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Are you a PokeBeach premium member? Yes What is your PTCGO screen name? TorchHG What time zone do you live in? Central Daylight Savings Time (CDT) Did you play in last month’s tournament? Yes If allowed to play, do you promise to make at least three non-tournament forum posts before 12 AM PDT...

Round 7 @Julio Penaloza concedes to @TorchHG. Hope you have a good rest of your month!

My schedule is pretty conducive to that time frame, so if you’re looking for more people I’m more than interested.

As for sleeves, officially rules say that you can only use either Official Pokemon Sleeves (like from Elite Trainer Boxes, basically ones you can buy from Pokemon Center) or Solid Colored Opaque Sleeves (Like Ultra Pro, Dragon Shield, etc.). Most people I know really like Dragon Shield Matte...

So, I had the same thought with Dragon Majesty coming out. I was hyped on that, but realizing that focusing on using Kukui for knockouts and using Judge / Marshadow to brick your opponent’s hand seems more consistent and frees up deck space to use malamar. Those were my first impressions but I...

I see where you’re going with this. Honestly, with people still figuring out deck construction, I feel you’d do alright against decks without proper engines. It’d be fun to bring this to a League Challenge or a League Cup. But this is probably the best metagame to do that spicy fun!

So, Buzz Shrine will definitely be a bad matchup for the deck, and Zeroara GX does have a fair amount of potential. One of the thing Zeroara GX lacks is cheap attack costs. 3 energy is a fair amount to get, so one of the main ways to make the deck viable is finding what energy acceleration...

Quite honestly, I think Shrine is a strong deck for the format. Right now, I haven’t seen a whole lot of it, so I’m fine taking the loss against it thus far. Now, as it becomes more prevalent, I think that deck building and strategy should more or less keep it in consideration as opposed to...

TorchHG wins 1-0 after a game 1 concede by @Jake_Silberman. Sorry the match didn't turn out for you, but hope to play you sometime and good luck for the rest of the tournament!

From what it sounds like, you do have the general game plan down, but my first question is how many turns does it take you to setup? Do you have at least 1 Metagross by turn 2 frequently? Do you have all 3 out by mid-game (not end-game)? From what I've heard from other players about Metagross...

TorchHG wins 2-0 over @Oscar Salaiz . Good luck in the rest of the tournament and good games!

I know that when the standard format gets shaken up that new decks come in and out of favor, but I have to say that I'm really liking the current flavor of Standard. I do realize the Rayquaza GX / Vikavolt is strong and dominant right now, but I want to mostly look at points beside that. My...

I think most of the merit spinarak has is setting up first turn paralysis and then being fuel for lost mixer. I think it will be good to help you get started to insure your opponent has a hard time to get their first attack up and that you can either return their first ko or become the...

I really like the strengths of the deck, and honestly I like bringing up the weaknesses of the deck first to show that it isn’t necessarily an infallible deck. Of course, there might be a time where a no weakness deck occurs, but I don’t want to be in that world... It’s a lovely, if not...

Are you a PokeBeach premium member? Yes What is your PTCGO screen name? TorchHG What time zone do you live in? CDT (Central Daylight Time) Did you play in last month’s tournament? No If allowed to play, do you promise to make at least three non-tournament forum posts before 12 AM PDT 9/24/18? Yes

Oops, points 6 and 7 got deleted when I posted. To continue: 6. Lost March is a strictly worse Night March. Sure, you can utilize Dimension Valley and use only Grass Energy, but I don’t think it makes it as relevant. The numbers are still harder to hit. 7. I don’t play CoD much, but that’s...

I do like a lot of the points that you bring up. I do think that the deck certainly will clog up with Pokémon (early builds I have show around 20 Pokémon, oof), but I think there’s a few minor points that may have been missed since you talk only about the negatives. I only bring these up just so...

To succinctly answer the question, you certainly can run a deck with only 1 Lele. Now, there are a few caveats: You will be limited to decks you play. There are only a few decks that will run 1 or 0 Leles and function well, and that is due to the number of supporters they run and not needing...

I’ve been actually thinking that you could use Energy Evolution Eevee as a starter, so if you go second you can first turn use Professor Elm’s Lecture to grab hoppips, maybe some nest balls and use Leafeon GX to grab 3 or 4 skiploom so second turn you can potentially get a ton of Jumpluff into...

With Skiploom’s abulity, Professor Elm, Nest Ball, Natu and Lost Mixer, I think there’s a decent number of cards to make it work. You might be able to run it with like Oranguru to be able to make the deck a bit faster. I’m really excited to see those cards.