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How common is a ‘multiple charmander / charizard’ deck in TCG Live?
Relatively new player here.
In about one-third to one-half of the TCG Live ranked battles I’ve played this week, I’ve seen the following human deck setup:
- multiple charmanders (3-4 in play)
- lots of fire energy cards
- trainer cards to select evolved cards (I.e. charizard)
- then they quickly evolve 1-2 to chatizard, who destroys my deck.
It’s a clever strategy, but I’m surprised by ‘how often’ I’ve seen it.
I’ve changed my deck to include a couple of water-types (an early-game attempt to beat charmander and charmelian), plus a leaf-type Ogerpon (a late-game attempt to beat charizards) - but it’s not working great.
QUESTION - how common is this as a deck in TCG Online? Is this oncersation a surprise, or is it a well-known beginner ‘meta’ strategy?
Thanks!
Best Answer
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@DanEnglish Be prepared to face it alot on live. So many people play charizard that you will get tired of facing it. Thankfully they made the trainer mode an kind of elimates having to go against it. Funny i just posted a comment about going against the same kind of builds. Charizard ex, dusk an pidgey. Rare candies on second turn, dusk to ramp up damage an firing away. Its a boring deck.
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