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Yay! No stock artwork. These look pretty, I love the Lightning one

I don't think Ken Sugimori is the one actually making the tcg art, he just illustrates each Pokémon for the games, and then someone else pastes it onto a stock background for the tcg some time later-

You're forgetting a bunch of Stage 2s like Gardevoir GX, which literally won the world championships. Decidueye GX and both Solgaleo GXs were beasts as well. And a healthy metagame ideally has great Stage 1s and Basics as well.

2 Prizers can work well! I think the ex era and the Sun & Moon era are proof that they can co-exist with single-prize Pokémon in a healthy metagame. And, besides that, I think collectors really dig ultra rares in general.

This is a nitpick, but it bugs me that Grotle is somewhat decent and a good fit for its evolution with its ability to search for the evolutions Torterra needs, but Monferno and Prinplup are just downright awful. They did this with Drizzile being superior to Thwackey/Raboot in base Sword and...

Yes, I know the game has always been designed this way, but it'd be really really cool if playable Stage 1s in Stage 2 lines were the norm rather than the rare exception. Drizzile and Flaaffy are a good start! Stage 2 lines would be way more interesting and just better in general if the entire...

mediocre and super boring ._. can't get too mad at it though since it's releasing in a preconstructed deck instead of an expansion

ooh, Sigilyph is probably getting a Secret Rare. Maybe. I can't imagine it being included in this set for any other reason, since it already got reprinted in Shiny Star V.

Does anyone have any experience buying cards off of TCG Republic? Is this a widely used website? https://tcgrepublic.com/ Asking because I was curious about some of the fairly low prices on the website- in particular, in the “Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky” set section (which became...

Saya Tsuruta and Naoyo Kimura

Does this include small local hobby stores..? Whether or not it does, I wish local hobby stores overseas could start getting exclusive promos in addition to big game stores : ( they could use more customers, and lots of people live in areas without a Gamestop

Oh boy! WotC cards will probably get a nice little bump in price, even though they're already much more expensive than they have any right to be. Honestly, I've given up on WotC cards at this point, I'm trying to collect cards from the ex era to the BW era while they're still affordable.

Inteleon and Bronzong are making it in: https://www.pokebeach.com/2021/10/20-more-reprints-from-vmax-climax-revealed

Okay... not the variety that Japan gets, but these are still cool. I Like these

If there's one thing that I think most Pokémon TCG players can agree on, it's that the Lost Zone is a great mechanic. It has to be used creatively, though, like in Explosive Impact/Lost Thunder. Emerging Powers or Steam Siege wouldn't automatically become masterpiece expansions if Lost Zone...

This is probably bait. but like. There are 896 other perfectly acceptable Pokémon and also much worse problems with this set

Even though we've known it was happening for a while, it still kind of baffles me that TPCi chose to put all of the cards from the Family box set in here. The set would still be bloated with unplayable filler cards even if they were cut, so... yikes. Looks like Lost Thunder and Cosmic Eclipse...

Okay, there's got to be some sort of legal reason these aren't being released overseas. With a few Celebrations booster packs included, don't even try to tell me these wouldn't instantly sell out, even with the 2-3 Classic Collection cards not included.

okay, wow. Me and my mom each bought 12 EVS packs for fun, I got two cheap holos and my mom struck gold me (12 packs) -1 EVS Victini Holo -1 EVS Kyurem Holo my mom (12 packs) -1 EVS Leafeon V -1 EVS Umbreon V -1 EVS Rayquaza V -1 EVS Dialga Holo -1 EVS Eldegoss Reverse Holo -1 EVS Ludicolo...

Yes, I know you're all rolling your eyes right now- the single prize format is typically what every new player to the game wants to play and thinks is an objectively superior format to standard after they lose one too many games to a meaty EX/GX/V. But hear me out. With the rotation of cards...