Was playing the Pokemon TCG GameBoy game on the Switch just yesterday. Frick it was fun. Almost wanted to play current TCG but then I remembered it's full of over the top stupid mechanics just like YuGiOh ended up doing. At least Magic stayed pretty even for its run with how it did new types of abilities and the block/standard set rules. Even if that was just a ploy to sell more cards.
No, but shit like Mega evolution, Z moves, GX and Radiant Pokemon, Terawhatever and 900hp Gigantamax. It's just dumb. Magic, which I stopped playing in 2018, was rarely full of stupid shit that just made things chaotic. The colors always remained same in their play style.
Damage Counter Pokémons, in general, shouldnt exist in the first place
9 months ago
Anonymous
What the frick is a Lost Zone? Where Game Freak put their creativity and decency?
9 months ago
Anonymous
Lost zone is just banished pile
9 months ago
Anonymous
Banished/Removed from play
9 months ago
Anonymous
Lost Zone is like, a special discard zone you cant recover cards from unlike the discarded cards Banished basically.
Every other card game has it with different names.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>This card would make YGO players piss and shit themselves
For those unaware, Lost Zone in Pokemon Standard right now would be like if Gren Maju decks had multiple attackers and was Tier 1.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>+2 banish 2
Yeah it would be a 3 of in literally every single deck. It would also be hilariously obscene in thunder dragons
9 months ago
Anonymous
>if Gren Maju decks had multiple attackers and was Tier 1.
So, Floowandereeze
9 months ago
Anonymous
>banish deck=gren maju
No. It is about banishing shit yo get your big attacker to do things
9 months ago
Anonymous
I hate GF as much as the next guy but this isn't their fault.
It evolves from Inteleon V which is a basic Pokemon. Inteleon V is worth two prizes. Keep in mind that you only need to take 6 prizes to win. Honestly, Inteleon Vmax doesn't seem that strong to me to be worth three prizes. You can counter his ability by having a small/empty bench or playing Penny when your mons get beaten down and his attack isn't all that strong and has an annoying condition. He's rapid strike though so he has a lot of good card support which probably makes him good.
I just picked the game back up very recently and I'm not super familiar with the meta.
Pokemon is just a never ending >What the frick were they thinking
His HP isn't especially high and it requires two energy types which uncommon and requires a specific type of deck, although Dragon Gale is quite strong he's still worth two prizes and has no resistances so you can beat him down with another strong attacker, even better if you pull him forward with Boss' Orders and OHKO him with something strong. Plus nothing is weak to dragon afaik.
Yugioh has advanced in power creep to the point where games rarely last more than 2-3 turns. Pokémon also has set rotation which means that the power creep operates more on a sliding scale compared to everything around it.
I was going to say yugioh needs to get its shit together before games are decided on turn 1-2 but I remembered we just got out of a format were games were decided turn 0 half the time. New master rule when?
Cards that get printed even today in Pokemon would fricking break YGO. Professor's Research is basically if YGO had a card say "Discard your hand and draw seven cards. You cannot activate any other Spell cards the turn you activate this card".
Pic related is basically a better Appointer of the Red Lotus but I don't anybody is playing it because of the level of draw & search PTCG has. Arceus V-STar and Pidgeot EX and more focused search effects make this card basically worthless.
Draw power isn't as strong in Pokémon as it is in Yugioh because of Pokemon's resource system (Energy Cards) but obviously it's still an absolute staple card. Half the power of Prof Oak in Yugioh wouldn't even be from the draw but being able to dump your entire hand into the Graveyard for free, since modern Yugioh has like 80 percent of its plays coming from the grave now anyway.
9 months ago
Anonymous
That's true as well, Discard interaction in Pokemon is mostly just cards that can put things there back into play and the occasional meme attacks that scale based on how many of specific Pokemon are in the graveyard like Night March & United Wings.
Imposter Oak is a weird relic, there's speculation that there was a time during Gold/Silver's development that the game's plot would have involved Prof Oak going missing, and Imposter Oak's design (drawn by Sugimori, the art lead for the games) showing up in the TCG around that intermediary time would have tied into that, but obviously none of that ended up in the final game at all.
It's meant to be a rolaplaying thing.
You know, >look at me i'm actually a wizard and these are my spells
Except why the f*** would a wixard have picture books about lands in there
All right, I found the answer. The Japanese card has yellow cheeks. When WotC was making the English version, they recolored Pikachu's cheeks to red, but later found out the cheek pads are intended to flash yellow when using thunder attacks and reverted the art to match the original Japanese. That's why some early Pikachu cards have red cheeks while reprints have the intended yellow.
As for why they recolored red to yellow there are two theories:
1. They thought the Japanese artist made a mistake, and colored Pikachu's cheeks to match their image of Pikachu. They did not realize the red pads turn yellow when attacking.
2. They intentionally changed the cheeks to match iconic Pokemon imagery in which Pikachu is always displayed with prominently red cheeks. They may have known the cheeks turn yellow when attacking, but wanted the TCG card to match the usual image that has red cheeks.
>Quick: Discard this card and target 1 opposing Effect Monster; negate its effects until the End Phase
Fricking hell Yugioh.
Oh, and also "send to the graveryard" and "discard" aren't the same thing so now it triggers different things than it's supposed to. Keyword gays are moronic. We already have what keywords we can so you are either demanding the game be dumbed down or you want 8000 keywords to learn because even most similar effects are slightly different.
Either you want a shittier game, the cards can simply say exactly what it does, or you now need to carry a 300+ page glossary with you. Which do you prefer?
Why is it always when someone complains about keywords that he doesn't know what he's talking about?
One of the reasons why YGO has such long texts is to have specific wording because of moronic things like >"send to the graveyard" and "discard" aren't the same thing
Things like sending a card to the graveyard doesn't count as "destroying" is stupid
>or you now need to carry a 300+ page glossary with you
lmao
At least try to watch someone else play a game with keywords/symbols before you complain
Does it need to say that bit about "negate the effects of that face-up monster"? I guess it's implying if your opponent flips it face down and back up, or removes it from the field and resummons it, the negation is cancelled?
No one genuinely knows and judges just make up rulings for these exact situations.
>If the effect of Effect Veiler resolves, and the targeted monster is then flipped face-down, its effect(s) will no longer be negated, even if it is flipped face-up again later that turn
The face down part is mostly to tell you what you can target.
Flipping shit can be use to avoid effects like Veiler >activate x >chain Veiler >chain Book of moon >chain resolves back up >BoM flios monster >Veiler fizzles because target is not face up >x effect goes up
I got this card out of a pack as a kid and I held it up to get some better light, but then a strong gust of wind sucked it out of the car window crack. It was foil and I was devastated.
It is a horse, the horse that carried me through GB TCG no sweat
Unfortunate the second game is more demanding so you can't just use the same deck the entire time
>Lunch time at school >Just before bell rings >some kid throws his entire collection in a rage on the basketball court and walks off >Pick up the entire 200 card spread across the court and bring it to class
Is it even worth collecting modern Pokemon cards today?
There's even full art character and Pokemon cards that are pretty neat but I'm not going to buy a bajillion boosters that are overpriced and scalped to oblivion by investortards.
Just buy singles Anon
Especially the Japanese ones
If you buy a full art character/pokemon cards 90% of them will cost less than $10
Lot of them are in the $1 - $5 range
>Where can you buy singles that aren't scams and not played to hell?
Most places that are selling singles are selling them to you in mint condition.
I've never even heard of a shop selling previously played (non-holographic) cards.
>Where can you buy singles that aren't scams and not played to hell?
Most places that are selling singles are selling them to you in mint condition.
I've never even heard of a shop selling previously played (non-holographic) cards.
most websites have listings that tell you what condition the card is in, you can buy them from pack fresh all the way to chewed on by a dog and put in a blender
tcgplayer is one site i used as a magic player years ago that i know sells pokemon but other sites like ebay have them too
Basically every card is sub $5 unless its a full art pokegirl
9 months ago
Anonymous
>$600 for Shillie
Hory shit
9 months ago
Anonymous
To be fair shes the most expensive
9 months ago
Anonymous
I saw a video where a guy tested what was supposed to be a budget deck, but since he sprung for Full Art for each copy of Iono it costed hundreds of dollars instead, with Pidgeot EX being the only other card in the list above $10
You're not supposed to buy random boosters if you want to collect, just struggle to find the cards you're aiming for as singles for a decent price. You can buy displays if you want the thrill of cracking packs and want to start collecting a full set of an expansion.
The guy attached a Double Colourless energy to the charizard he can't even use the Fire Spin these people don't even know their own game they're marketing.
That card reminds me of my most ridiculous pull of all time.
One day I was at my FLGS to play DnD and Pokemon XY evolutions had just come out. I buy a pack.
I pull a Brock's grit full art and some dude next to me goes nuts. Offers to buy it from me for 8 euros. I say "It's cool, bro, just buy me 2 boosters and it's yours."
I then proceed to pull another Brock's grit and a Mega Charizard EX. The guy then calls his dad to transfer him some money to his bank account to buy two more booster packs for me because he needs a playset of BG for his deck.
Which then proceeds to pull TWO XY evolutions Charizards, one in each pack. I was ecstatic for some reason but also kinda annoyed because I had to ask my friends for sleeves to keep the cards clean and they didn't have many spares.
Anyone else love how in the gba game literally every specialist basically just uses a colorless type deck with like one or two pokemon of their type thrown in. Its extremely funny to me. I dont i even saw the electric guy or the fire guy play any of their types
>Didn't even place an energy card on it
Um excuse me but stop breaking the rules. I place my drowzee and put one psychic energy on it. I use pound which as you know pounds your whole deck into the ground and means I win. Give me all your pokemon cards now or I'm telling my mom.
Don't fall for the cardboard crack anon, I almost relapsed just because this thread made me look up the latest sets in Japan, be strong with me, say no to drugs.
So I hadn't bought Pokemon cards in over 17 years, and wanted to smell the cards, I bought one pack and then this was looking at me. I was like "lol wonder if this is any good or rare". Googled it and got a case for it. Now I want to buy more cards.... Am I even gonna play it ever...?
i think in a booster you're guaranteed a shiny kind of card, but it could be as lame as just a shiny potion or shiny mareep or some shit. however, i splurged last this month on about 12 boosters and i actually got a fair amount of good shiny cards and shiny full art.
i wouldn't recommend anyone ever buy goddamn trading cards, but it seems pokemon at least makes it pretty fair. in one booster i got a shiny EX, and two shiny full art cards.
