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.

2017-12-11 21times

Gardevark (or Zorovoir)

Gardevark or Zorovoir, either way, it has surprised me that we haven’t seen this duo put together. I decided drop

2017-12-08 21times

Should You Get Hammered?

As we saw a couple of weeks ago back in London, every top tier deck ran four of some type

2017-12-07 21times

Most Common Pokemon

I included this information in my monthly analysis the other day, but I didn’t really highlight it like I normally

2017-12-06 21times

How I track my games

In watching Omnipoke today and seeing how he’s starting to use an Excel file to track the matches he’s played,

2017-12-05 21times

Ninetales Milotic

So I have Googled Youtube and … uh … Google and I have been unable to find any decklists using

2017-12-02 21times

Weaknesses of the Current Meta

Over the past couple of days, we’ve looked at the top decks in London and broken down my stats from

2017-12-01 21times

November Data Analysis

I’ve been doing this for a little more than a year now – the first day of every month, I

2017-11-30 21times

London Top Decks Statistical Breakdown

Hard to believe, but already almost two weeks have passed since the European International Championship. I found a great compilation

2017-11-29 21times

This Deck Does More than Cover the Spread

In Las Vegas, sportsbooks offer bets on how many points the favored team will beat their lesser opponent by. They

2017-11-23 21times

The Best Deck That Wasn’t Played

The Drampa GX (Guardians Rising, 115/145) Garbodor (Guardians Rising, 51/145) combo known commonly as Grampa went MIA last weekend in