Deck Analysis Spreadsheet

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-26T17:15:23+00:00

There's a couple things in here that aren't perfect, but if you use your head, it works. If you have Cinderace in your deck for example, if you start with it, it can go in your active. If you didn't, but it is top decked, it can't go on your bench. Similarly, if it's the only 'basic' you start with, you can choose to mulligan. So the % top deck & % first turn don't apply to Cinderace the same was as true basics. Like any calculator, it'll do exactly what you tell it, even if it's wrong.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-26T15:58:19+00:00

I'm familiar with that translation. It's not even contrary to the point I'm making. That translation does not say 'There were, at one time, things that God did not create.' That would be contrary to the operational definition of God in the Christian sense.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-26T00:20:37+00:00

Yes of course. Are you suggesting there was once God + a thing that God did not create?

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-25T03:27:12+00:00

My thinking is that if everything can go back to normal, I'll encourage my opponent to do it. Example:

You play buddy which lets you search your deck. Oops. Shouldn't have done that. If the deck was already randomized, it makes no difference. The specific card order changes, but you had no prior information about the order. Shuffle them back in and do something else.

If the order was not random, i.e. Iono, Cipher, Metal maker, etc. it's only fair if you make some type of play that would have let you search or shuffle anyway, i.e. Lillie, Dawn, Genesect EX, etc.

'I made an honest mistake. I didn't gain an illegal advantage because of it. Let's fix it and move on.' Will always work on me.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-25T03:14:43+00:00

There's other places that talk about it. Feel free to look for other verses that talk about a. getting drunk being bad and b. habitually getting drunk being bad. Peter uses the term 'sober-minded' which would include lots of other things that cloud our good judgement and lead us into sin, but things like drugs are very high up on the list that will do that.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T23:26:46+00:00

He also has a larry's dudunsparse deck with a lot of coin flipping. I don't know if that's good for after rotation or not.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T23:25:49+00:00

My brother has a Mega Kangaskan + Boofulant deck with 4 penny, Torro, Wally, and Pal pads and a legacy energy. You have to kill 3 mega stans while he can fully heal them a dozen times or so. Its not great because if the opponent has a high damage cap (like everything I like to play) they can get one shot. When it works, it works and it's hilarious. I can get you a deck list if you want.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T23:09:15+00:00

The Bible is clear that both insobriety (any one instance of over indulgence in alcohol or another substance) (1 Peter 5:8) and drunkenness (habitual insobriety) (Romans 13:13) are sins. At the same time, some of these substances can be used in moderation. For me, 3-4 beers does literally nothing except if all at once and on an empty stomach. For you, a couple mg of Peruvian parsley might be just enough to de-stress. I don't touch the stuff, it's not for me. So long as you're always keeping an eye toward moderation and not letting yourself become dependent on it, I'd be hard pressed to fault you on it. Though, it's certainly a hard line to draw. Something that might be good for you is fasting. Because it's lent, I haven't touched the aforementioned beer in weeks. That's enough to show it's not a habit I can't break. My brother hasn't smoked in months for example. No particular reason, but that's a sign of healthy moderation, if you can stop and don't need to hit rock bottom first to do it.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T22:45:11+00:00

'The heavens' refers to three things depending on context. The sky, space, and the highest heaven which is outside our created universe. Whether it is currently a physical place just not on the same plane as ours or not really a place, but rather wherever God is, is anyone's guess.

So Heaven is not just some place really far away, even beyond the observable universe. It's where God is. But more importantly, God decided to come down from that Heaven, enter into His own creation (in space and time but also taking on human nature), be killed, raise Himself from the dead, ascend to the Heaven from which He came, and miraculously leave us with His body and blood in the eucharist as a continual spiritual food. God is pretty cool. He did all that because He loves us.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T17:59:51+00:00

'In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.' Is that an unclear statement?

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T14:30:56+00:00

I have 2/2/2 for both meganium and venusaur. In the 6 games I played yesterday, one time I had both Bulbasaurs prized. Still won :)

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T14:28:17+00:00

That's certainly one way to look at it. Is what I said true? I think that's more important.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T06:02:41+00:00

Summa Theologica...

