So This Is The New Pokemon TCG...

[@NezeruGaming]

Rarran is my favorite gacha gaming youtuber.

[@mattevans1643]

It amazes me that when people find out about yugioh, they begin to refer to cards in other games as "Pot Of Greed". You don't even have to know what yugioh is, but you can say "It's basically Pot Of Greed, and everybody knows what that is😂

[@NebulousSquirrel]

Pot of Greed, that's the card that has the properties of both rubber and gum right?

[@gameipedia]

Pot of Greed, Aggro, Control, Midrange, Tempo, Burn, Mill, and Wheel, are all pretty universal terms that I've just used in TCG discussion and people get it, ofc not 'never played a tcg' people for Mill, Wheel, or PoG, but the rest are somewhat understandable with little to no context due to their use in other things as well or just as words meaning what they do that the context sometimes explains itself, which is Pog

[@matthewpelletier4485]

Yes, but what does Pot of Greed do?

[@therealax6]

@@gameipedia Funny how they come from different games. Pot of Greed is obviously a Yu-Gi-Oh card. Mill and wheel come from MTG (respectively from Millstone and Wheel of Fortune). The rest are just generic terms - I believe tempo comes from chess.

[@retronymph]

And the crazy thing is that pot of greed is kinda ass in this game. We get free wheels and tutors

[@BengaIaas]

Whenever i try a freemium game, the moment i see the word "stamina", the game gets deleted.

[@jonathandurand8640]

there is no stamina , its opening a pack every 12 hour and u can open them quicker , no stamina the way you think

[@whiskyfox7943]

It's a login reward, not stamina

[@Khazuki_]

what does stamina mean in other freemium games?

[@whiskyfox7943]

@@Khazuki_ it limits how often you can play the game

[@Lovyxia]

This is yet another post-Hearthstone game that shows what you can do with card art in card games. Meanwhile Hearthstone has overpriced skins that use absurdly low quality 3D assets and impede on the overall experience by how jarringly those stand out. I recently played some Gwent again and those premiums, like those interactive pokemon artworks, reminded me of how beautiful digital card games can be if they try.

[@CaiRobinson]

I mean a large part of that is that HS is now 10 years old. Look at Yugioh Masterduel for instance, game is solid but HS destroy it art wise. And honestly Im disappointed in the Pokemon pocket tcg art wise as it had so much more potential. Instead its just a clone of the physical game. I honestly dont think HS is behind it, and those micro transactions your talking about. There coming remember Marvel Snap looked like one of the freest and friendly games before it released.

[@aarongutierrez7705]

This comparison doesn’t really make sense because TCG Pocket is likely going to be a lot more expensive lol

[@Issac1222productions]

Hearthstone out here selling skins for the price of bauldurs gate 3 ICANT

[@PenitusVox]

I loved how they released that behind the scenes video on making the Ragnaros skin like they'd been working on some groundbreaking prototype that would shake up the whole gaming industry and then you see it and it's worse quality than Heroes of the Storm.

[@SStrikeFury]

@@CaiRobinson what you on mate? Yugioh has great art while HS's HIGHEST COST hero skins look like ugly blender models

[@Awesomesausages]

Really tells you something about the game when five minutes in, the only thing you've done is feed the addiction. There's like a game too, right?

[@SpeakerTerenus]

@@Awesomesausages *feed my addiction song intensifies*

[@Badbufon]

looks at any card in the pokemon card game : "IS THAT A REAL POKEMON?!"

[@KenLinx]

more like any Pokemon past gen 4.

[@Badbufon]

@@KenLinx gen 4? IS THAT A REAL GENERATION?!

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

Gen 2? Wait, isn't that the fake pokémon they made after the original 151 to make more money?

[@KenLinx]

@@Badbufon idk if this is a reference to something or not, but the reason I say gen 4 is because in gen 5, they made like 200+ new Pokemon for the Unova region and Pokemon fans pretty much just gave up trying to memorize Pokemon.

[@Badbufon]

@@KenLinx Unova? IS THAT A REAL REGION? sorry, i am a grown man. yeah, even if i played more or less up to Sun and Moon, only the first 251 are graved into my brain and then there is a huge fall off of what can i recall. but even if i completely relate to Rarran it doesn't make the "WAIT! IS THAT A REAL POKEMON!?" less funny.

[@theratmaid]

My favorite New Zealand streamer

[@kirbythewizard101]

This is addicting to watch, hope to see more pokemon TCG videos / decks.

[@SpeakerTerenus]

What a predatory-ass game.

[@RandomDude-Z840]

Agreed, but you can still play F2P

[@KenLinx]

bro is saying this on a Hearthstone streamer's channel..

[@sora8711]

@@RandomDude-Z840 Can you though? You're gonna get stomped. But who cares I guess right? The game has an "Auto" mode, y'know, when you don't want to play the game? Imagining putting money into a game, that you don't want to play.

