Top 8 @ Collinsville w/ Sceptile/Vileplume, Vileplume Variants Moving Forward, and Looking Toward Charlotte “After making Top 8 at Dallas Regionals with the list that my friend Aaron Friedman made, I took a bit of a break from the game until Collinsville. With my invite secured and a big Regional done, I enjoyed my time relaxing and grinding through schoolwork. I played some games of the format before Collinsville, but not a ton. As such, I spent a lot of time Friday night scrambling to figure out what to play. I was between three options: Doll Stall, Trevenant & Dusknoir-GX/Milotic FLF, and, of course, Sceptrow. I didn’t feel as prepared for the event as…
A Look Back at Glaceon-GX/Barbaracle from Costa Mesa and Towards Zoroark-GX for Standard “I played Glaceon-GX/Barbaracle alongside Travis Nunlist, Christopher Schemanske, Alex Hill, and Frank Percic. All of us adhered to a 58 card skeleton and 2 personal choice cards. Alex, Travis, Frank: Team Flare Grunt + Ghetsis Christopher: Team Rocket’s Handiwork + Ghetsis (Super Rod > Rescue Stretcher as well) Xander (Myself): Team Rocket’s Handiwork + Oranguru UPR The former 3 decided that Team Flare Grunt would be worthwhile in the mirror match to outlast the opponent with Lusamine. Ghetsis was chosen as an all-around strong Supporter. Team Flare Grunt was also useful against random decks, importantly Zoroark-GX when an Enhanced Hammer…
Podcast Ep. 14: Starting March’s Standard Madness “This week, Mikey sat down with Azul Garcia Griego, Chip Richey (Trainer Chip), and our own Xander Pero to recap Expanded and look ahead to Charlotte Regionals. They talk in depth about Zoroark/Golisopod and Buzzwole/Lycanroc as the best decks Standard, as well as potential shifts in both metagames. Download ? iTunes ? SoundCloud ☁
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St. Louis Regionals Recap, the Return of Aggressive Decks, and a Portland Regionals Preview “I had originally planned on attending last weekend’s Regionals in St. Louis, but unfortunately life got in the way. I’ve had some personal health issues that have made traveling the Pokemon circuit at a rapid pace difficult since 2012, and over the past few years I have chosen to ignore them. My advice to you is to take care of your life outside of Pokemon first! Not only will this make tournaments more enjoyable, but you will likely perform better at events. I will continue to pursue my goal of being invited to the 2017 World Championships in Anaheim, but…
The Less Talked About Decks of the Standard Format “This is something that I’ve had to learn the hard way from testing with BKP legal is to do all you can to have more than 3 cards in your hand. Delinquent can come out at any time and discard a sizeable chunk of your hand. Especially in a format without N, it is often better to not use Ultra Ball to discard unwanted resources to instead pad your hand size and keep more than 3 cards. Often, you can’t help but put yourself in situations where a Delinquent will get rid of your whole hand. And even sometimes when you…
Long ago, during a time when droves of factories fouled the air with pollution, _______ changed into this form for some reason. (Galarian Weezing)
When it gets wet, its skin changes color, and this Pokémon becomes invisible as if it were camouflaged. (Sobble)
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