Berylly Playable 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: >>59372701Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
Mega Fug is a Tier 1 deck.
>>59394271...in uganda
/tcg/ has never been right...
every time I go against pult and they take like an extra 30sec at the start for no reason i like to think that they were just tabbed out and not that they have a google sheets flowchart on how to play the deck that they just follow to the letter
>>59394300The attack does not discard energy for cost you fucking schizo.
>>59394357They were not expecting an opponent actually willing to play against them
>>59394271>Lightning weaknessBetrayed by its own acceleration engine.
>>59394304We were right by calling megas shit.
The fact that they made all these gimmick cards to go wtih it is all the proof you need that Mega Ray is shit. They didn't make the card itself any better because they expect you to use all the support cards they made for it, like this unsearchable Tool that you need multiples of to be useful.
>>59394438noh nohmega ray is good if you have the stadium and the tool and the special energy and the stage 1 support and the stage 2 support and the specific supporter and and and and and and
>>59394486i.e. all decks
>>59394501Yeah that's why we've been rotting in a tier 0 format for longer than some /vp/ users have lived
>>59394501Pult only needs its own evo line, that's why we have a gazillion variants.
>>59394438>Could've made a TM evo for colorless pokemon only>Instead you need gimmickly tools on everyoneYeah because anyone is wasting 4 tools just to find 4 energy as opposed to just using audino or something
>>59394501yeah which is why pult can full random a quarter of their decklist and still beat everything in the game at least 51% of the timeoh wait
Why did they make him so bad?This might be the worst meta we've ever had, as it's literally not changed at all for the whole year.
>>59394569the whole year has been like 3 months lol
>>59394576time flies when you're having funotherwise it does the opposite
>>59394569Pitch is at least introducing one or two new meta decks.
pultards seething
>The state of ghost veil alreadyAnother new toy syndrome
>>59394634it's hard to tell going off japanese results only because sometimes it's because they are genuinely handless at the game, and sometimes it's just because the deck is not very good anyway
>>59394390Isn't it just a worse version than bolt bolt? Both need energy switch or crispin anyway. At least raging bolt hits more faster and is only 2 prizes
>>59394760I don't think japanese are considerably less skilled at the game than americans or europeans.
>>59394940bo1 is a format that relies on gotcha tactics
>>59394943Bo1 is what most of us play at locals so we should be giving more importance to japanese stats compared to big regional events.
>>59394760these are just their results for their locals and any deck can make top 16 at a cup or challenge. which is why festival lead and grimm show up on the list. the graphs might give a bit of insight into future sets but it's going to be different at a competitive or bigger level.
>>59394634
>>59394986No one here play competitively.
>>59394986I unironically think Grimmsnarl is a comparably good deck to Dragapult (a dragapult-lite if you will) but its 3 main faults on top of the PTCG being almost exclusively played by people with dominant slave genes mean that it will probably go its entire lifespan perceived as an underwhelming deck.
>>59394188>”Berylly”Geg, I see what you did there
>>59394438>mega ray for knocks/ mega kangas>talonflame ex for free on bench>crispin>search for cards while doing 150 damage for free>Mega pyroar + oracho ex as bench warmers>firebreather for turbo>wallys to protect/heal pyroar or run armarouge to spread the fire from pyroar to rest of the teamThe intended way of play is kinda mid, but there is turbo on the fire side that is more playable. It can kinda morph into slop box a bit, but the armarouge kind of limits it a bit.
>>59394993Mega lucario Z will save lucario...!https://www.pokebeach.com/2026/03/aura-seeker-set-name-trademarked-for-the-pokemon-tcgSurely it wont be a metal attacker requiring a completely different deck
>legendary stadium>get destroyed by a regular stadium>and a cat
>>59395357These double stadiums they keep printing are such garbage.They gotta print a stadium locking card to prevent that. Reprint this but have it only work while ninetales is on the bench, then you can at least temporary disable it through gusting
>>59395433yea here it is bro
>>59395433>>59395447You know what needs to be done.
Feels nice getting a V Union ready on turn 1.
>>59395463I miss every card in this screenshot.
radiant greninja should have been banned
>>59395447>ActiveMake a bench activation only one like bastiodon
>>59395507For what? Because you didn't want to run Manaphy?
>>59395542the decks that could run it were disproportionately stronger than decks that couldn't and ones that could use the attack even more so, as well as attacking it instead of something else was actively a detriment to your gameplan since it was laughably easy to just put it back down. reminds me of another card now that i think about it...