Apparently they now put two reverse holos per pack and the guaranteed rare is always holo now too, but the price of a pack is higher now too. Also obviously ultra rares and above are not guaranteed, so don't expect a card like that anon got in every pack. Rule of thumb is to always buy single cards, so that way you know what you're getting.
So that's why folks are buying those entire booster boxes.
Apparently they now put two reverse holos per pack and the guaranteed rare is always holo now too, but the price of a pack is higher now too. Also obviously ultra rares and above are not guaranteed, so don't expect a card like that anon got in every pack. Rule of thumb is to always buy single cards, so that way you know what you're getting.
I bought this. Outside of the promos this was the only holo I got in 17packs (I actually got an extra one). I normally get decent luck though so not too bothered.
I just ordered Obsidian Flames EB from Amazon (it was $40 relatively cheap), I skipped Paldea Evolved but I would die to have some of the special Miraidon cards.
Are Elite Trainer Boxes more economical than buying those 36-pack booster display boxes?
9 months ago
Anonymous
I buy the Elite Boxes for the freebies, since I haven't bought one since like SnS I decided to go for it, but the 36-pack booster is a better investment card wise speaking.
9 months ago
Anonymous
What freebies?
9 months ago
Anonymous
things like coins, dices, and status counters (I think some EB bring mats)
>Basic >Free double tutor >220 damage
This game is fricked
9 months ago
Anonymous
Son, do you think that's fricked? just look at this
GX Tag Teams (cards that had multiple Pokemon on them) were Sun Moon era and the best ones were fricking ridiculous. They were all Basics and each had a GX Move that was once per game but busted to frick if pulled off. VMax are the Gigantamax equivalent where you "evolve" them over a Pokemon V which are 2-prize Basics, and VMax are just big numbers in exchange for being 3-prize, but the best ones are very strong. VStar was the walk back to a 2-prize V evolution that have V Star Powers which are once per game, and now in SV era there's EXs which are further powered down since the Basics aren't that powerful and EX evolution Pokemon still need to evolve into that state.
Pic related is the peak of power creep in Pokemon. Nothing will ever be this bad ever again. Also, Standard does not have a banlist and never has so this shit was legal until it rotated.
and this
The newer Charizard just dropped!
miraidon is a smalltime.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Tera Zard is only that good because it hits Garde & Mew for weakness and has a comeback mechanic. Stage 2 EXs aren't anywhere near as fricked as Tag Teams or the best VMAX/VSTAR mons.
9 months ago
Anonymous
It also accelerates the energy to himself. It is a very good card.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Very much so, but EX is a good way to bring two-prizers down to size. Now we just let Mew & Arceus rotate out.
9 months ago
Anonymous
And battle vip pass.
9 months ago
Anonymous
And unlike Miraidon that 180 attack can be spammed.
I don't think the Sugimori drawings floating in the middle of a nondescript background are what he was refering to when he said great, I like the guy but most of his cards suck.
I love how pokemon cards can have wildly varying art and yet it all fits perfectly.
Other TCGs are often far too busy or inconsistent in their frames and regularly get confusing because of it. Sure there are some slipups in the PTCG but the level of consistency is much higher while having everything from traditional to digital to CGI renders and clay modelling like these cards.
What does the level do in pokemon cards?
Like the fat Pikachu in OP is lvl 12, what does that mean?
I can figure out rest of the stuff on the cards but that one eludes me.
Nothing, it's just flavour text and differntiates the cards slightly. The TCG GB game would refer to the levels so you could tell the difference without having to check.
It's just to differentiate the cards by name, lvl 12 Pikachu will be different from level 14 Pikachu (different HP, different moves, different art, probably comes from a different set, etc.)
>attaching energies to cram >Lol
Its a jet energy. It was probably used to jump cramorant from the bench to active and also it gives them a retreat option later.
>Remember seeing my pokemon card binder some 10 years ago >Must be worth a lot now >Search everywhere, cant find it >Ask my dad, tells me "Those old things, i gave them away"" >I blow up in distress >Tells me "I was just teasing you"" >Somehow feel, like thats what actually happened and he just said that to smooth things over
I had near the complete 150. Even had a mew card or two that you could only get by being in the official pokemon leauge and winning matches in tournaments.
Long story short, my friend stole the binder in middle school. Another based friend, cant even remember who it was, told me he did it. Managed to get it back, but he kept some of the better ones for himself like the mews. Reported it to the principal and he told me i was lucky to get back what i did.
Some years later after college, i gave his GF a foot massage and she let me eat her pussy on two occassions. So i guess it evened out in the end somewhat. Karma i guess
Yeah you won bro, didn't even get to frick her, just ate the hole he was dunking his wiener and balls into. Owned bro. When you were tonguing his dead spermatozoa off the walls of her pussy did you think "yeah, take that for stealing my Pokemon cards"
>staying friends with someone who stole thousands of dollars from you >eating out but not fricking his girlfriend >he probably blasted her earlier that day and needed it cleaned which is why she let you eat her out >best case scenario you got her worked up so she went and fricked the hell out of him >thinking this makes you even
I think this is some bizarre form of cuckoldry. At least humiliation fetishistic bullshit
*kicks down your door*
*slaps your ass*
*bangs your girlfriend*
*eats the last piece of leftover pizza you had in your fridge without asking you if you wanted it*
4x Hitmonchan
4x Scyther
4x Electabuzz
4x Pluspower
4x Bill
4x Professor Oak
4x Energy Removal
4x Super Energy Removal
3x Energy Retrieval
3x Computer Search
1x Itemfinder
1x Scoop Up
8x Fightan Energy
8x Electric Energy
4x Double Colorless Energy
Normies love Pokemon. People sit in huge convention centers and play rounds and rounds of it while commentators in their 40s speak really professionally about a Gardevior.
The game was kind of a mess at first but there's been plenty of metas where it was in a good place. Once shit like Arceus V-Star (dude 2-card splashable search engine that can double as a solid attacker or even a way to spread energy to V Pokemon lmao) rotate out I think the current meta will be pretty healthy.
>got a holographic Haunter in my first pack >thought it was a misprint from the factory >was convinced by an older kid that it was worthless and gave it to him for free
>Is there any reason they refuse to make a good Pokemon TCG game?
Ill raise you one and ask:
Is there any reason they refuse to make a good Pokemon game?
They dont give a shit anymore. The cheapest thing prints money from them just because they have pikachu
We'll never get a fully fledged RPG like the Gameboy games ever again because of this shit.
Imagine if it was like Yu-Gi-Oh and we got new games every year or so. Would be like little time capsules of each TCG era.
>Imagine if it was like Yu-Gi-Oh and we got new games every year or so
lmao
Also for some reason peak YGO videogames are the ones that don't follow the actual card game
I tried the "online" one, the artwork and general design of the client looked like it was done by 9 years for 9 year olds (yes I know it's pokemon). But I just couldn't play it
For all the shit I give yugioh as a game, Master Duel client is incredibly good and it is always improving. TCG Live is fricking crap like, SUPER crap.
A shame there are no other ways to play poke tcg online. I've read there were some guys making an unofficial client but those news died quick so no idea if it's being worked on or dropped.
9 months ago
Anonymous
to this day I don't understand why in the name of the frick there isn't an Showdown equivalent for TCG.
9 months ago
Anonymous
TCG is not as popular as the actual VG battles. A shame though. Even if simple in its mechanics, the pokeTCG is really fun to play.
9 months ago
Anonymous
yeah, TCG is not poorgay friendly so it really never had a chance of taking off, unlike the VG where the only you needed was the cart and your console to get started.
I just got into the TCG once I was an adult with a job that let me buy stuff, is a damn shame.
9 months ago
Anonymous
PTCG is the most poorgay friendly of major TCGs by far. You can get a playable Standard deck for under $50 and even have a choice of which you want for the most part. Move the cutoff to $100 and you can basically play anything as long as you don't get full arts.
9 months ago
Anonymous
ohh, I know that but even then, the entry barrier is too high for broke ass kids or poorgays.
9 months ago
Anonymous
It'd probably cut into physical sales too much for them to allow it, especially if it was completely free like Showdown. There's definitely a digital-only playerbase out there who'd spend money on it but it's a very fine line between a client that's utter dogshit and no one uses or one that's so good it edges out physical sales which are way more profitable.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I think the opposite. If Yu-Gi-Oh games cut into their TCG's sales then they would have stopped making them twenty years ago. A decent console game could attract people who've never played the game before.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Playing a card game integrated into a full story and adventure mode parallel to the anime/manga
vs >Sitting in a shit card shot under fluorescent lights on a fold out table playing against a fat man
9 months ago
Anonymous
If someone's unwilling to do the latter then they wouldn't buy any cards to begin with.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Konami execs more or less told that MD eclipse OGC in players, help that automated nature make game far more easier to follow for both sides and weed out cheating.
>vacation in greece with my kid brother >buy him a pokemon booster because what the frick >costs like €2 and has like 30 rare and foil and cool pokemon
thank you based greek counterfeiters
It's been a while but >Draw 7 cards >Put 1 basic Pokemon as your active Pokemon face down, up to 5 on the bench, then 6 face down prize cards >Flip a coin to see who goes first, flip Pokemon face up >Each turn you can attach 1 energy card, use trainer cards (only 1 supporter a turn), use abilities and retreat (if you have enough energy) >You can't attack on the first turn if you go first, also can't evolve the turn you put a Pokemon in play >If it's not your first turn you can attack if you have enough energy >If you knock out an opponent's Pokemon take one of your prizes (some let you take 2 or 3) >You win if you take all 6 or if your opponent has no Pokemon left
I miss anything?
>Start with 8000 Life points >Place 5 shields face down >Put one Basic Pokemon face down, then yell, "Stand up, Pokemon!" and flip it >Draw 3 cards and mulligan >play 1 energy and tap it >summon 1 pokemon, move 1 core onto it >Win by getting all 7 Pokeballs
you just kinda lay down cards with cute animals on them until someone walks by with a disgusted expression, then you pick everything up and leave out of shame
>until someone walks by with a disgusted expression
This is why I won't play card games in public until Konami does real holograms.
Then the school bullies won't tease me when they see Beaver Warrior if he real.
Been a long while since I last played, but here's what I remember:
0. Make sure both you and your opponent each have a deck of exactly 60 cards, in which no single card is found more than 4 times except for basic Energy cards
1. Decide the number of Price Cards each of you will set, between 1 and 6, to decide the general length of the match.
2. Each player shuffles his opponent's deck
3. Flip a coin to decide who plays first
4. Each player draws 7 cards and has to put at least one of his Basic Pokémon card in play as their Active Pokémon, and can put up to five of their other Basic Pokémon card on their Bench
4.1 If a player draws no Basic Pokémon, he has to show his hand to his opponent, shuffle his hand into his deck and draw 7 new cards until he gets a Basic Pokémon. Each time he shuffles his deck this way, his opponent may choose to draw an additional card.