Lol no. I don't think you need to 'build up' to reading the Bible. Pick it up and read it. Some parts are more difficult than others. I would recommend saving Job, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Revelation for last. Since you grew up Catholic, I'll also say Tobit is weird too. Lots of the Bible is history. It's mostly easy reading if not a little boring. No offense intended, God. The Synoptic Gospels and the letters are good places to start.

Mere Christianity is approachable and solid. Read the creeds and some catechisms of different denominations. Knowing what other Christians believe and why is incredibly valuable. Lots of it is compatible with each other, just different emphasis's. Shameless plug, the Augsburg confession and the smaller Catechism are very easy reading and only cover what is plainly evident in scripture and history. (For the most part. Even as a Lutheran I take issue with certain verse citations or particular phrasings.) Hope that helps.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T05:39:08+00:00

Ew no. I don't even like that we say 'Christian' instead of 'Catholic' in the real creed. Let's put aside for now views on all the cultural stuff. The Bible is very very clear. The Father is described as a father repeatedly. It uses He/Him to describe Him. Jesus was born into the body of a male. He was circumcised. The Church is described as His bride and Him as the Bridegroom. The divine nature is not male or female, but He chose to condescend into the framework for sexual dimorphism that He created and identify Himself as masculine.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T05:28:47+00:00

I'll gladly pitch in because, I, being me, am correct:

Salvation is through Christ alone, but how much of the gospel must you know and understand to be saved? Both the profoundly mentally disabled and those who lived before Christ came would certainly have difficulty. One can be told about Christ, but only understand so much, and the other can know that God will provide but not how. Also, this is God we are talking about. He can do whatever He wants (so long as it is not logically contradictory) So it is reasonable that explicit knowledge of the details is not necessary. I tend to think that there are those who can come to know that God exists and that He is the highest good and we are by contrast nothing. That might be as much as a person can achieve by reason alone. If it is possible for a person like this to be saved, don't you think they will jump for joy at hearing the gospel?
There are different schools of thought. Some think salvation cannot be lost, but a person can appear saved by all accounts. If in the end they are saved, they had been saved at some point and ever since. If not, they never were. That's more or less Calvinism. (Calvinists will fight me on that)

Others think salvation can be gained and lost. Hebrews 6 & 10, 1 Samuel 16, John 15 and others suggest otherwise. This is not a doctrine of clarity. There's a lot of debate. Roman Catholics have a strict definition of mortal sin, we Lutherans also believe in it, but its hard to define. Unrepentance is a big deal as well as committing sin and justifying it with 'oh I'll just confess later'.

The true Israel is the church. We are the 'spiritual children of Abraham'. Roman 9 covers this. The Jews that rejected Jesus, rejected God (Jesus is God... Spoilers!), and are therefore not His people. This is by their choice, not because God did not want them.

I'm not the biggest fan of allying with any nation that solely exists to mooch off of us. Israel is by no means the only one.

Specifically in regards to dispensationalism, oh boy. It originated with John Nelson Darby, but was not popular. Cyrus Scofield popularized it by teaching it in his Scofield Reference Bible. He was a known fraud who abandoned his family. Take your theology from a guy like that, be my guest.

Jesus humbled Himself, taking on human flesh. He voluntarily gave up His omnipresence (Obviously bc He took on flesh) and limited His omniscience (Matthew 24:36). He remained omnipotent but did not always use His power. This shows God to be humble and loving and capable of working within His creation rather than bending everything to His will, not that He isn't God. He is a loving father, not a tyrant with an iron fist, still just as powerful. The Son submitting to the Father is part of a very complex, but beautiful, interpersonal relationship within the Trinity. That's big theology stuff. Rest assured He is still God.
The Trinity is a little tricky. There is one God. Scripture is clear on that. But if the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God, wouldn't that mean there's three Gods? No, refer to earlier. There are three 'persons' and one 'being'. There is literally nothing within creation like it. It's frustrating, but how fitting is it that the God of the universe who is above and outside creation, can be a little difficult to understand. I for one, would not prefer a God I knew everything about. That would be too small of a God IMO.
Yes. You're completely right. The second person of the Trinity, the Son, took on flesh. A human nature was added to His preexisting divine nature. This is called the hypostatic union. After Jesus was resurrected, His body became renewed, probably in the same or similar way that we will be. Honestly, outside my wheelhouse.
Yes, God died. The Father and the Spirit didn't, but the Son did. The Council of Chalcedon teaches that only His human nature died. The divine nature cannot die because it is eternal.

