I got a "wallop" theme deck for christmas, but I customised it quite a bit with cards from my booster library. (The energies I use are green, brown, and colorless)

I could use some advice from other people playing the TCG. Should I go for many pokémon (I think I have about 30 now, and 24 energy cards) and few trainer cards? I have no final evolutions, well, almost none at least. Should I go for, say, 8 final evolution pokémon (which makes roughly 20 pokémon cards total depending on pokémon choices) or perhaps even fewer, and throw in some powerful non-evolvers (Like Mewtwo if I had one)

That's all that needs to be said.

And now, I go draw up plans for a Neo 3 (Revelations) Jumpluff deck. Neo 3 Jumpluff can reproduce itself like there's no tomorrow. Pretty soon you have an entire army of Jumpluff, attacking the enemy with your choice of attacks (all one Grass energy):

Neo Genesis version:

Sleep Powder (20 damage): The Defending Pokemon is now Asleep.

Leech Seed (20 damage): If this attack damages the Defending Pokemon (after applying Weakness and Resistance), remove 1 damage counter from Jumpluff, if it has any.

Neo Revelations version:

Evolutionary Spore (no damage): Choose any number of your Hoppips and Skiplooms. Then, for each Pokemon you chose in this way, you may search your deck for a card that evolves from that Pokemon and attach it to that Pokemon. (This counts as evolving those Pokemon.) Shuffle your deck afterward.

Solarbeam (30 damage)

Anyway, the Trainer cards are the single most useful cards in the game. Put lots of them in there.

I used two different decks whenever I played, Ghostly Dances and HayMaker.

HayMaker was my favorite because no one could match its oppressiveness(at least not in my area, but, you know.).
Ghostly Dances had Jungle Scythers and The Fossil Gengar Line, along with Jungle Mr. Mimes. It worked pretty well, winning me the only tournament I ever went to.

Anyway, erm, you should have no more than 12 Pokemon in a deck, usually. Don't bother with evolving; a general rule is that, if it sucks in the GB, it's good in the TCG, and vice versa. The only exceptions are Chansey, Zapdos, (Gym Challenge) and Mewtwo. (Movie promo)

I stopped giving a rat's ass after Neo Genesis, so I don't know how it works now.

Sneasel is a gay Pokemon who will win games, and will be in every single deck that gives you real competition, as well.

12 Pokemon; normally basics only.
Maybe 15 Energies... you'll almost always want 4 Double Colorless Energies, and you'll need 4 Dark Energies for Sneasel, and also Rainbow energies if you want.
The rest should all be Trainers. Meaning 30+. Professor Oak and Computer Search hog up alot of it. Ecogym, Nightly Garbage Run, Itemfinder, Bill, Rocket Sneak Attack, Lass, etc. will all find their ways into your deck to make it gayer and gayer as time goes on.

I remember my deck had been Electabuzz, Sneasel, and Chansey, with 4 DCEs, 4 Dark Energies, 4 Recycle Energies, and 3 Electric Energies. =\ The rest had all been assorted Trainers.

My last TCG battle was actually that ECSTS thing they had at the Meadowlands in June; with the whole "Rocket On!" thing. I want them to include Fossil. <_> Lappy and Magmar have no business being excluded from anti-b0rkedly broken card play.

I had experimented with Blaine's Ninetales, Blaine's Kanghaskan, Rocket's Scyther, Cleffa, and Magby as my entire deck, as far as Pokemon went. Basically relied on Blaine to bring out Kanghaskan as quickly as Electabuzz, only much more powerful defensively and with an improved version of Thunderpunch, while building up Blaine's Vulpix (the 50HP one) on the bench to evolve into Ninetales. Scyther and the baby Pokemon were mainly stallers, though Scyther pretty much covered all the weaknesses; Fighting and Water, as all Rocket On! Water Pokemon worth using (Misty's Poliwhirl, Feraligatr, and Wooper) were all weak to Grass, rather than Electric, as was the predominant Fighting type, Brock's Sandslash.

