A Pokemon Trading Card Game player got inventive with his Pokemon card deck this weekend during the North American International Championships. A player named Matthew Verive entered the North American International Championships, the highest regional championship in North America, with a deck made up entirely of promotional jumbo-sized cards. The 60-card deck contained only Pokemon cards, as The Pokemon Company has never printed jumbo Trainer or Energy cards. Verive pulled out of the tournament after one official match, in part because none of his Pokemon could actually attack due to a lack of energy.
Talked with the judging staff afterwards, and if I didn’t drop, I might have received a DQ – for marked cards! The oversized cards aren’t cut to as high a standard as regular cards, so some cards could understandably be identified.
