Kevin Hamilton 🔜 Syrup Storm

I mean? Is it wild? Lol You didn’t purchase it directly from Pokémon… they are correct in stating that you should reach out to the business you purchased it from. Does it suck that it is a manufacturer error. Yes. But did you expect TPCI to go to their manufacturing plant, get you replacement promos? Send you a whole new UPC? Not trying to start anything. But I feel like it’s obvious that they weren’t going to help you.

For anyone curious as to how the Pokémon/Mcdonalds collab works. Each toy comes with 1 Holo, 1 non holo. Completely random. The toys themselves don’t correlate to which cards you get. They are loose inside the box. Also there’s 7 Holo and 8 non holo cards. The circled cards are all the Holos. You can’t get the holos as non holo, and vice versa. So there’s only 15 cards to collect. Y’all excited?

King of Dog Water has spoken 🙏 😩

Locals tonight with ZAM? Went 3-1. Could’ve gone 4-0 but hit the deck playing 4 mist energy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

2 years ago I decided I wanted to officially get back into the Pokemon TCG hobby again, this time instead of just collecting. I wanted to start playing. I picked up the Gardevoir and Charizard battle decks. Gardevoir wasn't my thing, zard was good after I upgraded. The first deck I built was Hydrapple EX! Which I recently played to the Louisville regional. The version of this deck was very different than it is now. I remember taking the deck list and importing it into tcgplayer to buy all the cards needed. Loved this deck and played it for my first few months. Then I went to my first cup with a deck I last minute decided to play, which was Raging bolt EX. I immediately fell in love with it. It was the perfect deck for my play style and I genuinely wanted to improve with this one deck. I only got to enjoy it in this form for a few months. But it's by far my favorite, so I remade my original deck using almost only Cosmo foil play Stamps. Or some of my favorite variants of certain cards. Raging bolt will be very missed come this rotation.

So with TCGlive adding the ability to face friends in the TCGlive expanded format (SUM-Current) I'm excited to hopefully see a surge of online Expanded tournaments or even past format tournaments starting at SUM. I'm not too familiar at BW-XY sets as I didn't play, but which cards hurt the expanded format by not having them? Is it really that different not including those sets. Also will this be the resurgence of the expanded format and we will actually see a meta take shape over the next few months?

One of my favorite pages in my PC. Mcdonalds cards have not been interesting in years. This is 2019s set. One of my favs

I just noticed that these Pokemon look very similar. Jigglypuff doesn't seem to evolve from igglybuff though? Is this a mistake? Is this gonna be a reveal in Winds and Waves and I caught it early? Even the names sounds similar…

Looking back at the decks that were around when I started playing again back in 2024. What a time.

Come with my to my Delta Reign Prerelease!

As a Brandon Sanderson junkie and Pokémon junkie…. YESSSSSSSSS. For light and life 😭