Surprisingly, it did good'n'stuff, going 4-0 before losing to some kid who would later go on to the final 8, then getting gay-ass luck in the 6th battle, and playing a deck nearly identical to mine and losing to a coin flip. I dropped to protect my DCI rating once I was 4-3 at the end of round 7 of 9. =\

Strats I like:

Raindance:
You know how this goes! To make it actually do something though, you'll probably have to use energy search and retrieval. I made a raindancing Charizard deck, but then I found out that RD only works on water types, damnation! I use Cuno and the Poliwag series along with the Squirtle series so I can at least mix the weaknesses up.

Blitzkrieg:
Based on Haymaker, but involves the use of Aerodactyl. I try to get Aero evolved ASAP to incapacitate the enemy, and then go nuts with fighters like Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee. I've managed to get this to work well, but this deck could use more fast fighters that don't evolve. I use lots of Pokeballs and PC searches to try and remedy this. Also, you can't get another dactyl ready until the first one goes down.

Fire Fighting deck:
Charizard and Hitmonchan/lee. Very well balanced. I don't use any fire energy to save space, because charizard doesn't need it to attack unless par, confused, etc., and charmander and charmeleon can still use their basic attack with just double colorless and fighting.

Energy xfer:
Venusaur's power might not seem that useful at first glance, but you can do some powerful things with it. Say you have 4 energy attached to a chansey that is about to get knocked out. Use venusaur's power to move them off of it to a different mon, then use scoop up to get rid of the damage, then play it again and give it the energy back and attack! Or, just save the energy, and let the Pokemon bite the dust (probably only if you are immobilized and can't attack). You can also bank up energy and throw it around to whoever needs it to attack or retreat or whatever. You can have an exeggutor ready to go really fast if you have the energy already attached to venusaur beforehand.

#%&@! deck:
Uses fossil gengars along with things that attack the bench. If multiple gengars arrive on the scene, they can finish off those "not quite dead" Pokemon using curse to move the damage.

Ghost n Psychic deck:
Guess what's in this one! Alakazam and Mr. Mime team up with Gengar to cause some psychic mayhem. Gengar handles enemy psychic types. Kadabra provides power. Kazam works with Mr. Mime to do a damage swap combo, and I use scoop up to get rid of the damage. Fossil Haunter works pretty good too. Nightmare + Transparency = only 25% chance of successful attack on Haunter! Fossil Gastly can even sacrifice some health to grab some energy. All this is running off of Psychic energy! The one weakness? If a normal shows up, I'm probably dead! A fighter that runs off colorless energy would be perfect for this team, but my options are limited to Aero, which stops evolution, something my team uses heavily, and Kabuto, which does a wicked 10 damage (20 with weakness!), but is probably too cheap and not allowed.

Colorless deck:
This deck uses almost all Pokemon that only use colorless slots. Chansey, Scyther, all the eeveelutions (GB only version, not fossil), and the Charmander series. Finding the right energy is easy, lol! I also use Hitmonchans, so the energy of choice is fighting and double colorless. Multiple types running off of the same energy can wreak all sorts of havoc!

Draino deck:
Psyduck series, Dratini series, and poliwag series. They all use Hyperbeam/Whirlpool in conjunction with energy removal and super energy removal to incapacitate the enemy. They all run off the same energy, and they all have different weaknesses, so it works out nicely! I use the legendary GB only dragonite instead of the fossil one for its healing power.

4 Energy Retreival
2 PlusPower
3 Professor Oak
2 Bill
2 Computer Search
2 Gust of Wind
2 Pokemon Trader
3 Energy Transfer
7 Water Energy
17 Fire Energy
2 Dewgong
3 Seel
4 Fossil Magmar
4 Growlithe
3 Arcanine

Quite simple really...

1. Get a couple exeggcute and a few exeggutor.
2. Throw in a bunch of Leaf, Psychic, and misc. types.
3. Throw in some pokes with sleep/paralyzing attacks.
4. While you stall your opponent, put an exeggcute on your Deck and load it with Power cards.
5. Evolve it to Exeggutor and start on another if possible.
6. Hopefully, if your other pokes have stalled the opponent long enough...send out one of your Eggy's and blast them straight to hell with Eggsplosion.

