The Deck Out

26/04/2018

I know the point of reprints is to create nostalgia but when I look at these cards, all I feel is that my childhood has been violated. There are so many great memories related to almost all of these cards from Tyranitar, which I played to win my first tournament of my life in 2002 to LudiCargo, which I played in the 2005 Worlds that when I see the cards with the current power creep, I feel like a part of my soul dies.

Although I haven't played in a couple of years, I still have all my favorite EX-era decks together. And when I want to feel nostalgia, I play with them, not these abominations. Or maybe I'm just getting too old 🤔

The official Japanese TCG website has just revealed all cards from Champion Road! The set will release in Japan on May 3rd. The cards from the set will be

10/09/2014

The tournament report from Japan is up!

Builder of 2 World Championships winning decks and 6-time National Champion of Pokémon TCG reveals the secrets of metagame, rogue and secret decks.

01/09/2014

I won the 80-player tournament with Yveltal/Garbodor/Seismitoad in Tokyo! Had a lot of epic and tough matches! So happy.

28/08/2014

Going to Japan today. And what would Japan be without some Pokemon? I am going to participate in a 100+ people tournament in Tokyo which should be super fun! And report will of course be written to my blog when I'm back. Very excited!

19/08/2014

Lost the 3rd game in Grinders with Pyroar against Accelgor/Flygon. However, the Worlds was a BLAST as always! It also was a huge wake-up call. Last year, I only played in 2 tournaments and not a single game outside tournaments. Inspired from Worlds and Team Finland's horrible results (we had the last placing player in Masters AND Juniors, and the second-last placing player in Seniors...+ no one of the Finnish Worlds attendees had a positive result) I decided to establish a new league to my new home town in order to develop the Finnish players competitveness back to where it once was. After all, we had back-to-back World Champions back in the day. This will be a very interesting one (or more)-year project and I will certainly keep everyone up-to-date.

13/08/2014

Off to Washington D.C. I'll see everyone there!

01/07/2014

Booked flights to Washington D.C. Grinder, here I come!

14/06/2014

Lost in top8 to raichu/yve/darkrai so missed the invite with one game! Well I'm going to Washington anyways, so I'll see everyone there!

12/06/2014

Just noticed that I left all my cards at home (I am living at my big brother's place this summer) and my Nationals will be this weekend! Now I have 2 days to find a deck from somewhere...I hope miracles do happen.

10/03/2014

What's this? An article!?

Builder of 2 World Championships winning decks and 6-time National Champion of Pokémon TCG reveals the secrets of metagame, rogue and secret decks.

16/02/2014

I finished 29th in the final standings of the ECC. The second day didn't go that well, because I started the day with 3 ties (2 of them which I would have won one turn later -.-) and after that lost the motivation, because couldn't get to top8. Anyways, we had one Finn in top8 and 3 in top32 so it wasn't that bad. Especially for me after not playing a single game in 7 months! Report coming this week to my blog! Yes, the blog still exists even though the address has changed.

15/02/2014

Esa 6-1-1 after day one. It seems tomorrow 5 more swiss for top32?? and then top8 single elimination?

-Isto-