“Pokemon Trading Card Game Classic” Box Set Announced for Fall, Features New and Classic Cards!

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A new premium box set called “Pokemon Trading Card Game Classic” will release in late 2023 in English and in October 2023 in Japan! It was revealed during today’s Pokemon Direct.


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The product will contain three 60-card decks headlined by Base Set Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise. Each of the decks will contain new and reprinted cards. The cards will feature a unique holofoil pattern different from the one in Celebrations. All of the cards feature new numbering for this box set.


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I love the premium feel of this product (and will no doubt try and pick one up), but what is the intention here long term? To have a 'classic' format with expansions etc? Not sure I am for that...
 
The combination of old and new in a deck is weird, tbh. If you want to make a classic focused product, just stick to that. Very funny and odd to mix in new-style ex cards and make some special Pokemon Tools so the unmodified Base Set cards can compete. Also, seems a bit wasteful to make new cards, with the style of new cards, that aren't tournament legal. I was more understanding of the retro cards they made in Celebrations not being legal because it'd be weird having Poke-Bodies and Poke-Powers in the modern format.
 
Yaginku said:
Pokemon Company saw the "success" Wizard had with $1000 set of proxies and decided to release a $250 set of proxies.
Granted, this box is way nicer than some packs of unplayable reprints, but it's NOT $250.
Meanwhile, if you want to play Base Set and actually have fun doing it, I have a thread to show you.
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Then what would be a good price for it? I think it is a good price for the premium products.
 
Good Charizard card will be printed as always and then using Blazing Charcoal will make it broken
 
ProfesserPopplio said:
Then what would be a good price for it? I think it is a good price for the premium products.
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Lets see. Pokemon Battle Academy is around $35 for the same amount of cards, but less tat. Trainer's Toolkit is around $40. How much do you want to pay for "collectability" of illegal cards and some metal elements that look less practical than a mat + some dice?
 
Yaginku said:
Lets see. Pokemon Battle Academy is around $35 for the same amount of cards, but less tat. Trainer's Toolkit is around $40. How much do you want to pay for "collectability" of illegal cards and some metal elements that look less practical than a mat + some dice?
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It looks like it comes with a lot. Plus the premium play at and damage stacks. Even if they are illegal, I feel like it would be a fun thing to play with friends. I do agree that it should be around 100-150$
 
LightYearLiam said:
According to the article, "Except for Basic Energy cards, the cards in these decks are illegal for tournament play." Which I don't really get, tbh; why not make just the Pokemon Tool cards and any other problematic cards illegal?
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Oh I didn’t see that my bad
 
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