The Pokémon TCG has been going awesome. I am “practicing” this 2024 season to see how I can do on getting Championship Points (CP). I don’t think I will be able to swing enough regional events this season to get the 600 CP needed for Worlds, so I am just working on getting comfortable with bigger tournaments. I am going to hit all the League Challenges and League Cups … Read more
The Pokémon TCG has standard format rotation coming up in a few weeks (April 14th). The Scarlet & Violet base set added some awesome cards to the mix, and I am excited to create some new decks. I have started working on a Miraidon ex deck, but wow are these Regieleki VMAX getting expensive.. At the time of writing this they are over $20 a card on TCG Player.. … Read more
I have been absolutely loving playing with physical Pokémon cards lately. There’s just something about it that is better than online play. It’s also a great way to be social. Having League night once a week has been so much fun. I get to see some of my friends, my daughter loves to go, and I’ve met some new people who love playing cards as well. I’ve mentioned it … Read more
As I mentioned in the last post, we started to ramp up the Discord server to cover some Pokémon Trading Card type stuff. We now have five different sections (and may add more as activity drives). There is a general space, a flex channel, deck list share, tournaments, and battles/trades. If you think we need some more channels just suggest in the general space (and tag me). If you … Read more
On Saturday I went up to Black Swamp Games for an IRL Pokémon TCG Standard tournament (with Brilliant Stars being legal). I was toying around with bringing my Int++ deck (that I’ve shared before), but with Manaphy’s bench barrier in the mix I thought against it. So I put together a new deck based loosely on Michael Pramawat’s deck from the “$2,000 Brilliant Stars Tournament at Full Grip Games“.. … Read more