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@@vala32 I'd also like to see less focus put on coin flips and prizing. It's a shame we've never seen a reprint of Azelf from Legends Awakened which vastly reduced the number of games you lose to prizing

Not all special cards have rule boxes. That is only true for modern cards

No I love cleffa. We are going to EEEK you out of existence

@@WhimsicottTCG YOU FOOL! [Four Tyrogue dressed up like Palpatine's royal guards whip out swords and advance.] I SHALL EFFICIENTLY ELIMINATE YOUR BABY!

It is actually nice to get to play on your turn and not watching you opponent activate 17 effects before you could even draw your card

@@milos7311 UNLESS you were lucky enough to draw a hand trap, making it impossible to run a deck without running the same 15 handtraps as everyone else

well honestly it just feels like tpc took it as a challenge to catch up

After rotation mimikyu ogerpon is so insane

Rip to stage 2s in January. Gotta love them saying free item lock on turn 2 of the game

As long as its dusknoir and Big basics though, also your pretty much expected to lose after turn 3 if you dont setup by then

thats in no way a good place, the "variety" of decks consists in the same 2 strategies but with slightly different main pokemon. Its like saying yugioh has a good meta because theres 20 meta decks lol

​@@uwaa5768 I would say that that is disengeneous to the actual meta of ptcg rn. Top decks in the format are Regidrago (draw + self-mill), Tera Zard (catch-up), Klawf (Single prizer poison beat stick), Miraidon (rush down), Gardevoir (slow ohko bench blaster), Ancient Box (pure self-mill), Lost Zoning (investing in high draw power with decision making on what is ok to lose). There are so many decks rn that work that if you think another stage 2 deck is just another "Tera Zard," then you don't really care to read what the decks actually do.

I don't believe that they were designed to be EX Pokémon for a couple of reasons: 1. Black & White is supposed to be a complete reset of the game, hence where there was no mechanics in the first few sets 2. The later EX Pokémon were all Legendary/Mythical and all Basics, which was probably a design philosophy set out as the by the time Black & White cards were being designed

just a small spec of time

@@WhimsicottTCG Whimsicast is a Lord of the Rings elf confirmed.

2010 World Championship format

I did a video called 2010 Worlds For Dummies that is a good introduction to the format

@@WhimsicottTCG ok thank you!

I used to do a lot of Expanded rogue deck content back in the day, but the format is pretty much non-existent nowadays, so I don't play it

There was no special cards in Base Set. It's just a base line to work off of

Thanks for the support!

The problem with single prize only formats (like GLC) is that so many of the single prize Pokémon are meant to exist in multi-prize metagames, so they output damage that easily one hit KOs the other single prizers, or sets up tons of spread damage (Sableye Lost Mine).

In theory, more actions per turn SHOULD equal the increased number of turns with less options of older formats, however, in practice what it means is that your opponent has less chances to counter your strategy, meaning less back and forth. A lot of games can end up feeling very samey, with players solitairing their own board to pull off the same strategy each game, rather than maintaining a board state that the opponent is going to repeatedly take pokes at over 10-30 turns. Sequencing is often brought up, but fails to account for the fact that its a learning curve for any new deck in any format, and good players can figure out how to sequence a deck to a 90% optimization within a few games. Games being as fast as they are will also lead to players being less punished for inoptimal sequencing, when in a longer game, that player may lose because they made an error that comes to bite them several turns later.

@WhimsicottTCG Thanks for the reply, I appreciate how you took the time to counter my argument. I see your reasoning, and you are right with these points. However, I still consider it more beginner-friendly if multiple shorter turns are played, as it still encourages a bit more back-and-forth plays, even if it just boils down to hitting each other for less damage, rather than properly interacting. I'm also not a huge fan of the fast metagame, they do feel pretty samey. I hope it could slow down a bit in the future without the need to completely reboot the game.

If you've played Pokémon for long enough you can absolutely follow the designer's train of thought, but on that, you can also tell when a card was not thought about enough (Fezandipiti ex for example). I think the funniest case of following the designers' train of thought was during Sword & Shield when their design philosophy for about a year straight was to just print a new deck that hits the deck they made 3 months ago for weakness (Dragapult weak to Eterantus, which is weak to Urshifu, which is weak to Shadow Rider, which is weak to Umbreon, which hates Leafeon in the same set, but Leafeon loses to Mew VMAX, which came out in the next set. More communication would be nice, but then again, the players are often very inconsistent with what they want since the player base of a dedicated game like MTG is going to be different than a collector/game game like Pokémon.

@@WhimsicottTCG Saying "If you play the game long enough you can try to read the minds of the nameless, faceless developers if you want deeper insight" is wild xD Also, blaming the lack of communication on the PLAYERS being inconsistent is a crazy take.

I don't do tierlist videos anymore, but maybe I can post it to my Twitter

@@WhimsicottTCG Okay sounds good

Unfortunately its kind of hard to bring it down right now, other than to print cards like Budew that just actively stop the opponent from playing cards at all to force the game to slow down. Any time you don't hit them with the item lock though, it'll be another 350 with a side of Pokémon Catcher on your benched fella

Trainer Powercreep has not been consistent throughout the game. The strongest ever Trainer cards were in the Base set era and in the XY era. Otherwise, it's been very up and down. It's not that BW was a downgrade in powercreep necessarily either. Professor Juniper, N, Dark Patch, Colress, and Hypnotoxic Laser are some of the strongest cards ever printed, but BW just printed very very few Trainer cards overall.

