(1) New 'Emerging Challenges Box' with BW52 Lillipup Promo [9/19]

It seems like Black and White and Noble Victories to me. But we all know it is going to be Emerging Powers and Emerging Powers, because they need to get rid of it somehow.
 
That one looks like BW1 and Noble Victories; the back one looks like the pack art is Zekrom and the top of the pack indicates it's the basic BW set. The front one's obviously Noble Victories because it has Kyurem. And the theme deck is the Krookodile one from EP.

Most likely many of them will have Emerging Powers, but I would say it's a fair assumption that they're packaged fairly randomly - i.e. not all boxes have the same pack and/or theme deck assortment.
 
picked one up.. Toxic Tricks theme deck (EPO), one EPO booster and one BW booster.

Where's that lilligant blister?
 
They had them at Toys R Us today. They had the Scolipede and Krookodile theme decks. There was a Noble Victories pack, but I don't remember what the other one was.
 
Deus: Nightmare Autarch said:
...I don't think Call of Legends sucked. It only sucked for the players who'd been collecting the previous four HS sets up to that point already. Call of Legends is actually a pretty good set, especially for newcomers, since it had a nice catch-all of a variety of cards from various sets - Ninetales, Pachirisu, Smeargle, Jirachi, Umbreon, Slowking, Tyrogue, Cleffa, PONT, Sage's Training, Dual Ball, Lost Remover, Lost World (<3), Spec Dark/Metal...All of those are spread over the first 3 HS sets (Triumphant had the least representation due to it being the most recent set until that point), and because of that, you had a bigger chance of getting a good card in general from CoL than you did from one of the previous HS sets. Granted, CoL did not have all of the good cards, but it had quite a wide selection (in fact, I think the only cards of note really missing from CoL were Collector, Shaymin, PokeCom, the Primes, and Triumphant's trainer lineup). There's been many a time as judge when I've been asked to be paid in Call of Legends packs instead of Black & White, because the chance I'll hit something good is a lot higher otherwise (also because from my Triumphant pulls I got several Junk Arms and Seekers and barely needed anything else from it).

Emerging Powers was a bad set because you had a very low chance of getting something really good from it. Granted, it was a small set, so it wasn't something like Supreme Victors in which you had a handful of good cards but a much larger set (thus giving you really bad odds), but there were very few good cards in Emerging Powers - for Pokemon you had the debatable Gothitelle and Beartic, the two genies (both very good), but that was it...no other Pokemon was even worth mentioning. As for Trainers, you have only three things: Cheren, Bianca, and the ever-present Catcher. Emerging Powers sucked more for its pull rates and lack of variety than anything else. There were a lot of duplicates lying around in EP, as I'm sure you're aware.

tl;dr this sucker: EP sucked because of very few noteworthy cards (seriously, EP was nothing but leftovers, and CoL didn't because of its varied card pool.
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Actually from starting standpoint your raise some very valid points. For one who was just getting into the game, CoL was a very good set. It had many notable staples such as Dual Ball and PONT. From a competative standpoint CoL sucked though. It had almost all reprints which most people had already gotten from the original sets, and the most valuable card in there- Pachirisu- was an extremely good card with a terribly low pull rate. I believe it ended up somewhere at 1/3 Boxes from what my TO told me. Not to mention that all the new artwork sucked for everything except Cleffa.

On the other hand, EP I think was a very good set. It has 2 of the 3 staples for what used to be a good deck called CaKE. It has the BCIF Pokemon Catcher and Terrakion, both who make a huge impact on the format today. Granted you are right where out of the 100+ (I don't know if that is right. I'm guessing), you technically only really want like 3 cards (Catcher, Terrakion, Terrakion FA). It also has 2 of the 4 usable Supporters in this format, Bianca and Cheren. So right it is overall a bad set, but it has many gems that define the format.
 
venasour x said:
On the other hand, EP I think was a very good set. It has 2 of the 3 staples for what used to be a good deck called CaKE. It has the BCIF Pokemon Catcher and, both who make a huge impact on the format today. Granted you are right where out of the 100+ (I don't know if that is right. I'm guessing), you technically only really want like 3 cards (Catcher, Terrakion, Terrakion FA). It also has 2 of the 4 usable Supporters in this format, Bianca and Cheren. So right it is overall a bad set, but it has many gems that define the format.
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The Terrakion in EP was the bad Terrakion. Good Terrakion comes form NV.

Which leaves us with one card that will be played in all decks, Catcher. One card doesn't make a set - indeed it doesn't actually ensure that a lot of other decks become viable. Catcher didn't actually change the format at all, really. Something like Blastoise will alter the format, as SOME decks will use it - meaning it actually changes how decks will be made.
 
Not to mention that all the new artwork sucked for everything except Cleffa.
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That's a matter of opinion. I personally think most of the artwork from Call of Legends was an improvement over their originals...except for that Pineco.

On the other hand, EP I think was a very good set. It has 2 of the 3 staples for what used to be a good deck called CaKE. It has the BCIF Pokemon Catcher and Terrakion, both who make a huge impact on the format today.
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Cobalion = Noble Victories
Kyurem = Noble Victories
Terrakion = Noble Victories (again)

Noble Victories is an amazing set. Emerging Powers...not so much. Catcher, Genies, and Cheren (and maybe Bianca but that's debatable) are the only worthwhile things you can pull from it.
My point still stands. Emerging Powers is a bad set. Like the other guy said, one card does not make a set.
 
What is sad is that it is only available as that ugly reverse-foil style. Why not the BW reverse style? or as a simple non-holo card? It would have been better than this...
 
Metalizard said:
What is sad is that it is only available as that ugly reverse-foil style. Why not the BW reverse style? or as a simple non-holo card? It would have been better than this...
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On that I'd agree. Ugh, whatever. I hate an empty spot in my collection so they got my $20. Now bring on Dragon Vault so I can forget this unpleasantness.
 
It comes with an EP or NV deck, and two random packs from BW, EP, and NV.

Got one today, horrible pulls from it. I think the Herdier & Stoutland reverses are BW-style because that is what the sets' reverse cards looked like, but a newer style Lillipup reverse would better imo.
 
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