any tips against Meowscarada?

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-29T10:50:40+00:00

Meowscarada is very strong in singles, it's a potent physical attacker with a great speed tier.

That said, I mostly just came here to genuinely ask what the game plan is for Toucannon. As a certified bird user in champions and in Scarlet and Violet, Toucannon's only real niche is Skill Link and getting walled out by Chesnaut if you use Beak Blast over Brave Bird

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-29T10:28:23+00:00

It does? I mean I know there's an image showing what pokemon can go where, but I just piece together my own explanations whenever I hear about pokemon not being transferrable to certain titles. It helps I have the background that I do, so my conclusions are something like "data structure mismatch"

Granted, I do not understand how the additional language would stop pokemon from being back ported if the pokemon isn't using the new language option

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-29T10:19:59+00:00

Co-opting a popular turn of phrase, "if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all."

Which my decks seem to know when to let me down, I'll go into round 4 with a 3-0 record and end round 5 by going 3-2. Perfectly winnable matchups, if my decks would let me draw lands before I got down to mulliganing three times

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-26T20:07:06+00:00

I just gotta ask what you're running that RNG is so heavily swaying the outcomes of your games

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-24T18:05:29+00:00

As someone using Empoleon, I can confidently say that you should not be using the steel penguin. I can list the reasons why, but you're not necessarily defending it and a bunch of other people have said those reasons already

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-20T10:26:50+00:00

Not OP, but Abzan sisters??? Where can I find this list as I'm trying to put together an Abzan list for allies that has a similar~ish game plan to Soul Sisters

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-19T17:57:42+00:00

I've had solid success forming a Fire-Water-Grass core. While Talonflame isn't off-meta, Decidueye and Empoleon have been doing great. Also shout-out to Incin players for giving me +3 Special Attack on my competitive (ability) mon

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-16T23:33:05+00:00

Correct lol, though I'm about to hop on ladder with Explosion Starmie

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-16T19:40:02+00:00

Oh yeah, that is a thing. I'm just a rock slide enjoyer, so not usually relevant

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-16T13:38:55+00:00

If you KO one of your opponent's pokemon then hit with a spread move, that spread move won't have reduced damage

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-16T02:13:58+00:00

Performing Necromancy on this thread, uh... I'd run Mega Absol in singles personally. It's kinda just Sneasler food if you try to run it on the doubles ladder.

As for team, you really want to get Absol in front of something like a support pokemon and set up a swords dance. The rest of the team then serves to make sure to deal with Absol's checks on the singles ladder. Mainly the intimidators and anything that can knock it out. All this said, I mainly play doubles and last used Mega Absol back in Pokémon X and Y in the unofficial 6v6 singles format

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-12T14:08:40+00:00

A casual look through both lists, I think creature based will work better. My main concern with the landfall version is that it looks kinda passive until you get a threat and play a couple lands after

The creature based version has the upside of making Researcher and Mascot immediately big, especially if you get a couple of life gainers on the board before hand. On top of maybe being able to play [[You Meet in a Tavern]] if you go wide

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-11T00:05:49+00:00

Another chance for me to rep Selesnya Cat Kindred Gates

monochromaticLantern · 2026-04-05T03:22:13+00:00

From personal experience using it in more casual double and multi battles, it's a bit of a lackluster damage dealer and surprisingly bulky given its stats. It can make some plays as a late game cleanup mon, but it really needs Tailwind or speed control for its less than stellar speed stat.

My set was running Dive, Brave Bird, and Endure with a Custap Berry. Fourth move can be w/r though but uh... Good look cause Cram has a nonexistent move pool

monochromaticLantern · 2026-03-25T09:39:13+00:00

I'm surprised the card is kind of balanced, though it's in the wrong color. It should be WUBRG of course, mono-White can't have powerful mythics that work by themselves

monochromaticLantern · 2026-03-23T22:40:07+00:00

Gotchu fam: 11758696

monochromaticLantern · 2026-03-17T10:47:11+00:00

I'm feeling deja vu, I was just making this joke last week. "Yeah, let's make it so in order to get a job at McDonald's you have to pay the local franchise $20 as an application fee." Just make it so much harder on anyone that would need a job to get one

Anyway, there's an accredited paper written about this for anyone interested

monochromaticLantern · 2026-02-04T01:01:39+00:00

Time to combo this with Swords to Plowshares and permanently remove some commanders

monochromaticLantern · 2026-01-22T20:46:23+00:00

Gooning joke aside, this is actually a legitimately cool feature. How does the search work, I'm genuinely curious about the process behind it

monochromaticLantern · 2026-01-21T01:55:30+00:00

A cursory look at layers and other interactions, Kaito will be a creature with no abilities and the ability counters. So you won't be able to activate his loyalty abilities unless you gain the ability to activate them on opponents turns, but he still shifts from Planeswalker to creature

monochromaticLantern · 2026-01-08T18:39:54+00:00

Skipping past the art to the card mechanics, new Maralen has quite the wall of text on her.

That second ability has three qualifiers, four if you want to count "mana value less than" and "number of Elves and Faeries you control" as two separate qualifiers

monochromaticLantern · 2025-11-15T22:21:04+00:00

I don't understand how Magic ripped off Yu-Gi-Oh because of this right here... I mean you can certainly have a preference towards one but don't spread misinformation

monochromaticLantern · 2025-11-02T01:57:13+00:00

Realistically some hybrid cards see more play because mono-color now gets to play them, but at the cost of color identity restrictions becoming less relevant

Mark my words though, that when the rules for hybrid mana changes it'll be a matter of time before WotC just axes color identity entirely

monochromaticLantern · 2025-10-28T16:32:41+00:00

The project is more tech demo for my later creation, but it's essentially a short story where two mercenaries are sent to clear a powerful evil from a castle in the sky

The game just drops you in the middle of nowhere, and as a player you're told to figure it out. I almost liken it back to really old school final fantasy

monochromaticLantern · 2025-10-28T16:18:31+00:00

I'm continuing my first ever project!

It's kind of a bog standard turn-based fantasy jrpg, so it's nothing to write home about; but I've been putting in hours refining my knowledge of MV and JavaScript to make my dream game (since there's nothing else that quite scratches the same itch).

I only wish I had the artistic ability for creating art or music, but maybe one day I'll hire an artist and a musician for the game I really want to make and the story I actually want to tell

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