RE: (1) 95+ Stormfront Scans, Set List [10/20-10/22]
First off, let me start by saying that "PokePowers" and "PokeBodies" are two seperate things. In the early days of the Pokemon TCG we had "Pokemon Powers" which were refered to as "Powers". PokePowers and PokeBodies are two copletely seperate things. I am very certain that this is correct.
KnivesMonroe said:
speaking of Raichu LV X it says that when you level up: yadda yadda yadda, and it says that 'this power cant be used if Raichu is affected by a special condition." now how the heck can Raichu (after leveling up be affected by a special condish (abeit heatran lv x, pretty much just that) and since when cant you use a POKE BODY if u have a special condition, I will officially say that this has to be a misprint both in Japan and USA. it really should be a pokebody...
you see this really makes u admire my personal favorite Dusknoir LV X alot more in all its glory.
Raichu Lv.X is a unique card in that it has a PokeBody that can't be used if it is effected by a Special Condition when it has a PokeBody that activates upon Level Up. There are two ways that Raichu Lv.X could retain a Special Condition upon Level Up; Heatran Lv.X and Toxicroak MT, each respective card making you retain the Special condition Burn or Poison. This helps even out Raichu Lv.X a little bit more.
I don't really care about the Charizard line being reprinted. Sure, having a rare card that people will trade their mother's soul for (just kidding) is nice, if you randomly pull one out of a pack, but I'm not going to spen $150 bucks on Charmander. The only reason I am happy for the Charizard line to be reprinted is it means we can get the Electabuzz Reprint next set =].
It is bad news that Premier Ball is being reprinted. This means that PUSA wants it to remain in the game, but wants to rotate the expansion it is in; Great Encounters. I really hope we will get to keep Great Encounters, almost all the decks of the Metagame use cards from that set, whether it be Claydol, Sceptile, Togekiss, LunaRock, Swampert (RegiSwamp), Pachirisu, Felecty's Drawing (will probably be reprinted in POP 9 or 10), Moonlight Stadium, or even other random rouge cards like Exploud, Blaziken, or Altaria. I opt for an entire Great Encounters set list reprint. Probably not going to happen though.
If they are going to keep reprinting Switch and Potion, do you think we could at least get some different art work? The most current Potion art work we've had since EX: Delta Species, which we have had for more than two years. And how did they ever come up with the idea for a Potion to be repelling itself backwards on a lilli pad by spraying it's contents? I hope we get a Reprint with an upclose view of a trainer's hand spraying potion onto wounds (most likely scratches) on a pokemon's arm, perhaps Pikachu, a Kanto starter, or another basic pokemon that you catch early in the video games that has notable arms (ie, not Poliwag). As far as Switch goes, when I think of "switch" I think of a trainer returning a pokemon to it's Pokeball. I'd like artwork where all we see is the trainer's arm sticking out, with the red pokeball "energy" returning a fighting pokemon back to it's PokeBall. Just as long as we don't get Switch and Potion reprinted as Secret Rares. lol.