To promote the 2024 Pokemon TCG Illustrator Contest, Creatures has published a fascinating column that gives us a rare glimpse into the design process behind a Pokemon card’s artwork. The article asks illustrator Atsushi Furusawa about his philosophies and processes for drawing . We see his drafts from start to finish. The article also gives …
The developers of Pokemon TCG Live have updated the program’s visuals in response to player feedback. In an open letter to the community, they summarized the issues players brought up in a survey last August. They promise to continue to improve the beta based on this feedback. Dear Pokémon TCG fans, Today, we’re excited to …
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I have never been a fan of / . Even when the deck was supposedly good, I thought it was terrible. I brutally destroyed my Arceus / Giratina opponents nearly every time I faced it in tournament, so much so that I felt bad for my opponent playing such a handicapped deck. When I did …
- Grant Manley
- Posted onApr 3, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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Hello PokeBeach readers, I’m back again! Standard format rotation is almost upon us, and all eyes are currently upon Japan as they play the first major tournament of the new format at the Champion’s League in Fukuoka. The early Champions Leagues in Japan are often impactful on the metagame that the rest of the world …
My last article covered the list that took first and fourth place at San Antonio Regionals, but there is still a lot to talk about. San Antonio was the largest TPCi tournament in history, and it sets the tone for the metagame going forward. Charizard ex was the most popular deck at the event, with …
Hello everyone! Recently my team and I attended the San Antonio Regional Championships and dominated the tournament. For whatever reason, this tournament was massive, with almost 2000 players. I played with and made Top 4, narrowly losing to Azul with the same 60, who won the event. Caleb tied his win-and-in with the same 60, …
Creatures has posted a second column for 2024’s Pokemon TCG Illustrator Contest covering the design process behind CG card illustrations. The artist interviewed this time is “takuyoa.” The article goes through his artistic and technical processes for designing Greninja ex. While he mainly uses 3D software, he also enhances his artwork in Photoshop with 2D. …
Hello everyone! Recently the Lille Regionals took place in France, and Toronto is coming up just around the corner. Fusion actually won Lille, reminding everyone that it remains an extremely powerful deck. Fusion Mew VMAX suffers a horrible matchup, which gatekeeps it pretty hard, especially in American Regionals, however, one lucky Fusion Mew VMAX player …
Hello everyone! The North America Regional Championships circuit is well under way, and another massive Regional just took place in Sacramento. Although this tournament had an astounding 1,400 players, it was the smallest North America Regional so far! My group and I decided to play Lost Zone . The single-Prize version of the deck featuring …
Hello everyone! Recently the Barcelona Special Event and Curitiba Regionals took place over two consecutive weekends, following North America’s Pittsburgh Regionals and Japan’s Champions League. It is cool to see tournaments pick up all over the world, and the regional metas have noticeable differences. Today I will be focusing primarily on Curitiba Regionals, which took …
- Grant Manley
- Posted onOct 2, 2023 at 8:19 PM
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Hello everyone! Recently the last Regional Championship of the North America circuit concluded in Fresno, leaving us to look forward to NAIC and the new Paldea Evolved format. I want to briefly talk about the conclusion of the previous format, where my group and I played different variants of Lost Box and had strong finishes …
After playing many games in this format, I have a mentality for deck selection that is a little different from my usual. After the colossal group failure in London with / , I simply want to play a deck that is good. A deck that is consistent, functional, and reasonably strong. Basically, a deck that …
The Pokemon Company International has permanently banned a certified judge from participating in the Pokemon community following transphobic behavior toward a group of players at last weekend’s Vancouver Regionals, one of Pokemon’s main series tournaments of the year. The event saw over a thousand players from around the world competing for $65,000 in prizes and …
Apparently, it’s been over a year since my last installment in the Gym Leader Challenge series, and that’s just a crime. GLC is debatably more popular than Expanded these days, but that’s not exactly a high bar. In the past year, I’ve gotten cards banned from Colorless Control and Amazing , so those are unfortunately …