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.

2018-08-13 21times

Big Data

I created a little bit of a different video last night, this shows exactly how I track the cards that

2018-08-10 21times

Dignified Fighters – is this deck for real?

If you checked out Monday’s article from our new feature writer Fototaxia, you might have had the same reaction I

2018-08-09 21times

Rayquaza GX… Take 3: Did I get it right this time?

So this is now my third (or fourth? I’m losing count) version of Rayquaza, but I think I might have

2018-08-07 21times

Rayquaza GX update

So here’s my list that I think I’m getting closer with. I went on a seven game win streak with

2018-08-06 21times

Dignified Fighters

Courtesy of Feature Writer Fototaxia. I am a fan of giving relevance to old, unused and ignored cards. The heart

2018-07-30 21times

Short post, big picture

Hello readers, just a short post today as I’ve been busy with work, parish festival, and other things, but I

2018-07-25 21times

Ultra Necrozma GX post rotation in action!

Hey so as a follow up to the list I published the other day, here’s the deck in action:

2018-07-23 21times

Ultra Necrozma GX … POST ROTATION

I’ve been working on a post rotation build of Ultra Necrozma GX, and it’s actually not bad. I will say

2018-07-20 21times

My first video!!!

Hey all I made my first video! It’s a Celestial Storm preview: Check it out, hope you like it,

2018-07-16 21times

COME ON PTCGO!

Seriously Lucario EX? Lysandre? Are you kidding me? Lucario EX and Lysandre? Did they not notice that these cards aren’t