5. The players set their 1-6 Price Cards face down from the top of their decks. Each time you KO an opponent's Pokémon, you get to draw one of your Price Card.
6. The player who won the coin toss starts their turn. For the first turn of the match, they do not get to draw a card, otherwise from there on, a player MUST draw a card from their deck at the start of each of their turn. If you have no card to draw in your deck at the start of your turn, you forfeit the match and your opponent wins.
7. Turns are devised in three phases:
I - Draw a card
II - Play cards from your hand as long as you're allowed to do so (you can only attach one Energy card to any of your Pokémon in play per turn, you can only play one Supporter card per turn, you cannot evolve a Basic or Stage 1 Pokémon the same turn you've put them in play, etc.). In this phase, you can also do actions like use Pokémon Powers, switch your Active Pokémon by paying its retreat cost
III - If your Active Pokémon has enough Energy cards attached to it, choose one of your Active Pokémon's Attack to attack your opponent, ending your turn
8. You win the match once you draw your last Price Card, your opponent has no Pokémon on his Bench to replace a defeated Active Pokémon or your opponent cannot draw a card at the start of his turn.
It actually is. Pokemon has the least mechanical evolution of all the major card games.
All that basically changed is that now there are big fat cards called V pokemon.
I use the delay effect of Purge of the Royal Knights to play Leopardmon out from Yggdrasil_7D6's sources. Leopardmon uses his effect to reduce the play cost of a royal knight by 4 in addition to the effect of Yggdrasil_7D6 which is currently reducing play cost by 10 to play Omnimon for free. Omnimon plays Gankoomon, Dynasmon, and Jesmon from Yggdrasil's sources, gives all of my Digimon Rush for the turn and trashing Yggdrasil. Dynasmon reveals the top 4 cards of the deck, adding 1 Magnamon and 1 Gallantmon, then Dynasmon's other effect triggers and deletes all level 4 and lower on my opponent's board. Gankoomon plays a Sistermon Ciel from trash, who reveals the top 3 and adds another Omnimon to hand. Jesmon deletes my opponent's Digimon with a total combined DP of 16000 or less, and Leopardmon gives all of my Royal Knights blocker until the end of the next turn. Due to Jesmon's other effect, all of my Digimon gain +5000 DP, and Ciel gives all of my Royal Knights reboot.
Attack 6 times with rush. If I somehow didn't win already, evolve Gankoomon into Omnimon, delete another Digimon, then everything reboots on my opponent's unsuspend phase.
Nobody will care until it has an online client, and even then the MtG/YGO/Pokemon Big 3 won't be broken by Digimon of all things, and neither will One Piece or Lorcana even if they get clients.
IIRC Lorcana is still technically pre-release explaining all the high prices but it's still insane and I don't expect the Disney TCG to be the cheap one. >saw that a deck built around Stitch & Dr. Facilier was meta, which is cool because Stitch & Facilier are great characters >Look up price >Nearly $300
They just launched a new one called PTCG Live that replaced the one that they had going for fricking 11 years, and it's mostly a sidegrade outside of visuals that look less like an edutainment game from the early 00s.
I kinda want to play again, but my friends don't want to and I don't want to be the weird nearly 30 year old guy who has to play against kids at the LCS.
>You can't do anything! My Mewtwo is invincible! >Heh... >W-What's so funny!? >I knew you'd play Mewtwo. Your pride couldn't let you not play it >S-Say what? >But in your arrogance, you failed to realize a valuable element: That Mewtwo is knee deep in water! >S-So what? My Mewtwo can withstand whatever you throw at it! A little water won't hurt! >That's where you're wrong Anon. I summon Fat Pikachu! >Fat Pikachu? It only has 30 attack, what good will that do? >Go Fat Pikachu! Lighting Strike! >Uwaaaa! No! Mewtwo! >That's right. Water powers up electricity by 10,000, so he's new attack is... >10,030!!! >No way! >Pikachu! Dark Electric Attack! >Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
Was playing the Pokemon TCG GameBoy game on the Switch just yesterday. Frick it was fun. Almost wanted to play current TCG but then I remembered it's full of over the top stupid mechanics just like YuGiOh ended up doing. At least Magic stayed pretty even for its run with how it did new types of abilities and the block/standard set rules. Even if that was just a ploy to sell more cards.
I evolve my Jigglypuff, add a double energy to the energy I played last turn, then fill up my bench with Clefairy Dolls and first stage evolutions.
Do The Wave, knock out Pikachu, take my first prize. Your turn.
3-prizers were a mistake but Tag Teams were worse than VMax and VMax is finally starting to leave, only Mew is really that relevant anymore since VStar and EX are more common.
GX Tag Teams (cards that had multiple Pokemon on them) were Sun Moon era and the best ones were fricking ridiculous. They were all Basics and each had a GX Move that was once per game but busted to frick if pulled off. VMax are the Gigantamax equivalent where you "evolve" them over a Pokemon V which are 2-prize Basics, and VMax are just big numbers in exchange for being 3-prize, but the best ones are very strong. VStar was the walk back to a 2-prize V evolution that have V Star Powers which are once per game, and now in SV era there's EXs which are further powered down since the Basics aren't that powerful and EX evolution Pokemon still need to evolve into that state.
Pic related is the peak of power creep in Pokemon. Nothing will ever be this bad ever again. Also, Standard does not have a banlist and never has so this shit was legal until it rotated.
I played through tag teams till ADP and started playing like a month ago. The VMAX cards still in rotation all feel fair. I am kinda surprised they managed to actually rein in power creep as much as they did
>TFW still have my classic YGO deck I played with in high school with my friends back in 2007-2011 >Almost 31 now
I just couldn't bare to get rid of it. I doubt it's worth much money, I'd be lucky to get $50 for it. The classic format of YGO was always so much fun to me, if I ever went to a convention or something and people had classic decks/formats I'd love to play again. I guess you can play classic format on Master Duel, right?
It's not really as fun playing online as it is in person at a table.
I have NEVER in my life met people who played the Pokemon TCG, at least not since I was 10-11. I saw more YGO and Magic players in high school/college, but NOBODY played Pokemon TCG. It must not be as popular as people think, or at least not in my state/area.
>some cards
aka only cards released in the one block that arguably kicked off the downfall of modern-era (and also the modern format) magic
BfZ was a horrible set and changing the clean numbers of colorless mana before, into moronic anus mana symbols is just the tip of the iceberg
https://e621.net/posts/3147155
That panel is a one shot (My understanding is he likes doing in medias res pages so he can try out framing and composition without having to make a full comic) but he has a long comic about a Nidoqueen that's absolutely wonderful and still ongoing.
>180 damage counters >mfw pokemon can have 1800 HP
9 months ago
Anonymous
Bigger it can go I think would be a Machamp with 400HP after some ability plus tool bullshit.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Right. There's this guy that has the comeback mechanic HP, and they're printing Gorgeous Mantle soon which gives a Single Prizer +100HP but makes it 2-Prize.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Is that giant, ugly LOST ORIGIN logo on the actual card?
9 months ago
Anonymous
That's one of the versions of the card. This other doesn't have it.
I do wonder if a card like this could work in PTCG >You can activate this card from your hand on your opponent's turn. >When your opponent plays a Pokemon or a Supporter card from their hand, you can activate this card and prevent that card from being placed onto the field. Send that card to the Discard Pile. Your opponent draws half of their remaining Prize Cards (rounded down).
It probably work more as a pokemon ability or a post attack effect.
There are already some effects that cuck the player from using item cards or similar. Its not the same, but surprise interruptions aren't really fitting of the game.
Good taste. The chiseled look of classic MtG frames is so much better it's ridiculous. Same for Pokemon with the more muted background colors and less flashy shit.
any other moron here collect trading cards as a kid, and not play the games but just thought the art was cool, and wanted the feeling of getting a rare card?
My friends and I never learned how to play yugioh correctly, and just assuemd screaming that you would fuse the cards would just basically combine both monsters effects/stats into 1.
>got into collecting a few months ago >carefully curated my binder with neat looking artwork cards like yarn/clay mons and splurged on some rarer ones like ancient new >filled out as much as I wanted >nobody to show it to so all I can do is flip through for the millionth time
Was always weird to me how some of the original cards just had terrible CGI instead of hand drawn artwork like all the others.
Its also weird to me now looking back on collecting this shit when i was a teenager and how I was obsess over things like a card being a 1st edition, or an original series, or fossil series or whatever the frick came later. I couldnt give less of a frick about any of it now. Ive still got all my cards, and the only thing I really like is the holo cards because they look cool and shiny.
>also have several of those stupid holographic mews from the 1st pokemon movie
>some of the original cards just had terrible CGI
That's still a thing unfortunately, that and regular trainer art just recycling their basic standing portrait.
They weren't great, but at the same time I don't mind the old 3D renders because it felt like the artists were playing around more (since it was pretty early in the CGI game) and since they didn't make up half the fricking set like they do now. 5ban and PLANETA need to frick off already. Their slop is half the reason I don't buy new cards.
So I haven’t played the card game. What do you if you have some move that negates all damage next turn or can’t be hurt on the bench, but they have some move that says “ignore abilities and resistance”
Is pokemon card game even fun to play? I'm not being negative or assuming it is, just actually asking. I've mostly just played a bit of magic like 10 years ago, and some random online card games like shadowverse and elder scrolls legends and shit
It's a fun game and not hard/expensive to get into, it's very draw/search heavy though so don't be shocked.
dont mind that aspect. i would play casually with my casual cousins, can you in this situation pick a pokemon you like (lets say a Muk EX) and build it around that or is the game kind of limited on "I want to make my deck around this Pokemon"? I know in tournies that would get you btfo but just curious how flexible the game is for that kind of casual deck building
There's a good amount of design space where you can totally build a cohesive deck around a Pokemon you like, as long as some aspect of it can be built around. A pack filler vanilla attacker won't really get you anywhere as your centerpiece, but there's a lot of options outside of the dozen or so best-performing builds in tournament. What are some of your favorites?
man I got a box full of these old cards of the base sets and I'm struggling financially
I wonder how much it's all worth but it's just a pain to price check every single card
My thoughts are that they really never got the Shiny mechanic right until Radiants and even then there's only like four playable ones with Greninja & Charizard being easily the best. Radiant Charjabug has to be a joke, it sucks so bad.
Radiant greninja is too OP
Radiant charizard hits the right point imo same as Alakazam and Jirachi.
