Pokemon Card Drafting DOESN'T Have to SUCK
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Drafting is almost impossible for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. But with a little effort - it's actually one of the best drafting card games out there!
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Hey JWittz, long time fan here. I know you might be loaded on video ideas, but when you have the time I'd love to see your take on both the new Digimon TCG and the Disney Villainous Board Game. I think you would really love the interaction of Villainous especially, with everybody trying to achieve their own goals while fateing each other to stop people in the lead. Plus there's definitely enough content (especially with Villainous's 3 expansion) for a well lengthen video. Just food for thought
I don't know what drafting is. Could someone tell me?
@@zzyxxyzz5442 I mean there's google. But put simply, it's a competitive format where players take turns opening packs and have to build a deck with the cards they get before playing. So it challenges your ability to both play the game and build a viable-ish deck, even with crummy cards
@@zombieplasticclock Thanks for the help, dude.
i had never considered using old cassette tape boxes with the pins snapped off as cube packs. thats genius right there that is
With the pins in place, they can also hold GB/GBC cartridges!
Do you remember that Yu-gi-oh! episode at the beginning of the Dungeon Dice Monsters Arc where Joey got himself into a drafting duel and Yugi dismissed the concept as inferior to playing with a personal deck?
It's funny how 'Mutant Draft' is literally how the new Digimon TCG handles evolution lol
True
Not just the tcg, that's how Digimon has handled evolution in general.:P
@@ZombieBarioth don't they have established lines and is just some games that do whatever they want with them?
@@marcoasturias8520 not really the anime does it too it’s just more common in the games
I know, right? As soon as he started explaining it I thought, "This sounds very familiar."
Mutant sounds pretty wacky considering that your cute little ice cream Vanillite can evolve into a Wailord
Just a normal day in pokemon i guess
Well maybe you can add a house rule where they can only evolve into a pokemon as long as they have the same amount of evolution stages
and that same wailord can evolve further into a blastoise, making for some absolutely hilarious plays. As wack as it sounds, mutant evolutions in pokemon is pretty fun.
That sounds just like Digimon
And it's exactly how the new Digimon card game works xD
Silly JWittz, I've not been adhering to the traditional Pokemon rules for *_years!_* Mainly because I don't know what they are, but that's besides the point.
Can you even call yourself a fan if you didn't watch his first ever vid explaining the basics smh
Can you even call yourself a fan if weren't present during the birth of Josh aka Jwittz
@@morklee31 you mean the series he never finished?
@@gregorymirabella1423 he did, but it was much later
Draft is easily the most interesting way to play a card game. Can bypass cancer meta and forces people to get creative.
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Well depends on the draft. If you do conspiracy in mtg yeah its creative cause that set was BUILT for draft. If you draft a game of modern masters or double masters.....you may kiss that creative aspect goodbye
@@AxxLAfriku bro what
@@OsamuNaraWu3 commander legends is definitely in that conspiracy camp of the draft experience is fantastic
@@AxxLAfriku There is a time and place for everything. And you missed both.
Wow. Absolutely love when you talk about TCG stuff man, brings me back.
me: this seems interesting, I always wanted to play a ptcg draft
also me: *has no friends who play ptcg*
Join the discord! You’ll be able to find groups to play with there c:
@@bagleopard this comment is wholesome
The slow down and lighting in those group scenes makes it look like stock footage. That’s what I thought it was until you showed up!
Plot Twist: It is and Jwittz has been secretly in stock footage this whole time
Mutant is basically what the Digimon TCG is currently doing for their digivolution system, as long as the colors match any digimon can digivolve into any other digimon 1 stage higher than it, but of course getting a "proper" full set digivolution line (ie Agumon to Wargreymon) will give you a better combo rather than random digimons
I just got into cube drafting :D
I've got a delta species themed cube thats mostly gen 3 and 4 pokemon
The Mutant option gave me Digimon Card Battle feels.
I was thinking of Digimon as well!
....JWittz.
JWittz, stop.
You're making me wanna try the card game, what madness is this-
Play the GBC game for a basic rundown. It's really fun
Mutant sounds like the new digimon tcg, which is really cool in handling evolution as a mechanic.
I have no idea what Drafting is but Jwittz makes it sound really exciting
You might not be interested how draft works, but if you are I have written what it is and how it works bellow.
Drafting is a tcg format where you get together with 4-8 friends open packs, and build decks out of only those packs. It can range from being a really casual to a competitive format depending on the group and location(conventions and gameshops are generally more competitive).
Everyone gets 3 Boosterpacks with 15 cards in it and you sit together at a big table.
Then everyone opens a booster and picks 1 card that they are going to keep. They then hand the booster (with now 14 Cards in it) clockwise to their neighbor. Then they repeat that untill all the cards of the first boosterpack are gone.
