Shorely On Time 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: >>59595065Old /tcg/ pastebin: https://pastebin.com/Ge95YuMA
I love how everyone ignored Brisbane because it's a non competitive environment due to it costing like $6k to go there to play.
It's been almost two weeks since the "mark your calendars, because on September 15, we launch one of our biggest updates yet." and we still don't have full expanded mode. I marked my calendar and I have yet to be wowed and wooed.
posting a few codes on the hour
put the judge and psyducks back in the lists
European regionals are always a clownfest lol
>used to live in a big city, two locals with average of 30 people and another 4~5 I never got to play at>moved to a small city, no LGS>closest LGS is an hour drive, three cities away, saturday morning>getting the itch to play, go there>6 people, bo3, 3 rounds>sharpedo player, hope I dont get many bad MUs>dragapult, festival lead, grass box, excadrill, lucario>I pair against grass and dragapult/ghosts, 0-2>last round against lucario. I win game 1 easily, dude has to do errands for his GF, drops after 1 gamenever again. cant wait to move to another place ASAP
>Used to live in a small city.>No LGS for years. LGS was 10 miles away with bad public transit so I never went.>LGS opens up in my city.>I swore I would go so I start going.>Helped build my league>End up becoming league assistant.>We get 10-12 weekly (yay)>End up finding out that I am a woman.>Move to the largest city nearby.>There are now 3 leagues (soon to be 4) within an hour from me using public transit.>Each one has at least 10 people weekly.>Still go back to my old place because it's soulful.>Oh I'm a woman now btw.
>>59624511So are you telling me not to play Alakazam Dusknoir?
Rotation genuinely cannot come fast enough. There is not a single deck I enjoy playing right now.
>>59625141>The community was the problem>Not my retarded tier D deckYou are dense.
>One of my schizo tranny rogue decks apparently did well at Baltimore.>Now I want to run it at Louisville.
>>59626061EVERYONE. THE PTCGL EXPERIENCE
TCG meta is stale as fuck. When the fuck is it gonna get fun?
>>59626271Rotation. Or with Delta Reign if you wanna play Raquaza
>>59625360Mewbox is fun but that survives rotation Exadrill is also fun and sadly that'll rotate..
All of my friends are 1800-1900. This stuff makes me depressed.
I miss the old dragon type color scheme. It looked cooler darker. Middle is the worst one though good thing they fixed that come SV
>>59626679The new one is easily the worst. I liked how blotchy the other two looked even if the rightmost one was the best looking.
Why does slop box always have the exact combination of 1 of cards they need every turn to get the prize advantage?
How do you beat MExcadrill as Grimmsnarl?
>>59626914You don't. Not even Dusknoir can do it.
>>59626926So... what, only 1prizers can beat MExcadrill and Basic Bitch Box?
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Has anyone else played against the anniversary legendary birds? I can appreciate a slower game but maybe better if my opponent could stand a chance for at least one turn.
>>59627069They are a worst Teal Mask for Raging Bolt.
There has to be some way to make my wife viable once again. Trying out stuff with mew but no success at the moment. Will keep experimenting.
>>59626679I love that Haxorus seems like a forgettable shitmon to most but its one of my all time faves and i'm like 95% sure when they introduced dragon type in BW they went with that weird rusty gold because of it
>>59627131mew mega garde jellicent cleffairycopy frillish until set up
The store I work at becoming a Play location was probably the worst fucking decision I've seen in my life. God help us all
>>59627680Why
>>59627680Let me guess, you attracted a bunch of sweats than don't consume anything on the store and just show up to nab away the prize?
>>59627754Literally me.I exclusively buy singles online, go to random league challenges where no one knows me and kick everyones' asses lol I even bring my own snacks and water from home.
>>59626914You dont lol. That's why I'm not playing, Grimmsnarl is in an abysmal spot. I might try out the Rayquaza/Talonflame deck when it hits live though but I have low hopes
>>59625407There where so many people playing a lot of different decks in the big LGSs, fun decks even. There was some thrill of playing, not knowing what I would face. A LOT of non-meta slaves, as locals should be.There are a handfull of people now, so I can just grab a deck that does well against 3 or 4 of them and guarantee top everytime. I literally sleeved my Ethans Typhlosion to try it out but decided to go with my good old sharpedo to see how the scene was.Its depressingly shallow.People around here play a lot of YGO tho.
