Recent content by Steen

Why is Amoonguss cursed to always have awful cards yet its singular Paradox print is used in every poison deck imaginable.

One of the big reasons it began to fall off in my opinion was more to do with its overall momentum relying on a sustained flow of Teal Dances and Jewel Seekers. Too often do Tera Boxes go for the Wellspring Crystal donk and either fail or succeed 50% of the time because they need to use Crispin...

With the return of Dynamotor and the addition of Zekrom ex in BB/WF, it's becoming more and more possible for Lightning as a whole to make a strong comeback in the latter half of the year. Zekrom being able to do 230 after losing an ex already makes it incredibly strong, and you can move into a...

If TPCi wanted us to play more supporters, they made it work. Never before would I be using Jacq, Janine's, and Brock's Hydreigon but because they completely killed the viability of an Item based meta that was *already going to fall off* when Budew was printed, every other deck suffers while...

The Nidoking ex is going to be huge for turning Pecharunt Donk into an actual deck that likes attacking and *survives* past the first few turns when someone gets two starting mons, but like half of the Trainer Cards outside of Supporters are all kind of dogwater. Watchtower only counters...

This makes a Black Kyurem ex tech against Bolt and Dragapult even better since you're building up reserves of energies while Kyurem stalls for setup time. Once it goes down, that's 3 or 4 water energies added to your steamroll against additional mons. The only problem is Huntail's 110 HP makes...

The fact that TPCi has not made any legal action towards the storefronts and distributors enabling the shitty scalping practices with some of the most backhanded tactics I've ever seen for a damn card game, begs the opinion that they are completely unaware of how truly hopeless this situation...

I paired Bellibolt with Jolteon ex for extremely consistent 240's and a copy of Zapdos ex to let the bench damage effect chase down retreating cards since the 90 after 240 equals to 330. Definitely need to test it physically when the time comes however.

Lycanroc will be insane with Mega Lucario, trust. But aside from the Budew nonsense I'm running ahead with my own deck ideas even if they're not super strong. Lillie's Clefairy is my only out against Dragapult while playing Hydreigon and the Bellibolt idea I have seems to be doing numbers in...

It will be some time until Miraidon gets another turn in the spotlight. I've recently been tinkering with an Iono's Bellibolt & Jolteon ex deck and through playtesting I'm seeing it pull very consistent damage upon being extremely flexible, but unfortunately Miraidon doesn't fit in this...

Your proposition is duly noted. Safeguard Pokémon as a whole are mainly a gust/tech check to unoptimized decks. While Safeguard will become stronger with the departure of Cancelling Cologne, I doubt Mimikyu or Mysterious Shield Aegislash will become super popular as Fire types are also getting...

Ethan's Ho-Oh is the best Fire type generator in a long time and Cynthia box will absolutely be BDIF once the Mega set drops with the friggin' Fighting damage boosting item. Yanmega ex is possibly the best Grass type attacker in this entire generation and it can move those energies to other...

It has one retreat so Rescue Board is perfect for it pivoting with other Yanmega, the attack itself is baller and it lets you move energies to other Grass types like Venusaur ex. Two Lilligant (if that card ever reaches the west) will boost its attack to 250 letting it handle basically any basic...

Welp, Scarlet & Violet is ending off with a pretty half-assed Tera lineup and a pretty decent selection of Owner's right now. At the very least, Z-A TCG sets will start at some point in the 4th quarter because I highly doubt the game itself would arrive any earlier. With that in mind, I can...

There's a legit good amount of owner's Pokémon that are perfectly fine standalone and as individual archetypes. Hop Box as well as Hop's Pincurchin ex are nice, Lillie's Clefairy ex will be mandatory for any decks that use Psychic energy in any capacity to deal with Dragon types and Underdepths...