Archive for the ‘TCG Articles’ Category

Dark Explorers Pre-Release Report

The Canton Seviper League meets weekly in at a small pizza buffet called Stevi B’s. It has hosted every pre-release event for northwest Atlanta since HS Unleashed, and the venue has always been of adequate size. A few months... Read more

Epic Comeback! (Sorta) Brooklyn City Championship Report

This time of the year is always extremely busy for me and for a lot of people.  There are the various holidays taking place, Christmas and New Years are the two big ones for me.  A lot of hours... Read more

Giant Ant Attacks Roswell City Championship

The 2011 City Championship for Roswell was at Tower Games, a convenient and comfortable location that works quite well for an event of this size. There were 36 Masters attending with probably half as many Juniors and Seniors combined. Due to... Read more

A Format Without Catcher – What Could Have Been

Before I begin, I just want to say that this article is just my opinion on what might have been more playable if Pokémon Catcher wasn’t currently everywhere in our format.  It doesn’t mean that it would have happened... Read more

Deck Building for Newbies: Kyugatr Included!

Netdecking isn’t a rare thing these days. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s when you rip a decklist from the internet to either use as a deck base or for straight tournament use. Some regard it as almost... Read more

A Metagame: Regional Championships, Prague Cup and beyond!

Before I begin this expected very long article (Note: read this only if you have about ten-twenty mins spare, as this much will allow you to fully understand not trying to sound like a bad person) I have to... Read more

Messing with Gothitelle: Techs and Matchup Tips

The current format is wide-open. There are a huge number of decks running successfully around the world. The BDIF has not truly been decided, as the current spread of decks sees most decks suffering a mix of good and... Read more

Underdog Story – Autumn Battle Roads 2011 Report

West Islip, New York – 10/2/2011 Hello everyone, my name is Andrew and today I am going to be bringing you a Battleroads report from New York.  First, I would like to say thank you to PokémanDan for letting... Read more

3rd and 4th place UK Battle Roads Reports with Reshiram/Typhlosion

Yo guys Oli here and because I have had a few requests on it, I will share a couple of tournament reports that I had with my Reshiram/Typhlosion deck that I put up on this site recently. So for... Read more

Reshiram/Typhlosion Deck Analysis w/Matchups

Yo guys, LucarioAdventure1 here. For those mass amounts of people who don’t know who I am my name is Oliver Barnett (Oli for short) and I started playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game back in March earlier this year.... Read more