Dondon has the Heart of the Cards on his side!

Started by Livewire August 6th, 2011 11:40 AM
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Livewire

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A big PC welcome to the New Moderator of Pokemon TCG, Donnavanj! Be sure to spam the hell out of him and be nice and welcoming, etc. There wasn't a more deserving candidate than you! Congrats and welcome to THE Pokecommunity Staff Team. We've been waiting for you... mwahahahaha.


The pokemon card game doesn't have a cool catch phrase like YuGiOh so shush

Meganium

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I so totally saw this coming. From what I've seen in the TCG board, I knew for sure you're gonna get modded soon...and that day is today! :D CONGRATS ON THE PROMOTION, and welcome to the team! ^_^ I'm sure you'll do GREAT. :)

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I knew it I knew it I knew it~!

Congratulations Dondon! Hopefully you can do even more to bring activity into TCG now. <33
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OMAN. TTLY SAW THIS, TOO :D Congrats, Don! Now you are encouraged to be emBOLDened to spice the place up even more and bring the place to life even more <3 /shot for lame attempt at bold name joke

Seriously though: congratulations. Was weeeeeell deserved :33
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BAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Don KNOWS I knew it. ^_^;

Also, Live_Wire, Heart of the Cards is from Yu-gi-oh. Anywayssss~ Congratulations Don, you deserved it!

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If PTCG had been more active in the past... seriously, I lost the count of all the reports, posts, attempts to increase activity, suggestions, etc. you have sent in the past two years. Enjoy being on the driving seat now!

Overlord Drakow

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Congrats dude. Which reminds me - we still need to have our match!

Edit: In celebration of your success, "I feel the need to explain in great unnecessary length, the Cleffa donk" to all of the lovely people viewing this thread.

Firstly, allow me to introduce you to Cleffa.



Adorable isn't it? Do not be deceived though. This card has driven many people mad, but more on that later. It is a highly playable card in the current Pokemon metagame and many decks utilize around 2-3 of these. Cleffa has many desirable traits - Free retreat cost, free energy attack, and a Pokebody which can grant it temporary invulnerability. Very desirable indeed. The main purpose for people to use Cleffa however, is it's attack. It allows the player to shuffle and draw 6 cards. Very useful for refreshing bad hands and can even be used to reload during the match, should one run out of resources quickly. Since Cleffa is a Pokemon, it is easily searchable through cards like Pokemon Collector, Dual Ball and Pokemon Communication. Searchable draw power is very important, especially if one is off to a bad start. So why do people rage over this card? It's because of the Pokebody. Every time Cleffa declares an attack, there is a 50% chance that it will be invincible during your opponents turn. In other words, the Cleffa player has refreshed their hand and stalled the game for a turn. There are times where "Baby stalling" can give a disadvantaged player enough momentum to turn the game around and steal a victory. To give an anecdotal example, I run a slow but incredibly powerful Tyranitar Prime deck. My best friend runs Magneboar which is really fast once it is set up. So my best friend sets up quite quickly and I am quite far behind. With fortunate coin flips, I manage to baby stall with Cleffa for a few turns and set up a Tyranitar with Zoroark as back up. It was enough for me to even the odds and I eventually cranked out the win. Without the stall, he would have overwhelmed and crushed me in a matter of turns.

Now allow me to introduce you to Tyrogue.



Again, he has the free retreat cost, same ability and free energy attack. If you take a quick look at the damage output of his attack and the HP of Tyrogue and Cleffa, you should notice that they are all 30. Indeed, Tyrogue is often nicknamed the "Baby Killer" as his Mischievous Punch will instantly knock out any opposing baby which is not asleep. Due to the rise in play of Cleffa, it is considered staple to tech a single Tyrogue. It can grab cheap prizes which can make all the difference in the long run. It's a great tech choice for pretty much any deck. Fast paced decks get a quick advantage so they can steam roll with the momentum and grab the win. Slow decks like mine just as equally, if not more so appreciate swift cheap knock outs as it gives the player more time to set up the big guns.

Now for those of you who do not know, if a player loses a Pokemon and they cannot immediately put a Pokemon in the active position from their bench, they lose. The term "donk" technically speaking is applied whenever a player lands in that situation although generally it is used when this situation occurs very early in the game - usually on the very first turn. You, the reader can probably see where this is leading now. The "Cleffa Donk" is a term which denotes the following scenario. One player opens up with Cleffa (or any baby) and no bench. The other player either opens with Tyrogue, or has a means to search out Tyrogue and place him in the active spot on the first turn. What then entails is that if the Tyrogue player starts, they immediately knock out the Cleffa with Mischievous Punch and win the game on the first turn.

That is it. If Donavannj is feeling game, he can explain what effects the soon to be released "Pokemon Catcher", also known as the new Gust of Wind will bring to the Pokemon TCG - specifically on the usage of Baby Pokemon.

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Glad to see TCG finally gets a staff member too it. Even though I don't have MCP too see how much you put into there report wise and what not, I sure have seen you try and add life to it and make it a place worth going for people that play TCG. PC is lucky to have you in TCG helping out for such a long time, I am glad you finally got your just due.

