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I feel like it's less that stock art is bad, and more that Gengar's stock art is bad. (Sableye and Mimikyu's aren't amazing either, but their inclusion was an afterthought, so it doesn't matter as much.) The deck box and sleeves would've looked better if they had picked a Pokemon with better...

Probably Call of Legends. I like the HGSS artstyle in general, liked getting more Lost Zone stuff, kinda have a softspot for well-made reprint sets (which Pokemon is mostly pretty terrible at). It had a lot going for it, including the best-looking energy cards ever printed. :P I really liked...

The Gen 4 cross-gens varied a LOT in BST gain. Yanma-Yanmega was a 125-point gain for example, and Dusclops-Dusknoir was 70. They're more commonly around the 120ish mark, though. That being said, I don't think they treat cross-gen Pokemon any differently statwise to any other Pokemon. If...

I honestly want Ash to still be the protagonist. Him re-visiting regions is interesting to me. (Battle Frontier is probably my favourite season, in part for this reason, even if it didn't really go too in-depth with that aspect.) I just hope it has a linking story arc, and isn't just Pokemon...

Repeatedly doing something that doesn't advance the game state is the same as doing nothing, so... About as long as you'd expect someone to get away with sitting there doing nothing.

It's easier to pull a full set of Shiny Vault cards than it is to pull a full set of Full Arts from recent main-set boosters, though. Assuming Shiny Vault shows up 1 in every 3 packs, that's 282 packs on average to get them all. (Obviously assuming no duplicates, but this is just a comparison.)...

You'd choose the order.

We're getting 2 sets so close together because Hidden Fates isn't a "normal" Booster Pack like Celestial Storm or Team Up. It's an additional pack exclusive to promotional products like blisters. It works the same way as Generations, Shining Legends and Dragon Majesty did. It'll likely get new...

I wasn't aware that was the case with those, but it's still weird anyway, there's really no reason why they SHOULDN'T be alternate arts. At the very least, it'd give Pokemon some flexibility if they decided they really needed to rotate a certain promo just past the usual cut-off or something.

It's interesting that the "stained glass" Moltres, Zapdos & Articuno Tag Team ISN'T an alternate art, it's a SM promo. I wonder why they were inconsistent with this. (It probably doesn't ultimately matter, given, like with the pre-release promos in the past, they'd likely cut off the SM promos...

...God I hope Phione's mistranslated and it's a Repel rather than a Catcher. Otherwise... That is super, super broken. Infinite Gust of Wind should not be a thing. I get that we needed a Guzma replacement, but not something like that.

It's definitely better than the 3 HP-restoring Energy Cards (Herbal Energy, Potion Energy and Recover Energy.) It's unexciting, but I'm fine with them making cards like this, particularly if Special Energy or Colorless Pokemon get support.

Interesting. Shellder actually bites things with its MOUTH, it doesn't just clamp things with its shell. I believe this is the first time we've seen it grip onto something without its shell shutting. Incidentally, the alt. art Slowpoke/Psyduck's the only particularly interesting one here IMO. I...

I agree that them abandoning mechanics after a few sets is bad, but M Pokemon-EX were not one of those mechanics. They lasted the entirity of the XY era. That's just as long as things like Pokemon Lv.X did. Having a mechanic be unique to a specific era that spans like a dozen sets is perfectly...

Complaining about those specific Megas isn't really a solid argument given how and why they exist. The "extra" Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise happened due to a Kanto-themed product, so they couldn't have just included something like Lopunny instead, and, aside from Pidgeot (which we later...

Have we ever even had a Full Art as a Tin Promo before? I feel like it's much more likely either another new west-exclusive art, or not new art at all. That's what tin promos have done for a long time now (barring the occasional outright new promo, which the Ultra Shiny cards are not). Why...

It's worth pointing out that even if it is real (which it likely isn't given you've mentioned it doesn't resemble any other Kangaskhan-EX you've seen online, cards simply don't really vary much in appearance), Full Art Kangaskhan EX is only like $4-5 USD anyway.

It bothers me that these decks only have 2 Items each. Did the rotation really kill the item pool THAT badly? They should really be encouraging Item use. (The amount of Supporters is nice, but the Trainer line-up could still be a little more balanced.)

I wouldn't say Jessie's supporting herself on the card border. Looks more like she's about to slap James or something. And I know James isn't pressed up against the wall. What I'm saying is that the card art would have worked better if his face was being squashed on the "front" of the card...

Eh, the regular art's better IMO. I feel like the full art should've been somewhat fourth-wall breaking and have at least James' face squished against the art window. Would've fit the artstyle better.