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wow dat flareon!

It's interesting how some metas change and some stay the same. With EX, it's all about basic and strong pokemon. Doesn't matter if it gives two prize cards if you know your opponent out first. Then you go to ex, where evolution is heavily beneficial. There is some basic exs that can supplement a deck, but the hard hitters are now evolution

Early Pokemon was very inconsisnent. Haymaker were very strong not just because they were basics with low Energy, but had very high HP as well. Scyther, Hitomonchan, and Elcatbuzz all had 70 HP which is little less than all of stage 2 pokemon (with the exception of Charizard, which takes tons of effort to run anyway). With modern cards, basics with no evo usually have 90-120 HP, compared to stage 3 with 170-180 (most of the time). It doesn't mean that modern basic cards aren't good; the Future and Ancient archtypes are great in modern Pokemon, but it is more balanced in today's meta.

One day, I will know enough about Pokémon to understand what Jesse is saying about it. Maybe. Okay, probably not, but I'm listening anyway.

Keep these coming! anyone who creates content for the classics helps grow it!

Engage? How about we engage in some good ol Hand to Hand Combat!

Which Haymaker is your favorite?

Kagemaru Himeno is a she. Video is great though.

The design is really cool. The charmander family are designed to be splashable in every deck. I'm sure they were meant to be staples, but got the unsual underpowered evolution treatment. I think a charizard package could fill the niche that ponyta does, which is easily destroying scythers and keeping them off the bench, but with the added benefit of one-shotting stallers like lickitung.

I have wondered if Charizard had just 1 less retreat cost and/or 1 less energy discard if it could have seen meta relevance. g

Didn't realize this was going to be a pokemon TCG video but the editing and content was good enough for me to watch the whole thing haha so good job!

Personally, i've run it in two separate decks before (mostly for fun). One used it as a one off tech card/wall breaker to help a charmeleon/dodrio/hitmonchan build step up for a big finisher if its the final blow. After all, it doesn't matter how inefficient it is with energy if that is the last move of the match! Secondly, I've built a second deck around gastly and doduo and the charmander line heavily utilising DCEs. this deck stalls while building up charizard with energy, then lasses and hopes to carry through multiple pokemon. Gastly is able to then energy conversion to regain 2 dces, and is also crucial for fighting mr mime. I think its Charizard is a fun card, but certainly far from the top of the metagame

if i recall what hurt charizard and most evolution pokemon early on were trainers like energy removal, super energy removal, and gust of wind also the high attack cost coupled with being a stage two made it slower than haymaker and stage one decks at the time and blastoise has the perfect ability to counter energy removal and super energy removal and venusaurs ability saved energy from being discarded from ko's and the drawback of the pokemon center trainer card

Dark Magician in early Yugioh is the same. Iconic but sucks. Funny thing is that Modern Charizard doesn't really need any Energy Cards to him. His ability automatically give you three energy right from your deck, and since his move is only two energy, you get a bonus one for other Pokemon.

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If I HAVE to use Charizard, I'd go the Venusaur route. Otherwise, I'd run 4 Arcanine, 4 Charmeleon, and call the deck 8thrower

What's your favorite way to play Charizard?

its a great deck, but i've seen a lot of new players pick it up and often fail- you need to have a careful sense of when to strike, and what the enemy might block you with etc. If you get stuck with a depowered arcanine the deck feels like it just flails

It wouldn’t make sense to make a singular colorless energy. The advantage of Colorless was that it can be represented by any sinful energy. The double colorless after as a 2 for 1. That was the benefit

Nothing will ever come close to base set - neo sets. I’m biased maybe since I was born in 1990. They seem boring to most now because we’re used to insane graphics. 1999 was a better time, when imagination was everything.

I'm loving these videos keep it up!!

wish I could've played the card game from the ground floor. I bet it was a really wild time

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So glad to witness your comeback to pokemon as so am I making my return to the TCG as well

2:44 well they were figuring it out too so yeah...

well you learn something everyday, i didn't know the full orginal set only had 102 cards so couldn't posssibly include all 150 original pokemon

I noticed you mention a couple of times throughout the video that Wizards had a hand in making artistic decisions for the set, but Base set existed in Japan for years before being introduced to other countries in 1999. Wizards didn't influence the artwork outside of the one change they made to Pikachu, which was later corrected

I never cared about the art honestly. Only the effects, which is why I don't get like crazy when I pull a rare card from booster packs. I didn't even notice until a few hours later, that when I've pulled alter full art Miraidon EX card... because when I've pulled it I only cared for its effect.

If I were to get into this retro format, rain dance is definitely a deck that I would consider picking up, purely because the potential it has to be explosive once you manage to get a Blastoise into play is incredible, given you can potentially accelerate as many water energies as you like if you have them ready. I personally would suggest focusing on Pokemon Breeder to set up your Blastoise quicker, as it can skip Wartortle and save you an extra turn -- this is invaluable to the deck, as setting up a Blastoise is your number one priority for this strategy, and you can potentially cut the number of Wartortle you run to 1-2, saving a little bit of extra deck space for other cards, be they additional partners for Blastoise to power up, or other tech options for certain match-ups. This deck actually plays very similarly to a current meta deck in Chien-Pao Baxcalibur, with Baxcalibur being a modern version of Blastoise that can attach water energy to Pokemon of any type, so it definitely feels similar in my opinion. I recall hearing that the rain dance deck is one of the best decks of it's time, and besides the explosive energy acceleration it offers, I'm also admittedly tempted partly because I'm a fan of the water type, so any time a good water deck is around, it's sure to grab my attention

Vaporeon has to be my favorite card from Jungle. My dad got me the starter deck when I was a kid, and I still have that card.

Hey now, don't go taking shots at the prequels </3

i still have my eevee and vaporeon and snorlax and pidgeot cards

I personally always loved the blurry holofoil hellscapes for the backgrounds. They feel surreal and otherwordly, which is what Pokemon always was to me

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I wish there was a way to send the cards and strategies to my kid self in 1999 to crush tournaments.

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I'm a huge sucker for those "I slapped official art on a foil background" cards but personally Venusaur is my favorite. Also nice to see Janjo come to the Pokémon side!

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As much as the stategy sound fun when you get it, it sounds very inconsistent. If you don't get Electrode the strategy is doomed (for example, you don't draw it, or it is at your priza cards). And even then, give your opponent a free prize card doesn't sound worth it. Yeah, Arcanine is strong, but considering you play two basic Pokemon that can do nothing, doesn't worth it.

So wierd to see how early cards were very unbalanced with the HP stats. Modern cards, for the most part, have very similar HP depends if it is first stage, first stage with no evo, second stage, third stage, and EX. But then you got early Hitmonchan which had almost HP as third stage Alazakazm.

First Off, Wow. Only psychic and colorless energy in an arcanine strat is such a bold move the amount of possible bricks is actually more threatening than the opponent. That being said I definitely agree Buzzap Arcanine is a brilliant combination, my only suggestions are running at most 6 psychic energy and 4 dce just with how insane draw power was it makes the already unlikely brick even less so. And finally unless your friend is odd and plays regular potions test some with jinx meditate, electrode, magneton. That way running the pure psychic energy would be less of a liability but again that's a mixture of personal preference and not knowing what decks your friend considers meta

Electrode and Rain Dance is basically the only ways to make Charizard even remotely functional, which is pretty hilarious if you actually pull it off

You should combine Arcanine with Ninetails... if only to call the deck Arcaninetails.