Building Complete Decks from Pokemon's Newest ETB | Pokemon TCG Challenge Video

one of the first products many Pokemon Trading Card Game fans purchase is an Elite Trainer Box an Elite Trainer Box or ETB has everything you need to start playing the Pokémon TCG including dice damage counters sleeves and then of course the booster packs myself a Pokémon TCG commentator and aul GG one of the game's very best players asked ourselves one question could you build a complete Pokémon TCG deck using only the contents of this product now with just nine booster packs to work with these decks will be far from competitive but for the cost it can be a fun introduction to the gameplay and deck building aspect of the Pokemon TCG the rules for this challenge are simple we can only use the items included in our individual Elite Trainer Box this includes the sleeves the dice and even the Basic Energy cards we each build a 60 card deck and then battle to see who comes out on top these boxes were sent to us curtesy of the Pokémon company International to help celebrate this new set's release palan Fates is a perfect set to try this experiment with because it is packed with super strong trainer cards trainers are a very important part of a Pokémon TCG deck and most competitive decks will usually commit about half of their card choices to trainers this set contains tons of amazing reprints such as Nest ball Ultra Ball professor's research and iono in addition to the products used in this video we also have some others to give away we'll be selecting a winner from the comment section of this video to receive one paldan Fates Elite Trainer Box all you have to do is leave a comment down below for your chance to win now join us as we battle it out to see who has the better poles and who can build the better deck okay here we go breaking open my ETB and let's see what we can get so once again only going to be using everything that is contained in the ETB to make our deck including the promo and the energy but we can take all this out of the way for right now cuz the only thing we need to be concerned with right now is the booster packs I honestly don't know everything that's in this set so I don't even know what I'm really looking for here um let's start cracking them open see what we get uh and then we'll see if it is you know good enough to make a deck with let's find out here okay there's a roals toad scroll forer backs Clive your opponent reveals are handing you draw two cards for each supporter card you find there the new Charmeleon charm Char there's a guard v x and a roals so we are close very close how many psychic energy will we actually pull as well though is it going to be a question or how many are in the the energy pack uh going to be a big question I don't know how many get G have access to we a Kura or a rare candy I don't know if there's rare candy in this set I don't think there is let's find out Pikachu another Clive I might be relying on my opponent on chip having more draw supporters more good draw supporters than me and we got the Fortress ex I can't imagine Fortress ex is very good to be honest hopefully it is because I have it now and we got neona draw three can't go wrong with that if it's all you got we prefer some researches in ionos but pona will do if that's all we got keep cruising along here another kowal Nest ball is going to be great of course can't go wrong with the nest ball an Executor we got another psychic Pokemon once again we can combo these with that guard Vore I don't think I haven't execute quite yet oh I did I did just pull an execute didn't I all right we got the executor we got the execute we're going psychic here almost certainly Ultra Ball that's going to be sick the Moonlight Hill combos they're giving me everything here besides a way to get the Ralts into the guard and we got that Raichu as well whenever one of your Pokemon is knocked divy damage from an attack uh from your opponent's Pokemon you may move a lighting energy from that Pokemon to this Pokemon that can hit for 180 so built in Exp share effectively on that Raichu that could be pretty good to be honest on the hunt for that curia still or rare candy if rare Candy's in the set I honestly just don't know if rare candy is in this set so I have to imagine there's CA though chco the Technical Machine crisis punch 200 damage for three colors energy if your opponent has one prize card remaining could be pretty good I don't know how I'm quite how I'm going to quite make it work but hey we got one of the whatever this style of card is called you got me but we got one of them uh paldan student search your deck for a Pokemon that doesn't have a rule box of and put your hand for each palan student to not include your just may search for an additional Pokemon in this way then shuffle your deck hey that's not bad Pokemon search and then we got the the heat rodm with the heat tackle for 100 damage that's actually also not bad as well all right four packs left where is the CUA is the question where's that CUA at I need the C the guard VX is there more palan student that's pretty good got the palan student combo there another Ultra Ball as well we have a ton of Pokemon search do we have Pokemon worth searching for is now going to be the question we got the undersea tunnel wug Trio special art or whatever you call it and then the golden go as well there there's that Charmander we have the Charmeleon maybe we get the Charizard another neona draw power is good another Charmeleon cam a rare candy that can get us to our guard for of course there not and another pan student we are going to be able to find