Battling in the BEST Pokémon TCG Format Ever 

The editing is honestly fantastic. Plus, this video makes me wanna buy all singles needed to make these decks. Is there a decklist for these anywhere? Edit: I cannot afford Latias Gold Star :(

@@papabroly8000 Unfortunately these decks are very expensive, but you can still print out proxies and have tons of fun with friends for free!

@@natalieshampay214 Yeah I was looking in between watching this vid. Way out of my pay grade. Need to get me a sugar momma for this LOL

Definitely noticed the editing was diff on this one! Keep up the great work!

Editing out the shuffling and having the images of the cards displayed made this video such a treat to watch! Great work Chip!

100%!! I think the card design is just so good and the art is on point!! Just look at that Electrode

Ditto!

@@a.e.1502 One of my favorite Pokemon! xD

for real though

You would love GLC then

Games get bad because fans let them.

Not much different than the MtG meta to be honest - it's always basically the same 3-5 decks :/

@@TrianglePants No, competitive play drives this, not just the "fans". I'm a "fan" of Pokemon and TCGs in general but this is nuts and happens in *every* game ...

@@3nertia And I hate it all the same.

Ya

You can still get a game reletively easly. There is ptcgo automatic sim by the name of tcgone that goes unoticed cause its more focused to support legacy formats such as this. Don't even have all curent sets in it being couple behind but considering its fan project its about as gokd as we could have asked for baring parent company pushing for inclusion of older formats.

That’s exactly what I was thinking too!

same question here

So some cards from this era are worded in a weird way. There used to be a “doubles” format rule set, we’re each player could have 2 active Pokémon. So when a card like Sneasel ex refers to a “defending Pokémon” defending means the same thing as active. So if you were playing with doubles rules, the opponent would choose which of the 2 active Pokémon went to the bench. Sneasel still let’s the user choose the benches pokemon to bring active (see the first sentence of drag off)

@@ChipRichey thanks for clarifying, Chip!

I know this is an older post, but I wanted to add something for future reference for others. The 2x2 format was something that was used from the RS through the DPP era, being abandoned after the HGSS sets started being released, since it was noted as being unpopular with quite a few players. That's one of the reasons why the learning curve was a bit higher then than it is now. Wording was a little word. A card like Pow! Hand Extension had the same wording. But there was confusion about it. For a doubles/2x2 battle, the opponent could choose the Pokemon to switch, but when it was just a regular "one active only/normal format," then it would act the way Gust of Wind/Pokemon Catcher/Boss' Orders would. The Pokemon the opponent would choose to switch during a 2x2 would mean the Active, since there were two. However, quite a few folks back then would think, innocently that it meant, innocently, that it was up to the opponent to choose the Pokemon, kind of like Warp Point/Escape Rope. In the play groups I was a part of then, some of us were confused until we asked the judge(s) for assistance when the 2x2 format first came about. However, there were some cheaters, though few, that would try and convince the player that the card meant exactly how it was written. This is probably why this format was eventually discarded, as well as folks being annoyed that some tactics that wouldn't work for this type of deck, although it helpedvor didn't affect a few (decks like my favorite of LBS could still work well, since if they had a Jirachi from EX Deoxys, they could still attack with the other and use the Jirachi's search ability beforehand). When Black & White came out, it was meant to basically reset the game, and a lot of things reminded players of the original 1st gen format. It simplified a lot of things, the game had an easier learning curve, made matches super fast, but made a lot of evolution-based decks, one notable exception being Blastoise Deluge, obsolete and abilities were a one-all that absorbed the separate Poke-Powers and Poke-Bodies. I first stopped playing by that time, but I knew a few folks that stopped back then because they hated the game had "devolved" to that point. Playing it now, especially via block format, it's still a very fun game with the ramifications continuing to this point (big basics continued to the Vs and are still seen in some of the new ex's). I'm glad it is starting to reverse back to the golden age, though keeping some good things that have been around since BW. However, I still believe the 2003-2009 timeframe that we had ex's and Lvl.Xs was indeed the best times the Pokemon TCG has seen. There are still groups playing the 2006 and 2010 World Championships formats (as well as RS-PK and DP-AR) because of the viability of many decks and the closeness of matches with some mechanics that haven't returned to this day. I still have an LBS variant and Palkia Lock for these occasions, but unfortunately, prices being driven up during the pandemic and in the couple years prior since the 20th Anniversary has made it unaffordable to many. I say proxy up some decks and go relive some of the best times this game has seen!

"If a trainer card is a person" what about bills teleporter etc

Tcgone is not a flashy or as streemlined as ptcgo but its deadcent automatic sim for retro formats online.