>>59395542Presumably because of that ability on a basic. Not that I agree mind you.
no radiant pokemon ever won the world championship in the masters divison lol
>>59394760Also we reached the point where a lot of people at locals play whatever because they feel physical pain if they touch a pult deck for the thousandth time
>tell our league owner they should opt into the world championship event so we all get free shit>he still hasn't done it weeks later>only 2 days left to do it yipee
>mid year tournament tomorrow>have to decide on a deck>4 of the card stores near me lack what I need>and I don't want to plan and build other decks>"sigh, go crustle..."wish I gave a fuck enough to fucking care...
None of this would be a problem if they didn't retire the Fairies and make Dragon have no weakness.
>>59395611Reintroduce Fairy type and reprint Double Dragon Energy. Game fixed.
FLORALFLURRY
>>59395611Weakness isn't the issue with dragapult though? It's the fact they've printed nothing good to contest with the older cards. Even mega ray looks absolutely garbage, it's ironically a worse sylveon ex
>>59395829why does this shit have to be bogged down by pikachu and eevee man
>>59395850You will take the anorexic Pikachu and you will like it.
>>59394993Good for this guy, honestly. He keeps topping if not winning tournaments with nothing but Lucario.
>>59395831>stage 1>no energy acceleration>needs full rainbow in energies to do damage>have damage cap (there are only so many different energy types)Nah. Ray isnt very good but Sylveon is terrible.>>59395609so you waited until the last moment and now have no time to do it. the consequeces of your choices.
>>59396047Sylveon evolves off tera eevee which has glass trumpet synergy built in. It's psychic itself so psychic patch works.Stage1 is a non issue since eevee can insta evo, plus it's only 1-2 prizes. Rainbow is a non issue with glass trumpet or spidops, you just discard it all and recover it. Rainbow means you can run it with other eevees too like flareon, you're not stuck being a one trick attacker like rayRays built in energy acceleration is an absolute joke. Top 4 and only attach ONE energy IF you even find it. Imagine using night academy just for that. Plus you need ANOTHER acceleration method through your supporter like crispin or zinnia to even get the 3rd energy on ray. Psychic patch in comparison btfos this disney jump through hoops set up ray is wanting
>>59395611They could just make dragons weak to psychic now since fairy was folded into it. Or have dragon weak to itself again like the earliest ones from BW era. Then they can make a colorless attack cost dragon that you can put in decks as a dragon counter. Fairy never did it's job when it was around.
>>59395458explain to me how you can no longer play any stadiums after this one. I mean the very next one is useless I get it, but any after that one would work right?
>>59396341A deck can play multiple chaotic swell. Another one can be played the turn after an opponent wastes their one stadium per turn limit bumping the first swell.You only need two swell to completely block the two legend stadiums from entering play if the ray player isn't running the fire blower or extra stadiums.
>>59394438It's not balanced for right now, it's balanced for after rotation. Once that happens it'll be an extremely powerful card. You niggers always forget that sometimes it takes a card a year or two to become good.
>>59394909Fighting and fire both start with "f", and are thusly indistinguishable out of context, so fire is instead designated "r" for red.
>>59396161>trumpet>patch>another stage 1>a way to discard energy to be able to accelerate>a way to put it in active spot (so another energy or an item)Thats a lot of hoops still.
Bring back the Lost Zone. I miss this guy so much it hurts.
was the marnie's grimm sir a ladder reward?
damn ok
Don't worry, they're to print a LLFF Kiawe, trust the plan
>>59397253>>59384967
>>59396564>Just fill your bench>Also just get 2-4 tools out on them (don't mind that it takes up your equipped tool for the rest of the game too)I'd sooner use any of these over requiring meme hat spam. Audino with the new badge is often 6 energy if you cared that much
>5 card stores in my area>none of them have what I need >forced into 3 garbage decks>did at one point want to switch decks>saw who I was matched up with round 1>forced to play the main shit deck, because I fucking hate mirrors>no draw support, lose>play woman who has to play slow, because wahh crustle>win with 2 minutes left>play friend round 3>knew I was going to lose, lose>slowking round 4...>no playmat, duhWas prepared to eat shit, did but I guess I have time to actually build a new deck before the next tournament ceruledge, lmaothanks for reading my blog!
>>59397471>often 6 energyIt's 23.5% of the time if you always re-flip, but if you are greedy like that you have to remember that 12.5% of your re-flips are triple tails.
>>59397511Should have expedited shipping on the grimmsnarl package, you would have won
alright, you convinced meto fucking filter grimmsnarllaters!
>>59397672bye felicia, enjoy the lose streak
>>59397511schizoposting at its finest.>>59397645Don't reveal the secret tech. I just got the last pieces in today.
