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Ability ⇢ Dark Cloak
Each of your Pokémon that has any {D} Energy attached to it has no Retreat Cost.
{D}{D}{C} → Night Spear : 90
Does 30 damage to 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
· Pokémon-EX rule: When a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Monferno
Me: buy nine packs, get…holo Haxorus.
Cousin: buy five packs, get FA Darkrai EX and Tornadus EX
FML GUYS
WilliamH.
Sounds about right.
Me: Buy a pack from card shop, get nothing.
Friend: Buy a pack and pull Zekrom EX FA. @___@
Me: Buy Mewtwo box, get a few good cards.
Another friend: Buy Mewtwo box, GET MEWTWO!! X_____X
Curtis
Luckily, I’m always the guy with the good pulls.
Friend: buys 8 DEX packs, gets nothing notable.
Me: Buys 8 DEX (and 1 Triumphant just because,) pulls Darkrai EX and Tonadus EX.
Monferno
I used to be the girl who got good pulls. Ever since Next Destinies, that went down the crapper.
I bought three random packs once, got Crobat Prime, Mew Prime, and ERL bottom.
WilliamH.
Shucks. I still remember last year when I opened my BW Preview tin. The first pack out was a FA Reshiram! I also pulled the SR Pikachu out of a Tin! Found a Regigigas EX inside my Kyurem EX tin.
Tins seem to be lucky.
Monferno
Yeah, I bought that Zoroark box and got SR Pikachu and FA Zekrom. My friend got a regular Catcher and a RH Catcher in one pack she bought. I almost died
WilliamH.
That’s so cool! I’ve yet to see the RH Catcher in person.
Pokémon 31337
I managed to see one. A friend of mine bought a box last week. He got Kyogre, Entei and Raikou EX, lots of stuff and a Gold Catcher.
Curtis
I’ve been trying to find one of those elusive double catcher packs every time I open an EP pack.
Monferno
Yeah, I’d probably cry.
WilliamH.
I was seated when I pulled SR Pikachu. It caused me to jump into the air and let out a shrill. XD
Still my coolest pull ever!
WilliamH.
Have you ever pulled a double rare, in which the RH WAS the same as the Rare? I did this with Zebstrika BW!
Curtis
Many times. Almost always a disappointing junk rare.
WilliamH.
I’m not surprised.
coolestman22
I have a few times, the one I remember is Palkia G, which wasn’t too bad.
WilliamH.
Which do you think they’ll bring back next? SP’s, Delta Species, Lv.X, or LEGEND EX? hahaha
coolestman22
I hope SP’s come back, just without the broken engine. I want the format to be versatile where SP decks are good, but not broken and worth $100.
And I want Lv. X’s back.
WilliamH.
I’ll pass on the SP’s. What we really need are more viable options to run strong Stage 2 decks. Oh, and stronger Stage 2’s.
coolestman22
Lv. X’s would help then, and would be good against Paralysis decks too.
WilliamH.
Really? I now “leveling-up” a Pkmn does NOT count as Evolving it but, it does remove Special Conditions?
Can’t say I know much about Lv.X or LEGEND.
Curtis
I thought Lv X was a cool mechanic, and was disappointed when they rotated them. LEGENDS would fit really well in the Black and White block, as well. As long as we never get LEGEND Lv.Xs. Good luck getting one of those out consistently.
WilliamH.
LOL!
Yes I totally agree. I would love to see Lv.X return as well as LEGEND (just for fun if anything).
coolestman22
In 30 DEX packs so far, I’ve gotten FA Raikou, FA Darkrai, and Shiny Archeops. The EX’s are both prerelease pulls, however, so they might not count.
Monferno
I’ve bought only about 11 packs, and I won’t buy anymore. I’m just gonna buy all the cards I need first and THEN waste my money on packs.
Chuck Rancor
Me: Go to prerelease, pull nothing
Other Guy: Wins two packs in a raffle, Raikou EX and golden catcher
Monferno
My poor cousin! In my previous post, I mentioned how he got a FA Darkrai.
So he was at my league Tuesday and we were working on building him Darkrai/Tornadus for BRs.
So he goes to take out his Darkrai and he pulls it out of the sleeve and starts flipping out.
The whole back of the card is ruined, it looked like someone grabbed it and jabbed their fingernails into it by holding it too hard. Turns out his little sister went into his room and was looking at his cards. I feel so bad for him! It’s still playable, but not tradeable. His sister is nine, and he’s twelve.
WilliamH.
