Ruffian from “Battle Partners!”
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Lass was in Base Set, so it's true. Generic Trainer Class as Supporter Card is a perfect fit, it's just stupid for them to be doing it in a set that's pretending to be a throwback to Gym Heroes. It is a bizarre amount of disinterest in the returning mechanic. This supporter effect could have been attached to a named character, and said named character could have had a handful of what will otherwise be dismissed as "pack filler" mons attributed to them and featuring even minor interactions between them.
It feels like they are already bored of it before releasing a single card, and it doesn't inspire confidence.
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Yeah, even if they only wanted four sets of Trainer's Pokémon, they could have at least included a named character, possibly with some connection to one of the named characters. Since Lillie is in the set, why not just include Faba, the superior version of this effect? Imagine how funny it would be to remove Lillie's Clefairy's Tool with Lillie's mother's scheming employee..
Brock is acceptable even if we never get Brock's Pokémon (As unacceptable as that would be) because he's a well-known character and traveling companion of Misty in the anime (Misty has been teased for a Trainer's Pokémon release).
would be good thematically but it could be argued that potentially stripping two cards at a time can be better than merely one of three different targets instead of only two options. this is going to depend a lot on what the special energy climate is in this block (especially what our eventual new double colorless looks like compared to DTE).
but on the other hand it could have come with a Faba's Hypno, so...
It would be so much more awesome if you got to put the tool and energy on your own PokémonI just conceptually love that this is essentially a “your Pokémon get robbed” card
It's not his name, it's a trainer class.
not a fun card to be outclasses by
So insulting that a nameless Trainer is in a set featuring NAMED Trainer's Pokémon
Every recent mechanic has not take over the entire set. Did Battle Styles only have Rapid and Single Strike cards in it? No. Then why would this one? We are likely getting Trainer's Pokémon in all sets this year, I don't understand why y'all are up in arms just because the set is not all trainers. It makes no sense for them to stop supporting older archetypes and giving us new ones that aren't Trainer's related.
The absolute worst quality of Lost Vacuum was the fact it was an item. Regardless if a player used it for their Lost Zone setup, permanently losing a tool or stadium for the rest of the game is not fun for a lot of decks that rely on tools or stadiums, especially if either of them are an ACE-SPEC. While we won't have stadium or tool recovery for a hot minute since Roseanne's Backup is the only thing we have until rotation, I am perfectly fine with a Supporter version of this even if it only is used in control, and the special energy discard effect will keep Neo Upper/Legacy Energy users in check if in the future a deck rises with one of those.
Oh no… they canonized resellers.
Because it is a complete waste not to do so here. Having an entire set that's all two 'archetypes' is not the same as having an entire set consisting of potentially over a half dozen different ones, especially when you consider that none of these archetypes need to be over and done with after one set. The fact that they're laying so little groundwork for the future in the debut set is a worrying indicator that the year may end up being mere lip service to a memorable mechanic minus the willingness to commit even halfheartedly to doing it well.
Keep in mind, I don't think anyone would be complaining if it seemed like a sure thing that set were going to contain more than what really might end up being four barebones trainer archetypes, but we really cannot be sure of that yet (Even Marnie's Grimmsnarl ex is seeming like it's not a part of this set). Expecting more than half a debut set to be dedicated to owner's mons (not one deck, but many decks) in the year that really wants you to remember better sets that were wholly, not just partially, dedicated to them is not at all unreasonable in the slightest.
I think that would be pretty broken, both gamerules wise and balance wise.
I don’t have a problem with this card choice but it IS pretty interesting how obscure this trainer class is in the grand scheme of things yet is getting a card. There’s three Ruffians total, they only show up in Kitakami, and all three have slightly different designs. This one is specifically Mikiya, the one with a Slugma and a Koffing.
Sorry didn’t realise it was bad
I would direct your attention to Lillie's pearl, a tool card from the same set that gives the Lillie's pokemon its attached to a life dew effect. Without something to remove tools the only thing we have is jamming tower.
Ya that would be an insane card. Maybe just stealing the special energy?
But what is Giacomo doing for you post rotation? There ain't no Lugia.
Unless I missed some other kind of special energy acceleration card existing.