As promised, I’m back with part two of my article set: tips for advanced players. Again, I recommend that newer players read this as well; it may give you some ideas to eventually strive towards.
Every Card Counts – Part Two
As I said in Pro Tips for Beginners, every single card you choose to put in your deck counts. As this is a more-advanced article, though, we need to go more in depth here. We’ll look into the intricacies of choosing certain cards over others and the reason behind those choices; and the balance between having options and having more of one card for greater consistency.
First we need to recognize when cards serve a similar purpose to each other. In the previous format, we had both Roseanne’s Research and Pokemon Collector, which served nearly identical purposes. Some decks benefited from having more of one over the other, and it depended on the deck. For example, Gyarados preferred max Collector over a split in Roseanne and Collector, while Luxchomp liked some kind of split of the two.
