Pokewiz1999 said:
Anyone else notice that you flip and decide who goes first BEFORE drawing your hand? That means you don't know what kind of start you'll get before you choose.
Yeah, I did notice that. I think this is a good thing for the format, since you can't base your decision off of what your opening hand is, and have to do it based off of what deck you're playing, which may seem to make it more luck-based, but you also get to decide what basics to put out at the start of the game, which adds some skill to the game.
For example, if you're going first, you only want to play 1 down, because you can bench the others after you know what you're opponent's deck is. And if you're going second, you usually want to put all of them down (aside from techs and Jirachi and stuff like that) just in case your opponent N's them back into your deck. But you might not want to, in case they Catcher/Red Signal one of your other Pokemon up, but since it's a flip now, most people won't do that anymore.
Also, I think there's 146 cards in the set, not 166.
