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Mamoswine ex + Vivillon (SSP) which can evolve turn 1 from Spewpa (SVI) and Scatterbug (SVI). You’re welcome.

120 damage for a single colorless on a stage one - AND draw four? google is going to lose his mind over this.

Honest question: what defines a season, and how are quarters measured? I thought every new set release was a new “season” (at least for standard).

Gouging Fire is an automatic 170 for 3 energy in a pre-release. A bit slow out the gate, but once it’s powered up you’ll be hard to beat. Magneton decks will be fast and self destructive. It only works for lightning, so those decks will essentially be mono colored. Chien Pao has…stadium hate...

I understand that this is a way for the company to offload extra volume of old product but I always feel a bit sad and a bit nostalgic when I see these. Silver Tempest was the last time I attended a prerelease. I vividly remember the hype around the “new” Pokémon V and the end of the GX era...

It’s an option, not a solution. Look at paid-only substack writers; their “free” content has enough quality to entice readers into a subscription. Don’t tell me what I already know, throw two paragraphs of fluff in my face, and expect me to subscribe in the off chance that any worthwhile content...

3/4ths of the articles on Pokebeach are card releases. If all I cared about was the text on the card for the latest leak I’d go to Justin Basil or suffer through a certain YouTuber screaming at me for 10 minutes. Instead, I come here for thought provoking, relevant, insightful commentary...

“Hello everyone! Here’s a long winded filler paragraph telling you what you already know. Now, we’ll look at support Pokémon. Here’s a description of one or two. This concludes the public portion of this article.” 🙄

It’s decent energy insurance. 70hp makes it searchable with Poffin. Attach an energy manually when it’s on the bench and your opponent won’t care. Attach another with Mela (assuming one of your Pokémon was knocked out last turn) if it’s in the active, draw 6, use the second attack, and now one...

I just realized the text says “opponent’s Pokémon is a Dragon Pokémon” not “an N’s Pokémon”…like N’s Reshiram. Guess I won’t be making a counter-N’s Pokémon deck.

Will it fix power creep? No. Will it limit power creep? Yes. A Tag Team ex with nearly 400HP which gives up three prizes is never ideal, but a 400HP Tag Teag ex which only gives up two prizes is infinitely worse.

They better be 3 prizers. In a world where something like Paladin ex with a Hero’s Cape is a 440HP stage one that only gives up two prizes, power creep has gone too far.

Fun fact - this is the first Swalot we’ve seen since Celestial Storm six years ago.

As a long time Galvantula fan I’m incredibly excited for a spider tribal deck. Also, give us Unfezant ex you cowards.

I love every single thing about this ETB. Also, give us Unfezant ex you cowards.

Raging Bolt seems hard to use unless you can accelerate a sizable amount of fighting or lightning energy to a…dragon Pokémon. 130 for 3 isn’t great. Iron Boulder looks like another “if you played X supporter this turn” Pokémon (that supporter being Judge or Iono if the prize count is equal)...

You could run one or two copies as a tech specifically against Chein Pao. I tech Mewtwo from 151 to counter Charizard for that reason. As soon as Baxcalibur hits the table Klinklang is playable without needing to evolve *and* with an attack that takes any kind of energy. It’s not a bad card IMO.

Klink- Not bad. Card draw for a colorless is good, and it works well with Buddy Buddy Poffin. Klang- Not great. I wish PTCGI would make Stage 1s which are not final evolutions better. It’s a little tiring to see them as afterthoughts. KlinKlang- Good against…Charizard? You could run a few in...

| “While I don’t believe that a dedicated Dusknoir deck can exist” Challenge accepted.

Basic Energy refresh…it’s about time.