Bummer. :/
Many of the kids at my League don’t use sleeves. Yesterday I was looking into trades and this kid was jokingly showing me his very poor condition Mewtwo EX and Kyurem EX cards. The cards had great amounts of wear, including the majority of the borders having been peeled away, revealing the white card underneath. Then he says, “I’d really like to trade for a better condition Mewtwo.” I had to hold my tongue on that one: “Perhaps you’d trade your bad Mewtwo for another EX?” He almost took my Thunderus, but decided he liked his crappy Mewtwo better. haha! Good kid. It must be bliss to have no idea the true value of things, since we live in a non-competitive community.
Monferno
Dude, I would trade for any condition Mewtwo EX if it was playable.
I run a league that I’m working on getting re-accepted (the old league owner quit) and most of the players are kids right now. Though some are competitive. There used to be this kid that no longer comes (not complaining) who took just /awful/ care of his cards. He was around 11 too, not like he was five and didn’t know any better. Some of them had drawings on them and then he’d whine and argue when people didn’t trade him. He was terrible. Always starting fights, not playing the game the right way (and then fighting with me saying I’m wrong when I nicely show him how to do it).
I’m not sure where he’s been, but I’d be happy if he doesn’t come back.
WilliamH.
haha. I’m lucky that my group of kids are all well-mannered, though rambunctious at times. We have ages 5-13-ish and most kids are non-competitive as well as mostly clueless about the basics of Deckbuilding, which makes me sad to see. :( After a year of TCG, it is now a challenge for me to build decks weak enough to stand ground with some of these kids. It is fun to use Pokemon and combinations of cards that I would NEVER run in a serious competitive deck! (I have: 3-color Monkey, Scolipede, Fliptini+Crustle, Gigalith, Conkeldurr decks, and even an uber-trolling Sharpedo + disruption deck that doesn’t even play to win! HAHA!)
The couple that run my League are elders and are very much stuck in their ways. They refuse to acknowledge certain newer errata and will play cards as the wording states (so old Potions heal 2 and old Great Ball does what it did). They even refused to allow me to play BTS properly, which is why I don’t bother anymore (save for my Yuka-san Empoleon build).
I wonder what that kid would want for his poor-condition Mewtwo?
coolestman22
Well if that’s the case, just go to a different league. The one I’m at is fin right now save for extreme sarcasm from the LL.
WilliamH.
Up here there is only ONE League. Unless you count my Friday Afternoon Battles at Target’s Starbucks. It’s actually quite peaceful there, with nice tables and large windows. :)
coolestman22
If you’re old enough you could start a league, but I don’t know how old that is.
WilliamH.
Sadly, there are simply not enough players to have two Leagues.
I’ll have to wait until either
a: Pokemon become popular
b: My current League elders pass the torch.
Curtis
If I remember, its 18. I recall almost starting a league at one point until I realized our group was already two leagues to begin with. Instead, I just judge the first tournament at every new venue.
Curtis
I remember this one league I found once that didn’t even let you roll dice for coin flips. Needless to say, I didn’t stick around long.
WilliamH.
Wow that’s so totally pointless. My current League only uses those glass pebbles for damage counters (which is getting ridiculous with all these EX’s around lol), and prohibits that use of D-6’s (dice) that my friends and I prefer.
Curtis
I keep some of those in my dice bag to clean up the board a bit. Usually I’ll use them as a placeholder 6 while I’m rolling with a damage counter.
WilliamH.
I have D-10’s for “coin toss” rolls. :)
Got a ziploc inside a tin.
Curtis
I used to carry a full set of DnD dice, but now its just D6s and a D20 that lights up on crits.
WilliamH.
Lights up? what? That sounds cool. :)
Monferno
My mother is the official owner of the league, she doesn’t play – but I can’t sign the league under my name because I’m sixteen. I pretty much run it, my mom supervises. Most of the kids at our league are… on average, 11. The oldest is sixteen (not me, another kid) and the youngest is five. We have, surprisingly, girls of all ages except for the middle school age. I don’t see a lot of girls playing anymore.
WilliamH.
That’s really cool. You must be a smart teen to help run a League.
I wish there were some older teens at my League. I’m sure a 15-17 year old could give me a challenge! >:D
That’s sad about the girls not playing at much. At my League we have ONE single girl. Her brother is two years senior but she plays stronger than him. What bothers me is that she hasn’t learned how to deckbuild. She constantly uses her bro’s or father’s decks (her father only shows up for Tourneys every 5 weeks. He runs strong decks like Cobalion and most recently Mewtwo x Gardevior). She also borrows my decks, though I won’t let her have anything super pricey to replace.