all of our Pokémon so easily we have so much Pokémon search yeah we need a little bit more powerful of Pokémon but this psychic build has come together cier would still be great though I would not be against finding a Kura here to be honest I would I would definitely like a CUA here we go one more time some more psychic Pokemon those could all combo well there's the CUA and it is the special rare whatever you call it we got the klia we can get to our GV now we are really cooking here let's see if we can put together some last couple psychic attackers probably to go with our Guard V line here or hey I wouldn't mind a Charizard X to go with the Charmander and charm alens a rare candy off the start is a great sign um but what else are we going to have here some more psychic Pokemon the artison to help us find our Ro it's going to be bad either a professor's research and an attakus shuffle your hand into your neck deck then draw seven cards you only use this card if your opponent's active Pokemon is poisoned oh this thing sucks it's just like I have a research though we're good research right handy yeah we're going all in on this guard for thing here I think I think we have just enough pieces to make it work uh I think that's what I'm be looking to try and pull off most definitely all right my turn to open up the paldan fates Elite Trainer Box I'm not really sure how good this is going to be nine packs is not a lot of work with really hoping that I get something decent and that it's very energy efficient and can attack quickly that's my game plan so the first thing that is in here that I can potentially utilize is this mimikyu with Safeguard if I think aul got a lot of EX Pokémon this could be decent hopefully get something that synergizes well with each other definitely hoping for some good trainer cards we'll see if I can make it work natu if we got a zatu that wouldn't be bad the moonlit Hill the stadium we've all been waiting for gevard charet and houndstone not feeling great about this one so far but the houndstone gevard I I do at least have an evolution line I guess sure maybe don't feel great about that hopefully something a little better ooh a veroom shiny okay nice A little shiny put up to two Basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand then I've got the cyar here flip a coin if heads during your opponent's next turn prevent all damage from an effects of attacks done to this Pokemon so maybe I I could be relying on some coin flips we'll have to see though but yeah we got our first little shiny not too bad hopefully I'll be able to piece something together that lets me complete like a very powerful stage two or potentially just a good Basic Pokemon that doesn't need too much to function on its own another gevard oh gosh are we going that route attakus iono that's great another cycl lasar of course and I do get the zatu okay that could be decent draw Power um doesn't really synergize well with my cyar uh does synergize I guess with gevard am I going with a psychic deck oh gosh this is not feeling great already okay a Ral Pho CLIA oh please give me a gardivoir oh it's an Alakazam it is a shiny full art Alakazam though that is beautiful I don't think I've got an Abra or a Kadabra though oh yikes a Gengar I do get a nest ball so that's something yeah right now it's looking like that one houndstone is going to have to carry me now I'm really hoping for an Abra and a cadabra I guess let's see it abracadabra alakazam a gimme ghoul okay sure the Clive another curia a shiny Voltorb a neona and a maasti okay so sure shiny Voltorb why not I don't think I've seen an electrode not feeling great about this I'm past the halfway point I don't feel like I've got a good direction or really much of anything going on the mime Junior honestly this could be okay your opponent chooses an attack from one of their Pokemon in play CH use the chosen attack as this attack maybe if aul only has really strong attacks in play that could sneak in an attack for me and do something decent a Moonlight Hill a cotney paldan student and O Okay Okay the great Tusk ex a strong Basic Pokemon that I can definitely work with here quaking demolition once at the end of the turn this Pokemon is in the active spot you must discard the top five cards of your deck um that's not really good 260 is a lot of damage I can use it multiple turns in a row but can I use it before I deck out that is the question what if I made a deck that was just great Tusk and like all my energy cards hopefully I get enough energy cards as well to work with that's a another factor to this nimona oh I see something back there rare candy I got a Charmander Okay okay something good the technical ma crisis punch honestly might be using that the nimona backpack I will probably be playing that okay and the Esra ex all right honestly I could see myself definitely playing this one energy probably going to be hitting pretty decently I'm pretty sure I have a fiddle or two in there um I think we've got something to work with at least I don't think it's necessarily great but I've got at least a starting point something to work with got a paldan student here wbat another attakus donfan another ponus backpack chco and a mimikyu I think I'm going with just a psychic deck that's what it's feeling like uh the asath does synergize with that so that'll work I guess and last pack here last shot for some help something good another natu a dash bun another Nest ball Charmeleon AR biva palan okay that's pretty sweet uh one of my favorite artworks probably in the whole set but I don't think I got a fisen I don't think I got a dollve or