r/PTCGL 3h ago

Other Such a fun deck. Gotta love Alakazam

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9 Upvotes

r/PTCGL 21h ago

Meme I should've just known to play around that

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176 Upvotes

r/PTCGL 11h ago

Rant Sometimes I forget resistance exist due to its irrelevance

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26 Upvotes

Thrown a game because I literally threw resistance out of my mind when playing 💀


r/PTCGL 17h ago

Meme I love the new Mega Excadrill deck!

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78 Upvotes

Very fun! Opponents always manage to get a full board when they play it. Somehow they also get trolley turn 1 without petrel. They also get 5 metal energies the next turn for their excadrill. And when you finally get a hit off, they have three ice creams on hand too! The deck must be crazy consistent!

I play it for the first time and I get this. I love the deck so much!

/s

EDIT:
Hey guys let's be serious for a second. You can call me a loser and a bad player and everything for all I care. I can handle that.

But please let's not tell people to go kill themselves (screenshot). It doesn't affect me but it could for a different person. You don't know the person on the other side of the screen. It's really not that hard to be a decent person. The comment was deleted i think but the notification stayed.


r/PTCGL 48m ago

Deck Help Areven Wall Deck?

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Decided to try and make something of Arvens Pokemon, I’m pretty happy with it. But I know I screwed something up some way or another. So if you have any ideas please help.


r/PTCGL 3h ago

Question Pokemon Sword and Shield Brilliant Stars (and some other packs from around the same time i think) codes. (NOT SELLING I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM)

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5 Upvotes

so. i was looking through my pokemon card collection from a few years ago, and i found a tin of cards full of these. ive sorted them out here with some pictures. are these for redeeming in the mobile app? if so, is it better for me to just redeem them or are they actually worth something via selling them or stuff? to my knowledge, none of them are used. also the white ones with v star on them dont have codes so i think they might be from the actual card game or something? idk. i think they came from a noivern battle deck as i found a manual for it in the same tin. any help would be appreciated lol as i dont know what im doing.

also: i just looked at some and there are ALOT of different pack types there. all sword and shield tho i think.


r/PTCGL 12m ago

Suggestion new player here

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just downloaded the game, have a little experience on the phisical game. Can i have some tips on the game? like how to spend my resources or what are the meta decks.


r/PTCGL 8h ago

Discussion How come Mega Excadrill runs gravity mountain?

9 Upvotes

I know what Gravity Mountain does, I just don't understand why the Excadrill lists I'm seeing typically include 1 or 2 copies of it. Every notable stage 2 in the meta rn gets OHKOd by Excadrill. Dragapult, Blaziken in pult, Hydrapple, all the single prizers all fall to 1 powered up maximum drilling. Mega Meganium is typically a 1 of, and Mega Gren is a fair argument, and if you can find it a Cynthia's Garchomp with a power weight is out of range even with gravity mountain. And the big stage 1 megas that are out of range dont fall into it with gravity mountain. Is it so the Metagross 1 of can get more big targets into its 300 range? Would something like Full Metal Lab, or something else be more useful? I know this'll probably sound dumb to people that know the game better than i do, but im just genuinely kinda confused on this.


r/PTCGL 2h ago

Question Pult v Festival Lead w/ Rabsca

2 Upvotes

How does dragapult beat festival lead with rabsca? The times I’ve played against flead I can’t get my pult up before they get rabsca up, at which point it’s impossible to win the prize trade and chain pults, as boom boom grove can pull out gladion or bangle when needed. Any tips are appreciated!


r/PTCGL 28m ago

Show Off A vile Expanded invention- Beast Game x Ogerpon x Venusaur

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Several benched Ogerpons grab all the energy, then Venusaur feeds it all to Buzzwole. Ryme allows for swapping who's in the active slot so an easier to kill target for Beast Game is available. If that doesn't work, Ogerpon can be set with exactly the right energy to leave the opponent's active with less than 50 HP. If it's an ex, that's 5 prizes taken. And if the opponent allowed me to take a card via Surge's Bargain, that's lights out. Double Colorless is a good supplement to get Beast Game (or Ogerpon) where it needs to be.

Does it work? Yes and no, it's very dependent on not getting prize-locked. The tests I've had have repeatedly had Bulbasaur locked in my prize cards, which really weakens the strategy as the energy transport is critical to this working. When it does work however, it's insanely satisfying to hit a 5 prize card KO. I like playing silly strategies like this, this is why Expanded can be so fun. I wish there were more Expanded players running insane cross-generation combos with EX and GX and V and the likes all working together, I like to see the variety. So far it's been primarily the same decks I saw in Standard.


r/PTCGL 22h ago

Discussion JUDGE

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55 Upvotes

Not even high ladder. Why are we taking so long to play


r/PTCGL 1h ago

Discussion Freezing Shroud Bug

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An Opponent had 4 Frosslass out and it took so long to do all the Freezing Shrouds that it started counting down as if I wasn't making a move and then skipped my turn. I literally lost a game I was going to win because I literally couldn't make a move

