I am creating this thread to talk about the battling section of Pokemon as I don’t see another thread for it, (this is not for pocket it’s for the physical cardgame and Live) anyway I just find the topic of the actual battling super fun part of the hobby and not talked about enough, so if anyone wants to post about the cardgame here is a great place to do so
I just started playing again and have been having a lot of fun 
I played a lot of (and traded a lot on) PTCGO, so I had a good number of credits and crystals to start off with.
Started with the free Pikachu ex deck, then built Archaludon/Dialga Vstar. Then moved onto Regidrago Vstar with the free deck with the battle pass. Now, I’m just trying to think of fun non-meta decks. I’ve been playing a Dipplin Festival Lead deck and having a lot of fun!
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TCG Live is honestly so fun if anyone wants to get into battling and doesn’t know how try that out first to get into it
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@Ryolu and i have been trying our best to make zard work post rotation lol ive been having a lot of fun with pult/ thorns, may just switch to a more standard pult/ duskull set up tho
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I also picked up on LIVE again and have been running the standard Ogerpon deck. Please let know if anyone wants to play by adding friends (I am not sure if that is possible, but if it is, I am up for it)
Cheers!
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PTCG is so much fun to play and incredibly accessible right now. You can build powerful decks for cheap because anything from PRE that isn’t an Eeveelution SIR is passed off as bulk…when most of those cards are competitively viable and relevant. The Series packs you get from participating at your local Leagues are chock full of meta and playable cards that you can use to bling out your deck as much or as little as you want.
I’m a huge Lost Box head and it’ll be tough when the deck rotates, so I’m getting as many reps in as possible on the PTCGL ladder haha. If you hit a Lost Box deck in Arceus League, you could’ve hit yours truly 
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Username is rylyy27 on live if anyone else is on! Feel free to add me and message for battling. I’m a player before collector so feel free to reach out w any help getting started!
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Ok I’ll keep my eyes out for lost box lol
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This is coming out of the blue but I randomly felt like talking about it.
Has Pokemon introduced anything significant that’s new to tcg battling mechanics in the past 10 years? Think about it, most of what they have released has already been done somehow, let’s work our way forwards from what I believe is the last semi creative thing made, GXs I know it sounds stupid but hear me out.
First we were introduced to GXs realistically these are just ex but with a GX move, next we have tag teams which are just legend cards but made into one card instead of two, after that we have Vs which are again just exs then they evolve into Vmaxs which guess what are megas, then they decided to make vmaxs into vstars (I don’t know why they did this they are the same thing but now you take two prize cards instead of 3) then we have v unions which are undeniably just legend cards, like it’s NO different, then we come into scarlet violet era which we go back to ex, then teras which some of you might be thinking “oh Mr. RabidSquirtle that’s original” wrong they slapped delta species onto ex cards BUT they did add the bench rule…
Before GXs though which arguably weren’t even that creative as they just added a powerful move that can only be used once we had BREAKs, and these are the same thing as exs and Lv. Xs… then we had EXs which were exs but you don’t need to evolve them. Then we get Megas which are creative then before Megas everything from my perspective was original (we dont talk about Lv. Xs) also what happened to Baby Pokemon? Like seriously I’m glad that budew isn’t more op but I like baby Pokemon cards
Anyway thanks for listening to a person talk about " back in my day…"
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The one weird thing that I’ve seen somewhat recently that “breaks the mold” is the singular attack by Alakazam ex that allows it to attack from the bench. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that on card before, but it could very well be a rehashed idea also.
Overall, you’re right that nothing really novel has been introduced to the game (but I also haven’t been playing for super long, just since Sun and Moon). The GX moves were the one thing I thought of too, but these have now also become an old idea (already recycled for VStar moves/abilities).
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Hmm I’m going to be honest I forgot that this existed do you think it could be possible to create a deck right now with revaroom in the active having the capes? With 310 health it might not die that fast from bosses as well
Do you all want some code cards? I don’t know if there’s a generation cut off or anything, do the same rules apply in rotating old sets out? Cause I have a LOT of code cards from all over the place.
I’m good lol live is actually a lot easier to make decks in live than people think and I don’t really care about making my deck look fancy someone else might want them though lol
@citriina They might be adding Gym Leader Challenge sometime in the future, but I probably wouldn’t count on it as a permanent format anytime soon. And I don’t know how far back GLC actually goes (and whether TCG Live supports those sets). Just thought to give you a heads-up!
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