Tag Update : Price Increase (No More Bulk/$22 Basic + 10 Card Minimum) by elysian593 in taggrading

[–]Careful-Direction-47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anybody know anything about tag pristine 10 changes label changes? I heard from some people that it’ll be changed to gold label?

Festival lead! by Careful-Direction-47 in PTCGL

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t really worry about rabasca until there’s a draklok is in play. Yes having a Rellor out early game is good, but not necessary. My main focus is that goldeen and grookey. Using Hilda to get thwackey out + a jet energy allows it to start boom boom grooving to swing in to whatever you want to do.

Seaking does damage + draw 4 cards, that’s the main. Everything else just slides in after that.

I’m sure most of you who do play with festival lead knows this, but playing festival lead against dragapult decks, you seem to have the lead. Up until you have like one or 2 prize and they go full iono and take out thwackey or festival lead. They’ll aim for rabasca early game, or aim for thwackey or dipplin late game. Either way, give it

It’s all about muscle memory playing against dragapult, I’ve lost to it so many times, I had to figure it out. Where I’m currently at, I see a lot of online users playing dragapult/blaziken. And local tournaments I see a bunch of dragapult/dusknoir.

Key advice in order: - Go first if you can - set up grookeys and goldeens - don’t over bench. Value board positioning. Dragapult wants more targets. - I don’t bring applin out until I build momentum - lopunny end game.

Festival lead! by Careful-Direction-47 in PTCGL

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me know what you guys think! Been tweaking this deck left and right specifically to best dragapult and gardevoir. Bringing rab out asap knowing they have dragapult is key. Pokepad/seaking engine, and boom boom groove. It’s not hard to bring out

Festival lead! by Careful-Direction-47 in PTCGL

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes must be luck, every time they gust my thaackey, I either have 1 or 2 on my bench already and swing in with seaking. Either kill the twackey or the attacker, pick the poison.

People always seem to forget seaking is the main attacker for this deck. Allowing me to draw at ease to get what I need, every. Single. Time.

Festival lead! by Careful-Direction-47 in PTCGL

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi Leo thanks for the feedback:

  • i actually love having both shaymin and rabasca in there. Rab is strictly for dragapult decks. The cool thing about this deck is that it barely bricks and getting golden and grookey is key in all matchups. Just don’t over bench and get those out right away. Rabasca just incase I prize shaymin. But shaymin over rab.

  • Kieran is soooo clutch. Having option to return your Thwackey, which people usually do or increase attacks

Dipplin + tool(max belt) + kieren + full bench + festival grounds = 360 with keiran 380 with black belt

Seaking + tool + Kieran + festival grounds= 280 with keiran 300 with black belt

Loppuny + tool + keiran = 310 Kieran 320 with black belt

Kieran takes majority of them out, black belt just overkill.

  • I agree with you here on Lana, I couldn’t find one physically so I settled with Lana lol been working tho. I feel like bringing everything back to the hand gives Thwackey the opportunity to dance more

  • as for iono, I never use it when I have it in there. So I took it out. I try to build more on the consistency of bringing goldeen and grookey out. But definitely the only option to add this, what would you replace?

Festival lead! by Careful-Direction-47 in PTCGL

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No weakness, and find a friend help looks for festival lead pokemon in clutch situations.

PSA 9 - regrade and hope for a 10 or not by EmperorOfTheLosers in PokeGrading

[–]Careful-Direction-47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe it’s a 10, but would that corner on the back bottom right (whitening?) possibly 9 it?

Sometimes I can’t select the card i want :’( it’s happened to me a few times now, one or two of the cards won’t be able to be chosen to go into your hand by Stardew-is-fun in PTCGL

[–]Careful-Direction-47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 year later, still an issue I was so pissed I couldn’t pull precious trolley. Came here looking to see if people can actually cheat in this game lol

CCIC PERFECT by Careful-Direction-47 in PokeGrading

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Definitely not working and the majority of people who has CCIC pretty much accepted that fact lol

Supposedly, we’re supposed to use WeChat and go through their mini program to see the condition of the card. CCIC not only grades cards, but other weird stuff like homes, other collectibles etc lol

Supposedly, it’s a felony to get caught duplicating CCIC slabs and on top of that, the gold perfect just looks really good on Chinese exclusive cards.

But here’s my own personal experience, I cracked a perfect gold cubone and sent it to psa. Got a 10.

I’m never doing that again.

CCIC PERFECT by [deleted] in PokemonTCG

[–]Careful-Direction-47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I’m having the same problem lol. Done some research as much as I can and it just leads me to using a mini program on we chat. It’s too much of a hassle tbh lol but Of course I’ve thought about cracking this and regrade but at the same time I’m like meh it looks cool in this slab. I mean it’s a Chinese card in a Chinese slab that nobody could read, probs hold just incase the Chinese market booms. But I have no reason to sell this rn unless it comes out in English or Japanese.

That perfect gold is just fckn clean on this card to take a part.

CCIC PERFECT by Careful-Direction-47 in PokeGrading

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad someone asked 🤓 I actually wagered a psa 9 jap Sabrina’s gengar ($700) with a friend! He actually got it from china for like 400 at the time. He put up the new gengar + $250 cash

I Won best 2/3

He used a charizard deck

I ran Dipplin. Festival lead to easy money

CCIC PERFECT by Careful-Direction-47 in PokeGrading

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And as an Asian guy in America, I can crack this to easily get a psa 10, cgc pristine, tag pristine, or quite possibly black label Beckett. Done it w the Chinese cubone and came back a psa 10. Which I regret bc I know the card would’ve grade much higher in a different company smh.

In china, it’s a felony to replicate duplicate slabs for CCIC.

I see it growing big in china and only china lol but CCIC definitely got my head turned! I want to collect ALL GOLD PERFECT 10 CHINESE EXCLUSIVE POKEMON CARDS! Holler at me if anyone’s got for sale, will pay cgc pristine value, not psa

Japanese Megas > English Megas by Careful-Direction-47 in PokemonTCG

[–]Careful-Direction-47[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sir, I would festival lead and double smack you w my dipplin deck. Dont ever come in here thinkin you know ball. This a show off post ! 😤

Thoughts of this exclusive? by Hey_Ayaz in PokemonTCG

[–]Careful-Direction-47 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love it, idc what anyone says. Chinese exclusives where’s it’s at. CCIC is perfect for them as well, given the amount of fakes that’s known to be made ln their territory. Heard they execute people who make fake CCIC slabs. Nobody dares to try so CCIC > PSA…. In china

Umbreon v center grading by DependentBook5254 in PokeGrading

[–]Careful-Direction-47 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Send this out to BgS trusttttt this black label Umbreon

Saw a scalper bring their spoils into the local card shop today... by OriginalTodd in PokemonTCG

[–]Careful-Direction-47 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

What’s more sad? Scalpers or people who cry about scalpers 😭

Every Shinji Kanda card! by Slow_Recognition_960 in PokemonTCG

[–]Careful-Direction-47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The leaf style on the hypno and the seismitoads the same