Mandatory base pokemon in 1st hand
After several days of testing, we (New Zealanders and transplants🫡) realized that the game automatically gives us a basic pokémon in our starting hand !
By abusing this “hidden rule”, it's possible to have the pokémon we want right from the start, if we put just one basic pokémon in our deck.
Of course this affects the deckbuilding and the balance of the entire game.
Is this voluntary? Or are you planning to remove this rule to make it like the classic TCG and grant an extra draw to the opponent for each hand without a basic pokémon?
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So basically there is no "mulligan" in TCG Pocket? lol
I bet that this is a must change thing for the final release… otherwise I can just imagine how players will take advantage of this "new mechanism". If stays like it is definitely has the potential to make the game unbalanced and monotone.
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They are already exploiting this with 2 decks, the Articuno ex deck you mentioned and also the Zapdos ex deck, both use the same single Basic Pokemon strategy.
In the future this can be even more problematic as better Trainer cards and basic Pokemon are released.
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