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RE: What to do about Mega Ray? None of that necessarily works. The problem with Rayquaza is how little time you have to do anything. Ray can get going turn 1 or more consistently turn 2, and if it goes first, it's going to have the board it wants before you have a chance to set anything up...

Bring them to a tournament. There's two major issues for someone starting out in a competitive TCG--one, they don't understand what exactly "competitive" means and how the number of good decks are relatively limited, and two, acquiring the vast quantity of knowledge needed to participate in the...

RE: Is "Weakness" Ruining the PTCG I actually have thought for a while that weaknesses are a serious flaw in the way the Pokémon TCG is made. Flavor aside, weaknesses make the game more matchup dependent. Sure, you could argue that it allows for teching, but that's not the way teching should...

RE: What's Next After EX? EX's are inherently bad for the game because they provide powerful attacks and high HP on an easy-to-access basic, meaning that players can often win games riding on the back of their extremely overpowered EX rather than through their own skill or meticulous deck...

And if this was truly how it worked, then F2P games would be fine. But inherently, that's not at all how they work. I hear a lot of complaints about games with microtransactions but not many people really think about why they're objectively bad for consumers. Theoretically, you get to play a...

I've seen people try this. The question is...why? What's the point of Sharpedo over something like Yveltal? Discarding energy is super cool and all, but it's even cooler to just kill the thing rather than disrupt it. Hydreigon also clunkifies the deck and really struggles in a format filled...

DarkMatterGaming, I try my best :p And of course I'm bias--I had to play against the damn thing 10 out of my 14 rounds at the last two states I went to and I'm beyond sick of it lol. It's just frustrating to me when the same arguement is used to support every new card that's released--next...

Weeeee more useless analysis incoming Given that WPM said "my necklace," that's probably WPM wearing the necklace in the picture. It would thus make sense that he has a squirtle next to him. It looks like he's ready to battle given that he has a Pokémon out and more poke balls behind him...

So this should be the argument whenever the players don't like something in the game? That attitude would be fine if players didn't spend hundreds of dollars and hours a year to play the game competitively--and the problem is that we can't "just have fun with it" when there are pressing issues...

And then switch back every turn? The only possible theoretical strategy would be Ninjask/Exeggutor to stop Trump Card--but that not only would be very gimmicky and inconsistent (because the instant you missed one blockade you would lose on the spot because of Trump), but since Ninjask has to be...

Klinklang from the BW-PLS format. Slowly and meticulously crafting a lock until your opponent couldn't do anything was a lot of fun, especially with all the weird stuff you could do like attack with Klinklang or use Pull Out Durant lol. Oh, and it got me 2nd at a Regionals /humblebrag...

It's just fill in the blank: ??? ????, ?? ?? ?? ?? ? ? ??? ?! WPM was even nice enough to give us the number of letters in each word. I just have no idea what any of the words are lol. Edit: Er, that didn't come out like it should have when I c/p'd it. Just check...

Not sure why I'm actually analyzing this but apparently the file name, "all we are will perish only to be born anew," is written in the Ruins of Alph in some Pokémon game. The Hebrew is written out like "Open the gift ~ April", which makes it sound like April is a person. No idea if the middle...

by golly it's the seismitoad counter we've been waiting for

TCG jokes. Credit to MtC for part of the idea.

But that's the problem. You can't get out of status quickly or play your items unless you get lucky in the first turn of the game. 5 out of the 7 decks I faced at the states I went to this weekend used Toad--I beat 3 of them. The games I won, I had a good opening hand, played my items turn...

If if if if if And that's exactly the issue with Toad. If. If you hit a lot of stuff vs a lot of decks, you'll always win. The problem is that you have to draw all the items you need on the first turn, which isn't likely. You can play Xerosic, but that's only if you draw it, since you can't...

No. This is actually the problem with item lock in general--there's no such thing as an "easy counter." I don't think people understand that the main reason Seismitoad is so powerful is because it makes it SO easy to dead draw. You can't search out basics or energy, so you have to rely on...

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