As title what do you think are the easiest decks to learn and climb with into master rank. Bonus points if the deck has fast games as I have limited time but want to make a push to get into master rank this season

So my opponent went 2nd and I took 35 mulligans. They used "Hand Trimmer" on their 1st turn. The game mechanic DOES NOT allow you to discard your hand on time so it does it for you. By turn 4, I only had 1 card left in my hand. You guys should look into this.

It took us both 18 moves to finish.

I’m currently playing around with the winning list from Nice and I don’t really understand the Passimian inclusion. In which matchups do I use it in? Why is Passimian favoured over Enamorous?

So this question is for a judge and it’s about the card and the top half of this picture. It says search for three supporters or stadium cards. The new mega or legendary stadiums say on them that they count as one when played so if you use this supporter to search for three different cards, can you search for both halves of the new stadiums as one or does that count as two cards for the purpose of this search?

I am trying to make a perma para deck with weavile and blaziken. Once I can get them set up its pretty dang good. The idea is that weavile guarantees para but discards energy, so you need to set weavile up every turn. Power glass and blaziken allows for that reenergize every turn for a permanent para loop.

The issue is that set up though. It doesn't have consistent draw/search engine and slowly sets up. I need one weavile, two water energy, and 2 blazikens or 1 blaze 1 powerglass. Once I get that state I can permanently stack weavile with the discarded energy without needing to rely on energy to attach to weavile for turn. How can I make this more reliable/faster set up so it can compete in today's meta?

I was debating losing the ponyta/rapidash line for a different/better draw engine like drakaloak or zoroark, but figured keeping the same energy type so rapidash could attack in a pinch is better. Chandelure would work, and also help with the stall playstyle in decking out opponent while weavile slowly attacks with paralyze, but is harder to set up. I was debating item box or grand tree for ace instead of trolley to help with getting powerglass or getting stage 2 set ups. I was also debating a chi yu for festival matchups as festival grounds makes it so they cant be paralyzed.

Man, I love Pult. I'm currently using a fairly standard build as I'm new and I dont have the Resources to craft anything really.

Hi! Just started a couple days ago, got the Lucario deck irl, and upgraded Lucario and Ogerpon (with Arboliva) on Live. Thought Dragapult could be a fun deck to upgrade to interact with the bench and see how the top deck performs. Just wondering how these two vary in terms of consistency and play style and how useful the cards I'd be crafting are in other decks.

The second one costs twice as much to craft because of the 4 Telepathic Energy but I'm assuming those energy are super useful whenever building a Psychic deck and that's my favourite type. Also don't love crafting 4 Hammers because swinging the game on coin flips is not a vibe, but if they end up in a lot of decks I guess that's fine. Also if one of these versions are weird lmk, I just tried to find some on limitless that did well and look okay. Thanks in advance 🥰

Deck 1 crafts:

2 Munkidori, 4 Crushing Hammer, 2 Risky Ruins, 1 Bosses Orders, 1 Rosa's Encouragement

Deck 2 crafts:

1 Shaymin, 2/1/1 of the Dusclops line, 1 Special Red Card, 2 Team Rockets Watchtower, 1 Bosses Orders, 2 Hilda, 4 Telepathic Energy

What do you think is average online of ptcgl?

The new legendary stadiums require the two halves to be played, however as far as I understand both halves have the same name (Legendary Lava Lake for example). The rulebook states that you can only have 4 copies of a card with the same name. So, does that mean that you can only have a total of 4 pieces in your deck (for example 2 left 2 right or something crazy like 3 left 1 right ) or would you be able to have up to 4 of each?

Hi all! this is a decklist adapted from a post on October 8th by @ The_Verd29 on twitter. Check out the original list if you're interested!!

Mega Dragonite has interested me ever since it released in Ascended Heroes. It kind of seems like this card was created to be good, right?? 330dmg is a very common benchmark for stage 2 ex's and stage 1 megas (starmie, lopunny, sharpedo), and pecharunt has shown how powerful force switch abilities can be. Not to mention, it has a titanic 370hp, along with a Dragonair with a very powerful ability of its own (if it has an energy attached, it can search for any evolution pokemon and put it into your hand).

However, for as many strengths as it seemingly has, it also has quite a few weaknesses. That dragon typing isn't doing it any favors, as it can't benefit from hitting for weakness, and is in turn one-shot by Lillie's Clefairy. Its energy cost can be very difficult to fulfill as well, which isn't helped by the fact it discards two of them after attacking. It definitely doesn't help its setup that the only dratini available is 80hp and can't be searched with poffin. Also, shockingly, 330 damage comes a bit short on some relevant megas, like greninja, excadrill, and lucario.

Despite its really cool ability, I dismissed mdnite almost immediately after release, mostly because of that freebie mega dragonite + dynamotor eelektrik deck. I know some others experimented with pairing it with Blaziken, but either way, it was just inconsistent and suuper slow.

I came across the list I based this on, on Twitter, and immediately had to check it out. I know Crispin has been a very successful card in a ton of different lists, but I wasn't sure if it plus powerglass would be enough to fund Dragonite. And it turns out, it actually works surprisingly well!!

Evolutionary Guidance Dragonair is able to propagate pokemon in the same way that Champion's Call Gabite is able to, except it doesn't have the Cynthia's pokemon restriction. The optimal setup can feel really strong, with Mega Kanga sitting in the active, being fat and drawing cards, while filling out your bench with Lumiose City (works extremely well here since you aren't attacking for a couple turns at the start of a match!!). Volcanion ex is a great tech for making up the extra damage needed to snag the KO on all of the 340 and 350hp pokes, with the extra benefit of denying fezandipiti on KO.

As for my changes to the original list, I thought a 1-1 Mega Lopunny would really help Dragonite out. Along with offering shred damage, it also gives the deck a quick and efficient attacker that can be super helpful for going against basic box and picking off lower hp pokemon that would just be super inefficient to attack using dragonite. Not to mention it has great synergy with dragonite's ability!! it's really cool!!! I would just use rapid fire combo, but it requires a lot of energy commitments in a deck with a scarce energy economy and no great way to recover said attached energies.

My question for yall:
Secret Box feels difficult to use here!! The tool and supporter search is really useful but I have to wonder if there's any other one that would be a better fit.
I would also really like to make room for a Psyduck given that my locals has a bunch of Dusknoir roaming around. However, I'm not sure where to cut cards without cutting consistency. Maybe a boss?