This post is for you. Read along if you want or just scan to the bottom. Just a little play by play of my adventure into getting back into this game.
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No one answered my question for a few days.. but i think i did some good things to get started. spending hours online looking at options and at the store staring at all these different packs for countless minutes.. I ended up opening about 2-3 packs of Dark Explorers, Plasma Storm, Dragons Exaulted, and Boundaries Crossed.. just because I wanted to get a feel for whats out there.
I then bought a themed deck, the Plasma Storm one with Druddigon. After opening everything I was like.. man.. Druddigon pack really doesnt do much.. so I packaged it all nice and pretty.. and returned it [yay it worked]
I then got the Boundaries Crossed theme deck.. the Black Kyurem one with Blastoise, etc.
Mainly because I got lucky and pulled a Raikou EX as well as a Holo Blastoise earlier in those packs.. was crazy luck.
So with all this water and electricity.. I decided to spend big one more time, and buy a tin.
Mewtwo, Keldeo, or Darkrai... hmmm..
All have solid reasons as to why i pick them.. Mewtwo is probably the most popular card in the game because of its versatility.. Darkrai is powerful as hell, and can ruin so many benches along the way.. but I didn't have many Dark cards to play around with, and although Mewtwo is awesome.. its more of an addition for decks, rather than the main focus [in my humble and naive opinion].
So I went with Keldeo.. to compliment Blastoise, etc... and that's where I'm at now.
Kind of sucks how I have two blastoise cards and not two Keldeo.. as Blastoise is more used for his ability than his attack.. but it is what it is.
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Overall: I recommend that you buy a few packs of each.. see what lucky pulls you get, if any, and then buy a tin[for the hard to get EX card and 4 packs, basically a good deal] and themed deck pack[for a lot of energies and cards that can help you out, trainers, etc].