>slapped my way to masterball with mega kanga again
this shit has lasted 3 sets and is gonna last me another 3 sets

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hope some dlc girls appear in the expansion
No Perrin or Briar would be criminal but I remember Raifort got cucked in the last paldean set

Some of this shit actually looks pretty strong

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toxic

>>59294775
>araquanid/lana/magneton mega sniper
im already brewin

>>59294765
they kinda suck

Lame

Just browsed through all the new cards. The synergy with the paradox mons looks to be heavily pushed. Hard to say what what’s going to actually be good but I see a few things that can easily be abused already.

>>59294765
Miraidon doesn't seem like it would be very good. I get that Electric has a lot of ramping options, but you're not going to survive long enough to get outrageous energy counts.

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future bros, it's over......

I'm sick of Gen 9 mons

>>59294782
>>59294789
>discard pile
Sada was almost good, but I guess it works combined with Raging Bolt in the last turn

I dont think Miraidon will ever be good since it heavily relies on you having Magneton to store energy. It will be strong if you pull it off but its not something that can be consistently done every game. Korraidon on the other hand is actually a threat with all the new fighting support and 40 extra HP plus you dont need to keep him on the bench so you will always have full HP

>>59294786
fuark the promos a better version of beedrill ex

>>59294775
More like near-impossible to pull off.

Bro, I just want my Hoenn and Unova mainsets...

>>59294798
Not quite a straight upgrade, because it discards from anywhere.

>>59294786
>sableye themed cosmetics
hell yeah, my shouldermon getting some rep

>>59294801
next set will probably be Hoenn with more mega shit. We aren't getting Unova for a while because it has no gimmicks

>>59294799
Not quite with Magnezone, Sada, and babies.

>we're going back to Paldea!!!
Skip!

>>59294807
>it has no gimmicks
In that aspect you're right because gen 5 had no gimmicky battle mechanics like Megas, Z moves, Dynamax or Tera. BUT, they could get creative and incorporate the Gems to give some sort of boost.

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This is literally the only good paradox design. Hope it gets a card

>>59294775
2x Raging Bolt
2x Pichu
2x Mantyke
1x Dewpider
1x Araquanid
1x Lana
1x Lissa
2x Oak
2x Pokeball
2x Copycat
1x Sada
2x Ancient Capsule
1x Starting Plains

>>59294823
Some of the ancients look decent but none of the robot shit look good

>>59294765
>Paldean set
Is this another set where 90% of the cards are reprints?

>>59294765
>Ok so the future pokémon have dogshit energy requirements because they're going to have an anergy accel supporter
>They don't
?

>>59294775
I can see this being good in a weird Magneton deck
There's Dragonite too but eh it's not like Dragonite has problems winning once you get to Dragonite, it's getting there in the first place that's the problem, and this card looks like a finisher more than a main attacker

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>>59294765
WHY THE FUCK ARE THE MAIN CARDS OF THE SET FUCKING REPRINTS?!

>>59294798
More like mega swampert

>>59294842
Dena hates Paldea

>>59294782
The most "fall from grace" pokemon characters ever.

>>59294842
because nobody gives a shit about Paldea

>>59294849
Except for Iono, Kieran and Rika (although the last one has been losing popularity thanks to Kieran).

>>59294782
Reminder that these two were massive assholes and are canonically DEAD!

Future is so much better than Ancient it's not even funny.

>>59294833
At least Flutter Mane and Iron Bundle aren't reprints, since they never had ex cards.

>>59294782
when did pokemon add this handsome fella.

>>59294866
Koraidon gets to benefit from all the shit fighting has gotten in the past couple sets.
Miraidon is just kinda shit. It requires so much setup just to hit damage levels that other Pokemon easily achieve with less energy.

>>59294884
He was a terrible father, an asshole literally putting all the region in danger because his science obsession and he is DEAD.

>>59294886
What does Koraidon even do?
>switch in for an injuries Mega Lucario
>Cyrus GG lmao

>>59294890
Miraidon is the same but less damage? What's your point lmfao

>>59294890
Brock+Onix to ramp

>>59294782
Turo has potential. Play your second Miraidon, steal all the energy from the first, shuffle the damaged one back into the deck, repeat. You'd want to hold onto your pokeballs or run Mesagoza, though.

>>59294888
what did the guy even do? I thought professors are supposed to be there to help you in your journey.

