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Unfortunately, the addition of Pecharunt ex into the format makes playing something like Snorlax very difficult. The only thing I can possibly think of currently is trying to set up a noivern ex with a mist energy on it so you can use the first attack to make him immune to all basic Pokemon

Lost zone vs arc as an engine with Tina gives different matchup spreads and support options. Both are very viable decks, but they offer different things for Tina. As far as leaves vs serperior, leaves is easier to use as an attacker against zard since it lets you spread the energies around and make it to where your opponent can't just boss serperior and ko it before can attack or evolve. Leaves also get the benefit of being able to be used as a pseudo switch if your opponent ever tried to boss stall you. And leaves hitting 180 is relevant to ko support mons like squawk, Lumineon and mew ex. Overall, leaves provides more utility over serperior and it's much easier to use as an attacker

@@bestofthreetcg lost zone gives tina insta kos if match is long with colress, comfey and abyss seeking, serp v's regal blender also redistributes energy around+star winder gives switch out if u wanna use the vstar power, but ye iron leaves does provide faster and more efficient switch adv with lowered hp and takes 1 turn to charge which might give char a free move unless u have switch, Tina max belt also alr ohkos chars with lost impact and vstar arc can add energy to both tina and serp cuz both v's and serp same energy condition as leaves but 190+10 power, both look viable ig

Yeah, unfortunately 😔

@@bestofthreetcg iron hands still has a lot of potential though so it’s kinda frustrating

Thank you! I'm happy to hear it!

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I agree! I hope they do this as well

Appreciate it!

I've been heading down that thought with 2 pult as well. Just hadn't tried it before making the video, but I could very well see it being quite handy

The main thing to take notes on is your 6 prize cards. Those are 6 cards taken out of your deck at the start of the game that you will not have access to until you knockout your opponent's Pokemon. So figuring out what those cards are can be very important as it affects your decision making throughout the game and can determine how passive or aggressive you need to play. The other big thing is if you're playing a control deck. Keeping track of your opponents resources can help you make the appropriate decisions from turn to turn as you establish a win condition. And typically, control decks in Pokemon don't take prizes too often. So those 6 cards and pretty much completely out of reach for you the entire game

Because Pokémon isn't as bloated as MTG, a lot of the skill comes from optimizing the flow of the game. You're more focused on optimization of the meta game and meta of the meta game rather than the game itself IMO. If the notes allow you to take less time in your 50 min round than needing to ruminate about what's prized or what's been played, it's definitely worth it. If this weren't tournament play focused and instead talking about kitchen table with Theme decks, I'd agree.

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You pretty much have only one play line imo. You have to start Pao and let it take a hit. Then you retreat into ninja and hit two moon with shuriken. From there it's using your super rods to use iron hands amp you very much 3 times

​@@bestofthreetcgdo you think its a impossible win for chienpao in match up againts this particular single prizer deck like this? you have to consistently finding rod , nest ball, energy retrival ,and minimum 1 energy to switch active pokemon every turn in order to keep attacking with iron hands on top of that you have to maintain bax with prizing like this counter catcher is in play.

Impossible, no. But extremely difficult, yes. Bax has enough search and dig to at least have a chance of efficiently finding resources from turn to turn. But it will be very difficult

Absolutely

Pretty much. It comes up against sableye almost exclusively. And it really only matters if they targeted your bax early and you need to setup another in the mid-game since you need to put down 2 to ensure 1 lives to become a big bax

Much appreciated!

Appreciate the clarification!

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The gimmighoul was simply because I was so focused on looking for the energy that turn that I just forgot I had one left in deck 😅 The Palkia was because it wasnt going to be useful imo. We knew early on the opponent was playing arc counter box (with alolan Vulpix and noivern ex being the other attackers). So given this information, I deduced that the board was less likely to be filled with Pokemon since the only backup attacker thats useful into Dengo is vulpix, which is best suited as a lone attacker. Thus meaning the board will be empty, palkia will be locked by snow mirage and this in turn makes Palkia a suboptimal attacker. The game plan for this matchup as the dengo player is target down every Vulpix you see and ko arcs after. Noivern is a very bad attacker for them and vulpix will nearly auto-win them the game if it gets off a snow mirage since my whole deck (minus gimmighoul) has abilities. And since that's our strategy, Palkia doesn't accomplish much in helping us achieve our win-condition

While you may be right, all it takes it 1 bad day for your whole tournament to be ruined. Whether it be an irate opponent or a super strict judge, it can happen. It's never safe to assume every person will react to a given situation in the same way. So for me personally, I would rather take the 1 extra second to write "ultra ball" vs "ub".

@@bestofthreetcg that extra time adds up, especially if you check all 6 prizes, all 3 games. As a judge said in the comments below there is no penalty for abbreviation, just for writing an alternative

Yeah but unfortunately it's the rules we gotta follow 😕

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Not currently. I have thought about it and I'm not opposed! It's that something you'd like to see?

@@bestofthreetcg Yeah, for sure! I like how you elucidate your strategy -- it really connects with me. 🙂

Thank you for the kind words and I'm glad to hear you wanna start playing in tournaments! I'm planning on making prep videos for each level of tournament ranging from challenges all the way to worlds, so those will be available soon for you to be able to have as a resource! What kind of tournament are looking to play in?

If you want some content to digest for the time being, my buddy over at TCGEmpire made a prep video for attending your first regionals! Highly recommend giving it a watch th-cam.com/video/BOPiituVMTc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=a6Y-fu9MRDN6KnDG

@@bestofthreetcg I wanna start at my local card shop

Pretty much. My locals gives out IRL packs per round win for our weekly tournaments and my buds will usually donate their codes to me to help support the channel. And then I do get bulk codes when I can. Tcgplayer usually has sellers that you can buy bulk lots of codes from when a set drops. I'm usually able to get a few hundred codes for like $50

Welcome!

Happy to hear it!

Sheep ahh behavior

There's always gotta be somebody who starts the trend! If it's something you want to do, don't let anyone or anything stop you!

And when you do, people start complaining that you have advantage.

​@@bestofthreetcgToday I take notes on a League cup, some guy star to say that the taking notes can be use to manipulate time on the game. 😂😂😂😂😂The same player has a couple of warnings for slow play without taking notes . I'm the first and only one doing it . I'm not going to stop

​@@GoOKuSj33this happen on our local league WhatsApp group.

Appreciate the kind words! Thank you much 🥺

Thank you, friend!

I hadn't thought of that! You might be right

If u do duns u can't do palkia, just ruins the constantly of the deck. But I do prefer the duns but u are worse vs single prize decks. Thou palkia version has mainly the same issue but does better vs lost zone decks

Tinkaton is great!