The Australian Meta The Oceania International Championships is fast approaching! The event will be held on February 9-11 (Friday to Sunday) at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia! How will you decide which deck to pilot? It may be helpful to know which decks are dominating Pokémon Trading Card Game events in Australia. Here are the results from every sanctioned ...
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Pokémon TCG – The Australian Meta (December 2017)
The Australian Meta The Oceania International Championships is fast approaching! The event will be held on February 9-11 (Friday to Sunday) at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia! How will you decide which deck to pilot? It may be helpful to know which decks are dominating Pokémon Trading Card Game events in Australia. Here are the results from every sanctioned ...
Read More »Fairy Bread & Butter: A Gardevoir GX skeleton list for the standard format
Introduction A skeleton list is an incomplete deck list that includes the essential or minimum number of cards necessary for a successful deck of that archetype. Assuming that the creation of the skeleton list was influenced by proven 60 card lists, skeleton lists are useful for competitive TCG players for a variety of reasons: They provide players with an understanding ...
Read More »Rainbow Road in the 2017-2018 Standard Format : Deck List and Discussion
Last weekend, in what seemed like a throwback to the 2008 World Championships, a Gardevoir/ Gallade deck was used to win the 2017 Pokemon Trading Card Game World Championships in both the Junior and Masters divisions. It was the most hyped deck going into the tournament, and is still being touted as one of the top decks in the standard ...
Read More »Gyarados in the Primal Clash to Guardians Rising format: Anti-Decidueye Deck list and Analysis
From the Magikarp Salesman arc in the anime, to that guy with six Magikarp (who has a meme Facebook page dedicated to him) in the video games- Magikarp has always been a figure of mirth in the Pokémon universe. The pathetic, useless element of Magikarp has extended to its trading card game counterparts. By contrast, Gyarados has always been a ...
Read More »Skeleton Lists: Vespiquen, and Yveltal/Garbodor
Introduction A skeleton list is an incomplete deck list that highlights the essential or minimum number of cards necessary for a successful deck of that archetype. Assuming that the creation of the skeleton list was influenced by proven 60 card lists, skeleton lists are useful for competitive TCG players for a variety of reasons: They provide players with an understanding ...
Read More »Skeleton Lists: Mega Rayquaza and Mega Mewtwo
Introduction A skeleton list is an incomplete deck list that highlights the essential or minimum number of cards necessary for a successful deck of that archetype. Assuming that the creation of the skeleton list was influenced by proven 60 card lists, skeleton lists are useful for competitive TCG players for a variety of reasons: They provide players with an understanding ...
Read More »Skeleton Lists: Turbo Darkrai, Decidueye GX, and Volcanion EX
Introduction A skeleton list is an incomplete deck list that highlights the essential or minimum number of cards necessary for a successful deck of that archetype. Assuming that the creation of the skeleton list was influenced by proven 60 card lists, skeleton lists are useful for competitive TCG players for a variety of reasons: They provide players with an understanding ...
Read More »Blowing Away the Trash: Competitive Uses for Field Blower
Guardians Rising brings us a plethora of new cards when it is released on May 5th. One card has already risen above the rest – Field Blower. Field Blower is an Item card that allows players to choose up to 2 in any combination of Pokémon Tool cards and Stadium cards in play (of their own and/or their opponent’s) and discard ...
Read More »Pokémon TCG World Championships: How to earn an invite in Japan
Why Takuya Yoneda’s Top 8 Championship Points from the Oceania International won’t matter The 2017 Pokémon Oceania International Challenge saw players from across the globe converge on Melbourne to compete in an intense three days of competitive trading cards. Japanese player Takuya Yoneda, rose above 250+ competitors to earn a coveted place in the top 8 of the Masters Division. ...
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