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Ongoing TCG Tuesdays with Archaic

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Hi everyone. This will serve as the discussion thread for TCG Tuesdays, my current ongoing weekly series on the Bulbagarden Twitch Channel in which I'm primarily streaming the Pokémon TCG Live app, but will occasionally also bring in other TCG related content like the TCG game on Game Boy. You can catch me every week on starting at 4pm US Pacific / 7pm US Eastern / 9am Wednesday Australian Eastern. I'll generally post on the Bulbagarden Discord server in the #tcg-and-collectables channel when I'm about to go live.

At this time, I've not been saving every "episode" as a highlight on the Twitch channel, though now that we've had a bit of time to get the format down pat I'll be starting to do so in the near future. Once I start saving those, I'll add a link to the collection here. We may eventually start editing these for YouTube as well. I'm also going to be starting to share some of my decklists here on the forums, so you can see what I've been playing, and what decks I have available for you to force me to play with using your channel points. When I do put those up, I'll put those in threadmarks so you can easily find them.

I'd love for this to be as interactive an experience as possible, so if you do have any suggestions or feedback for the series, please feel free to share those here as well.
 
Weed Cutter (from the March 6th stream)

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Here's the Sunflora/Eldegoss deck I used during the stream last week. It was surprisingly effective. Our biggest problems were VMax decks with 300+ HP, and decks with plenty of healing.

Basic strategy here is fairly straightforward. Power up Sunflora, use Eldegoss to make sure you've got energy in hand to discard. Use Gardenia's Vigor to make sure your benched Sunkern are prepared to step forward the following turn when you're inevitably KOed. Make liberal use of Klara, Rod, and Recycler to keep those energies coming back. Bruno gives great draw with all the KOs you'll inevitably take. Tuffield Stadium assists to make sure that your Sunflora keep coming out. Radiant Venusaur can help in a tight spot when you need additional draw at the beginning of the game, though it honestly got ignored on my bench most of the time.

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Pokémon (13)

Sunflora (Silver Tempest 006/195) x 4
Sunkern (Silver Tempest 005/195) x 4
Eldegoss (Evolving Skies 016/203) x 2
Gossifluer (Sword & Shield 020/202) x 2
Radiant Venusaur (Pokémon GO 004/078) x 1

Trainers (35)
Supporters (14)
Bruno x 4
Gardenia's Vigor x 3
Klara x 2
Peonia x 1
Peony x 2
Serena x 2

Items (19)
Air Balloon x 2
Battle VIP Pass x 3
Energy Recycler x 3
Escape Rope x 2
Great Ball x 3
Hisuian Heavy Ball x 1
Level Ball x 3
Ordinary Rod x 2

Stadiums (2)
Turffield Stadium x 2

Energy (12)
Grass Energy x 12
 
Expand Dewgong (from the March 14th/15th stream)

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Here's the Dewgong/Finneon/Eldegoss deck I used during the stream earlier. It sadly didn't live up to my expectations, but it was fun while it lasted. It has much the same weaknessses as last week, with high HP VMax Pokémon able to run roughshod over us, as well as a weakness to spread damage on the bench. It's also probably not as reliable as Sunflora, since you can't pull out the evolved Pokémon quite as reliably. That might be something that could be solved with a tweak to the trainer build though, so let me know what you think.

Basic strategy here isn't too dissimilar to last week's deck. Evolve Seel to Dewgong. Finneon allows you to attach as many energy as you like to Dewgong. Use Eldegoss and your trainer cards to pull out stupid amounts of energy every turn, which immediately get cycled back into the deck by Dewgong's Floe Return attack (Shuffle any amount of
Water
Energy from your Pokémon into your deck. This attack does 40 damage for each card you shuffled into your deck in this way.) for massive damage. Use Ordinary Rod, Klara, and Nessa to grab back Pokémon from discard as needed.

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Pokémon (16)

Dewgong (Lost Origin 034/196) x 4
Seel (Lost Origin 033/196) x 4
Finneon (Lost Origin 040/196) x 3
Eldegoss (Evolving Skies 016/203) x 2
Gossifluer (Sword & Shield 020/202) x 2
Radiant Venusaur (Pokémon GO 004/078) x 1

Trainers (33)
Supporters (11)
Bruno x 4
Candice x 2
Irida x 2
Klara x 2
Nessa x 1

Items (20)
Air Balloon x 2
Battle VIP Pass x 2
Caspacious Bucket x 4
Escape Rope x 2
Hisuian Heavy Ball x 1
Level Ball x 4
Ordinary Rod x 2
Ultra Ball x 3

Stadiums (2)
Training Court x 2

Energy (11)
Water Energy x 11
 
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