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The 20-Card Limit is Ruining Strategy – We Need Larger Decks & Fairer Gameplay
To the Development Team,
When are you finally going to increase the deck size? You introduce new mechanics like Stadium cards, yet you refuse to update the deck size to match. Do you seriously expect us to cram everything into this tiny, restrictive 20-card limit? Is this a joke?
With so many cards now available, forcing us to stick to a miserable 20 cards means the entire game is decided solely by "luck" (or whatever algorithm is actually manipulating the matches behind the scenes).
Just today, I had a match where my opponent started with a lone Bulbasaur. I had a Charmander and went first. Because of the opponent's terrible "luck" , I won by Turn 3 effortlessly. Where is the actual gameplay in that? It requires absolutely zero skill.
In short: Please increase the deck size to allow for actual strategy, and fix the system to provide a truly fair gaming experience.
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I agree, you (TCG Pocket team) need to seriously look at this... with the introduction of stadiums, 20 card decks it's too low...
You keep introducing more mechanics (items, tools, stadiums) from the original TCG (that has 60 card decks)... but the decks card limit stays 20? What comes next?... will energies also occupy deck slots? lol
If you want to keep the "20 cards limit" at least make it so that stadiums don't use deck slots.
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TCG pocket is focused on collecting instead of batteling.
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It used to be like that, but they just added a new battle mode, and Ranked mode improvements.
They are paying attention to the battle aspect of the game... not to mention the limitless tournaments popularity (a large amout of players do play it mostly to battle). And also the majority of content creators focus on deck building to battle.
I dare to say the game would be irrelevant by now without the battle aspect.
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I havent played it since eevee grove so I dont know anything new about it.
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