Recent content by djjoe227

Good Netdecking: Grabbing an idea for a deck or a trial decklist, building it, trying it out, making changes, and playing it. Bad Netdecking: Grabbing a decklist from the internet and bringing it to a tournament.

It doesn't? It can't? Or are we still locked on the build from Japan that's in a different format entirely? Not to mention Prism Energy counts as psychic energy for Mewtwo EX :nonono:

Even with Eviolite, Special Metal, and it's natural resistance, Mewtwo only needs to have 3 energy (not DCE) on it on any given turn. This is due to Mewtwo EX's second attack. Psycho Drive will deal 120 damage. -20 for Resistance, another -20 for Eviolite, and -10 for Special Metal and...

Im getting confused, which scenerio are we using as the base of this discussion? A- Durant Player has option to take a prize, making it difficult to play cards such as Twins, therefore the penalty actually helps the opponent. B- Durant Player declines the prize penalty, resulting in no change...

In Heart Gold, I tried a grand total of 114 times to try and catch Ho-oh. I kept track after attempt #10. Attempts were made where it knocked itself out from STRUGGLE with no attacks on my end. (from the first turn I started chucking balls) ...and 1HP left. ...and paralyzed ...Asleep...

All decks are the exact same size, 60 cards. There's no such thing as a big deck in Pokemon.

Vince: Think of it like this- Everyone has to start somewhere. That is to say, these ideas are prizes. Not simple giveaways. So to even get them, you'd have to play. To play, you have to have cards. To have cards, you must have gotten them from somewhere. And finally, that somewhere is a...

I'm going to be running Elemental Monkeys, Liligant lock, and Serperior. I'm going to go out in round one everywhere, lose, and at least have fun with it.

I think that a separate set strictly for use as prize would be more efficient than an unreleased box. Imagine a set, currently, that you couldn't buy in stores, that had the "hard to get" cards? You open the pack, and there are 3 cards- a Foil Energy (HS print; same as league promos), and 2...

Convenient that someone posted that part after your post. At the point of your post, you had no backing. Good job on the luck of finding such a foothold. Player A had won- they were top seat (assumably) and were making it no matter what the outcome. It would be like if Player A was instead...

In the scenerio, A DID win. Pay attention to your own scenerios. A won, and no matter what the outcome A was going to top cut. Player A won, period.

Is it fair that we're really debating someone's position in a tournament who didn't outright win? This shouldn't go down to people caring about how well someone did after they lost. They lost, they lost, end of story. You want to prevent this? Win. When you don't go into the topcut with an X-0...

But that negativity you are referring to is an opinion- a quality specific to that particular moment. To put it into perspective better to suit that the penalties are not in need of improvement, as the player commiting the action you would have to think on the situation. Since everyone loves...

A fact is something that can't be proven wrong. Allow me to show you; The Durant Player's opponent commits an action to force a prize penalty. In a Durant deck, taking prizes can hurt, especially in the mirror. There are two scenerios: First, the player opts not to take the penalty. There...

Wrong. A penalty is at no point supposed to benefit anyone, it is supposed to be a consequence of a wrong action. If someone benefits from a penalty, that is their application of skill to an altered game state; an opinion at best. The penalties are set up now to give a player an assumed...