Why Don't Most Competitive Players Bling Out Their Decks?

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Frost Mage said:
I've never experienced clumping, and even though a lot of my cards are pretty curved, especially the League Promos since they come that way, I've never noticed them clumping.
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Hey they even stack on Play TCG what can you say?

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In all seriousness it doesn't happen often but it does happen. I have gotten hands like this in real life. Whether it be bad luck or another factor no one knows. But at least I can blame my game loss on the blingy cards.
 
Haha. I've noticed that no matter what, PTCGO gives me the WORST HANDS EVER. No matter what. They have little programs in their computers that tell the game, "Give him four Superior Energy Retrievals, a Tepig, a Rare Candy, and a Juniper. -_- It's actually made me stop playing setup decks online because it's just that bad. I play on PlayTCG all the time and it gives me MUCH more realistic hands.
 
This kinda applies to me, so I can relate. I have a friend that has an incomplete deck, but dishes out a lot of money for full arts. I, on the hand, almost have my deck done with very little high rarities. Ha ha. I would rather have a done low rarity deck, than a no where near complete high rarity deck.
 
I always start out with the lowest rarity, and slowly trade away the stuff I don't need for bling (well, stuff that I know is a good investment and won't be going away next season).
 
The full art cards are very cool looking but I personally wont go out of my way play just full art cards. If i get them in packs and what not i will try to put them in decks, I will also trade for some full art cards if i need them to finish a deck or whaterver.

In my most competitve deck I only have 2 full art cards those are yveltal ex and colress because i got them in packs.

I have found that sometimes when buying online the reverse holo cards are cheaper for some reason.
 
I've never considered using FA' Shiny, and those extra rare cards mainly because it might be an investment I would regret. The regular versions are cheaper and still have the same effect as far as the game is concerned. I suppose if we ever get a gold Machamp or full art Machamp I'll put those in!
 
Frost Mage said:
I always start out with the lowest rarity, and slowly trade away the stuff I don't need for bling (well, stuff that I know is a good investment and won't be going away next season).
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This is what I do. Ha ha. If I like the deck or if I decide to stick to it, then I bling it out. :cool:
 
There are a few reasons that I don't bling out my deck completely. Sometimes I try to get a full playset of reverse holo Trainers, but not all the time. The first reason is because I really don't have enough money or other good cards to trade for the ones I need. I'm a collector and a competitive player, so I already shell out enough money on the Pokémon TCG.

Second, I really don't see the point in using cards I just spent a huge chunk of money on. Promos and regular art versions have the exact same effect, and it isn't as big of a waste if they get a few scratches or get banged up. Probably the only full art I would ever use would be if we got a Scizor EX one.
 
Personally, I like to keep my cards as protected as possible, especially ones that are more expensive like Full Arts. I will admit that I'm pretty paranoid about loosing cards or having them stolen, but a deck that has a bunch of Full Arts could become very expensive very quickly and I don't want to be carrying around that much money in cards and have everyone know it or risk loosing them. I do have one Full Art in my deck, but only because it's not a very expensive one and I have one more for my collection in case that one gets damaged or something. Plus I do like Full Arts so it is nice to have one in my deck.
 
I hit a FA Juniper in a PLF pack the other day and traded a Golden Rare Mega Kangaskhan EX for FA Lysandre so I'm currently using both just 'cause I have them, but I wouldn't specifically order the FA's off eBay and whatnot. Cards are cards. If they do the same things and will eventually rotate out, then there's no point in spending more money on it. Personally, I don't like to use Reverse Holo cards unless they're all I've got. Even energies. They just seem to look worse for wear as time passes and they are exposed to more play.
 
One of the main draws (in my opinion) of this game is that you can build a really good deck on a budget. Some people just want to be able to play the game at a decent level without spending an arm and a leg. Hell, I've quit Yugioh twice to go to Pokemon because it's cheaper, and it will probably be permanent this time due to various other reasons. Hell, I'll need 2 decks in Pokemon now because of Extended Format, but those 2 decks will still be cheaper than just my Extra Deck for Yugioh. And then there's the fact that I can just move certain staples around.

