances, huh?
Just found out a plastic store that sell these for like 2 dollars, they are supposed to be for storing food but the size is just right for a complete single sleeved deck. It has come in handy as I was just looking for a deck box. What deckbox do you guys use? I felt the ones at my lgs were severely overpriced.
>>58638963This. Holds two decks + dice and counters in the middle compartment.
>Play Gardevoir>I'm actually fairly fast but my opponents are slow as shit and I keep getting Draws>One round I prized both Gardies twice in a row>Switch to Dragupult since all of my Dragu opponents keep kicking my ass with Budew into blow up the entire board>Suddenly I start bricking a shit ton>Yesterday at Locals I bricked so bad I actually saw 0 of the 20+ consistency cards I had.What the fuck, bros. Am I meant to suck at Pokemon for the rest of my life? Am I shuffling wrong? How do I shuffle properly?
>>58638987You are supposed to pile shuffle then mash shuffle afterwards a couple times.
>>58638563Anonymous discovers the concept of a testing group and perhaps even a metafy group.
>>58638563wait till you see what aussie regionals look like
>>58638995How many piles should I do?
>>58639290NTA but I do 12 lolI place the cards in a different pattern every 12, then I mash and riffle shuffle a few times each
>>58638987if you're mash shuffling supposedly you have to do a lot of them in order to get a decently randomized deck. I usually do ten or more mash shuffles before a game and it feels adequate
>>58639290I do 8, seems to be enough for me and helps me check if my deck is exactly 60 cards.
Got a league cup this weekend, what should I play between Gardy, Zoroark, Absol, Pult, and Eevees
>>58638963I use cheap ones from daiso because they fit the double sleeving i do, they're sold as a two pack for like 3 bucks
>>58639744gardy or pult unless you're better at the other decks
>>58639848Gardy it is then, since that what I'm most comfortable with, I'm just worried about hitting Zoroarks. Blows my mind that the lists from Vegas didn't play drifloon, I feel like including one is a great threat, especially if you go into absol box. I just don't know what to cut for it though. Also don't know how I feel about cutting the devos and extra charms
>>58638963One of these. I got it for cheap ~$10 because it's [spoilers] pink [/spoilers] and was on the shelf for like 2 years.
>>58639866>I'm just worried about hitting Zoroarksunless you know there's going to be multiple zoroark players at the cup I wouldn't worry about it. zoroark is basically rogue on top of it being a hard deck to play. it's more likely that someone will play a walls deck than zoroark
>>58639894Always hated how tacky the ultrapro oval looks.
I have a 0% winrate against Dragupult with Gardevoir. Any tips on how to handle it? Dragupult itself isn't as bad but Budew fucks me hard.
>>58640163if you go first sometimes you just don't get to play the game, it happens but t1 tm evo into turn 2 tm evo usually means the game is over since they can never clear both gardevoir from the field at once
>>58640163Post list. You definitely need to play through tm evo instead of rare candy vs budew. I know Lillie's is the hot new supporter but you want research to discard energies under item lock too.
>>58640186>>58640189This is my decklist. I decided to skip on TM: Evolution in favor of turboing energies. May test Devolution or Evolution again though.
>>58640280
>>58640284Run more kirlia and tm evo like most other gardy lists. tm evo 2 kirlias turn1 is stronger than frillish item lock a lot of the time. jellicent is a bait, you just need frillish if you're stalling for time
>>58638963
>>58640163Just remember scream tail has an attack that hits for 30 and cost only one energy.
Time for the first Pokemon League Challenge. Still searching for that first win in a local tournament after the losses piled up in the Halloween tournament.
>>58641894Play Charizard ex. Cheap as fuck and retardproof while still being more engaging than total braindead slop like dengo
Are you guys ready for the great cuckening?What decks will rise to surface once munkidori is done and busted?
I have a stack of ME01 and ME02 code cards, including the 2025 Trainer Toolkit, Precons and ETBs. Do these have any value and is there any way for me to sell them?
>>58642614I see them being sold at like 10 cents each code, usually sold in bulk around here.
>>58642614Code cards usually sell for pennies at best. That's why most people who don't use them post them here or just throw them out. I think only codes for things like the marnie milk box have gone for anything, but it probably still wouldn't be enough to warrant spending time on the sale.
>>58642614>Do these have any valuethey're worth 0.05 usd on tcgplayer right now.>any way for me to sell them?either online in a bulk pile or in person at your local league.
>>58642698I may just throw them on a table at my LGS then.