small oh this is just an absolute disaster to be honest my deck is going to look probably pretty terrible um okay yeah but here we are we'll see what I can make work these are these really my only two EXs I think they are oh no I did get the Alakazam but no Kadabra no Abra oh man this is the classic Pokemon problem that's why it's hard to do videos like this with the Pokemon TCG cuz sometimes your good card you just like can't utilize it so yeah goodbye to Al Kazam and hello great Tusk ex and ESP pathra here we are all right here is my deck from my ETB I got a lot going on here so we'll start with the energy unfortunately I only have five psychics but the majority of my attackers are psychic because I did get a gardi ex line a 111 guardi ex so I did include the mimikyu promo as well guard is going to be by far my most powerful Pokemon I'm going to be trying to set up here but only five second energy unfortunately so I had to fill it out with some other stuff we got a 2 two prime mape here for the fighting one fighting energy for 70 damage does point to itself that's not bad and even the Mankey is hitting for 30 uh and then 10 to itself so got a a lot of early aggressive attackers here actually so we got seven fighting energy for the prime AE six lightning here for the 11 one Raichu has a built-in Exp share on its ability so when my active Pokemon gets knocked out if has lightning energy I can move it to the Raichu and then for lightning lightning col we do 180 I got a 2 two mouse hold in here the Tanda Mouse has collect for two and then the Mouse holding actually for two two cess energy do 70 damage for each of your mousehold in play so if we get turn two mouse hold can be hitting for 70 if we somehow get the two two mouse hold out turn two could be hitting for 140 that's pretty unlikely um I got the SWAT lineing here once again another efficient attacker one I hit him for 30 and they're confused but if they get Tails they would take six damage counters one one executor here for a little bit more of a l game attacker to go along with my guardi two psychic and a CIS for 160 couple of den in here with the minor Aaron running attack for a psychic energy search your deck for two Basic Energy cards so out the deck find the Lightnings for the Raichu the fightings for the primape stuff like that and then you can actually hit for 50 and run to the bench I could run to the mimiku or just get it out of there and save it for later and then I have a two three doc buun line I wasn't sure if I should do a 22 or 23 I ended up on a 23 hopefully Chip's playing some fire Pokemon but psychic double colors for 100 why not I guess you know it works with guardi so that's kind of the combo I was going for there for my supporters Pokemon search cards Two ultra and one Nest that's decent I think for the supporters I got three p and student which says you can search your deck for one non rule box Pokemon from your deck but for each P and student in your discard pile you can search your deck for one more so theere is the third paladan student that I play could search for three non rule box Pokemon of course they can't find the guard War but hopefully the ultrawall can do that for us one professor's research two Clive your opponent reveals are handy you draw two cards for each supporter you find there two candy just for the guard v x and artison for some Basics the Moonlight Hill to heal with our psychic energy new stadium card coming out actually one certain each player turn that player May discard a basic psychic energy from their hand and if they do they heal 30 damage from each of their Pokemon not just their psychic Pokemon but all their Pokemon so pretty cool to combo with the guard War ex and then I got the one Technical Machine crisis punch for triple colorless energy 280 damage you can only use this attack though if yourone has one prize card remaining so what I'm envisioning is I hit and run with Den at some point to do 50 damage and then the den just stays on the bench the rest of the game and then chip goes down to one prize card and I go attach energy crisis punch to the den to one hit K.O I don't like a big EX Pokemon we'll see if it happens that's what I'm envisioning my head happening in one of our matches who knows if will actually happen yeah it's really easy to fit everything that you get in the ETB into a deck to be honest we're making 60 card decks like this so uh yeah I'm excited to see what chip got and excited to see how the matches play out and uh here is my deck and all of its Glory 27 Basic Energy um not much else to say we're just working with what we got um the ESP pathra and the great Tusk are my EXs I thought about just doing great Tusk in like 59 energies but I don't think that maths out correctly for me to like actually win the game I think I would Teck out before I one um so yeah game plan establish zatu draw cards and then get to Great Tusk eventually annihilate can be okay it does a lot of damage for one energy um that's plan plan a establish zatu Plan B power upgrade Tusk plan C ESP pathra and Plan D is start mimikyu and turn two do 70 and hope that's enough for me to win the game um that is the game plan I did get this crisis punch which could come up at the end of the game to be honest I could just come in and do a bunch of damage um and I am playing two copies of the cyar that I pulled it does 100 damage for three energy and it requires a grass dark and colorless so not very energy efficient but if I flip heads I'm immune to attacks so that might be my best chance to win to be honest is just flipping a bunch of heads so that's where we're at I did get