The Mega sets are still regulation I. They're just no longer part of the Scarlet/Violet "era"/release groups.
“Mega Brave” and “Mega Symphonia” TCG Sets Releasing in August, Mega Gengar ex and Mega Diancie ex Decks!
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I really don't understand it.
At the moment, we know that SV9 will be available at the end of the month, SV10 at the end of May and SV10.5 in July. Even if this hasn't been officially confirmed, we've had leaked information from the French distributor indicating that there will indeed be an SV11 and an SV12 (September and November). I don't rule out the possibility that they didn't have the info and simply anticipated the usual logic. But I'd be surprised.
I'm not ruling out the possibility that the Megas will return in these end-of-year sets under the SV banner, but that's contradictory with the fact that they're teasing the arrival of a new block for this same year. Is it conceivable that this year's last two expansions will be included in the SV block, but with a “Mega” subtitle of some kind?
What's certain is that some Japanese cards from the SV era have not yet been included in our sets (I'm thinking, for example, of Professor Birch's, Juniper's, Kuikui's or Magnolia's trainer cards). We know that Sada will be included in SV9, so we'll probably have the others in SV10 and SV10.5, but if this isn't the case, it would mean a mix of SV and Mega for the last sets of the year.
In any case, I'm confused by this strategic choice. It's possible that trainers' Pokémon will also be included with the Mega sets, but I'd really have considered focusing the 2025 mechanics solely on trainers and incorporating the Mega sets only at the beginning of 2026.
Anyway, I'm really waiting for the official news.
At the moment, we know that SV9 will be available at the end of the month, SV10 at the end of May and SV10.5 in July. Even if this hasn't been officially confirmed, we've had leaked information from the French distributor indicating that there will indeed be an SV11 and an SV12 (September and November). I don't rule out the possibility that they didn't have the info and simply anticipated the usual logic. But I'd be surprised.
I'm not ruling out the possibility that the Megas will return in these end-of-year sets under the SV banner, but that's contradictory with the fact that they're teasing the arrival of a new block for this same year. Is it conceivable that this year's last two expansions will be included in the SV block, but with a “Mega” subtitle of some kind?
What's certain is that some Japanese cards from the SV era have not yet been included in our sets (I'm thinking, for example, of Professor Birch's, Juniper's, Kuikui's or Magnolia's trainer cards). We know that Sada will be included in SV9, so we'll probably have the others in SV10 and SV10.5, but if this isn't the case, it would mean a mix of SV and Mega for the last sets of the year.
In any case, I'm confused by this strategic choice. It's possible that trainers' Pokémon will also be included with the Mega sets, but I'd really have considered focusing the 2025 mechanics solely on trainers and incorporating the Mega sets only at the beginning of 2026.
Anyway, I'm really waiting for the official news.
I think you're reading too hard into this. The MEGA era is probably a mini one, so it could just import some leftover SV cards in their international release, should they not come in Destined Rivals or BW special set. I do share your opinion on what should have been though, the Trainer's mechanic is definitely undercooked.
I never said otherwise. Of course, the Mega block will be small, just like the HGSS block was. It's a transition period to wait for the 10G block. But I'm stuck on the idea of launching it in 2025, when 2026 will be more than enough to showcase it with at least five sets (4 main + 1 secondary minimum).
We feel like they must have made hasty decisions, certainly due to the fact that the 9G and Terastal weren't very popular, that there will be four years between the 9G and the 10G, and that they may not have found anything satisfactory to fill the gaps between the SV11 and SV12 other than the Mega.
Which official News other than what we have. The rocket set and heat wave arena will combine the next set of ours, followed by the unova set which will combine the black and white split set. After that there is mega in japan and mega for us. This won’t be the first time we don’t get all cards from Japan, and if they don’t become promos or they do an end of era set ( as mega is still Gen9) we probably just never will.
There's no way you WONT get that. Lol Let's hope it goes the same way Twilight Masq was with Ninja and be readily available despite there being a $200+ card in it.
There is a way we won't get that. Its a deck.
still, I'd be surprised if they didn't make an SIR out of one of the most popular pokemon Mega form. Lot's of pokemon has had starter deck versions and ones you can pull from a set.
Power creep been the norm since EX Ruby and Sapphire. Small increments every generation. The bigger issues are the disproportionate gap between single prizer’s HP and ex’s (Either normal or Mega) and the fact that ex’s already have efficient attacks and/or built in energy acceleration despite you needing to set up only half as many of them as you would single prizers to win a game. Hopefully all the basic ex’s require at least an evolution line for support, since Tag Team GX’s could often function with only 4-10 Pokémon, leaving tons of space free for item techs that made them even more consistent or hard to take down.
