Recent content by Connor Ritter

Japanese cards don't do the alt art 'A'. If you look, Mysterious Treasure is marked with a 'B' from last year's block making it an alt art for the international release.

These are some cute art. They're no scream series but I still want a set.

@Otaku you bring up a good point with Kabutops and Omastar being released intentionally to necessitate the banning of Maxie's Hidden Ball Trick. Either or both of these Pokemon could've been released as water types which would've put Archie's Ace in the Hole on the chopping block, but there are...

But the thing is Ditto Prism Star can evolve directly to Archeops. Putting a hard stop on evolving from hand is too dangerous an effect regardless.

The second combo utilizes Deluge Blastoise, Frozen City, and Energy Reset. Frozen city places damage on board with each water energy attached by deluge and then you return them all to hand with Energy Reset and doing it again until you reach the damage needed. You either win Turn 1/2 or probably...

How long has Maxie's Hidden Ball Trick been banned in Japan's expanded? Is that going to join our ban list too when we get Kabutops and Omastar from Tag Team?

According to the Play! Pokemon Leaderboards, 52 players had 550 or more Championship Points. 550 isn't an easy number to reach and is impossible if you don't place well in at least 1 regional event. Now I've gotta go to more regionals than I expected if I want that invite.

I opened an ETB with the only hit being a Jirachi Prism Star, the worst pull rate of any ETB I've ever gotten. My booster box I got: Mr. Mime SR Stackatacka FA Rayquaza, Electrode, Mr. Mime, Scizor GX Latias, Latios, Jirachi Prism Star So overall it was about 25% hits.

You should try to find a couple spaces for Max Potion. Since you can move water energy from the bench to the active, you can retreat or switch out a damaged Kingdra-GX, move all its energy to a new Kingdra-GX, and heal off all its damage with Max Potion. This will help keep those clunkier Stage...

Between Kiawe, Blacksmith, Max Elixir, and Turtonator GX I stopped running baby Volc.

Yeah exactly you just gotta make sure to run a counter. I was playing a Ho-Oh variant without any non-EX/GX since I could Hex Maniac against Hoopa.

Post Ban you’re gonna need to make sure you have outs to Walls like Scoundrel Ring Hoopa and maybe Pyroar if that see play again. Maybe Salazzle GX will come back or you can play your own Pyroar.

You can’t grab any of those Pokémon it’s basic grass Pokémon only. If it was like dive ball with grass that’d be fantastic.

Unfortunately we don’t have slow formats right now. These cards weren’t creating slower setups either, they were creating lopsided games. It may give the impression that it was slower but that was because your opponent has been deprived of resources letting you comfortably setup at your own pace...

You can still build decks with disruption like red card or item lock like Seismetoad or Trevenant they’re just less one sided in how it works. You can still get ability lock too with Grennja or Garbodor, but the important thing is these are more counterable and balanced. If you’re not a fan of...