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Pokmon TCG - I had a funny experience at the science club. Which by the way, can we take a moment to talk about how weird it is theres a gym er, excuse me, club not based on a specific type of Pokmon? I dont hate it or anything, but its such an unusual thing to experience in this series. I basically fell off the mainline games after Diamond (I maybe played a couple hours of X) but for all I know this is the only time it has happened in the series.

Anyway, so I breezed through club leader Ricks underlings with little difficulty, still rocking my very basic deck of Nidoran M, Krabby and Pinsir and applicable evolutions. I may be at a point where I have enough cards to build out one of the common deck builds (i.e. haymaker) but I havent checked yet, and I dont feel overly compelled to do so until this game throws something tougher at me. I feel like Im kinda underutilizing this games deck building capability but its not my fault if the simple deck Im rocking is good enough for most of what the game can throw at me.

It took me three tries to beat Rick. The first time around, I only had Krabby in my hand to start and I was given eight energy cards in nine draws. Which was insane. I couldnt get another Pokmon on my bench which is probably a testament to my deck not being balanced enough, but I digress. Second time around, I was rolling to start. I got Pinsir going early and he needs four energy cards for his most powerful move, which does 50 damage. I was in great shape and off to a 3-0 lead. Mewtwo comes out and I had no idea how the move psychic works in this game. Pinsir hadnt taken much damage but I wasnt expecting Mewtwo to deal 50 damage to me in a single turn! So Pinsir went down and I didnt really have the cards to recover from it.

As I said, third time was the charm. I got Nidorino rolling and I swept his team 5-0 before the duel ended early due to him being out of bench pokemon. Funny stuff because if I had known Mewtwo could take my Pinsir out I had a defender card I couldve used to keep him alive.

Master medals won: 4
Album: 170/226
Play time: 6:21