I wish Pokémon would reprint Double Rainbow Energy (Single prize evolved Pokémon deserve their own “Double Dragon Energy) more than ever with how efficient stage 2 ex attackers have become), but Feraligatr is one of the few Pokémon that could take advantage of it anyways, and the existence of three-prizers usually makes two-prizers the underdogs and the one-prizers unplayable unless those one-prizers are super-rampable glass cannon basics, so we might just be lucky to keep most of the top decks.
(You know, the fact that the first single-prize stage 2 attacker to top cut a major tournament since Galarian Obstagoon (https://www.ptcglegends.com/tournaments/2020_OCIC/masters/Tim Bartels-DE) in 2020 can effectively do 280 damage for two Energy, relies on a tool that turns it into a two-prizer, and is still considered rogue should be a sign that single prize stage 2’s need a major buff. Especially when you consider that Galarian Obstagoon was played for an attack that made it immune to basic Pokémon and an ability that synergizes with Sableye V- and Yveltal GX’s attacks.)
As for designing better cards and mechanics, hopefully Pokémon will create more original effects like the Lost Zone engine (yes, I know Sableye had lots of haters, but I enjoy the Comfey/Colress/Mirage Gate dynamic), but while Pokémon could start introducing mechanics like The Lost Zone again, I doubt they’d do it more than every couple of years at most in order to keep the game from becoming as complex as Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh.
Don’t forget the Alolan forms we started getting every set after Paradise Dragona.
Any other artists you wouldn’t mind illustrating Mega Charizard X? The odds are in favor of an SIR of at least one Mega Charizard form but against that specific artist illustrating it, which I’m sure you know already, but hey, it might be fun imagining how other illustrators would handle the same subject matter, and you might enjoy the card we ultimately get more.
I probably wouldn’t buy a Mega Charizard X ex SIR for budget reasons, but it would be cool to see one drawn as a reference to the artwork of Shining Charizard, another card I will probably never buy for budget reasons. An illustration by GOSSAN or Ryuta Fuse would also be cool (And stylistically it would be pretty similar to one by Naoki Saito). Finally, danciao could do a good job making mega Charizard X feel ominous and brooding.
We’d probably get a Mega Gengar ex and Mega Diancie ex special illustration rare in this year’s holiday set, or the next, similarly to how we got Lucario VSTAR, Darkrai VSTAR, Zeraora VSTAR/VMAX and Deoxys VSTAR/VMAX promos in VSTAR Universe (Our Crown Zenith) and Sylveon ex and Ceruledge ex in Terastral Festival (Our Prismatic Evolutions).
Not to strawman - because I know most users don't think this way - but
If you genuinely think that the SV era didn't have significant/any power creep, and that 360 HP signals that it's returning in a big way, then I don't think you have a very good understanding of what power creep actually is. The biggest numbers getting bigger is a small part of power creep. Cards getting faster, more consistent, more efficient, more oppressive etc. are also forms of power creep that went crazy over the SV era. Miraidon ex, Gardevoir ex, Charizard ex, Dragapult ex, Teal Mask ex, Dusknoir are all pretty egregious examples of power creep despite the fact that they didn't push any new numbers.
To be quite honest, these cards seem rather in line with the SV era. If a 2-prize Gardevoir with an incredible ability gets 310 HP, then 3-prize Gardevoir getting 360 HP seems pretty reasonable to me. (Nothing is reasonable about 3-prizers, but assuming the decision to make them is set in stone.)
If you genuinely think that the SV era didn't have significant/any power creep, and that 360 HP signals that it's returning in a big way, then I don't think you have a very good understanding of what power creep actually is. The biggest numbers getting bigger is a small part of power creep. Cards getting faster, more consistent, more efficient, more oppressive etc. are also forms of power creep that went crazy over the SV era. Miraidon ex, Gardevoir ex, Charizard ex, Dragapult ex, Teal Mask ex, Dusknoir are all pretty egregious examples of power creep despite the fact that they didn't push any new numbers.
To be quite honest, these cards seem rather in line with the SV era. If a 2-prize Gardevoir with an incredible ability gets 310 HP, then 3-prize Gardevoir getting 360 HP seems pretty reasonable to me. (Nothing is reasonable about 3-prizers, but assuming the decision to make them is set in stone.)
yes way. why else would they say it if that were not the case?
Let's be for real, they're bringing back megas. Which would be enough but....they're gonna do megw Charizard cards. Actually, they're most likely gonna do a set based on them. No hype or excitement is dying down any time soon, sadly....
Honestly even if we get to like 400hp stage 2s that’s not that much power creep, it’s just something you’re looking at 2 shotting without a weakness hit or lots of investment, and for a 3 prize Pokémon that’s probably fine, preferable even so games don’t end in 2 attacks. Unless megas come out and immediately invalidate most attackers from G and H it’s not really a problem if the numbers go up. Side note Chien Pao might be eating well against Mega Pokémon
In april.