Blissey, A Tough Egg to Crack

Special Thanks to PokéBeach for the image.

Blissey is invading the nation. The Pokémon TCG community is currently seeing a huge mass of players using Blissey as their primary Pokémon. There are slight variations thou, but the main strategy is to power-up its Happy Chance attack.

Zapped Egg is a variation of the Blissey deck having Raichu MT as its energy engine. Its main strategy is setup Raichu to energize Blissey until being KOed. When Blissey has the insane number of energies, off it goes to KO anyone in its way. Having Trainers to speed up setup and vast amount of Lightning and Boost energies, Blissey's attack is limitless.

Another Blissey variation is called Grass Time which includes Celebi MT and Exeggutor MT. Its starter Pokémon, Celebi can use Sprouting in the early game to stall Grass energies. Then, in the later part of the game, Celebi can also use Leaf Tornado to manipulate energies to either Blissey or Exeggutor. Its secondary attacker, Exeggutor can also attack using insane amount of energy and stall up to two Grass energies to your Pokémon. This deck revolves around this synergy, playing energies and making them stay by retreating and manipulating them. Since it needs a lot of retreating, just in case the going gets tough, it is packed with Trainers such as Warp Point, Switch and Super Scoop Up.

The third variation of Blissey is the BlissCatty. It is composed of Delcatty PK and Sableye CG. The deck makes use of the added effect of Blissey's Happy Chance attack that fetches a basic energy card from the Discard Pile. While Delcatty can discard an energy to draw three cards and Sableye can see the top card of your deck and discard it if you want, Blissey can use those discarded energies to power up its own attack all at once. It has the basic Trainer line with a slight twist in the Energy line adding Holon Energy WP and Holon Energy FF with Psychic and Fire to Retreat and surpass Weakness.

Other variations are really limitless. Some are using it with Magneton PK that shares its energy greed attack. Some are using Lucario for Balance. Some are even using it with Manectric MT and Crobat MT! The possibilities are endless.

Since Blissey can stand on its own, any card added with it to attain its full potential will make any deck victorious! Truly, Blissey is a tough egg to crack.

TCG at its Best

Special thanks to PokéBeach and PokéGym for the images.

Today TCG Players all over the world are having trouble on having their Decks tuned up for the HP-On Modified format. It requires cards that will cover all EX expansion from Holon Phantoms to Power Keepers and DP expansions from the base Diamond and Pearl up to the future releases.

Since there are modifications in the weakness and resistance of Pokémon on DP expansion, most of the trainers are using DP Pokémon as their new prime attackers. This really means "Bye bye Delta Species, reign of Sinnoh Pokémon start!" New Pokémon Lv. X and powerful PokéPowers and PokéBodies, what more can you ask for!

Trainer line haven't changed a bit, leaving the legendary Holon Engine along the way. Since EX Delta Species expansion is rotated out, many of the powerful trainers vanished. But again, DP expansions is the "Start of Something New" in Pokémon TCG. One of the greatest addition is the so-called Holon Farmer reincarnation, Night Maintenance from DP-MT. (See the Picture)

Energy line is still solid. With the addition of new basic energies, Metal and Dark, the game play is now more enjoyable. We are hoping for more special energies. (A special Psychic Energy? Hmm... is that possible?)

As a summary, Pokémon TCG is becoming to be bigger and better. Having all the new addition and all new gameplay it is a good experience for both beginners and professional.

My 8 Random Facts

I was tagged by jhay to do this 8 random facts about me. The rules are quite simple;

1. you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you then at
   the end, tag 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going. Each blogger must
   post these rules first.
   
2. Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, a blogger needs to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
   
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

My 8 Random Facts:

1. I associate numbers with Pokémon! *Wahaha* I often do this when memorizing number codes and others... like Blastoise,Sandshrew,.... is 0927... (Wierd!)
2. I can eat two double-sized Hawaiian Pizza! I love Hawaiian Pizza a lot.
3. I love codes! My colleagues call me Code Master for many reasons: I use Morse Codes at my messages, I use the Pokémon Unown as Letters, I memorized Naruto's Hand Seals and more! (Huh? Tao ba ako?)
   
4. I'm a Computer Geek! I already won lots of computer related events such as Quiz bees, Graphic arts, Web programming and similar. (Genius? Hindi, pakialamero lang ng computer ng may computer, yun, natuto tuloy...)
5. I can see those you can't see! I Have this weird eye of mine that can gradually see others' aura and the spooky part is... I can see spirits and lost souls! (Scary but now I used to it.)
6. I'm Kid inside a Matured Boy. (Huh?!) I often wind up over animé and my beloved Pokémon but in class, I'm a well respected Academic Scholar. (Magmayabang ba naman?!)
7. I can't sleep without a blanket! even in the hottest nights I'm with my blanket, swear!
8. I eat only the middle part of the rice from the cooker! I don't know why but my tendency is to eat only that part.

What a weird person, you may react but that's me! *Wahaha!*
Now, I'll be tagging Kamae, Ron, Kev, Kuya Micael, Patrick, Anjo, Jesmon and Ate Konrei

Pokémon TCG Diamond and Pearl: Mysterious Treasures

The arrival of the next DP expansion, Mysterious Treasures, is really making noise. It features additional 120 cards and 3 new Pokémon Lv. X such as Lucario, Magmortar and Electivire. Its Theme Decks, Armor Fortress and Skull Charge are based on the two fossils of Sinnoh. It also houses the Psychic Trio, Azleaf, Mespirit and Uxie, that has devastating prowess when played together.

Due to the late release of the first Diamond and Pearl set, Mysterious Treasures may also take time before it reaches Philippines. But with all this new and powerful cards, I guess, it's worth waiting for.

The Ultimate Dream

I do believe that I have the weirdest dream of all. I just wanted to be an International Icon.

To do so, I wanted to finish my Engineering Course, pass the Board Examinations and practice my profession. After that, I wanted to take some units to teach. I really wanted to share my knowledge to others. Then, when everything is stable, I wanted to have my own business, maybe some franchise like Neutral Grounds or Netopia. And upon doing all these, I wanted to go to the World Championships to compete.

All these I wanted to be. May God permit me to do so...

Being an Engineering Student

Being an engineering student isn't that easy at all. Vast Math related subjects ranging from College Algebra to Calculus. Also, being a scholar at the same time sometimes really makes me faint inside. Its a must to have grades no lower that 2.0 (87-89) or else, I'll be a plain paying student as the others are. Well, my institution won't give free tuition fees, miscellaneous fees and Php 1000 allowance per month for nothing. We scholars must at least be at the Dean's List.

Thank God at this point of time I'm still a full scholar. I'm a Dean's Lister last two semesters, and still hoping to be one this whole second year.

Sorry, if I really can't update this blog and Shadow Point regularly. But still, I can really budget everything up.

For those unposted articles stocked in my USB Drive, please wait for the right time. you'll be posted in a while when I make things stable.