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Unfair stamp already has a major balance point over Reset Stamp: Being only usable after one of your pokemon is knocked out means it can't delete your opponent's hand turn one starting them at a severe disadvantage. It's still a very strong card, of course, and is a standout Ace Spec in a format...

I think Thwackey wins best prerelease promo by default since all the others have pretty amazing illustration rares already. Plus, it implies Festival Box will be a B&B block, which I feel has good odds in that format if all the pieces come together (though froslass is an antimeta pick against...

Tatsugiri is a great promo, plenty of city league decks are running it. Froslass also sees some play in more gimmicky decks, so it's not a bad one either. Thwackey is a cornerstone piece of Festival decks, so that's 3/4 viable prerelease promos, a pretty decent ratio (sorry infernape).

Dragapult pulling great results is unsurprising given all the factors, but I'm interested in what Festival Box is cooking. Defiant Band, Kieran and other modifiers applying for both Dipplin strikes and up to 4 Thwackey searches a turn is making it a fairly decent deck (for local play, but i have...

That's easily fixed with Relicanth. It's not a bad idea to shore up the bulk of the usually frail discard snowball decks, but nowadays maybe just play Ancient Box for that archetype.

Froslass appears to stack, meaning with 4 you're doing hefty chip damage to all of your opponent's abilitied pokemon every turn. In one turn, Manaphy and Jirachi are guaranteed KO'd with the damage from both you and your opponent's turns ending. These have some kinda potential, especially with...

Less filler clogging up main sets is always a good thing, but the fact there's no distribution method to tie them to is intriguing.

I feel like a Pokémon with a grass energy transfer ability would be all it takes to give Ogerpon some potential. 4 Teal Ogerpon charging an energy a turn plus a manual attachment gives a respectable 210 damage, not counting extra turns, Gardenia or your opponent's energy. It has free draw on...

Specifically ex's will be in Night Wanderer, Mask of Change will likely have them as single prizers.

Though unlike Klara or Super Rod, Lana can't retrieve rule box Pokemon, a legitimately huge downside.

Iron Leaves is a handy 1-of in Arc/Gira decks, so it's a solid promo.

Well it's definitely mid, that's fot sure. Outside of expanded sky field shenanigans it has a difficult to reach and maintain cap of 240, but unless you're spamming salvatore any knockout will set you back to 200, 180 with double turbo. There's better options for what this is trying to do, like...

Not an awful card, 120 is a solid snipe for Bax decks knocking out Bibarel which Greninja can't one shot. The problem is that CRZ Kyogre exists and is better

I hope Sinistcha is really good grass support, or at least gets a cool IR. I have a soft spot for it because it was a lot of fun in E reg VGC.

the cards haven't even been shown yet buddy