Another option for people, if they don't want to be a seller on TCG themselves as it's a LOT of work, is to go to a local store that supports Elestrals, or that sells on TCGplayer already. Sell your cards to them, albeit a lower amount than what you'd get directly from TCGplayer perhaps, and they'll do all the work of selling and you can make back a portion of that while stocking the TCGplayer page.

I think the staples need printed in sets rather than just starter decks

Thanks for stressing the fact that people need to list their extras! Seriously. At the same time, its almost easier for new players to just buy the starter decks for the staples especially when the decks also come with extra packs. Not sure if that's going to impact people buying the staples as singles much or not.

If you're looking to buy staples on tcgplayer, I would recommend waiting a week minimum, potentially 2 weeks. Supply has cratered and demand is through the roof. There WILL be people attempting to sell staple cards wayyyy above what they're worth. Remember to keep the structure decks in consideration: never pay more for singles than you would if you just got them from a structure deck at msrp. A lot of staples were printed in them, often at 2 copies. Lastly, tcgplayer does not yet have Shattered Stars Chapter 2 yet (aka this month, Nov 2024), and Arcalith is one of the possible rares as a full art, so there is an additional printing. **EDIT:** SS Chapter 2 is up now

Thanks for making this! I know a lot of cards are out of stock or up on price but the content on how things are is super appreciated!

Super hype for this. I've been holding off on buying product because of the randomness of just opening sealed product

Solar? Has a new element been introduced to Elestrals

There's just no way you'll ever catch me casting cock ray in public

They named a card Cockaray

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The comment about only giving elements an access of healing if they are designed around it opens the conversation of what are the color identities in elestrals and how are they designed towards that. It doesn't necessarily seem like different elements excel at different things so much as certain elements excel at many themes/mechanics.

GO KELLY GO!

i'll have to go to that store soon only a couple hours away

Holy moly it's the nerd 🎉🎉🎉

When it comes to how many spirits to run as a splash for a specific rune, I think the question that needs to be asked is “how many times do you expect to need to play this card before you see your first ambrosia?” If you aren’t anticipating needing to play 2 tsunami before you see the first ambro, there’s no need to play 2 leviaphin.

I didnt netdeck mbt’s drakking list -_-

I was 10th. The amount of dudes was for depending on matchup youd verus out for runes. Also you always have a normal cast too. The 3:1 ratio is because you only ever really see 1 of them per game. Mudslide is for the artifact match ups or wasp. Which i managed to use to full effect 3times.

I was top 8 with thunder and the loss was last game went to time and when judges came in I was just ending my turn so that counted as turn zero at the end we were tied on spirts and deck size since the next turn was mine I draw and lose it was so sad I had the last game in the bag

I was in 12th. First real time playing the game other than earlier that week.

i was the 13th place, 3rd day playing the game lol

13:49 what do they mean when they say targeting self and brontowisp? How does the brontowisp go down when it has the highest defense

Torchin is great. It gives fire a solid way to recoup spirits, which it’s been lacking. It also has the highest ceiling of any healing card as it has the potential to basically make sure you’re underworld never has any fire spirits at the end of your turn.

Need a new episode.

Loving the overlay and the deck!

Im highly interested in 15's 😮

i can't focus cuz of the swolelax png xD (great vid)

The real clash was watching these two wholesome personalities have a polite off! Great game!

I hope Rummacoal and Scavacoal will have their time to shine in the future.

I LOVE PENT

One thing is, with the banlist being this quick, maybe if they see that these big bosses are as big a problem you guys make them out to be they are very capable to out eq or laurels back to a higher count easier

Y’all should be on the council of bans. Great opinions.

I think the app would have gone crazy and help push elstrals to more people. But with Pokémon’s new app coming out in October I think it won’t bring in more people. Just really bad timing

Yall got Stockholm Syndrome pretty bad if you think an FTK existing at all (consistent or not) is an ok thing to keep around. Just cause a deck/combo might have an answer doesnt make it ok, because even if it's a staple, you're still forcing players to commit deck space to a silver bullet. The hits to EQ and Lavalith also make complete sense, looking at it as a game designer. Its not that they want a specific deck archetype to be the only option, its more like the archetype they hit happened to be piggybacking off of some flagrant issues with earlier design. Frankly, I'd have fully banned EQ because it invalidates any Elestral thats bigger than a 1 drop. Removal that costs more resources like Shield or PTA, or temporary removal like Gorgon's, is far better because it still offers the Boss player a tempo hit towards their opponent. Lavalith...is a bit trickier since its got extra costs associated with using it. Limiting it for now makes sense to let Stadium/Divine players actually play the game. Honestly, the banlist looks really good. Removed some stifling design mistakes, gave other deck archetypes room to breath, and opened less power-creep designs for the future.

The 4th set was supposed to be out by now, but was delayed. That is why we are seeing cards that were going to premiere there being premiered in Shattered Stars first.

banger ending

I don't like earthquake personally. Against a two or three cost elestral you are at worse going neutral in spirit and card advantage but you gain so much tempo. The unconditional natural of it pushes it into unfair territory.

Stores are allowed to buy shattered stars but it is at msrp price like as if they are a typical consumer. So it just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for them to buy the sealed packs and resell them

If 5s is so metawarping that playing anything that costs 2 is a big ask due to ease of access to 1 for 1 removal... Why not just do something to the Elestrals that make up 5s. Limit Mosstacean or something, I dunno. Leave removal more accessible without pushing people away from Divine runes and Stadiums. Hit the things that make the metagame stale. How long will Red Deck Wins be the best deck in the game?

Good video 👍

I think that the banlist had all the limits on it because they where already banning the ftk, and they had some ideas for limits, so the designers just decided to hit the other cards because of that. You know Instead of waiting for a good time to post the list

Counterpoint to the crying about the banlist killing a deck right away: FTK decks suck and should generally never be allowed in a format

I thought TheLaw literally passed away he hasn't posted anything on his KZbin in ages and he dropped every single project over there hahahahaha

Wait this is the thing you said you were experimenting with the fruit package for with Ashrabbit during the Daybreak video isn’t it

Hilarious timing

Did all elestrals channels planned to upload the ftk decklist minutes before the banlist? 😂 The psyop is real

You cannot make this timing up

Nice timing

actual comedy but super thankful this went up today - this is a great companion piece to the recent announcement because now we can see why this deck needed to be addressed in the specific context of gameplay!

They don't know do they?