MC’s Hype Up, Judge from “Heat Wave Arena”

[Alex Hesketh]

It was already confirmed ig but yeah super likely now that there should be a 1 or 2 line grass pokemon from johto/hoenn thats an ex. And likely to get a SAR

 

[TheLegend]

That is such name to appeal to kids but, is clearly not up to date and made by someone old.

 

[jdubs4lief]

Judge still marked as G block, possible not gonna return until J block, possibly even later

 

[Nintenfreak]

I feel like Judge reprint staying G means once all G cards rotate, our draw supporter options will mainly be kind of meh or situational draw supporters for H on, unless they print an actual good draw supporter before 2026, which probably won't happen meaning they are intentionally wanting to move to more situational style Supporters.

I think it's mostly done in case they decide not to reprint it in Regulation J. This way they can reprint it in 2026 with Regulation J unless they decide it doesn't go with their flow

 

[ShigeruMiyamoto]

Who is ready for the 12th full art judge card

 

[arcv3]

I like when supporters play into the theme of the set, EC and Judge both being employees of the "Heat Wave Arena"

 

[angooseburger]

I don't know if it's a good idea to not extend the blocks for Prof Research and even judge. Unlike last year's formats, decks have already trended away from having max copies of prof research in favor of archetype relevant power cards like the arven for stage 2 decks or prof sadas for ancient. We already know that a lot of the archetypes releasing in the future will have archetype specific supports as well so research will still have competition. It'll be more difficult to cook up rogue archetypes that don't have a specialized supporter otherwise.

 

[waffledog]

Very unfortunate if this set follows through like Battle Partners and we won't get any SAR trainer again. Would be nice to get the very first Ethan SR/SAR, another Misty and Cynthia in SR/SAR as well.

 

[Noficus]

Hmm… why didn’t they reprint Iono in the new format? We are gonna need that…

 

[MagnaDrake]

Not entirely sure what's the point of reprinting a card in a new set without updating it's regulation legality, but oh well.

 

[BerserkGorilla]

and the news from the night before was so good too....

 

[HammockBoy]

Woah, ok so I’m new here and didn’t think we could get new versions of cards from 2 regulation marks ago, so there is hope for a new Arven??? (they are as rare as hens teeth in my part of the world)