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The Sideboard – Flygon (2007)

2007 probably takes the cake for being the most diverse and wide-open metagame in the history of competitive Pokemon TCG. It’s one thing for there to be a very diverse metagame at the local level, but this year had so many different decks see success at even the highest level of play. Even after DiamondContinue reading “The Sideboard – Flygon (2007)”

The Sideboard – Gyarados (MD-CoL)

The year of 2011 is one of the craziest and most turbulent in Pokemon’s competitive history. After a historic move before the 2010 season, where TPCI announced there would NOT be a rotation, the beginning of 2011 marked the rotation of the very first Diamond and Pearl expansions – and later in the year, twoContinue reading “The Sideboard – Gyarados (MD-CoL)”

The Sideboard – Gengar (2009)

In the 2008-2009, the metagame early in the year was pretty centralized – with only 6 sets to choose from (DP-LA), Kingdra and AMU had emerged as the top contenders, both being dominant at the local level, while also placing highly at Regionals. Then, November 2008 brought the release of a set that would completelyContinue reading “The Sideboard – Gengar (2009)”

The Sideboard – LuxChomp (2010)

Welcome to the first of my articles in a series I’ll be doing, titled “The Sideboard”! Many websites today have done a phenomenal job of documenting either modern or historical decklists for many different archetypes. With this series, I want to take a little bit of a different approach, and I think an article seriesContinue reading “The Sideboard – LuxChomp (2010)”