How to play Pokemon 1- game Setup

Pokemon Resources

Hello Pokemon fans! This post has a list of Pokemon resources that are great and easy to use and extremely helpful. So here goes.

Proxies:

The best website out there for printing proxies, making deck lists, and looking for the perfect card for your deck, is by far Bebesearch. On Bebesearch, you can print out paper cards for your deck which you can use until you get the real copies. They also have a great card database, where you can submit the filters you want and find just the card your deck needs. The last function, but certainly not the least, is it's decklist program, where you can create, edit, print, and publicly post your list, and the decklists you create are compatible with PlayTCG, which is listed below. Here is it's URL, and I hope you check it out: http://www.bebessearch.com/

(Card that bebe search got its name from)

Testing

In order for you to know if your deck is good or just a bunch of trash, you have to play with it to see what it could improve on, and to see how it is played best against other decks.but a big challenge is that getting the cards costs a lot of money, which you don't want to spend if the decks no good, and it's hard to find an opponent, and even when you can they might not have the deck you need to test against. Well, PlayTCG has the answer.  PlayTCG allows you to take the decklists you have made through Bebesearch, seen above, and play against other players from throughout the world. But you do have to put out damage counters, draw cards, ect. manually, unlike the Pokemon TCG online. While PTO is easy to use in that it does all the shuffling, drawing, and damage dealing for you, getting the cards you need is incredibly hard since the only way to get cards is by getting virtual packs from the code cards in real packs and entering it in on the program, which costs tons of money, and almost never gets you the cards that you need. But play TCG, however, does let you use cards on the program you don't have it real life- you just tell it what you want in your deck and it gives it to you. Here's it's URL: http://www.playtcg.me/

Buying

While testing and all of that is important, it's useless for a player who doesn't have the cards to actually play in tournaments. I believe (while there are many others) that TrollandToad is the best Pokemon card seller out there. It's prices, while probably being slightly more than they should be (which is the same with every card seller out there to earn a profit), they seem to have the best prices out of all of the retailers for Pokemon. I use this every time I order Pokemon cards, and they have never given me a fake or not sent the cards, so it's very trustworthy. As for there selection, they sell all Pokemon cards, along with code cards and some merchandise, along with tins, boxes, and packs of cards, they rarely have older cards in stock unless they buy them from someone who is willing to sell. Their new, popular cards also run out of stock every once in a while because players need them faster than they can pull them, but they usually get them back in stock within a day or two. As you proudly saw me mention above, they do sell cards, and they'll pay you about 1/2-2/3 of what they'll sell it for, but I think this is pretty generous since Pokemon card values are constantly going up and down (down more than up), and they have to make some profit, right? Here's their URL: http://www.trollandtoad.com/Pokemon/7061.p1n10.html.

Scans and news

At Pokebeach, there are two great features that always draws me to the website. The first is it's Pokemon card scans. It has all of the English set scans of cards, and they are extremely high quality too. You can easy find every card and what set it is in. I get a lot of the card scans from my blog from there. The other upside to this website is its news. They have lots of resources, and they are always making new posts about all sorts of Pokemon news- both official, and leaks! :) This is where I get some info from as well, and I hope you check it out! You can visit the site by using this URL: http://pokebeach.com/

The logo for pokebeach

Well, I hope these resources help you with Pokemon. They sure have helped me a lot and I hope you agree!

New Pokemon Rules

Hello Pokemon Fans! Pokemon has announced that the Pokemon TCG new rules from Japan will be coming to America (whether we want it or not). Below are the new rules players will have to follow starting November 8 in both Japan and America.

First turn rules

As usual, one player flips a coin. But, the winner of the coin flip will decide who goes first. Easy decision right? Mabey not. The player who goes first can’t attack!So, if you want to start dealing damage first, you might want to make the other go first. If you want to get a fast setup, youmight want to go first. The reason for this rule change is to prevent donks on the first turn. I think this rule is interesting…guess I’ll have to see how it plays out in the metagame.

Catcher rule

Now the card Pokemon Catcher will require a coin flip. While this makes it harder to get a opponents, at least a slight upside is that your bench is protected from being easily catchered up, which can give them an easy prize or really disrupt your strategy. But, I find in a little angering that Pokemon changed the text on a card, even after it was reprinted twice. This new rule change makes catcher exactly like Pokemon Reversal  a previous card that was the same as catcher, but  a coin flip.

Professor Rule

The new Pokemon Professor, Professor Sycamore, has been revealed to allow you to discard your hand and draw 7 cards, the exact same as Professor Juniper. And because that it has and identical effect as Juniper, you can’t have both cards in the same deck.  While I see their point on not wanting eight of the same cards in your deck, but still, it’s not like this is an overpowered card or anything, and I think it would be fine to have the two in your deck.

Well, what do you think about the rule change? Do you think this is reasonable, or has Nintendo lots it’s marbles? Put you opinion in the comments section below!

  

Mega Charizard X and Y

Recently, Pokemon has released that the mega Charizard shown in previous trailers is only half the story. They have released that the previous Mega Charizard to be shown is only available in Y, and that there's another form of Mega Charizard, only available in X. It appears to be blue and black with a blue fire tail and blue fire escaping from it's mouth. It also has spiked winds with daggers on top. As epic as this looks, It almost seems like they're taking it a bit far. They completely changed Charizard, almost making seem like a brand new Pokemon. I'm thrilled to see they will make a X for Venusaur  and Blastoise, but in the mean time stay tuned for more X and Y news!

 

 

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Game play photo leaks! Final form of Frokie revealed and so much more!

On Sunday September 29, two anonymous users posted convincing images of Game play from Pokemon X and Pokemon Y. Early in that morning, a poster leaked three images of the final evolution of Frokie, Greninga, and he or she also revealed the new Flying Fighting Pokemon Hawlucha, which has learned a new fighting move Flying Press, which has a PP of ten. The other user, while not reveling much, did show us a new Rock and fighting Pokemon called Binacle. While these could be faked, I believe, along with about 1000 others, that these are legit. How these two obtained X and Y, while not being trust worthy enough to keep it a secret, remains unknown. 

You can see the five images below:

       

How to play Pokemon

In this video, I explain how to play Pokemon to get you started. If you're still confused, you can click here to view the official Pokemon tutorials, which are separate into different lessons.

Card Error found! Super unlikely!

Hello Pokemon fans! I have recently identified a error on Charizard! The ironic thing: they made the exact same mistake in a much earlier set.

The old "Blaine's Charizard" card only required a fire energy, but it says to discard all fighting energy attached to it. Nintendo later released this to be a error. It was meant to say discard all fire energy attached to it, not fighting.

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Then in Plaza Freeze, they made a near exact mistake to the one before. The non-shiny Charizard's attack, which was released in boundaries crossed, Scorching fire requires 1 fire and 4 colorless. But, the golden Charizard, which was released a set later in plasma storm, requires one fighting energy, but says to discard a fire.
 

What really astounds me is that this is almost the exact same error as before-reversed! The chances of them making such a similar error on two cards that are both the same Pokemon is SUPER unlikely!

Well I hope this was interesting! You might want to trade around for these shiny Charizard before they become super expensive.