Pokemon TCG

[Isis]

Man it's harder to find places to play using a search engine than I thought it'd be

[Isis]

I found a place in downtown seattle but it has hellparking and requires a vaccine card and I lost mine T_T

[Flea The Magician]

No way you can pull your records or ask for a note stating you had your vaccines?

[Isis]

I think the fastest way to do it is to go to a walmart but it has to be in person

[Isis]

bold of you to assume I've had more than one dose

Spoiler:

jk I've pondered whether i can get a fourth if my records turn up missing

[Flea The Magician]

I assume most people I like have sense and have had at least 2 vaccinations if they're able to

[Isis]

Walmart said to use the Walmart pharmacy site to get a digital record. The site has no record of my vaccine

[Isis]

What would you do in this situationnnn

[Dwlee99]

You might be able to call and ask to speak to customer service or whoever handles the data. It's possible that they could find your records when the website can't?

[Isis]

that hasn't been fruitful thus far

[Isis]

I finally got to play my deck a ton it was a 45 minutes drive but got to play tons of games.

I'm surprised how the invested players play multiple decks, this game is cheap but then I guess they buy several decks and are back up to the cost of 1 mtg standard deck.

[Ythan]

I haven't gotten to play any lately, been rolling katamaris instead.

[Isis]

I'm pretty competitive and stuff but I was surprised that there is apparently a pervasive social convention to use a d6 instead of the cute commemorative coins that come with products
They're weighted and probably like 51-49

Ok yeah but I attach 3 water energy to surfing Pikachu v and attack even though he's electric because the artist drew a surfboard on it

[Isis]

2 different people at the weekly we're playing "Arceus, but weaker, except it beats the palkia deck" but I noticed no one playing the palkia deck itself cause it's a bunch of dollars.
I was playing "Arceus with almost no additional respect for the palkia deck" so I felt like I had a strong edge in those matches.

Just kinda funny. I think probably the people who play palki didn't show up this week or I didn't see them but in equilibrium it probably shouldn't even be parity. The thing is running no search pokemon and two types of energies maybe I underestimate it but it looks designed to brick itself.

[Isis]

I heard about a silly centiscorch mill on a podcast. It's a 4 card combo.. Pokemon go Blastoise lets you attach six energy per turn from your deck to any pokemon if you skip your attack. Pokemon go Charizard doubles fire energy value. Diancie protects basic pokemon on the bench, technically not needed if you get lucky and your opponent doesn't have the threat. And centiscorch just says mill one card per fire energy in this pokemon. So if you skip 2 attacks then attack that's 24 mills

It's a bit interesting in that you could attach all that energy to a "30 damage per energy" kind of thing but you cap out at an one hit knockout, mills affect the scoreboard differently

[SleepyKrew]

might go to a silver tempest prerelease next month

[Isis]

Cool!

[Ythan]

I've never been to a Pokemon event I should do that, Magic is always so fun that way. Good luck if you do.

[Isis]

Spoiler:

7 water energy
3 double turbo energy
1 capture energy

2 Acerola's premonition
2 Marnie
1 Boss's orders
1 Cheren's Care
1 Melony
1 Professor's Research
2 Pal Pad

1 Path to the Peak
1 Gapejaw Bog

4 Arceus V
3 Arceus Vstar

4 Sobble
3 Drizzle
1 Inteleon
1 Rapid Strike Inteleon
1 Manaphy
1 Mimikyu V
1 Mimikyu Vmax

4 Quick Ball
1 Ultra Ball
3 Evolution Incense
3 Level Ball

1 Escape Rope
1 Big Charm
1 Old Rod
2 Scoop up Net

58 cards. Hmm

Lots of possibles, big charm, water energy, hyper potion( would need energy with it?), Rare Candy, energy switch, Ziggy the zagoon. Uh. Crushing hammer?

It seems like I should have another toolboxy supporter to make the pal pads sing

[Isis]

One water energy one Melony? Of one of her is prized she's toolboxy

[Isis]

One rare candy one Inteleon is an Xplosive thingy to do instead

[Isis]

Nah I need to stop running an irresponsibly low number of supporters

[Isis]

No I'm at 8 and I can find decklists that are also on 8 supporters.
I partly don't want to count premonition as a supporter because it's a haymaker but the extra pal pad is a "supporter"

I think I'll do the rare candy Inteleon thing

[Isis]

Spoiler:

7 water energy
3 double turbo energy
1 capture energy

2 Acerola's premonition
2 Marnie
1 Boss's orders
1 Cheren's Care
1 Melony
1 Professor's Research
2 Pal Pad

1 Path to the Peak
1 Gapejaw Bog

4 Arceus V
3 Arceus Vstar

4 Sobble
3 Drizzle
1 Rare Candy
2 Inteleon
1 Rapid Strike Inteleon
1 Manaphy
1 Mimikyu V
1 Mimikyu Vmax

4 Quick Ball
1 Ultra Ball
3 Evolution Incense
3 Level Ball

1 Escape Rope
1 Big Charm
1 Old Rod
2 Scoop up Net

[Isis]

Apparently someone entered a tournament with three of a basic and four of the thing that evolves from the basic which is fascinating.

Presumably it's to have a high chance of getting the Pokemon by turn 4 or so but to be able to mulligan 4/7 of the related cards early when there's other better turn one pokes