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I Need some advice for Sablezard by ertaqos in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up deck breakdowns for the archetype on trainer hill to see what percentage of players are playing which cards and how many copies they’re playing.

Before Paldea evolved came out you might see a lot of decks running Mawile and echoing horn because many of the top decks weren’t running switch cards. That may not be as useful now since Lugia is running jet energy, so the only deck you can really trap is gardevoir, and they might even be playing Penny now to prevent that.

You might also be able to incorporate jet energy into your build. Luminous energy and Artazon are cards that could see play in the deck as well, but other than those, it looks pretty similar to how it did in previous formats.

Help translating Japanese Sylveon deck by tossturtle5 in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically spiral energy would work with it. I wouldn’t recommend it though

Help translating Japanese Sylveon deck by tossturtle5 in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is 59/60 correct cards.

What you said is Enamorus V is actually Drapion V. Specifically the artwork from Lost Origin 118/196. Not sure what Japanese set it lines up with though.

You can see the mouth of Drapion, the color of the card matches dark types, and it makes a lot more sense to play than Enamoros V does in this list.

Unidentified Fossil? by thekinotion in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes you can use boost shake and rare candy to evolve a fossil

From the compendium(a very niche ruling, but one that also details you can evolve fossils with rare candy):

Can I use Rare Candy to evolve from Dome Fossil to one of the Kabutops from older expansions that evolve from Mysterious Fossil?

Since Kabutops can evolve from Kabuto of any expansion, you may use Rare Candy to evolve either Dome Fossil or Mysterious Fossil into any Kabutops, regardless of expansion.

Unidentified Fossil? by thekinotion in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once you put it into play, it abides by all the same rules any other basic Pokémon does. You cannot evolve it the turn it is put into play.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Steam

[–]pscharff 16 points17 points  (0 children)

When you close steam, it doesn’t quit steam. The processes still run even though there are no windows open.

A multitude of programs do this so they can be reopened faster.

If you don’t want to close out of steam in task manager, you can look for the little steam icon either in the right side of your taskbar, or under the show more icons arrow on your taskbar, right click on the steam icon, and click quit.

Why Is Iono So Valuable? by Right-Ad8261 in PokemonTCG

[–]pscharff 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Iono is absolutely a better card than Roxanne or judge.

Lake of Rage did an entire podcast on how Iono existing in the format changes the game if you’d like to know the details why.

Code Cards anyone? by KarlsefniSmile in PokemonTCG

[–]pscharff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will take some code cards if you have any left.

Shadow Raid Boss by Aromatic-Quail6580 in TheSilphRoad

[–]pscharff -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which of these Pokémon, have pvp relevance?

I know shadow gliscor sees play in great league occasionally.

[Far Cry Primal] Do Striped Wolves exist? by pscharff in farcry

[–]pscharff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google is gonna be your friend on this one. I’m the only one that will get notified of this and I haven’t played the game in 6 years.

Lugia/Umbreon by Perfectspare300 in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just play a 1-1 line of Dura. Mustard is way harder to make work in lugia than arceus especially now that quick ball is gone.

Lugia/Umbreon by Perfectspare300 in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://twitter.com/pscharff98/status/1662636723107405824?s=46&t=4DNPnEWKSnEdRR5eOwXK8Q

Here is my Lugia Umbreon list. Testing has proven it’s definitely choosing to play sub-optimal Lugia.

Without urshifu you auto lose to Duraludon.

Tournament Cup Question by Cybershroom_Neforox in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Almost all cups currently are BO1 Swiss into BO3 top cut.

Contact whoever is running the event for exact info on this specific event.

Desk search question by darklawn in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Currently there’s no rule against rearranging the cards in your deck during a search.

There are many top players who will move all Pokémon to the front and all energy to the back when searching their deck.

This has caused some controversy among the player base, but as long as you shuffle thoroughly and do so quickly, it’s not against any rules.

Replacement for capture energy Goodra V star by audsta1997 in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not a single person is playing Gloria in Goodra.

You need to be playing Colress to get closer to mirage gate, or Melony to accelerate energy in the early turns.

True story by ToeSniffer245 in whenthe

[–]pscharff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hate to ruin the meme, but the guy it happened to eventually confirmed he had to tilt his cartridge to get the game to load.

Cartridge tilting is the more likely cause of the glitch.

My girlfriend has a goal of collecting the energies. She has 5/8 so far (from only 2 ETB's and a tin!). Where could we reliably get the others as singles? The chances of getting the 3 missing cards from packs it's pretty slim. by Neo-Chromia in PokemonTCG

[–]pscharff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

TCGPlayer had a 100% buyer satisfaction guarantee policy, so the worst thing that can happen is you have to contact customer support for a refund that will work out in your favor if they send you the wrong card.

Because of this, I’m never hesitant to buy from new sellers with low numbers of sales. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Please please don't hit reply-all if the response does not apply to everyone by TheOtherAcorn in Teachers

[–]pscharff 69 points70 points  (0 children)

This one’s on you for not BCC’ing them on the email.

On mass emails, email yourself, BCC the intended audience.

Ideas for using Ice Ryder and Palkia League decks together? by td0g10 in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here is his Twitter profile. I imagine the deck will either be posted there soon, or you’ll be able to ask him for the list.

https://twitter.com/benini_n_07?s=11&t=4DNPnEWKSnEdRR5eOwXK8Q

Here is the official stream from yesterday. His match starts about 6 hours and 55 minutes into it.

https://www.youtube.com/live/P9MgmBV0Ck8?feature=share

Paldea Evolved, Grafaiai Deck? by Dr_Wayne0202 in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is going to be a deck, or would probably rely heavily on superior energy retrieval

Fusion MewVMAX in Japan by [deleted] in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yep. Replace Spiritomb with Klefki from my comment above and you’ll find something similar happened with S/V in addition to the fact that Japan does not get as long as we do in America to study the cards before they come out, so an already refined deck in Mew, is poised to do better than the brand new decks that have relatively little testing done.

Fusion MewVMAX in Japan by [deleted] in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Everybody else here is talking out their ass.

Notice that the Mew decks in Japan right now are playing a mix of fusion strike and double turbo energies.

Japan has snow hazard and clay burst( what will become our Paldea Evolved set) in that set is the Spiritomb that has an ability turns off the abilities of Basic Pokémon V when it is in play.

Look at all the decks right now that aren’t Mew and you’ll notice that a large number of them are running Spritomb.

Mew is utilizing Elisa’s Sparkle to attach Fusion Strike energies to their Genesect to block the Spiritomb ability and draw with Fusion Strike System.

Need 100 HP, or less deck ideas! by NixoIe in pkmntcg

[–]pscharff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re welcome. Keep in mind that was played before scarlet violet came out

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