Cernunnos posted:

I pulled this and the Zweilous from 1 of my 5 free packs and now all I need is a few Deino of various flavors and maybe some Psychics and I'm making a Dark/Psychic deck.

The Leper Colon V posted:

If you can get the starter deck that he comes in, he comes with Golurk and Houndoom, who are really good for what they are.

soscannonballs posted:

Is there a list of the good trainer cards I should be going for and which expansions/theme decks they come in?

Mercury Crusader posted:

Professor Juniper - It shows up in the Basic Red deck, the Power Relay deck, and in various other decks. Drawing a new hand on-demand is always a good thing. If you don't have anything useful in your hand, why bother keeping it when you can give yourself a second chance with a new, full hand? I always play four, but three is a good number to play, while two just doesn't seem to be enough.

Pokemon Catcher - Gives you the ability to force an opponent's benched Pokémon out as an active, which essentially means you can pick-and-choose who to knock out before you attack. I'd run at least two in a deck. Note that the card is getting changed when the X/Y set comes out to require a coin flip, and when that happens, it'll no longer be as useful.

Computer Search - This was a rare card in Base Set and had no real limitations, but it was reprinted pretty recently as an "Ace Spec" card. Ace Spec cards are a subset of Trainer cards that have one limitation: you can only play one Ace Spec card in your deck total. So you can't play Computer Search and, say, Dowsing Machine in the same deck. Out of all the Ace Spec cards, Computer Search has the most utility, letting you grab whatever you want from your deck (probably a Professor Juniper or a stage 2 evolution or special energy or whatever). Unfortunately, it's a rare card. Unless you can trade for one, they show up in the Boundaries Crossed expansion, so you can try your luck on those booster packs. Thankfully, Boundaries Crossed has quite a lot of good cards in general.

soscannonballs posted:

Thanks. I played a lot when I was a kid pretty much from the time the first set came out all the way until Neo 3-4, so I am familiar with how good cards like Professor Oak/Bill/Comp Search are. I figured I would go for cards like that first since they pretty much go into any deck I decide to make.

Cityinthesea posted:

gently caress those people who put 4 Darkrei EX's in their decks .

Cityinthesea posted:

gently caress those people who put 4 Darkrei EX's in their decks .

W.T. Fits posted:

I've run into a bug. I'm in the middle of a match against Penelope in the Trainer's Challenge, I just knocked out one of her Pokemon, but it's not letting me draw one of my last two prizes, even though I'm being prompted to do so.

I can interact with/mouse over pretty much any other part of the play area and cards in play, but the game refuses to recognize me clicking on either of my last two prizes. Has anyone else had this happen, and is there any kind of fix or solution that doesn't involve me having to forfeit the game and start over from scratch?

(Gonna be pissed if I have to throw this game; I've got a fully loaded Lapras out as my active and a fully loaded Samurott and Seismatoad on my bench. )

soscannonballs posted:

Is there a list of the good trainer cards I should be going for and which expansions/theme decks they come in?

Youremother posted:

Here is a very good article on what some of the more desirable supporter cards you'd want and some of the noob traps to avoid. Here is also another good article on basic deckbuilding that has a list of more general good trainer cards. Sixprizes is a great resource for people just starting out in the Pokemon TCG and I would highly recommend these articles as they were the ones that helped me tune my starter decks into something workable.

Waldorf Sixpence posted:

Raitzeno posted:

So I get 15 tokens daily (except every 5th day where you get a booster instead) and an additional 10/day for participating in a pvp match where as a new player without a deck full of legendaries I get my rear end handed to me on a platter in 2~3 turns. Great. I don't suppose there's a faster way to "save up for a theme deck" than to just log in every day and get clobbered for nearly the next two weeks?

Youremother posted:

Here is a very good article on what some of the more desirable supporter cards you'd want and some of the noob traps to avoid. Here is also another good article on basic deckbuilding that has a list of more general good trainer cards. Sixprizes is a great resource for people just starting out in the Pokemon TCG and I would highly recommend these articles as they were the ones that helped me tune my starter decks into something workable.

Raitzeno posted:

So those 4 codes that used to give the Power Relay deck now give the Rallying Cry deck instead. Except that anyone who redeemed all 4 for Power Relay decks can now redeem all four AGAIN for four Rallying Cry decks. Awesome.

Raitzeno posted:

So those 4 codes that used to give the Power Relay deck now give the Rallying Cry deck instead. Except that anyone who redeemed all 4 for Power Relay decks can now redeem all four AGAIN for four Rallying Cry decks. Awesome.

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*Trainer Challenge: The card unlock system has been removed for all theme decks received via code or Trainer Token redemption. Players will now be able to use the exact content of these decks immediately, rather than gradually unlock the contents over 12 matches. The Basic decks will continue to use the unlock system.

Elblanco posted:

Don't leave us hanging, what's in the rallying cry deck?

Keiya posted:

It looks like they removed the unlocking thing for the decks other than Basic Red/Green/Blue and Basic Red/Green/Blue BW. Possibly due to the doubling thing. Shame.