The Deck Out

I know the point of reprints is to create nostalgia but when I look at these cards, all I feel is that my childhood has been violated. There are so many great memories related to almost all of these cards from Tyranitar, which I played to win my first tournament of my life in 2002 to LudiCargo, which I played in the 2005 Worlds that when I see the cards with the current power creep, I feel like a part of my soul dies.

Although I haven't played in a couple of years, I still have all my favorite EX-era decks together. And when I want to feel nostalgia, I play with them, not these abominations. Or maybe I'm just getting too old 🤔

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The tournament report from Japan is up!

The Deck Out: 1st place report from Japan Builder of 2 World Championships winning decks and 6-time National Champion of Pokémon TCG reveals the secrets of metagame, rogue and secret decks.

I won the 80-player tournament with Yveltal/Garbodor/Seismitoad in Tokyo! Had a lot of epic and tough matches! So happy.

Going to Japan today. And what would Japan be without some Pokemon? I am going to participate in a 100+ people tournament in Tokyo which should be super fun! And report will of course be written to my blog when I'm back. Very excited!

Lost the 3rd game in Grinders with Pyroar against Accelgor/Flygon. However, the Worlds was a BLAST as always! It also was a huge wake-up call. Last year, I only played in 2 tournaments and not a single game outside tournaments. Inspired from Worlds and Team Finland's horrible results (we had the last placing player in Masters AND Juniors, and the second-last placing player in Seniors...+ no one of the Finnish Worlds attendees had a positive result) I decided to establish a new league to my new home town in order to develop the Finnish players competitveness back to where it once was. After all, we had back-to-back World Champions back in the day. This will be a very interesting one (or more)-year project and I will certainly keep everyone up-to-date.

Off to Washington D.C. I'll see everyone there!

Booked flights to Washington D.C. Grinder, here I come!

Lost in top8 to raichu/yve/darkrai so missed the invite with one game! Well I'm going to Washington anyways, so I'll see everyone there!

Just noticed that I left all my cards at home (I am living at my big brother's place this summer) and my Nationals will be this weekend! Now I have 2 days to find a deck from somewhere...I hope miracles do happen.

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The Deck Out: It's good to be back - Palkia EX and the tournament system analysis Builder of 2 World Championships winning decks and 6-time National Champion of Pokémon TCG reveals the secrets of metagame, rogue and secret decks.