The second batch of boosterpacks follow the same process, but the boosters get handed counterclock wise around the table.
And the third and final boosters are again handed clockwise around the table.
Now you have pool of 45 cards that you drafted that you use to build your 40 card deck. Energy cards (or in magic basic lands) are provided from outside of the boosters and you have an unlimited amount.
Now you just shuffle up and play with your friends.
@@bunbundestroyerofworldslor3512 this was the only thing wrong with this video. We were just expected to know what drafting was. Thanks for the explanation.
@@bunbundestroyerofworldslor3512 Thank you SO MUCH. This playstyle looks so cool but I didn't know
@@MantaKizaemonFTW it is really fun, I highly recommend it. And it's a really different experience compared to normal deck building. You won't have "optimized" decks but you get to play with a bunch of cards that are unplayable in other formats.
I love going to regionals and then if I miss day 2, I just love to Cube Draft with my friends and other people around. It is an absolute blast
Oh look there's my left arm making a cameo at 3:57 :D
I only wish I could have told my December 2019 self who was drafting Throne of Eldraine constantly how good he had it, I miss going to a draft every week
thanks for making this video! i had no clue this kind of thing existed and i like to play the card game with my old gen 3 decks that are still assembled, but always thought how cool it would be to mix things up across all sets of cards. glad to know i actually have options i wasn't aware of.
"Sleeves are gonna rip" I've only had 2 dragon shields break in 4 years. Ultrapro's have split on me 10 times in 5 minutes of play.
But were they Eclipses or old fashioned Ultra Pro?
Amazing, concise and informative video
I don't even play the card game, why am I watching this? I mean I don't have anything better to do tho, so I guess I'll continue.
Same
Same
Give the online version a try if you’re ever curious, it’s a free download.
As someone who plays Cardfight Vanguard, I really want to see someone make a Cube variant for it.(only issue being the one clan per decl rule)
@Dovahgatr I think I remember bushi's official way to solve it is to say that every card is all clans and that anything referring to a specific clan instead refers to all clans
I very much appreciate the background music choice for your videos. I love it.
Good looking out, I've always been curious on how to draft ptcg
Almost forgot how much I love your Ptcg content man! Great stuff!
I remember watching you when I was just a kid, you were the one who fostered my love of Pokémon and Nintendo, thanks for all the entertainment over the years
Hey @TheJWittz
, could you please look into the Digimon 2020 card game? I'd love to know what you think about it since your previous video about Digimon TCG was on its failure in the US.
Yes please
Love your videos, thanks for the draft tips
Nice to see another TCG video! Gets me kind of nostalgic for your older vids
Another great video! Love the cube format idea. So cool to see how easy is online. Have a great day.
draft has always been underrated in my eyes. I would love to see more card game draft content on TH-cam in general
I just love your intro man. The music is so great.
I've always thought of doing draft like the masters draft in magic
The OG Gameboy Pokemon TCG music sends me back man!
Wonderful timing for this, I had been wanting to make a pokemon cube for a while because I love magic cube
I agree with you on the energys, I always like to include multiple versions of the same energys too.
Glad to see another video! Hope youll do the new digimon tcg
Fantastic video, really enjoyed it! Felt quite old-school JWittzy.
I made a Little Cube (like the video game's Little Cup) where you only play with Basic Pokemon that have a base HP of 90 or below. Because of the lower health pools and damage outputs, super effective attacks are way more powerful which makes type advantage more relevant. Because I also set up an Energy Battery mechanic (energy is per Trainer, not per Pokemon), it's a lot easier to have cool multitype decks. Everyone who's tried it really enjoyed it, and I'm super proud of it!
Mutant kinda reminds me of the new Digimon TCG. It has the same mechanic if digivolving to the next stage, but just as long as the next stage is the same color as the Digimon you have.
My Friend and I did something simalar a couple years back, this brings back memories
Watching this at 3am getting SO HYPED. I've wanted to play the Pokemon TCG again for so long. The idea that it can actually be drafted (or sealed, for today's times) might be what pushes some of my Magic friends to try this out with me!
It would be a joy if you speak about how the digimon 2020 tcg handles evolution
Pokémon. And drafting. Two of my favorite things, sure to be a good watch!
Great video! Something like this makes me think a video on custom Yu-Gi-Oh rules would be interesting
I had honestly not heard of this way to play I might have to try it
Love to hear you talk dude
I love formats that get rid of the cost barrier that's found in most tournament rule sets. I don't even play the pokemon CCG, but I love hearing how different games do formats like this!
I'd love to see, on a game play channel perhaps, a draft tournament you have set up
Great Vid! Awesome job on drafting with Pokémon. I’ve played MTG and drafting is great there, and yea Pokémon is hard. But I’m curious if you’re going to cover the new Digimon TCG at all? It’s coming January 2021, but Bandai had a presale that sold out fast.
