I love watching your card battle videos while having lunch !! (Thank you for making them) And you are rly good with commentary stuff!! Im only familiar with the oldest pokemon cards, so I love to see more of those! :)
I play standard too, and it’s just too expensive. 130.00 a deck that rotates annually (but now they’re also doing rush rotations), is a lot to pay for these days. Retro is static, I love it.
@@MrFreezeProduct Not 1-for-1, but it's the most popular format in that vein, making it easy to find people to play against. Some people love the singleton rule (I do in theory, but I haven't done more than solitaire (or goldfish) the format), others place it at C on their tier-lists for being singleton. Personally, I still want to see a tier list of Gym Leader Challenge formats (One for each set release since its initiation) to help me pick a version for casual play so I wouldn't always be updating my lists, but I understand if treating GLC as a static format is antithetical to what many people find appealing about it (It's one of the things I would find appealing about it too if I didn't need to exercise self-control in how much time I spend researching and testing decks).
I live in Japan and here the retro format is still popular with some tournaments organized by the fans We use a regulation system so the strongest cards can be limited, very fun to play!
@@nickfanzo We use different regulations with a point system so basically you can spend 8 points on your deck and certain cards cost like 2 or 3 if they are really strong
@@iamThomasMosa Ok . I play 93/94 magic the gathering too and we have something called x points in some play groups. Seems like the same thing, helps people who can’t afford power 9 to play. Also adds diversity
Man. Cool video. Love the format and the OG damagecounters. I used them a few years back, but There's just too much HP these days. Great narration too, easy to follow. Thank you.
Base-fossil is my favorite but I love the retro formats. I have been playing Pokémon with my 11 year old, and she loves it- playing standard. Then we tried base -fossil and she said it was such a better game, way more decisions etc. games aren’t decided by a good opening .
I wonder if it would be better if we could see the players hands. Personally whenever i watch your videos i do think “huh sure i guess they had that in their hand” instead of being able to see what they are working with!
We tried recording like that but our setup doesn't look very good with it. And since I edit out all the empty space between plays it makes the rest of the video look really janky.
You're right, you can only attach one energy from your hand per turn. Zapdos and mewtwo are using their attacks to get energies back from the discard pile
1:20 “Your opponent shuffles that card into his or her deck” would get cancelled in today’s culture. 2025 cards be like “shuffles into his/her/their/it/zhe/them deck”
I love watching your card battle videos while having lunch !! (Thank you for making them) And you are rly good with commentary stuff!! Im only familiar with the oldest pokemon cards, so I love to see more of those! :)
This is so Awesome. Wish there were a format on modern pokemon where the maximum rarity is just the rare to have a similar experinece to this!
That would be cool
I play standard too, and it’s just too expensive. 130.00 a deck that rotates annually (but now they’re also doing rush rotations), is a lot to pay for these days. Retro is static, I love it.
Gym leader challenge is such a format.
@@MrFreezeProduct Not 1-for-1, but it's the most popular format in that vein, making it easy to find people to play against. Some people love the singleton rule (I do in theory, but I haven't done more than solitaire (or goldfish) the format), others place it at C on their tier-lists for being singleton. Personally, I still want to see a tier list of Gym Leader Challenge formats (One for each set release since its initiation) to help me pick a version for casual play so I wouldn't always be updating my lists, but I understand if treating GLC as a static format is antithetical to what many people find appealing about it (It's one of the things I would find appealing about it too if I didn't need to exercise self-control in how much time I spend researching and testing decks).
I live in Japan and here the retro format is still popular with some tournaments organized by the fans
We use a regulation system so the strongest cards can be limited, very fun to play!
That's awesome!
What are you using, something like 15/3?
I wish we had tournaments here for retro, but they’re all standard. High is great too, but I like retro more.
@@nickfanzo We use different regulations with a point system so basically you can spend 8 points on your deck and certain cards cost like 2 or 3 if they are really strong
@@iamThomasMosa
Ok . I play 93/94 magic the gathering too and we have something called x points in some play groups. Seems like the same thing, helps people who can’t afford power 9 to play. Also adds diversity
@@nickfanzo Sounds very similar! By the way, if you wanna play sometimes on Discord or Skype let me know
When I saw 4 cards left in Zapdos' deck, I was hoping the Mewtwo could make a comeback lol GG
I’m always rooting for wigglytuff.
I just can’t help it.
Man. Cool video. Love the format and the OG damagecounters. I used them a few years back, but There's just too much HP these days.
Great narration too, easy to follow. Thank you.
Base-fossil is my favorite but I love the retro formats.
I have been playing Pokémon with my 11 year old, and she loves it- playing standard.
Then we tried base -fossil and she said it was such a better game, way more decisions etc. games aren’t decided by a good opening .
It's a fun format!
Can't wait to actually use my Rocket Zapdos deck 😂
You'll have a lot of fun!
How did it go?!
Narrow Gym is a sick counter Jiggs card
I wonder if it would be better if we could see the players hands. Personally whenever i watch your videos i do think “huh sure i guess they had that in their hand” instead of being able to see what they are working with!
We tried recording like that but our setup doesn't look very good with it. And since I edit out all the empty space between plays it makes the rest of the video look really janky.
@@holon_phantom ah ok! Made me realise it might be cool to see when sneak attack was played
I think these are great, as is.
Where is this music from? Was it a Pokémon game from the 90s? I don’t remember it.
Yeah it's a battle theme from the original red and blue
@@holon_phantom I think I’ll play it when I play 😂
For some reason (idk why) i thought that you could only attach one energy card at a time?
You're right, you can only attach one energy from your hand per turn. Zapdos and mewtwo are using their attacks to get energies back from the discard pile
I just realized Zapdos hit first turn are these house rules
Actually during this format you can attack on the first turn
lets go scyther!
He’s da Mon.
1:20 “Your opponent shuffles that card into his or her deck” would get cancelled in today’s culture. 2025 cards be like “shuffles into his/her/their/it/zhe/them deck”
this “joke” is old enough to get a drivers permit, take a lap
@@Materialist39Yeah, lol. the Current cards just use ‘they/them’ now
@@week2671 awesomesauce, one updoot for you, fellow redditor