In addition to featuring nine different Professors, the ex Starter Deck Generations will also feature nine different Black Belt cards! Each of them has the same effect, but with different artwork.
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Really? I thought the Blackbelts were just a generic trainer class in most of the games.
9 is indeed a lot. I could see 2 in main sets, 1-2 in some battle deck/trainer toolkit, etc. and 1-2 in some collection box together with some ex and another Pokémon like they had in the Roaring Moon/Iron Valiant boxes. But even then, there are 3-5 left. Some maybe we won't see all of them.
There's usually one NPC in the game somewhere remote that is THE Blackbelt.
Because "Draw 3" is so bad that it makes no sense to limit how many you can put in a deck, there is no need to unify them under the same name like Research and Boss.
Rival, Trainer, Supporter. Draw 3. You can have as many copies of Rival in your deck as you wish.
Why create confusion for players changing a fundamental rule of the game (4-of cards max except Basic Energy) for a card that is not good or see actual play when there is no need?
they have done this before, Arceus, and Unown for an example of cards with different names that are considered the same card. I don't think this is hard. Plague Rats isn't confusing.
