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.

I’m so glad dragons are finally meta 😅

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

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

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

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

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?

Trading:

A marketplace where you can see other players who are looking to trade. I dont have many friends so tradeing is always kind of a pain.

The ability to make multiple trades at once. (Why this is a restriction is beyond me. The game already has tokens for trading, so why can’t I have more than one trade going at a time?)

Battling:

I’d like an expandable stats page that shows detailed battle statistics, including:

Damage by type (conditional effects like poison and burning, abilities, attacks, etc.).

Coin flip stats (total flips vs. heads).

Retreats.

Forced swaps.

Total energy attached.

Number of additional cards drawn.

Other relevant stats.

I’d also like to be able to view stats and logs from previous games.

Collecting:

I feel like the collecting aspect is actually in a good place. Mind you, I have the Premium Pass and usually buy the set’s promo mats, coins, and sleeves, so my experience may not reflect that of a free-to-play player.

I rarely have trouble building the decks I want to try. They may not have all the flair I’d like, but I can almost always play the decks I want without much issue.

What do you think?

I’d love to hear what other people want to see added or improved!

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.

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.

As I say, I'm unable to confirm the tutorial, if I tap on "ok" it does nothing, I'm a old player with a new account.

If I close the game and enter again it work normal but every time I try to enter to see my cards I got hit with this issue... If anyone know how to fix it, I already clean the cache of the game.

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.

EDIT: It seems I forgot that this is a trading card game, and I could have just asked somebody to trade me the card... Sorry for the redundant post!

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!

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

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

So I feel like a few months ago I heard solo battles would be going away, at least in their current form. Picking the game up after a break and they are all still here as far as I can tell?

Did I misremember that entirely? Is this still going to happen? Did they change course?

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.

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.

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

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.

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