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the cards haven't even been shown yet buddy

Koraidon and Miraidon are pretty great, seen in plenty of Ancient/Future box decks in Japan. They're definitely the ones to hope for, especially in prerelease tournaments where they can easily strike hard and fast depending on the other cards in their block.

I am going to mispell Masquerade so many times

This kinda shows how early they make these arrangements. Probably smart to lock in the venue a couple years in advance

Having the right Kirlia helps, this is a perfectly servicable post-rotation Gardevoir set. Agree with above though, Scream Tail and Moonlit Hill are important.

Flaaffy replacement /j

I won't miss Path to the Peak, it's always annoying to see played down because it just denies options like Lumineon and Greninja. Every deck I've played has primary cards that hate it.

There'll be a few around, notably Regieleki and Kyurem. Not many others, and neither of those have seen much play lately, but still

Confirmation there's still 3 unrevealled Ace Specs is interesting, and it seems the gold etches from Paldean Fates will stick around

Walking Wake has potential for even more agressive starts than Roaring Moon, only needing Sada and DTE to strike turn one going second. It has standalone deck potential, but also as a partner to Moon. 100 turn one is fine, but 230 after poison is lethal to nearly all 2 prize basics if you can...

There's plently of already viable decks that love cycling active pokemon: Gholdengo, Lost Zone, and Valiant to name a few. Prime Catcher is 100% the Ace Spec of choice for them no matter what comes, and I say that with confidence.

You're seriously downselling how potent a guaranteed boss on an item card is

Prime Catcher's extremely nice, especially considering the amount of decks that ran 4 cross-switchers. It's a good candidate for the 'default' Ace Spec card, like how most decks run Radiant Greninja, at least until something busted is revealed (computer search or dowsing machine, for example)

sure

It also likely means rotation will happen directly on EUIC, but at least there's a good 4 months to prepare for that. Not exactly out of nowhere

The impending E rotation will come for it's blood soon, don't worry

It's neat that all 4 decks are unique while also featuring placements that make sense; Masters 1st and 2nd, Senior 1st, and Junior 1st. Compared to last year which needed some strange placements to get a unique batch, this feels right.

"Full art foil promo card of shiny Mimikyu"? That's pretty hype if it means shiny illustration rares. Edit: Yep, looks beautiful too! I'm excited to see which other cards get shiny IRs, especially meta ones and ones that lacked an IR before. Mimikyu is actually an example of both!

The Gimmighoul isn't too bad, 1 retreat and a 50% chance to absorb a hit, but the other 50hp 1 retreat Gimmighoul can call for family to get an extra basic on the bench, which may prove more useful if you're in the situation where you're attacking with Gimmighoul.

Iron Hands ex's illustrator rare made me chuckle, seems like they're having fun! Probably my 2nd big chase card behind the Gholdengo set