how to deal with people who stall timer on every card they play cause they know they are about to lose and once the turn is over they just concede , even tho you want to annoy the opponent these guys put so much effort to wait till timer turns 0 to play a move , if they put half the effort in the game they can win , like just respect your opponent guys, i get it if you are mad and ragequit or go afk but stalling timer for 7 moves in 1 turn is just a new low

I've played the TCG on and off since it started way back when, 3 months ago I started again, been playing Ethan's Typhlosion. At first I figured I just needed more practice when I lost, it's a complicated game after all. But recently I decided to try another deck that caught my eye, Hop's Trevenant, and immediately shot up to 1700 elo after being stuck at 1500 with Typhlosion.

Realistically, I don't know the ins and outs of Trevenant nearly as well as Typhlosion. I've played so many more games of Typhlosion, and I want to like it but I also like winning, and the moment I queue up Typhlosion I tank back down to 1500, switch to Trev, back up to 1700.

Is Typhlosion really this bad right now?

First for everything i guess 💀

I'm making 30 themed decks in 30ish days, for the 30th anniversary. This is my Off the Grid deck that doesn't use any energy cards. There's a version for the expanded format too. It's designed to cut off my opponents set up at the knees with big back end swings for the comeback. It went 3/5. (I don't really know what flair to put these under)

What better slowking or alakazam for baltimore regional

Was testing out my Hide N Sneak deck on the ladder and got queued up against Tyrantrum/Bastiodon.

I was winning the prize battle all match and burned through all of my Boss's Orders cards while I had 1 prize left. They boss'd up my Latias to retreat lock it with Ethan's Sudowoodo, but then they switched it with Tyrantrum to deal damage to my Latias. In an effort to save the damaged Tyrantrum from a KO, they added a 3rd energy to retreat, but since they removed a special energy it deactivates its special ability that give +150 HP to Tyrantrum, basically KO'ing it because it already has 200 HP of damage to it, getting a funny win!

I wish I was recording it, but I managed to save the battle log and upload it to PTCGL Replay Viewer: https://www.ptcglreplay.com/#s=774fOX4agkh2So0M.isYIa6ZJ2oGqGFg1T4HqJU6DDJIou8elEzvn3K54_Ks

There is NO way I've played this much hahaha!!

Base concept is lurantis and consistent healing from shuckle (yeah Dragapult fucks this deck, but this deck isnt supposed to be meta viable so).

• I've tried many late game pokemon (Hydrapple, Aurorus to make it bulkier, random megas, the only thing that feels decent is leafeon/any eevolution)
• Also i tried changing the healing (x4 healing item and mabye something to retrieve them), its nice for the surprise value, but you loose on very nice healing (specially if you can have 2 Shuckle), Also tried communal center, very consistent, 0 healing value tbh.
• About draws engine, i runned Rapidash (which is worse drakloak), and now i tried putting it out for more Lily.

Positives:

• it's very generous on energy (1 on shuckle, 1-2 on Lurantis and you just invest in Leafeon)
• Runs quite fast
• Lurantis isn't a totally shit card

Negatives:

• (Sucks, Duh) Gets fucked by any bench snipe, and doesn't really switch well.
  
• Rn there is no good self damage (Ruins requires to basically draw it t1 to be useful, team rocket bomb is very fun but god i lost 4 coin toss in a row)
• struggles a bit Against bulkier matchups (Stage 2 megas and Lucario), also a glaring fire weakness

Any tips? i still have to find a good balance in trainer cards, also a good core different than leafeon.

i cant copy from clipboard, I don't know why and i feel dumb

Not sure if this is allowed, I didn't see anything in the rules against it.

I am newer to the TCG and I have a tournament coming up, my first challenge actually. I have done a couple pre release/worlds celebration tournaments but this is the first one for points and my first with my current deck. I was hoping to find someone who runs festival lead, dusc pult, excadrill, slowpoke metagross or a kazam deck that might be willing to do a couple matches or two and potentially give me some feedback?

I ask for these decks bc that seems to be what I have seen in my local group.

Hi! I’ve been playing Slowking for a while and decided I want to try something out and so far it’s been really solid

I’m currently 1640 in masters and have won 20 games and lost 20 games with this deck

The idea behind the deck is you get to take advantage of Slowking being a 1 prizer

Switching your draw engine allows you to play a little slower and more methodical with ghosts allowing you to snipe Pokemon like Shaymin or Rabsca

Also you can kill a Dragapult in the active and 2 bench Pokemon with Trifrost + Clefairy + Dusknoir

The deck feels CLOSE to being really good
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I’ve noticed that the best-performing lists (based on Worlds and online tournaments) seem to be the Hero’s Cape version.
At local tournaments, I’ve been using the Precious Trolley version, and it has helped me win two Worlds Celebrations and a Midyear tournament. But whenever I’ve played the Hero’s Cape version on Live, I’ve lost almost every time.
Am I making mistakes when playing the Cape version?

Grafikdesign is my passion

bricked the whole game, luckily a timely secret box into xerosic put them to 3 in hand and 10 in deck, and they used all their boss hunting down my bench early game, so I got to hit them with the deck out

Hey everyone,

I’m just getting into Pokémon TCG. I know the basic rules and how the game works, but I have basically zero knowledge of the current meta, what decks are being played, important cards, strategies, matchups etc...

I’m looking for a deck that’s straightforward to play, but still good enough to be relevant in the current meta. Basically something that can help me learn the game properly while also getting me familiar with the decks I’ll be facing

I’m just looking for something beginner friendly that I won’t immediately outgrow once I understand the game better

What would you guys recommend? Thank you !

This is my girlfriend’s dragapult/pyroar deck, we’re aware pyroar isn’t the most ideal Pokemon and while we’re open to changing strategies we’d like to keep the pyroar dragapult combo, it’s original and fun and has won a good chunk of games, it just feels clunky and like something is missing. Any suggestions on modifying the decklist for a smoother gameplay?

Surely most people run into this dilemma a lot, but I genuinely feel like I’m not playing poorly enough to be where I’m at in terms of ELO? But surely I must be? That’s the internal conflict going on atm and the reality is it’s a bit of both but I feel like it’s a valid question to at least propose (switching decks).

I’ve been playing almost exclusively Cynthia’s Garchomp for most of the current season, hit masters about 2 weeks ago, and have been doing brutally awful ever since. Currently have about 130 games with the deck (includes most of the climb to masters) with about a 57% WR, but as soon as I hit master league I lost most of my games and went on a losing streak that tanked me all the way to 1386. Have since clawed back to about 1445 but have been in limbo since. I basically never won more than a game or two at 1500 and just can’t manage to get back to that number (which, with an honest look at myself as a player is where I believe I should be at. Maybe not climbing much but 1500 feels reasonable.) I don’t face any deck I would consider meta or highly competitive anymore besides the occasional poorly played slopbox. Haven’t seen a pult in ages. Am I just stuck in gimmick deck hell? Is this where I should be? Just frustrated because I feel like I just get outgimmicked by everything which makes me feel like something with a more consistent match spread might be the answer

Hardest matchups are probably Alakazam and Crustle. I think we just have to accept that Zam is gonna suck, but there's gotta be an answer for Crustle that I'm missing, right? Thanks.