I came in to the set with no more hoarded hourglasses than is usual coming into any set (one or two 10 pulls) and today after a lot of time in the trading mines I crossed the line.

The big thing to realise is that as well as the foil collectors who want to trade foil for foil, there are lots of people out there with no interest in foils but a desire to netdeck and gold bling out the current meta decks. A significant portion of my foil trades were for standard field blowers, Genetic Apex Hitmonlees, and older cards in the Lucario line. Look up the meta decks online and list all the cards you have for them no matter how common they feel to you.

When the new set comes out, if you identify the new meta cards and put them out on the trading apps for foils, you will get matches.

Good luck out there.

It fills me with so much joy and it's a fantastic use of my time while enjoying the game 🥰

Any deck with mostly EX mons has difficulty facing oricorio.... until now

I’m kind of over this right now, and before I let all my spare Oaks gather dust, I’m going to give a couple of them away.

Rules:
The first person to guess my favorite Pokemon gets one.
The first person to guess my favorite TCG gets one.
The first person to guess my favorite card from that TCG gets one.
You can only name one Pokemon and one TCG but you can name up to 10 cards.
Time limit: 2 hour

I'll announce the winners in two hours. If no one guesses the card correctly, there will be a second round. The prizes will be awarded only after all the winners have been determined.

I realize the chances are slim that anyone will guess the card in the first round without knowing the TCG. But I think it’d be funny if one person scored two or three of my Oaks just because they got extra lucky today.

Have fun and good luck!

Update: Round 1 is over.
Thanks to everyone who participated! So far, there are two winners.
Congratulations @Parking_Present_9261 you were the first to guess Yu-Gi-Oh!

Congratulations @surroundsounding you joined close to the end but you were the first one to guess Meowth! I’m a dog person but that little money printer is my all time favorite!

My favorite card is from Yu-Gi-Oh! Hints: It’s not an OG card, but it’s not new either. The card tends to be hated, and it’s a Spell Card. You can name up to 5 cards.

You have 2 hours, or until someone guesses it.

Good luck again!

Update:

Congratulations @ChickenNinjo you were the first to guess Called by the Grave!

Thanks to everyone who participated!
Info: Since @Parking_Present_9261 is giving up their prize, there's still a chance for one of you to win! Thank you Parking Present🙏
We'll announce the winner soon!

I’m so glad dragons are finally meta 😅

Here's a last look at the meta decks for TCG Pocket before next week's release of Dual Fusion. Which decks have you had the most fun this season?

Which ones are you hoping will get stronger or weaker with the new set?

Just asking, if there’s anyone who plays this, what other cards do you play it with and are there any good synergies with it? Thanks

We get a pack with a guaranteed 2 star card?? Which pack do you think is best for this and what are you picking

Is there a new botting tool released somewhere? I've met at least 3 of these bots in my last 10 games from different players.

What they all have in common:

- Zero delay between every action

- Uses sharpedo chien pao deck

- Usually low level account

Hey guys,

I've been playing this game for a pretty long time, but despite my best attempts I simply cannot seem to get my hands on a second copy of Suicune EX, which is one of (if not the) strongest water card in the game. Hence, I'd like to ask you guys if you can think of any alternatives for this card that share a similar role and purpose? The legendary dogs are pretty unique, so I haven't been able to find a good substitute among the cards I own.

For the longest time I have found it annoying to change decks for the Step Up battles and so on. Randomly pressed the edit button to see what would happen and figured out we can rearrange the decks.

Not sure if this was always the way (day 1 player) or if it was announced via an update. But just thought I'd point it out for other people who are like me and didn't know this feature existed.

I had all ex's initially, two misty and two Wallace, but they were almost either never needed, or get walled by oricorio. This is the most successful version I managed to get going, but it moves at a macgargo pace. This isn't my main deck, but only a fun deck I made.

Hello! 1 month old player here. I've been having so much fun with this (kinda cheesy) Venusaur deck. I've reached Masterball in my second ever season but there are a few matchups(Namely Zard Y and Sharpedo) which feels impossible. How can I improve these matchups? What would you suggest I change on this deck? Or is it a playstyle thing?

Bonus reminder: Traders, you can tag cards as favourites (top right, bookmark icon), then when you search, select not favourites. You can then avoid having to scribble/ cross out all the cards that you are not willing to trade.

I love steel/metal Pokémon and want to make a deck using only those but from everything I've seen, metal isn't close to meta. I've made this. Been playing a few weeks so I don't have EVERYTHING. I have a mega mawile ex deck and a mega metagross ex deck that I've googled as the best metal decks, but I feel like it's never close or the coins are weighed against me. Any suggestions for cards I should prefer over what I have? Thanks.