My opp ran the clock down to 2 seconds lol. He had two huge misplays where he wasted a dusknoir taking down my kang right after I eri’d his stretchers and then he spent two turns taking out my distraction dweebs while I built up the super crustle.
>>59628033I was thinking about getting the cards for tox box since it’s like $25 and seems like a fair deck that won’t make people rage. I probably haven’t played cards in a store in 20 years. Is Ptcg like magic where irl events are all the most autistic people imaginable? What about kid to adult ratio?
>>59628342>seems like a fair deck that won’t make people rageit typically has pech and yveltal so there are some rage inducing lines. you can choose to not play them but then the deck is ass
wtf happen in Japan?
>>59628524they were probably tired of A tier being empty constantly so they bumped everything up to fill in the space
Is there a reason not to play more Teleporter Abras in ZamNoir?
>>59628524Everyone forgot that Pultnoir is really good.
>>59628524grimmsnarl bros we made it in the picture...
any time I even vaguely consider playing pult seriously, all of my hands are just bullshit like this nonstop, I don't even want to play the fucking game anymore
>>59628617I can't play live. There is something wrong with that game.
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>>59628650Ball, pitching Noir and Tower, grab Budew, Switch into Budew, Lillie's and pray
>>59628650your switch should be a latias instead if you're playing the bear>>59628655with poffins and poke pads you can just grab a dreepy instead of a budew because you're likely to draw into a budew out off of the lillie anyway
>mobile version yet again froze once either side's Pokemon was knocked outAt this point, I think the paycheck thieves that are TCG Live developers need to be individually named and shamed on social media for the state of this game if it's to ever improve.
>>59628781This, but send them to prison for fraud and corruption.
>>59628617Does Live do perfectly random shuffles? It has to be different to the shuffles we do.>>59628553Crispin Dreepy can knock it out? That's all I can think of
>>59628524This >>59628534https://x.com/pokeca_book/status/2104207233550876696>I tried creating a more detailed tier list, but it only obscured the fact that Dragapult is the dominant force in the metagame, so I felt it was a rather mediocre tier list.
Got a beat ass 2002 Energy Switch for my deck, feeling good
>November 6, 2026How is Delta Reign still that far away? Japan will have had it for 4 months by then.
>>59627754>Let me guess, you attracted a bunch of sweats than don't consume anything on the store and just show up to nab away the prizeWe became one in order to procure Pokemon cards because the existing vendors were giving us a hard time. With that avenue opened with tpci giving us prizes, we got a little more wiggle room with vendors but are suffering a bit. Lots of people with either behavioral problems that make customers and other players and employees uneasy. Just crashing out or breaking store rules like sneaking in food or candy when we have a no food policy. And the frequency of people with bad hygiene that makes others uncomfortable. Stores are at the mercy of players because if someone complains about anything a store gets a random secret audit. Those doing audits are always biased from what we heard from other stores and play favorites. You can lose your status as a play place in a pinch and store owner absolutely doesn't want to lose that and have vendors tipped off on that. I want TPCi to cut the play location bullshit and have them make their own run gyms in each state and have them carry the burden of unstable players or trolls. All of this to procure product easier is just not worth it when someone trying to buy a plastic model is being harassed by someone. It's funny to someone on the outside but not anyone working there
>>59629881We got 30th first for that to be worldwide release. JP has delayed their next set for ages to ensure that happens too. It's a real boring time. The meta is as stale as it was on rotation and there's no new sets coming out for a long time
>>59630477>The meta is as stale as it was on rotationSeems fine to me. >>59628524
hey is anyone still playing blaziken dragapult? i stopped playing it around august but now there's a lot of excadrills at my locals, i see lists running 1 cleffairy no shaymin or shaymin no cleffairy no red card and stuff like thatwhat's the agreed upon most basic and consistent blaziken list?or can dragapult hammers win beat excadrill?
>>59629881fug is a dud, as always
FIVE PRIZE TURNIVEPRIZETURN>but the ignitionthey already attacked I wanted to screenshot in case they conceded before I could
>>59631084how do you deal with mega excadrill?
wow i bet you feel good punching down on a tier 6 deck playing the bdif
>>59631094i dont>>59631099I do. it was my first win on the ladder today. After attempting to run my memetier fire deck at rung 0 with disastrous results..
>>59631111you just lose to it?
>>59631119Oh, let me just Fighting Wings for 220, so they can heal 80-160 of it off next turn and oneshot me. What else are you supposed to do?
