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  1. Steen

    Cynthia’s Garchomp — Boom or Bust?

    320 damage is really nothing to scoff at to be honest, but then you realize there's a brontosaurus with a storm cloud for a beard that does its job way better in a fraction of the setup time and it gets bullied by Grimmsnarl's Froslass posse and loses most of its damage potential. However, the...
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    Leading the Burning Charge – Flareon’s Place in the Metagame

    Flareon ex is one of the best accelerators in the entire format right now, being a Stage 1 with a relatively large HP stat and dealing 130 while searching for two basic energies from deck. Burning Charge is so strong right now, and it's only going to get better when types of Pokemon become more...
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    Public Enemy #1 — Beating Grimmsnarl at NAIC

    I've seen this deck quite a few times and it is naturally a nightmare to tackle as a damage spread deck. This comes at the consequence of not having reliable healing in the format on top of Grimmsnarl being completely self sufficient for setup. Fortunately, a good handful of top decks can play...
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    Gardevoir ex — My Top Choice

    Eh, it kinda depends honestly. It doesn't block Phantom Dive but it does block Hop's Zacian and Marnie's Grimmsnarl, I'd say keep a one of in and use it depending on the matchup. The biggest matchup it helps in for Gardy is (optimal) Hydreigon ex since it just demolishes her entire setup in two...
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    All 172 Japanese “Black Bolt” and “White Flare” Main Set Cards Revealed!

    This honestly is the most disappointing set I've seen out of the whole Scarlet & Violet era. They definitely caught legit players' attention with immediately showing off the best Zekrom & Reshiram ruleboxes they have gotten and making very good non-rulebox Pokemon, but if there was a set to...
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    Keldeo ex, Genesect ex, Swords of Justice, and Fossils Revealed from “Black Bolt” and “White Flare!”

    There's also a distinct chance we get a Lenora supporter that uses Fossils. If Fennel of all characters got one then Lenora will probably get one as well.
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    Keldeo ex, Genesect ex, Swords of Justice, and Fossils Revealed from “Black Bolt” and “White Flare!”

    They massacred my boy Keldeo... Anyway Tirtouga, Archeops, and Genesect are all fantastic, though Genesect's attack is way too expensive. I had hoped it was [M][C] based on the cropped leak but they should've bumped the resistance higher if it was gonna be anything but 2 cost.
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    “Extradimensional Crisis” Set Revealed for Pocket!

    I can see Nihilego work for a few Poison decks but Fire still has yet to get a better basic ex aside from Moltres who is purely an accelerator. Water is also having a difficult time with only having Irida as the truly consistent supporter and Misty failing 50% of the time. Articuno ex relies on...
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    TPCi Dramatically Increases TCG Vending Machines Across the United States!

    If I start seeing these in any big store I go to then I would comfortably start buying from them tbh
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    Amoonguss, Foongus from Black Bolt!

    Why is Amoonguss cursed to always have awful cards yet its singular Paradox print is used in every poison deck imaginable.
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    Wait — Where’s Tera Box?

    One of the big reasons it began to fall off in my opinion was more to do with its overall momentum relying on a sustained flow of Teal Dances and Jewel Seekers. Too often do Tera Boxes go for the Wellspring Crystal donk and either fail or succeed 50% of the time because they need to use Crispin...
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    Joltik Box — The New Miraidon deck

    With the return of Dynamotor and the addition of Zekrom ex in BB/WF, it's becoming more and more possible for Lightning as a whole to make a strong comeback in the latter half of the year. Zekrom being able to do 230 after losing an ex already makes it incredibly strong, and you can move into a...
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    Allergy Season — Deck Building in Budew’s World

    If TPCi wanted us to play more supporters, they made it work. Never before would I be using Jacq, Janine's, and Brock's Hydreigon but because they completely killed the viability of an Item based meta that was *already going to fall off* when Budew was printed, every other deck suffers while...
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    “The Glory of Team Rocket” All 98 Main Set Cards Revealed!

    The Nidoking ex is going to be huge for turning Pecharunt Donk into an actual deck that likes attacking and *survives* past the first few turns when someone gets two starting mons, but like half of the Trainer Cards outside of Supporters are all kind of dogwater. Watchtower only counters...
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    Huntail, Gorebyss from The Glory of Team Rocket!

    This makes a Black Kyurem ex tech against Bolt and Dragapult even better since you're building up reserves of energies while Kyurem stalls for setup time. Once it goes down, that's 3 or 4 water energies added to your steamroll against additional mons. The only problem is Huntail's 110 HP makes...
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    Pokemon Center Says More “Destined Rivals” Product Coming!

    The fact that TPCi has not made any legal action towards the storefronts and distributors enabling the shitty scalping practices with some of the most backhanded tactics I've ever seen for a damn card game, begs the opinion that they are completely unaware of how truly hopeless this situation...
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    Hasta La Vista, Baby — Post-Rotation Primer

    I paired Bellibolt with Jolteon ex for extremely consistent 240's and a copy of Zapdos ex to let the bench damage effect chase down retreating cards since the 90 after 240 equals to 330. Definitely need to test it physically when the time comes however.
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    Hasta La Vista, Baby — Post-Rotation Primer

    Lycanroc will be insane with Mega Lucario, trust. But aside from the Budew nonsense I'm running ahead with my own deck ideas even if they're not super strong. Lillie's Clefairy is my only out against Dragapult while playing Hydreigon and the Bellibolt idea I have seems to be doing numbers in...
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    Hasta La Vista, Baby — Post-Rotation Primer

    It will be some time until Miraidon gets another turn in the spotlight. I've recently been tinkering with an Iono's Bellibolt & Jolteon ex deck and through playtesting I'm seeing it pull very consistent damage upon being extremely flexible, but unfortunately Miraidon doesn't fit in this...
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