As I said on your Youtube channel, Daan, I come back to this game every few years.

There's this weird charm about it and how there's so many things that make it feel unnatural and weird. at the same time, video game trading card games like these let me relive a format in that card game before they figured out how to balance it. I tend to make a mono water deck that ends games in about all of two turns when I pick it up because with the sheer ammount of draw advantage coupled with Blastoise's very OP Rain Dance, I can basically have a bench of fully stocked Articuno and Laprass at the ready to  tear through the enemy bench or retreat at the drop of a hat.


From what I am to understand, they still have blastoise decks of the sort about, but they've tned down the draw engine so you can't play shit like 3 copies of Bill or 2 copies of Professor Oak/Gambler in the same turn.

I am such a sucker for card game video games.  This and the Marvel TCG game have probably sucked the most hours out of my life.

Read this today while I was in town with my wife. I was waiting on her so I didn't get to read the whole thing. Since I was in town, I bought an e-shop card to download this only to come home and find out it's only in Europe... Hurry up NOA, I need this game!

I read something like this and wish the game had multiplayer because that deck sounds like it'd be torn apart by my straight poison deck.

You could (if you were lucky enough) add Charizard to your Rain Dance Deck since his Pokemon Power let you convert the water energy cards to fire.

Unless, the rain dance thing only worked on water types? I can barely remember anymore.

http://pokebeach.com/scans/wizards-theme-deck-variants/2-blastoise-trainer-deck-b-misty.jpg

Best thing about games like this was the low entry price. I was always the poor kid with the crappy deck of cards in all of the games I played. Same goes for board games with expansions and other table-top games.

Thanks.
You could still use charizard with your one move/turn, I guess.