Haven't seen it posted on Bluesky yet, so for the Pokémon TCG players here: Starting at EUIC, we are back to time+3 turns (instead of time+1 as implemented this season), but with a time limit of 15 minutes (instead of 10). Source: www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-n...

9-4-1 for top 128 at Birmingham regionals. Played same 60 as Ilan who made top 8 (and also trounced me in round 12), so no regrets about the decklist. Could have played slightly better but I feel like most of my losses were out of my control. It's probably time to move on to a new deck!

Congratulations to Ethan Wilde, your 2026 #PokemonTCG Birmingham Regional Champion! 🏆

the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with “this was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcement” knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

The plan worked so far, 6-2-1 after day 1!

New strategy: play Expanded on Friday because I'll be busy on Sunday 😎

This is the future of pricing. Many grocery stores have been doing this, @ddayen.bsky.social has good reporting on this phenomenon/crime.

Disapppinting performance for the second regionals in a row, but I had fun in Toronto! I got to see some people I hadn't seen in a long time and that made the trip worth it. Now hopefully I can make day 2 again in Birmingham!

Congratulations to Giovanny Sasso, your 2026 #PokemonTCG Toronto Regional Champion! 🏆

What an insane weekend. Top 8 at Toronto regionals with Dragapult Dusknoir 😵‍💫😍🤩🤯

Sunday of Regionals so you know what that means (It means Expanded)

All four TPCI regions are represented in top cut of Toronto regionals! Japan was close but Yoshiyuki Arai lost his win and in against Henry Chao. Good luck to @katyptcg.bsky.social, the last European player in contention!

So in Toronto, after day 1, four of the 12 players at 8-1 or better were women (and that's despite arguably the best female played in the world casting rather than playing this weekend), and now two of them are playing on table 1! I think that's pretty cool.

Good morning from Toronto! Starting the day 1-0 after a close win. Hope I can keep this up!

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

Energy Swatter (Item) Look at your opponent's hand and choose an Energy card you find there. Your opponent puts that card at the bottom of their deck.

Aromatisse Ability: Aroma Gathering Once during your turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 Basic Psychic Energy, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your deck. PC - Draining Kiss 50 Heal 30 damage from this Pokémon.

www.pokemon-card.com/info/005353.... Medicham V will be banned in Expanded in Japan, effective on February 20. TPCI's ban list usually follows Japan's so I'm expecting a similar announcement soon.

This seems pretty good actually

Rosa's Encouragement (Supporter) You can play this card only if you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent. Attach up to 2 Basic Energy from your discard pile to 1 of your Stage 2 Pokémon.

Yveltal ex DDC - Destructive Soul All of your opponent's Pokémon that have 50 HP or less remaining are now Knocked Out. DDC - Dark Strike 210 During your next turn, this Pokémon can't use Dark Strike.

Mega Clefable ex! Ability: Moonlight Wings Prevent all effects of your opponent's Abilities done to this Pokémon. PP - Moon Launch 120+ You may discard up to 4 Energy cards from your hand. This attack does 40 more damage for each card discarded this way.

Doublade CC - Sword Stash 60x You may reveal any number of Honedge, Doublade and Aegislash from your hand. This attack does 60 damage for each card you revealed this way.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

I wanted to post the winner's deck picture in the first post of the thread but I forgot, so here it is!

A 200 player Expanded tournament was just held in Tokyo this weekend! If you were wondering what the meta looks like today, the top 8 decklists are included below. The short version: yes, Regidrago is still the most popular deck. However, the deck that won was Gardevoir, featuring two Mega Gardy!

So many cute Colorless Pokemon get powerful abilities, when will it be Furret's turn? 😭

Decidueye ex! Ability: Eye of the Sniper If your opponent has exactly 4 cards in hand, ignore all Colorless Energy in the cost of attacks used by this Pokémon. GCCC - Crushing Arrow 240 Discard an Energy from your opponent's Active Pokémon.

Posted on the other site by Grant Manley He put together a comprehensive matchup guide for the current standard format and it's all free to access currently tcgmasterguide.com

Expanded Deck of the Month #49: Mega Absol / Garbodor (Each month, a thread on a new Expanded deck) Historically, many top tier Expanded decks have used a mix of speed and disruption. This new archetype uses this exact formula: could it be a new top tier contender? Thread ⬇️ (1/9)

2026 commence très fort avec l'enterrement définitif du droit international.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

I know everyone is pointing it out but I do think it is absolutely reckless editorial practice to cite what an AI says, especially in a headline. Grok has no authority, nor does it have a meaningful explanation for what happened, and citing it obscures those actually responsible for literal crimes.

Happy new year! 🥳 Among my plans for 2026 is to make an actual website for Expanded, so that people can get info on the format without having to join a Discord server or read a bunch of (possibly outdated) threads on Twitter or here.

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

Mega Skarmory ex! MMC - Sonic Ripper Shuffle all Energy from this Pokémon into your deck. This attack does 220 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon.

Bubbled out of top cut at my League Cup of the year, so I'm playing... wait a minute this isn't expanded

Core Memory (Pokémon Tool) The Mega Zygarde ex this card is attached to can use the attack on this card. FFFF - Geo Buster 350 Discard all Energy from this Pokémon.

Tarragon (Supporter) Put up to 4 in any combination of Fighting Pokémon and Basic Fighting Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand.

Naveen (Supporter) Draw until you have 5 cards in hand. Before drawing, you may discard any number of cards from your hand.

Lumiose City (Stadium) Once during each player’s turn, that player may search their deck for a Basic Pokémon and put it onto their Bench. Then, that player shuffles their deck. If a player uses this effect, their turn ends.

Rock Fighting Energy (Special Energy) While attached to a Fighting Pokemon, this card provides 1 Fighting Energy. Prevent all effects of attacks used by your opponent’s Pokémon done to the Fighting Pokémon this card is attached to. (Existing effects are not removed. Damage is not an effect.)

Mega Gallade ex! F - Swift Slash 50+ If this Pokémon doesn't have any damage counters on it, this attack does 150 more damage. FFC - Marvelous Edge 240

Meowth ex! Ability: Trump Card Catch Once during your turn, when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench, you may search your deck for a Supporter card and put it into your hand. You can't use this Ability if you've already used another Ability with "Trump Card" it its name this turn.

Barbaracle, from the new M3 set (Nihil Zero)! Ability: Stone Arms Once during your turn, you may attach 1 Fighting Energy from your hand to 1 of your Fighting type Pokémon. FFC - Hammer In 80

Mega Zygarde ex!! FFF - Gaia Wave 200 This Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks during your opponent's next turn. FFFFF - Nihil Zero For each of your opponent's Pokemon, flip a coin. If heads, this attack deals 150 damage to that Pokemon.