Curious how many total Pokemon people are using in their decks?
A lot of the theme decks seem to be loaded with Pokemon vs item/trainer cards. I’ve had the most success with a deck that only has 7 Pokemon (Five Basic and two Stage 1.) Two of the Basic are ex.
Having fewer Pokemon makes it a lot easier to draw the cards you need when using Poke Ball. And unlike the real TCG, Pocket seems to default give you at least one of your basic on the first draw no matter what. (So you don’t have to worry about re-drawing a bunch and giving your opponent a ton of free cards.)
I’ve seen people have success with anything from 2 pokemon & 18 trainer to decks with two full stage 2 Evo lines. Anything past two stage 2 Evo lines is probably too much lol
Yeah, depending on the strategy, I will run only the evo chain I need, like 2 wiglet, wugtrio ex + 2 , or 2 lines of infernape ex only, to 2 vaporeon lines + 2 starmie ex lines + 2 articuno ex… really just depends. But if the game MUST give you a basic to start, and you have only 2 basics, then that means, you are guaranteed to get the 1st, and then second basic with the a pokeball.
Now that Iono is in the game, there’s a decent amount of draw support to run less cards and just draw/filter for what you need.
IMO. game has gotten a lot faster. (Still miss my XY evo sodas… )
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Pocket art is really destroying the physical ones lol.
That Marowak is superb. Lillie looks like a movie still (I guess it kinda is) and though the Raichu isn’t my favourite style it’s still so bright, colourful and just pleasing to look at.
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I think the only ban fodder combo thus far is the Victreebel pokeflute combo.
