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Thank you for the list, @jamashawalker. It does help clear things up, but maybe not how you intended. For some perspective - and I know I bring this up too often - I started playing back in 1999. There are gaps, and I've never been a highly competitive player - tried for a few years - but...

Hmm... maybe it was because I just didn't play it enough, have seen a little too much of the game over the years, or am lacking too much in skill and/or talent but... was it really that much different. @jamashawalker ? Yes, I really am asking. I know that I do not know. It feels very much the...

As a reminder, that isn't exactly a high threshold to clear. It's like hanging out with me and being the charming one. ;)

I wanted to stress this point. The difference is I do think Welder is ultimately unhealthy for the metagame. It isn't fun, but sometimes we make bad arguments for our side of things. I don't think we can ignore how we think the game ought to be, whether as a nigh impossible ideal or...

Duel Masters/Kaijudo is "PokéMagic", possibly with some Yu-Gi-Oh added in. Of course, it looks like it began as a manga a few years before even its Japanese debut, so how much of that is coincidence is anyone's guess. If you take generic anime and blend it in with MtG art - not that I've seen...

Hello @Salan The idea behind the Pokémon TCG - and most TCGs with which I am familiar - is that luck is supposed to play a part for casual play. Organized Play will then step in and add enough structure to mitigate most of that luck, as @CrownAxe points out. So, if you're regularly drawing...

Which was also part of my point; the situation was being presented in an oversimplified manner. I mean, ADP also has a pretty bad [Y] Weakness. I get that Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX are seeing success in part because they can smack decks like ADP so hard... but I didn't think that was their only...

Thank you for clarifying. There is still some misunderstanding; my larger point was that I didn't believe it was as simple as @Wechselbalg had said, at least if I was understanding him. Basically, if ADP was the only reason for these changes, then the metagame would shift a certain way in...

At least you didn't write an entire article about how [insert card] was broken or garbage only to realize you'd misread the English scan of the card. ... Yeah, been there, done that. ^^'

And? I didn't say they couldn't. (No, really; am I completely misunderstanding your point? >_<) Is the translation I saw for Metal Saucer bad? It is supposed to work like Aqua Patch and Dark Patch, attaching to your Benched Pokémon of a matching Type. Meaning Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX...

This seems like an oversimplification. Am I missing something? Even if all current single-Prize decks can't cut it, this is Pokémon. Odds are probably even (at worst) that some powerful deck built around mostly or exclusively single-Prize Pokémon will eventually show up and either outpace ADP...

Island Challenge Amulet lowers your maximum HP by 100; while not as clear as I would like, the wording is consistent with how cards that increase maximum HP are worded e.g. "...it gets +50 HP." for Buff padding. If something does damage to a Pokémon, it will say to do that amount of damage, or...

Then you're about as bad at this as I am. ;) They do seem relevant, given they're one of four reasons you highlight for your concerns... but everything you don't like about them has been seen elsewhere in the game, including before multi-Prize Pokémon were even a thing. What is "healthy" to...

Let me present a slightly different perspective, that of the long time player who may love his Theorymon a bit too much. "Cycle" is the right word. We're near the end of one now, when a lot of insane stuff is happening and - for better and worse - there are some crazy powerful cards and...

@Big One If breaking up a post into smaller quotes is the best way to respond, go ahead. I try to use it sparingly for the same reason, though there was an obnoxious period where it was my default response approach. XP Both to avoid it being buried in a larger response and because I'm short...

Okay, so reading through all of that because I really enjoy the Theme Format of the PTCGO: This is just too complicated.* I mean, you're even making your own Standard and Unlimited Formats with this... and while you're not banning cards, you're coming up with a very clunky set of restrictions...

The WotC era was from 1999 to 2003; think of the difference in printing technology, the availability off quality card scans, etc. compared to then versus now. Those who do a little research can misapply the body of knowledge with producing fake cards. No, not all fakes are intentional...

Unless there's something misleading about the card design or a radical shift from how terms and mechanics have been applied in the past, "V-Max" will be its own Stage of Evolution, joining Basic,Stage 1, Stage 2, BREAK, Mega, and Restored. The English language image of Snorlax V-Max says...

@Merovingian It has been a long time since I was a Professor, so I wanted to address something I'm not sure the powers-that-be in the game accept: Timed matches are a necessity for organized play. Winning "via the clock" is only bad when done in the wrong manner. Last I knew, there was...

My mistake. Yes, even a whiner like me acknowledges it is better when the two Formats as close in cardpools as the powers-that-be will allow them to be.