Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

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bigtukker

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So I just made an account on Pokemon TCGO, collected some cards and started to create a deck. I thought "Hey cool, I have both Cresselia/Darkrai halves, maybe not the most playable card of all, but what the heck, the Moon's Allure attack is pretty cool and with Vaporeon, Feraligatr, Blastoise and Mismagius to throw damage around it might be a cool deck," I knew it was a fail-deck, but hey, it was fun when it worked. Then I encountered one of those Magnezone/Yanmega decks. The dude had long turns, kept playing Trainer Cards until he had a lot of Yanma, Yanmega, Magnezone and a Pachirisu on the Bench/Active. I know this is a very efficient way to win a game, but it's so boring. From now on I only play Practice Battles, because I get to play random decks instead of those competitive ones. Is there anything wrong with me?
 
Yeah, TCGO is like the real metagame, but with a LOT more tiers. The top three tiers are the same, but you've got things like tier 5 decks beating tier 6 decks, etc.
 
Or tier Binder Drop losing to tier Theme Deck. I'm basically playing a couple of PCD mish-mashes right now, and winning most of my games against Binder Drops or straight PCDs. There's a lot of RANDOM involved with the game right now. Sit back and enjoy it. It'll probably never come again.
 
Just get more codes and see what you can come up with.

Right now I have two main decks that I'm playing and then a lower tier deck.

My main deck is Dark Mayhem with Tyranitar, Zekrom, and Reshiram. This deck can beat Yanmega/Magnezone most of the time, Reshiboar/Phlosion, Vileplume stuff, Gothitelle, etc. It's only problem comes with fighting decks (Donphan or Gigalith) but it can beat those too. I might add in a thin Samurott line where I used to have a Zoroark line in the deck to counter fighting.

My other deck is a Mew lost zone deck with Gengar, Spirittomb, Slowking, Mime Jr., and Mr. Mime which is almost always setup with a multiple Mews and Mime Jr.s and a Slowking by turn 2.

The other deck I'm playing which is powerful, albeit inconsistent is a Mew/Tyranitar deck with Zekrom/Reshiram walls and Audino for big damage. The goal is to get a Mew setup turn one, send Tyranitar to the lost zone, retreat Mew on turn 2 behind Zekrom/Reshiram or Audino and then start setting up multiple Mews for power claw and megaton tail. Not sure how I feel about this deck. It's easier to setup multiple pokemon for Tyranitar's big attacks since you remove evolution, but you lost the great HP of Tyranitar and you can't be power clawing on turn 2 like a good setup with my main T-tar deck, but instead have to wait until turn 3.

The point is, there are plenty of decks out there that people aren't playing that aren't among the common top tier that can compete with them just as well. Just experiment, see what you can come up with, and have fun playing with those.
 
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