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I haven't played the TCG for a very long time. The last time I played, Neo Genesis was brand new. A lot of new sets have come out and it seems that this "Modified" format doesn't include any rereleases of all of the vital cards from my day. In fact, looking at the substitutes you have available, it seems all of those once-vital cards might even be considered broken. Can anyone confirm this hunch?
For example, all of my decks and nearly every deck I'd seen ran 4 copies of Bill, Computer Search, Itemfinder, and the almighty Professor Oak (among others). Yet these cards don't appear in any of the latest card sets. What do you do when you need a specific card, if you can't PC search? What do you do when you just want more cards from your deck or a new hand, for free, if you can't Bill or Oak? Do you just pick one card per turn, hope it's a good one, and move at a crawl? Is there a new way to burn through your deck and get all the cards you want, fast?
The "Build a Deck" section of this website lists a few crippled versions of these cards (Energy Removal now requires a coin flip? Oak only nets 5 cards, and is "almost broken"?), and yet they only let you play these weak versions once per turn? Trainers were once linked in long chains, but that seems impossible now.
I guess the real question I'm getting at is, do players today consider these classic trainers to be too broken to permit, or do they just put up with the new rules because they're the rules? If you removed the one "supporter" per turn rule, would there be outrage or relief? What if classic trainers were reprinted?
I thought it would be fun to maybe build a deck and hit up a tourney somtime, or something, but if the game has really changed...I don't think I'd be interested. Btw, I'd appreciate if this didn't get deleted - I'm not trying to flamebait or anything, I really am just curious.
For example, all of my decks and nearly every deck I'd seen ran 4 copies of Bill, Computer Search, Itemfinder, and the almighty Professor Oak (among others). Yet these cards don't appear in any of the latest card sets. What do you do when you need a specific card, if you can't PC search? What do you do when you just want more cards from your deck or a new hand, for free, if you can't Bill or Oak? Do you just pick one card per turn, hope it's a good one, and move at a crawl? Is there a new way to burn through your deck and get all the cards you want, fast?
The "Build a Deck" section of this website lists a few crippled versions of these cards (Energy Removal now requires a coin flip? Oak only nets 5 cards, and is "almost broken"?), and yet they only let you play these weak versions once per turn? Trainers were once linked in long chains, but that seems impossible now.
I guess the real question I'm getting at is, do players today consider these classic trainers to be too broken to permit, or do they just put up with the new rules because they're the rules? If you removed the one "supporter" per turn rule, would there be outrage or relief? What if classic trainers were reprinted?
I thought it would be fun to maybe build a deck and hit up a tourney somtime, or something, but if the game has really changed...I don't think I'd be interested. Btw, I'd appreciate if this didn't get deleted - I'm not trying to flamebait or anything, I really am just curious.