I'm gonna do a variant of Cube Drafting with my bulk cards from boosters I've been opening. Gonna add a rule that you roll dice to determine which Energy Types you get for the tournament and from there you'd get your cube of Pokemon for that specified typing. Normal and Dragon type Pokemon and Trainer cards would be in community cube piles. I like the dice roll to pick what type you use to sort of limit and force players to maybe approach things in a way they wouldn't normally.
Cube draft came from the idea in mtg that 3 sets make a "block" or at least that's how it use to be so when someone made their own "block" of cards with their favorite mechanics and cards it made sense to call it a "cube"
I always figured the Build and Battle boxes were the PTCG's equivalent to drafting. You get a few playable lines from a medium sized pool, some staple trainers, and then a few boosters that could augment it. I know it's not the same as they're technically framed as prerelease tournaments but still, I've done some and they're pretty playable, if not as inherently exciting as proper drafts.
But this sounds SUPER COOL and I would totally love to try it. Holy moly.
I actually like drafts more than normal booster formats. You got far more control over the cards you get and thus make it easier to come up with a functional deck and strategy. But you have to think outside of the normal competitive way to do it to the fullest, especially in Pokémon (and especially if you don'T play mutant). I got lots of my best placements in Pokemon TCG from draft tournaments. The only big roblem is when you open your last booster, spot a rare card and have to think of keeping that card for your collection (or as an investment) or choose one more common option to fit your deck and strategy *lol*
The mutant thing is pretty much how the new Digimon tcg handles evolution, hope to see a video from you about it one day!
I have been playing Magic and Pokemon Tcg for years, a lot of my friends have cubes and tell me I should build a cube, you have introduced me to my new cube!
I once had a drafting game at the Oceania Internationals with Marriland. That was really fun. It was using the Evolutions set, so unfortunately the winner came down to who got Mewtwo EX, but it was still fun.
Ha imagine having friends that also like tcgs😭
if you slide me your discord we can run it on tabletop
Me and my little brother about 9-10 years ago (I was 11, he was 9) used to watch your videos together all the time, and for my 12th birthday he said that he had sent you some rare Pokémon cards (a rare Eevee or something bc that was my favorite) in the mail and asked to have them signed for me, but he never received them back or even knew if you had gotten them. I could tell he felt bad but I always thought it was sweet of him to try. But now whenever I see a video of yours pop up in my feed, I think about how we used to be obsessed with watching your videos and it really brings me back 🖤
Ive been waiting for u to upload a new vid, uve been missed bro!
This sounds like so much fun!
Great video! Helped me learn a lot about cubing
@theJWittz "Cube" Drafting was originally based on the total card count of the pool, which happened to be the sum of the combined angles of a cube.
This is amazing
One of the most fun limited formats I have played in a long time was Magic's JumpStart format. That is something I think Pokemon should try as a product as well.
For those unfamiliar, JumpStart was a set where rather that packs being mostly randomized, they were all themed and had small variations among the same themes, but which theme you got was a secret. So each player takes 2 packs (each pack being 20 cards including lands, Magic's equivalent to energy) and puts them together, and that is their deck to play with.
While not as strategic as normal drafting, it could easily solve the evolution issue that this video discussed at the start.
This is a good idea and you could even have to where it can be 3 packs of the 20 to make a 60 card deck like normal for Pokémon but the prizes would be 2 per pack used to make your deck
My friends and I actually built a cube about two years ago, using no Exs/GXs/Vs are including a whole bunch of our favorite cards. Easily the most fun I've had playing the Pokemon TCG!
I've not considered Cubing PTCG, but several years back; I made a Cube for YuGiOh that I've been adding to every year and get to play at NYE when I see my friends! ... well... I won't get to do it this year.... But I'm looking forward to hopefully doing it again next year!
Pretty regularly I get interested in trading card games and think about getting into one. (I played pokemon and yugioh a bit as a kid) But there's always the same barriers that stop me. Not having anyone to play with, the massive money sink that they can be, and just how overwhelming these games can be. With tons of cards and strategies and changing rules it feels like a lot. Considering trying a video game tcg (one without tons of micro transactions) maybe I'll get it into it someday. Either way, I found this video to be really interesting. Keep up the good work!
My friend and I used to play Pokemon in the Highlander variant from Magic. 100 card deck, Singleton, and any card from throughout the game's history. Cards obviously use newest errata, so Bill is a Supporter, and cards like Itemfinder are Ace Spec. You get some really cool interactions with evolution lines and with the amount of powerful draw and search you have access to it is pretty easy to have consistency. Think about all the Oak effects that have been printed (and you can use them all since they have different names). You get to play cool cards like Challenge! too.
I also love drafting as well!!
Thank for a Nice video I really need it today.