[@DiegoDeschain]

You can get about 57 free packs if you just complete the missions and whatnot, plus the pass will give you 90 packs a month...and if you're in a hurry you spend like a 100 bucks and pretty much build a dozen decks already with the collection you'll have at that point. Hearthstone and Arena, now those shits are predatory.

[@natanaru]

Gonna be honest every cardgame is predatory minus Lcgs

[@dunstonlion1342]

I know all card games are some degree of slot machine, but holy heck this mobile game is certainly a mobile game XD Introduced to like half a dozen mechanics all centered on trying to get you to buy packs and buy a subscription so you can buy more packs and buy rewinds so you can maybe randomly get another card and geez this is why I don't play mobile games.

[@DiegoDeschain]

From someone who never touches these types of mobile cancer (or anything predatory for that matter, for instance I have not given WotC a single dime since 2019 because of how much I hate how they handle Arena), I get why you'd have this perception, but actually go after content for the game, there are tons of content creators that have spent money on the game, and if you do that, you'll see that ACTUALLY, despite that initial impression, the game is nothing but predatory, it's actually super easy to build a collection and have actually competitive decks, even if you put no money in the game (and it actually is worth what you spend if you end up doing that). Just so you have an idea, only by doing the missions and whatnot, you can get almost 60 free packs, and people who have spent just like a hundred or a couple hundred bucks have pretty much full collections. Lots of people in the comments are trashing the game without actually knowing what's going on with it, those people should go and form a better informed opinion, they're missing out on an amazing game with amazing, fun gameplay.

[@Rizz3n]

I was an avid Pokemon TCG player back in my childhood and played the shit out of the GBC game. I'm really excited to try this one out!

[@PapaShekels]

Centiscrotch is a hell of a name

[@sam132471]

My actual guy, more of this, I scratch for the packs.

[@YourFavoriteDaada]

so its the duelinks of the pokemon tcg but better as far as i can see okey im here for this

[@Baelorsmith]

Just 24 more days 😭

[@viktorgabriel2554]

Its not even 3 minutes in and i am sold on this

[@casperhoffmann5945]

I look forward to when the game launches, October 30

[@MagiRemmie]

Water is the Green of Pokemon. It mana ramps very easily.

[@Ramperdos]

Rarran with his ETB strategy. Empty The Balls.

[@Doomblade89]

My favorite new pokémon: Centiscrotch

[@whiskyfox7943]

Rarran is the luckiest person alive

[@LightPink]

The fact the app can build decks and battle for you 😭😭😭

[@OJsOtherGlove]

"I'm going to say something controversial".... Picks the Charizard pack

[@HasXXXInCrocs]

Auto battling is in hearthstone rarran. It's called Paladin.

[@edasch]

7mins in, I need more videos like these rarran please I love you

[@HarambeFilms]

You almost gacha'd me, but then I realized I can just play TCG sim with pokemon mod and save myself hundreds.

[@FrankOpinion1]

I CANNOT believe he got that articuno ex Plz somebody tell him about the misty all or nothing deck The one with only articuno and the one with articuno and starmie

[@markchang2964]

Looks amazing

[@Badbufon]

so far, basic pokemon tcg looks fun, but how much time will pass until all the crazy TEAM XV EV XEV dzEBV cards that one shots everything and attach 20 energy per turn appear and destroy the game?..... 15:25 welp, we are halfway there

[@vitalepitts]

it looks like all the numbers are lower though, almost like mid 2000's power level but with all the pokemon.

[@vitalepitts]

holy crap you just don't lose if you deck out in this version??????????

[@DiegoDeschain]

No, decks are only 20 cards.

[@fuuryuuSKK]

And also you just get an energy each turn, instead of the ol' mana flood/drought

[@masterofiv2882]

There are Full Luck pokemon(Zapdos, Jolteon), Semi Luck pokemon(Heliolisk, Exeggutor Ex), and Consistency Pokemon (Golduck, Electrode, Kabutops, Swoobat, Muk, Bisharp, NineTails)

[@VerbalLearning]

Beam me up WhimsiScott

[@atoucangirl]

i was gonna say the game looks meh but then i saw Pikachonk

[@catowarmeowson9964]

Super bare bones, no ranked mode ect.

[@Firetrasher1stBruh-xu8ue]

Well yeah? Most of the effort went into the "collection" side of the game

[@procina5435]

Day 102 of asking Rarran to play Griftlands

[@THMCTerracraft2]

The second time this game implied that it's mainly about collecting, i lost all interest.

[@cvangemon1307]

It's a pokemon game.

[@THMCTerracraft2]

@@cvangemon1307 It's also a card game. Notice the word "game".