>>59294893
Miraidon can switch in for a Pokemon that doesn't instantly lose you the game on defeat like Oricorio or Magnezone, and also benefits from the tons of ramping options Electric has. Koraidon is stuck with this shit >>59294894 and the idea Fighting brawler to pair it with is a loss condition

>>59294897
Sada and Turo were obsessed with time travel, so much that their respective partner abandoned them and their son was neglected as fuck. They build a machine that fucked up with time and space, they knew it was extremely dangerous for the environment but didn't care and put EXTREME measures to ensure the machine stay activated even if they died...which they did by protecting their respective cover legendary (they care more about a pokemon than their own son). The professor you met ingame is just a fucking robot, they became aware that the machine is dangerous but their core program stops them from just turning it off so they recruit you, they tell you that as soon you get close to the machine, their core program will take over and they will become violent, cue final battle.

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>>59294909
The whole school setting was already pretty lame but this sounds extra dumb

>>59294897
Sada and Turo are basically absent for most of the game. They're obsessed with the paradoxes, and are stationed in a lab deep within Area Zero(inaccessible until postgame). You find out when you get to them that the original was killed by a rampaging paradox Pokemon and you've been in contact with an android replica the entire time.
You only really talk to them when getting your ridemon. They're professors, but they're not -your- professor.

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This card synergizes with illima well

>>59294914
https://youtu.be/0IiKAB12jjY
It made for a cool setpiece.

>>59294909
Oh, and in the DLC ending, bullshit sends you to the were you met the actual professor, you give them a book containing all the data of your expedition with professor Briar and all Kieran and the turtle bullshit, turns out this is what inspired the professors to build the machine in first place. Yeah, all this bullshit IS YOUR FAULT.

>>59294917
You can also use memory light/celebi and use the pulsing aura dunsparce, though that one reshuffles into your deck

>>59294929
It's a choice.

What if you lead Koraidon?

>>59294929
I like flash dunsparce more.

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More fucking paldea garbage meanwhile my waifu still isn't in the game and it's a fucking STARTER.

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Looking for a Mega Audino, from this set I have extra Mega Sceptile, Vaporeon EX, Mega Lucario, and Corviknight EX I can trade. Thanks in advance! Friend code 1516692591788869

>>59294775
you know yzard already oneshots everything in the game for 4 of the same energy right

>>59294886
koraidon is just outclassed. there's no point in running it with any existing fighting archetypes. it doesn't gel with mega lucario or donphan, and has anti-synergy with rampardos. 110 damage just isn't enough, especially since it's a total brick if you lead it and it doesn't have a scoop card like future mons get.
the thing is literally promo ex tier.

>>59294997
If it was a promo ex, it would be a dragon with 2 fighting/2 fire energy cost, and it would discard all energy after attacking.

>>59294953
then you lose lmao

My hourglasses are, once again, safe

>>59295058
Same, the only good thing Paldea has ever done

>another single pack with a gorillion of cards
I'm tired, boss.

>>59294765
>ANOTHER shitdea set
see you guys next month

does he actually think his samefagging isn't obvious?

>more scarlet and violet garbage
who asked for this?

>>59295100
It's a mini set. Probably won't be any more than 70 diamonds.

This guys really hate Ancient Pokémon huh?

>>59295171
Neither of them look very good. Future mons having a scoop is nice, but Miraidon is hilariously weak. Zoroark does more with a single energy than Miraidon does in 3. It expects you to build up a ton of energy and move it all to Miraidon, but the game is way too fast-paced to allow for that kind of playstyle.

>>59295218
You need to dump 6 energy onto it to make it hit anywhere close to Ex Zone, shit ain't worth it.

>>59295224
Absolutely not. It has a gimmick where it can replace itself and not lose progress, and Electric has a ton of ramp options, but it's just so fucking weak.

>>59295218
they both suck balls yeah
only use case for miraidon is in a zone deck, but zone decks already have zone ex who does 130, can actually take a fucking hit from megas not named lucario or zard Y, and doesn't cannibalize all energy from your other magneton and your oricorios
like for miraidon to be a better choice than just playing your zone ex, it would have to be against something that oneshots zone ex (which isn't a long list) and even then you need to somehow have enough energy on it for miraidon to OHKO (9 for mega lucario, 8 for zard Y after recoil) which is a tall ask given that you've already lost baby zone and its associated energies or you wouldn't be sending out an ex to begin with

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>my girl is finally in the game
>she's shit
bros...

>>59295253
Miraidon could have been good if it was 30+30.

The Ceruledge ex is kinda okay? At least compared to the other Promo ex.

>>59295300
That's not a high bar. It's like a Beedrill sidegrade.

>>59295306
Yeah, but stage 1 and with all the Psychic support that exists.
Don't get me wrong, it's not great. But it's got some use potential.

>>59295312
Stage 1 is a big deal. Psychic is kind of shit outside of Altaria. It dropping energy from either side makes it worse than Beedrill.