Then you have Venusaur that isnt bad but not that useful. Or Tsareena that works on some decks.
I will never forgive Logan Paul and other zoomerhomosexuals for memeing the pokemon collection shit. You used to be able to buy a base set booster box for 300 dollars before those buttholes moved in. I just want some of the older cards I was never able to get but now I can't see one without the price reaching triple digits.
GX Tag Teams (cards that had multiple Pokemon on them) were Sun Moon era and the best ones were fricking ridiculous. They were all Basics and each had a GX Move that was once per game but busted to frick if pulled off. VMax are the Gigantamax equivalent where you "evolve" them over a Pokemon V which are 2-prize Basics, and VMax are just big numbers in exchange for being 3-prize, but the best ones are very strong. VStar was the walk back to a 2-prize V evolution that have V Star Powers which are once per game, and now in SV era there's EXs which are further powered down since the Basics aren't that powerful and EX evolution Pokemon still need to evolve into that state.
Pic related is the peak of power creep in Pokemon. Nothing will ever be this bad ever again. Also, Standard does not have a banlist and never has so this shit was legal until it rotated.
got printed is often cited as a good meta though. Then it became dogshit instantly until Tag Teams all rotated out, and now it's better, but it'll be even better when all the V mechanics rotate too, even though VMax isn't as busted as Tag Team and VStar is good with the exception of Arceus being the best consistency engine for nearly every deck in the entire meta.
EX is one of the most fair 2-prize mechanics. Still need to evolve, Basic EXs are balanced weaker, Tera EXs are just immune to bench damage and sometimes change type, no "Once Per Game" effects that are either nowhere near good enough to play for or busted to shit with little room in between. They'd need to print an individual fricked up EX card since where it is now is totally fine. Even Gardevoir EX, Tera-Dark Charizard EX, and the upcoming Mew EX aren't going to kill the metagame. Radiants were a good mechanic too, same with pseudo-arcehtypes in Single/Rapid/Fusion Strike and the upcoming Ancient/Future tags for Paradox mons.
fat frick
cute rat
HYPERBEAM
he cute
Does it still do 30 damage to the opponent on top of the 10 to itself if you don't call it right?
JUDGE
Yes, you do 30 damage and the coin flip decides whether you hurt yourself during the attack or not.
Yes, otherwise the text would have included an "instead".
This guy is the reason why YuGiOh card effects have long descriptions.
You don't call anything. It says If tails, but it doesn't specify which Pikachu so if your opponent also has a pikachu then do 10 more damage to it.
Honestly Pokémon hasn't power crept nearly as hard as Yugioh has other than the numbers getting bigger.
Meant for
No, but shit like Mega evolution, Z moves, GX and Radiant Pokemon, Terawhatever and 900hp Gigantamax. It's just dumb. Magic, which I stopped playing in 2018, was rarely full of stupid shit that just made things chaotic. The colors always remained same in their play style.
>Pokémon hasn't power crept nearly as hard as Yugioh
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What in the frick is this thing?
If it hadn't been for the water energy symbol I would never guess this was a pokemon. Jesus Christ.
The card design is also dogshit. You never, ever remove borders like that.
Inteleon G-max is just a shit design all around it has no fixing, at least the promo card's design looks somewhat cool.
Damage Counter Pokémons, in general, shouldnt exist in the first place
What the frick is a Lost Zone? Where Game Freak put their creativity and decency?
Lost zone is just banished pile
Banished/Removed from play
Lost Zone is like, a special discard zone you cant recover cards from unlike the discarded cards Banished basically.
Every other card game has it with different names.
>This card would make YGO players piss and shit themselves
For those unaware, Lost Zone in Pokemon Standard right now would be like if Gren Maju decks had multiple attackers and was Tier 1.
>+2 banish 2
Yeah it would be a 3 of in literally every single deck. It would also be hilariously obscene in thunder dragons
>if Gren Maju decks had multiple attackers and was Tier 1.
So, Floowandereeze
>banish deck=gren maju
No. It is about banishing shit yo get your big attacker to do things
I hate GF as much as the next guy but this isn't their fault.
Yes. Yugioh power creep has advanced far far more and Vmax were much weaker than tag teams. Expanded is still ADP central for a reason
And what are the conditions for playing that card? (Also it counts 3x as much as a normal pokemon for winning the fricking game.)
There are no special conditions. VMAX/VStar/EX cards play the same as basic pokemon. They are stronger but when they are KOed the reward is better.
not "basic" pokemon, normal single prized pokemon I mean.
It evolves from Inteleon V which is a basic Pokemon. Inteleon V is worth two prizes. Keep in mind that you only need to take 6 prizes to win. Honestly, Inteleon Vmax doesn't seem that strong to me to be worth three prizes. You can counter his ability by having a small/empty bench or playing Penny when your mons get beaten down and his attack isn't all that strong and has an annoying condition. He's rapid strike though so he has a lot of good card support which probably makes him good.
I just picked the game back up very recently and I'm not super familiar with the meta.
His HP isn't especially high and it requires two energy types which uncommon and requires a specific type of deck, although Dragon Gale is quite strong he's still worth two prizes and has no resistances so you can beat him down with another strong attacker, even better if you pull him forward with Boss' Orders and OHKO him with something strong. Plus nothing is weak to dragon afaik.
Yugioh has advanced in power creep to the point where games rarely last more than 2-3 turns. Pokémon also has set rotation which means that the power creep operates more on a sliding scale compared to everything around it.
I was going to say yugioh needs to get its shit together before games are decided on turn 1-2 but I remembered we just got out of a format were games were decided turn 0 half the time. New master rule when?
>but it doesn't specify which Pikachu so if your opponent also has a pikachu then do 10 more damage to it.
...JUDGE
you aight yellow boi
I play Professor Oak.
This allows me to draw seven (7) cards from my deck.
I then play another Professor Oak.
Actually, you can only play one Supporter card per turn.
Uhmmm incorrect sweety. Doesn't say that anywhere on the card.
>Discard your hand
>Get up and throw my cards in the rubbish
>discard your hand
>chop my hand off irl
This would br the most powerful Yugioh card ever printed
Cards that get printed even today in Pokemon would fricking break YGO. Professor's Research is basically if YGO had a card say "Discard your hand and draw seven cards. You cannot activate any other Spell cards the turn you activate this card".
Pic related is basically a better Appointer of the Red Lotus but I don't anybody is playing it because of the level of draw & search PTCG has. Arceus V-STar and Pidgeot EX and more focused search effects make this card basically worthless.
Draw power isn't as strong in Pokémon as it is in Yugioh because of Pokemon's resource system (Energy Cards) but obviously it's still an absolute staple card. Half the power of Prof Oak in Yugioh wouldn't even be from the draw but being able to dump your entire hand into the Graveyard for free, since modern Yugioh has like 80 percent of its plays coming from the grave now anyway.
That's true as well, Discard interaction in Pokemon is mostly just cards that can put things there back into play and the occasional meme attacks that scale based on how many of specific Pokemon are in the graveyard like Night March & United Wings.
This guy ever show up in anything?
I vaguely recall an OG series episode where Butch dressed up as a fake Professor Oak to steal Pokémon, but that might have been a fever dream.
Imposter Oak is a weird relic, there's speculation that there was a time during Gold/Silver's development that the game's plot would have involved Prof Oak going missing, and Imposter Oak's design (drawn by Sugimori, the art lead for the games) showing up in the TCG around that intermediary time would have tied into that, but obviously none of that ended up in the final game at all.
*empties your hand*
Your move
>not the rocket hand rip loop
It also doesn't say that it can be played in the first case. A real shit card
Thats only a rule in nu pokemon becauae support cards are extremely overfricking powered
Supporter!=Trainer
i play imposter professor oak. i then play another imposter professor oak face down
Why is fat pikachu so soulful?
Because it looks like an animal, like me in the Gym (Pokemon).
Call it
tap one plains
cast path to exile, target fat pikachu
>tap one plains
Wrong you didn't draw into an Plains first turn.
Better luck next turn 🙂
It's always annoyed me how Magic calls the deck the "library" sounds pretentious as frick
It's meant to be a rolaplaying thing.
You know,
>look at me i'm actually a wizard and these are my spells
Except why the f*** would a wixard have picture books about lands in there
You can be a wizard AND a real estate agent
Nature is great and i like art
Heh, you stupid frick
Check out this crazy hot meme Ganker.
This is Ganker, Ganker is down the hall and to the left
All right, I found the answer. The Japanese card has yellow cheeks. When WotC was making the English version, they recolored Pikachu's cheeks to red, but later found out the cheek pads are intended to flash yellow when using thunder attacks and reverted the art to match the original Japanese. That's why some early Pikachu cards have red cheeks while reprints have the intended yellow.
As for why they recolored red to yellow there are two theories:
1. They thought the Japanese artist made a mistake, and colored Pikachu's cheeks to match their image of Pikachu. They did not realize the red pads turn yellow when attacking.
2. They intentionally changed the cheeks to match iconic Pokemon imagery in which Pikachu is always displayed with prominently red cheeks. They may have known the cheeks turn yellow when attacking, but wanted the TCG card to match the usual image that has red cheeks.
And the English one with red cheek pads.
based fat pikachu autist
over 20 years and I never noticed pikachu flipping the bird all this time
I just noticed it too. I wonder what other visual wonders lie in the Pokemon Base Sets...
>grading a reissue card
very intredasting thanks anon
I think I still like how Amerifat Pikachu looks with those red pads better than japanese pikachu
>jibun ni mo 10 damage
so 30 dmg to opponent + 10 dmg to yourself
Chain effect veiler
>Quick: Discard this card and target 1 opposing Effect Monster; negate its effects until the End Phase
Fricking hell Yugioh.
Don't open this or you might go insane.
why did yugioh become a leftie meme?
Do the people who have to make this work in video game form go insane or what.
If you were trying to make it shorter that doesn't work. You've removed limitations from it.
It WAS only allowed to activate during one single phase of your opponent's turn, now you've made it infinitely better.
Oh, and also "send to the graveryard" and "discard" aren't the same thing so now it triggers different things than it's supposed to. Keyword gays are moronic. We already have what keywords we can so you are either demanding the game be dumbed down or you want 8000 keywords to learn because even most similar effects are slightly different.
Either you want a shittier game, the cards can simply say exactly what it does, or you now need to carry a 300+ page glossary with you. Which do you prefer?
To play a better game
When you say, "send to the graveyard", you obfuscate the game.
Veiler has 4 different ruling gotchas one one fricking card.
