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You play pokemon with a 60 card deck, your beginning hand is 7 cards and you are only allowed 4 of the exact same card besides basic energy. What are the odds of you getting the cards you need out fast without milling your deck? Trainers such as Professor Sycamore, N, Professor Birch's Observation, Shauna will help you get a new hand. Skyla and Steven look for trainers, and supporters respectively. Ultra Ball, Dive Ball, Level Ball, and Heavy Ball will help search for Pokemon. Why do the top decks always have multiple copies of trainers or Pokemon? Having multiple copies, ensures...

As a parent of a Pokemon player, I have seen some crazy things. Bad trades, horrific misplays, and blatant cheating, are a few of the things that stick out. The only problem is, I have been playing since Pokemon first came out, what happens to kids or parents just into Pokemon and have no idea of the value of their cards or how to care for them.   Playing I have heard of kids playing Pokemon like war,  the Pokemon with the highest attack wins and the loser, physically loses his card. You can play any way you want, but...

I know by the point of being at a tournament, you want to win, right? A lot goes into winning, first deck selection, then testing, then reworking the deck, more testing and then the final list. Now you have your deck, hopefully made the right call on the Meta-game, and are ready to go for First place. Let’s take a look at what is needed to make the top cut. Did you think of what it actually takes to make it to the top cut? Of course if you go undefeated, the odds are you made it, but it doesn’t always...

With the release of Sun and Moon later this week, and coming off the Pre-release, I’ll take a look at some of the more popular cards from the set. This set introduces some new Pokemon, new Trainers, the return of the Burn condition and the new GX attacks. We lose the EX’s and Break Pokemon we have come to know and love and return to evolving into more powerful and bulkier tanks. Before this set, the most HP EX’s had was 240, now we are reaching 250HP, with attacks that can be game changers. This set also has 14 Secret...

Top 5 Tool CardsAll hail the end of Xerosic and Startling Megaphone, Standard now have very little tool removal cards and now we have the rise of a new era in Pokemon(until Sun/ Moon is legal in 4 weeks) The Rise of the Mega decks and tool attachments, in the foreseeable future, there are no cards that easily remove tools. I thought I would take a look at the top Tool cards(that are not Spirit Links) that are going to make an impact on competitive play. Standard Fighting Fury BeltAdding 40 HP to a Basic Pokemon and doing 10 more...