I think that confusion rule is implying weakness and resist would not apply to that damage. At the time, the Pokemon did 20 damage to self, so Fossil Aerodactyl would take no damage, for example. Now, three damage counters are placed regardless, which is why it is worded that way now rather than "thirty damage".

That Puppetmaster Hypno is a really cool idea. Doubt it would be viable enough to build a deck around, but I love how creative it is.

@12:40 confusion originally was affected by weakness and resistance, so most of your psychic type pokemon would do 40 to itself instead of just 20. Also you should do the sheet decks.... as close as possible... as a challenge video. Its like these sheets wrote content for you to try.

"Poltergeist" Haunter + Dark Vileplume, is quite possibly the most evil deck ever... if your playing TCG2. Dark Vileplume prevents both players from using their trainer cards, and Haunters attack gets stronger for every trainer card in the opponents hand! My mate showed this strategy to me, when he was playing an English ROM of TCG, and i was like woah! Thats crazy!

These are legit so fascinating!

Love love love the MIDI Master of Puppets over Vending Hypno. Very fun.

6:56 Oh, that ain't a gimmick, it's legit nuts when you use it with Dark Vileplume

It's funny how I recognize so many of these different card's artwork from when I was younger, despite never collecting japanese cards nor playing the TCG games. Must've been from different card magazines , which always contained interesting articles and checklist of these cards

Not so much against the CPU in the GBC game, but vending Gastly and Haunter are REAL good, as the metagame for early Pokémon revolves so much around trainers. A nasty combo with Dark Vileplume. Scyther is pretty decent if you have Dodrio on the bench so it can retreat for free. Retreating lets you use the attack every turn. 40 damage for 2 energy is quite good. Small note, Kinger's 80-damage attack technically will never come out on turn 2 (barring a Blastoise) because you can't evolve a Pokémon the same turn you play it. You seemed to overlook the fact that Kadabra's Psycho Panic will do ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAMAGE if an opposing Pokémon is a Psychic type weak to Psychic. Of course, it's risky cuz Kadabra is weak to Psychic itself.

Looking forward to part 4! Imakuni? confused the heck out of me as a kid playing the first TCG, and I had no idea they actually made printed Imakuni? cards in Japan. Wild!

That Haunter card makes Gengar-Wigglytuff decks so so so good in GBC2

Love the Master of Puppets remix for Hypno :P Loving this series! So happy to have found your channel.

As always I am pretty hyped when I see you dropped a new video. This will be my good morning video together with my brakefast. Thanks❤

Yo! Been hype for this one! Can’t wait for ep 4

I'm not sure if anyone else is going to comment this, but I'd imagine with the Bill's pc card where it says all four of the trading evolution pokemons that they added Omanyte because on the last set of sheets the only pokemon that were on it are Kadabra, Graveler, Machoke, Haunter and Omanyte so I'd imagine they added Omanyte to include all of the cards you could get on the sheets to trade in.

30:00 idk why but i laughed the moment Hypno appeared with that version of Master of Puppets in the background

I'm always in an unguarded moment, so that Pikachu would destroy me.

"Primeape being resurrected, ready to enact revenge" > nervously looks at Annihilape and his max 350 Power Rage Fist Yup, sounds about right

Oh heck yea super excited for this video

That Hypno card is so cool! That's the kind of card I would have fun building a deck around.

you can tell these people had so much fun making these silly cards back in the day, hard to believe this is from the highest selling franchise of all time

Love the art on all these cards. Kinda want the whole collection now

These cards are so fun! They have so many unique ideas and touches. It's a shame that the US never really got anything like this. That Machoke card for instance is, I think, nearly singular that it deals 20 damage to any Pokemon, by saying that Weakness can be applied makes it a potentially 40 power bench hitting move. If you're lucky of course. I do always love the ghosts in the TCG, Sabrina's ghosts were also a great deal of fun. I have to say, deck ideas based on area is somewhat inspired. I would love to see someone make a mod or... well a game, perhaps, that has you taking the trip through Kanto, battling each route and Gym Leader based upon the Pokemon, events through Trainers, and relevant Stadiums. I do have to wonder why they never did an Elite Four based set for Kanto? As a kid I thought that would be the next step after Gym Heroes.

Your content is really great and the little touches (such as the Fade To Black clip, the 8-bit Master of Puppets during Hypno) make these videos "extra" 🤣 I look forward to more videos and more videos of you shaking down Matthew and Ryan for cards 🤣😂🤣😂

These cards were pretty much all good back to back. Both in effects and illustrations. Magmar and Wheezing being my favorites. Can’t wait for part4!

master of puppets when hypno came on killed me man i'm never gonna forget that XD

Psycho Panic seems pretty crazy. It does 30 at first. Then it’s multiplied by two if the enemy is Psychic. And if said Psychic enemy is weak to it. It gets doubled again! Basically 120 damage in one strike, that’s insane. (Unless it doesn’t work like that. If it doesn’t, then thank god.)