>>59397770good luck at locals, if you lose don't come back
I can't wait for the BBD (big black darkrai)
ptcg just bugged in one of the best matches i've had in a long timepiece of shit software
Meta shifting lately made Grimmsnarl price drop around here from 3 bucks to like 1. I got 3 yesterday, was the only thing missing fom the deck really. Gotta sleeve it up and try it at locals next Thursday.
I hope everybody plays grass!
>>59397014>Giratina in Lost ZoneLost zone is a single prize deck
>>59398253I uh.... I don't know what you're smoking, but every lost zone deck played Giratina.It fueled getting to the threshold needed for slabeye, plus you got a free knock on anything with the vstar.
>>59397981How do I make him work?
>>59397981Most redditcoded type.
>>59398253>>59398272You’re both giga retarded
i'm not happy with my dragapult blaziken listcurrently it feels like when i most need to draw something, i won't draw it, often falling short in the late gamei liked dragapult dusknoir with hammers but that feels slow and brickyi like dragapult with just hammers but my locals play a lot of colorless with ability and tools so i have to go with watchtower and jamming tower (this works for my blaziken list) but it's also very slowi like noir with hammers and rare candy but i feel like that's a meme that may not work all the timethanks for reading my blog, i enjoy playing dragapult but i wish there was a detailed breakdown of it that isn't gated behind some shitty metafy, worst thing about this game is how all the "pros" think it's ok to paywall basic knowledge
>>59399004>currently it feels like when i most need to draw something, i won't draw ityou are clearly playing dragapult wrong, the deck sees like 15 cards per turn, you draw everything all the time
>>59399012i don't know if it's just ptcgl fucking me over, this doesn't happen irl it just gives me so many repeats when i need to draw the right thing
>>59399017You might be messing up your sequencing or unnecessarily shuffling the deck after putting multiple bad draws on the bottom with Drakloaks
>>59399030probably, maybe i have to play it smarter but i still can't decide on a dragapult list eitherit's just fun
Every meta after lost box rotated was dogshitWill hide n seek fix this?>>59398708Sound centrist to me
>>59399004the blaziken forces pult to play less useful cards in it so it's normal to recon into nothing.>worst thing about this game is how all the "pros" think it's ok to paywall basic knowledgeyeah, thankfully pult's basic knowledge is practically the same it has been for awhile now so the guides that are on youtube still have useful information in them even if they're older. but for the most part it's budew early game, build loaks mid game, and take 6 prizes late game. every pult build has the same plan they just get there in different ways.
>>59399236Last meta before current one was great, thougheverbeit.
>>59399426no it wasnt
>>59399559NTA, it was. having 4 decks dominating the mega is better than only one.
There hasn't been a good format since Shady Dealings rotated.
I liked ADP format
It was fun
>>59400089>3 prizer>Evolution>Caps at 270lol fucking trash.
>>59400093w a s
Would it be too busted if they reprinted this?
>>59400093you weren't even attacking with it a lot of the time lol
>>59400123>*Retreats*Wat nou
B&B format is silly. A single mega can salvage the worst deck>game 1: zacian deck with two mega diancie>game 2: toxitricity deck with mega sharpedo. Barely avoided a donk because opponent misplaced energy twice>game 3: ceruledge. I had 2 charcadet, they only had 1>game 4: zacian. Almost decked out because I was digging for sharpedo>game 5: ceruledge. I had 2 charcadet, they only had 1
>>59400102yeh it'd be more like this nowadays>The [C] pokemon this card is attached to has no Weakness.
>>59400102>>59400225This for megas would be fine imo. Megas are cucked too hard to weakness being 3 prizes.
Personally I'm looking forward to Storm Emerald so that I don't have to put a single braincell into deckbuildingIt's going to be another>you're meant to use THIS with THIS and THIS and also THISand you maybe have 2-3 cards spare for tech options at mostAnd you thought Garchomp was a linear deck.
>>59401049You'll have to wait until rotation for a no-thinky format. Tera cards give rayquaza too many options to be brainless, and it still has to navigate around Dragapult ex for several months.
>>59401049You are not supposed to engage in deckbuilding anyway, just copy a proven good list from somewhere and adjust a couple tech cards for local meta.
>>59401209Based unless you run Bolt-Bolt.
>>59401320I said proven good list.
>>59401049Why are you remaking your dragapult decks in storm emeralda? There's nothing new there to impact the meta
>>59401391We will get storm emerald after 30th anniversary. Mew ex probably won't do much, but a 160hp budew is still something to consider.
