Bro...they are NOT bringing back shiny Pokemon only to do the most popular ones, as usual...
Gimme a shiny Gorgeist card, or a shiny Volcarona card, or a shiny Lapras, or a shiny Aegislash, or a shiny Goodra or any shiny that's not gardevoir, charizard or greninja.
Gardevoir is my favorite Pokemon; you and anyone else can go ahead and make incorrect and inappropriate assumptions about that. But when I saw this card yesterday, I was very happy. And then I played a game of "Find the spambot" in the comments to see if anyone would bemoan a popular Pokemon getting a new card. Lo and behold, it was predictable. And golly! This turned into something else.
Also, did you really forget about Hidden Fates and Shining Fates? The selection in Hidden Fates was more for reprinting useful cards in the TCG as shinies, so there was some overlap in popular Pokemon getting shiny cards. But can you really tell me that ALL of the Galar Pokemon that got shiny cards in Shining Fates are popular? ALSO, are you forgetting that Hawlucha and Heatran were the other two Radiant Pokemon in that previous set? (Or did you just see red upon seeing
Greninja?) I'm not saying no one likes these two, but would you really consider them to be popular Pokemon in the same vein as Charizard, Greninja, and Gardevoir? Or would these be about as popular as Gorgeist, Volcarona, Lapras, and Aegislash? Also, these are Hawlucha's and Heatran's first shiny cards. You know...
exactly what you said you want?
In X and Y...5+ years ago....Compared to the 3 shiny zards, the 3 shiny greninja and the 3 shiny gardevoir we've gotten since then.
so, still, my point stands. I no longer believe this TCG has any love or care put into it.
So this Volcarona example aged like milk. You know that two of the three previous shiny Gardevoir cards were in the same set as that shiny Volcarona card, right? So by your logic of that being so long ago, those two shouldn't count, and that just leaves the GX from Hidden Fates. I'm not going to act like Gardevoir doesn't get a lot of snazzy card types, but if you're going to make a point, at least be correct.
i literally used a shiny greninja in my previous ultra sun playthrough. I know you wouldn't know that, but...Thank you for assuming, though. If you actually thought about it instead of just looking at it in the most surface level-way possible, that's not my argument at all. I'm saying that this tcg very blatantly favors the same things over, and over, and over, as opposed to unpopular things..How many sets was, let's say, Chesnaught featured prominently in? Or Slaking? Or Mawile? Or Mismagius? Okay, now name every set charizard or greninja have ever been in a pack artwork of. Now, name evey set that has a Charizard ETB. It's 2, by the way. That's more than Pikachu- the mascot. So, yeah...I take issue with being force-fed the same things year after year, and it doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon- if at all. There are 900+ Pokemon, therefore there are 900+ shines. Yet, somehow, 3 or 4 shiny Pokemon are regularly featured. This isn't debatable, or yet-to-be-proven. This isn't my opinion; just search any setlist of any set featuring shinies.
If you somehow don't have an issue with even one or two of these things, you are literally a sheep.
The thing is, everyone likes variety when it comes to featuring different Pokemon. No one is arguing against that. But the point was that, as a business, The Pokemon Company wants to make products that are popular in order to make money. You are literally requesting them to make "unpopular" things.
Sounds like a great business plan! There's also a difference between making what is popular and using that popularity as a crutch. The worst offender of that was TPCi throwing in shiny Charizard V and VMAX into Champion's Path, which would have otherwise been a nearly--if not completely--useless set. ...Which begs the question of why bother making that "special" set if it needed to be rescued by Charizard? Why not just distribute those cards into other main sets? It's not like TPCi cares about set sizes being
far too big for years now away.
To put this another way, I hate pop music. I think it all sounds basically the same now and it's unappealing to me. But others love it, so clearly there's an audience for it. Same with popular Pokemon. There's an audience for them, so The Pokemon Company wants to appease to those fans to make money while also making other cards for all the other Pokemon. In fact, one the biggest compliments that I can give is that they've noticeably
improved the variety of Pokemon getting an ultra rare version in the SwSh era. Sableye, Butterfree, Talonflame, Darmanitan, Kricketune, Stoutland, and Liepard, to name a few, are all Pokemon that either have never or rarely had any sort of ultra rare card before getting a V. Of ALL the issues that one could have with the TCG now, variety of Pokemon is among the lowest for me.
First of all i didn't insult anyone at any point, secondly, I'm clearly joking. Third, and finally, what they said was *absurd* and should be looked down upon.
First of all, don't kid yourself and try to convince others that calling someone a sheep isn't intended as an insult. You and your attitude got called out for it and you deserve it. Second, that's a lame excuse. And third,
@Scoop was explaining the business perspective of why popular Pokemon get cards. The only thing that should be looked down upon is your hot takes in an attempt to belittle and appear smarter than others. Get over yourself.
Rainbow Rares are basically, literally only fueled by Charizard. Notice how nearly ALL rainbow rares cost less than their normal or full art counterparts- while Charizard rrs are like $150 at worst and $500 at best? And how, whenever one comes out, the youtube videos are all like PULLING THE SECRET RARE CHARIZARD!!!!! with a bearded white man soyfacing? ? My man, they're perpetuating each other and it's actively making sets and prices worse. But the pull rates are...idk??? I don't have much personal experience with pull rates lately due to, well, being dirt poor. Are they awful these days? Last I was informed was when they were really bad during chilling reign, are they still bad?
That wasn't the point about Rainbow Rares. The point was that they're pointless. That's the issue. Both he and I have voiced our discontent about these cards on Pokebeach for years now, and they only add to the already bloated setlists. Along the same lines, main sets becoming so huge,
every single set, and there being around 50+ ultra/secret rares, took my hobby of attempting to complete each set and made it unfun and unfeasible with my budget. I have gone from a big collector to a casual one with new products. THAT is more of an issue with the TCG that I have, rather getting mad that water is wet, aka Charizard or whoever getting a new card.