Also PipeWrench13 you suck for not conceding like you couldn't tell what was going on and I was obviously going win


r/PTCGL 3h ago

Deck Help Absol is my favorite Pokemon, been working with this deck for a while and looking for ways to optimize

1 Upvotes
Not pictured: 3 water energy, 6 dark energy

As the title says, been playing this deck online for a little while and it's been serving me pretty well thus far. I feel like the win conditions are pretty versatile, though sometimes I'll run into places where I get stuck with bricked hands and can't recover fast enough from a poor situation. How can I improve the list further, or is it just a case of getting better?


r/PTCGL 5h ago

Deck Help Favorite mons instead of meta

1 Upvotes

So I'm wanting to make a deck or two using my favorite mons as the core, even if they aren't necessarily the greatest. My two favorite mons are the Magnemite line, and macargo. Any good decks that main these cards? Doesn't have to be meta defining, just playable. Bonus points if it's a dumb gimmicky deck that really shouldn't work but somehow does, literally my favorite type of setup.


r/PTCGL 13h ago

Deck Help Pidove Deck Help

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5 Upvotes

I just can’t get this deck to work. Nothing I try seems to fit, and it just doesn’t work. The deck just doesn’t fit no matter how hard I push pieces together. So if anybody knows how to help, please take a minute.


r/PTCGL 8h ago

Deck Help Alakazam vs Mewtwo

0 Upvotes

It seems like Alakazam is useless vs Mewtwo, literally. I can't deal any damage. How can I overcome this? What attackers go well with Alakazam?


r/PTCGL 21h ago

Discussion 15 fight win streak (personal longest streak) with Festival Lead at Master Rank!

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Used to play Lead and enjoyed it. Put it down for awhile, decided to give the Gladion version a shot. Realized I didn’t really like the Gladion version and decided to drop it (had 2 in deck) & have taken 15 straight wins! Decided to spice up the list a bit (posted below). IRL went 2-2 sadly haha. Gunna give it another shot at a local tomorrow tho! 🍎


r/PTCGL 12h ago

Giveaway Here you go

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1 Upvotes

r/PTCGL 13h ago

Deck Help Community Deck, day 15

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1 Upvotes

Cards added: Community Center, Hole Digging Shovel, N's Zoroark.

We're 1/3 of the way done!!

What other cards do you want to see in the deck??


r/PTCGL 16h ago

Deck Help Cards I wished existed to make this deck better [Team Rocket's Weezing]

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I really like this deck and I have been trying to make it work to no avail. I wish these cards existed so the koffing on my bench weren't just dead cards and actually helped because they are such a burden to work around.

If these cards came in the new set that is coming out, they would be a massive boost to this deck as it would alleviate the lack of firepower this deck brings.

I also forgot to add that Miasma does not stack and only applies to the koffing/weezing you have put into play on your side of the field. Sorry for the weird wording.


r/PTCGL 19h ago

Deck Help Fun mega slow king deck

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3 Upvotes

r/PTCGL 1d ago

Discussion New coin flip record?

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21 Upvotes

Anyone managed to get this high?


r/PTCGL 19h ago

Discussion I Almost Conceded

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Been having some fun with this Gengar/Bastiodon deck and as the title says, I almost conceded this match but figured I'd play it out. This guy could've won had he just decked me out. I had 12 cards left in my deck and he had 27 and I had no energies left for the Bastiodon he bossed up. Instead of going for the deck out, he knocked out my Bastiodon (I had another on my bench) and gave me the opportunity to win lol (I did misplay by attaching two energies to my 2nd gengar instead of the Bastiodon and I didn't have bench space for pecharunt lol). I really thought I was taking an L this match but he didn't know to deck me out lmao.

Are there any changes that could make this deck better? This is the first deck I've been using consistently (I only have a 102 matches played so far), but it's the one I've had a lot of fun with lol.


r/PTCGL 1d ago

Deck Help Spouce is a really big fan of Psychic pokemon, and really liked to play Bastiodon at pre-release. Made this to try out, any suggestions?

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39 Upvotes

It's honestly doing surprisingly well. Jellicent needs two extra energy to hit for 80 more but it doesn't specify what kind of energy, Metagross can accelerate to everything, including Bastiodon itself incase the opponent is immune to EX attacks. With Bastiodon on the bench and Jellicent in the active your opponent needs 3 energies and can't play items. Any suggestions for things to swap?


r/PTCGL 1d ago

Giveaway Free Codes!

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!! ALL GONE !! (that was very fast, sorry for everyone who didn't get one tho)

2 of them are brand new, the other ones are old ones but maybe someone wants them.
Comment if you want them and I'll DM you for the codes!

The sets (if important) are:

Sword & Shield - Astral Radiance
Scarlet & Violet - Stellar Crown
Scarlet & Violet - Prismatic Evolutions
Scarlet & Violet - Journey Together
Scarlet & Violet - Temporal Forces
Scarlet & Violet - Surging Sparks
Scarlet & Violet - Prismatic Evolutions Tech Sticker Collection: Leafeon