>>59295285
at 30 + 30 it would be ridiculously broken lmao

>>59295326
Well 20+20 is unusable.

>>59295330
that's a fault of the game design as a whole
since damage and HP only exist in multiples of 10 the effective numbers are extremely low and there's no room for nuance on scaling effects which is why they never really see play, they have to be dogshit because the only alternative is gamebreaking
20 for each energy is trash tier, 30 for each energy breaks the game, and since we don't do numbers that aren't multiples of 10 you can't do a middle ground of, say, 25 per energy

>>59295334
Or it could've been something like 80/90 damage +20 for each extra energy attached.

>>59295334
It could have also been 30x. Or 40+20.

>>59295345
it's 40+20 if you use the new tool :^)

>>59294765
why the fuck does miraidon have a colorless cost????????
>hmm yes let me play this in a deck without electric energy so i can attack for 20 damage with 3 energy
excuse me???????

>>59294842
The tactical flop set

>>59295360
So you can attack anyway in a pinch if you use the supporter and can only attach non electric energies
Except the supporter doesn't work on future pokémon lol

>>59294775
I'd be interested to try it in Ho-Oh + Lugia but that 3* retreat cost is going to be so annoying

>>59295432
You're just accepting that it'll die if it doesn't win the game once it gets out.

>>59294775
it's just zard Y with extra steps that also discards all its energy, dies to a stiff breeze, and bricks you by being a basic. this is nasty notice tier overhyping.

>>59295435
Yeah but I was referring to the specific scenario in which you're forced to lead with it because you bricked, and you already brick plenty with the current deck

>>59295369
There's going to be a completely busted card they don't show in the trailer.

>>59295445
turo will be busted when they randomly make iron valiant ex 5 sets from now
trust the plan

>>59295440
No one's hyping it up, people just want to build a memedeck and live the dream at least once.

>>59295456
if you wanted a meme deck you could already be playing entei/zard Y with the lana package right now.

>>59295218
Miraidon's plan is to cycle between two of them.
Play Miraidon > switch it to active for free and move all energy to it > tank a hit > play second Miraidon > switch for free into active and move energy > play Proff Turo and reshuffle the first Miraidon into deck > repeat
This way you can always retain the enery you've accumulated turn by turn and it gets increasingly powerful as it goes. If you can't one shot it, it's going to ramp into one shotting you.

>>59295529
The problem is 140 HP isn't very high.

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>>59295545

>>59295544
That's true, so you probably want to run Starting Fields on this deck or something. Giant Cape wouldn't work here since it'll just get discarded.

>>59295547
Why no flute?

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>>59295529
cool 140 hp bro

>>59295551
Remind me? But it's exhilarating as is. Just pray you don't pair against Chingling or Alolan Ninetales

>>59295529
this just doesn't work with 140 HP. you have to survivalmaxx your deck with starting plains, giant cape, and field blower, and then hope you draw everything and they don't have any outs to them or you just auto lose due to miraidon dying with all your energy. like you can put cape and starting plains down and still just die to blaziken because he had rocky helmet and held mesagoza in hand to pop your starting plains.

>>59294981
Yes but if you lose Zard Y you lose the game, that's not the case here

>>59295659
the entire strategy is to oneshot the enemy's mega for game, no? if you're blowing your 5-energy multicolor load that took 3-5 business days to set up and they didn't lose the game because it hit a nonex you already lost on the basis that they got another turn
same shit with zard, literally no difference (except zard can actually sometimes still win in these situations)

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on a win streak

>>59295671
Why would you put your mega in the active spot if you see your opponent's raging bolt ready?

The Stadium and new Ancient Tool will give Korraidon 210 HP as a basic. Its a major threat for what it can do espically with Korrina and you can use the fighting Stadium to trade in the 20 HP for 20 extra damage if you want

>>59295677
Post brew

>>59294782
This Turo is probably what they wish they had done in the main TCG

>>59295691
Can't wait to still one-shot it with mega-lucario, korrina and arena of antiquity

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SHIT EATING FAGGOT DOG

>>59295529
It's not the worst plan since two magneton can easily make you hit for 140+
But that HP is not good

>>59295680
why would you do that against charizard? because you have no other option left
zard applies pressure with entei to try and force out their mega first, what are you doing with raging bolt who needs more energy and has a much more convoluted way to recycle?

