The only card on here that’s bannable is Electrode GX. Gengkyu GX isn’t that problematic anymore and it’s reflected in tournament standings on Limitless and Japan. For the average player, it seems overpowered but it’s really not that difficult to play around on the grand scheme of the game. In fact, Shadow Rider is on a heavy decline because Lugia Drago and Palkia all gained so much within the last few sets while Rider has virtually remained the same. Ban Electrode GX and Tinachomp GX because those are the two main issues.I am, it is by far my favorite format to play in the game.
the main cards that have been causing egregious degeneracy for the last few years are:
Gengar & Mimikyu-GX (Horror House GX is an extremely unfair turn 1 attack that puts an opposing player at a strong immediate disadvantage that is difficult to come back from)
Electrode-GX (being able to use this on Vs and exs is way too strong, there's a particularly degenerate combo with Dialga VSTAR that can take all six prizes in effectively one turn if done right)
Lugia VSTAR (just way too good, combos too well with Archeops/Double Dragon Energy)
RoboSub/Lillie's Poke Doll (these do not need banned exactly, but it is a bit absurd that you can run both of these together. I'd like a special rule that forbids players from running both cards in the same deck)
Scoop Up Net is a good call, it was gonna be real bad with Iron Valiant-ex and was already a problem with donk and stall decks. All this card really needed was to exclude all Rule Box Pokemon, so maybe we'll get a reprint of it with that errata in the future.
Net was absolutely not a good call because no ex’s that were printed have been problematic like Shaymin EX was. Iron Valiant ex was only used for FTK decks, which aren’t even viable decks in the first place and exist strictly for ladder grinding (which isn’t a real thing IRL). Japan’s priorities towards FTK and not the real issues is very telling of the clear bias they have towards their own decks. The fact they don’t want to address and solve the REAL issues (Tinachomp and Electrode), despite the greater Pokemon community having a clear issue with these two cards, tells you all about the bias they have towards Lugia VSTAR and Alolan Raichu. It’s simple, they don’t want those decks to be worse/become irrelevant because Lugia VSTAR is practically the poster boy of Expanded over there. This is an issue that I and many other US players have had with Japan within the last year or so, which has only gotten worse and worse.