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When does Round 6 end? I've completely lost track of how many days behind we are.

Screen Name: josie0001 Time Zone: EDT (now) EST (after daytime savings) Did I participate last month? Yes Was I dropped? No Did I make at least two posts? Oh yeah. Do I promise to make at least two more? Absolutely Up-to-date email? Yes Premium Member? No

Wow, thx guys - great notes, quite inciteful. Never thought about Keldeo as a simple way to erase Volcanic Heat effect - brilliant. I like utility of Scorched Earth over Parallel City, because it can draw me draws in a pinch, tho I almost never want to discard Energy that way. I also use it to...

Hey @TuxedoBlack that's enough proof for me - I very much appreciate your thoroughness! :) The logic makes sense either way, which is just confusing. I reiterate, we need a thread to address Magearna. I'll poke around; there may be a resource available somewhere on the site already, and if not...

josie0001 defeated @Nobodyshero2727 2-0 approx. 8:10-8:45 EDT. Good games! Good luck the rest of the way!

With less than a week before Philly Regionals, I'm thinking about jumping ship and playing Volcanion instead of my original choice (Dark), but with the Steam Up Master being banned on PTCGO, I haven't been able to the test the viability of my list against typical Expanded competition like Toad...

Am I sure? When it comes to Magearna, I'm never sure lol. I THINK I'm right, because the logic makes sense to me and because when PTCGO is consistent on something it's generally correct, and Magearna always blocks balloons on PTCGO, so I tend to think it's correct. That said, if there's anyone...

@CombatPastor I completely agree with your logic, and it honestly made more sense to me that way at first too than the way the situation actually works. The logic seems to be that any effect that you, as a player, attempt to do to your opponent that results in them taking damage counters is...

@CombatPastor, it's no glitch - Magearna does indeed block Bursting Balloons. I thought it was a bug at first too, but if you read the text of Magearna'a ability very closely, it actually reads that it blocks "effects of your opponent's attacks" NOT "effects of your opponent's Pokemon's...

After a post by @Jambsz in the "Florida Regionals" thread, I decided to reverse engineer a Raichu/Golbat deck, which was recently piloted to a 29th place finish by Matthew Brower at Florida Regionals this past weekend. Pokemon - 20 4 Pikachu 4 Raichu 4 Zubat 4 Golbat 3 Shaymin EX 1 Mew EX...

josie0001 defeated @AquaDragon82, between 7:45-8:30 EDT: Game 1: AquaDragon82 Game 2: josie0001 Game 3: josie0001 GREAT games, really close to the end - lots of fun. Good luck the rest of the way!!! :)

Hey yeah, good point! I'm gonna try building this!

Raichu/Bats - cool! More surprising to me tho is the presence of so many Darkrai/Giratina decks. I played that deck a ton just after rotation and found it to be average at best. I found the garb build to be too inconsistent, but I'm assuming the presence of so much Volcanion and Mewtwo was huge...

If anyone has any info about Florida Regionals, primarily the top-32 players and/or decks, or if you have a link where the info might be available, please post below. The only thing I've seen this morning is a vid from The Meta Deck discussing their Full Retaliation Gyrados List. Any stream...

Oop! Nm - I see the asterisks thingys in the opening post. I'm good! :)

Do you have a list? I msg'do mine but didn't get any response, and now I'm paranoid lol.

My daughter and I will both be in Philly! It's about a 4 hour drive for us, so we wouldn't miss it - we're finalizing travel plans now. :) While I see Volcanion's power in Standard, I don't see how it could be any good in Expanded. Other than playing a couple Blacksmith, it still auto loses to...

josie0001 beat @antonjg 2-0 between 5:45 and 6:15pm EDT. Great deck, just a terrible match up - good luck the rest of the way!!!

I have to agree with @TuxedoBlack, Sycamore is more of nuisance than a help here. I've done some more testing and found that 4 N with only 1 or 2 Sycamore is more than sufficient. I've even tested a bit w/ no Sycamore at all and quite honestly I didn't miss him, handsome though he is. Since...

To me, it looks great - I'm no expert but it has the core of consistency to it. Again, I prefer silent lab. Ideally you want to be KOing their EXs before they even have the chance to Mega Evolve, so Faded Town seems like too little too late, but I can see it merit, especially when it comes to...