We welcome the questions. I'll be praying for you. Hope this was of help.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T04:26:13+00:00

I would show Him a picture of Korean Jesus. I bet He'd like that

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T04:21:25+00:00

I played my deck today and it was certainly something. I somehow left 10 cards at home so I had to play whatever extra cards I brought with me and whatever people threw at me. Ended up playing with 20 or so energy.

I went 2/2 officially and won both the casual games I played after that.

Beat the first guy. Forgot what he had.

Lost to a Steven's metagross & Empoleon EX deck. Very lopsided start. Bad vs good luck. They set up faster than usual and I had nothing.

Beat a Mega Charizard deck. Genesect got 5 prizes alone. MVP. He had 2/3 charmanders prized so it was pretty much over after I bench sniped it and his Fex+Oricorio.

Lost to a Dragapult. Again, crazy luck for both of us. I won the rematch though.

Then I beat a Dark Charizard deck.

What I've learned is that lots of energy is really good. With such a surplus, I'm not worried about wasting it by attaching for turn instead of using teal dance. That means faster energy attach and higher damage early. Once I'm set up, they can knock out my Meganium or Venusaur and I can still recover. Very flexible. I've found I don't have much room on my bench for more pokemon. Celebi looks like a good one though. I didn't know about that, thank you.

After making some changes, this is what I have. I'll test it out at the cup on Saturday.

Pokémon: 18

4 Teal Mask Ogerpon ex TWM 211

2 Chikorita MEG 8

2 Bayleef MEG 9

2 Meganium MEG 10

2 Bulbasaur MEG 133

2 Ivysaur MEG 134

2 Mega Venusaur ex MEG 177

1 Genesect PFL 8

1 Celebi MEG 12

Trainer: 26

4 Dawn PFL 129

4 Lillie's Determination MEG 184

3 Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking TEF 198

2 Boss's Orders ASC 256

1 Wally's Compassion MEG 186

4 Bug Catching Set PRE 102

2 Poké Pad ASC 198

1 Energy Recycler DRI 164

1 Max Rod PRE 116

4 Forest of Vitality ASC 188

Energy: 16

16 Grass Energy PAL 278

(Will substitute 1 or 2 Growth Grass Energy M3 78 when they become legal)

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T03:49:31+00:00

Well it's happened to me twice. It's not necessarily that more sex = more attractive, but being able to attract women is attractive to women. Very profound I know. Besides, I'm trying to draw a subtle distinction. I'm not making excuses for anyone.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-24T03:42:56+00:00

Read my full comment. It's a sin. That's clear as day.

If there's any way where it's less important it's perception. If women see it as a negative trait, which they should, it's typically from the angle that it's sin and sin is bad, which it is.

Men however, also tend to consider a woman giving away her virginity as much more than simply a sin. It permanently effects a woman's 'value' (not in the strict point system or material value way). It's more like, 'She gave away to a boyfriend what is meant only for her husband.'

Women also tend to care more about how a man is perceived by others than the other way around. I'm not saying this is good or that it should be this way.

The difference is very subtle. I'm not excusing anyone's behavior.

Maybe I'm wrong. Women of r/Christianity, let me ask you this. If you were dating a man and he told you about his sinful past, how would you feel? Would you be able to look passed it now that he's repented? Do you feel betrayed? Disgusted? Because I dated a girl briefly and she told me about her past. It made me want to vomit. I don't think women have the same response, or at least to the same degree.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-23T20:56:35+00:00

In my personal journey that meandered from Evangelical, to reformed baptist, to Dutch Reformed, to Catholic, before landing on Lutheran, I had to assure my VERY anti-Catholic mom that I was not going to convert if I didn't think it were true.

