u/EsperCloud04

So I love picking up League Battle Decks for casual play since it gives people with previous Pokemon or other TCG experience more complex decks compared to your standard Level 1 decks.

Picked up the Team Rocket one and already had a puzzle to solve since it's terrible right out of the box and struggles with the Dragapult, Gardevoir, and Charizard ones even after some upgrades.

Is there anything that creates an even playing field with this? I was thinking maybe making a Cynthia's Garchomp since both were from the same set but I'm open to suggestions.

(I do know of an upcoming Mega Lucario deck but that's a terrible idea considering how one sided the Mega Lucario matchup is for Rocket.)

The upgraded list is pretty close to the one from Prague Regionals with the 5th place Senior Division list.

I was just about to preorder this thing only to find out that there's two separate release dates for it. Press releases from UDON said it was releasing on the 26th of May but other places such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble now say it's July?

Is UDON pulling a thing that comic shops (and direct comic market websites such as CheapGraphicNovels.com) get this early before everyone else does? Or was there a delay that UDON hasn't seemed to acknowledge yet?

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Finally got my hands on the Solve Everything collection to go alongside Captain America: Winter Soldier and Daredevil: Born Again.

Obviously this is not the ideal way to read this story since Jonathan Hickman trimmed down a few things in this collection but tried to keep the story as intact as possible - however having these runs in an affordable format is a great way to get new fans interested. For those worried about missing major plot beats in this one, most overviews I've seen say that the changes were so minor that they didn't even notice them on their first reading when comparing them to the trade paperback version.

I just wish we got some older stories in this format but otherwise I'm glad we have something like this.

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I decided to pick up the first trade of Ryan North's relaunch from 2025 but all I received was the singular first issue instead. This was supposed to be the "Save Everyone" TPB.

Has anyone else had this occur with current runs?

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