>>59295749
I'm not the same anon, to me, raging bolt is completely useless and unplayable

>>59295691
>gets stuck in the active from turn 1
>takes seven gorillion chip damage from sleep scamming igglybuff
>second koraidon comes in at 3 energy to save the first koraidon, kills igglybuff, and proceeds to get OHKO'd by mega lucario
lole

Raging Bolt seems like youtuber bait

>>59295706
Okay but you wont lose since Korraidon is 2 points whereas Lucario is 3 points so you will lose after Korraidon is knocked out

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I don't like these stupid low effort names on Paradox mons
Ultra Beasts had actual names too alongside their codenames

>>59295773
>Okay but you wont lose
will lose*

>>59295773
Oh yeah because I'll just sit on my ass and do nothing during those three turns it takes to ramp up your Korraidon

>>59295773
unless your deck is literally 18t koraidon you're going to have something else in play which will go down to lucario, then koraidon comes out, can't KO lucario because lol110damage, and you lose
alternatively you force lucario out by killing something with koraidon, then you lose because lucario gets the first attack on koraidon

>>59295775
roaring moon is a cool as fuck name bro

Jesus Fucking Christ EVERY deck I try I lose miserably

I was halfway UB3 and now I'm in UB2

>>59294801
It's over for both of them because they don't want people to start leaving after they collect their full dex. We're getting trickle fed until at least C or D series.
>>59295775
I will never not just call them "paradox (actual name of pokemon)".

>>59295945
So what do you call Iron Valiant

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on a crazy winstreak lads

is flutter mane the tech card mega gardevoir needed? denying cyrus seems huge for a deck whose main weakness is getting cyrus'd. one turn isn't a ton, but one turn is also probably all you need to heal gardevoir back up to full HP for another safe swing.
also despite having 130 hp, it can eat a hit from mega lucario if caped which is really funny. no korrina or arena for you, sorry!

>>59296032
Eh, I don't think so. If something it will be good for basic M.Altaria decks as an early attacker while you prepare your altaria.
Mega Gardevoir needs somene to increase her HP, increase her damage output or someone that uses a lot of energy.

>>59296048
it does help to effectively increase gardevoir's damage output though. flutter denies the opportunity to heal off its damage unless you're against indeedee, meaning that 70 chip damage is going to stick for gardevoir to come in and make it into 180 next turn. throw a helmet on flutter and you're looking at 200 total damage, with no way to avoid it as they can't remove flutter mane's helmet, shove it out of the way with sabrina, or heal up their own mon. and it's not like it's hard to force their mega into the active with gardevoir, 110 damage for 2 is still enough to plow through their basics. you generally don't care about getting hit first because nothing short of zard Y can OHKO gardevoir, and then once it's out you just do the flutter mane combo on it.
obviously it's mega gardevoir so it's not going to be meta defining in a world with hydreigon running around, but i really do think this is a huge buff to the deck.

>>59295835
skill issue

>>59295981
Post brew

That 14 day trade restriction is so stupid, just let me trade over my shit already fuck
If there's one thing that will push me to buy chinese accounts, it's this

>>59296107
have patience, young grasshopper

>>59294965
If you still need it, I could do it when I get home for sceptile
Give me like 2 hours-ish

>>59296112
Sure do, thanks! No rush

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>check WP
>
whew. thank you, random guy on my friends list still pulling FP. much obliged.

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Is this good enough to start climbing?

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TURN 2
Check the timer.

Turn 3 with the weird way this game counts turns.

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>>59296237

>>59296245
If this list gets me to MB, I'll post it.

>>59294823
Even then it’s still a downgrade from regular Volcarona

If anyone has 2 star Sabrina (ENG) I’m offering up a Cyrus (ENG)

>>59296203
I would swap 1 Mega Lucario for 1 non EX Lucario that gives 20 attack to fighting types

>>59296114
i sent a friend request

>>59296237
meh
pinsir could do it on (actual) turn 2

>>59296203
That is enough to get you to MB, I did.

>>59294909
>>59294916
that's sad but would still hit and let them hit though.

>>59294765
these shitty knock off pokemon are the most dog shit thing they've ever made
this month is going to suck ass

And that miraidon is going to be total aids with magnetons. Whichever dev at pocket can't get the magnetmons magnets out of their ass needs to calm the fuck down seriously

>>59296304
Sent the trade offer for mega sceptile, thanks

>>59294765
welp, guess I'm a Miraidon Ex player now

>just had a flopdea set
>lets do another one 2 months later
why

>>59294831
based correct opinion

>>59296415
? It's been three months since Paldean Wonders, bro

>>59296454
why are you responding to pennyschizo

>>59296475
I don't know who that's supposed to be

>>59294765
>More reused Paldean EX arts after Gholdengo and Chien Pao
Do they just not have much faith in Gen 9?