three of the pald student which is cool I think that'll help me get my Pokemon lineup set up and um yeah I got two neona and tona's backpack so that's that is synergy you know um here's what we're working with hopefully aul's deck looks very similar and is not much better um also do got to give a little shout out to the grapple loock slow acting sinope something like that 30 damage at the end of your opponent's next turn the defending Pokemon will be knocked out so I think it's going to be a decent shot that that just gets me a prize if I can establish it so yeah here we are this is my deck we will see what happens in this battle okay aul how do you feel about your deck that you've constructed here from a Elite Trainer Box only nine packs it actually seems like uh I mean not good but like I have stuff you know I got like enough I feel like I got enough stuff to work with it's maybe a little bit more the set than anything this would be harder to do with a main set release sure but yeah the palan fate set is a you know like a reprint set um there's like a lot of good cards a lot of the cards are like good gameplay card average power level for sure yeah you want heads or tails I'll take heads the flip is Tails so I will uh I will go first that sounds good I think I would have done the same to be honest energy attachments seem pretty important I don't play that many energy don't worry all right as all good luck oh you're weak to fighting you have 30 HP but that collect okay I'll draw for turn let him live do you have a fighting energy though I've got a cyoar which I'll put onto my b bench then I've got a natu I've got a masi I'll put down and I'll attach a grass energy for turn to my cyoar and with that I will pass all right I'll draw for turn here okay that add some options you have what three cards in hand I've got three cards in my hand all right I'm going to start with that palan student search my deck for a non rule box Pokemon you got the full art get the full art it's pretty nice I'm going to go with a Ralts getting a Ralts okay gra a rals you basically just used your palan student supporter as a nest ball yeah well I mean if I had if I had a nest ball I would have also included that in the deck chip you didn't get a nest ball no I didn't get one Nest ball okay okay all right Ben roals I will then attach to my tandem Mouse okay that's low low HP but plenty of draw Power draw power and I also bench a Pikachu and then I will use the collect on the Tatum Mouse to draw two cards that's two cards that's that's a good amount of cards not B all right I'll draw for turn oo and with my draw for turn I'll attach a basic fighting energy my God to the clobbopus sound like this stand the mouse which faint does say this attack's damage isn't affected by resistance it is affected by weakness 20 damage times two that's 40 to knock out the tandem Mouse and take my first prize card that's unfortunate goodbye Mouse it's going to make things interesting I'm going set up Ralts which does have fighting resistance oh wait turn and you didn't play a supporter last turn so I don't think you have one but maybe you got off your PR I'm going to Clive look at my opponent's hand and then if you have a supporter in hand I draw two cards for each supporter for each supporter I have in my hand yeah you get two cards I was pretty sure you have zero cuz you didn't play one last I've got zero supporters in my hand your hand's not good I've got a hunter a Gengar a basic psychic energy and an amona backpack all right well Clive did not cut it there I'm going to go ahead and attach a psychic to my active and pass all right oh I am weak to psychic yeah it's not ideal okay I'll draw for turn all right that's something that's something I will use a nest ball search my deck for a basic Pokemon and put it onto my bench I was really hoping that tandem M would have gone further to be honest that was unfortunate you saw my hand I had the rest of the squad so I think I might as well get Gastly the gengar's coming and then I'm going to take my energy and for turn I will attach to cyar and aul I will pass you're going do 20 damage no cuz I would do zero damage you resist fighting I'll use faint 20 damage and it's not affected by resistance so it does 20 damage okay 20 damage to the world I'll draw for turn hey student number two and with palan student number two that means for each pan student in my discard pile I also get deser de for another non rule box I feel like you did your Pokemon card your best anime card game player impression there and it did it did not hit home it was super effective no no and off the pan student I will grab a prime ape and a Mankey oh okay I'll bench the Mankey attach a fighting energy and pass I'll drop a turn I'll evolve my Gastly into a Haunter and then I will attach see part of me wants to keep this psychic energy cuz if I exu drawn cards draw cards but but I need to attach energy so I'm going to attach an energy for turn to my Haunter and then I'm GNA just p uh faint faint I'm going to faint for 20 okay I'll draw for turn all right I will evolve to the primate Retreat oh boy and raging punch okay raging punch for the the K when I do 20 myself okay clavus goes down we're tied on prizes officially I'm going to just promote the Mas and I'll draw for turn that was a pretty good top deck I will evolve my hunter into Gengar and then using gengar's night gate ability once during my turn I will switch my active Pokemon with one of my bench Pokemon to go into the cyar attach a Darkness energy for the turn I'm going to use acceleration drive for 100 damage and then I get to flip a coin if