Love the amount of Gen4 cards in your cube
Oof, hearing that Pokemon TCG Video Game OST always gets me right in the feels.
I have my own pauper cube in MTG and I find that by far, it's the most interesting way to play Magic. Cube in Pokemon seems really difficult to assemble. Cubes are REALLY difficult to balance and it takes a lot of practice and play to figure out what you need to take out and what your cube needs. Mutant seems like a fun way to pack draft and probably the way I'd try to play draft with Pokemon.
I am a huge fan of cube! I play every month on the discord you listed in the description and it is just so much more fun than standard and I highly recommend the discord he listed below to get started!
Cube saved my failing marriage!
"Mutant Drafting" AKA the Digimon card game
Oh so in mutant they do the Digimon TCG (2020) approach to evolution. smart
As somebody who got my entire neighborhood posse addicted to cube back in the BW/XY era, this is so rad to see. Thanks for this!
Is this the world famous reality star and "should-have-been-King-Of-The-Nerds" Jwittz?
We adore you.
JWittz when you going to continue your How To Play the TCG series?
This sounds so exciting! I have so many Pokémon cards I wanna give this a try
If you uploaded videos of you drafting a pokemon cube I'd actually love to check those out. I don't play the pokemon TCG, but drafting in magic is so much fun, and seeing it in other games is always cool
I came up with a cube draft format with my friends a while ago.
We lined up 200 Pokemon 60 trainers and 40 supporters. The Pokemon had hps between 70-100, and the gold standard damage of 20+15 per energy required, ie 30 for 1, 50 for 2 or 60 for 3. They were also treated as basics even if they wouldn't normally be.
Drafted Pokemon, trainers, and supporters seperately, and treated Pokemon as both Pokemon and energy. A grass Pokemon, for example can also be attached as grass energy. Similarly, energy search doubles as Pokemon search, and vice versa, giving a good amount of consistency despite our lacking trainer lineups.
I have had more fun in this draft format than I've ever had playing the real game.
Pokemon TCG video from J wittz?
Instant click
I love the idea of mutant play style. Might have to try it out
Thank you so much for this video! I built a yugioh cube after playing the video game and just made a mono black cube for magic. Now that I know about mutation draft a pokemon cube seems unrestrivtive and fun! Time to build one😄
Congrats to you and Renaecollects
Make a video about the new 2020 Digimon TCG that just got an English prerelease!! Compare it to the flop of Hyper Colliseum :)
When jwittz shows footage of him drafting with other people was I going crazy or was Ross Gilbert there?(ptcgradio)
MY favorite card game lately is Keyforge, because it basically drafting in its core.
You can only buy decks and each deck is randomized to make it unique, so you don't really know what you have your hands on until you try to play with it, which makes it insanely fun to try out new decks or play the "Sealed" format.
A variant I found success in was a monotype draft. The first I did was fighting. Made smart decisions for top draft cards and also made gyms affect both players. If players want more difficulty then move on to mono psychic.
Imma have to check this out once I build my PC
Always been super intimidated by the pokemon tcg but this was pretty simple and easy to understand and actually makes me wanna try!
As a ten year evangelist for the wonder that is cube drafting, this video made my day, JWittz. I'm an ardent MTG cuber and I've dabbled in Netrunner cubes as well. This video makes me want to construct a Pokemon cube right away. Well done, good sir!
its funny back in the day pokemon drafts were AMAZING once drafted 6 koga's zubat in a huge 30 man draft tourny and won...fun times
i see wossy at 3:53
VARIANT DECK builds I use with my kids to make use of all the extra pokemon cards not usable in normal decks.
"TRASH DECK" good for mixing cards you want to play but might not have enough of that type to make a full deck
1. no V EX GX or special
2. All cards use all energy but need the same amount for attacks (So basically no elements)
3. last rule is 3 rules but you pick one to use. A. no evolution. All cards act as basic B. you use evolution but energy acts as rare candy to skip a stage (must have final form) C. Use stage 1 cards as basics.
"CUTIE DECK"
1. No V EX GX or special
2. any element usable for any card
3. no repeats, 1 of each pokemon
4. only basics with under 70 hp.
5. no trainer cards (or just draw 3 cards) like Hop.
Just a straight, adorable, grudge match. Not a lot of strategy but still fun!
"ONE PILE" good for siblings
1. NO V EX GX special
2. All cards use Any energy
3. final stage pokemon only (or stage 1, or basic, just pick 1 type, w/e you have more of)
4. 120 (or less for shorter games) card deck. you both draw from same pile
I set these decks up for my kids so they cant complain about one having "better cards" Also it gives them a chance to use cards of pokemon they like but are not very good.
As a Yugioh fan who is curious about Pokémon TCG this video is amazing. I’d love for you to make a tutorial on playing the Pokémon TCG