Miracle Diamond/Mysterious Pearl/Wonder Plat in SV?

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Awhile ago, this video of the junior division winners of a Japanese Pokemon tournament surfaced (located bottom right of the page):

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/special/wcs0809/report/final/

Soon after, hype erupted over Blaziken FB/Luxray GL and Gengar/Machamp, but what I personally have since been wondering about this video revolves around one card in particular: that flipped over top prize on the Gengar/Machamp player's side, visible just a few seconds into the video.
The format at this time was Diamond and Pearl to "Pulse of the Frontier," or our upcoming Supreme Victors set.

Some speculation, mine included, is that this card is one of three unnumbered promos released in Japan: Mysterious Pearl, Miracle Diamond, or Wonder Platinum.
Here are the translations, which I have taken from Bulbapedia:

"Mysterious Pearl - Trainer

Look at all of your face-down Prize cards. You may choose 1 Pokémon you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. If you do, put this card as a Prize card face up instead of discarding it.

Pokémon Trading Card official card game tournament award."

"Miracle Diamond - Trainer

Look at all of your face-down Prize cards. You may choose 1 Trainer, Supporter, or Stadium cards you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. If you do, put this card as a Prize card face up instead of discarding it.

Pokémon Trading Card official card game tournament award. "

"Wonder Platinum - Trainer

Look at all of your face-down Prize cards. You may choose 1 Energy card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. If you do, put this card as a Prize card face up instead of discarding it.

Pokémon Trading Card official card game tournament award. "


Now while these cards are not from the main set, they obviously impacted the meta there, allowed players to opt against playing a card like Azelf LA and still be able to play fewer Pokemon/Trainer/Energy copies without worry of them being prized.
My question is, do you think there is any chance that we get any of these promos in Supreme Victors? They would be a great addition to deck building here, and would put us even closer to playing the same format as the Japanese, as POP has obviously been trying to attain, i.e. no rotation this year.
Similar to these 3 promos was Time-Space Distortion (MT), a card that was released as a Battle Road Promo in Japan and reached us as a "secret rare" in Mysterious Treasures. Taken from Bulbapedia:

"Mysterious Treasures features the secret card Time-Space Distortion, which was previously only available as a Japanese promotional card at Battle Road Spring 2007. Like its Japanese counterpart it features a holographic border, making this the first English Trainer card to have this treatment. It is also the first secret card included in a set since EX Holon Phantoms. "

Anyone else think Miracle Diamond, Mysterious Pearl and Wonder Platinum could receive the same treatment? That would mean more highly sought after cards, though.

Discuss.
 
hmmm...I actually would enjoy seeing those cards show up here...especially in SV....I really do hope they show

they seem as though they would definitely change the metagame
 
So many decks would love those cards it aint even funny anymore...seeing them would make the game far more interesting, and certain decks far less suspectible to a Lolpowerspray.
 
I really hope those cards, especially Mysterious Pearl, are easy to obtain.
 
I will be surprised if these cards stay legal. Not only do they sound hard to obtain, but it would make the TCG further confusing. There is a reason why people don't play victory medals. I think that "victory"-like cards shoulddn't be legal, since it is unfair to the major population who can't get them.

This would also make a huge impact on our metagame. We don't want these to become uxie.
 
I really want these to come out here! IMO, that would totally get rid of Azelf unless you don't have the Pearl one. Pluss, I really like the Diamond one too. A ton of decks are going to benifet from these.
 
Juliacoolo said:
I will be surprised if these cards stay legal. Not only do they sound hard to obtain, but it would make the TCG further confusing. There is a reason why people don't play victory medals. I think that "victory"-like cards shoulddn't be legal, since it is unfair to the major population who can't get them.
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Time-Space Distortion is legal, and was available as a secret rare in Mysterious Treasures, after being a "trophy card" in Japan.
While having three such cards in one set seems unlikely, I wouldn't rule it out.
 
I think it would be fine if it was like TSD, but I meant that I felt it would be wrong given as a "victory medal" type card in the U.S, or other Non-Japan country.
 
If these cards were in the set, it would be sweet. We wouldn't need Azelf anymore, thanks to Mysterious Pearl. These cards would definitely have a good effect on the metagame.
 
All 3 of them are really broken cards. O_O Put that trainer as your prize face up? "oh no, I have 2 Pokemon prized, I'll just get one with this then take a prize and get the 2nd one next turn lol@@@"

I didn't even know these existed before this thread, and now I really want all of them. Extreme consistency here I come.
 
While that is true, Azelf is more searchable. Also, if these cards do take on a TSD-rarity, I still think some players will still be using Azelf, because if these cards are as rare as TSD, they would:

a) Take a LOT of packs to find, and buying box upon box isn't something most players are able to do
b) They would be pretty pricey, especially Mysterious Pearl. Mysterious Pearl could possibly get as high as $100, but a $60-75 range seems more reasonable. How many people want to shell out this much money for it?

Anyway, all of these cards are broken. If they Trainers were discarded instead of placed in the prizes, than they would be another option for Azelf. However, since they go to the prizes, these cards outclass Azelf in almost every way.

I just hope these cards aren't all too rare. If they don't, I think we see a new staple or two coming up.
 
I like these cards alot, also these would be far better than victory medals too(those are terrabad,, pokedrawer is better IMO), Carl wants these really bad.
 
I think that we might see them in this set cause I rember reading somewhere on the beach that the set was bigger than tht amount of translations that we had so those might be some of the ones that we are getting.
 
If they are then they will be THE cards to get at the Pres. Tip to everyone going to a Pre, bring all your valuable cards for trading! xD

Okay On-Topic.... I think these FAAAARR outclass Azelf. I mean, unless you're going against a Dialga G. Then you have yourself some of the most broken trainers here.
 
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