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Friday Flyer #8: A Dearth of Remaining Expanded Puns, Commentary on the Expanded Format, and Mailbag “Hello again everyone! It’s been another exciting week of talking Expanded here on SixPrizes, with a trio of articles looking at some decks in the format. As I alluded in the Tweet on Mike Fouchet’s article yesterday, it’s a format that’s personally starting to feel a bit overwhelming—and if I’m feeling overwhelmed having played the whole time these cards have been legal, I imagine it’s a messier place yet for players newer to the scene. I hope we’ve helped players in spots like that make some progress toward understanding, but it’s admittedly a bit difficult with this much uncertainty. It could…
Updating Alolan Ninetales-GX, Some League Cup Reports, and Shining Speculation on SLG+CIN “I believe I hinted at this somewhat in my last article, but a large portion of my infatuation with this deck surrounds the fact that Ninetales has historically been my favorite Pokemon. I wanted to try the deck while it was somewhat of a popular choice within the metagame. I talked extensively about this list with Andrew Mahone, who saw a reasonable amount of success with it at some earlier League Cups. I believe the above list is about as perfect as the deck could possibly be. I have continued to refine the deck as much as possible and seem…
9th Place Orlando Regionals Report, Vileplume in Depth, Volcanion for Fort Wayne, and Random Thoughts from the Drive Home “The first time I realistically considered Vileplume of any sort in the Standard format was around 8 PM on Friday, the night before the event. The loss of AZ made the Toolbox version seem very inferior to other decks in the format, as a single Lysandre put you in a very tricky spot to come back from. The loss of Battle Compressor and the addition of Karen made the Vespiquen version fairly unplayable in my eyes (although Fred Hoban proved me wrong with a 6-1-2 performance this weekend). However, a few texts from Sean Foisy and Christopher Schemanske about the deck’s strong…
It can radiate chilliness from the bottoms of its feet. It’ll spend the whole day tap-dancing on a frozen floor. (Galarian Mr. Mime)
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