>>59296552
best if you keep it that way

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>>59295696
main TCG's Turo is return to hand instead of deck

>play sceptile chingling several times yesterday
>have fun, deck is pretty cool
>play sceptile today
>six (SIX) (6) consecutive games where i go first, lead celebi, and don't find a single other basic before losing turn 4
th-thanks for yesterday i guess

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i refuse to believe this game doesn't have a "whoops you won too many games, here's a bunch of extremely contrived forced losses!" mechanic, even in unranked

The success of this set rests on the angle of Sada's FA

They should bring Rapid Strike and Single Srike to Pocket.
SS Urshifu deck was fun.

>>59296834
where have you been broski

>>59296852
I meant the whole gimmick, not just the funny bears...

im hardstuck 1400 I wanna die

>>59294842
Lmao they're trying to wrap up Gen 9

>>59297073
was gen 9 really that bad?

>>59294765

Dead game

>tfw playing Pokopia as my main game after finishing and getting bored of Legends ZA while playing Pocket TCG here and there and occasionally GO after going cold turkey on Sleep because it was negatively affecting my sleeping habits
My whole life has been nothing but Pokemon ever since last October. When does it fucking end?

I just realized Mogwai has returned to pocket.

>>59297122
It can end at any random moment or haunt you til your final days.

>>59297131
>Mogwai
who dat

>>59297131
>>>/reddit/

>>59296709
A lot of online games nowadays have a system that tries to force 50% winrate, they've admitted to it and it would be particularly easy for TCGP to implement something like that

>>59297082
Anon is just seething, it's likely that they want to introduce more gimmicks than just megas over time (Ultra Beasts, Paradoxes, very likely V cards will come eventually)

POKEHUB ADDS THE GOLD MARKET!

>>59297333
I already got some super good trades with a guy on my friend list that hasn't touched Shining Revelry.
Traded him gold trainers (Red, PCL, etc.) for stuff like Sabrina and Misty.

>>59297122
When you grow up

I thought Gen 9 was a good one? Is it just the disappointment of PW or something more?

>>59294787
I mean if you have Double Magneton, things can get crazy. But you're relying on crazy luck, and you need a wall to ensure the Magnets stay alive.
And if you evolve one of them to Magnezone, you're cutting your energy generation for Miraidon.

>>59297788
That's what I mean by not surviving long enough to really get stupid energy amounts. I guess if you get lucky you can lead with Oricorio and build up the bench, but in that time you'd probably just kill something with Magnezone, or even Oricorio. You need a very specific kind of board state, and you need that state for longer than what the current game will allow. Maybe if this was CG you'd be able to get away with it, but definitely not now. Manectric and Bellibolt just do it better, even if they're stage 1s.

>>59296315
How? I don't see it.
Serperior has to wait a turn for evo.
Not enough cards (6) to Lyra and X-speed with double Leafeon and the Mega Pinsir (7).

>>59296315
I like Heracross, because the damage output is guaranteed.
Only the recoil is RNG, so he's a reliable finisher.
Just do the math.

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Thoughts on this lad ?

I just traded a lame rainbow magnezone EX for a fucking FA Red, feels good.

>>59297862
Maybe we'll get a Terapagos ex that does +x amount of damage for each different energy type attached to it and use it with Juggler

>>59297862
Really pointless gimmick. Maybe if it picked a random mon and gave it energy based on what its attack costs are, it could be usable on a dragon deck. Or if it gave a random energy to everyone on the bench.

>>59297823
well i thought it out and it's "technically" possible but you need an assist from your opponent so it's never happening in a real game.
>turn 0, play 2 copies of instant evolution eevee and your mega pinsir (2 cards in hand)
>turn 1, igglybuff poke from opponent and they red card you (3 cards in hand)
>turn 2, draw 4th card, evolve to leafeon (1), attach to pinsir, lyra to other eevee (2), evolve to leafeon (3), attach to pinsir, x speed (4), energy zone attach to pinsir, nuke iggly uff off the face of the planet.

your masterball heracross deck... post it...

>>59297333
>look inside
>everybody just wants ice pop or poison barb
meh

Neck all sleepscammers

I have greatly enjoyed not playing this game.

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LF rainbow/planeta Masked Ogerpon ex or rainbow/planeta Indeedee ex

Have these for trade

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>>59298094
Page 2

>>59298094
planeta indeede for rainbow swampert?

