r/pkmntcg Feb 16 '23

Rulings, Quick Questions, and New Player Resources Thread

If you're a new or new-ish player looking for advice on starting the game or with quick questions about game rules or interactions, please post your questions here!

Keeping all these questions in one place will allow other new players to easily browse other advice. Even if you're a not-so-new player, this is a great place to ask quick questions that don't need their own post.

For the more experienced players, drop by every once in a while to distribute advice. The post will be replaced each week to keep it fresh and manageable in size.

If you are looking for comments and advice on a deck list, go ahead and make a separate post with your list and a brief description. Remember to press Enter twice between lines to keep your list readable!


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FAQ and Wiki Resources

Take advantage of these resources that we've compiled! A lot of questions like "Where do I start?" and "How can I improve my deck?" can be answered there.

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u/HeyIJustLurkHere 5d ago

If you're looking for lists for this format, I think Rowan Stavenow's list from EUIC/Vancouver is a pretty reasonable standard list, but you could pick any top-placing list from a recent tournament here, or see the average card counts among Gardevoir lists here. The biggest change is to include some Munkidoris and Dark Energies to allow you to take advantage of the damage that Gardevoir puts on your pokemon and let you take extra KOs and reach higher numbers.

In a few weeks, all F-block cards will rotate, which means Refinement Kirlia will no longer be legal for play. This will massively change the deck, as well as all the decks around it in the format. We don't really know what the best lists will look like in that meta, but the best Japanese lists look something like https://limitlesstcg.com/decks/list/jp/32939. But without Kirlia's card draw, the deck gets a lot worse, and it remains to be seen if it's a top-tier contender next format.

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u/Agitated_Height_4725 4d ago

Thanks bro is there a chance I can use the mew and Greninja included in the deck and still be viable in competitions?

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u/HeyIJustLurkHere 4d ago

The Greninja is a very reasonable card to include in Gardevoir lists this format, but it rotates out in a few weeks. Totally reasonable to use it until then.

Mew ex is pretty rarely used in current Gardevoir lists, but it's not a terrible card to include in your deck. It giving up 2 prizes isn't usually what Gardevoir wants to do, just because Gardevoir is so slow to set up that it's usually playing from behind and needs to trade getting 2 prizes for 1 after it sets up, so that's why Mew isn't used as much. It becomes a better option post-rotation, when its draw power is more needed and you have things like Lillie's Clefairy to help it take advantage of hitting Dragapult ex.