You should talk to your local game store and local Kmart equivalent about how product distribution works. boxes like this are not being chosen but forced upon orders of main set boosters
“Legendary Warriors Premium Collection” Revealed for October Featuring SWSH Packs!
- Thread starter Water Pokémon Master
- Start date
I'm curious what data you have on that considering that most of the games that I play of Magic the Gathering are kitchen table as are most of the games of Pokemon I play
I do think Pokemon needs a one prize format. I don't really like rule box cards. I think they are more polarizing than they are useful at creating diversity. You would think that having to give up to prizes would be worth the trade off but I'm not sure that it isn't lopsided. I'm not sure that if it was three prizes it wouldn't bee lopsided
Weird how this "not an official" format has a whole breakdown on the Pokemon website and an official rules booklet that was sent out to Pokemon Leagues.
Side Event Breakdown: Gym Leader Challenge
Learn how to battle like a Gym Leader in this unique Pokémon TCG format where you only use a single Pokémon type in your deck.
Writing off a format that has more players than expanded when expanded used to have it's own regionals doesn't seem right.
GLC is so fun I sold all my standard stuff. My cards don't rotate and once I have a single copy of a card I'm golden.
I'll be buying the Zacian and Zamazenta as singles for sure, fun doggies.
I understand that this is a way for the company to offload extra volume of old product but I always feel a bit sad and a bit nostalgic when I see these.
Silver Tempest was the last time I attended a prerelease. I vividly remember the hype around the “new” Pokémon V and the end of the GX era. ADP and PikaRom were the BDsIF only yesterday.
Before we know it we’ll be seeing Tera Pokémon ex boxes on store shelves and wondering why anyone would bother to buy them.
SWSH was a good era, and I’ll be sad to see it finally sunset.
Silver Tempest was the last time I attended a prerelease. I vividly remember the hype around the “new” Pokémon V and the end of the GX era. ADP and PikaRom were the BDsIF only yesterday.
Before we know it we’ll be seeing Tera Pokémon ex boxes on store shelves and wondering why anyone would bother to buy them.
SWSH was a good era, and I’ll be sad to see it finally sunset.
In YGO side events at YCS are always empty sans for Edison format which is inconsistent at best; some times they can't run the side event and sometimes it is full (full is anywhere 32-64 players).
In Pokemon, there are no events for GLC or the legacy format. If they are unsupported, is unlikely they are popular at all. Also, you can see it by watching sales volumes, rotated cards barely sell and rotated cards used in alt formats are no different.
Both games have terrible stories to share when it comes to alternate formats. In MTG, there is precedent for success in multiple formats, so anything that says "alternate format in MTG", i'm inclined to believeit can work. Ygo and Pokemon, i'm sure it won't work
Not really.
You can buy from the distributor any product you want in any quantity they are willing to sell you; is not forced at all.
Walmart gobbles these boxes up because they propably get a good Market Discount and theirr pricing managers aren't specialist in TCG's cards. Their sales model likely tells them that worst case scenarios, they can sell them at a similar PIX as the acqusition cost.
I find that unlikely to be the case IRL but what do i know.
The only "bad" thing that can happen is that they can sometimes allocate less of any future product for you if you don't buy "x%" of any product.
Is not like nintendo or konami sell boxes to most retailers, it is done via a third party company pretty much always.
Those are official games. I'm talking about games, period. I would be willing to wager good money that the majority of any TCG is not played in an official setting
I'd personally like to see the data regarding how many Leagues actually run GLC-format events, a local League in my area used to host 'em but abruptly stopped a while ago.Weird how this "not an official" format has a whole breakdown on the Pokemon website and an official rules booklet that was sent out to Pokemon Leagues.
Side Event Breakdown: Gym Leader Challenge
Learn how to battle like a Gym Leader in this unique Pokémon TCG format where you only use a single Pokémon type in your deck.www.pokemon.com
Writing off a format that has more players than expanded when expanded used to have it's own regionals doesn't seem right.
GLC is so fun I sold all my standard stuff. My cards don't rotate and once I have a single copy of a card I'm golden.
I'll be buying the Zacian and Zamazenta as singles for sure, fun doggies.