[@ratz30]

Ehh the battles look pretty fun tbh. Quick enough to bash out a couple while pooping on the boss's dime. I'd like if they implemented a ranked ladder or something though

[@Oxygen1004]

@@THMCTerracraft2 It's a card game with a focus on collection, it's still a game. It's fine that you don't like it but it's still a game.

[@cvangemon1307]

@@THMCTerracraft2 What are you trying to say here?

[@GPismymom]

I can't wait but I also don't wanna "fly" to New Zealand...

[@matevarga1053]

You should make a video where other card players try to guess if a HS card was nerfed because of its art or not like Secretkeeper.

[@simonshura9144]

Lol I've seen the vod already 😘

[@italianstallion567]

Is the gameplay fun? I have 0 interest in collecting digital pictures on my phone

[@stevenpoche6988]

If you actually care about the game part of Pokemon then you should probably just play Pokemon TCG Live which is also on phones and uses the actual rules.

[@mimik2098]

That game is full of bugs​@@stevenpoche6988

[@epicmenace1303]

@@italianstallion567 you have eyes and get to decide for yourself! Hope this helps

[@Crushanator1]

​@@stevenpoche6988Isn't that game being turned off when this fully launches?

[@menaatefadly]

Did...did they rip off Yu-Gi-Oh's speed duels?

[@estebanloriaa.356]

Yo this is an important PSA: IF YOU WANT A POKEMON TCG GAME TO PLAY ON YOUR PHONE GET POKEMON TCG 1-2 FOR GAMEBOY COLOR Ok back to the content

[@Goofygooberston]

Wish I could try myself but gambling laws in my country prevent it hah.

[@malighos]

Just wait for Nintendo to sue every card game for having booster packs somehow

[@limpets]

how is this not marked as an ad??? hello??

[@Rarran]

cuz its not an ad, i just tried the game out

[@azpont7275]

Ninentdo lawsuit incoming?

[@altrivotzck6565]

I kinda wish that there wasn't an actual game, just make it pack opening simulator. The fact there's an actual game just makes all the microtransactions feel worse.

[@sora8711]

If there was no game it'd be literally worse than just buying actual pokemon cards lmao. Oh look you spent money on a virtual card you can't do anything about, and when the game/service dies you lose everything. With real pokemon cards you can trade/sell them when you're done with them.

[@altrivotzck6565]

All of the things you say are true even with there being an actual game. The only difference is that you can use these cards, which you have to collect again even if you already own the real version, to play a slightly different version of the TCG.

[@altrivotzck6565]

@@sora8711 Also, it's not like the simplified TCG was the only way they could've given you a "reason" to collect cards in the app. They could've gone down a different route like... giving you a pokemon in Pokemon Home whenever you collect its card (kinda like how you can use other games to farm pokemon for pokemon home), or maybe giving you a special unlock code in the regular digital TCG (like the codes they give you with the physical cards) when you open a certain number of the same card (if they let free pack openings contribute to these rewards), or maybe whenever you open a pack through spending money. Putting an actual game in here wasn't the only option.

[@altrivotzck6565]

@@sora8711 Also also, it's not like I think there being a game on the app is a negative. I just think that it makes the microtransactions way scummier. If there was no game, then every person would be able to use their own frontal lobe to decide "yes, I am going to spend money on literally just collecting pictures of cards." But because there is a game, instead a bunch of people will decide "If I spend money, I can get better at this game. In fact, I have to spend money if I want to rise to the top."

[@MrFancyGamer]

too gambly, kinda makes me go eew how are u enjoying that eew

[@igorzai9831]

6 sec ago, wow, (fast notification i mean, and thanks to video)

[@BanPriestHS]

I am honored to be second comment

[@sshgaming9951]

4

[@kiko-qs9pk]

this was so rigged, what a shame to fool ur subs like that

[@randybracciodieta6485]

Damn I didn't think rarran could fall any further

[@Rarran]

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[@Rahochusosu]

@@Rarran This is so true, your didn't look like you were about to shit yourself in your old thumbnails, do better.

[@TheSirAshton90]

it could be so good but the greed has already killed the game. no way what so ever to earn packs by actually playing the game once the first missions are done which takes a few hours tops after that your forced to spend money or GL ever trying to play online

[@vitalepitts]

tcglive is pretty generous I hope it stays that way

[@The_Pikaboi]

Remember this is a prerelease. We will probably get more quests for hourglasses upon worldwide release

[@sonicjms]

Realistically it's a pack opening simulator that lets you play a rudimentary version of Pokemon TCG, it's meant primarily to scratch the itch of collectors and convert some of them to playing the real game since they might finally learn the rules. Pokemon TCG Live is where the online playing actually happens and they'll give you the best decks in the game just for logging in once an expansion

[@DarthTator22]

@sonicjms have you battled? This game is amazing so far and it's just pre release

[@procina5435]

Day 103 of asking Rarran to play Griftlands