Can we talk about the Slowbro that has the text “you lose this game” which will happen if all 3 of your coin flips are tails. Otherwise it is 100 damage for each heads
Friendly comment: "Spider Lock" was originally Alessandro Cremascoli's idea, but Jeremy Amram ran with it. He placed 27th/348 at Special Event Paris in November 2019.
Forgot about the fourth way to win games. Knocking out/removing all opponent's Pokémon on the field. Usually only seen on bad turn one draws where the player going first can only play a Basic Pokémon in the active and has to pass for turn due to not having any cards to play.
0:05 at the start, you didn't mention the other more common way of ending the game which is by one person having all their active and benched pokemon knocked out
Even though its not technically the same thing, i feel like blacephalon gx, kartana gx and naganadel + guzzlord tag team gx deserve an honorable mention since all their gx attacks have "draw/discard a prize card". Meaning if you use blacephalon or kartana while having 1 prize card, or naga + guzz while having 2 or less you do also just win the game
It's too bad that there aren't more alternate Win Con cards. They are these fun little puzzles. I've always wished that they would have continued to make alt-win Unowns. Just enough for there to always be one in Standard.
Take my opinion with a grain of salt, but as a long-time magic player, alternate wincons are usually the least fun games to play against. They're interesting to build, funny to discuss, entertaining to watch, and oftern miserable to play against.
Could you make a video or a short on some theoretical "Most OP" decks if rotations of old and new decks weren't a thing? I don't know enough about the TCG to understand dynamics but your explanations are really good for new people like me.
For me personally. I always saw the 35 card unown with the salazzle fire crystal draw engine to be the strongest idea for the deck. I was surprised I didn't see u show a decklist for it. I wasn't around before sword and shield tho so I don't know if that was a full deck at that time
7:16 i dont think so bc of N’s other powerful cards including Zoroark able to use this attack, and other N pokemon along with N’s pp up to get to 1 prize faster, as a 1 of in some zoroark decks, sometimes its hard to take that last prize
N's Sig and Unown V will be/are good because of the amount of HP each ex has. Depending on the matchup, there may be conditions where you cannot knock out another pokemon. In Lugia, Unown V was pretty good to use to close out a game against something like Charizard ex when it came out because it was difficult to get special energy onto a grass type with Single Strike Breloom being the most viable one. I can see N's Sig being good with blowing up duskulls, and getting copied with Zora which means you really only need to "attack" with 2 damaging pokemon attacks so I wouldn't just write it out just yet.
Can we talk about the Slowbro that has the text “you lose this game” which will happen if all 3 of your coin flips are tails. Otherwise it is 100 damage for each heads
43/214 if anyone wants to check
Friendly comment: "Spider Lock" was originally Alessandro Cremascoli's idea, but Jeremy Amram ran with it. He placed 27th/348 at Special Event Paris in November 2019.
Forgot about the fourth way to win games. Knocking out/removing all opponent's Pokémon on the field. Usually only seen on bad turn one draws where the player going first can only play a Basic Pokémon in the active and has to pass for turn due to not having any cards to play.
0:05 at the start, you didn't mention the other more common way of ending the game which is by one person having all their active and benched pokemon knocked out
4:58 so basically in order to make fossils good they had to make a card that bypasses the whole gimmick of fossils?
essentially yes lol
Even though its not technically the same thing, i feel like blacephalon gx, kartana gx and naganadel + guzzlord tag team gx deserve an honorable mention since all their gx attacks have "draw/discard a prize card". Meaning if you use blacephalon or kartana while having 1 prize card, or naga + guzz while having 2 or less you do also just win the game
It's too bad that there aren't more alternate Win Con cards. They are these fun little puzzles. I've always wished that they would have continued to make alt-win Unowns. Just enough for there to always be one in Standard.
Take my opinion with a grain of salt, but as a long-time magic player, alternate wincons are usually the least fun games to play against. They're interesting to build, funny to discuss, entertaining to watch, and oftern miserable to play against.
Could you make a video or a short on some theoretical "Most OP" decks if rotations of old and new decks weren't a thing? I don't know enough about the TCG to understand dynamics but your explanations are really good for new people like me.
That’s an awesome idea, I would love to watch that😮
Love the alternative win cons
Awesome video, here's an idea for the next one:
Every card that lets you play "Rock-Paper-Scissors"
This is actually a fire suggestion. Thanks!
Dan sweep!!
For me personally. I always saw the 35 card unown with the salazzle fire crystal draw engine to be the strongest idea for the deck. I was surprised I didn't see u show a decklist for it. I wasn't around before sword and shield tho so I don't know if that was a full deck at that time
7:16 i dont think so bc of N’s other powerful cards including Zoroark able to use this attack, and other N pokemon along with N’s pp up to get to 1 prize faster, as a 1 of in some zoroark decks, sometimes its hard to take that last prize
My thoughts exactly. Sigilyph might still end up being the 60th card in players' decks, but it definitely works well with N's Zoroark.
Celio's Network cooks yet again 🤌
5:26 Unown HAND was eventually BANNED in JAPAN's EXPANDed...
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Awesome video concept, love these
I think you missed Slowbro from pokemon go
That one just takes prize cards, it doesn’t say “you win the game”.
Great info for the meta!
N's Sig and Unown V will be/are good because of the amount of HP each ex has. Depending on the matchup, there may be conditions where you cannot knock out another pokemon. In Lugia, Unown V was pretty good to use to close out a game against something like Charizard ex when it came out because it was difficult to get special energy onto a grass type with Single Strike Breloom being the most viable one. I can see N's Sig being good with blowing up duskulls, and getting copied with Zora which means you really only need to "attack" with 2 damaging pokemon attacks so I wouldn't just write it out just yet.
Banger
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