Devansh Koppar

1st/106 players at Singapore's first town league of the season with Palkia VSTAR!!!! Feeling ecstatic, my first ever win, and a great start to the season! Deck ran super hot, list was just one card off from @CyrusDavisTCG's world's list. Deck and matchups below:

@r_bow1993 @ChipRichey @AzulGG this could be a fun discussion in this week's pod :)

I have a friend over in Seattle regional, that sent this... Does anyone have any tea on this?

@RoseTint4 What a ridiculously entitled post. Every country has its own cultures and norms. The Netherlands is predominantly non vegetarian, so obviously they will cater to their tastes? Why tf would they add veg items specifically for tourists who will give them a fraction of the business.

Outside India, at most places, vegetarians are treated like second-class citizens. They don’t even bother creating proper vegetarian food items. At McDonald’s in India, the veg burgers are good, and the other veg options are great too. In the Netherlands, McDonald’s gives you a cheese slice between two buns in the name of a vegetarian option. They don’t even add vegetables.

@SunseedJess I'm no expert, but the one thing that I notice in my misplays— it's just about having a flow chart in your head of your opponents' and your own win conditions, and maximizing your odds to take one of those paths while preventing as many of your opponents' paths as possible.

What are the fundamental skills needed to be good + consistent at TCGs?

@StephenLKent @KashMann27 The UBL ones have been historically mid lol, last year we started strong with Turo, and then got Colress's Tenacity and Iris' fighting spirit.

@KashMann27 They mostly seem to lean towards newer sets. Wally over Lillie is a crime though

New GBL and UBL promos! Reshiram and Zekrom? Damn, they're no Pidgeot and Mew. Was hoping to see a Fezandipiti in one of these but still no sign of it. Air Balloon is nice at least. 👍

@NickCRobinson Congrats on the stream! Had a good time chatting with you on stream :) thanks for having me!

332/350 decks played in 24 hours. What an INSANE time we had. Thank you to everyone who watched the stream, those who tuned in to chat Pokemon with us, and those who came to play games. This was one of the most fun times I’ve had in a while and I can’t wait to do it again!

@VolcanTurtleTCG This is such a terrible take. I'm personally not the biggest GLC fan, and you're more than welcome to not like it, but that doesn't mean it's tinfoil hat conspiracy time. Also it's literally a casual format, people can play without buying expensive singles.

GLC was invented to increase the price of certain bulk cards from BW onwards because even though GLC is a terrible format- it was a genius business call.

@PokemonTCGLive Ah yes, let's not try incorporating the most obvious and logical changes to our platform, instead we can make quirky social media posts that point out the glaring flaws in a game made by a billion dollar company.

I've seen these posted a lot lately, so for those in Master League: share a screenshot of your current Competitive Elo rating and let's find out who is the highest 🥇 If there's someone else in particular you think should participate, tag them!

@hgssprime These are good products, but including bad ace specs seems like such an L move. Printing good ace specs literally changes nothing for Pokémon. If the product didn't include any ace specs, it wouldn't be as egregious. But why go out of your way to print bad ones?

The ACE Specs don’t matter, these are S tier products.

@sylveesimstcg @JoshuaYehl I feel like my favourite argument for this rng situation is that the live team is so bad at this that I don't think they're capable of coming up with ways to make bad rng

@DevanshKoppar @JoshuaYehl Yall can’t be serious

please do not try to tell me that ptcgl doesn’t have an rng problem

@JoshuaYehl @sylveesimstcg Louder for the people at the back 😭😭 so tired of people making this argument

@sylveesimstcg Huh? I don’t see anything wrong here. Perfectly valid random combination of cards. You may not like it bc it’s not a bunch of 1-ofs, but that’s not PTCGL’s fault. A random hand can have any possible combination, including ones that stink.

@PokemonTCG I have seen stores throw away thousands of energy cards at once because they don't know what to do with them. Pls think about the waste you're generating. Japan doesn't have energy in their booster packs, new players can simply buy separate packs of energy. Similar to ETBs

Fans may notice select Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution product packaging inaccurately describes booster packs as including either an Energy card or a Pokémon TCG Live code card. To clarify, all booster packs will continue to include both an Energy card and a TCG Live code card.

@AshleyLKetchum7 @tablemon Now u can be terrified in HD 🥲

@DevanshKoppar @tablemon And I just got a switch 2 and the upgrade. I did NOT think this through lol

I discovered Zelda Notes too late. Now I really want to finish Tears of the Kingdom but also play Donkey Kong and I have zero time for either since adulting sucks 😵

@AshleyLKetchum7 @tablemon LOL so real, I straight up fast travel out of there as soon as I see them.

@tablemon The creepy lava eyeball hands underground were too much for me so I kind of abandoned the game…….

@Alloutblitzle 1) game breaking bugs. Not being able to select a particular Pokémon off nest ball, random disconnects etc. 2) Ladder resets not being all the way down, and proper rankings for Arceus. 3) faster load times and animations, games go too slow. Just make grinding games faster.

If Big Pikachu put you in charge of fixing PTCGL, what would be the first thing that you would change? I am going to start working on a video to pass through the Community Ambassador Program and I want to make sure that I accurately echo the community's thoughts and opinions

@PokeDuelsTikTok As a low skill player that has a moment of brilliance, it definitely is Arceus Vstar / Arc Tina. It is literally attach, play supporter, attack, accelerate energies. Somewhere along the way, select 2 cards to fix the mistakes you made in poor sequencing.

@lifelikedrama67 Fair point 🥲

@lifelikedrama67 "common sense" greatly appreciated is one of the funniest things I've read today 😂😂😂

@annietcg @KingesqueKing Wait what why? Froslass helps a lot in the pult match up to pressure drakloaks and make Devo easier

@KingesqueKing froslass is like only good into bolt mu of the 3 decks u mentioned, and u can probably curve that in other ways, theres just no way im playing froslass down vs dragapult or gardevoir

is froslass even worth playing in grim this mon is like negative ev into almost every matchup what

@SmartTCG Not a notable player (yet 😅), but I'm very informed about the meta and the game, and I recently casted the tournament of Doom with Zach. I'd be happy to join if you still need help!

If any notable players or streamers want to cast with me hmu. Will be casting swiss and top cut

@BenryBrand Ahhh right, makes sense, thanks!

@DevanshKoppar Blocks stretcher and rod

Lots of lists starting to come through now filling up 32/64 in JCS. Notable perks of Jellicent: -improves your zard matchup by making it harder to set up the second zard, great Devo user -"lost zones" munkidoris in munkidori mirrors -good early wall to set up behind with evo/Devo -can attack for only two energy, let's you be flexible with how quickly you set up Gardevoir whilst keeping pace