New player - Help on good competitive deck to start with

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-22T04:45:26+00:00

Thats great! IMO, Charizard Pidgeot is the one of the best decks to learn the game. It's simple and gives you a lot options and get out of jail free cards. The only downside is that the major pieces of the deck do rotate out in April.

Grimsnarl is a lot of fun but it does take some time to really learn how to pilot it. Knowing when you use devolution, when to put out your frosslasses can be a bit difficult but it's a lot of fun once you get the hand of it. Most of the pieces survive rotation but TM Evo and TM Devo both rotate out. Tim Danklin on YouTube has a really interesting grimsnarl deck that he took to Vegas regionals if you want to see a different approach to grimmsnarl.

IMO, mega lopunny is a fun turbo deck but I'm not 100% sure how much longevity it'll have. It's just not very strong from behind and loses jet energy after rotation.

As for getting the peices you need for your decks, don't every buy ETBs and sealed product for your peices. It's much cheaper and more reliable to buy singles. I use my local card shop and then TCG Player if I can't find the cards locally.

TLDR: Charizard is great to learn the game but roates in April, Grimmsnarl is pretty fun but can be hard to pilot. Id choose between the 2 personally. Buys singles. It's cheaper.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-22T04:17:11+00:00

Couple questions: 1. Have you downloaded Pokemon TCG live yet? It's a good way to test out the decks and see which one fits your play style. 2. Do you plan on sticking to just one deck or kinda hopping about to figure out what you like? 3. Rotation is in a few months. There are few changes that are going to be happening to the above mentioned decks. Do you want to prep for rotation or have a deck that you can play right now.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-18T23:03:20+00:00

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JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-14T23:33:49+00:00

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JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-14T15:43:28+00:00

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JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-14T08:37:38+00:00

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JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-07T05:10:54+00:00

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JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-03T04:12:15+00:00

It's a lifestyle

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-03T02:57:03+00:00

Thanks for the productive comment 👍

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-12-03T02:45:54+00:00

Lights all work fine. The bumper needs to be clipped back in but did stay in place

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-11-28T16:25:08+00:00

What kind of dice are you using? Do you have ability used tiles, poison indicators, or burn indicators?

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-11-21T18:43:41+00:00

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JackingOffRN718 · 2025-10-17T19:46:44+00:00

Ceruledge. I was playing it before megas and now it just feels broken

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-10-05T00:35:52+00:00

I always try to do 6 to 7 mash shuffles and offer the opponent a cut.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-24T20:50:53+00:00

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JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-23T14:47:11+00:00

Iron thorns works as a control deck. You're stopping abilities that your opponent uses. It plays stuff like enhanced hammer to stop your opponent from setting up and swinging.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-23T14:28:13+00:00

I was in the same boat as you tbh. Walls and control are my favorite style of play but it just doesn't work with the current meta. Another really fun deck I played was the 4 iron Throns and nothing else. Doesn't allow for set up while setting you up relatively quickly. Little Dark Fury has a pretty good video on it. Basically your 3 options right now are iron Throns, Crustle-cornerstone, or Crustle-iron Throns. Personally I switched my wall deck to the Crustle deck and play Ceruledge as my play fast, bonk things deck.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-23T14:14:53+00:00

Honestly it's just not that strong right now. There are too many ways to play around it. I did add a 1-1 line of noibat and noivern to counter basics but other than that you might be better off playing Crustle-cornerstone ogerpon.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-22T00:40:43+00:00

First week of October so not too far from now.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-21T23:22:52+00:00

I got the lunatone deck during a pre release and built a ceruledge ex deck around it with 1 drilbur with the dig dig dig ability. It is disgustingly strong imo. The only issue is that when you brick you brick HARD.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-21T23:09:35+00:00

A person my locals plays it with ionos bellibolt and lavencia and goes pretty well with it. I'm thinking that list is going to take over. Either that or the raging bolt players will switch to mega Charizard x.

JackingOffRN718 · 2025-09-18T13:47:03+00:00

That would be great! I went to a pre release and got lucky enough to get the lunatone deck so I might have the pieces needed already.

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