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Hello PoTown Store readers and to the new visitors on the site! Welcome back to another article here as we prepare for the Dallas Regional Championships that appear to be coming closer and closer. The first new thing about the expanded format we need to pay attention to is the new Meowth VMAX card that is officially going to be legal for Dallas. Meowth V and Meowth VMAX are the first cards to be released from the Sword and Shield set in the Pokemon TCG in the form of a promo box (you can buy the code for right here on our website). Meowth VMAX is mostly the card we are going to be looking at because Meowth V isn’t particularly exciting, but it is necessary to evolve into the Meowth VMAX. So, let's look at the Meowth VMAX, and see why it could potentially be a good card in both standard, and expanded Pokemon TCG decks.  

The Standard Format

Welcome back PoTown Store readers to another article! Here today, we are going to be talking about all the newest Pokemon TCG cards to come out of the recently leaked, Sword & Shield Base Set. The newest form of powerful Pokemon is Pokemon V. Pokemon V are similar to Pokemon EX from the XY series as they don’t have a GX attack, but they have higher HP and can once again, evolve. Except like Pokemon GX, they don’t evolve from regular Basic Pokemon, they are the Basic Pokemon. The Pokemon V can sometimes evolve into Pokemon VMAX, which is like the Gignatamax evolution in the Sword & Shield video games. Pokemon VMAX are still somewhat a mystery in how they work, but for what we know right now they evolve from Pokemon V, gain massive HP, and are worth three prizes just like Pokemon TAG TEAM GX. The Pokemon VMAX in the set so far include Lapras VMAX, Stonjouner VMAX, Snorlax VMAX, and Morpeko VMAX. All of the VMAX Pokemon get over 300 HP which has only been seen on the Magikarp & Wailord GX TAG TEAM that came out around last year. The set also has quite a lot of good Trainer Cards, and non Pokemon V cards that I think will have a huge impact on the standard format. Be sure to check back here on the Po Town Store after Sword & Shield releases sometime in 2020 to get some Sword & Shield Pokemon TCG codes to get started with the new series! With that being said, I compiled a list of the top 15 new cards from the set that I expect to be great going into next format. 

10. Bellelba & Brycen-Man

9. Silvally GX ...

The fast and aggressive fire box deck in Ability Zard deck made a huge comeback at LAIC, and even ended up winning the event at the hands of one of the top players in the game, Robin Schulz. This deck relies on the popular Welder supporter card engine which is so stranger to the Pokemon TCG to set up its many different fire energy attackers that require quite a lot of energy in order to attack. If you can use Welder consistently, the Ability Zard deck can hit some of the biggest numbers in the game even as fast as turn 2! Once you have your attackers established, this deck also has access to Ninetales which can consistently bring up any Pokemon on your opponent’s bench at the cost of discarding two fire energy. This deck aims to take as many big knockouts as possible will constantly pressuring your opponents board at all points during the match. During the end of the game when you’ve gone through a lot of fire energy, Victini Prism Star can do a lot of damage and reset all of those used fire energies back into the deck to help close out the game. If you like decks that are fast and super aggressive, Ability Zard is the best deck for that and you’ll have a lot of fun playing it too!

Welcome back all and I’m glad to be sharing my article here on the Po Town Store. I’m very excited to be bringing you this article on the new Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX card that was recently released in Cosmic Eclipse. This is one of the best cards in the set  because of the attack effect of Ultimate Ray which is very similar to Pikachu & Zekrom-GX’s “Full Blitz”. Decks that can accelerate energy consistently through attacks on big heavy HP Pokémon will always be a great strategy in the Pokemon TCG. Flooding the board full of energy with 280HP Tag Team GX Pokémon is very hard to beat. While Pikachu & Zekrom-GX was questionably good by some players due to having to draw very well with the deck, Arceus & Dialga & Palkia (otherwise known as ADP) does not struggle with the same combo based issues all these combos ADP needs to pull off are simpler and require less cards to dig through your deck for. You can afford to play slowly and manually set up by attaching once per turn to build up your attack. While you are building up, you have access to the best GX attack in the game, Altered Creation GX. For one metal energy, it allows all your Pokémon to deal +30 damage including Pokémon that aren’t in play. If you have a metal AND a water energy attached, you get the +30 effect but also for every knockout you take for the rest of the game, you take one extra prize.

You may be wondering what exactly this deck is and how it works as a good Pokemon TCG deck considering it doesn’t seem to attack every turn due to it’s one of energy card count, and the 4-0-4 line of Florges from Forbidden Light that has never seen competitive play until now.

When this deck was featured on stream round one of LAIC at the hands of Danny Altavilla, the Pokemon community was introduced to one of the most unexpected decks to come out of Cosmic Eclipse,  Naganadel & Guzzlord GX. What makes this deck so special is it’s ability to win in 3 attacks against opposing Tag Team GX decks, as well as be able to attack with Jet Pierce as fast as turn one.

Welcome back to another article here on the PoTown Store! I hope you guys are liking the new addition of Cosmic Eclipse as much as I am! In this article, I am going to be talking about the best ways to build a deck around one of my favorite cards in the new standard format, Charizard & Braixen GX from the set I just mentioned, Cosmic Eclipse. What makes Charizard & Braixen so special? It has an amazing attack called Brilliant Flare. At a hefty cost of 4 fire energy, it definitely pays off that negative aspect by dealing 180 damage and can search for any 3 cards from your deck. Brilliant Flare is such a powerful search attack and it leaves a lot of room for creativity on how you want to best abuse the attack. The tech options are endless and the deck can jam pack a lot of obscure cards/counts due to the guaranteed search to have them exactly when you want it. You can use the card in many different styles of decks, including a tech in Greens Zard, a tech in Ability Zard and its own deck using a Green’s Exploration engine with control cards such as Jessie & James and Chip Chip Ice Axe. With the first International Championships coming up at the end of this week, these are the most expected ways players attending the event will use Charizard & Braixen GX. Later on, I will be giving a meta prediction of what the top 5 decks I expect to see perform well at LAIC this weekend. But for now, here are my current lists for all 3 decks, and why they are good going into the 2019 Latin American International Championships in Brazil. 

Ever since the Pidgeotto Control deck made Top 8 at the World Championships, it has been consistently topping every standard event in both the United States, and European regions. This deck is not played like your ordinary Pokémon TCG deck where you take all 6 prizes to win, it instead capitalizes on another win condition in the Pokémon TCG, decking your opponent out.

The first ever revealed Tag Team GX Pokémon in Pikachu/Zekrom has gotten some new Tag Team GX competitors in recent sets, but it is still dominating the competition. The Pikachu/Zekrom deck aims to set up a turn one, or two Full Blitz attack with help from its Prism Star friends, Tapu Koko and Thunder Mountain which help accelerate energy.

The reigning 2019 World Champion deck in Mewtwo/Mew GX has proven itself again and again throughout every tournament in the United States and EU, that it is the most powerful deck in the standard format. This deck’s main focus is to copy many powerful Pokémon GX’s attacks from the bench, or in the discard pile.