>>59298094
ill give you the planeta ogerpon for meowscarada
1688714902034872

>>59298126
Yes of course
6417657864435808

>>59298129
Yes sure, added you

>>59298134
sorry, man, just noticed the card is korean, the only ching chong card I like are japanese, sorry

>>59298143
sent

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>>59298154
Thanks

>>59298151
Ok

Set just seems like a skip

Also what is everyone using for ranked this season
I’ve only had fun running mega heracross so far
Anything else that’s good / fun, might just try Lucario + dog Zygarde

>>59298204
no set has ever been a skip, there's always some bullshit broken cards they don't show off pre-release
PW looked like turbo ass from the trailer but then chien pao and bellibolt were the biggest decks around

Finally got FA sceptile but I'm all out of hourglasses and dust. Next set I'm going out of business probably

>>59298204
Made it to Master Ball for the first time, went pure degenerate this time with Mega Lucario, Darkrai, and Igglybuff

>>59298221
Paldean Wonders was a pretty comfortable skip. Only 5 arguably good cards, with 4 of them building a single deck that isn't that great.

Based on the little information we got on the trailer, how different is the Pocket version of Ancient and Future compared to the main TCG?

>>59298332
Mechanic wise, there is no difference.

>>59298327
>meowscarada ex
>chien pao ex
>bellibolt ex (even if it was powercrept immediately by manectric, it was top tier at the time)
>baxcalibur
>houndstone
>orthworm
>electric generator
>mesagoza
paldean wonders was actually a really good set by miniset standards. 8 solidly playable cards is a lot, mega shine only had 6 with zard X, manectric, darkrai, scizor, revavroom, and hiking trail.
i don't see why you'd skip sets to begin with, it's not like there's better things to spend your daily packs on. even collectors who don't battle at all want the pretty full arts.

Does anyone have spare 1star english Meowstic?

>>59298464
The way pack points work, and how the game's meta has become so stagnant, you're honestly better off just opening old packs. If you get a Cyrus, you can trade for practically any other card in the game.

>>59298489
sure i could spend several months opening old packs for a second cyrus to trade for whatever to use as trade fodder, or i could just open the new packs and odds are i get more than one card i actually want in the process. i'd have to skip three whole sets to get enough points to buy a cyrus, and that's a huge amount of missed cards. like, in the last three sets i've gotten ~8 2* cards that i actually value from packs and 24h WPs, as well as a few cards above 2*. if i was just pulling STS i'd only have one 2*, maybe two if i was lucky.
seems like a really bad value.

>>59298539
The pull rates for the respective star cards are the same.

I keep opening new sets just for the sake of it but my MB deck has been the same since clemont.
I think I will only bother completing the new one if it has a FA of a pokemon I like.

>>59298449
What even is the mechanic? It seems like it’s just a naming thing so certain support cards only affect certain pokemon

>>59298561
sure, but old pokemon are valueless while new pokemon are not. pulling STS palkia means getting slop like lickilicky or weavile, cards that nobody wants and which are entirely unplayable, essentially dead pulls. new sets have playable 2* cards, and shinies, and immersives, and even crowns. if i'm exclusively pulling STS palkia and i want a 2* of a newly released pokemon, my options are:
>trade down with cyrus (bad)
>trade down with a mars (bad)
>don't get it at all because the only other cards i have to trade are garbage (bad)
i like playing meowscarada. i was lucky enough to pull 2 copies of rainbow meowscarada during paldean wonders. if i skipped that set i wouldn't have a playset of rainbows for a deck i enjoy playing, i'd have 1/4 of a cyrus that i'd have to trade to get even one meowscarada, which would be scamming myself. and that's not even counting the planeta chien pao for my suicune deck or the shiny entei for my zard deck.
it's just not a good strategy.

I'm still grateful to that anon who traded me his Cyrus for a rainbow Kingdra.

>>59298666
Hey it's me, anon I'll need that back ty

>>59298489
the way the game works, the only packs worth pulling are
>the most recent pack in general (people want these cards asap and will do retardedly good trades for them if you pull them early on, also 24h picks)
>the most recent full set (2* from these are generally more valuable due to the difficulty of getting 24h picks)
>an old pack that specifically has an untradable card you're looking for (crown ball, immersive altaria, whatever)
pulling the palkia pack for pack points to get a cyrus to use as trade fodder is fucking retarded

How many times did you have Chansey pick of new wp event? Me: 2

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I need her trainer cards in game

>>59298737
idk like 5 or 6 so far

Do you guys actually do stuff with the binders or display boards

I just wish there was more to do with them
An actual like comment or community feature

>>59298780
eh, most of them are pointless. i have a big binder of 30 supporters i keep updated to get daily likes, and that's about it.

>play the game
>someone put me to sleep on turn one
>can't move
>lose 50 hp every turn
Damn, this is the total opposite of fun.

I quit this POS when they released ultimate or ultra beasts or whatever tf they’re called. Has the game only gotten gayer?

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>>59297866
What decks is red being played in? I have a FA Red. Haven't used it since this deck.

