1 Hour of Banned Pokémon Cards To Fall Asleep to

I pretty much exclusively play Smogon singles but I stumbled across some of your vids a few days ago and wanted to say you do a great job of explaining what defines a cards power level. Makes it so even people who are completely clueless about the tcg meta like myself can easily watch and learn some really interesting history.

Seeing anything "to fall asleep to" makes me excited BUT ESPECIALLY Pokemon makes me extra happy

Damn, my deck in middle school would NEVER be allowed today

11:15 “Maxie’s hidden ball trick” Hmm…Maxie…kinda sounds like “Maxx C” (Yugioh Vietnam flashbacks)

jeansect is crazy

38:18 "The Final banned card we'll be talking about today..." 39:04 "So anyways, the next banned card is!"

I have a morbid curiosity about Lysandre's Trump Card honestly. Just on the level that it was allowed as an unrestricted card that could be grabbed by Vs Seeker. I know this was at a time before they brought back the concept of the Lost Zone, but I feel like if they made a version that was a one per deck like Ace Spec or Prism Star that goes to the Lost Zone after being played, or something similar to a GX or V-Star once per game attack or ability, I think it COULD be a semi-balanced thing (obviously strong but not reusable and therefore game breaking.

4:46 "Verizon and Jeansect"

The Unown 35-card-hand-win is the reason I always have at least one "Judge" card in my deck. Saved me very often. Even saved me from Cynthia often.

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE VIDEO I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR MY WHOLE LIFE. you have no idea how much productivity this video will give me.

The Vileplume combo went amazing in the deck I used to play back then. Machamp EX. I ran ariados, whose ability would poison both actives, including my Machamp, who could then use Crazy Hammer for 160 damage and healing his own poison before taking any damage from it. Vileplume helped protect Machamp immensely.

I have so much Yugioh brainrot I heard "Maxie's" as "Maxx C" and got jumpscared.

I started playing the pokemon TCG two weeks ago, as yugioh finally just broke me. I've really, really been enjoying it but I still have such yugioh brain that all I keep hearing for the Maxi's Hidden Ball Trick is MAXX C

1:28 That sableye art is so nice

I was playing Pokémon at the time Lysandre's Trump Card was banned in Standard. I remember ① being astonished that Expanded hadn't had any bans before ② it and Vs. Seeker being key pieces of what made my Night March deck work in Standard.

After using YouTube videos to go to sleep the past few days I know what I'm listening to this time.

i am so very happy to have this, keep up the good work!

My god, how many channels do you have!? Love your stuff my man, glad to sneak up on another channel of yours

Given the theme of many of these bans is "pull most of your deck to get the exact card you need" It is surprising that pidgeotEX made it to print. Why pull your whole deck, when you can just pull that card directly? At 280hp, there's not much that can take down pidgeotEX in one turn, at zero retreat, it is hard to draw it out and knock it out before the opponents attacker slams you hard. Path to the peak? Sorry, it's attack discards the stadium in play, and it retreats before you've gotten through that 280hp Just about the only downsides are that it is stage 2, it's attack is weak damage wise at 120, and it gives 2 prizes if knocked out I've seen most people run it with rare candies to skip stage 1, which does give a counter with devolution, but then you have to run devolution and hope they didn't use one of their last quick searches to grab a back up rare candy It's strong in most sets

Watching this to help me work, great for that, but I'm wondering where they got that cool background for the thumbnail