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I thought it was just called the "Pokemon TCG: Collector Chest (Spring 2017)", which is what it's called on the Pokemon site. If it's got Sun/Moon in it's name then we're definitely at least being somewhat misled. http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/product-gallery/collector-chest-spring-2017/

Interesting that everyone's so busted up over the inclusion of FAC and STS packs. Other than the generations packages everything comes with a mix of packs from different sets. That's like being disappointed that you lost the lottery - I can see why it's disappointing but what did you expect?

This is really smart, I think everyone's been sleeping on Swellow to some degree. However, I've got to say I think it's warranted. Guardians Rising is giving us quite a few Stage1s with a lot of potential. Of course the first thing on everyone's mind is the Eeveelutions when it comes to Stage1s...

This is what I love about any rotation discussion. You have people who think we'll see a typical 3-5 set expansion and people who think we're in for something big. Any time an arguement is presented for a more extreme rotation, it's met with protestations in the form of straw man counter...

Haha yes I agree. Wow that was a lot to read thanks for breaking that all down. Edit: Kidding. Moving all the fluff aside, you're responding to things I've never said. My entire point is that rotating more sets forces the competitive player base to buy more of the new sets, this increasing...

Me too, I drew up a potential list even. I just don't have high hopes. Fingers crossed some genius comes in and makes it work cause I do think it has synergy. But as you noted, synergy isn't quite enough when you're dealing with multiple stage 2s. Oh well, sorry Metagross.

It honestly might. Forest lets Golisipod evolve up right away and DCE gets him attacking pretty quick. Unless you can deal 160 damage he effectively has 190 HP for a one prize pokemon. With the eeveelutions he'll be one hitting anything (most things?) with a fire/water/lightning weakness. That's...

I don't want to say that it WILL or WON'T, but I do want to say that I think it SHOULDN'T survive rotation. Too many GX attacks involve searching your deck for cards. A lot of regular attacks from SM2 do it too. N utterly destroys these attacks and wastes either your turn or your epic...

Agreed. I think everyone in this discussion is aware of that. Ok I'm definitely missing a step of your thought process here. Why would making more money off of competitive players while making the usual amount of money off of children not maximize profits? I'm also unsure of when bad word of...

Decidueye/Plume runs two Stage 2s with Forest of Giant Plants. They're also not crucial to dealing damage. Solgaleo/Metagros would need both Stage 2s active just to attack every turn. Even then, Solgaleo discards 3 energy and Metagross only retrieves 1. It's a system that's bound to burn out...

You've got Golduck and Passimian which are both cool ones from Sun/Moon. There's also Greninja but it's not quite as budget friendly even though it doesn't use Shaymin. Vespiquen is an option but she's a little harder to play than the other decks.

Haha alright alright. You make a lot of assumptions and take a lot for granted in there but granted that if it were all true you'd be completely correct. I totally agree.

I agree, BREAKs really are just evolutions. In some cases like Greninja (our only truly competitive Break) they might even be slower since they evolve from a Stage 2. Unfortunately though, BKT gave us M Mewtwo, BKP gave us Darkrai EX and Steam Siege gave us Volcanion. While Breaks may work...

Oh my bad I was thinking Parallel, not sure how I goofed that up. I'm honestly not a fan of desperately trying to improve losing matchups with cards like Weakness Policy or Sunne in general though, I feel like I'd rather improve my 50/50 matchups than turn my 10/90 into a 25/75. Especially with...

Of course it will sell. Children aren't relative to rotation because, like you have noted, children and competitive players are not the same market. Speaking specifically about how to make money from the competitive player base, the best move is to rotate to only in-print sets. Assuming the...

Oh cool, good to know. Cheers from a fellow Evo-On Rotation believer

This could be fun, but I think there are a few on-paper issues to work out before you move on to play testing: 1) The one that stuck out the most to me was 3 Skyla. That's insane. Sure you're dependent on Rare Candy but that's more Skylas than you have Ns and equal to the amount of your...

Whoa really? Then who does? As in who designs the card game and new abilities and stuff, not who actually prints the cards.

I think you spelt Oedipus wrong

Are we actually getting all the SRs from SM1+? Our "RA or better per set" rate is skyrocketing PER SET if that's true. Unless it's confirmed I find it hard to believe that we'd get so many. Since DCE and Rare Candy already got reprints isn't it possible that we just won't see SR versions in...