>>59298737
Twice as well

So will Paldean Wonders Koraidon and Miraidon get the Ancient/Future tags added retroactively or what?

>>59298740
Who is her?

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>>59298780
I find them very ammusing. I need more of these cool gimmicky boards though, the ones with only 1 to 3 cards are lame as hell.

>>59299040
lol
lmao, even

>>59299001
bounded field eevees plays red, and that's memedeck tier but it's the only deck i've seen in the last half a year that plays red at all.

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>>59298625
That's basically it.
Like UBs, it's just another tag that gives its members some exclusive interactions.

>>59299040
Nyo

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I know it's a long shot but anyone has shiny giratina from the ex deck to trade?
I have shiny lugia, lunaala, primarina, dialga, darkrai, lickilicky, articuno and beedrill to offer in exchange if anyone is even interested in my garbage.

I just want the damn card since it's my favorite pokemon, and I'm sick and tired of waiting for whenver it comes back only to continue not getting the fucking thing.

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>>59299085

>>59299085
>I just want the damn card since it's my favorite pokemon
ah, a fellow tina lover
well i don't have anything better to do with all this shinedust on my alts anyway, so sure
gimme lunala or primarina, don't care which it's just to get the little dust refund for a dupe
4956252019672865

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My account….is homo-seeded….

>>59299176
yeah, you'd have to be a faggot to like lusamine.

Wow, turns out Mega Altaria is only deck I'm not sucking at this ranked and I just defeated Castform-Mega Blaziken guy without using Mega altari. We both had bricks and I slowly chipped hp of his castforms and blaziken with 2 igglys and 2 darkains and when chicken had 80hp I switched to darkrai with 4 energies

>>59296250
>>59297905
I'm half way through UB3.

>>59299176
Still more waifucards than husbandocards

>>59299104
Sent you a friend request, based tina enjoyer.

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>>59298780
Some people have fun with them.

hey bros, digifag here curious about the TCG
how bad is the diversity in the TCG? i heard before that it was quite good and that most decks are quite cheap
have a great weekend lads

>>59299213
wrong thread bro we play phone games here

>>59299213
What's the digimon tcg called?

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>>59299219
fug gomene

>>59299222
ermmm Digimon Card Game

>>59299213
This is the thread you are looking for >>59298441 but TCG pocket has a decent variety of decks you can make except the top caste of decks are miserable to go against.

>>59298635
This is a good point.
That's why I only open Mega Gyarados packs for the crown flame patch chase.
Excellent 4D and 2* trade value.
Copycat gets you anything bar Oak and Cyrus and the mons have good value too (Absol, Jolteon, Greninja).

Cyrus packs were sad to open...

>>59299228
nice nice, thank you anon
god bless

>>59299201
enjoy the tina bro

>>59299240
holy shit anon thank you so much, I have no words to express these damn feels. Bless your soul

>>59299242
How much dust to trade a shiny? Also congrats on getting the card you desired so much and shout out the anon who traded you.

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>>59298740
Leaf is already in the game

>>59299242
no problem anon, it's really nothing especially for a fellow tina lover

>>59299252
30k dust if it's 2 star (dunno if it's lower for one star shiny)

>>59299276
shiny-1s are 10k, so less than shiny-2 but still overpriced as fuck.

they should nerf the fucking ice pop already

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>>59299273
based gigachad tina lover

Anyone else feel like bench sniping is too accessible now? Like previously you could consider poncho but it feels like leaf blower just completely fucked it over as an option. Someone can leaf blower, greninja ping THEN cyrus you in just one turn. It just feels so annoying, the game barely relies on any 1v1 interactions on the active spot anymore. Its just sniping points on the bench

>>59299385
>Someone can leaf blower, greninja ping THEN cyrus you in just one turn.
but do they, really? suicune greninja is dead, altaria greninja doesn't have room for field blower, and more meme-type decks like blaziken greninja, lucario greninja, and sceptile greninja also don't have room for it. even suicune bax doesn't play field blower.

>opponent manages to pull over 400 hp out of two ice pops
>lose because he just had infinite hp
bro

>>59298780
I like to do cute references with my display boards sometimes.
My most recent one is FA Grovyle and Shiny Celebi ex. iykyk

>>59299404
Suicune bax does play field blower sometimes. The card is insanely broken if people aren’t running it they’re crazy

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>>59299260
No she's not. Kanto women look similar.

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>>59298780
Best thing to do in the game, but an update for binder screencaps and more slots would be so cash

>>59299703
It's super good but it's hard to fit into some decks honestly.