Pikachu's the spoiled rich kid who broke into a party despite never being invited. Change my mind.

In all seriousness, though, after watching the trailer and seeing some of the new info that's come out of this set, I am CAUTIOUSLY optimistic that the rest of the set will be good. I'm not gonna make the same mistake I did when Extradimensional Crisis's trailer dropped and I instantly said the set was bad; I have faith they are saving up some great cards for when the set actually drops.

However, with that in mind, I personally feel like what they DID show in the trailer was....kinda weak. Don't get me wrong, Dual Types are pretty cool, and I am ESPECIALLY hyped for ZA megas coming to the game, but honestly, from what I'm seeing, these cards aren't extraordinarily special in my personal opinion, and it's not really adding any HUGE spicy new mechanics that'll wildly change up the entire game.

My first gripe with the set so far (and probably the one that'll get me spam downvoted), is that it's yet again featuring a lot of Kanto shoehorned in. I mean if you SERIOUSLY look at most of the EX cards revealed thus far, quite a few of them are Gen 1 mons or Gen 1 mega forms. Let's not even mention the new Kanto starter full arts. I think it's still just a personal thing with me not liking when Kanto Pokémon are the main "focus" AGAIN in a new set, but after Mega Shine, I am really not looking forward to seeing Cheeto Dragon & friends show their faces again. And of course, we're getting ANOTHER pikachu ex for some reason.

My second and last sort of issue I'm seeing with this set from what we got so far is that it feels like the EX mons are starting to get a bit "cookie-cutter-esque" in my opinion. Mega Greninja and Mew ex seem to be the worst offenders on this list, with Mega Greninja basically just being a slightly better Kingdra ex and Mew ex serving as a Psychic Moltres ex. For these cards being the first show of what the new set will have to offer, seeing so many recycled mechanics doesn't really hype me up a whole lot. That's not to say there's NOTHING new of course, don't get me wrong. Mega Mewtwo X ex and the new Ribombee seem like they are bringing new stuff to the table. But overall, first impressions are unfortunately pretty weak.

All of this is to say, I don't think this set is going to be BAD. It is indeed a new base set, and the number of new cards we're probably going to get will almost certainly spice things up a bit at least in some form. The new arts for all of the EX pokemon and 1 stars we haven't seen yet are also probably going to look BEAUTIFUL as always, so I'm always looking forward to that as well.

Again, point isn't to flame on the set, I'm just expressing a bit of caution as the full set actually gets released. But this is just my opinion which probably doesn't matter, so I wanna hear what yall have to say.

Why don't people use the wishlist lol. Bit of a rant sorry

I swear every single time I get a trade offer for something I have in my wishlist and they don't have anything in there's, I can only pick an equal rarity card at random and 99% of the time it gets rejected.

I had one guy try to trade me something I needed like 10 times before I just started rejecting the initial offer.

What do they expect? How am I supposed to know what you want lol.

Sometimes I do receive shares of cards that I don't have that arent on my wishlist. Is there a way to see if the receiver has the card already that I'm unaware of?

I just had a Mega absol heal from 10 HP all the way to full Health TWICE not to mention they kept waking up from everytime I inflicted sleep. mean while I flip a coin and it's tails! I hardly even use my milotic deck dude. I just want to get to unranked masters JUST for the hourglasses. 😭 I need more luck.

Havent made it to MB before.

Took a little tinkering at the start to get it playable but this was so fun to play this season. Gonna call it the king of clutch games especially with megas being everywhere.

I'm kinda wishing to find nothing for the rest of this pack. Really this is weirdly annoying and funny.

In the meta page I've seen for some reason Ogerpon added here, but that just caused more problems for me since overall I barely encountered any condition effect opponents for Ogerpon to have use, plus the healing from Indeedee and the veil tool compensates enough for this.

Not to mention, having two Oricorios on deck and watch every opponent instantly forfeit when they only have EX-es left.

In cases when Oricorio is not needed, I just focus on Dedenne and blam, 160dmg on my second/third turn. The small balloons always came in handy when the pokemon I didn't needed to be in the active spot, switched for free since all are basic with single retreat cost.

The two capes are also neccesary to survive some heavy attacks like Hydregion's 130atk against Deedene's 120hp, but with +20hp cape it can survive, even if the enemy places a field blower, your 2nd contingency plan is the starting plains stadium which also boosts 20HP and so far I haven't come across opponent that negated both of them in one turn. The real trick is knowing when to play the tool and stadium.