>When you say, "send to the graveyard", you obfuscate the game
to a moron, maybe. people that actually play the game understand what a cost is.
just make up a keyword for "discard but it doesn't count as discard because screw you"
may as well call it Discard2 or something
Why is it always when someone complains about keywords that he doesn't know what he's talking about?
One of the reasons why YGO has such long texts is to have specific wording because of moronic things like
>"send to the graveyard" and "discard" aren't the same thing
Things like sending a card to the graveyard doesn't count as "destroying" is stupid
>or you now need to carry a 300+ page glossary with you
lmao
At least try to watch someone else play a game with keywords/symbols before you complain
The most important one is that you can't veiler under Macro or D-Shifter, but if it said "discard," you could.
Does it need to say that bit about "negate the effects of that face-up monster"? I guess it's implying if your opponent flips it face down and back up, or removes it from the field and resummons it, the negation is cancelled?
No one genuinely knows and judges just make up rulings for these exact situations.
>If the effect of Effect Veiler resolves, and the targeted monster is then flipped face-down, its effect(s) will no longer be negated, even if it is flipped face-up again later that turn
Does that even make sense? Maybe.
The face down part is mostly to tell you what you can target.
Flipping shit can be use to avoid effects like Veiler
>activate x
>chain Veiler
>chain Book of moon
>chain resolves back up
>BoM flios monster
>Veiler fizzles because target is not face up
>x effect goes up
I don't care. That main phase clause is stupid if it's a quick effect.
No otherwise you'd be enabling a bunch of otk with a hand trap being used in the damage step
Also, in addition to the others, with the current wording, Veiler's negation wears off in the grave, but with your wording it doesn't.
>inadvertently makes the card even better
morons that don't play or understand yugioh should refrain from commenting on yugioh cards.
Is Effect Veiler a girl?
Take a seat.
Gnaw isn't an effect what the hell is that gonna do
I evolve my Eevee into gay pride Flareon and attach 1 Fire Energy card to it, I pass.
I got this card out of a pack as a kid and I held it up to get some better light, but then a strong gust of wind sucked it out of the car window crack. It was foil and I was devastated.
based god dabbing on morons like you
I agree with
so much fricking soul these arts had
I summon human Black rose Dragon and she strangles your fat Pikachu to death. I win.
i summon sexy rat
More like Servant of Onani
Summon hitmonchan
Jab
I hope you got something on your bench.
dont do that
>Summon hitmonchan
That's not fair you retroactively figured that out in 2023 no one knew that in 1999.
People did figure out haymaker quickly according to that one video we all got recommended by youtube.
That's bullshit. fricking 19 year olds figured it out.
No fricking kid figured out Hitmanchan and Plus Power.
>fricking 19 year olds figured it out
And they told their little brothers/sisters and build their decks for them for kids tournaments.
Machop can do the same and I bet a lot of people had that since it came in the starter set.
i liked machop and machoke as secondary attackers in the gb game. machoke does minimum 60 or some shit with his base attack.
Shit was printed in magazines within a year anon
It's cute how the original cards are just burned into your mind.
*Gets gnawed* EEEEEYOUCH!
It does no damage because my rapidash rolled protect on agility
Is that a horse? Are you a girl?
It is a horse, the horse that carried me through GB TCG no sweat
Unfortunate the second game is more demanding so you can't just use the same deck the entire time
>Lunch time at school
>Just before bell rings
>some kid throws his entire collection in a rage on the basketball court and walks off
>Pick up the entire 200 card spread across the court and bring it to class
Playground Pokemon TCG stories are good fun.
Is it even worth collecting modern Pokemon cards today?
There's even full art character and Pokemon cards that are pretty neat but I'm not going to buy a bajillion boosters that are overpriced and scalped to oblivion by investortards.
Just buy singles Anon
Especially the Japanese ones
If you buy a full art character/pokemon cards 90% of them will cost less than $10
Lot of them are in the $1 - $5 range
Where can you buy singles that aren't scams and not played to hell?
Japan.
Too far.
>Where can you buy singles that aren't scams and not played to hell?
Most places that are selling singles are selling them to you in mint condition.
I've never even heard of a shop selling previously played (non-holographic) cards.
>Most places that are selling singles are selling them to you in mint condition.
What places?
ANY place. Any Ebay store, any local game shop. Anywhere.
most websites have listings that tell you what condition the card is in, you can buy them from pack fresh all the way to chewed on by a dog and put in a blender
tcgplayer is one site i used as a magic player years ago that i know sells pokemon but other sites like ebay have them too
TCG player
Pokemon is cheap to get inkto because only waifu cards are worth anything.
Foil VMax pokemon go for like $2.50
>Pokemon is cheap to get inkto because only waifu cards are worth anything.
which waifus are expensive?
Lillie and Charizard
Basically every card is sub $5 unless its a full art pokegirl
>$600 for Shillie
Hory shit
To be fair shes the most expensive
I saw a video where a guy tested what was supposed to be a budget deck, but since he sprung for Full Art for each copy of Iono it costed hundreds of dollars instead, with Pidgeot EX being the only other card in the list above $10
not my queen
Both Iono full arts are going for moron prices out of the gate.
ENTER
Money laundering.
>Is it even worth collecting modern Pokemon cards today?
Pokemon is kind of the only collectible card game at the moment in a sense. The full arts look amazing.
It's cheaper than you'd think, and they sell for heaps too. But whatever, I don't need to shill the LARGEST MEDIA FRANCHISE ON EARTH.
You're not supposed to buy random boosters if you want to collect, just struggle to find the cards you're aiming for as singles for a decent price. You can buy displays if you want the thrill of cracking packs and want to start collecting a full set of an expansion.
I saw that Pokemon is about to remake/remaster the Base set and turn it into a paypiggy luxury item.
Gotta buy those and display it.
>Trailer is WMAF
What did Pokemon mean by this
The guy attached a Double Colourless energy to the charizard he can't even use the Fire Spin these people don't even know their own game they're marketing.
Anon, please read to me the text of Charizard's Pkmn Power.
That card reminds me of my most ridiculous pull of all time.
One day I was at my FLGS to play DnD and Pokemon XY evolutions had just come out. I buy a pack.
I pull a Brock's grit full art and some dude next to me goes nuts. Offers to buy it from me for 8 euros. I say "It's cool, bro, just buy me 2 boosters and it's yours."
I then proceed to pull another Brock's grit and a Mega Charizard EX. The guy then calls his dad to transfer him some money to his bank account to buy two more booster packs for me because he needs a playset of BG for his deck.
Which then proceeds to pull TWO XY evolutions Charizards, one in each pack. I was ecstatic for some reason but also kinda annoyed because I had to ask my friends for sleeves to keep the cards clean and they didn't have many spares.
I was thinking of buying it but it's like $150 so screw it
Anyone else love how in the gba game literally every specialist basically just uses a colorless type deck with like one or two pokemon of their type thrown in. Its extremely funny to me. I dont i even saw the electric guy or the fire guy play any of their types
You didn't attach any energy.
what sleeves, toploaders and binders are you using?
i have an old base set venusaur card whose back got stuck to its sleeve
>using sleeves
>bringing a binder to the card shop
>
>Didn't even place an energy card on it
Um excuse me but stop breaking the rules. I place my drowzee and put one psychic energy on it. I use pound which as you know pounds your whole deck into the ground and means I win. Give me all your pokemon cards now or I'm telling my mom.
>pound
just like my naughty pictures..
I prefer the mad Pikachu
looking fully delitized
>ew! gross!
>kinda' cute though!
I finished the GBC TCG game yesterday, wish the game was bigger.
I wish the card pool was more interesting.
Best version
DCE
PlusPower
PlusPower
PlusPower
Pluspower
that boy aint right
I overlay to xyz summon Traptrix Pinguicula and I uhh...start to furiously jerk off....
I TOLD YOU TO STOP BRINGING THAT DARN TRAP TRUCK DECK TO LOCALS
that's a girl
Someone stop me from buying this.
Don't fall for the cardboard crack anon, I almost relapsed just because this thread made me look up the latest sets in Japan, be strong with me, say no to drugs.
Is that guaranteed?
I'm pretty sure you'd make the same face.
The newer Charizard just dropped!
I kinda want this but also don't want to buy a 36-pack
Damn, glad to see my homie Plus-Alpha finally getting his OC canonized!
It may be charizard but that some damn cool art
I was playing TCGO yesterday with this deck, holy shit you get a 220+ attack basically for free.
Just when I wondered what the nips were thinking with these text-design combos it is of course the localizers, again.
Imagine being a Charizard collector
You must be broke to buy all the cards
it can't be done, not only for all the wanking that Charizard gets, its cards are literally the most expensive because normalgays love "MUH DRAGON"
Quick search says there's been almost 100 different Charizard printings over the years
So I hadn't bought Pokemon cards in over 17 years, and wanted to smell the cards, I bought one pack and then this was looking at me. I was like "lol wonder if this is any good or rare". Googled it and got a case for it. Now I want to buy more cards.... Am I even gonna play it ever...?
put the codes at the back of the boosters on TCG live and you will
Do the codes I get include the cards I pulled or how does it work?
Sometimes, but most of the times is random pulls
Are booster packs israeli or are you guaranteed rares/holos?
i think in a booster you're guaranteed a shiny kind of card, but it could be as lame as just a shiny potion or shiny mareep or some shit. however, i splurged last this month on about 12 boosters and i actually got a fair amount of good shiny cards and shiny full art.
i wouldn't recommend anyone ever buy goddamn trading cards, but it seems pokemon at least makes it pretty fair. in one booster i got a shiny EX, and two shiny full art cards.
So that's why folks are buying those entire booster boxes.
Apparently they now put two reverse holos per pack and the guaranteed rare is always holo now too, but the price of a pack is higher now too. Also obviously ultra rares and above are not guaranteed, so don't expect a card like that anon got in every pack. Rule of thumb is to always buy single cards, so that way you know what you're getting.
I bought this. Outside of the promos this was the only holo I got in 17packs (I actually got an extra one). I normally get decent luck though so not too bothered.
>Discard cards from your deck until only 1 remains
>Steelix card
>dex entry discusses Onix
Oh God make it stop make these products stop
What is this?
Latest cash-in on the Kanto nostalgia.
Looks more soulful than Paldea Evolved and Obsidian Flames.
I bet that thing will come with Kanto gym leader/E4 full art.
If they don't make change from the Japanese set then I believe there's only Giovani and Erika.
My bad, there's also Bill and Daisy.
I just ordered Obsidian Flames EB from Amazon (it was $40 relatively cheap), I skipped Paldea Evolved but I would die to have some of the special Miraidon cards.
pic related gets me hard
Are Elite Trainer Boxes more economical than buying those 36-pack booster display boxes?