>>59299703
the problem is that it's good but other cards have more impact in more games, or are more vital in more common matchups. suicune bax really, REALLY doesn't want to drop its capes or plains otherwise it can easily get murked by speedy 140 damage cards like lucario blaziken sceptile altaria etc, you can't give up boat because it lets you salvage frigibax or chien pao starts, PCL is vital in the sleep scam matchup which is everywhere, even in suicune you want a copycat, and that leaves you with literally 1 (one) [uno] flex card which is probably going to be cyrus.

>>59294775
You could reach this same effect easier with Crimson Flame Charizard + Ho-oh, with the exception of a few megas (who likely die anyway cause they just took a Ho-oh blast to the face before Charizard comes out).

>>59299294
Skill issue. Next you’ll say they should nerf Igglybuff.

>>59300100
I don't think Igglybuff is comparable to Ice Pop.

>>59300106
Igglybuff is really annoying, but it's also got ways to deal with it. The only way to deal with the ice pop completely undoing win conditions is by playing ridiculous decks like Zard Y that instakill everything.

Any Primarina ex deck for funsies? (No sleep variant

>>59300115
i feel like you kinda have to play sleep if you want to win since popplio has sing but if you really really don't want to you could play it as the world's worst healspam deck, like a shitty mega audino which is itself a shitty mega steelix

>>59300115
You can't really get by without abusing sleep, damage is too high to outheal these days and your own damage is too low

>>59300110
soon we'll have flutter mane doing unhealable chip damage to set up altaria and gardevoir for 1-2 punch KOs that can't be healed through
trust the FUCKING plan

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>>59300110
Clearly what we need is something less cumbersome with Heal Block on it, because the potential is there to make Ice Pop into a dud card.

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>>59300208
Make a Pokemon with an ability that forces a coinflip each time the opponent tries to heal. If they get tails, the heal becomes damage instead. Maybe on a Poison Pokemon and it's called Contaminated Food

>>59299560
How many times do you have to be told? USE CHARIZARD IF ICE POP MAKES YOU MAD, PUSSY

>>59300229
t. ice pop hydreigon cancer cell

>>59300233
Farm Hydreigon for free wins you retarded rog

>>59300245
>durr all that matters is winning
brown

>>59300208
They cluod make an stadium that negates healing for both parties. More reasons for decks to add cards that break stadiums.

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Kill whoever designed that darkrai

>>59300562
it takes a great amount of skill to use Igglybuff and Darkrai

>>59300562
>-10 damage
>-20 damage
>-20 damage
>"Oh, you flipped tails? Sucks for you. You don't get a proper turn now. Also..."
>-20 damage
>-20 damage
>"Flip again, bitch >:)"

>>59300618
This cost them 0 energy on turn 1 when you only drew 1 basic, no pokeballs, no oaks, and no copycats, btw.

>>59300626
Everyone complained turn 1 was a disadvantage so this is what we get

>>59300626
the deck's not easy to play and is prone to bricking. you guys just want to complain when hitmontop is right there.

>>59300680
Oh I'm sorry, it's so hard playing Darkrai and Igglybuff. You're right.

It's not even about the deck being "hard" to play against. It's just you literally just...don't get to fucking play the game if they don't brick. It's very toxic gameplay design. Like those fighting games where you can juggle your opponent for a full fuucking minute and they have 0 mechanics to get the control of their character again. Only those actually require fucking skill to not drop the fucking combo when here you just rely on a fucking coinflip to determine whether or not you get juggled.. It's unfun design and you're a faggot if you play it. I don't need Hitmontop, I use Goomy to force an energy onto it so it I can at least have a fucking chance to play the game.

>>59300680
yeah its an accident its the most winning deck right now

>>59300574
>>59300680
I'm sorry anon I'm really bad at sarcasm and maybe you had the most bricked hands of anyone but I've been playing exclusively sleep scam and this is one of the easiest decks to pilot, almost darktina+drudd easy. GA was simpler but not easier.

Ayup, AltariTards still deserve the rope

*sips*

Any Mega Mawile bros itt?
I keep finding myself needing just one more turn to win in ultraball 4. Is it worth running energy removal options to have a chance at forcing that last turn? The decks I played well into last season don't seem as popular this time around, so getting those last few ranked points needed for master ball is taking some time.

damn, igglybuff darkrai has made this shit completely unplayable

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Anyone trading gold frame cards? I can offer some meta stuff

>>59301040
only meta gold frame i have a dupe of is field blower kek

>>59300562
I run Ogerpon on most of my decks and it mindbreaks most Iggly-Altaria and Iggly-Lucario players for some reason.
I have yet to play a match where they don't choke the moment they see Ogerpon. It's actually rather funny.