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YES I AM GOING AROUND SPAMMING CONGRATS TO YOU.

Anyways, congratulations again! :DD So glad that it finally happened! You totally deserve it after all the effort you've spent helping TCG out. <333

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Congrats! I've literally been waiting on this promotion ever since we started talking. Seriously. This is so well deserved! Good luck with everything, Don! :)
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Well done, Don! Congratulations on making mod . . . I don't hang around PTCG, but I'm sure you'll do really well by it!
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Oh Donnavanj, I always knew you would get to be a mod. I thought it would either be Pokemon TCG or OT. And you got Pokemon TCG :)

Congrats Donnavanj ;)
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If you want to chat with me shoot me a VM. Trust me I can't bite you through the computer:badsmile:

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Can I just say for probably the thirtieth time how astounded I am at how obvious this apparently was? o///o;; Especially because otherwise it looks like I'm going to repeat myself another 24 times in this post. XD; *gets a brick to the head and a fish to the face courtesy of Tara*

And all y'all who posted in here should totally post in my section. I'm sure there's at least 1 thread you can post in. Like for instance, posting pictures of your own TCG collection if you still have your cards.

also I'm not very wordy with thank yous


A big PC welcome to the New Moderator of Pokemon TCG, Donnavanj! Be sure to spam the hell out of him and be nice and welcoming, etc. There wasn't a more deserving candidate than you! Congrats and welcome to THE Pokecommunity Staff Team. We've been waiting for you... mwahahahaha.


The pokemon card game doesn't have a cool catch phrase like YuGiOh so shush
People certainly followed your advice about spamming the hell out of me, Live. XD Thanks!

It'd be cool if they still had "gotta collect 'em all" as their slogan. At least, I think that's what it was.

also I think you spelled my username wrong :B

I so totally saw this coming. From what I've seen in the TCG board, I knew for sure you're gonna get modded soon...and that day is today! :D CONGRATS ON THE PROMOTION, and welcome to the team! ^_^ I'm sure you'll do GREAT. :)
Why thank you! ^_^

I knew it I knew it I knew it~!

Congratulations Dondon! Hopefully you can do even more to bring activity into TCG now. <33
You knew it you knew it you knew it?

Thank you, Anna! I will be working toward a far busier TCG section!

OMAN. TTLY SAW THIS, TOO :D Congrats, Don! Now you are encouraged to be emBOLDened to spice the place up even more and bring the place to life even more <3 /shot for lame attempt at bold name joke

Seriously though: congratulations. Was weeeeeell deserved :33
Ahahahaha, nice word play.

Thanks, Thom! ^_^

Anyone who has Rammstein as their video for as long as you have, is worthy to be a moderator!

Congratulations and glad to see freshmeat someone new on the team!

I take that to mean you're a fan of at least a few Rammstein songs, then? :D

Thanks, Captain!

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BAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Don KNOWS I knew it. ^_^;

Also, Live_Wire, Heart of the Cards is from Yu-gi-oh. Anywayssss~ Congratulations Don, you deserved it!
Yes, I guess I did know you knew it. I mean, you called it just under a month ago after remarking how I wasn't mod yet.

Thanks, AppleJuice!

Great thread title, Live!

Anyhow, like the rest of the community, I knew this was a long time coming and probably inevitable, so congrats to Don for finally getting mods!
Thank you, Karpman!

If PTCG had been more active in the past... seriously, I lost the count of all the reports, posts, attempts to increase activity, suggestions, etc. you have sent in the past two years. Enjoy being on the driving seat now!
I guess I did do a fair bit of that over these past couple years, haven't I? ^_^;;

Thanks, Went!

Congrats on being a moderator!
This was gonna come sooner or later, so good job!

Have fun on being a staff member and all~
Thank you, Destiny Demon!

With the current set of staff as well as the regulars in TCG, having fun won't be hard at all.

Congrats dude. Which reminds me - we still need to have our match!

Edit: In celebration of your success, "I feel the need to explain in great unnecessary length, the Cleffa donk" to all of the lovely people viewing this thread.

Firstly, allow me to introduce you to Cleffa.



Adorable isn't it? Do not be deceived though. This card has driven many people mad, but more on that later. It is a highly playable card in the current Pokemon metagame and many decks utilize around 2-3 of these. Cleffa has many desirable traits - Free retreat cost, free energy attack, and a Pokebody which can grant it temporary invulnerability. Very desirable indeed. The main purpose for people to use Cleffa however, is it's attack. It allows the player to shuffle and draw 6 cards. Very useful for refreshing bad hands and can even be used to reload during the match, should one run out of resources quickly. Since Cleffa is a Pokemon, it is easily searchable through cards like Pokemon Collector, Dual Ball and Pokemon Communication. Searchable draw power is very important, especially if one is off to a bad start. So why do people rage over this card? It's because of the Pokebody. Every time Cleffa declares an attack, there is a 50% chance that it will be invincible during your opponents turn. In other words, the Cleffa player has refreshed their hand and stalled the game for a turn. There are times where "Baby stalling" can give a disadvantaged player enough momentum to turn the game around and steal a victory. To give an anecdotal example, I run a slow but incredibly powerful Tyranitar Prime deck. My best friend runs Magneboar which is really fast once it is set up. So my best friend sets up quite quickly and I am quite far behind. With fortunate coin flips, I manage to baby stall with Cleffa for a few turns and set up a Tyranitar with Zoroark as back up. It was enough for me to even the odds and I eventually cranked out the win. Without the stall, he would have overwhelmed and crushed me in a matter of turns.