Dragapult with Mew and Clefairy for the mirror.
>>59630995>consistent blaziken listnever happening >dragapult hammers beat excadrillyeah you can add in moltres or chi yu to help the mu more and they sometimes help against other decks so they aren't totally dead cards. the shaymin and clefairy are techs for other decks so those inclusions depend on what you want to be better against. keep in mind excadrills play cape most of the time to counter the different fire attackers like blaziken so learn how to play around that or play tool scrapper. if they're on trolley then it's an auto win. another auto win into excadrill is zam so that could also be something to consider if your area is mainly excadrill.
>>59631459they do use trolleythinking of sticking to this for my locals until excadrill disappears, shaymin because they use skarmory
>>59630707Read >>59629210The pokecabook guy was so fed up with the meta being this depressing he had to make an alternative layout to make it look more interesting. Anything below 4% was never shown before The meta is in one of the worst states ever and it's not changing until jan/feb. That's the raichu set/shiny set so who knows if there's any viable new cards there or just reprint slop again. Last shiny set paldea fates had fuck all new cards so I'm not hopeful
I put siesmatoad in slowking and it’s actually pretty fun. Had super bad meowth start and was able to come back because my opp flipped five tails in a row over two turns.
>>59631992show full deck
>>59631995I took out meowth and put in lucky helmet idk if that’s right just sick of starting with him.
>>59632003>30th pokepadDangerously reddit.
>>59632003I don't agree with the Smoochum but I like the Seismitoad, I'm running Zeraora and Mew ex instead of Seismitoad and Smoochum but might try this out
Mew ex is overrated, it didn't have any impact on the meta as seen in frankfurt.
>>59632062The mewbox decks lack flexibility needed to deal with anything that isn't dragapult>alakazam/f.lead: only a single turn to pull off twin shotel before you are overrun>excadrill/apples/zoroark/garchomp: hp too high>dragapult: worse than regular ogerpon slopbox because you have no spare grass energy when they start flipping heads on hammersI think you just want to put a mew in raging bolt for the flexibility of choosing between copying wellspring, clefairy, and fez.
>>59630467>All of this to procure product easier is just not worth it when someone trying to buy a plastic model is being harassed by someoneThen why is it a problem to lose the play status? You said its not worth it, so it simply isnt and you give that up.
>>59631812if they do use trolley then go 2nd and itchy pollen. it's highly unlikely they'll open the trolley raw off the opening draw and you'll be in control of their pace the entire game
Just saw these. Are we getting the 30th stamped supporters too?
>>59632504how are those cards already so fucking BENT
>>59632514Humidity.
>>59632514Do you even know why foil cards bend?
>>59632514due to physicschange the metals in picrel for cardboard and foil, and temp for humidity
>>59632504Apparently they're in the upcoming umbreon/espeon decks
>>59623750If it were up to me, I'd reprint as many old cards that are indistinguishable from the original copies as possible
>>59633032Based
>>59633032I had to listen to someone after a match talk about how much he had invested in 30th cards so far and how much they keep going up and down. Some of them even have a stock trading app or something they track it all on.
>Play vs the Ceruledge deck>They deck themselvesyou hate to see it
Guess who
Poketubers: "Haha, Shaymin and Psyduck are just dead cards in your deck. You should cut them before you submit your regional list. You don't need them, trust me. ;)"
Made it to master league, now begins my descent to the bottom; but at least I made it.
>>59634789The Dragapult counter we need.
>>59633892gj, I'm still procrastinating with my progress. I regret fixing the arceus bug a bit now
>>59635306The only thing better than a BDIF format that strangles every other deck out of the format is 2 BDIFs in one format strangling two different groups of decks out of the format
How much is this card worth?
If I attach 3 grass energy to 30C Alolan Exeggutor while I have a Wild Growth Meganium on my bench does the HP ability activate?
>>59635398>gardevoir is less than 10% of the format and the 4th most popular deck totally bdif bros
>>59635493you are simply delusional if you think that disqualifies it from being the BEST deck in the format. gardevoir ran laps around literally everything but dragapult in which it had very clear advantages over, the only difference is that gardevoir took a modicum of brainpower to run whereas dragapult requires none
>>59635501>unfavored vs charizard>unfavored vs grimm>unfavored vs absol>unfavored vs zoroarkthe pult matchup was the only real reason to play the deck, and fortunately pult was BDIF with the highest play rate to boot