There's no reason there can't be a tiering system, but I also think its worth acknowledging that since Pokémon TCG decks generally focus around 1-2 types/strategies, a lot of decks could be "NU tier" but play at an "OU level" when hitting specific matchups they do well against.

​@@WhimsicottTCGThat's more or less the way things work with Smogon, too, as very often Pokemon that are in lower tiers get played on teams on higher tiers for one reason or another. The main issue we face with such a tiering system is that outside of Smogon specifically, most of the time, when something is put on a tier list, it's not to create a metagame where lower power leveled stuff can be used without fear of being outclassed by stuff that's just flat-out better, but rather to judge how good something in particular is in relation to the other options we have -- but I'm assuming I don't need to tell you this. My point is that because most tier lists don't operate on the same way as Smogon's tier system does, people would have a more difficult time adjusting to it, and it would arguably only serve to complicate things more for setting up tournaments, since now they would need to have multiple different tournaments running, possibly in this same location, for people playing in different tiers. That aside, it would also arguably make the game more expensive on the whole, since now it would increase the prices of cards -- and I don't mean just the ones that people already want to build decks with right now -- but because this would lead to certain cards getting banned from being played in lower tiers, people would start to look to the rest of the existing card pool for options to replace those cards: yes, this would cause new strategies to be implemented, but it would also likely increase the price of cards that most would generally consider to be bulk. That said, it could also lead to greater experimentation as well, and maybe cards that had been previously overlooked would start to be actually played more, and this, in turn, could lead to even the top tier decks being changed to become more optimized, or even have a deck that was previously thought of as bad raising to greater prominence as a result. Point being: there's a lot of good and bad that could come of such a change, but the biggest problem would be simply that players would need to adjust the way they think to be able to better incorporate such a shift into the way the game is currently being played

Yeah, I've found that its difficult to completely convey how things were pre-2011 and pre-2019 to people who are newer to the game, but I hope I've at least conveyed some of my ideas

@ You definitely succeeded in explaining it with your Best Sets videos and going into how your ideal format looked with this one. I didn’t really get the viewpoint at all when someone at my local was trying to convey it to me, but you got me o7

Tag Teams being there is what makes those examples so jarring. The 2 cards are exactly comparable, in form and function, yet the power creep brought on by the Tag Teams changed the dynamics of the cards completely.

“There were Tag Teams in between that were so broken, all numbers had to change drastically just to keep up” Congratulations, you just described power creep

@@aubeary190 But it wasn't the normal kind of power creep. It clearly was a mistake they want to forget as seen with how they handled VMax slowly trying to get rid of 3 prizers and making them inconsistent gimmicks. BW and XY would have been a fairer example only going up slowly but still being very present (and super unnecessary)

While this is true to an extent, I don't think rotation happens fast enough so that we don't "need" power creep

that’s not how it works

​@mathiascs7271 While that's more or less true, power creep, the way I see it, is something that cannot realistically be avoided, for better or worse. Power creep is going to exist in any tcg people play, and a big part of the reason for why that's the case is because it encourages people to buy the new cards -- not just to keep up with whatever the current meta is at the time, but also to potentially upgrade an existing deck the person may be already playing, or simply to give more decks a better shot at being able to compete with the already established meta decks of the time. Even then, it's exciting to see new cards be revealed and speculate on how good they will become, which in turn drives people to buy cards from the newest sets, as even if a certain card/deck they are trying to build doesn't prove to necessarily be meta relevant, some players may still find it to be fun to build a new deck and test it against other players

I love Expanded but it's so terribly supported nowadays that power creep doesn't make sense

Sets rotate out slowly, staying in standard for 3 years. If Year A has Pokémon with 100 Hp doing 80 damage, and then in Year B They start printing 120 HP that deals 100 damage to beat Year A, and then Year C has 130 Hp and deals 120 damage to beat Year B. So now Year A cards are rotating out , but if you go back to making 100 hp pokemon, they just lose to last years pokemon, so you can't just reset the numbers without making the new cards irrelevant.

To each their own. I much prefer the older metagames where longer games produce drawn out wars of attrition, which rewards skilled players and allows individual player expression to come out

there's no real trading to be had with regidrago lol, that card is wild

I prefer Expanded not being mostly just the current format but with more powerful items and supporters

​@@Masochistickoala ah yes Regidrago Vstar copy the attack on any dragon pokemon you have in your discard pile I know cause I'd played him.

I personally would love that, but there’s no going back with power creep. You’d have to have a massive global rotation for all card regulations

I don't think we'll get a reset, akin to what has happened to Vanguard TCG. Pokémon solves number problems by making numbers higher.

I mean, isn’t that what the new Pokemon TCG Pocket is? And people are responding pretty well to that

​@@chessplayer6632kinda but not really, Pocket not only have smaller number but most importantly much simpler effects. Cards from 2005 to 2010 had smaller numbers but more complex and in my opinion more interesting effects than the cards from today

Wouldn't be the first time: the E-Reader block was one where the game scaled back on the HP/Damage of Pokemon, and also nerfed the power of Trainer cards by debuting Supporter cards. If the game ever reaches a critical point that could be a possibility, but it's wait & see for now as at least they are making sure that no FTK options are around.

Charizard ex isn’t even that good compared to the competition. Definitly meta, but it stands side by side so many other good decks

@clickbaitcrill3394 but it's jsut super annoying like yes I crush them all the time with my BLASRIOSE EX DECK but still soooooooooo annoying

I've covered Guardians Rising before!... though for some reason I forgot to mention Choice Band in the video

Right that's it, I'm getting the Warp Point out