“Destined Rivals” TCG Set Officially Revealed, Features Team Rocket, Misty, Ethan, and More!

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Destined Rivals has been officially revealed as our tenth Scarlet & Violet set! This is following last week’s reveal of Japan’s The Glory of Team Rocket.
As posted before, Destined Rivals will release on May 30th. Prereleases will take place from May 17th to May 25th.


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Booster Box (36 packs)


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There's already a queue for the Pokémon Center's site. I haven't been participating in TCG lately because I'm saving my $ until I get a Rayquaza card in a set again but I may pick up a sealed ETB for this set since I like the Rocket theming. I really like the branding/theme/general vibe/appearance of this set. Should be fun!
 
The text is not complete but looks like Tyranytar hurt basic Pokemons similiar to Frosslass but only if is in active, why Make him fighting instead of Dark, now cant use the Rocket Energy...

And Mimikyu can be pretty strong attacker and only need 1 energy attachment pretty much (Rocket energy)
 
wait, that rocket's tyranitar? ofc we can't see the whole card, but to me the rest of the ability is "put 2 damage counters on each of your opponent's benched pokemon." thats 40 extra damage a turn, which now that im writing this doesnt seem good because it only works in the active. was thinking that it would work on bench which would be a sick reward for getting that many stage 2's out
 
Also, bruh, they really made Team Rocket's Tyranitar Fighting so you couldn't power it up with two Team Rocket Energy?
 
wriz_kore said:
wait, that rocket's tyranitar? ofc we can't see the whole card, but to me the rest of the ability is "put 2 damage counters on each of your opponent's benched pokemon." thats 40 extra damage a turn, which now that im writing this doesnt seem good because it only works in the active. was thinking that it would work on bench which would be a sick reward for getting that many stage 2's out
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So basically a spiritual successor of the dual-type Dark Tyranitar from Team Rocket Returns. It was great back in the day when it was played in a deck called Rock Lock (Which devolved the opponent's Pokémon with a TM Devo predecessor, damaged them with the Poké-Body in between turns, and then put more damage counters on those Pokémon when they evolved thanks to Dark Ampharos's Poké-Body). This deck was usually able to win games by the third TM Rock, but I don't think this Team Rocket's Tyranitar deck would have an answer to basic ex decks even if some sort of Dark Ampharos spiritual successor was announced. (Not to mention Rock Lock could at least use the Pokémon's other attacks, and I highly doubt that Team Rocket's Tyranitar's attack will be used much when they chose to not learn from Feraligatr and Ethan's Typhlosion, which can both do 280 damage for either two or one Energy.)
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been in the queue on pokemon center for like 40 mins so far lol..... these drops have been such a nightmare lately, i literally just want one booster bundle :'(

set looks amazing though!!!! coolest looking products/set theme we've had in quite a while imo
 
gemjadem said:
been in the queue on pokemon center for like 40 mins so far lol.... these drops have been such a nightmare lately, i literally just want one booster bundle :'(

set looks amazing though!!!! coolest looking products/set theme we've had in quite a while imo
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UPDATE: Destined Rivals pre-orders are not live on PC yet. I just got access
 
This is awesome, also the Black and White (favorite game) 151 set drops on my birthday so definitely gonna get some of those lol
 
gemjadem said:
been in the queue on pokemon center for like 40 mins so far lol.... these drops have been such a nightmare lately, i literally just want one booster bundle :'(

set looks amazing though!!!! coolest looking products/set theme we've had in quite a while imo
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I've also been in line for like 40 mins. Looks like I'm going to have to take off work and stand in line just to get any product, what a crazy time to be a pokemon fan...
 
wriz_kore said:
wait, that rocket's tyranitar? ofc we can't see the whole card, but to me the rest of the ability is "put 2 damage counters on each of your opponent's benched pokemon." thats 40 extra damage a turn, which now that im writing this doesnt seem good because it only works in the active. was thinking that it would work on bench which would be a sick reward for getting that many stage 2's out
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I believe that it won’t be just benched Pokèmon but will be all basic Pokemon since it says basic at the bottom of that text. This is very much a spiritual reprint of detention gas weezing which is good in GLC but I don’t know if it was good in standard
 
Tomasko26 said:
Destined Rivals product not released for pre-orders yet
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they have already on pokemon center like an hour ago and they sold out, queue didnt help at all and most people didnt get one, i didnt, i was on queue the second they emailed me but apparently they send the emails like 30 minutes late, so there was zero chance anyone without inside knowledge would get any, such a scummy thing for pokemon to do.
 
Time to focus on year '1 of SoV ig. Sucks to pretend these new sets dont exist just because of ridiculous prices but here we are. And ZA sets do not excuse you to skip gen VI for trainer's Creatures, smh
 
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