Recent content by koala cub

maybe i'm being overly doomer but i feel like artificial scarcity is more profitable for the pokémon tcg one part of what has made these sets sell out like crazy is the sense of rarity. the idea that "if i can't get it as soon as possible, then i won't be able to get it ever again". if a set...

in EX Team Rocket Returns, a single-prize ampharos was 120 HP. twenty years later, a single-prize ampharos is only 140 HP.

the worst part about this is that the pokémon company's intentional scarcity of printing + lack of punishments towards scalpers is profitable for the company. in terms of demand, profit, and engagement, the morally bankrupt scalpers are ironically the best customers tpci could possibly ask...

TRADE ZOROARK IS BACK

one great thing about PTCGO was that it had a theme deck battle format. this made getting into the card game EXTREMELY easy. in fact, it's how i got back into playing the card game, as the decks were easy to operate and highly accessible. we still get theme decks to this day, in the form of ex...

i honestly think one of the main issues with PTCGL that doesn't get talked about enough is how front-heavy the content is. in other words, once you complete the season's battle pass, what left is there to do besides wait for the next one? the daily rewards are good when you're filling out the...

first off, i'm not a king lol second off, check my other comment for reference. the TLDR is that hydrapple ex is a stage 2 pokemon that can only attach 1 extra energy per turn, which makes it EXTREMELY slow relative to the infinite acceleration provided by good stage 2's like gardevoir ex &...

did you ... make an account just to say this?

i completely agree. to be clear, i still love playing non-meta cards, not every card has to be playable, and there could be upcoming cards that significantly buff hydrapple ex. it's just a matter of that i really want hydrapple ex to have more valuable traits, and i want grass-type decks to be...

this is not hard evidence, this is the community response to give an idea of why the scandal accusations are being made. many people are pointing to the name similarities of the different V.K. submissions, with the potential of someone bypassing the three-submission limit. some of the...

i can't believe i'm about to yap this hard about a childrens card game ... my bad lol this might sound nice on first impression but the reality is that it's a stage 2 pokemon, and that severely hampers its ability to be effective. it's historically very difficult to get multiple stage 2...

hydrapple ex is the first time a card's lack of viability has actively made me salty LOL i love hydrapple and was hoping for a great card but this is worse than ogerpon ex in pretty much every way grass types still don't have a viable engine

is it annoying to see charizard ex reprinted 20,000 times? probably, but it IS really good for competitive players looking to build decks more affordably

i think its pretty important to understand that tools are the mostp powerful they've been in nearly 10 years. arven providing easy accessibility, on top of the increased tool power level, has led to tools becoming increasily necessary to pull up game-winning combos. at euic, 12 of the top 16...

all you really need to implement iron valiant is enough switching cards. we saw this with last tormat, as iron valiant decks basically took the entei v rogue deck and implemented itself into it seemlessly to become a viable deck. we're not using iron valiant to attack, mainly to use its damage...