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After examining results from recent tournament that took place throughout the second half of November 2020, the site’s page on Meta Decks has been updated with more recent deck lists for eight of the most prevalent decks in the current metagame.

Visit the updated page on meta decks!

After examining results from recent tournament that took place throughout the first half of November 2020, the site’s page on Meta Decks has been updated with more recent deck lists for eight of the most prevalent decks in the current metagame.

Visit the updated page on meta decks!

The site’s list of Staples and Other Noteworthy Cards has been updated to include the upcoming Vivid Voltage set which releases next Friday, November 13th.

See:

• List of Staples and Other Noteworthy Cards from Vivid Voltage

• Vivid Voltage Set List

After examining recent tournament results that took place throughout October 2020, the site’s page on Meta Decks has been updated with more recent deck lists for eight of the most prevalent decks in the current metagame.

Visit the updated page on meta decks!

The breakdown of the potential contents for the 23-card Evolution Pack has been updated for Vivid Voltage based on early openings of the set’s Build & Battle Boxes.

See the contents broken down in Appendix V of the Deck Building Guide.

The newly-overhauled version of the Basic Guide to Deck Building in the Standard Format has been made available prior to full completion so that new deck builders for the Pokémon Trading Card Game can once again have a handy, relevant deck building resource at their fingertips.

This new guide features an all new structure to make it easier to follow and more useful, is more mobile-friendly, and includes many new pages not found in the previous version of the guide!

A handful of pages in the guide are not yet complete, but the guide in its current state is now more useful than the previous, out-of-date version of the guide. Please be patient as the remainder of the guide is completed!

Visit the New Guide
Jump into a newly-overhauled version of the Basic Guide to Deck Building in the Standard Format.

The site’s list of Staples and Other Noteworthy Cards has been updated to include the upcoming Champion’s Path set which releases this upcoming Friday, September 25th.

See:

• List of Staples and Other Noteworthy Cards from Champion’s Path

• Champion’s Path Set List

This year’s Rotation Survival Guide is now available. In addition to reviewing how to draw, gust, and set up your deck, the guide looks at archetypes we're losing and new archetypes to consider after rotation hits this August.

View the Rotation Survival Guide.