any black friday deals on pokeman cards lol?
Maybe. I didn't notice it really. The main thing for me was the low damage. Only 50 with a muscle band + Laser & Virbank is not enough.That HP is what kills it.
Maybe. I didn't notice it really. The main thing for me was the low damage. Only 50 with a muscle band + Laser & Virbank is not enough.
It's the first attack you want to use. This card is basically a water Donphan.With 3 water energy, that's a base damage of 110 for virbank muscle band and laser to be added to.
Which city where you playing in?Went to cities or w/e it is today and got 3rd. I was undefeated and in the top cut. But got paired up against the only pyroar and got pretty demolished. I won first match pretty quickly. Lost the second one pretty quickly. 3rd game i could have won turn 2, but all of my muscle bands were prized and it ended up costing me the game.
Either way my deck was VirGen Balloons. I was going to play manectric in there but no one was playing Yveltal, so i decided to switch to balloons and it paid off.
5 straight victories, most of which were heavily one sided. But the one pyroar deck just had to be paired against me in the top cut...
On a side note, there were like 5 night march decks. Though none of them did very well. Top 4 were
VirGen Balloons
Pyroar/Ninetales
Gengar
Donphan
I've been thinking of getting into the trading card game lately, and am planning to obtain a Trainer Kit and a starter deck. Now if only I could find a community of players... (I probably should start doing Internet searches for local communities playing the Pokémon TCG.)
Should I?
The TCG Online might be a good place for you to start :) It doesn't cost anything to play, and you're provided with a few free decks to start with (and you can earn tokens to buy more decks or booster packs), and plenty of AI opponents to practice against before you start challenging real people. That way if you discover you don't like the game, you haven't spent any money on it (and if you live in a small town like me, it can be difficult to find a league within a reasonable distance).
I'm thinking of "even if I don't end up battling, I'm collecting". Just like how I deal with Pokémon video games... What then?
TCGO feels really weird, to be honest...
Yeah, the TCGO isn't great if you want to actually collect cards, but it's a good place to practice or find people to play against if you don't have anyone in your area to play with. There's also tcgone.net, which has a slightly trickier and sometimes buggy or slow interface, but is entirely free and is a great place to practice deck building and try out your decks because you have access to nearly every card. There's also playtcg.com. It's not automated though, so it's more like playing a live game, as you have to know all the rules and set up very well, and need to communicate with your opponent what you're doing.
pokemon.com has a list of official leagues in their TCG section, but I'm not sure how up-to-date it is. That might be a good place to start. If there are any comic book stores in your area, they will likely have days when you can play.
Seems like I've found some leagues that I could participate in! Now to confirm my schedule...
Should I get a deck going on before getting into a league?
Yes, you'll need a deck of some kind. You might want to contact the league organizer and see what options they have for beginners, or if they have any tips about what deck(s) would hold up well in their particular league (the meta game can very from place to place). Depending on how often they hold events and how big/organized they are, you might be able to play some theme-deck matches (GREAT for beginners, because it lets you learn strategy and rules without having to worry about facing a deck that is significantly better than yours), and I've heard of cases where the organizers have had decks or individual cards (and often energy) that new players can borrow, nights when you can learn how to play and deck build, etc. Unfortunately I live in an area where the closest league is a 45 minute drive away and I just don't have that kind of time to commit (especially when driving can get really bad during the winter, and I'd probably only be able to go in the evenings), so I don't really have any first hand experience, just stories from other people I've talked to.
If possible can you post the results on the following page. That is one of the cities that is unaccounted for.I am in Honolulu Hawaii. So thats probably 25 characters...