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My fifth pack in my first UPC, first pokemon cards I’ve opened in 15 years, I got the blastoise god pack. Was blown away. Instantly hooked. Now I have a new hobby!

It's weird having a Pokemon podcast and you don't know about masterball holos.

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Interesting 🤨

6/8 on top 8 is insane on Toronto regionals

this is like jtisallbusiness with diablo immortal all over again

I feel like you missed talking about the key most part, which is the exchange limit in the shop, making it much harder for newcomers to actually build up a collection of cards, which will inevitably have an effect on the number of players in the game as the influx of people that stay after their first couple games decreases

alternate title "guy who's never acutally played pokemon tcg has an opinion on why expanded is bad"

Expanded is my favourite:(

They need to bring back vs seeker online and other staples like battle compressor along with fun cards like scramble switch and ho-oh ex

Expanded is Modern in MtG. And Pokémon needs to address this. They just NEED a new format. Like a much more slimmed down version of Expanded. Magic has Pioneer for example. And this is proving to be a solid alternative to Standard and Modern. It may even need to be a rotating format as well, just with a larger card pool. But now that we have seen JP ban Scoop Up Net, something must be happening soon.

I hate that they took it away from friendly!!

Sounded to me like the problem isn't the concept of expanded, but the new cards being fuckin broken. Ban Standard ROFL.

Expanded format is Dog shit….

I feel like I haven’t had the whole “broken deck beats you in two turns” issue when playing expanded. I love the format, and wish it got more recognition. It gives people plenty of creativity to make great decks, and not having to make new decks every rotation makes things cheaper too

As a long time tcg player with Pokémon being my first, I will say the direction Pokémon/yugioh went with making the cards stronger throughout their franchise to magic making the cards weaker in theirs. They all have their issues of course but when it comes to expanded it will be another standard format because if the cards are getting stronger so it’s no point, other then the old trainer cards of course, Also want to add venucenter deck in rocket-on was so underrated 😊 (just wanted to throw that in LOL)

agreeeeeed

Pokémon is designed in a way where you can pretty much search everything and accelerate into everything, that combining all stuff from 2011-on, it becomes a lost cause. They would need to ban so many cards to even come close to slowing the pace down. I think it's just destined to be a going-second big play format or stun lock with very little counterplay (this when there's no one turn win combo going around before it's banned). I would say tag teams suck but you can just play tsareena, volcarona, or even shadow rider or ultra necrozma.

In my opinion expanded is completely broken but I do believe that's the intent of expanded is that old and new players can combine and play against each other. Plus pokemon never wants to make their main cards obsolete

smacks of damage control curious to see how they want to handle palkia since there is supposed to be a regi v set...

I feel then we should have 2 versions of exapnded, one for s+m pre tag team, then one that includes everything since then aswell maybe trainers in but not pokemon?