Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

How to Solve the Tropical Beach Dilemma. (And maybe create a more enjoyable game?)

The whole point of running an EX isn't to survive a 150 damage attack... it's to use a 150 damage attack.

And the problem with tank decks won't be that they won't have attackers that can survive a hit (Tyranitar and Legends are the only ones I'm aware of that can take a hit from Reshi EX, though). It's that you're not going to be able to stand up to a 150-per-turn onslaught with just Reuniclus and, like... Blissey. Four turns of that is 600 damage on the board, which you're going to have to deal with pretty creatively if you have any chance of winning.

Aaaand... Fliptini will be played in Reshiram EX, making it unlikely that it will take any recoil.

Okay, I'm saying that tank decks can still tank because if they run an EX of their own OR if they simply continue to run SEL, then Reshiram EX can never KO it. T-Tar and Legends are not the only cards to sruvive 150, the EX's can as well >.> And you're making it sound like Reshiram can do 150 every single turn under trainer lock and taking 160 damage from SEL (burn can still KO it, and Fliptini is cool but it's not foolproof for Reshi's recoil). Remember you're also giving 2 prizes.

I agree, if you want to make a deck based around an EX, you may be better of ditching the tanking idea. However, EX's will not kill tank decks and I predict tank decks will use them themselves simply to counter other EX's. They're easier to get out than SEL and have 160+ HP.

Not to delve too much into theorymon, but 600 damage within 4 turns is unlikely and still managable since 1.) SEL will KO Reshi and 2.) a normal field (say Blissey, Plume, Reuniclus, and SEL at the very least) can hold 460 damage before healing and without considering Dragons (or EX's to house further damage) OR giving up any prizes (And you're going to get 1 prize a kill as Reuniclus swaps it onto single prize Pokemon).

On the FLIP side, a tank deck like Ross.dek is doing 640+ damage (before burns) in 4 turns against Reshiram EX, a deck that isn't even designed to tank and must give up 2 prizes a kill >.>
 
I've ran Ross fine without it >.> I'm also sure Ross would have ran his deck without Tropical Beach. After all, he didn't even know it was legal until the day of Worlds... and he had faith in it lol. Is it better with it? Of course, but it's definitely still as functional.
 
Sorry if this has already been said, but why do we need this card to help out decks? Aren't the odds of playing someone with this card slim? Furthermore, does not the other player not get to use the effect to?

I simply do not see the need for the fuss over this card. And no deck that I can think of actually needs the card to work, and if there is one then all I have to say is good luck in drawing it in your matches, unless you do run 4...
 
IMO, tropical beach SHOULD be a hard to get card. It's to reward players who had a great pokemon season and recieved an invitation to Worlds. I would be somewhat upset if I recieve a card after working all season to get it just for it to be a league promo or banned =/. Good cards are supposed to be hard to come by!
 
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