I normally load my eggy's up quite a bit before sending them off to die. Their Eggsplosion attack practicly causes instant death.

My favorite move.

Of course, recovery cards are optional.
Of course, I'm sure this tactic sucks.
Gameboy pokemon all the way.

1 L68 Zapdos
2 Mysterious Fossil
2 L9 Kabuto
4 Potion
4 Energy Removal
47 Electric Energy

I tried building a deck that used nothing but the Zapdos for damage. 70 a turn starting on turn 3 is complete pwnage.

Then, I realized that it died horribly to anything with Mr. Mime. At first, I tried using Jiggly to fight it off, but then I ran into matches where I had Jiggly out as the only Pokemon, and Zapdos was 20 cards deep. There had to be a better solution.

Then, I figured it out: 2 Mysterious Fossils and 2 Kabuto! That game uses a rule such that when I get a Mysterious Fossil, but no Zapdos, I can Mulligan the hand! In addition, Kabuto is immune to Mr. Mime, and can poke away with 10 each turn!

I think when I last played, I was in the middle of the Challenge Machine, after 50-some wins...

Another thought! Every time you get a GB only legendary Dragonite evolved from Dragonair, it uses its healing power. What if you used Mew's devolution beam on it? You could heal every turn! You could also use Devolution spray, but the Dragonite goes back into the deck, so you'd have to have more than one legendary Dragonite in your hand.

Energy Removal Cards! They destroy my deck! UGH!!@! (Yes I know ways to counter it do exist, but, they aren't good enough...)

At TCG place I go to sometimes, the only people who really beat me are those with energy removals, or somethin like that...

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Originally posted by 1970Beetle:
I swear I read somewhere that they were going to make a sequel to the TCG game that is out for Gameboy. Did anyone else read or hear this?

I really like TCG for Gameboy. I'd love for them to make another version of it. It's a cool way to play TCG without having to go out and buy all those cards.

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I downloaded a Jap ROM of Pokecards 2. It doesn't have any Neo Genesis (or so far), but it does have lots of new cards (like from the Team Rocket set). You start right were you left off in the old game, but you have all your cards sucked out by a spaceship. Theres these wierd "GR" Aliens that take over the world, and you have to battle them in order to proceed to the next map. To do that, you have to find them, and beat the gym leaders (sometimes) to get their coins (you can use them instead of the default one for coin flips if you want). Once you beat all the GR's, you get the GR coin, and are allowed to proceed to a new world. That's the farthest I've been.

The best new card I've found was a Venusaur that does 30 damage for 3 energy, and paralyzes, confuses, puts to sleep, and poisons at random. It causes 2 status problems at once.

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"Peel apples while they're still in the... damn tree!" -Olly on the Precious Roy industrial strength laser peeler...

I laugh at Sneasel.

3|\|3R6Y R3|\/|0\//-\|_ P\/\/|\|$ J00 /-\|_|_!

I doubt it was over 50 coins, but, possibly darn near close, you must have had the Exeggutor that does this attack called something like "Eggplosion" where you get to flip a coin for each Grass energy on him or somethin like that, so yeah, that could lead to ALOT of coin flips...

A Pojoer would come into this thread and say that Azure Heights people are n00bs.

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Originally posted by MK:
Exeggutor that does this attack called something like "Eggplosion" where you get to flip a coin for each Grass energy on him or somethin like that

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Heh. You flip a coin for each energy on it. Talk about Communism.

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Originally posted by kikered:

Heh. You flip a coin for each energy on it. Talk about Communism.

I gave up wasting monies on the newer cards so I usually play the GBC version more. Just toss a couple of Legendary Zapdos cards and the rest electric energy with a few potions and such. The game won't start until you get a basic Pokemon, so why not?

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Originally posted by Bulbasaur3000:

Because legendary Zapdos has 70HP, and if they're the only Pokemon you have, you can prepare to be mauled to death by a Chansey.

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Originally posted by Pokegod:

I am pretty sure that it had 100 hp, but I am not 100% sure.

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Fine, then.