Author: 21times

I started playing Pokemon almost two years ago. I had a Pokemon party for my son and some of his friends. Most of them were playing with cards, but a couple were playing PTCGO on laptops. My son said to me, "Dad, I'll bet with our new computer we can go online and redeem all of these pack codes I've got." Several hundred code cards later, I started getting into learning how to put together decks, and then when I found the Trade functionality on PTCGO, it was all over and I was totally hooked. While I play almost exclusively online, I did attend the North American Intercontinental Championship in June of 2017, and I hope to compete more IRL in the future. I avidly follow the Standard competitions and am fascinated by how the "meta" changes from expansion to expansion. When not playing Pokemon, I'm usually driving one or the other of my twelve year old twins to either ballet or soccer practice. I'm also an assistant coach on my son's club team.

2019-01-22 21times

Doublade

Tool Drop 30× This attack does 30 damage for each Pokémon Tool card attached to Pokémon in play (both yours

2019-01-21 21times

Blastoise

Courtesy of Feature Writer Red_Ninja_Red Blastoise: The turtle we all know and love. One of the original three starters. Evolves

2019-01-20 21times

Zapdos

Zapdos – Lightning – HP110 Basic Pokemon [L] Assault Thunder: 10+ damage. If this Pokemon became your Active Pokemon this

2019-01-19 21times

Lists of Common Cards

Hey guys, so as you’re starting to think about post Team Up decklists, I thought I’d publish a list of

2019-01-18 21times

One Prize or Two?

A question I keep asking myself: do two prize (and soon to be three prize) Pokemon really give you an

2019-01-06 21times

Cofagrigas Giratina Revisited

I played a little bit of Cofatina when it first came out and did pretty well with it, but it

2018-12-31 21times

December Stats

Here are my stats for the month of December. I’m doing this a day early because I’ve finished the ladder

2018-12-28 21times

2018 Year in Review

Hey guys – I started keeping track of major events in the Pokemon TCG and saved them so we could

2018-12-13 21times

Is this the Best Card in the Standard Format?

Sorry I haven’t posted much lately but I’ve been super busy and when I have had time I just really

2018-12-04 21times

Pokemon TCG Tournaments up 42% from Last Year

Extra Extra! Read all about it! Pokemon TCG IRL tournaments are up 42% from last year. We’ve played six major