Oh I had one of those as a kid. I had no clue what set it was from.

Vending ghastly, and vending haunter actually seem designed to be used back to back Prevent trainer cards to be played then haunter smacks them for the cards that couldn’t be played

Fade to black and master of puppets jokes. Excellent work, Metallica and Pokémon are a strange combo, but an amazing one 😂

I wasn't expecting a Metallica reference in a Pokemon TCG video, let alone two. Heh. Also shocked you didn't talk about how gorgeous the art for Omanyte was.

part 3 i have been looking forward to this

Ooh. That arbok is pretty neat. If I get a chance to play tcg 2 I’ll probably try to use a grass deck with it.

I loved that you put master of puppets for the hypno card that had the move Puppet Master.

I actually got the sheets with the Pass Card and the one with the Tauros and Kangaskhan.

After Online Tekken this video is gonna be good medicine

Definitely yes for future imakuni video! Maybe also do challenge by running the gba game with imakuni deck and always playing imakuni card whenever possible

Nice

I've been waiting so fucking hype

Really loving this series! I lot of these cards I never knew about, I wish they could've gotten international releases somehow, at least we got a few, like Magmar and Scyther

Is there a way to tell the sheets apart in a single series? IE whether it is sheet 1 from series 3, sheet 2, etc

I would love to see you use the Cinnabar Mansion deck in gb2!

V jinx has Water energy for both moves

You do realize that the Kadabra attack that doubles its power does not ignore weakness, right? So it effectively does 120 damage to almost all Psychic Pokémon.

I love the idea of a ponyta in the pokemon mansion. What are you doing in there, buddy?

I want to make that deck with Hypno and Clefairy Doll xD

Poor Psyduck never getting Psychic typing outside Terastalizing. I actually used Psyduck for the first time in Violet, but I mostly just used Icy Wind and Hydro Pump on Harry. Looking forward to part 4 since the non GB 2 cards are the ones I know the least about.

The joke pokemon cards always remind me of Unglued from Magic the Gathering. I wonder if they're related.

Fossil Psyduck saw play (or at least it does in modern recreations of the time period) for its ability to shut down trainers with a 1 Psychic attack. This Gastly being able to do the same for 1 Colorless would have been even better. Weezing's Poison Mist is almost certainly intended to be used from the bench, while you have other active Pokemon actually doing the poisoning. You might be interested to know that the movie promo Mewtwo that came out right after Fossil absolutely did warp the format around itself The Deck Exchange rule is interesting, but seems kind of flawed. If one deck is significantly better than the other, or has a type advantage, then it could easily win all three rounds, resulting in a 2-2 tie. It could be fun with equally-powered decks, but you'd still end up with ties fairly frequently. Actually, the game where you use your opponent's deck is the only one that really matters. The worst that the winner of that game can do is tie the match by losing the other two games. So if this was a serious competitive format, I have a feeling that people would try to bring intentionally terrible decks. Which I suppose could be interesting in its own way. Rhydon's Mountain Break seems weirdly out of place, or at least ahead of its time. There were cards that interacted with the discard pile at the time, but I don't think they were very common. In fact, part of what made that promo Mewtwo I mentioned so powerful was that it could attach energy cards from the discard pile. I know that interactions with the discard pile would become more common, and other cards would be printed with very similar attacks, but I think those were mostly years away from this. I might also be a bit thrown off by how popular these sorts of self-mill effects have been in Yugioh lately.

If someone is selling these are they able to to tell which sheets have what pokemon?

Not sure a lot of people noticed the puppet master song by Metallica playing with hypno. Haha funny

dat master of puppets midi tho

Sup Para!

Fly can be a very aggravating move to play against in the TCG lol I had a Tranquil out and was getting really good heads flip luck and my wife had almost rage quit because of Fly lmao

I've heard something about how comments are good for the KZfaq algorithm. Also why does that Pidgeotto have bedroom eyes

36:59 why does Omastar look like Pepe the Frog

I suspect the extra rules are so underwhelming because the target audience for Pokemon is like. Eight. This isn't necessarily an excuse, at least one should have had a bit more going for it, but I understand if they intended it to introduce the idea of tournament-style play to smaller kids.

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Why would ANYONE use a tricolor energy deck.

This is somehow how I learn that that tree in kangaskhan's card is not a tree but a cloud