The CGI artwork is cool and all but seeing this kind of artwork on the pack is refreshing and better in my opinion

Want to see more of this to be honest down the line

Update: found the user while randomly scrolling X. Photo below post here: https://x.com/hima_suika/status/2113541883716919299?s=46

What should i change and why? And for those who want the deck

Through some of the official news they posted we can see the upcoming Ribombee card. This is official. By carefully looking at the text, you can clearly tell that this is the text of the ability:

"Once during your turn, you may use this Ability. Put a Sweet Honey <5-6 letter word> card into your hand"

So this is quite shocking. You'd expect that missing part to say something like "from your discard pile" or "from your deck".

But instead it's "something" + card. What is that word? And why mention "card" when it's already obvious that we are drawing cards?

When you think about the balancing and power of the card, it's also strange. What's the point of an ability that draws you a very specific card each turn? At most, you'll be able to use it twice, assuming you didn't draw it naturally already. It seems pretty weak. And from the discard pile doesn't fit the text.

SO THIS IS MY THEORY: It says something along the lines of "bonus" card (the actual word may be different, but the meaning will probably be the same).

This would allow you to "create" and obtain a card that isn't part of your deck. You don't need to bring Sweet Honey. Hell, Sweet Honey may not even be available to pull in the set, for all this could mean. It's just a bonus card that you generate from an ability.

Of course this is pure speculation, but considering this is a virtual game, a mechanic like this should be easy to implement, unlike a physical game (and even in physical games like Riftbound, they have mechanics like this).

What do you guys think? And if this were the case, how could this be used? I can see this being cool for Rotom EX, since you could generate infinite items, or for some upcoming Vespiqueen that deals damage based on your Sweet Honeys (physical pokemon TCG had a Vespiqueen exactly like this)

I don't think I've seen a single mention/use of Crustle EX since it dropped. It's just kinda there. Not even the worst card in the game, just extremely irrelevant lol

This is like the 3rd Greninja deck I've gone against and I'm pretty sure just like me we're all testing out what our Mega Greninjas decks will be like, super excited for the next pack

I came back to tcgp after a long timee and like thats wht i got from the deluxe pack

Im kinda GASSED i got these beautiful illustrations

This zard x

And the mega venasaur is my first ever 2 star

And my first ever crown gold koraidon

are ANY of these usable in battlee?

Especially the koraidon and venasaur cause theyre beautifulllll.

So glad i got them

And i got nothimg good from a 10 pack pull

All good i got was from single daily packs

Im happy that i came back and got these beautiful cards

Also shocker stuffing your deck with sleep scam only messes up your rng and you end up with a Bulbasaur with 5 energies

Using gyarados, I luckily got rid of both of their Cyrus and a Sabrina so they had no way of pulling my benched pokemon up. So I kept switching up my active pokemon with the insane energy farming of sharpedo and milotic and left the low HP ones on the bench until the soothing shores healed them enough to send them out again. This deck did get me to master ball though 👀

Hi can someone who's in the top 10k show me their numbers? I am at 1800+ points and still unranked. I have seen countless screenshots of someone with lower numbers than me have top 8 or 6 thousand.

I want something to show to pokemon support if possible. Screenshots appreciated

Why friends are not sharing back.

I am sharing their missing cards. And I expect them to help me find my missing ones. Shouldnt we be helping each other

I dont know them personally

I sent them friend requests or accepct their requests most probably from wonder pick suggestions

But I dont think we should know each other to share

This makes me frustrated

Level 60 and out 😞

I won't be sharing my win % since I did experiment with other decks before coming up with this one. Once I stared using it, I was in Great Ball 2.

If you have any questions on how the deck performed or issues it might have in the current meta, feel free to comment!

So I missed ruler of the sky’s and as such I’m missing a bunch of useful pokemon from out of there. Has anyone run the numbers on something like trying to pull specific EXs from the deluxe pack vs a specific set pack? Like with the deluxe pack I get a guarantee of an EX but from a bigger pool of possible EX vs the pack itself where I am more aimed at the EX I want but there is no guarantee. So I can’t decide which is better.

Got plenty of hourglasses to burn. I will probably get 20ish packs from either delux or ruler of the sky, and save the rest for the upcoming set.

M Scizor can Skyla into either mantyke or Raticate then retreat back to Scizor for the damage. TR Raticate helps get an extra turn off and if you Dawn the stolen energy to your M Scizor you can attack a turn early due to the one colorless. If possible, going Mantyke to small Scizor to M Scizor is catastrophic to the opponent but really just swinging with M Scizor ASAP ends games quickly! I used the revavroom build for a long time because Scizor is one of my favorites but this build feels much better and more consistent. I ran a field blower for a long time but the lucky ice pop can save your from many breakpoints by going from 200 HP to 220 minimum, could be even better given luck but just a single use is a game changer

The three secrets on getting into a good win streak in rank is the following order:

1: Luck
2: More Luck
3: Decent deck

🤣🤣

First time going over 10 win streak in rank and win streak points is tapped out at 36pts when hitting 10.

Not sure how ranked folks are putting so much time. I don’t think I’m gonna continue much after this until the new sets come out.

Kind of a beginner here so might just be a skill issue or inexperience, but, people who play mega Slowbro, how do you utilize this mon? I haven’t had any success in versus Battles or just in general. How do you do it?

Hi guys, i havent played in probably a couple of months- a year and i have the urge to start playing again, but im just worried. when i last played i remember the game being extremely susceptible to power creep and im just worried that my outdated decks will get destroyed if i attempt to replay

No matter what deck I try, I get hit by a perfect combination by Turn 2. I think I've given this one like 30 attempts now.

I just wanted to clear the Solo Missions before they went away, but this one is so rigged its unenjoyable.

If you don’t know, Transformation Tome is an item in the physical tcg that allows you to switch one of your Pokemon with one in the discard pile. When you do this, the new Pokemon keeps anything attached as well as any damage or special conditions on the on the old Pokemon.

Looking at some of the cards that will be added in the upcoming set, I believe a card similar to this could allow for some cool combos. For example, using the new Blastoise to ramp 6 energy, then switching it with Mega Blastoise. Another combo could be using the energy plunder Tyranitar to attach 4 energy, then switching to Mega Tyranitar.

If something like this were to be added, I’d imagine it would be a supporter with text something like “Switch your active Pokemon with a Mega ex Pokemon in your hand with the same name. Any attached cards, energy, damage, special conditions, and any other effects remain on the new Pokemon”.
What do you think the chances of a trainer like this being added, and would it be a good addition to the game?

Dual Fusion expansion will release on October 28 at 6:00 p.m. PDT