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    New Palafin ex Artwork Previewed for “Terastal Festival ex,” Drawn by Famous Manga Artist!

    There's three demographics of people in the pokemon tcg community, people who collect cards and don't play, people who both play and collect cards, and people who play but don't generally go out of their way to collect extra cards. Pocket is mostly aimed at the first two, there's lots of people...
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    Regigigas Revealed from “Terastal Festival!”

    It's not legal for long with the old regigigas but this probably makes regis playable again till F block rotates
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Receives 10 Million Downloads and Special Meowth Event, Adds Monthly Hourglasses

    Its a f2p mobile game, it's intentionally designed to be frustrating for people who don't spend money and addictive for people who do, there's nothing to fix here.
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    “ex Starter Deck Generations” Revealed Featuring 18 Pokemon ex!

    I wouldn't read too much into it, switch and crushing hammer are both G as well
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    Full Art Black Kyurem ex from “Paradise Dragona!”

    Bushiroad's Weiss Schwarz card game just uses stock images and anime screen shots for most of its cards. YuGiOh basically doesn't even do alt arts, just alt foils for 99% of cards. Pokemon at least goes out of their way to put the model in a cool pose for these and they tend to be textured nicely.
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    “Paradox Wisdom Premium Collection” Releasing at Best Buy

    ooh that holder looks nice, I might want some of those to represent decks I've played in the past
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    “Paradise Dragona” TCG Set Officially Revealed Featuring Latias ex, Tera Alolan Exeggutor ex, and Dragon Pokemon!

    VERY surprised Dusk Ball wasn't errata'd to something else like basically every ball card post BW
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    “Battle Partners” Set to Release in Japan in January, Return of Owner’s Pokemon!

    Palafin ex is an honorary stage 2, requiring the use of other cards to get it in play and active in two turns like how proper stage 2s need rare candy
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    Togedemaru, Drifloon, Drifblim from Stellar Miracle!

    Drifblim Reuniclus to get a full 5+ balloons in play
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    Cinderace ex, Raboot, and Scorbunny from Stellar Miracle!

    The second move is actually pretty good as a deterrent if this is on the field, it makes squack and lumineon unsafe to play without manaphy
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    Kofu, Veluza, and Crabominable from Stellar Miracle!

    I think the crabominable art is great and that you should just be happy the game has art rares.
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    TPCi Reveals 2025 Season to Limit Worlds Invites, Only 125 TCG Masters for North America

    Huh, yeah that's not what most leagues are like in my city, some leagues run weekly tournaments but that's separate from league, they almost all have a normal league casual night where you just show up at the shop, chat, play games with whoever you want, make some trades, maybe help a new player...
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    TPCi Reveals 2025 Season to Limit Worlds Invites, Only 125 TCG Masters for North America

    Are kids not just playing random nonsense decks or like an unmodified league battle deck at your league? Are you running weekly standard tournaments or something that makes your league more competitive oriented cause my local leagues have people who are getting practice in playing meta and...
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    TPCi Reveals 2025 Season to Limit Worlds Invites, Only 125 TCG Masters for North America

    Man I really wish they'd separate the US and Canada, in fact if they're doing it this way it should really be player slots per nation not these larger areas
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    2024 Pokemon TCG Illustrator Contest Under Fire for Apparent AI Entries

    "I don't like x group of people to the point where I actively mentally dehumanize them" This is a dangerous mindset for anyone to have about any group of people.
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    Pokemon TCG Live’s First Year of Stats Released, Less Than 3% Usage Compared to Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel

    I actually disagree, unless you wanted to buy a ton of code cards actually moving beyond theme decks was a nightmare (80 packs to trade for an Arceus Vstar anyone?), meanwhile live just gives you most of the best decks in format. What live sucks at most Imo is the reward structure, it takes...
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    “The Glory of Team Rocket” and “Terastal Festival” Set Names Trademarked for the Pokemon TCG!

    I highly doubt dark Pokemon will return, dark pokemon existed in the early era because of a lack of Pokemon to make new evolution lines out of and existed in Gen 3 mostly to flesh out the dark type and allow for more dual type pokemon.
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    Zoroark, Zorua from “Night Wanderer”

    I think the problem being fixed here is different than what you're implying it is, I would say that the problem Research/Boss's Orders fixes is that the designers want to keep printing these powerful effects, keep them having relevant characters but still limit the player to 4 copies. The draw 3...
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    Zoroark, Zorua from “Night Wanderer”

    I'd actually say it's not that likely that ex are retired soon, my theory is that after 20 years of experimenting with multiprize mechanics, ex was likely brought back because it's versitile, 2 prizes can be any stage, it has no special mechanic like GX Pokemon and as seen with Tera ex Pokemon...
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    Pokemon TCG Printed Record 11.9 Billion Cards in 2023, The Biggest Year Ever!

    They're increasing supply to meet strong demand, how is it not sustainable? If demand weakens they'll lower production.
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