Monferno
It’s actually a lot of work. I don’t get a whole lot of time to sit and play much because of the kids, but I enjoy it.
We have five regular girls, four nine year olds, one six year old. My friend who is sixteen also plays during the summer.
My twelve-year old cousin (he was nine when we started playing) and I taught ourselves how to deckbuild. We made the worst decks when we started playing! I remember we thought having more than one of the same card was bad! So embarrassing. Then my cousin started collecting Chikorita/Bayleef/Meganium cards, and he’s got every single Meganium now. He’s quite the fan.
WilliamH.
Oh that’s really cool. I know kids who collect their fav mons such as Groudon. I have a Pikachu collection myself. :)
Monferno
Yeah, my seven year old neighbor collects all of the electric rodents, his favorite is pichu. The one girl took the league patches and sewed them to a shirt she made and she wrote on it ”virizion is my favorite pokemon.” They’re all so cute.
Most of the kids originally (like you said) didn’t know how to play competitively but they learned from us.
WilliamH.
Nice. My patches are in a drawer…somewheres.
I just wish there was more of “us” to teach them.
Monferno
It started off as only me. The kids look up to me, though, and so they try to follow what I do. My cousin is also a competitive player, and one of his friends is as well, so they help out.
WilliamH.
Very nice.
I wonder if the kids look up to me any…it doesn’t seem like it.
I’m just some old guy to them. :P
Curtis
You know, with all the deck help I’ve given local seniors and juniors, I wonder if they think the same to me. I did have a senior call me a “good” player in a down-pair match once, which is a nice compliment , but there is sadly more evidence to the contrary.
I have built several winning decks for those divisions, but when your Junior and Senior divisions combined are smaller than WWE’s tag division was at the beginning of the year (they’re working on it), building a successful deck for younger players isn’t that difficult.
Monferno
Yeah, well… I mean, some kids are pretty stuck up. Most of the kids at my league are very sweet. I have built only a couple of top-cutting decks for kids, since not all of my league players go to tournaments. My seven-year-old neighbor got fourth at cities with a really-quickly thrown together Beartic deck back in December (Using his cards, too!). I just handed it to him and was like “Get Beartic out as fast as possible, and then SHEER COLD SHEER COLD SHEER COLD.”
My area has a lot of worlds-competitive juniors, so Juniors is actually pretty difficult. Most of the time they’re gigantic brats, which is annoying.
Curtis
I wish our juniors were that good. They pretty much show up, get free Championship points and packs and leave. Not even enough to play one round, usually.
Monferno
We have a lot of champion juniors, but they’re all gigantic brats. I was sitting with my cousin and his friend while they were getting their decks ready to get checked, and one kid was sitting there, and out of no where (weren’t even discussing anything related to this, nor were we talking to him)
He goes “who’s won more than one states championships, raise your hand!” and he started waving his hands.
He goes to every tournament around, he’s really annoying. He’s not even that young either, I was told he is eleven. Both of my juniors cousins have faced him and they say he’s terrible to battle because he just yells at you constantly, and freaks out if someone tries to watch the battle. It’s people like that who ruin the game.
My cousin in seniors faced some kid who called a judge on him for drawing an extra card when his opponent got a mulligan before setting his prizes down. At a battle roads. Technically, you are supposed to set your prizes down before you draw that extra card, but really? It’s BRs and what is it gonna do? Give him a major advantage.
coolestman22
Was “Give him a major advantage” the officialish ruling or did you just forget to put a question mark?
Monferno
Typo, meant to put a question mark.
WilliamH.
Hey. I’ll reply to your comment below after I get back from League tonight. Gotta leave right now!
Laters. :)
Monferno
Have fun, hahaha.
WilliamH.
Wow that is craptacular! *sigh* I can only dream of the competitive world.
The kids here just seem so lazy, or maybe just extremely knowledgeable (that’s a word?).
I can’t seem to get anyone motivated to learn more about the game. I understand most kids don’t wanna convert to some kid of “Modified” format b/c it limits what cards they can use, forces them to acquire multiple copies of “good” cards, and is confusing to them. I get that! Modified isn’t cheap and most kids cannot, or just don’t, order cards online.
The local market for cards is a huge joke with the “rares” box at the local shops being either leftovers from BASE SET or rares from a few years ago that are cheap but just unplayable. It’s sad when the only way kids can get the better rares is from packs.
Everyone is on so many different levels of play and deck-building skills that it’s confusing even to me. Also, very few even have the dedication to only only SHOW UP to League (I even hold an additional get-together on Fridays) but, to experiment, learn, and grow as players and deck-builders.
