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I'll try and resist my normal urge to go on at length and keep this concise. x2 Weakness is a broken game mechanic in the TCG, and always has been. I'm not sure if it is all that great in the video games, but that's a topic for a different discussion. Sometimes the game can fake it being...

So, about Zoro Garb taking a big hit as of Sword & Shield, @Nyora you make a compelling case. @Kenatta_tcg sorry if I was being thick, but as someone checking out this thread because I'm out of touch with Expanded, I took what you said at face value. This is why I tend to over explain; those...

@Kenatta_tcg Yeah, you're basically saying something I'm usually the one to bring up in discussions. XD Sorry I wasn't clear: the idea is that decks have faced similar roadblocks in the past. Some adapt directly and some indirectly. The former would be things like changing your list to have a...

Note: The following is speculation. I'm wondering how many decks will start using Quick Ball either instead of or in addition to Ultra Ball. If you really need to discard two cards (versus one) and (of course!) if you need to search out Evolutions, you'll stick with Ultra Ball. Some decks may...

This counter to my own experience with Theme Decks. We might mean something very difference by "well-balanced". The SM-series is where the decks started to get... well, "good" might be too strong of a word, but "adequate". While still poor compared to decks built for competitive Standard...

The good news is that the old link for the Play! Pokémon Rules & Resources page still works (and even if it didn't, I just gave it again). The bad news is that, while I can provide a link to the current Play! Pokémon Trading Card Game Rules And Formats document (here), a past revision of it...

@imashbuttons It cuts both ways; Pokémon-GX have had the time to be fleshed out, with more support and strategies... but Pokémon V are new so your opponents are less prepared, there aren't a bunch of proven counters, etc.

Please bear with me; I'm trying not to repeat past mistakes, but if I was good at avoiding them, I wouldn't have made them in the first place. XP Fair point. We never received a Kabuto with the "Prehistoric Call" Ability found on Archen (PLB), Tirtouga (PLB), and Lileep (PLB). Do we have any...

Huh... I could have sworn I posted something between Nyora's last two comments, but I'm not seeing it now. Did anyone see it, or I did I somehow fail at posting? XD

Plus, who knows what else they'll release between now, then, and Jirach's eventual rotation? Examples from the past, that don't work because either they have already rotated or will rotate by the time Escape Board does, at least give us some ideas for what to look for among newer cards...

@Christopher Shehan There are several cards of dubious value to even moderately experienced players that could have been replaced with something better... but these are Theme Decks after all, a.k.a. Starter decks. Even for as simple as Quick Ball and Evolution Incense seem, to a new player...

Since I had to type them up for something else, here are the lists from the images. Note that this is not the PTCGO formatting, because we don't know the card numbers (or sometimes even the official identities) of certain cards. As a bonus, I'm including some observations about the deck...

Public Service Announcement: Remember to verify which version of certain cards are in the deck before you get too excited. These decks are using a lot of Pokémon from the Japanese Starter Set V decks. Except for Cinderace, but it still isn't the one from the set, but a Gym promo. So here are...

Hi, Clam. Let's check the text of Chandelure (SM - Unified Minds 30/236): [R] Spirit Burner: 10+ Discard the top 5 cards of your deck. This attack does 60 more damage for each Pokémon you discarded in this way. Then, put any number of [R] Pokémon you discarded in this way onto your Bench...

Quick reminder for everyone, prompted by what @Grass-Type Farm Owner just said: 1) "Never say never": the powers-that-be reverse decisions all the time. It is entirely possible the Fairy Type could return in the future. Probably not during the Sword & Shield-era, but who knows down the line...

If we're entertaining such notions in this thread, yeah, I'd redo the Type distributions as well. Not too different from @signofzeta Option 1: Every VG Type is a TCG Type but most of those Pokémon Types would share Energy Types. I won't hazard a guess as to what Types should share what...

That might be why Fairy had to go? Probably not, as I'm sure they just would have shifted their Energy requirements if that was the case, but worth asking.

Reading responses from Rcxd9999, @Yaginku @snoopy369 and @Wailord's Pokemon I realized I needed to clarify or explain a few things. I may also have to edit my earlier comment, because I phrased some stuff really bad. >_< I'll mostly just be quoting Rcxd9999, to avoid this post being even more...

If you're not sure what I'm referring to, then why are you so sure they match? XD On Pokémon cards, there are Energy symbols to the left of an attacks name and text. The actual Alolan Meowth in question has a "blank" Energy symbol, by which I mean a white (light gray?) circle with a slightly...

No, it doesn't. ^^' Ignoring the stuff that is more technical (don't trust myself there), besides the incorrect name the Energy cost is clearly different on the attacks. Try zooming in on the official scan; some attacks in Pokémon require no Energy attached to that Pokémon in order to use...