Stéphane Ivanoff

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13 May

Expanded fans, rejoice: Dowsing Machine is now live. dowsingmachine.com

This is a step in the right direction, because it's necessary in order to run online tournaments. However, we still need pre-Sun & Moon cards to be implemented in the game in order to play true Expanded, so I hope we'll get them soon!

Pokémon TCG Live@pokemontcglive.bsky.social

Are you prepared to send and receive a new type of challenge request? 👀 We're excited to share that, starting November 3, 2026, you'll be able to challenge friends to Expanded format matches in Pokémon TCG Live!

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its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

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@mtsw.bsky.social

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Top 4 in the Lumiose Tour finals! I hesitated between Gardevoir and Dusknoir Spread, but I was more confident I'd play Gardevoir right, and I thought I'd have more fun! It was a good call into various decks I expected people to play vs Regidrago (like Shadow Rider).

Also, I personally would like to thank @dragonshield.bsky.social for the sleeves that I use for all my Expanded decks!

I'll post a recap of the event on Dowsing Machine (and update the deck catalogue!) at some point during the week!

The Drago matchup itself is not easy but definitely ok, unfortunately I got destroyed in top 4. We played open decklists and my opponent's decklist was oriented towards going 1st so I chose to go first both games, but drew poorly and got hit with turn 1 Dragon Laser twice. I probably overthought it.

In any case I had a lot of fun and it was great to have people coming from all over the country to play Expanded. Huge thanks to Tofopolis for agreeing to host the tournament at the last minute, and congrats to Antoine "vegetarsal" Fichefet on the win!

The Expanded stream is back for round 5 with Regidrago vs Dragon Lugia!

Stéphane Ivanoff@lubyllule.bsky.social

The Lumiose Tour final event is underway! 17 players who qualified in Expanded events in France this summer are gathered for a final event to find out who is this year's Expanded champion. Round 1 is finishing and there will be a stream starting next round!

Round 4 is ongoing on stream, with Antoine F on Regidrago vs Esteban M on Lightning Lugia!

(There's an issue with the wifi but we should be back for round 5)

youtube.comCircuit Illumis GRANDE FINALE! EXPANDED!YouTube video by Fab&Nofoume

www.youtube.com/live/SiQ47_V... I'll be on stream in round 2!

We're back after lunch break and round 3 on stream will feature last year's winner Arsène!

In addition to being relevant in Standard, this card is going to be extremely good in Expanded! Shadow Rider and Gardevoir are already very good decks and now they get another excellent tech for Regidrago, which is also relevant against other Special Energy decks.

Toine Lay@toinelay.bsky.social

Mega Absol Z ex! PPC - Crimson Fear 160 During your opponent's next turn, they can't play any Stadium cards or attach any Special Energy from their hand.

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Flygon GF - Desert Wind 90 You may choose 2 Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokémon and shuffle them into your opponent's deck. GFC - Speed Flight 150

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Fight Arena (Stadium) Once during each players' turn, that player may heal 20 damage from each of their Pokémon that don't have a Rule Box.

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Korrina's Earnestness (Supporter) During this turn, attacks used by your Mega Evolution Pokémon deal 20 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon for each Prize card your opponent has alreasy taken.

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Pawmot Ability: One-Two Punch This Pokémon may use attacks twice. If the first attack Knocks Out your opponent’s Active Pokémon, you may attack again after your opponent chooses a new Active Pokémon. LL - Mach Bolt 100

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Mega Garchomp Z ex! WF - Dragon Avenger 30x This attack does 30 damage for each Dragon Pokémon in your discard pile. WFC - Sonic Edge 240 This attack’s damage isn’t affected by any effects on your opponent’s Active Pokémon.

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Mega Absol Z ex! PPC - Crimson Fear 160 During your opponent's next turn, they can't play any Stadium cards or attach any Special Energy from their hand.

After some deliberation, I've decided not to attend Gdansk regionals in two weeks, both because I need some time after my poor performance in Nice, and for other personal reasons (nothing bad, no worries). I'll use the next four weeks to prepare for Delta Reign format (LAIC + Stuttgart).

