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Hey Pokebeach! With the 2018 rotation officially announced, my testing partners and I have begun preparations for the new format, BREAKThrough on. We're losing several key cards, which will vastly change the way decks are constructed in Standard. I'd like to talk about the impact the rotation...

Deck Garage Rules and Guidelines Welcome to the Deck Garage, a forum where you can post your decklist and receive feedback from the community, as well as offer comments and constructive criticism on other members' decks. To keep this forum an organized, friendly environment where players feel...

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:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D I hope I'm putting this in the right forum, lol. For anyone attending the 2015 United States Pokemon National Championships, a few of us PB members have arranged for a meetup on Thursday, July 2nd at 6:00 PM, following registration. TCG player, VGC player, event staff...

I was playing around with this card in a prerelease today to some interesting and semi-impressive results. It got me thinking. Doom Desire is a potentially deadly attack. Not only does it instantly KO, but it does so at the end of your opponent's turn, meaning they will have to replace their...

Scroll down to the botton of the page. I was looking for some sources to support my belief that Archie's Ace in the Hole and Maxie's Hidden Ball trick can put evolutions directly onto your bench to better answer a member's question in the "Ask a Professor" forum. Not only was I right, but I...

So... with City Championships coming to a close this weekend, I'm quite surprised with myself. I honestly wasn't expecting to nab both a top four and a first place. I really like how open the metagame at Cities turned out to be, though I'm expecting to see some shifts to more tried and true...

This is a rather interesting card from the upcoming Primal Clash set. Negating weakness is nice, but is it really worth taking up the spot of a Tool? Using this, a Pokemon will no longer have access to a Muscle Band or a Spirit Link, in the case of something like M-Manectric-EX, which has a...

So... I decideed to go through with this and make one of those fancy report threads where I talk about every matchup I faced. I've already been to a few events LCs and Regionals, but I don't really remember my matches., so I'm just going to start with Cities. City Championships - Redcap's...

So, after a week and a half of testing, tweaking and being indecisive I decided to finally post this deck up. This is a pretty straightforward Seismitoad list, and is what I'm planning to use for Cities in the coming weeks, after not doing so well with Flareon. Pokemon: (11) 4 Seismitoad-EX...

Pokemon: (13) 2 Gengar-EX (PHF) 3-3 Pyroar (FLF) 1 Sigilyph (DRX/LTR) 2-1 Dragalge (FLF) 1 Wobuffet (PHF) Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums: (35) 4 Professor Sycamore 4 N 2 Colress 1 Lysandre 2 Blacksmith 2 Diemension Valley 2 Virbank City Gym 3 Ultra Ball 3 Robo Substitute 3 Muscle Band 3 Float...

At least in my area, I've noticed a decline in decks featuring Garbodor with the release of Phantom Forces, and even somewhat before (PHF isn't legal yet, but many people have been testing new decks). As you should be aware, Garbodor (DRX/PLF/LTR)'s Ability Garbotoxin shuts off all over...

Cardstock Culture Pokemon Trading Card Game community etiquette, culture, and more Volume 2: Tournament Etiquette and Procedures Introduction Howdy y'all, and welcome back to Cardstock Culture a series on competitive Pokemon Trading Card Game culture, etiquette, procedures, and more...

This thread is for discussing the new artwork for the NPC Trainers and villains in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. Unfortunately I was only able to find still pictures for the female Trainers, though I did find a video containing all of them, which compares them to their sprites in the...

So... this is the deck that I've been toying around with as of late. It won me second place in an unsanctioned tournament over the weekend, and I think it's pretty solid. The name was more of something I couldn't resist once I had the thought, since Seismitoad isn't the main attacker (really...

Cardstock Culture Pokemon Trading Card Game community etiquette, culture, and more Volume 1: Preparing for a Tournament Introduction Hello and welcome to my new series, Cardstock Culture. This is going to be a series of articles aimed at new players to the Pokemon TCG and casual players who...

Competitive Slang Glossary Hello and welcome to the Competitive Slang Glossary. This thread includes the definitions of slang terms competitive players often use. If you're new or returning to the competitive scene, this thread will surely be helpful to you! If you know a term you'd like to be...

For those who aren't familiar with the term "Scooping" is the act of conceding a match to one's opponent. The term is also used for coneding one game in a best-of-three match because the conceding player can't possibly win, so they move to the next game in the interest of time. The second one...