>>58638963I still use the same cheap chinesium box I've had for almost 3 years now. I posted this here a couple times before but always happy to share. It fits a regular sleeved deck, a double sleeved deck, dice and coins plus a few extra sleeves/cards
>>58642705I'd tell you to post a few here but you'd have to hide the codes due to bots. You're better off giving them away locally
>>58642348this ironically changed nothing in the jp meta >counter stadiums>proceeds like normal
>>58642820It singlehandely made alakazam viable but I guess there's that.
>>58641964I played Mega Lucario and claimed a scalp against the best player in my locals after another pity bye in the first round but got thrashed in the other games. It's clear I need a better retreatlock option than the ghetto Kieran, even if that gives another option to squeeze out more damage. At least I finally got a real win.
>>58642874>Mega LucarioKek shitter
>>58642874Mega Lucario lists are so much fun to just screw around with because it's a braindead easy setup.
>>58642874>It's clear I need a better retreatlockyou can try a turo. it synergizes well with the hariyamas too if you use those.
>>58642878I'll see you at Worlds, buddy.>>58642890I play with Salvatore much to the bemusement of my last opponent. I'm probably Salvatores strongest soldier. I also tried with Iron Bundle and the jury it still out on that one, but the guy who got like top 60 at Lille with Lucario used that so I got inspired.>>58642908Think I need to add a Turo and a switch to smooth things over, yeah. Paranoia about item lock influenced my deck building too much I think so I guess I was too scared to add switch before.
>>58642983>I play with Salvatore much to the bemusement of my last opponent. I'm probably Salvatores strongest soldier. I also tried with Iron Bundle and the jury it still out on that one, but the guy who got like top 60 at Lille with Lucario used that so I got inspired.That is a fucking gross. I need to get a playset for the lulz.
>>58642983>>58643004Post Lucario list, I need to improve mine.
>Ascended Heroes
>>58643053Here's what I rocked up with today. The ghetto substitutions with the 3rd Riolu and the 2nd Makuhia is kind of brutal but for now there's little I can do about it, other than maybe finding something other than Hariyama to add to the deck. I added several ways to get Lucario into play to try and help with consistency but with some of the new cards I got recently I can probably improve it a bit.
Help me understand this MKangaskhan Charizard build.As I'm getting it, the gameplan consists on poffin->ditto->get it into active either by regular retreat or jet energy->Mkangaskhan then stall the early game while drawing cards setting up your board, right? Now what I don't get is if you are supposed to proc charizard on itself or on kangaskhan, or rather, at which point should you go either way.Guess if you can't retreat the mkangaskhan right away it is better to attack with it, no? But if he is too hurt then you might prioritize retreating it to bench although sacrificing it would power up your charizard greatly with the disadvantage of not having enough prize space to suicidebomb ghosts comfortably. Guess it also depends greatly on the match and the state of the boars. I could see going stronger with the sacrifice strat and cut ghosts entirely to shove in another kangaskhan for consistency while also opening up the possibility to run battle cage and psyduck without shooting yourself in the foot.... I will have some testing at my locals this weekend.
why does Japan treat card players with respect meanwhile in america you have hoarders who are assholes?
>>58643988Small interconnected island, the logistic of distributing plenty of cardboard toys are easier.
>>58643988higher hit rates mean cheaper cards and less incentive to hoard productwe saw the exact same thing in the US during early scarlet and violet where everyone and their mother was pulling SARs and ETBs were going for $25 a pop
in my opinion arven should have been regulation H instead of G so rotation would match the canon of the games
>>58645110His sandwich will live on but he will not.
>>58645145>Iono and arven rotate>Their "trainers" pokemon don'tkek
Please make her deck playable for once
>>58645386You'll get a meme attacker that caps at 300 damage so it's useless in mega pokemon meta
I am just dropping my random Lucario decklist that my friend runs. We just play among like four friends and don't go to locals or anything, but any critique is welcome.
My Alakazam ex decklist.
>>58643982>lil bro trying to have meta discussion at the shitter threadRookie mistake.
>>58647804Technical Machine Machine
>>58645622>Deal 90% of a Mega's Health>useless
Please make her deck playable for once, too
>>58648225Gardevoir and Terabox are both solid meta decks, you know?
>>58648246I want to play a deck that uses Pic related. Just like how N is a dedicated deck.
fucking retarded coomer...
>>58648110Well yes. Look at rockets memetwo. You need to ohko stuff, 2hkos are worthless Megas can be easily turo or wally'd because their energy costs are dirt cheap investment wise. It's not like primal groudon era where you have to spend ages building them up, most are going with 1-2 energy