There are a few privileged kids that are spoiled by their mommies and daddies. These kids have a huge collection of cards and love to collect the “shiny” rares like Primes, Lv.X, and now EX. Even with all that potential power, they rarely play them in decks (even the couple kids who use sleeves.
I just don’t fit in. I won’t give up though. As long as I’m stuck living here and I’m going to drop hundreds a year on sparkly cardboard pieces, then I’ll continue trying to get a Pre-Release happening, and continue to attempt and expand the meta and mentor kids.
Monferno
Some kids are just like that. I think part of it is because whenever the kids ask me to battle they are awed by the way my decks work (because they’re competitive decks) so they try to do it themselves or get help. The rest don’t care.
Such as the one kid that used to come to our league, luckily I haven’t seen him around in a looong time.
He’s around eleven. Always takes terrible care of his cards, brings them in this huge bin. They’re always worn, bent, spilled on or even written on. Then he complains when the other kids won’t trade him. I tried to be nice and help him build a deck, and I repeatedly taught him to play. Then, he’d do something wrong and one of the kids would call me over to fix it, I’d politely tell him what the mistake was. Then he gets angry and is like “well, my sister and I play this way.” or “who says?!” He constantly fights with the other kids and never behaves. It’s awful.
Playing competitively with kids who know how to is fun, though. My twelve-year-old cousin plays Darkrai/Tornadus, my eight-year-old cousin plays Zekrom/Eels/Zebstrika (she’s still working on it though) and then the seven year old that top cut cities still plays Beartic. He added his own stuff to it though, I believe Kyurem EX and a couple of Tornadus. Not sure why, I think because he likes Tornadus.
WilliamH.
One such 13 year-old today at League was undefeated with is deck and challenged me (after hyping himself up of course). I decided, since he was SO confident, that I would let him pick any of my three decks to battle. He declared that since his deck was Fire/Lighting, he would attack the weakness of my Steel deck, Klinklang. I said ok, and decided to teach him a few things.
Starting with a solo Active Klink, I Duel Ball’d for a Terrkion, and a Kyurem EX. I could see that he was upset when he proclaimed, “whatevs!”. I told him, “Never assume you know your opponent’s deck, or the weakness of that deck, without ever actually battling that deck.”
After a couple turns of manual attachments to my benched Terrakion, much to his puzzlement, I explained how the “Shift Gear” Ability worked and then moved the 2 energies over to Klink, and attacked with “Smash Turn”, moving Kyruem active. He used “Outrage” for 40.
On my turn I played: a third energy to benched Klink, attached Evolite, and then put an old Stadium into play: Snowpoint Temple (only 2 cards in my Klink deck are not Modified: this Stadium and Luxury Ball). I attacked with “Frozen Wings” for 60×2 damage. His Reshiram was alive with 10HP.
“Oh, now you’re done!”, he exclaimed and launched a Blue Flare, “KO!”. I told him the only way we could be sure was to fully calculate the damage, “never assume when there’s a lot going on”. His incoming 160 damage, dropped by 20 thx to Evolite, hit for 140. “That’s 180 KO!” He shouted. “Yes, but didn’t this Stadium just save your Reshiram?” He frowned when he realized Kyurem EX has 20HP left.
On my turn I used Shift Gear to move energies off Kyurem. He argued that it wasn’t possible to move Prism and Rainbow energy b/c they are not Metal. I tried to explain how each card was “every type of energy” but he wasn’t having that. Eventually we had to call an Elder over to settle the boy down. I played Max Potion, finally revealing what my deck really does. “OH, WHAT?!” He was shocked. My attempt to move the energy back to Kyurem created another disagreement, where he told me that I couldn’t do that b/c I had already moved energy this turn. After settling this with the Elder again, I finished his Reshi.
He promoted Zekrom and attached a DCE, “Outrage for 20–er, zero”. :/
I drew for my turn and, without playing a single card, immediately said “Frozen Wings”. After dropping 6 damage counters on Zerkrom I read what the attack effect is, and then asked him too discard his DCE. He grabbed my card in disbelieve. I told him that was rude and that he should ask before grabbing another player’s cards, sleeves or not. “Always read your opponent’s cards. Knowing what my cards can do will help you know what to do with your cards.” Simple logic, lost on his ears.
The game lasted another few turns, with me eventually playing Switch to attack with Terrakion for fun. I admire how kids will play a game to the end, even when it’s clear to me that victory is not possible.
