I’m not going to be silent for any longer.
@playpokemon
has gotten away with this for too long.
North American International Championships… is in OHIO??? You have nearly 10 million miles to choose from for the big event… and I have to pack my bags FOR OHIO???
Area Zero Underdepths
Players with a Tera Pokémon in play may have up to 8 Benched Pokémon.
(If this card gets discarded, or if a player has no Tera Pokémon in play anymore, they discard Benched Pokémon until they have 5. If both players discard, this card's owner chooses first)
16th/1367 at Knox, my highest placement ever 🥶🥶 Extremely grateful to everyone for the support this weekend, this is only the beginning, top 8 is inevitable
+50 CP (BFL), 622/600 got the invite!! See you in Hawaii! 😎🏖️🏄
Not everyone has the privilege to travel. Removing the local series is dumb because it removes the ability to get a worlds invite from everyone who can’t afford to travel. This is a very insensitive take to have and would be harmful to the wellbeing of the game if implemented.
I’m taking down until further notice. I cannot keep up with site breaks, maintenance, and online response to vulnerabilities while remaining an active competitor.
Thanks to everyone who’s been supporting the site until now. Hopefully we’ll be back.
23rd/1897 at the largest western tournament with Chien-Pao ❄️🐆 Best tournament run I’ve had yet!! Shoutout to all of the Chien-Pao believers and
@aschemanske
for the insane amount of help with the list
Salvatore (Supporter)
Search your deck for a card that doesn't have an Ability and that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon in play, and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then shuffle your deck. You can use this card on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn or during setup.
Pokemon TCG Tip of the Day: Take your losses. If you try to tech for everything, you'll end up beating nothing. Build your deck around your game plan and only include tech cards that significantly boost matchup percentages without decreasing overall consistency.
FYI for those in the states: worlds starts TOMORROW, Thursday August 10. For each time zone:
Pacific: 5PM
Central: 7PM
Eastern: 8PM
Finals is on Saturday August 12, starting with Juniors:
Pacific: 6PM
Central: 8PM
Eastern: 9PM
3-3 drop with CPAO 🥶 Making it until round 6 with my favorite deck at the world championships is the coolest thing in the world, and I’m so unbelievably grateful for this little ice cat. List felt insanely broken, unfortunately TOM hates me and gave me 2 snorlaxes 🤢
I’ve been playing the game since 2015 and never gotten my worlds invite until this year. Last season, I ended with 220 championship points, this time it’s 33rd in North America. And of course, all thanks to a special ice cat 🥶
Here's what probably happened with the NAIC thing:
- Pokemon saw a problem: RK9 reg. RK9 registration from last year NAIC was very not great. However, RK9 has since then made enormous strides and fixed basically every issue anyone has ever complained about, but I guess this
“Oh it’s my turn, yippee. I will play the card, Ciphermaniac’s Codebreaking, searching my deck for two cards and placing them on top. But before I place the cards, would you like to shuffle the remainder of my deck?”
It's actually insane how Pokémon can and continues to get away with this. First, forcing people to use an unfinished, garbage client. Now, people who drop thousands on flights are fucked. This is completely unacceptable and we must hold this billion dollar enterprise accountable.
Regretfully, the decision has been made to cancel the Yokohama Open. Please look forward to participating in fun side events and activities throughout Worlds weekend.
Very excited to never play in a regional championships where Battle VIP Pass is legal ever again. Goodbye Battle Pass, you will not be missed. Yes I will be playing 4 of them tomorrow.
Free 5k word article detailing every single Chien-Pao sequencing tip I have learned in the past year of playing the deck. I'll be posting more articles leading up to worlds so follow the blog for more :)
7-1-1 into day 2 while slamming my head on the keyboard between rounds trying to fix Pokestats. One of my worst days mentally in a long long time. Still got there though CPAO broken
This also marks getting my worlds invite EXCLUSIVELY off of chien pao, 605/600 of these points were from playing Pao 🥶🥶 This was a stretch goal I never actually expected to hit, unreal
Last cup win was in 2018, 6 years ago. Chien-Pao is a cool deck, shoutout to
@Dreamjew
to tell me to Just play chien pao to cups literally last night
+25 CP, 657/600 (I think?)
