ThePokémon Trading Card Gamehinges on having the right balance of card types in players' decks, but one player may have overdone it just a bit with their energy cards. Energy cards are attached toPokémoncards to enable them to use certain attacks. There are different types of energy cards for each different Pokémon type, like Fire, Water, etc. Decks must contain exactly 60 cards, and of these, about 5-12 are typically energy cards in a regular deck.
Reddit userIcantenteranamehas just a tiny bit more energy cards than they’ll ever need. A picture they posted to Reddit showsmany tall stacks containing a massive total of over 12,000 energy cards. The Redditor asks the community for help figuring out what to do with all these energy cards, and theTCGcommunity does not disappoint in their suggestions.
Pokémon TCG Players Offer Many Absurd Ideas For The Huge Number Of Energy Cards
The Suggestions Range From Silly To Nefarious
ThePokémon TCGcommunity hasplenty of ideas about what to do with so many energy cards, and most of them are just plain silly. Reddit userAble_Heat_9310offers up the obvious: “Store them on top of your desk in 43 piles.” As this is what the original poster is already doing, others have some additional ideas.
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Redditorbigbobbateasuggestsmaking a deck with one Pokémon and all the energy cards. UserFeeling-Estimate-267expands on the idea, suggesting that the player can make a hilarious meme deck like this, made up of “just 1 Pokémon who scales with energy, then 59 energy in the deck, and maybe attach as many energy from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like' card.” A few other comments have some verycreative ideas to use up the cards. “Make one of these!” saysRare_Arugula_5663, with a picture of a pixel Pikachu made of energy cards.
Still othershad some of the most unhinged and ridiculous ideas.“It’s a good fire starter,” saysCasualRedditor77, whilerxkio_writes, “Pickle them for when the war comes.” UserGeneral-Philosophy40has a particularly nefarious idea: “Store them in a bulk box throw some collectors Pokémon Charizards on top, add to a storage unit, have your cousin auction the stuff in the unit off.” The original 1995 Charizard is themost valuable card on the market, with variants selling for as much as $580 USD according toTCG Player, so this would be a pretty terrible trap to fall into.
Our Take: The Best Suggestion Is To Give The Pokémon TCG Energy Cards Out
It’s Either Wholesome Or Practical (Or Both)
My favorite suggestion is one of the only non-joke answers in the Reddit thread.Baybeeboo22says the owner of all these energy cards can “leave some in your car to write people notes with and put them in their windshield wiper.“The cards could be accompanied by a nice note, asValiant_Darktanyanwrites, like, “You looked a little tired, here’s some energy to keep going!” Or, as Baybeeboo22 adds, some not-so-nice notes like the classic, “You suck at parking.”
I go to music festivals and I have actually seen people do this, and the recipients are always very grateful. Some people give them out based on “vibes,” like finding the right people to give the right type of energy card to, depending on what they think feels “right” for them. It’s always a hit, whether the people getting the card arePokémonfans or not. Leaving a card with a note for a stranger to find is anadorable and wholesome way to spread some positivityand use up the huge stockpile ofPokémon Trading Card Gameenergy cards.