>>59401733We're still yet to get the legendaries. a bunch of those before were meta impacting Mew ex will impact the meta more than storm emeralda if the build-around card is this shit
>>59402177some retard in this general was saying that the 25th didn't have any good cards, like pikachu didn't win worlds and mew/zacian/yveltal/kyogre weren't deck defining lol
>>59402489>>59402177Aren't like none of these actually playable and are just reprints for collectorfags?
>>59402913Half the set is oldschool reprints, the other half is legendaries which will be playable legal (and sometimes meta going off how celebrations cards were) They've teased a bunch of legendaries again so hopefully they end up good like before
>>59402945That art is so sick I can't wait to never be able to buy any product because of fucking scalpers and Pokemon Company's refusal to combat the problem.
Is 400 hp enough for a 1-prizer to compete with dragapult?
Another rayquaza acceleration engine, but bad.
>>59403379450 if you do cape, and even higher if you throw growing grass on it.This thing is going to be cancer to play around.So much for curbing that power creep.
>>59403391So I can Crispin attach Fire Psychic to Ditto transform into Dragapult?But I know it'll probably be better for Kang
>>59403391>go second>fan rotom or ultra ball to get ditto into play>crispin to ditto to get two energy online in one turn>attach backtrack badge to ditto>use attack to search deck for dragapult>???>profit
>>59403412Its 150 damage per turn is very weak, and needs bangle to threaten any 2hkos. It also wouldn't use special energy because it needs 3 basic grass for meganium to give it the hp boost.Maybe you can go post-rotation crustle+exeggutor+meganium to force the opponent into awkward plays.>>59403426Yes, but the attack has drawbacks>Leaving your new pokemon in the active for the opponent to hit>Coin flip, needs the re-flip badge for 75% chance. 25% of the time your 60hp ditto just dies>Rarely better than just playing a 1-0-1 line in your deck
New Alolan Exeggutor will be very good in Gym Leader Challenge
these cards look unsurprisingly bad
>glc
We are definitely not getting a double energy, or else the post-rotation format just turns into turn 1 ditto into jellicent item/tool lock.
>Pitch Black card pool>Misty's Vitality for wateran>Toucannon for 1 card draw/turn & 60+ 20/each benchan>Dhelmise vengeful anchoran number 2 deck in nipland with sinistacha/bannette>Dark Bell for sp condition and/or darkan>Backtrack Badge for coin flippan, Mega Kangashkan ex already real contendan>Gwynn for non rulebox decks drawan>Voltaic Energy for sp energy extra damagan>Gladion Supporter / Slowbro for no cardan>Mega Exacdrill ex for number 3 deck in nipland, tons of steel supportanPlanning out my paper tcg deck purchases, starting from zero. Getting Dragapult for the sweat, but still planning out one or two decks to have for fun. What decks are you playing when Pitch Black releases?
>some guy shit himself at locals last night
>>59403791ehehe gomen gomen
>at 1900+>opponent pops dusknoir on my bench with battle cage in play >shame concedes
>>59403833He didn't seem sorry at all. I even heard him say "Should I keep playing?" No idiot. You made the store smell like shit. Go home and wash your ass.Anyway I went 2-1
>>59404082When a judge has to unironically say "Sorry bro, you're DQ'd you shit yourself."Man.
>>59404056and that was justin newdorf
>>59404122What happened to Justin Oldorf?
>>59404129rotated out
>>59404132I read that as "rotted out" and honestly I prefer that answer
>>59403386Zapdos and moltres work with lantern but articuno is a brick. The deck has no draw engine so you're not finding your lanterns or crispin/energy switch for rays shitty 3 energy cost. That's going to kill the deck being viable more than anything is it costing 3 instead of 2 like raging bolt
>>59403391>put this card back in your deck.I wish it was discarded like the 151 ditto so you could thin out +1 card>>59403543>What decks are you playing when Pitch Black releases?ghost 'n' veil is the only pitch black deck I'm interested in but I'll pick up the singles for other decks like excadrill just to have them
>>59403433>It also wouldn't use special energy because it needs 3 basic grass for meganium to give it the hp boost.doesnt growing count as grass energy when attached and double the energy count as well?
It only took 30 years to get a full art of my beloved wife Nidorina
>>59404501meganium's ability only affects basic energy.
>>59403436that's the case this entire year..2026 may genuinely have been the worst year for competitive releases ever. even when rotation hits none of these are going to see play, all the I regulation cards will be meta instead, J regulation means [J]oke
New cards when
>>59404762
>>59403791This is why i just buy the cards for the artwork and go home
>>59403379 500hp single prize
