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Sweet Sleeping Format

A Deep Look into HS–BLW, the Wild-Ride Anything-Goes 2011 Nationals and Worlds Format “If you asked top players what their favorite format to play at the time was, you would get mixed answer. The format was considered highly luck-based, filled with donks and some consistency issues. The randomness and uncertainty of the format caused me to sit out US Nationals that year to make sure I secured my Worlds invite. However, it’s also a very unexplored format which leaves a lot of room for creativity and rogue decks to shine. Many of the reasons I hated playing the Worlds 2011 format at the time are the same reasons I enjoy playing the format…
Eating a sweet apple caused its evolution. A nectarous scent wafts from its body, luring in the bug Pokémon it preys on. (Appletun)
These Pokémon live in herds. Their trunks have incredible grip strength, strong enough to crush giant rocks into powder. (Copperajah)

Thunder Struck

Top 8 Phoenix Regionals 2016 Tournament Report with Raikou/Eels “Last season, I was very disinterested in the game, and it’s no surprise that this was in large part due to the existence of a single card: Battle Compressor. I learned this past weekend that I’ve apparently developed somewhat of a reputation for my intense hatred of that card, and I won’t get into it here; most of that is online if you were really curious. As a result, I never really cared about taking the game seriously until Nationals, when it was revealed cash prizes were available. I began testing Greninja heavily, made it to Day 2, and went…

Moves and Counter Moves

Cities Reports (Weeks 1–4) and Anti-Meta Plays for Standard “I did not attend any Cities on the Friday after Thanksgiving, but I attended two in North Carolina on Saturday and Sunday. I don’t think that my Day 1 list is very good so I will only include it for reference in case you are interested. The idea of this deck is to work like a normal Sceptile deck, and to only use Giratina-EX to beat Night March and Vespiquen which are two of Sceptile’s few bad matchups. I didn’t face a single Night March or Vespiquen all day, so I basically ran M Sceptile-EX with five dead cards. I ended…
Never touch its shadowlike body, or you’ll be shown the horrific memories behind the picture carved into it. (Runerigus)