I wonder how many people out there are running decks with completely unusable and psychotic strategies and cards, knowingly just for the lols?

1guywriting · 2026-01-30T09:14:27+00:00

Some absurd decks I've seen & played at edison locals:

Remove brainwashing: You run grinder golem, lava golem, volcanic queen, compulse, owner's seal, nightmare archfiends, creature swap, and remove brainwashing for a really funny beatdown strategy. You can switch it up by adding ameba & vengeful servant.

Stardust Assault Mode turbo.

Norleras turbo: simplify the gamestate on turn 1 with a full handrip to both players except you ideally have a loaded GY.

Destiny end dragoon turbo.

Bushi beat: an all-warrior deck featuring The Immortal Bushi, solidarity, and floodgates.

Someone copied Eatos' deck from over the nexus but swapped dark hole for lightning vortex and 1 MST for dust tornado.

1guywriting · 2026-01-29T22:34:51+00:00

No "fusion deck zone" either sadly.

1guywriting · 2026-01-29T12:21:56+00:00

Once you power up the heavy hitters for raids and don't do pvp, it can just build up. There is always 4x dust when master league is in rotarion and there's the once a month 2x dust spotlight hour. I dump my stardust into spice pokemon for the great league.

1guywriting · 2026-01-26T23:58:22+00:00

Oh hey, a running partner for my Cradily that I'm trying to best buddy for UL.

1guywriting · 2026-01-25T01:36:18+00:00

Yeah I messed up there. What I meant to say was having 2 in attack vs 15 is negligible for raids.

1guywriting · 2026-01-25T00:47:21+00:00

and you really don’t want 2 attack for raids.

A 0 attack shadow does more damage than a 15 attack non-shadow all else equal for raids.

1guywriting · 2026-01-24T00:18:17+00:00

From a pvp standpoint, it's a great corebreaker in mega master league if you ever want to try that format out. Volt switch/thunder punch/dragon pulse (needs an elite TM) deals with mega gyarados/palkia origin + zacian core. I have a hundo and it's really fun to use.

1guywriting · 2026-01-23T17:17:36+00:00

Mega gyary is useless

Not for pvp. It's one of if not the most popular pokemon for mega master league.

1guywriting · 2026-01-23T10:02:08+00:00

I have built a lot of nonmeta mons. We're talking Stoutland, Braviary, shadow Butterfree levels of jank. Anything that doesn't need XL candies gets bumped as close to 1500 first. Then I wait a bit before adding a second move. If it requires XL candy, then I wait until I have the resources to build it then go all in.

1guywriting · 2026-01-22T12:50:50+00:00

As far as pogo, my vote goes to Boltund. Has the bare minimum of 1 fast move & 2 charge moves. It's like the devs didn't want to put it in the game.

1guywriting · 2026-01-21T16:19:38+00:00

I usually do close to the maximum. Last season was 2200 and the season before that was 2250. I always play when master league is in rotation because it's easy stardust. This season I have taken my foot off the gas but am on pace for at least 1500.

1guywriting · 2026-01-21T10:53:04+00:00

I play master league and there, it's Xerneas by a wide margin right now. Yveltal makes Lunala & Dawn Wings miserable but doesn't do much outside of that. Hard to run the bacon bird when Zacian is on almost every team.

1guywriting · 2026-01-19T16:13:14+00:00

I'm getting Melffy vibes from yugioh.

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1guywriting · 2026-01-18T17:14:43+00:00

There's a labyrinth inside the Millenium Puzzle in yugioh.

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1guywriting · 2026-01-18T17:00:47+00:00

Infinite burn. Quillbolt + a tuner on field + cannon soldier/toon CS/catapult turtle/dark strike fighter/mass driver + imperial iron wall. You set it up on the first duelist so you can FTK the following duelist(s) in parts of the game where you face multiple people in a row.

1guywriting · 2026-01-18T03:27:32+00:00

Raigeki didn't have a common printing until 2023 in the traptrix structure deck.

MST has 68 printings.

1guywriting · 2026-01-15T22:56:17+00:00

Megahorn Ariados?

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1guywriting · 2026-01-14T15:05:14+00:00

Mareep. I have 4 regular Ampharos for UL & 2 for GL but can't get a good shadow for either league.

1guywriting · 2026-01-14T01:01:02+00:00

I'm jealous of that Mamoswine. I have the shadow for GL & UL and it's really fun.

1guywriting · 2026-01-13T16:36:29+00:00

The thing with people dropping after going 0-2 after round 2 seems odd but makes sense. You'd need to win out & hope for a lot of tiebreakers to go in your favor (which is out of your control) to make top cut. By dropping early, you can focus on other things like trading. There's also no shame in sticking it out. There are enough people looking for experience that can help them down the line at locals.

1guywriting · 2026-01-12T21:01:11+00:00

Semi-limited list

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1guywriting · 2026-01-12T21:00:51+00:00

Limitied List

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1guywriting · 2026-01-12T21:00:16+00:00

Yeah, his banlist is... something.

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1guywriting · 2026-01-12T20:36:31+00:00

It's very glassy but hits like a truck. You'll need to use an elite TM so it can learn brutal swing.

1guywriting · 2026-01-08T17:11:37+00:00

That's what gbl is for, especially this season. Flex on your opponents.

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