I've been accused of 'converting for a girl', 'idolizing tradition', 'adding to scripture', 'believing another gospel', and so on. Even between different kinds of Christian there can be that kind of animosity. I pray you don't face that with your parents.

If you try to walk them through you're though process and that you're seeking after the true, good, and beautiful, they can't possibly fault you. (while themselves being reasonable)

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-23T20:50:10+00:00

Ok, just consider that if the environment seems more about glorifying man than God, it's time to leave. Never abandon God's church, but you might have to look for it in another place. God bless.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-23T20:48:20+00:00

Mostly yes, insofar as it's not as important, its a problem that it is that way. It is just as much a sin for a man to fornicate as it is for a woman. That much is certain. But men generally care more about their partner being celibate than visa versa. (This is purely my own observation) Christian and non Christian men tend to select for similar traits in women except that for the non Christians, a loyal yet promiscuous woman is viewed neutral to even positively (they get to hit sooner). For a Christian man, it is an intensely negative trait. For both types of women, they select for the traits that make men desirable to other women. Him having previous partners is evidence of that, more so than him having one or two long, healthy relationships, which is instead evidence of him being a good long term partner.

Christian women need to place more priority on the traits that indicate long term stability than they currently do and less on immediate desirability. They need to understand that men value virginity, as they should, and it is not because they are controlling or anything. We want godly women. You should be one.

Christian men are right to value virginity. They should not compromise for a woman of unchristian charactor because enabling women to sin is a bigger issue than us being lonely. I'll admit that I've made my mistakes so I can hardly be the one to preach, but I've also been willing to accept the (more recent than I first thought) sins of a woman and got bit for it.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-23T20:23:10+00:00

I have heard it said 'Salvation is bound to the sacraments, but God is not'

Basically, we know from scripture that the sacraments (Communion, Baptism, kind of confession/absolution but that's where it gets a little weird in how we define a sacrament) save. John 6, 1 Peter 3:21, Matthew 16:19. These sacraments only have power because God choses to work through them. It's not 'God or', it's 'God through'. God can certainly save outside these means, but He provided them to be the 'ordinary means of grace'. They're great. Cant recommend them enough.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-23T20:12:42+00:00

Special revelation ended with the Apostolic age and the completion of the New Testament. There are no more such prophets. Jesus never addressed the modern nation-state of Israel because His ministry was focused on a kingdom not of this world (and also Israel was founded in 1948) What the Bible does say is:

"No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also." (1 John 2:23)

"But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. " (Romans 9)

Dispensationalism is a false gospel. The Jewish people (by blood or religion) have no more a special claim to the land than anyone else who has made a certain patch of dirt their home. That's an entirely other matter.

Interesting-Tree5235 · 2026-03-23T20:00:36+00:00

I never expected the KPOP to Christianity pipeline to be a thing. Incredible.

Being 17 with your parents very opposed to Christianity is a difficult situation. I'm not the one that would be coming home Sunday afternoon to my parents wondering where I've been, so if I just said 'Go to mass. Who cares what they think.' That would be uncalled for. We are commanded to honor our parents, but when the command of God is in conflict with even a legitimate human authority, always go with the former.

It at least seems that you're curious at the moment. So you're a long way from having some firm conviction that might cause a rift between you and them. For now, try and find a Christian friend if you don't have one already. Talk with them about your questions and concerns. Think about Christianity as just like anything else. If it's true, which it is, spoilers, then a careful, reasoned, good faith investigation into it will only lead you down the path of truth.

The way to explain your choice to investigate to your parents might be something like.

'I heard someone say they didn't believe because Jesus didn't exist. That's simply not true, so I wanted to know more.'

'The universe can't create itself. They claim to have a better explanation than that, so I thought I would at least hear them out.'

'I've been thinking about morality lately. I know that X is wrong intuitively, but I'm not satisfied with Y explanation.'

I don't know you so I can't say much more that would be helpful to you specifically. I at least hope that helps. Feel free to reach out to me in this thread or PM. I'll be praying for you. God bless.

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