I buy the Elite Boxes for the freebies, since I haven't bought one since like SnS I decided to go for it, but the 36-pack booster is a better investment card wise speaking.
What freebies?
things like coins, dices, and status counters (I think some EB bring mats)
>Basic
>Free double tutor
>220 damage
This game is fricked
Son, do you think that's fricked? just look at this
and this
miraidon is a smalltime.
Tera Zard is only that good because it hits Garde & Mew for weakness and has a comeback mechanic. Stage 2 EXs aren't anywhere near as fricked as Tag Teams or the best VMAX/VSTAR mons.
It also accelerates the energy to himself. It is a very good card.
Very much so, but EX is a good way to bring two-prizers down to size. Now we just let Mew & Arceus rotate out.
And battle vip pass.
And unlike Miraidon that 180 attack can be spammed.
Checkmate
You're a grown ass man. Read the fricking card text.
Many of them were drawn by the Ken Sugimori himself.
https://www.serebii.net/card/dex/artist/kensugimori.shtml
I don't think the Sugimori drawings floating in the middle of a nondescript background are what he was refering to when he said great, I like the guy but most of his cards suck.
I disagree. Having said that, the best looking cards are the modelling clay ones.
The yuka morii cards were always my favourite
https://pkmncards.com/artist/yuka-morii/
>This cute bugger is the meta's best anti-Mew tech card
ENTER
gotta love opening it against anything else though
Really makes the lack of sideboard hurt, but 60-card decks plus sideboard plus prizing sounds like a recipe for big salt.
If there were sideboards in pokemon you could just board into a completely different deck
I love how pokemon cards can have wildly varying art and yet it all fits perfectly.
Other TCGs are often far too busy or inconsistent in their frames and regularly get confusing because of it. Sure there are some slipups in the PTCG but the level of consistency is much higher while having everything from traditional to digital to CGI renders and clay modelling like these cards.
Love these claybois so much
I'm pretty sure most Sugimori cards aren't him, just gets credited for the artwork.
That sounds moronic, I meant he draws the Pokémon, someone just puts it on the background and credits him.
>thinkin of beedrill
Why are you evolving?
Thinken of Beedrill
What does the level do in pokemon cards?
Like the fat Pikachu in OP is lvl 12, what does that mean?
I can figure out rest of the stuff on the cards but that one eludes me.
Nothing, it's just flavour text and differntiates the cards slightly. The TCG GB game would refer to the levels so you could tell the difference without having to check.
It's just to differentiate the cards by name, lvl 12 Pikachu will be different from level 14 Pikachu (different HP, different moves, different art, probably comes from a different set, etc.)
YOU CAN'T JUST DRAW 7 CARDS THIS ISN'T FAIR
I'm killing this game this game is for babies I'm watching YouTube on the side not even concentrating this game for little kids bro
>Meta deck takes no skill
whoa!
>Lake stadium
>Just a hole on the ground with no water.
The programmers could have even tried.
The stadium doesnt change the background, the pokemon active doea. In that case its the Tusk
>Has a better deck
>winning
Woah
>attaching energies to cram
Lol
>attaching energies to cram
>Lol
Its a jet energy. It was probably used to jump cramorant from the bench to active and also it gives them a retreat option later.
It looks like you are actually in a losing position. Of they bosses order you you are up a creek
>Remember seeing my pokemon card binder some 10 years ago
>Must be worth a lot now
>Search everywhere, cant find it
>Ask my dad, tells me "Those old things, i gave them away""
>I blow up in distress
>Tells me "I was just teasing you""
>Somehow feel, like thats what actually happened and he just said that to smooth things over
frick
I had a first edition Charizard as a kid and some kid beat me up and took it.
I had near the complete 150. Even had a mew card or two that you could only get by being in the official pokemon leauge and winning matches in tournaments.
Long story short, my friend stole the binder in middle school. Another based friend, cant even remember who it was, told me he did it. Managed to get it back, but he kept some of the better ones for himself like the mews. Reported it to the principal and he told me i was lucky to get back what i did.
Some years later after college, i gave his GF a foot massage and she let me eat her pussy on two occassions. So i guess it evened out in the end somewhat. Karma i guess
>i gave his GF a foot massage and she let me eat her pussy
It's the same ballpark.
>i gave his GF a foot massage and she let me eat her pussy on two occassions
THE GIRLFRIEND STOLE THE BINDER TOO
Yeah you won bro, didn't even get to frick her, just ate the hole he was dunking his wiener and balls into. Owned bro. When you were tonguing his dead spermatozoa off the walls of her pussy did you think "yeah, take that for stealing my Pokemon cards"
So you ate his cum from his GF's pussy and consider that a win?
>staying friends with someone who stole thousands of dollars from you
>eating out but not fricking his girlfriend
>he probably blasted her earlier that day and needed it cleaned which is why she let you eat her out
>best case scenario you got her worked up so she went and fricked the hell out of him
>thinking this makes you even
I think this is some bizarre form of cuckoldry. At least humiliation fetishistic bullshit
>she let me eat her pussy
anon his wiener was in there
Some homosexual kid offered to suck my dick so I beat him up and took his pokemon cards
*kicks down your door*
*slaps your ass*
*bangs your girlfriend*
*eats the last piece of leftover pizza you had in your fridge without asking you if you wanted it*
What the frick do you do?
Ask him to slap my ass again, harder.
I jab
Machop, use Low Kick!!!
kinda dumb know that i think about. Huge defined arms, but stubby feet and they make him kick?
that's why it only deals 20
literally nobody remembers this game even though it was pretty good
Figuratively everyone remembers it.
alright I lied, many people remember it
It got released recently on the Nintendo online service, many people just replayed it.
I can't think of one single person that does not remember this game.
literally nobody knows that game has a sequel
I knew that, it isn’t as unknown as you like to think. Obscurity is not interesting.
Man, the Team Rocket wonky card art looked fun IRL but it didn't transcribe well in game, for shame.
Same reason I didn't like it much.
And the sequel has some of the best vidya music of the era
this game was great, playing the og feels incomplete after this one since rocket has some cool cards
Is there an English version of this anywhere or am I stuck forever wanting what I cannot have?
It got a fan translation a ways back.
Thanks, I'll try to find it. Man do I miss being a kid.
For me it's
4x Hitmonchan
4x Scyther
4x Electabuzz
4x Pluspower
4x Bill
4x Professor Oak
4x Energy Removal
4x Super Energy Removal
3x Energy Retrieval
3x Computer Search
1x Itemfinder
1x Scoop Up
8x Fightan Energy
8x Electric Energy
4x Double Colorless Energy
old trainers were so fricking nuts
because you could use more than one per turn, generally speaking modern trainers are far more busted that older ones.
Wait... People actually play the pokemon cards? it's not just degenerate youtuber collectors?
Normies love Pokemon. People sit in huge convention centers and play rounds and rounds of it while commentators in their 40s speak really professionally about a Gardevior.
The game was kind of a mess at first but there's been plenty of metas where it was in a good place. Once shit like Arceus V-Star (dude 2-card splashable search engine that can double as a solid attacker or even a way to spread energy to V Pokemon lmao) rotate out I think the current meta will be pretty healthy.
It's mostly just people """"""""investing""""""""" in the cards but yeah there are people that play the actual game
I just realised that those Youtube people don't even care about the Pokemon TCG, they just ride the brand name and open products.
Of course not, they were just told you can make money by selling and/or scalping them
>got a holographic Haunter in my first pack
>thought it was a misprint from the factory
>was convinced by an older kid that it was worthless and gave it to him for free
Pokémon and RuneScape both taught me people will lie, cheat and steal.
same...I got 'hacked' in runescape as a kid because I fell for one of those "enter your password to get 1m gold" sites
Fat
video games?
Frick video games.
>Baldur's Gay 3
>Front Mission VI
>Barry still making FFXVI threads
dead
don't even remind me, I lost so much and the new avatars managed to be even worse than those placeholders.
>new avatars
Is there any reason they refuse to make a good Pokemon TCG game? They keep being hideous and poorly put together.
>Is there any reason they refuse to make a good Pokemon TCG game?
Ill raise you one and ask:
Is there any reason they refuse to make a good Pokemon game?
They dont give a shit anymore. The cheapest thing prints money from them just because they have pikachu
It was mostly hypothetical, but yes.
We'll never get a fully fledged RPG like the Gameboy games ever again because of this shit.
Imagine if it was like Yu-Gi-Oh and we got new games every year or so. Would be like little time capsules of each TCG era.
>Would be like little time capsules of each TCG era
Those days are gone. You can thank Hearthstone and Shadowverse for that.
>Imagine if it was like Yu-Gi-Oh and we got new games every year or so
lmao
Also for some reason peak YGO videogames are the ones that don't follow the actual card game
I tried the "online" one, the artwork and general design of the client looked like it was done by 9 years for 9 year olds (yes I know it's pokemon). But I just couldn't play it
Is the "live" one any better?
>Is the "live" one any better?
hahahaha
no. Its glitched as frick, UI is bad... horrible client.
and yet is wuite literally the only way that alot of us have to play the fricking TCG.
ffs, TPCi ain't gonna miss a fricking paypig if they give us a new TCG game on console.
For all the shit I give yugioh as a game, Master Duel client is incredibly good and it is always improving. TCG Live is fricking crap like, SUPER crap.
A shame there are no other ways to play poke tcg online. I've read there were some guys making an unofficial client but those news died quick so no idea if it's being worked on or dropped.
to this day I don't understand why in the name of the frick there isn't an Showdown equivalent for TCG.
TCG is not as popular as the actual VG battles. A shame though. Even if simple in its mechanics, the pokeTCG is really fun to play.
yeah, TCG is not poorgay friendly so it really never had a chance of taking off, unlike the VG where the only you needed was the cart and your console to get started.
I just got into the TCG once I was an adult with a job that let me buy stuff, is a damn shame.
PTCG is the most poorgay friendly of major TCGs by far. You can get a playable Standard deck for under $50 and even have a choice of which you want for the most part. Move the cutoff to $100 and you can basically play anything as long as you don't get full arts.
ohh, I know that but even then, the entry barrier is too high for broke ass kids or poorgays.
It'd probably cut into physical sales too much for them to allow it, especially if it was completely free like Showdown. There's definitely a digital-only playerbase out there who'd spend money on it but it's a very fine line between a client that's utter dogshit and no one uses or one that's so good it edges out physical sales which are way more profitable.
I think the opposite. If Yu-Gi-Oh games cut into their TCG's sales then they would have stopped making them twenty years ago. A decent console game could attract people who've never played the game before.
