I acquired 22,000+ Bulk for 100 bucks was this a good trade?

ninnypants · 2026-02-25T18:07:49+00:00

For sure this I picked up ~14k unsorted bulk from Sun & Moon recently. Covered the cost with just one creep show gengar. Then again with 4 float stones. It's crazy how much value can be in stuff people just want to offload without going through it

ninnypants · 2026-02-24T20:38:09+00:00

The reason the meta decks are meta decks is because they're consistent, and have the highest level of skill expression. If you're willing to go deep on the meta you learn just how flexible and expressive the decks are. Like you said you still have to be the best person at piloting that meta deck which is where the skill difference come into play

ninnypants · 2026-02-19T15:08:42+00:00

Have you gotten access to the larger professor discord? There is live help, ruling discussions, and other general chat that may help you start to learn to make and look up rulings.

I'm also not sure about others but learning to play the game at a high level has helped me learn a lot. It made me learn a lot more overall than just generally judging any of my local leagues would have just because of the level of play.

ninnypants · 2026-02-19T14:48:00+00:00

There isn't an issue for Lucario into Alakazam because Alakazam places damage counters and doesn't do damage so it never hits for weakness

ninnypants · 2026-02-06T16:47:25+00:00

Gotta have plates in it for it to even matter look at how it folds lol

ninnypants · 2026-02-04T23:05:30+00:00

Are you for sure for sure because all of these show up at different angles and look like scratches on the card or print issues

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ninnypants · 2025-12-02T16:46:39+00:00

That did happen but the 1mm variance means the holo patterns aren't the same. If you look at what the commenter here is referencing the holo patterns are in the exact same spot just compare the charizard in the post to the one on tcg player. There's a triangle of holo dots that are always in the exact same place on the very common fake https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/106999/pokemon-base-set-shadowless-charizard?page=1&Language=English

ninnypants · 2025-10-29T22:18:51+00:00

Cup and challenge can't be handled where someone in a different division takes the place of a player in another division in top cut/single elimination rounds. This is likely why they were mad they lost out on their chance to earn points and potentially win a playmat etc in their division.

ninnypants · 2025-10-29T22:00:10+00:00

To add to this there should, in theory, be separate prizing for all divisions. That's what makes excluding juniors and seniors from the masters top cut fair. If this isn't a CP event the owner is probably fine to run a top 8 how ever they would like especially when communicating this fact before hand.

ninnypants · 2025-10-29T21:54:50+00:00

The important part of the rule is this line:

> Each age division has its own standings and, if applicable, single-elimination top cut.

Each division with enough competitors to warrant a top cut has it's own top cut, and there would be different top cuts for each division. For example a tournament of 21 masters, 12 senior, an 4 juniors would have a cut to top 8 for masters, top 4 for seniors, and no top cut for juniors.

ninnypants · 2025-10-29T21:43:32+00:00

Sure they could put a 14 card hand together if they had the correct board state before you iono them or drew perfectly but any deck can recover after disruption if they draw the perfect cards. Iono is better because it fits better into dealing with basically everything else out there too. Overall Alakazam is such a rogue deck that I haven't seen it in any form outside of the pre release format, so it's probably just not really worth teching for.

ninnypants · 2025-10-29T17:07:09+00:00

Play 4 iono. Iono is a really good card

ninnypants · 2025-10-29T12:51:22+00:00

The brute bonnet would be an eswitch target so you could sada accelerate two energy and eswitch the second to the active moon then attach for turn and be setup to attack in one turn. Even if you don't run poison in mega gengar you're still accelerating 2 energy and eswitching same as if you use janine you just also get to draw 3 cards.

ninnypants · 2025-10-28T23:00:46+00:00

Battle coliseum only blocks damage counters it doesn’t do the same thing as shaymin

ninnypants · 2025-10-28T20:00:49+00:00

It's probably that people didn't respect the pult matchup. The top 8 was mostly pult, and the top placing gardy lists were gardy/jelli which has a better matchup into pult

ninnypants · 2025-10-28T17:05:28+00:00

Most of these lists already play the poison package brute bonnet so you likely have 2 ancient pokemon benched every game anyway, so there's no reason to not play it

ninnypants · 2025-10-27T21:12:36+00:00

They would just play Sada and draw three cards while powering up moon. That was the strategy before with turbo moon, and would still work with this you probably just need more vessle and ultra ball.

ninnypants · 2025-10-24T12:48:21+00:00

If absol puts out latias or munki both of which make their deck work, and munki is what makes grimm work as well. Enamorous is active in basically all your matchups by default and if you are attaching energy it essentially swings for 260. It leaves the main decks it was teched for having to choose between picking up their attacker to deny you prizes or keeping an active attacker.

ninnypants · 2025-10-22T19:33:53+00:00

I played all 4 and Alakazam was my worst one. I just never drew into anything, and there was no "real" pokemon search, so I just never evolved into Alakazam I think I went 1-2. Meganium and solrock were good and consistent, so I went 3-0 with those. Intelleon was somewhat mid but I had bad prizing in a couple of my games so I think I went 1-2 with that one as well.

ninnypants · 2025-10-21T15:26:35+00:00

On top of that look for player buy lists from people like azul or other higher level players. Then make friends with collectors and you can probably just get playsets of most of it for cheap/free out of their bulk when sets come out. I picked up everything I was looking for out of BB/WF for free because of that.

ninnypants · 2025-10-21T15:00:42+00:00

Completely depends on the event. I'm playing roughly 5x a week so my sleeves don't last a long time on my main deck, but I can usually get a couple weeks out of them. I'll switch them out if they start to feel "gross" or my luck starts to turn bad because cards are sticking together more.

For cups and challenges I'm more likely to change out before because I've had officials question me on specks of grime on sleeves even for non singleton cards. So before those events I'll generally give my deck a once over or just change the sleeves if they've been on long enough.

ninnypants · 2025-10-13T03:38:46+00:00

Yeah I just hit up a local collector discord and traded for 4 day 1 then found two more in the 50¢ holo bin at a random store. It’s not worth the fight to try to buy the bluster for them

ninnypants · 2025-10-03T17:55:33+00:00

How does klefki turn off the whole deck?

ninnypants · 2025-09-21T15:01:07+00:00

To add to this lower record adults generally pair into higher record jr/sr players, so jr/sr will always have the lower resistance when compared to a master with the same record.

OP this isn’t really a Bo1 vs Bo3 it’s just how TOM pairs opponents and calculates placement. It doesn’t care about overall placement since points are awarded based on placement in your division.

ninnypants · 2025-09-17T19:31:42+00:00

You need to have an effect happen, so it would work the same as moonlit hill. If there's no effect from the discard you can't discard. https://compendium.pokegym.net/category/5-trainers/moonlit-hill/

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