“Stellar Crown” Prerelease Promos Revealed: Ledian, Crabominable, Drifblim, Bouffalant!

[Water Pokémon Master]

The Stellar Crown prerelease promos will be new alternate art versions of Ledian, Crabominable, Drifblim, and Bouffalant from Stellar Miracle!

Here are our translations of the original cards:
Ledian – Grass – HP90
Stage 1 – Evolves from Ledyba
Ability: Sparkling Star Pattern
When you...

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[dineinunes]

finally

 

[bbb888]

Everyone Explode Now is the funniest attack name ever!! I'm glad it made a return, Forretress looking proud now.

 

[Matteloop]

I see that they went with some fan favourites pokemon

 

[Polaris]

Kinda like the set art more

 

[promolando]

I like promos

 

[PeterPlatinum]

Kinda like the set art more

I mean, when you're up against sowsow, you really don't stand a chance.

 

[MarlinRimes]

Pretty mid cards competitively, but for a prerealise. Looks really fun

 

[WithGreatPower]

I see that they went with some fan favourites pokemon

I’m happy. Ledian is my favourite Pokemon. Even though it’s always awful.

 

[Charmaster:)]

Everyone Explode Now looks like it could be a terror in prerelease. It's the sort of efficient attacker you've probably always wanted, and it benefits about as much from the "you can now run as many cards with the same name as you want" clause as you could ask for, meaning it's ability to set up consistently will spike if you pull a bunch of Drifloon from your packs. (Although, you can't exactly afford to Knock Out your Drifloon unless you're just going really fast, but still...)

Also, I love how these prerelease promos were revealed the day after the ones from the set releasing three months later.

 

[GeorgieWorgiePP]

Really want to use everyone explode now in prerelease tournament. And then make a joke deck with dusks and balloons after

 

[Charmaster:)]

I’m happy. Ledian is my favourite Pokemon. Even though it’s always awful.

Fortunately, this Ledian is at least good enough to justify using in casual play if you just want to play a Ledian for once. It's outclassed by Boss's Orders, sure, but it's still a useful Ability, and it's attack conveniently OHKOs most Pokémon in the range of it's Ability, and for a flexible attack cost.

Speaking of playing Ledian, Ledian Delta Species from Dragon Frontiers saw actual play in the winning deck from 2007 German Nationals, Exeggutor/Ledian/Quagsire. You'll find the list in this article (Skip to it by doing a word search with "ctrl f" and typing "Ledian"). Playing this deck on a website like TCGONE could be a good excuse for taking some time to explore Pokémon's historic formats.
https://retro-library.com/2007-decks/

 

[Charmaster:)]

Really want to use everyone explode now in prerelease tournament. And then make a joke deck with dusks and balloons after

If you're not making it to play in an event, you could build a Drifloon/Zoroark deck as an ode to Dark Weezing/Brock's Ninetales.

 

[LightYearLiam]

Wait, the Bouffalant wording literally says the effect "doesn't stack"? Interesting.

 

[Dabfamlet]

Wait, the Bouffalant wording literally says the effect "doesn't stack"? Interesting.

Bro, it would be ridiculously op if it stacked

 

[Alex6179]

Not holo?

 

[Porygatto]

I’m happy. Ledian is my favourite Pokemon. Even though it’s always awful.

I love Ledian too <3
It's nice to see him get some recognition for once

 

[Chimecho3000]

Not holo?

Taken from an ETB booklet.

 

[LightYearLiam]

Bro, it would be ridiculously op if it stacked

That's not the point. The wording is what surprised me. I expected "you can't apply more than 1 at a time" wording, which is what PTCG usually does. I'm glad, though. This is better.

 

[Johnny the Young Maestro]

I love Ledian too <3
It's nice to see him get some recognition for once

Both of these Ledian cards are very pretty, they did a great job on the artwork. I'm glad they're giving smaller Pokemon some recognition. It's a nice breath of fresh air.