Pokemon Deck Tester

Welcome to the Pokemon Deck Tester main page.  The PDT is a program specifically tailored towards testing decks with as few variables as possible.  As such, you play against yourself (with an eventual AI opponent option) with whatever decks you set up.  The intention behind this is that sometimes you want to try a deck to counter a popular deck, but now you don't need to "own" the digital cards like in PTCGO or Live, and you don't have to hope that you'll eventually be paired against the proper deck that you're aiming to play against.  Of course, this is just one example, but maybe you just want to play the game without having to face a human opponent, or you don't want to test a new deck build against a bad AI using a deck that makes Theme Decks look professionally built.

For tutorial/guide videos aimed at helping players go from zero to hero, or for PTCG video content that isn't hyper focused on only meta stuff, check out my channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/@ProfShepard

Features of the PDT:

- Every card that the Expanded format covers 

- Deck Builder (obviously, kind of card to not have one)  with all cards available to use.

- A Database to let you search every card on many different conditions (3rd pic shows it)

- An "Inspire Me" tab that picks a random card for you based on certain criteria, which then also shows some related cards to help you build a deck with.  It's sort of in place of the Deck Wizard from PTCGO.  It doesn't just hand you a terrible deck, but instead shows you combinations you could use to make your own terrible deck from!  Or it might be good, I don't know.

- Custom Content, which is currently limited to a Custom Card Maker, see pic 4 and 5.  I figured since you're playing against yourself that being able to play with custom cards would be pretty nice, plus I haven't seen anything quite like this done before.  It's quite complicated, so there's a lengthy guide under the Card Maker tab.  The short of it is that you grab/make a custom card image in your preferred image editing software, then the PDT handles the rest based on your input.

So enjoy the Pokemon Deck Tester,  and do let me know if anything breaks or isn't working quite right.  I'm a one man army here, and there's only so much I can find on my own.

Future Update Plans / Priority List:

1 - Staying up-to-date with new sets being released.

2 - Custom Card Maker / other custom content; Currently the Maker is pretty well done, I just need to keep it updated with the sets I get in, but stuff like Rulesets are untouched.

3 - AI opponent to play against; Currently has very little done to it.  It's going to require a lot of code refactoring, since a lot of the PDT was largely made with the assumption that a human will always be playing both players, so quite a few changes need to happen before even the most basic of an AI opponent can function.  And then a solid 6 months minimum to make the AI actually intelligent and capable of using any deck handed to it.

4 - Cover every Pokemon card printed; Currently hahahaha no.  This is a VERRRY far off goal, simply because of how long it's already taken me to get everything done that I have so far.  This isn't to say I don't want to do it, it's more that I'm being realistic and only have so much time in the day to do this.