heads during your opponent's next turn prevent all damage from and effects of attacks done to this Pokemon so basically if I flip heads you can't do anything to me all right that's a Tails but I still do 100 damage take a knockout and draw a prize card all right I will promote the Raichu and draw for turn all right I'll bench Mankey bench well I should probably this first did you hit a supporter off your prize card Clyde take a look at my opponent's hand for each a supporter they have in the hand I draw two cards I did get a supporter the pald student so you get to draw two cards all right this might save me here one two nope all right I will play an S ball though okay okay and we're going to go ahead and grab why does that thing hit for 100 damage like none of my Pokemon surviv that did you pull any of these no I don't think so I maybe did to be honest you overlooked the cyoar I did Overlook the cyar maybe just cuz I looked at his energy cost I was like it's not for me I'll go ahead and get the woat okay oh all right not the woat I'll go ahead and get I'll go ahead and get the execute my bench going is it a hypnosis angle mhm I that would would be very good cuz you have the Gengar so but I've got answers for all your tricks I know I'll bench the mimik you the promo got the promo it's a shiny and pass okay I will draw for turn that was a pretty good draw honestly I want want to play the paldan student to search my deck for a Pokemon that does not have a rule box just one cuz that is the only paldan student I have played and I'll grab the zatu and I will evolve my natu into zatu can you guess what I drew for turn psychic energy oh he's a smart one honestly the pan student engine doesn't seem terrible like four proba in students in a real deck in a real deck yeah you have Ultra Ball yeah but like not having to be able to search two Pokemon without Ultra balling away four cards seems pretty good but if you Ultra Ball away two palan students play another palan students three Pokemon like that would be pretty good but you can't get rule boox Pokemon so you can't get like yeah Charizard X that's probably why it's not good okay and then I'll use zat's Clairvoyant sense to attach a psychic energy from my hand to one of my Pokemon and if I do I draw two cards so I'll attach the mat drift and draw two cards one two you know what we'll take it attach an energy for turn to the zatu and then I'll acceleration drive for 100 and I'll flip a coin and it is heads so I am immune to all your shenanigans next turn is old all right 100 damage I need go top deck here drop I'm going to go and attach this lightning energy over to the execute and I'll pass okay I'll draw for turn I'll play the paldan student to search my deck for a Pokémon and since it is number two I get to get two Pokémon and put them in my hand and off the student I'll grab a maasti and a cyoar another one I think we'll start working on number two oh my gosh I'll bench the cyar and then I'll use Clairvoyant sense to attach the psychic energy to the cyar and draw two cards one two I'll evolve masf into my bosti I'll just use acceleration drive for 100 damage and flip a coin and it is Tails so you can do stuff to me next turn well I guess I'm just going to go ahead and set up a mimikyu my only play here involves me like top decking not that I will uh bu of woat P the prime ape and pass I'll draw for turn I'll use Clairvoyant sense to attach a psychic energy to zatu and draw two cards the alt has me scared of a larger Pokemon so I'm going to put a Darkness energy on my boss stiff and I'll just use acceleration drive for 100 and it is heads so I'm immune to all your shenanigans up woat and draw for turn bench of Pho and pass wow High tier gameplay draw for turn I'll attach a Darkness energy for turn to the cyar and I'll use acceleration drive it's heads you can't damage me oh we were having a good game it fell apart off for turn and well yeah I got nothing on this one that's it I'll pass that's it he says I'll draw for turn oh let me see what you got going on [Laughter] Clive you didn't even want to a fall no F's getting in there oh no well yeah with that I'll acceleration drive for my last prize GG is all good games it felt like we were going to have a good game to start with yeah and then I just kept drawing doc one you like drew them back to back to back I had a couple of my open hand I was I feel like I maybe had one in the open hand and like Dre I didn't even you didn't even see my like good PS I had a asthra ex yeah only one fiddle and I also had a great Tusk ex yeah I had the guardi ex in there you did have the MOSI but I was like hoping I get out early enough to like oh yeah survive a hit or to but not before I establish them yeah not the case and then I did have the exeutive 2 which is another heavy hitter and then you have like kind of the early games with the prime apes or the mouse hold can hit for 70 with two energy draw two to start with and get into the mouse hold you can do more than that right if you get both of them in play yeah I do have a two two line but it's not meant to be definitely a lack of early game Draw support but you just didn't thees were like you you just didn't see the potential that cycl lasar had that's where you I don't think I have any cyar okay okay that's where you went to Ry I think yeah I was all in on the early cliv but the early Clive when you have no supporters Clive is not cutting it yeah unfortunate well GG's buddy better luck next time

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Length: 27min 46sec (1666 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 28 2024