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Azelf and Cofagrigus in this set, on top of Froslass and Munkidori from previous sets... Spread decks keep getting more and more toys lol.

Cool stuff! I like the Alakazam, and the Nidoking is super cute. Aside from that, from a card art standpoint I appreciate that there aren't a lot of words on these full art cards.

Gravity Mountain seems to be a nifty way to reach some annoying damage thresholds. Miracle Intercom is huge for Control decks if you expect your usual Ace Specs to get sniped by Lost Vacuum. Pikachu ex/Magneton/Terapagos as a package seems really hard to evaluate. Pikachu's Ability is great in...

Oh no, they have built-in AI battle assistance and they're going to allow card trading? Sounds like I'm only ever going to be playing against farm bots...

Ooh, that's the second USGMEN illustration thus far, and it's another full art. The previous card he illustrated (Mew ex) was really popular and is still worth a lot of money. In my opinion, I prefer this Clobbopus over the Mew. I like how much action there is in the shot. Is it supposed to be...

Hold on, this Magneton allows you to loop Galvantula ex's item-lock attack! That's a big deal. I think that with baby Joltik accelerating energy and Magneton recycling it, there's the materials to potentially build a very scary deck.

The marketing for this game continues to aggressively push the "card collecting" aspect. Why? I've never in my life met a single person who's excited about collecting digital trading cards. With physical cards, there's an appeal to buying and owning the cards because they look different on...

I feel about Precious Carrier the same way I feel about Hyper Aroma: playable but kinda undesirable since it's a terrible draw past Turn 1. Perfect Mixer I'm more optimistic about. In something like United Wings or Tera Ceruledge it fills the discard, but aside from that it also clears junk out...

Playing Bird Control and your opponent keeps Iono-ing at 2 cards to play around Chi-Yu? Hit 'em with the Comfey and Luminous Energy to make them draw 3 cards and deck out! :p In all seriousness, Diancie knocking out Cinccino for only a single Colorless Energy means it could potentially see...

The Eevee and Umbreon products look gorgeous. Kinda tempted to get the deckbox... The Battle Start line seems cool too. I like how the mat's design takes these straightforward manga-panel images and recontextualizes them into an 80's Memphis kind of style. It's really clever.

30 Energy Ceruledge could be a fun budget deck. I could see a scenario where Fire Off Amrarouge + Magma Basin + Delphox V gives you game vs Single-Prize decks, but at the same time I'm pretty sure you need Poke Stop in the Stadium slot so idk. Maybe Palkia VSTAR + Radiant Greninja is the better...

Seems ok. Repeatable 180 bench damage is scary. It can knock out benched Archeops, Kirlia, Drakloak, etc. and threaten to keep doing it until the opponent musters 320 dmg. Plus, it one-shots Lumineon V and Squawkabilly ex. Unfortunately, I feel like from a meta standpoint what it does probably...

Seems playable. Area Zero Underdepths, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex, and Bug-Catching Set could form the basis of a simple and versatile grass-box core that a card like Ledian would slot into nicely.

Joltik can set up Iron Hands reliably; no need to gamble on Electric Generator. Very cool! And if it's used in Future Box, then the Future Booster Capsule makes retreating into it Turn 1 a breeze. But is it worth running a 30hp Pokemon? Lost Mine, Dusclops, and Dragapult will eat that thing up...

The "matches played" statistic for Master Duel is useless. I played that game for a while after it released, and I can attest that their ranked ladder was infested with an absurd number of bot scripts for months and months on end. The bots would queue up to ladder, attempt to execute a linear...

Lots of fantastic art! And also some doofus who probably spammed a billion AI generated image submissions using multiple accounts, as is commonplace for art contests these days... I could suggest that the Pokemon Co. stems these submissions in future contests by omitting species that public AI...

They are trying their absolute hardest to force Terapagos ex into the meta, and at this rate it might very well happen. All these cards that need a Tera Pokemon to activate are going to be very frustrating to pull in Build&Battle events.

Love the hue shifting on the Alolan Rattata card! Really makes it pop. And getting another Dsuke art for the Charmeleon is a treat. Fascinating mixture of shading techniques there. I'm looking forward to seeing some higher quality scans once they become available.

Turning on Counter Catcher and Defiance Band while also sniping the bench could be relevant in a hypothetical super-aggressive going first deck. Turn 1 Buddy Poffin out a couple Duskull, Turn 2 evolve them, snipe something for 100 damage, then swing into active with whatever your main attacker...

Wow that Greninja full art looks cool. Also, the Mini Tin confirms a new Zoroark card I guess? There aren't any Unovan Zoroark cards in Standard right now, so it can't just be a reprint.