r/PTCGP

So now that B series is over, I must say I’m disappointed that we didn’t get enough Charizards, Lucarios, Pikachu, and Mewtwos. If you look at all the cards in the game, there’s only 6 charizards (between ex, mega ex, and 3-star), only 10 pikachus, only 4 Lucarios, and only 4 Mewtwos (all excluding special/full art). Why?

They should make a new charizard lucario pikachu and mewtwo with every set. Who even cares about other pokemon when these ones exist. I rather that they keep pumping out gen1 pokemon instead of this gen2 onward junk.

I haven't had any trouble getting a win with every other type. But metal man, metal is something else. Wtf are the devs doing with this type. So many are either heavy energy cost for just ok damage, huge drawbacks\conditions on attacks, heavy retreat cost, ramp sucks and slow compared to other classes. And to bring me to why I made this post, the emblem missions... THeres just no viable steel decks that run 8! Metal types. All the decent ones evolve from other types! scizor sogaleo steelix hell even wormadam etc... The only ones that don't are basics and are better in 18 trainer style decks. Skarmory mawile. You can't fit 8 viable steel types in one deck and have the deck work still. Theres just nothing going on for steel except damage reduction and that's never enough barring like barrier and jasmine. And for anyone saying just do the mission in private matches (I saw the post on front page) no this is more about metals viability and game design in general. I know they are supposed to be defensive and heavy but that translates to Slow in a game that has only sped up since launch.

I run 6 accounts and have been pulling hard on the first Deluxe pack to pull a second Professor's Research (never did, not enough points to exchange), so worked towards Deluxe pack 2 after. Here's the results of 962 packs opened. I'm shy of 2 cards to have everything pre-1* covered. I'm sure I'll get them (via Wonder pick or pack) within the next 22 days. Any questions or comments, let me know.

1*

403 - Charmeleon - 21

404 - Baxcalibur - 19

405 - Meloetta - 26

406 - Fidough - 14

407 - Dratini - 29

408 - Eevee - 12

2**

411 - Mega Charizard z ex - 2

412 - Mega Charizard y ex - 1

413 - Mega Blaziken ex - 3

414 - Mega Blastoise ex - 3

416 - Mega Gardevoir ex - 1

417 - Mega Altaria ex - 2

418 - Mega Lucario ex - 2

419 - Mega Gengar Ex - 1

420 - Mega Rayquaza - 1

421 - Iris - 3

422 - Elesa - 1

423 - Arven - 1

3***

425 - Mega Charizard X ex - 8

Shiny

426 - Dedenne ex - 8

427 - Mega Diancie ex - 4

Crown

429 - Koraidon ex - 1

You can do this relatively quickly if you can set this up. You don’t need to play your matches out. When your opponent concedes, you still get credit for the mission, even while you’re setting your first active Pokémon.

Another tip I can give to trainers is you don’t need to make a bunch of decks for each element. What I did was use the auto build feature for each element. The decks don’t have to be viable AT ALL because your opponent is going to concede after the game loads anyway. After the concession, go back to building your deck, use the auto build, pick another element you need for your mission, then hop back in and repeat.

This should take you about 10-15 minutes to do. No deck building required and only one deck slot needed for the swap.