Retrospectives on the Poke'mon TCG. Working my way through top decks and fun builds, starting at Base Set and forward from there! All TCGs are welcome as I dabble in a multitude.
@shuckletcg Any reason in particular why you used Pokémon Breeder in this deck when you haven't used it as much in other decks and even mentioned early in the series that you have time to evolve all the way up manually in this format? Was there something unusual about this deck?
Mine spoke in English, good memories from Christmas 1999. I got that Meowth, Donkey Kong 64, and the Green Transparent N64 Controller under that tree… 🥹🥹
9:11 Boy oh boy, were you missing out on Buried Fossil when you built your Aerodactyl decks for this format. A "fossil" that can be searched out with Pokémon Trader, Pokémon Fan Club, and even Dark Dragonite? And which boasts a Poké-Power for searching out your Aerodactyl? So what if it's worth a prize card?
Honestly, since Base Set Charizard would discard both the boost energy and the other energy card anyways, the Expedition Charizard seems like an objective improvement for the most part. Double tails wouldn't penalize you, and double heads would reward you by letting you keep the non-boost Energy.
@shuckletcg You know how Dark Vileplume's purpose in Donphan in Rocket-Legendary Collection was to protect your Donphan from Double Gust? Couldn't you use Noctowl for that in this format? I mean, it even has free retreat, so you could use it to tank a 50-damage-or-less attack if you really can't afford the 25% chance of a Focus Banded Baby Pokémon getting Knocked Out (and hey, you can actually play Focus Band with Noctowl!). The big disadvantage would be no Pichu, of course, but you could still use Elekid for chip damage if the benefits of added security against Double Gust outweighed the benefits of spread. What music piece is this, by the way? 10:26 Shuckle: "You want to keep your opponent off-balance." Me: "Like the dabbing Sentret?"
Hi, is there anywhere in Asia or Australia where I can play the older formats? I’m looking for places to play them, just started collecting Pokémon cards but wotc ones
Remember, if Charge Up Eevee Charges Up with a Darkness Energy, it will take 20 damage from the Energy alone before it evolves, so it might not always be safe.
@shuckletcg Light Golduck isn't going to be strong in every matchup, but I think I have a solution: Couldn't you mix in some Aquapolis Golduck to help you deal with decks that don't run a lot of Special Energy? You'd still be only doing 30 damage either way, but the Status Conditions will give you more chances to do that 30 damage. Better still, if you confuse the Defending Pokémon, unless your opponent has Double Gust, they are forced to make a choice between three evils: Retreat out of Confusion, and either waste Energy or damage one of their other Pokémon; attack through Confusion and damage their Active Pokémon; or leave that Pokémon in the Active and try to get Double Gust before it gets Knocked Out.
@@Charmaster04 Correct lol. This actually came up during a match I was playing where I left the card on the table after using. That’s what I get for not fully reading the card.
Another idea; you could add Buried Fossil to have a fossil that's searchable with your four copies of Pokémon Fan Club and can search your Aerodactyl out of the deck to get a more consistent alternative to Fossil Egg. You could probably even cut the package down from 3 Aerodactyl and 4 Fossil Egg to 2 Aerodactyl and 2 Buried Fossil, giving yourself a whopping three extra slots to do what you like with. The downside? If Aerodactyl gets Double Gust KOed, you can't get a new one into play that same turn. Great deck profile, by the way. I'm trying to help the Holon Phantom, one of your fellow guests on episode six of Ruby Retro's history series, find new decks he might want to build in Neo-Skyridge, and I think I'll be suggesting that he try Politoed now. Hope I can find some more gems.
I've found Magmar FS a better partner than Electabuzz. Pluspowers don't really help as Hitmonchan/Machop are really the only attackers that benefit from it. From my own experience I've found Mewtwo/Magmar/Muk the best way to run Haymaker. Also, when you run Mewtwo there's no reason not to max out on Super/Energy Removal cards, and you certainly want to add in Item Finder to maximize their use even more.
Whoever is here in 2024,. know that this deck is not good in the format now. If you want a go fast Wigg deck, play Wigg/Rapidash it's the most degenerate deck in the meta.
@@briansumner123 it’s a fun idea. I’ve tried to make that rainbow deck a few times and the ho-oh isn’t really worth the investment that it calls for. Even with gold berry to back it up.
Context: Just watched this Exploud video, where Exploud's spread damage is its main attack. Also just watched the Nosepass video by Scott's Thoughts, where he had one hell of a time. Nosepass is my favorite pokemon, and I know it sucks. My question: do any of the Nosepass cards in the EX era see use? Some of them have some interesting attacks, and a couple (Emerald and Holon Phantoms, I believe) have attacks that spread damage around.
thoughts on using Pokémon Trader? might be worth considering if you're running 20+ Pokémon seems like it'd be nice to consistently setup evolution lines and shuffle away cards you don't wish to discard when using Prof Oak
When I started this channel in 2017 my goal was to make it to the 2006 format because it's my favorite of all time and everything leading up to that era is interesting in their respective ways. Super excited to finish out the ex era in the coming years.
@shuckletcg I have started a RS-PK league at my local card store, and your vids have helped me a bunch learning the early bits of the format. I can't wait to show them your vids in a few
This era was the time I played a lot. The TCG really felt like it peaked during this era though and just started going downhill at the start of gen 4. I have my own version of this deck from back then still too. It really is a lot of fun to play with. Still hope to see a dark dragtrode deck and some other prominent decks from the time period explained. I think another reason this deck also did well was how it didn't rely on rare candies and didn't fall apart to ATM rock. It was resilient to disruptions.
