It's probably mainly for Special Energy, but they also want consistency for all Energy.
“Scarlet & Violet” English Set Revealed for March: Silver Borders, Three Holos Per Pack, Price Increases
- Thread starter Water Pokémon Master
- Start date
No. Scarlet ex and Violet ex are 78 cards each, which already accounts for 156 cards. The rest is likely coming from the 3 Starter Deck exs.
If they would include cards from Triplet Beat the set would be over 260 cards.
This is the best TCG news since forever. The price increase feels very abstract to me. Boosters cost already 5-8 euro’s per pack here. So it still feels cheap to me.
No, they never had yellow borders. The original, Gym, and Neo expansion cards have gold borders.
If I had to guess it's because they have terrible tastes.
Gold, which is a hue of...?
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You forgot the FAs are part of the main English sets.
That's like calling the silver borders black.
Pretty bold of someone incapable of telling apart different shades of colors to comment on "horrible tastes".
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Booster packs have been $4.49 at Target and $4.99 at my LGS for almost two years now. I honestly don’t remember ever seeing boosters at $3.99…so I wouldn’t call it greed. A 50 cent increase makes sense with the cost increase in global production and distribution.
I love every single one of these changes, even though I was excited for the return of ex’s, because I thought that would benefit expanded’s heavy EX theme…guess not.
I think this will be series where I start collecting.
I think this will be series where I start collecting.
They weren't metallic, which gold is, they were a yellow that transitioned to a browner yellow
Also these borders aren't silver. Magic the Gathering did silver borders. These are gray borders
Which would further confirm my point that there's no space for Triplet Beat in it.
The whole starter of this discussion is that maybe FAs might become SRs just like in Japan since Professor Turo is #190 and there are only 198 in the regular set, leaving not much space for FAs.
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I think they could have just put the new subtitle where the old title was not use the 2 lines. Now energy needs to stick out twice as far out the top under your pokemon on the field. Idk
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Three guaranteed holos. Next question, does the holos repeat in the same pack?
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This might be the biggest restructuring of the TCG since Nintendo acquired it from Wizards. While I'll miss the yellow borders and set symbols because of nostalgia, I think it makes sense to finally move on from them. The non-holo rares can eff off into oblivion though
Something I haven't seen brought up yet is the possibility of a mistranslation. What if bench barrier is the tera effect of every pokemon with a fire tera type? Then, each Tera Type would have its own bonus effect. That makes way more sense to me, since every Tera EX just having bench barrier is completely baffling.
A dude on youtube said that that's probably the case, I mean, it's the only explanation, an entire gen of the tcg having a bunch of mons have an entirely arbitrary and particular trait for no reason really doesn't make any sense. My guess is that your assumption is correct (that same dude also said the same thing), it makes sense for each tera type to have a trait of its own. Although I would still prefer them being completely unique to each mon, it is infinitely better than the bench barrier for all nonsense.