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Explaining Expanded

A Look into the Good, the Bad, and the Spooky for Halloween in Portland “Adapting Zoroark to the new Expanded format has been a bit interesting. As the deck clearly hit the hardest by the bans, it feels like a shell of the deck it used to be, but do not underestimate the raw power of Zoroark-GX and Sky Field. It is still consistent as ever while hitting like a truck, but now they can’t pull of a cheesy Red Card + Hex Maniac or Ghetsis plays that can completely shut one player out of the game. The deck is still incredibly powerful and likely Tier 1, but definitely not at the previous power…

’18 Oct 11
Travis Nunlist
@tnunski

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Gardevoir’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Thoroughly Comprehensive Guide to All Things Gardevoir in BKT–BUS “Before my last article, Lex D’Andrea beat me in Top 8 of a League Cup, going on to win the event. I took his deck and won the Cup the next day. I spent the next two weeks testing out little changes in the list to get to a more refined list for Hartford. We ended up changing only a few cards and you can see the list we ended up playing: Sam made Top 4 and Pablo made Top 16 with one card different. Myself and our other teammate Spencer Nalle played the same list as Sam, with Spencer getting Top…

’17 Oct 11
Mike Fouchet
@mikefouchet

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The Hateful Eight

Revelations from (Actually) Testing, Three Favorites for Orlando, and A Few Almost-Theres “I’m not quite sure what made me focus a huge section of my article on these opinions that I have formed through testing, but it probably had something to do with the new job that I have gotten within the past month. Through growing up and finally getting a 9-to-5 job, I’ve realized that not everyone can practice Pokemon as much as I do. There’s always something that could be in the way, whether it be a lack of cards, a lack of players to test with, or even just not having the spare time. People are struggling to figure…