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Terapagos is pretty goated and might see play, or even enable some cards that weren't viable before. I don't have any issues with acceleration that is a part of an attack, rather than some form of passive Ability.

For anyone that buys it, I would suggest keeping it in some secondary box, lest you want to see it dirty and torn up quite fast.

Chien Pao wouldn't remove Prime Catcher just to get a single slightly better Earthen Vessel.

Yes, I know. I explained how it would be a more worthwhile ACE SPEC if it allowed you to pull any amount of Energy.

Honestly for an ACE SPEC, the "of different types" clause is kind of unnecessary. How often would you benefit from putting all of your Energy in your hand, especially when you have to forgo other strong ACE SPECs and there's a ton of reshuffling effects (both friendly and opponent's) that will...

80HP on a Stage 1 is just abysmal. If we're already powercreeping, then a Stage 1 singleprizer should have a minimum of 120HP, and a Stage 2 should have a minimum of 200HP. A 200+HP Pokemon actually has some chance of surviving a single attack from an ex Pokemon.

It is literally powercreep. Powercreep is the increase of power along a segment of time. It doesn't even need to be linear - games can deliberately lower power either through time or some form of big reset, and then keep creeping up again. Printing Abilities that are objectively stronger than...

Not really, because that is simply a perspective of a competitively-oriented player. Standard is for everyone. Developers of different TCGs push all players towards Standard, because it helps sell new packs. For casual players, it helps to keep the game simple with a limited number of pieces...

Oh yeah, I even played this one too. Mareep had this weird play pattern, where it was more likely to trigger in the early game, but evolutions made his Ability useless - then in the late game, you usually didn't have a Mareep, as you tried to evolve yourself.

I think this is the first Pokemon with an Ability that just puts your opponent to Sleep - no gimmicks, no conditions, no flips. This has the potential to be extremely annoying. Basically in any scenario where your opponent is planning to tank an attack and attack right back, you can force them...

The logo is so whacky I don't know if I love it or hate it. Also, hold your freaking horses, this is the first ever Elite Trainer Box that features art from the set, not the stock Pokemon art/shape. That's quite huge, actually. Perhaps they realized putting a stock Pikachu on it would look jarring.

I like that the my quote in your own post says: And then you explain the same concept, but obviously making a ton of assumptions that are completely wrong. Such as: No, that's to sell packs. Which is why usually Pokemon had a much better distribution of power than Magic - they didn't really...

There is a lot of completely wrong statements here, but the chief one is - powercreep isn't "normal". Powercreep is a cheap way of generating excitement for new cards. One of the reasons the concept of "Standard" was invented was to prevent gradual and even incidental powercreep. Magic, which...

Slightly better version of Bibarel/Octillery's Ability, but the Stage 2 really limits its potential.

The card protector is nice, but why can't these have alternative arts? It's not like it takes 5ban a long time to pose the 3d model differently.

"Tier 0" is just a Tier for decks that are so oppressively strong, that they deny other decks from competing just by the nature of what they do. A format can have multiple Tier 0 decks. You may have a different definition, but if it's meta%, then anything above 20-25% meta would be considered a...

Weird to use Gardevoir ex in this example, a deck that very clearly has different attacking/engine Pokemon (even if they evolve on the same path), but also a deck that didn't make a splash in Tier 0 until it got access to Munkidori, a Pokemon that it has to, in fact, set up separately. Not to...

Because Gardevoir ex lets you get essentially infinite card advantage, and baby Gardevoir's Ability is just a nice bonus on top of that. Having these Abilities on an attacker isn't as big of a deal anymore - it used to matter when Zoroark GX was good, because the games were way longer, the...

You cannot just ignore the fact that it also gets to run six energies, because it has a ridiculous power that skips an entire game mechanic, letting it stuff the deck with consistency cards. A Tera Charizard ex without that power would be just a fine card - perhaps even balanced, as far as a...

That is not what I wrote. Grimmsnarl does 180 + 30 benched. Charizard does 180 + 30 for each prize your opponent has taken. If they take no prizes, Grimmsnarl theoretically has a higher damage output. This might be unlikely, but it also means Grimmsnarl does slightly more damage early game.