>Playing a card game integrated into a full story and adventure mode parallel to the anime/manga
vs
>Sitting in a shit card shot under fluorescent lights on a fold out table playing against a fat man
If someone's unwilling to do the latter then they wouldn't buy any cards to begin with.
Konami execs more or less told that MD eclipse OGC in players, help that automated nature make game far more easier to follow for both sides and weed out cheating.
I keep this shit installed on my PC and like once every few months will get drunk and open it up and try to 100% all the trainer challenges.
you can't anymore bruh, it has been dead for like a year.
>vacation in greece with my kid brother
>buy him a pokemon booster because what the frick
>costs like €2 and has like 30 rare and foil and cool pokemon
thank you based greek counterfeiters
Malaka, 2 euro is one gyro. You spent it on Bulbasaur.
I can spend it on bulbasaur because I am a bulgeasaur (the bulge being my fat wallet)
Why is this card worth 300,000 dollars in US dollars?
for the same reason they shill Charizard for like the 10000th time, nostalgia.
You play Pokémon card game, huh?
Well, explain the rules then.
iirc you have to knock out opponents pokemon until you collect 6 prize cards.
It's been a while but
>Draw 7 cards
>Put 1 basic Pokemon as your active Pokemon face down, up to 5 on the bench, then 6 face down prize cards
>Flip a coin to see who goes first, flip Pokemon face up
>Each turn you can attach 1 energy card, use trainer cards (only 1 supporter a turn), use abilities and retreat (if you have enough energy)
>You can't attack on the first turn if you go first, also can't evolve the turn you put a Pokemon in play
>If it's not your first turn you can attack if you have enough energy
>If you knock out an opponent's Pokemon take one of your prizes (some let you take 2 or 3)
>You win if you take all 6 or if your opponent has no Pokemon left
I miss anything?
>Start with 8000 Life points
>Place 5 shields face down
>Put one Basic Pokemon face down, then yell, "Stand up, Pokemon!" and flip it
>Draw 3 cards and mulligan
>play 1 energy and tap it
>summon 1 pokemon, move 1 core onto it
>Win by getting all 7 Pokeballs
Easy.
you just kinda lay down cards with cute animals on them until someone walks by with a disgusted expression, then you pick everything up and leave out of shame
>until someone walks by with a disgusted expression
This is why I won't play card games in public until Konami does real holograms.
Then the school bullies won't tease me when they see Beaver Warrior if he real.
Been a long while since I last played, but here's what I remember:
0. Make sure both you and your opponent each have a deck of exactly 60 cards, in which no single card is found more than 4 times except for basic Energy cards
1. Decide the number of Price Cards each of you will set, between 1 and 6, to decide the general length of the match.
2. Each player shuffles his opponent's deck
3. Flip a coin to decide who plays first
4. Each player draws 7 cards and has to put at least one of his Basic Pokémon card in play as their Active Pokémon, and can put up to five of their other Basic Pokémon card on their Bench
4.1 If a player draws no Basic Pokémon, he has to show his hand to his opponent, shuffle his hand into his deck and draw 7 new cards until he gets a Basic Pokémon. Each time he shuffles his deck this way, his opponent may choose to draw an additional card.
5. The players set their 1-6 Price Cards face down from the top of their decks. Each time you KO an opponent's Pokémon, you get to draw one of your Price Card.
6. The player who won the coin toss starts their turn. For the first turn of the match, they do not get to draw a card, otherwise from there on, a player MUST draw a card from their deck at the start of each of their turn. If you have no card to draw in your deck at the start of your turn, you forfeit the match and your opponent wins.
7. Turns are devised in three phases:
I - Draw a card
II - Play cards from your hand as long as you're allowed to do so (you can only attach one Energy card to any of your Pokémon in play per turn, you can only play one Supporter card per turn, you cannot evolve a Basic or Stage 1 Pokémon the same turn you've put them in play, etc.). In this phase, you can also do actions like use Pokémon Powers, switch your Active Pokémon by paying its retreat cost
III - If your Active Pokémon has enough Energy cards attached to it, choose one of your Active Pokémon's Attack to attack your opponent, ending your turn
8. You win the match once you draw your last Price Card, your opponent has no Pokémon on his Bench to replace a defeated Active Pokémon or your opponent cannot draw a card at the start of his turn.
I wish I had a red cheeks Pikachu card, should’ve bought one back when they were cheaper.
I remember playing the base set and collecting all the theme decks
Is the game still the same?
Should I buy Scarlet and Violet or Paldea Evolved or Obsidian Flames?
>Is the game still the same?
It actually is. Pokemon has the least mechanical evolution of all the major card games.
All that basically changed is that now there are big fat cards called V pokemon.
Do you just want to collect? Just look the sets up on Pokecollector if you don't want to go in blind.
I use the delay effect of Purge of the Royal Knights to play Leopardmon out from Yggdrasil_7D6's sources. Leopardmon uses his effect to reduce the play cost of a royal knight by 4 in addition to the effect of Yggdrasil_7D6 which is currently reducing play cost by 10 to play Omnimon for free. Omnimon plays Gankoomon, Dynasmon, and Jesmon from Yggdrasil's sources, gives all of my Digimon Rush for the turn and trashing Yggdrasil. Dynasmon reveals the top 4 cards of the deck, adding 1 Magnamon and 1 Gallantmon, then Dynasmon's other effect triggers and deletes all level 4 and lower on my opponent's board. Gankoomon plays a Sistermon Ciel from trash, who reveals the top 3 and adds another Omnimon to hand. Jesmon deletes my opponent's Digimon with a total combined DP of 16000 or less, and Leopardmon gives all of my Royal Knights blocker until the end of the next turn. Due to Jesmon's other effect, all of my Digimon gain +5000 DP, and Ciel gives all of my Royal Knights reboot.
Attack 6 times with rush. If I somehow didn't win already, evolve Gankoomon into Omnimon, delete another Digimon, then everything reboots on my opponent's unsuspend phase.
Shh, don't tell people Digimon is the better game.
Nobody will care until it has an online client, and even then the MtG/YGO/Pokemon Big 3 won't be broken by Digimon of all things, and neither will One Piece or Lorcana even if they get clients.
>Lorcana
Aren't those packs $15 a piece? lmao
And personally I don't care if any of the big 3 get supplanted, as long as I can keep having comfy 8-24 man locals, I'm happy.
IIRC Lorcana is still technically pre-release explaining all the high prices but it's still insane and I don't expect the Disney TCG to be the cheap one.
>saw that a deck built around Stitch & Dr. Facilier was meta, which is cool because Stitch & Facilier are great characters
>Look up price
>Nearly $300
Does Pokemon even have an equivilant of Arena/YGOs one?
It has that random website one that sucked ass last I checked
They just launched a new one called PTCG Live that replaced the one that they had going for fricking 11 years, and it's mostly a sidegrade outside of visuals that look less like an edutainment game from the early 00s.
Combo chud moment
I kinda want to play again, but my friends don't want to and I don't want to be the weird nearly 30 year old guy who has to play against kids at the LCS.
Don't wory, kids can't pay for pokemon cards these days.
>thinking of buying something
>Eh I'll get it tomorrow
>walk out the store
>watch a dad and his kid walk in
You'd just be babysitting wouldn't you?
>You can't do anything! My Mewtwo is invincible!
>Heh...
>W-What's so funny!?
>I knew you'd play Mewtwo. Your pride couldn't let you not play it
>S-Say what?
>But in your arrogance, you failed to realize a valuable element: That Mewtwo is knee deep in water!
>S-So what? My Mewtwo can withstand whatever you throw at it! A little water won't hurt!
>That's where you're wrong Anon. I summon Fat Pikachu!
>Fat Pikachu? It only has 30 attack, what good will that do?
>Go Fat Pikachu! Lighting Strike!
>Uwaaaa! No! Mewtwo!
>That's right. Water powers up electricity by 10,000, so he's new attack is...
>10,030!!!
>No way!
>Pikachu! Dark Electric Attack!
>Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
high quality
FACT
black weebs are the funniest homies to play with
Was playing the Pokemon TCG GameBoy game on the Switch just yesterday. Frick it was fun. Almost wanted to play current TCG but then I remembered it's full of over the top stupid mechanics just like YuGiOh ended up doing. At least Magic stayed pretty even for its run with how it did new types of abilities and the block/standard set rules. Even if that was just a ploy to sell more cards.
I'll put out my dragonair, even though it has 60 damage on it
oh boy, and now it has three energy on it...
SLAM ATTACK
>Two tails in your path
I evolve my Jigglypuff, add a double energy to the energy I played last turn, then fill up my bench with Clefairy Dolls and first stage evolutions.
Do The Wave, knock out Pikachu, take my first prize. Your turn.
You took a prize, but what did you really win...
>what did you really win
I get to finish the match faster and go play a better TCG, that's what I win.
tcg ruined with all the vmax crap
3-prizers were a mistake but Tag Teams were worse than VMax and VMax is finally starting to leave, only Mew is really that relevant anymore since VStar and EX are more common.
Wait. 3 prizers? I got behind in the 2 pricers, what cards are 3 pricers?
GX Tag Teams (cards that had multiple Pokemon on them) were Sun Moon era and the best ones were fricking ridiculous. They were all Basics and each had a GX Move that was once per game but busted to frick if pulled off. VMax are the Gigantamax equivalent where you "evolve" them over a Pokemon V which are 2-prize Basics, and VMax are just big numbers in exchange for being 3-prize, but the best ones are very strong. VStar was the walk back to a 2-prize V evolution that have V Star Powers which are once per game, and now in SV era there's EXs which are further powered down since the Basics aren't that powerful and EX evolution Pokemon still need to evolve into that state.
Pic related is the peak of power creep in Pokemon. Nothing will ever be this bad ever again. Also, Standard does not have a banlist and never has so this shit was legal until it rotated.
>that fricking GX ability
what the frick were they thinking? I wish mainline treated Arceus this way, powercreeped until the end of time.
Pokemon is just a never ending
>What the frick were they thinking
Why are stage 2 pokemon reprinted as basic? Why not just make a Pokemon Breeder type of effect but better? This direction is just fricking lazy.
It's a promo. That's why.
>no weaknesses
SHEER HEART ATTACK
I love hits homie but he isnt as good to use with current meta
>Weakness: fairy
Why they removed fairy type from the game?
This fricking card made me quit for a while frick ADP. Single handedly ruined single prize decks.
And now we have United Memes. Things are better.
VMAX pokemon
I played through tag teams till ADP and started playing like a month ago. The VMAX cards still in rotation all feel fair. I am kinda surprised they managed to actually rein in power creep as much as they did
>freezing winds you
BRAAAAAAAAAP
That's a fricking basic pokemon? Jesus.
