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Only a couple of the cards you mentioned have actual merrit in competitive play. Most of them are not playable outside of league. Magnezone, Celebi and Donphan are really the only playable, tournament worthy cards you mentioned, and Donphan and Magnezone are even a little outdated.

I trade. Nothing takes your mind off the tournament like making a great trade in which you get what you've been looking for for cards you don't need anymore. Also I just talk to friends and joke around. I used to get really jittery during any tournament game but now I don't, even though I'm...

Those could all see play in League decks, but I would NEVER bring them to a real tournament. The power creep has become pretty extreme in the BW sets, making most of the HGSS cards pretty useless, especially the attackers.

That's true, if they're using Large Cloak over Rescue Scarf you'd have to Tool Scrapper or 2HKO it. Still, they're dedicating lots of spots in their deck just to lock your added 20 damage. I kind of doubt that too many people will actually run Garbador.

You'd be using the second attack.

That's exactly why Tool Scrapper will be included. Also, I wouldn't really say this deck is useless, since it only takes one Catcher to KO the Garbador in case you don't have a Tool Scrapper.

It has some serious potential next format where things will be much slower and Catchers will be limited to 4 uses without Junk Arm, meaning basics that evolve are a little bit safer on the bench. Also, Emboar will be better because of that too. Right now, though, I can't see it having too much...

RE: gotta win em all How much do you spend on cards when a new set comes out? I'd agree that Empoleon and Excadrill aren't playable now, in terms of chances of winning anything bigger than a Battle Road, but I think they have huge potential for future formats. I think Excadrill will be very...

COL-On makes sense because of the reprints in it, but BW-On makes sense because it makes it so that there are only abilities and no PokePowers and PokeBodies. Having them all makes it confusing for new players and makes for some wierd rulings regarding blocking Power/Bodies/Abilities...

Reclaiming discarded energies does next to nothing for you. It doesn't matter where they're going, it could even be to your hand- the problem is that it's removing them from your pokemon, setting you behind on attachments, and preventing you from attacking. In Quad Terrakion or any...

Vileplume works but isn't very splashable. For Terrakion I would run Electrode Prime so that you get more energies into play so that their hammers don't hurt as much. Next season you can use Terrakion EX.

That's true. I live in the same city as the people that won with the deck, one in Masters and one in Seniors. They're both good players but admittedly Arizona doesn't have a ton of players, but that doesn't diminish the fact that Lugia is a legitimate deck.

Check the States results on TheTopCut.net. 1 straight Terrakion won one, 2 Terrakion/Landorus won, and 1 Terrakion/Tornadus won one (which is admittedly a little bit different but still close). Terrakion was definitely a good deck. However, that's not relevant anymore. DE completely changed the...

Come on, guys. You don't actually believe that good cards come in specific pack arts, do you? From the Pokemon Company's standpoint as a business, what would they stand to gain from doing so? It would be pointless. If you're going to buy packs (which probably isn't a great idea if you're a...

It was a pretty good deck at the time, you can't deny that. Different variants of it, including Landorus and Mewtwo mixes got tons of top cuts and a couple of wins. Right now I'm not sure if it can stand up to the speed of Darkrai, since they can hit the active for 110, then catcher the one with...

I have to disagree with the first point you made about ZekEels and Darkrai. They are fundamentally good decks, and people may not know exactly how to counter Dakrai, but ZekEels has been out for a long time and Terrakion is an established counter. However, it's still seeing a good amount of success.

Of course we can't know for sure until they anounce it, BW-On seems most likely. Based on all the facts and the cards in the sets it would be logical. However, I remember when EVERYONE was all ready for a PL-On format and was trading all their DP-SF cards, but then it was MD-On. Noone could have...

Well they are... They definitely are the BDIF's. There isn't even a question. Does that mean that they're the best play for a tournament? Not necessarily. However, I would not bring Lugia or KlingKlang to nationals. KlinkKlang autoloses to Sableye/Hammers and Lugia is NOT consistent enough to...

A traditional, theatrical zombie like you would see in a movie or in a video game could never exist. If the dead were to reanimate, they wouldn't be moving around and they certainly wouldn't have a desire for flesh. Just to make muscle contractions, or move, the body needs several body systems...

You can't consistently run DCE and Fighting. Meaning you can't run Zekrom EX AND Terrakion. Tornadus EX without DCE is iffy but it's not bad, but Zekrom EX can't run without DCE. You should either go all out DCE + Attackers that use DCE or a heavy Terrakion line, like 2 Terrakion and 5/6...