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!

First ever! I think it is a very decent god pack... But of course it had to be a 4 cards pack 😂😂

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

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?

If I can give someone the final card towards completing a set I will do it every time. Total coincidence but Ive pulled this card twice and given it away twice for this purpose!
Im always on the hunt to hook up my friends list.
This game can really be a good way to dish out some dopamine when your own pulls are rubbish. I open all my game packs with my son and I try to show him that it’s equally exciting when someone else gets a big pull or finishes a set.
This post is also a psa to check your friend lists for their set completion and hook them up! So many cards you might have 5 of could get someone close to a full set!

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.

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.

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 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!

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

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

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

The title says it all. Come through DeNA

Level 60 and out 😞

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 👀

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.

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?

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

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.