>TFW still have my classic YGO deck I played with in high school with my friends back in 2007-2011
>Almost 31 now
I just couldn't bare to get rid of it. I doubt it's worth much money, I'd be lucky to get $50 for it. The classic format of YGO was always so much fun to me, if I ever went to a convention or something and people had classic decks/formats I'd love to play again. I guess you can play classic format on Master Duel, right?
It's not really as fun playing online as it is in person at a table.
I have NEVER in my life met people who played the Pokemon TCG, at least not since I was 10-11. I saw more YGO and Magic players in high school/college, but NOBODY played Pokemon TCG. It must not be as popular as people think, or at least not in my state/area.
We had a ton of Magic players though.
I never knew how to play the actual pokemon game me and my friends would just throw out monsters and do attacks.
I prefer thiccachu.
Power Plant, Expedition Map, pass.
The frick are diamonds
Colorless mana. They have their own symbol now because some cards require colorless mana, rather than just having generic costs.
Ah. I see
>some cards
aka only cards released in the one block that arguably kicked off the downfall of modern-era (and also the modern format) magic
BfZ was a horrible set and changing the clean numbers of colorless mana before, into moronic anus mana symbols is just the tip of the iceberg
why do you instantly think of anuses you gay
You need to put an energy on it first, also there is no response since you attacked your turn is over.
>1' 4''
>13 lbs
is that a oneshot or a full doujin?
Oneshot to my understanding
frick why do the best concepts are always oneshots
because to live is to suffer
sauce?
https://e621.net/posts/3147155
That panel is a one shot (My understanding is he likes doing in medias res pages so he can try out framing and composition without having to make a full comic) but he has a long comic about a Nidoqueen that's absolutely wonderful and still ongoing.
Considering the Ashnime's ending this might as well be canon.
I just want Cynthia and Lusamine cards
She hot
she very hot
Caitlin ruins the card
millions of shotas raped in undella town
You have a lot of options
ummm i use chien pao shivery chill then switch cart to chien pao shivery chill and
then I KO your baxcalibur and you enjoy those energies in your hand
>Chien-Pao
>those front teeth
Japs don't frick around
>those front teeth
Ackchually, those are its real body.
>220hp
>basic
what the frick happened to pokemon TCG?
The Pokemon TCG is primarily designed for kids in japan that just fricking love playing shiny cards with big numbers on them
220 isn't even that big for the game right now lol. Stuff goes into the 300s
How do you keep track of damage when a single mon's HP can eat a full set of counters without fainting?
dice
Dice or damage markers.
Pen and paper. This next bit is going to frick you up though. PTCG is based around one shotting. It barely matter lmao
They made damage counter dice that represent large amounts of damage counters
>180 damage counters
>mfw pokemon can have 1800 HP
Bigger it can go I think would be a Machamp with 400HP after some ability plus tool bullshit.
Right. There's this guy that has the comeback mechanic HP, and they're printing Gorgeous Mantle soon which gives a Single Prizer +100HP but makes it 2-Prize.
Is that giant, ugly LOST ORIGIN logo on the actual card?
That's one of the versions of the card. This other doesn't have it.
Is this Pokemon card rare? I may have one
No.
guhnaw
lol no
I do wonder if a card like this could work in PTCG
>You can activate this card from your hand on your opponent's turn.
>When your opponent plays a Pokemon or a Supporter card from their hand, you can activate this card and prevent that card from being placed onto the field. Send that card to the Discard Pile. Your opponent draws half of their remaining Prize Cards (rounded down).
It probably work more as a pokemon ability or a post attack effect.
There are already some effects that cuck the player from using item cards or similar. Its not the same, but surprise interruptions aren't really fitting of the game.
I only buy cards with classic frames, Pokémon and MTG both.
Good taste. The chiseled look of classic MtG frames is so much better it's ridiculous. Same for Pokemon with the more muted background colors and less flashy shit.
any other moron here collect trading cards as a kid, and not play the games but just thought the art was cool, and wanted the feeling of getting a rare card?
My friends and I never learned how to play yugioh correctly, and just assuemd screaming that you would fuse the cards would just basically combine both monsters effects/stats into 1.
>still being a paypig for a TCG
>not moving on to proxying superior LCG's
>got into collecting a few months ago
>carefully curated my binder with neat looking artwork cards like yarn/clay mons and splurged on some rarer ones like ancient new
>filled out as much as I wanted
>nobody to show it to so all I can do is flip through for the millionth time
I don’t know why I expected anything different
you can share it with us anon
Eevee was robbed as it's mascot place
i place 1 card face down in attack mod and activate swords of reveling light. youre move PokeFricker
lost vacuum
JADGE, HE'S PLAYING WITH YUGIOH CARDS IN A POKÉMON TOURNAMENT
Is there a way to legit check older Pokemon cards?
The new ones are pretty easy but I dunno about old ones, especially those from Base Set to like the Diamond/Pearl era.
Call it.
>Lillie card is the most expensive full art
Fricking hell
Was always weird to me how some of the original cards just had terrible CGI instead of hand drawn artwork like all the others.
Its also weird to me now looking back on collecting this shit when i was a teenager and how I was obsess over things like a card being a 1st edition, or an original series, or fossil series or whatever the frick came later. I couldnt give less of a frick about any of it now. Ive still got all my cards, and the only thing I really like is the holo cards because they look cool and shiny.
>also have several of those stupid holographic mews from the 1st pokemon movie
>some of the original cards just had terrible CGI
That's still a thing unfortunately, that and regular trainer art just recycling their basic standing portrait.
They weren't great, but at the same time I don't mind the old 3D renders because it felt like the artists were playing around more (since it was pretty early in the CGI game) and since they didn't make up half the fricking set like they do now. 5ban and PLANETA need to frick off already. Their slop is half the reason I don't buy new cards.
So I haven’t played the card game. What do you if you have some move that negates all damage next turn or can’t be hurt on the bench, but they have some move that says “ignore abilities and resistance”
For me it's Hideki Ishikawa.
the sad part about pokemon is that it is as fast as yugioh with little to no disruption. i still need to fully get into it one day.
>response?
Reciting this in full.
I'm really liking these illustration rares from newer sets.
I love they nuked rainbow cards and added full art instead
i will now buy your cards
Some of these look amazing
The CG model full arts and ESPECIALLY the rainbows blow. Glad they've slowly realized that full arts are all people want to see
>there's no way to play the old formats besides the Gameboy games.
Is pokemon card game even fun to play? I'm not being negative or assuming it is, just actually asking. I've mostly just played a bit of magic like 10 years ago, and some random online card games like shadowverse and elder scrolls legends and shit
Try the gameboy games.
i was thinking more modern
dont mind that aspect. i would play casually with my casual cousins, can you in this situation pick a pokemon you like (lets say a Muk EX) and build it around that or is the game kind of limited on "I want to make my deck around this Pokemon"? I know in tournies that would get you btfo but just curious how flexible the game is for that kind of casual deck building
There's a good amount of design space where you can totally build a cohesive deck around a Pokemon you like, as long as some aspect of it can be built around. A pack filler vanilla attacker won't really get you anywhere as your centerpiece, but there's a lot of options outside of the dozen or so best-performing builds in tournament. What are some of your favorites?
It's a fun game and not hard/expensive to get into, it's very draw/search heavy though so don't be shocked.
man I got a box full of these old cards of the base sets and I'm struggling financially
I wonder how much it's all worth but it's just a pain to price check every single card
I started buying some old ones again to scratch that old itch. Gave away my old ones years ago, unfortunately, but at least I kept my DBZ ones.
The art of the cards is beautiful. Wish I wasnt poor to just buy those cards and collect them.
you just know
know what?
Any Pokémon cards banned from competitive play?
From standard, no, and there's never been a banlist, just rotation. Expanded (Black/White base forward is all legal) has a banlist though.
Not really. They rotate constantly
>mfw missed out on the kino Pokemon tcg thread
Thoughts on my display, Ganker?
Love the johto legends posters
Good shit anoncito
>bent shelves
nice Walmart furniture, homosexual
That's some cute art work I must say.
Wouldn't mind having a poster of it.
thoughts?
My thoughts are that they really never got the Shiny mechanic right until Radiants and even then there's only like four playable ones with Greninja & Charizard being easily the best. Radiant Charjabug has to be a joke, it sucks so bad.
Radiant greninja is too OP
Radiant charizard hits the right point imo same as Alakazam and Jirachi.
Then you have Venusaur that isnt bad but not that useful. Or Tsareena that works on some decks.
I like it as a mechanic.
PikaMew?
IT'S UP Again
This is not Yugioh you can't respond to shit.
I will never forgive Logan Paul and other zoomerhomosexuals for memeing the pokemon collection shit. You used to be able to buy a base set booster box for 300 dollars before those buttholes moved in. I just want some of the older cards I was never able to get but now I can't see one without the price reaching triple digits.
Buy singles, bro. That's what you should be doing at all times if you're looking for specific cards.
I was arguing with some moron from /vp/ who was poo-pooing my binder for buying damaged cards and not buy $300 each for PSA 10 slabs
What was the best wra for the game itself?
Everyone says 2003 and then 2008. Don't know why.
Gen 7 before
got printed is often cited as a good meta though. Then it became dogshit instantly until Tag Teams all rotated out, and now it's better, but it'll be even better when all the V mechanics rotate too, even though VMax isn't as busted as Tag Team and VStar is good with the exception of Arceus being the best consistency engine for nearly every deck in the entire meta.
>but it'll be even better when all the V mechanics rotate too
Then it'll just be something else. Now it's ex pokemon.
EX is one of the most fair 2-prize mechanics. Still need to evolve, Basic EXs are balanced weaker, Tera EXs are just immune to bench damage and sometimes change type, no "Once Per Game" effects that are either nowhere near good enough to play for or busted to shit with little room in between. They'd need to print an individual fricked up EX card since where it is now is totally fine. Even Gardevoir EX, Tera-Dark Charizard EX, and the upcoming Mew EX aren't going to kill the metagame. Radiants were a good mechanic too, same with pseudo-arcehtypes in Single/Rapid/Fusion Strike and the upcoming Ancient/Future tags for Paradox mons.
Rare Candy invalidates it.
>try to find pokemon cards at the walmart/supermarket
>they're hidden behind a national vault
People must steal that shit like pennies from a fountain.
Neckbeard scalpers were literally beating each other up over Pokemon cards after that Logan Paul shit during Covid. Guess they still are?
>Neckbeard scalpers were literally beating each other up over Pokemon cards
You gotta show the YouTUbe video