@jimmylambourion.bsky.social

But before that, next weekend is the finals of the Lumiose Tour, the French grassroots Expanded circuit! Most of the 21 players who qualified over various events, plus last year's champion, this summer will be attending for cool prizes and bragging rights. I can't wait :)

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Top 256 again at Nice regionals 2026 with Festival Lead ! Had a bit of a rough start where I did some pretty bad plays, but I was able to get back up afterwards Onward to Gdansk !

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Jimmy Lambourion

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I'm posting very late, but top 256 at Frankfurt regionals with Festival Lead ! I was very happy with my plays overall this event, too bad for the R1 et R7 double bricks It's nice to start the new Season this way !

Heartbreaking to see Maxime lose in the finals after such an insane run (and missing on the VGC+TCG double FR win) but it was a really fun event!

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82nd/2336 in the Nice Regionals! I've been in a bit of a slump at the start of this season, and @lubyllule.bsky.social recommended I just take it easy, play something fun, and touch grass. So I did just that! 🫒🍃 This is the exact winning list from Recife, and every matchup was new for me +80CP! 🇸🇬

I did terribly at Nice (playing Slowking). You know what that means...

Meta share for Lille (doing @play.pokemon.com's job, you're welcome). Two questions: 1) What other version of Slowking is there to require the "Academy at Night" mention? 2) What's a "Hide n' Seek"

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Mega Heatran ex Gym Promo! Ability: Thick Armor If this Pokémon has full HP, it takes 60 less damage from your opponent's Pokemon's attacks. MMM - Gigantic Press 140 During your next turn, this Pokemon's Gigantic Press does 140 more damage.

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Morgan Johnson

@poormojo.bsky.social

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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@bouletcorp.bsky.social

English-speaking followers! WAIT! *STORY TIME* A few years ago, I met a producer who asked me if I was tempted by the idea of writing for TV, and offered to talk about it around a drink. I spent the whole week thinking about it, took some notes, played a thousand scenes in my head…

Don't let Riley McKay pass a turn instead of attacking or he *will* win the game

There's this "9 cards that made me" template going around on social media that people seem to enjoy, so here are mine!

7. Stand-in for the Inteleon engine, which I loved and used in various decks for several strong results, notably winning Lille 2022 8. Card whose design I love. Won Bochum 2020 with it 9. Stand-in for old Gardevoir ex decks, most notably the NAIC 2024 version. 3rd "discard 1 draw 2" in the list!

"Wait, Drizzile and Green's Exploration are not in chronological order, they should be switched around" No, this was obviously done on purpose to give a symmetrical pattern to the Water Pokémon, and is not at all a mistake I just noticed and don't care about fixing.

There's this "9 cards that made me" template going around on social media that people seem to enjoy, so here are mine!

1. The deck I played for most of my first competitive season (2010-11) 2. My first victory at an international competition (Prague Cup 2011, 135 players, which was big at the time), where I felt my hard work on a deck had paid off 3. My on-and-off obsession, 2012-2014 (and top 8 ECC 2014)

4. Card people didn't notice that I used to win my first Expanded tournament (Arena Cup Salzburg, 2015) 5. I won two ICs with this card and became internationally recognized 6. Star of my NAIC 2019 deck, I kept having to explain how good it was. Almost got a Dewgong tattoo because of it

Won my first League Cup of the season. Picked up a Japanese decklist yesterday evening, played 0 games with it, it worked out! 217/1000

The Frankfurt post-event survey sent by TPCI has a question about how we would like incomplete TCG games to be resolved, and I'm going crazy because I don't understand the difference between options 1 and 2. Please note that this is about resolving a *Game*, not a *Match*.

By the way, the Pokémon TCG Tournament Handbook uses this table to explain what the result of a bo3 is. There is no mention of individual games being draws or double losses.

To make it even more confusing, the question is asked in a very formal way, using caps for official terms like Game and Match. But then option 1 says "Current Match Resolution", when the question and all the other answers are about resolving a Game, not a Match. Is it a mistake?