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To add to the list of popular cards Krucifier put up (you should also note that a lot of this is speculatory, especially the Pokemon, since Battle Roads hasn't happened yet, much less any actual Championships, so I'm going mainly from buzz on these boards and others as well as my own...

That's what I was thinking-- that an energyless attack means that attack technically has a cost of 0, which being a concrete number can actually be added to. I was fearing that the energyless attacks circumvented the numbers system altogether (since they weren't tied to the concept of energy)...

If I have a question about this game, the Compendium usually sets me straight, but they haven't updated their Q&A section with Mysterious Treasures-era inquiries yet and when I was looking at Azelf today, a question came to me. Does its Power, Downer Material, cause Pokemon such as Budew that...

He's good enough to be a figurehead and a 'superstar', if you will. He's good enough to have nabbed the best track record at Worlds this year in his division. He's good enough to have won Worlds in the past. If your criterion for 'best' includes these things, then I suppose he is the best...

If the criterion for 'best' was measured as objectively as possible based on tournament records, innovation, consistency, the ability to generate polls like in the first place, the ability to influence the metagame of an event as big as Worlds singlehandedly, etc., Yamato would probably come out...

I think Furret will actually just give Ledian this knowing glance and Ledian will fly off dejected, knowing it now has to share its 'Pidgeot lite' mantle with another, in many ways superior, card.

That's true. In a sense, the rest of the world will always be playing catch-up to the Japanese since sets are released there several months before the translations even hit our shores. If anyone's going to be able to say, "I thought of that first!", it's likely going to be someone from Japan.

I disagree. Garchomp Lv. X is a great aid to the deck because it fully repowers and brings back a lost Garchomp AND energy all in one move so that it can be back out attacking next turn, which gives you consistency and the ability to swarm. The idea would be to get 2 Garchomp in play early on--...

Krucifier: I already conceded that in the absence of the Lv. X, the card and deck are probably going to be inconsistent. This doesn't make them unplayable, they just won't win consistently. Sometimes they'll wreck from the beginning, other times they won't quite set up right and the opponent...

I'll give it to you that in the absence of the Lv. X, Garchomp probably needs to win fairly early, just like Kricketune for example, or else it will fall behind mid to late game, and the bench probably will be underdeveloped, and things like energy will be stretched thin. I never said the deck...

DarkMagnus: How is requiring one single specific energy a drawback? Almost all Pokemon have that as a requisite. It's easy to procure the right energy too as long as you play enough Castaway and Hamana's Research, plus Stantler on top of that to get them if you don't draw into them within the...

"rofl"? You really get that tickled over Pokemon? Or are you just trying to find ways to insinuate that you're somehow above those of us who disagree with your dismissal of this card, to the point where you begin your rebuttal of someone's post with a hearty net-slang laugh? 110 for 3 with...

I love how people are disputing how good Empoleon is (or rather, how good it can be in the right hands) when it was the main component of the 4th place deck at Worlds (and numerous other decks there that didn't make it that far). With several new playable water evolution lines coming out in MT...

Not all decks rely on the "KO my expendable starter, please, so I can Scramble power something big and wreak havoc!" strategy, first of all. Second of all, Garchomp has 130 HP. It isn't going to get OHKOed all that easy, especially if you play cards like Buffer Piece. Thirdly, Garchomp ABUSES...

Archetypes are rarely ever created by solely one person anyway. People from all over the globe play this game, and they don't all log on to sites like Pojo or Pokebeach or Pokegym and scoop the latest strategies-- they come up with them just like we do on their own, or in small independent...

110 for 3 is nothing to scoff at. It's not hard getting the right fuel either, with Castaway and Hamana's Research both at your disposal. You don't have to stockpile energy either-- you just need to get hold of one or two of the type that corresponds to the active's weakness in the beginning and...

Well, neither Holon Fossil or Strange Cave help get Rampardos into play anyway (unless those cards were going to be errata'd to include all fossil evolutions), and as you said, Strange Cave is rotating out. The problem you mentioned about SSUing a "stage skipped" fossil evolution and then trying...

What's wrong with SSUing a fossil evolution? Rampardos would work best as a cleaner. 100 takes out a number of cards without any aides from PlusPower/Strength Charm, including Infernape, and if you've been sniping things with 120+ HP with Lucario before, Rampardos is going to get OHKOs on...

I disagree that Rampardos is a bad card. Its first attack combos well with Lucario's bench damaging attack(get Pokemon down to 60 HP so the dinosaur can KO them for 2 energy), it can do 100 for 3 with the second attack (self-damage is lame but not devastating), has a low retreat cost, is aided...

Pokeric: That "I didn't read half of that" line is kind of revealing. It's like you're openly admitting that you don't care much for advice or constructive criticism. Just because what I type is "long" doesn't mean you should skim through it and then dismiss it. I said pertinent things, and at...