After the game I explained that his confidence was a great thing to have but, to be overly confident made his decisions poor. This is classic wisdom straight from my grandfather. “That’s nothing! Let’s go again! Oh, I’m so gonna beat you this time!” I refused to battle him again, explaining that I didn’t appreciate his lack of manners or trust in my knowledge of the game’s rules. I told him that I would be glad to teach him anything anytime and help him in anyway I could. “The best way to grow as a player is to always learn something from each game you play.”
I’m not sure why some kids are so immature at 13. Not just that but when he talks to me, he stand WAY to close! Most people respect another’s space by at least 8 inches. This kid was up in my face. :S
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That’s excellent to hear! I would really enjoy meeting some kids with talent, by that I mean kids with the know-how to play a competitive Modified deck, the maturity to learn from their mistakes, and the desire to expand their knowledge.
I play competitive decks too and, while not of them are Modified, they mostly do some amazing things. Somehow this fails to impressive anyone at my League or, at least, they haven’t mentioned anything to me.
Monferno
Yeah, I know. All of the preteens at the league are pretty decent. The seven year old, normally, he’s a little difficult sometimes, but he’s surprisingly a very good sport in his battles. He’s always shaking hands with the other kids and he always offers for them to cut or tap his deck.
A lot of those kids are really stubborn and don’t like to be wrong. how old are you (if you don’t mindme asking.)
WilliamH.
That’s really cool. I think my adult friends and I just need to work on becoming friends with the League kids so they will trust our opinions. Yesterday we helped the new 13 yr-old fix up his Fire/Lighting ReshiZek deck (classic). He was running a bad monster / energy ratio but, other than that he had a descent build going on. After we tinkered with it, my pal Vin spearheading and explaining in detail his every choice, the deck performed a lot better. :)
Who me? haha. Well I’m an old man: 27. -_-
Monferno
Old? Hahaha!
Yeah, some kids just don’t respect adults (or anyone in general.)
I had some issues in the beginning controlling the kids, a lot of them were very rude. Once, I tried to make an announcement (just with a simple “hey kids, listen up for a second.”) and a ten year old who was there for the first time turned around and said “What do you want?”
It is frustrating. At least you aren’t in charge of them! We’re working on getting new players, trying to advertise a little and such. I’m trying to find websites that showcase events and things like that but all of them cost money. I’m not going to pay to advertise for a free league :/.
WilliamH.
I’m replying to you via the DISQUS Dashboard, as the Darkrai EX page is getting hard to read.
Well, when I’m over 12 years older than the next oldest player, that makes me a grandpa! Kids don’t even understand what Blue Version was about! XD
Yeah, kids can be rough. Patience is the key. (Easier said than done for “only childs” like me).
I’ve been asking around trying to find players. I would post an ad online too but not sure were. My friend joking said, “Oh! Craig’s List and MySpace!” …Um, wow dude. ha
Monferno
Yeah. There really aren’t any other card stores around other than the one the league’s at, so it’s hard to advertise for me.
Lol craigslist!
WilliamH.
We have officially ruined the Darkrai EX page! My last comment was a SINGLE text character wide and your last reply was INVISIBLE, leaving a huge white gap in the page! XD LOL!!
WilliamH.
It doesn’t seem like we get Championship points here b/c no one at my League submits our attendance.
coolestman22
My area has one or two, but they’re the brother/sister of a better Senior/Master.
coolestman22
I have all of the possible Garbodors you can have. :P
WilliamH.
Yesterday at League:
I won a small Tourney of 8 players and was given 4 packs. Pulled: NOTHING. I mean, literally not a single playable rare! I mean, Slowking, Heatmor, Galvantula, Carnivine??? COME ON! *cries* Well at least I got another Juniper *sigh*
Other players pulled: FA Darkrai, Darkrai EX, Groundon EX. (Since this is a card shop giving away boosters from a box, this essentially means that particular box is now VOID of EXs!)
I felt like Karma was punishing me for running Machamp SF. >_<
coolestman22
Reaching Mewtwo commenting levels.
Curtis
At least Mewtwo has relevant conversation. This card is boiling down to talks of pack pulls and age division breakdowns.
WilliamH.
LOL! Yeah, mostly b/c of my banter, this page is way “off-topic). :P
reshikrom64
I like the convo here that has just turned invisible. Impressive.
Jared Scott
Yayyyyyy!!!!! No dark type ever again will be pokemon catcher bait
HEZ
“Darkrai is a Pokemon well known for its high HP and bulk and also for throwing spears”.
…no… wait…what?
Dark Kira
So of this 76 comments, there are 2 whole comments about the card itself, probably an all-time low for this page :D