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
Well the new Pokémon TCG set Brilliant Stars just had the pre-release weekend. My local card shop had their tournament on Saturday night, and it was a blast! We had 13 people in this one. People had some great pulls in their kits (some little kiddo got the Eeeve character rare I want haha). I ended up going undefeated, and took first place! The prize ended up being a … Read more
Soooo, Halo Infinite came out on the 20th anniversary of Halo. I have been squeezing in games as I can, and it is super fun. It plays like a modern shooter with the perfect balance of the classic Halo feel. I have been very happy with the games so far! I also am loving how I am seeing all the Halo 2 day players back on Xbox Live playing … Read more