Now allow me to introduce you to Tyrogue.



Again, he has the free retreat cost, same ability and free energy attack. If you take a quick look at the damage output of his attack and the HP of Tyrogue and Cleffa, you should notice that they are all 30. Indeed, Tyrogue is often nicknamed the "Baby Killer" as his Mischievous Punch will instantly knock out any opposing baby which is not asleep. Due to the rise in play of Cleffa, it is considered staple to tech a single Tyrogue. It can grab cheap prizes which can make all the difference in the long run. It's a great tech choice for pretty much any deck. Fast paced decks get a quick advantage so they can steam roll with the momentum and grab the win. Slow decks like mine just as equally, if not more so appreciate swift cheap knock outs as it gives the player more time to set up the big guns.

Now for those of you who do not know, if a player loses a Pokemon and they cannot immediately put a Pokemon in the active position from their bench, they lose. The term "donk" technically speaking is applied whenever a player lands in that situation although generally it is used when this situation occurs very early in the game - usually on the very first turn. You, the reader can probably see where this is leading now. The "Cleffa Donk" is a term which denotes the following scenario. One player opens up with Cleffa (or any baby) and no bench. The other player either opens with Tyrogue, or has a means to search out Tyrogue and place him in the active spot on the first turn. What then entails is that if the Tyrogue player starts, they immediately knock out the Cleffa with Mischievous Punch and win the game on the first turn.

That is it. If Donavannj is feeling game, he can explain what effects the soon to be released "Pokemon Catcher", also known as the new Gust of Wind will bring to the Pokemon TCG - specifically on the usage of Baby Pokemon.
I was gonna take you up on that but it's getting late here, so I'll go into a brief summary of Pokemon Catcher: IT MESSES UP YO' SETUP AND KILLS YO' BABIES. Fortunately Vileplume and Gothitelle will be there when it arrives to try to save the day.

Ahh, congratulations, donavannj! :D

I remember when we used to talk (well, we didn't talk too much), but we stopped. I'm sure you'll do great with TCG! :>
Thank you, Yo Face Here!

Glad to see TCG finally gets a staff member too it. Even though I don't have MCP too see how much you put into there report wise and what not, I sure have seen you try and add life to it and make it a place worth going for people that play TCG. PC is lucky to have you in TCG helping out for such a long time, I am glad you finally got your just due.
Thank you, Kenshin5!

I don't imagine that having a mod job will be much different than what you were doing before. XD I think this has been deserved for a long time so congrats! :3
I think it'll be somewhat different, but not by much because reportable activity seems to be scarce there. XD; Thank you, Vrai!

YES I AM GOING AROUND SPAMMING CONGRATS TO YOU.

Anyways, congratulations again! :DD So glad that it finally happened! You totally deserve it after all the effort you've spent helping TCG out. <333
YES, SPAM AWAY! oh wait you already did :B

Thank you, Tara! :DDD

Congrats! I've literally been waiting on this promotion ever since we started talking. Seriously. This is so well deserved! Good luck with everything, Don! :)
Thank you, Syd! :>

Well done, Don! Congratulations on making mod . . . I don't hang around PTCG, but I'm sure you'll do really well by it!
Thank you, Thomas! You should totally stop by with pics of your old cards if you still have them lying around.

Oh Donnavanj, I always knew you would get to be a mod. I thought it would either be Pokemon TCG or OT. And you got Pokemon TCG :)

Congrats Donnavanj ;)
Thank you, Captain Hobo.!

YOU STOLE MY IDEA!!
jk, Congratulations! Dondon!
Take a first step at the moderator world! /\___/\
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? WHO STOLE YOUR IDEA? o_o;;

Thank you, KingSnivy!

Congratulations on the modship~! I had a faint feeling you would, since you were so active at that forum! Congrats once more~! :D
Thanks, Diamond1304!

I've seen you around a lot and you seem like a great guy, so congratulations! :D have fun with your promotion!
Thank you, Kyoko!

this was long overdue tbqh

I've already VM'd you about this, but saying it again anyways. Congratulations on the promotion!
oh really now?

Thank you, Zeffy!

Well it was about time to see a TGC mod. Welcome to the modding team Donnavanj.
You mean "TCG". :B

Thanks, Para-Dox!

I TOTALLY SAW THIS COMING.

In all seriousness, congrats Don-o.
THANK YOU, PIXY!

Y'know, I was wondering why you weren't the mod of that place before.

Congrats Donnavanj, now go and enjoy your newfound powers!
Thank you, arma!
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