Milling with fire

    Where Cosmic Eclipse was the largest set we have ever seen. Sword and shield is offering a lot of different ways to build decks. I’ve always been a fan of milling and forcing your opponents to sigh in anguish. Let’s start with one of my new favorites in the sword and shield set.


This is the main card of the deck. It’s impressive, but it does have a really neat 1 energy attack. Keep in mind this deck is fun and will make your opponent look at you confused.

[R]: Flame Spread: Discard a card from the top of your opponent’s deck for each [R] Energy attached to this Pokemon

Once they realize what is going on, they will be forced to make a lot of aggressive choices. Normally they are ok with sitting back for a turn or two.

That is when you strike. Your goal is to front load Centiskorch with energy and mill your opponents deck faster then they can set up.

Turns 2-4 are the most important.

Your first turn you want to use greens to find your key cards. LT Surge allows you to play 2 welders and draw 6 cards. If you go second you can do the following; you can draw 6 cards, attack 5 energy in total, AND mill 5 cards from your opponents deck.



130hp isn’t anything to write home about. Most attacks are doing 150+ base damage. So you can still tech in choice helmet or the new tool card giant charm.


I’m currently using pokedolls to stall if i get bad set ups, but im not 100% sold on that. The biggest issue with the deck so far is it can have a slow start. I’ve found Volcanion to be a good attacker with amazing set up, if you draw a really bad hand.

One thing that would work really well is Victini Prism Star. I still haven’t found a solid way to put him in yet.

The rest of the cards are solely being used to recycle fire energy back into your hand. As well as recycling supporters back to your hand. So you shouldn’t fear getting a poke knocked out with 5-8 energy going into the discard pile.

Centiskorch Mill is a deck I hope that I can keep perfecting. I love being able to just melt my opponents deck every few games when it works. The draw back is, its not at all consistent enough yet. It’s so close but I think it needs a bigger ability to stall a bit more.



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The Park

Most of what makes horror games is solid music, great ambient settings, and only using jump scares 1-2 times at most.

The park, does none of that. In terms of horror…Ok sure. Its got a dark spooky theme, about as spooky as a 1st grade haunted house.

It doesn’t give you any sense of dread or anxiety. At its core, its a lazy walking simulator with extremely predictable jump scares. Not to mention so many unfixed bugs, crashes, and hardlocks. Dare I say…the game was never tested.

If your looking for a quick fix on horror, this is not your title. The ending is less then acceptable, graphics are not terrible but not great, sound design is pretty decent but its ruined by everything else.

At its current price point, I can’t recommend this in anyway.

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