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My friends have a seven year old who just started collecting Pokemon cards without actually knowing what they're for so I've finally gotten into the game I avoided all my life in favor of Magic to try to teach him. I've been looking through the cards and it looks like there are plenty of dumb jank decks to be made just like I enjoy doing in Magic, which is perfect since I'm playing a child and don't want to try too too hard to win. So I'm gonna talk about fun cards I find here, maybe you play too and can join me.-
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FO Moltres seems fun for a mill deck. Weird to see mill in fire as a Magic player but burning decks sounds fun. Just gotta play around charging it up, probably stall as long as possible and try to win in one shot.-
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RO Dark Machamp seems fun for winning by clearing your opponent's bench. Fling until only one is left and then use something like JU Pidgeot's Hurricane to bounce it to hand for the win.-
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i haven't played in a long time but i ordered a pair of duel decks to play with my roommates tomorrow. I used to play the standard format a little bit with a tier 2 deck.
"Donk" (no bench or active pokemon victory) strategies are not very prevalent in standard because they release lots of basic pokemon that give you a benefit when you bench them, so if you try a donk strategy you generally only succeed in investing lots of resources into generating an awkward moment when the pokemon that is meant for utility is forced into play and that player has to spend 1 energy to retreat it, when you spent like, 3 energy and an evolution card and a bunch of deck design decisions. If the cards you're playing with are strictly limited to old stuff that was out when I was 8 like those pictures though, I remember donk being super strong when I was 8, and there weren't that many utility pokemon when i was 8, so like, I don't see why it's a strategy that would get countered by accident."Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
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i'm also like 60% sure donk was a big deal when i was reading the forums for the game but i decided not to buy cards for it, like, 10 years ago
god i feel old"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
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This sounds like more of an issue with those moves that lure a specific Pokemon out from the bench?In post 4, Isis wrote:"Donk" (no bench or active pokemon victory) strategies are not very prevalent in standard because they release lots of basic pokemon that give you a benefit when you bench them, so if you try a donk strategy you generally only succeed in investing lots of resources into generating an awkward moment when the pokemon that is meant for utility is forced into play and that player has to spend 1 energy to retreat it, when you spent like, 3 energy and an evolution card and a bunch of deck design decisions. If the cards you're playing with are strictly limited to old stuff that was out when I was 8 like those pictures though, I remember donk being super strong when I was 8, and there weren't that many utility pokemon when i was 8, so like, I don't see why it's a strategy that would get countered by accident.-
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Lt. Surge's Treaty seems like it might find a place in a deck aiming to collect prize cards directly which sounds fun but obviously it's not going to get you there by itself. Also maybe a good filler card overall as a non supporter that replaces itself.-
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Minion of Team Rocket seems like a poor alternative to Pidgeot when like you needcreaturesPokemon anyway.
I feel like clarifying (again?) that all of these judgements are specifically in the context of my jank.-
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i think thats what i have sitting on the kitchen table rn
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
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It has a typo replacing fighting for fire energy, but it wants you discard all the fire energy cards attached to it and deal 20 damage for each. Then, also, since combing Double Colorless energy with pokemon powers that make Double Colorless Energy count as "double fire energy", it has some awkward text in order to instruct you to discard those too and to clarify that they're worth 40 and not 20
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
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also it's a terrible pokemon card"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
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I guess G2 Giovanni's Meowth's False Charity would be appropriate for a mill deck? I hate putting cards into my opponent's hand but filtering out trainers has got to help.-
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this was wrong i have gardevoir v victini
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
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It's dumb to consider using Imposter Professor Oak when your opponent is under seven cards to shrink their deck right? After typing it out I'm more certain the answer is yes.-
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