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Bring Back Pre-builds and Tutorial
One of the greatest strengths of the older version is the prebuilt decks and the prebuilt format. It puts everyone on a similar playing field without top tier decks ruining people. It gives people a chance to play without deck building experience. It was one of the main features that set Pokemon TCGO apart from other TCG games. It also encouraged people to buy prebuilds for paper to not only get a code for Online but also to start playgroups.
The tutorial in PTCGO that allows players to start easy and get progressivly harder was awesome as it also gave new players rewards to start from scratch both collection and experience wise. I also used the AI to test decks on. The test feature is still available but doesn't allow you to change the deck its testing on. So if I make an electric deck it threw me against water 3 times which doesn't tell me how the deck performs.
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Theme Format was a fun option in PTCGO. Pokemon has stopped making Theme Decks, so I can't image this will come back. But they V & ex Battle Decks have essentially preplaced Theme Decks, so perhaps they can add this format?
I have to disagree about the Tutorial in PTCGO. I thought that the AI was pretty terrible and therefore not too helpful in terms of helping players develop. So I am glad that the Tutorial is gone, but different people have different opinions. I suspect that Pokemon sees the Casual Ladder (not sure that it is actually called a ladder, but I don't know what else to call it) as a place to test decks.
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