But that brings up an interesting point. A lot of people don't bling decks out because they don't want to get shafted by cycling. But now that Extended Format will keep tons of cards playable for a lot longer, I wouldn't be surprised if more people started picking up blinged out versions of cards.

Personally, at first I tend to just get what's available, and go from there. I pulled a FA Lysandre and was fully content to use a regular one for my other copy. But my locals only had FA. Reverse Holo MR. Mime cost less for some reason. I was able to get my hands on a Red Genesect box, so a bunch of my Supporters are RH. Some Yugioh player sold me a FA Raikou EX has was using as a token for 10 bucks which is less than what a non FA would have cost me. So yeah, a bunch of my stuff is blinged out without me ever really intending to bling my deck out. But, over time, I probably will try to upgrade most of my tuff to at least RH because I think it looks nice.
 
Reasons include but not limited to:

1 Money
This is a game you invest your time and money like any hobby. Turning your whole deck into a gold mine is nice but taking the cheaper route with the same destination in mind is easier and of course budget friendly.

2 Not having the card.
They simply didn't pull it, and/or couldn't trade for one.

3 Too Shiny!!!
Sometimes when your whole hand is nothing more than a mirror, especially with Full Arts, players may have trouble telling which card is what. (I've seen games lost or stalled because the opposing player didn't know they had a Juniper or N to play because of all the "bling")

4 anti-theft.
What if you did have all the full arts in the world in your deck. its just saying "come rob me." Even though Pokemon has the friendliest community amongst other Card Games, thievery can still occur. So some players just keep their full arts hidden.

5 Lost & Found
Something like loosing the card during an event can occur also. It has happened plenty of times, one card just falls onto the floor after a game and you didn't notice. Now it's missing and that's $1.00 too $38.00 gone. This leads us back to 1 and 4.

6 Pro status
They don't need to show off; battle and win, win, win.
 
I'm very picky when it comes to deck aesthetics. Generally if I have the Full Arts, I'll usually play the regular print in favor of it because it flows better with my sleeves/mat/other decked cards. Full Art or shiny cards don't always look good. Example: when I play Darkrai Yveltal I play Professor Sycamore in favor of Full Juniper. Why? Orange mixed with black looks like try hard halloween tier flashy trash. Dull on dull baby.
 
Full Arts and Reverse Holos are more expensive then the regular version. Something like a dollar for each holo more adds up quick.

I normally trade up to my Full Arts. I had a excess of staples, so I sold them to a card store with the in store credit I bought two Ghetsis FA for my Trevenant deck because they were cheap and I wanted to find them quick in my deck. I only needed two, and it made the deck look nicer. Sometimes a hand full of Full Arts can be really distracting.
 
Really, the only reason that I even have Full Art cards is because I just hit them in packs by chance. I wouldn't ever explicitly look for or purchase Full Art cards because 1. There are some thieves out there that would steal them and 2. They're just too expensive to have to buy 4 FA Juniper and 4 FA N and 2 FA Skyla and 3 FA Colress and 1 FA Lysandre for any given deck. Especially considering that they'll just rotate out anyway. If there'll be a day when I can't use it anymore, then what's the point of spending so many extra dollars to make sure that I've got the FA versions of cards that do the same things as their non-FA versions. Honestly, I kinda like the art of Professor Sycamore better than the FA Juniper in any deck. Just my opinion.
 
Similar to what Vulpix said, I don't really like having all the weird clashing of the different colors on the full art trainers. I have blinged out a deck before on PlayTCG for the fun of it and was surprised that I actually favored the regular trainers because they fit together. Now the Pokemon full arts I wouldn't have a problem with because they are what the game is all about and are cooler to me than having a human on the card. But right now I'm only 14 so I have to trade all my full arts away in order to afford the cards I want when trying out new deck ideas. Also I recently had all of my trainers outside my decks stolen so that kinda hurt
 
The only cards in my deck that are FA are ones I've pulled from packs or gotten through trades at my local Pokemon League. I'll probably never buy the FA version of a card just to make my deck look better (unless I somehow stumble across a gold mine).
 
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