We tried 🫠 5-3-1 with switcher hands 👐👐 I bricked like a large majority of my openers, am honestly shocked I didn't lose all of my rounds. +0 points, we'll gettem next time 🥶
“Yeah I’ll Amp you very much for 280 kill Lugia gg” “uh, iron hands only does 240..?”
“Um actually, Cobalt Command increases Amp You Very Much’s base power to 140”
Buddy-Buddy Poffin, Neo Upper Energy, and More Illustration Rares Revealed from "Temporal Forces"
Check out this article on PokeBeach for all the details:
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I made an article discussing my experience playing and learning the TCG with ADHD - hope this helps all of the ADHD pals out there, it is a tough journey but it is definitely possible to succeed 😊
Are there any TCG players with ADHD producing consistently good results at regionals/large events?
I'm looking to DM one to ask about their strategies and habits. Thanks!
I respectfully ask that anyone who has any inquiries about pokestats live to not contact me directly for the foreseeable future. I am no longer affiliated with pokestats live. Please give me ample time to process this situation. Thank you for understanding.
This is the most TERRIBLY RUN event registration of all time. For such a massive company
@playpokemon
you should be ashamed of yourselves. Hire adequate developers.
You can now store your PTCG live games on ! There's like a million things I want to add to this like personal game stats, prize map analytics, matchup stats etc... For now you can just have a record of all your games, and I will soon add much more!
There's been a lot of discussion on misreporting on . Moving forward, during the tournament, you will not be able to report only what you are playing until the tournament is over. Most people don't do this anyways, so it will be an extremely minor change.
Drilbur, from SV5!
Ability: Dig Dig Dig
Once during your turn, when you play this card from your hand onto your Bench, you may search your deck for up to 3 Basic Fighting Energy cards and discard them. Then shuffle your deck.
FC - Sand Spray 20
Hey just wanted to share I got accepted on metafy! If you're looking to level up with Chien-Pao (or other decks, I guess), make sure to book a session! Accomplishments include T32 NAIC, 128 LAIC, 64s at regionals. Thank you for reading!
I remade the event locator from pokedata on ! Put in an address close to home and it’ll search cups + challenges in a 250 mile radius. Clicking on the event brings you to the event page!
The new is now LIVE!! The entire backend is now run by me - there is 0 dependency on now. You should notice cleaner UI, cooler visualizations, and snappier page loads across the entire site 😄
3-1 at Expanded locals with Checkmate. Deck is still broken
R1 Zard W
R2 Lugia W
R3 Lugia W
R4 Mew L I refused the ID with
@Ely_gPTCG
and got bodied whoops
Beyond grateful for getting the opportunity to compete at the world championships 😊 Even though we didn’t make super huge placements this season, I never thought I’d grow this fast as a player in one year, let alone get to compete among the worlds best players.
I'd like to share with you why this is a big deal from my perspective. Growing up Jewish in a predominantly not-Jewish world, I've always been told about the Holocaust. That's a horrifying thing to learn about as a child, but it's part of being Jewish in the modern world.
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81st/1263 at LAIC - List was a lot of fun and people were great, heat exhaustion and getting bodied on stream were not fun though - did the best I could though considering. First paradox major was a ton of fun because nobody really knew what they were doing
+100 CP - 448/600
Last cup win was in 2018, 6 years ago. Chien-Pao is a cool deck, shoutout to
@Dreamjew
to tell me to Just play chien pao to cups literally last night
+25 CP, 657/600 (I think?)
@dantdm
Hiya! I’m the developer of , a tournament analytics tool used by thousands of players in the TCG! Like
@jakekgearhart
said we put a lot of thought into it, it’s definitely possible😉
Why I cut Manaphy in Chien-Pao: Manaphy’s use in the archetype is to prevent both Frigibaxes from dying before you can get out a Baxcalibur. Notably, there’s only one turn where this is relevant, and it’s turn 2 if your opponent goes first. No other time will Greninja happen 1/
A reminder to please not intentionally misreport decks on . I will be taking action to disable report ability from those who intentionally are messing with the site. This only applies to a very select few, just want to make this very clear
Sorry if I seem a little off or don't respond to a message you send, been going through a lot in my personal life and am in the process of relocating between states. Since I don't have a permanent place my setup is dismantled too so sorry for no YT videos as well