The Next Rotation and Yveltal
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The rotation is an annual thing that Pokemon Company International does to keep the game fresh, new, and exciting. What they do is they take out a few of the older sets in the format, removing them from play. That means that, say, a Level Ball from Next Destinies is no longer legal to be played with the new format that takes place on September 3rd, 2014. Next Destinies, Dark Explorers, and Dragons Exalted (and I think Dragon Vault) have all been removed from play and any cards from them are illegal to use unless reprinted in a later set. For example, Darkrai EX from Dark Explorers can still be used, even though Dark Explorers has been rotated out. This is because Darkrai EX was reprinted for Legendary Treasures, which is still in the format. Major cards in an Yveltal EX deck are affected would probably be Sableye DEX, Dark Patch, and those are the only ones I can think of at the moment. Sorry. Wish I could have been of more help.
Hope this helps,
LoneWolf2113
Hope this helps,
LoneWolf2113
Also if you play enhanced hammer, that card is rotated out too.
Yes but since the league promo's number isn't BWXXX, and is 94/108 and shows the Dark Explorers symbol, it will be rotated out. 
LoneWolf2113 said:Yes but since the league promo's number isn't BWXXX, and is 94/108 and shows the Dark Explorers symbol, it will be rotated out.
Yeah, but who knows if it will come back come the expansion after the Furious Fists expansion in terms of release dates: Phantom Gate...
^ The rotation means no more prism and blend energies, no more heavy ball, no more Skyarrow Bridge, and any energy acceleration is left to the attacks or abilities of the individual pokemon, rather than item cards that do the same job and only better than a baby Yveltal's oblivion wing, a Furious Fists Landorus's Shout of Power, among other things that are related to acceleration by attack, which often involves putting 3-4 of the same accelerator in your deck in order to raise your chances of getting a shot to power up one pokemon, and knowing that w/o item-based acceleration, one or two of the accelerators are likely be KO'd doing their job, giving up 1 or so prizes just for the purpose of powering up one pokemon in energy terms, then by the time they are powered up, the opponent is likely to complete setting up the resources to deluge, fandango, or even use two-energy-on-bench attacks to outpace the bench attachments from the outclassed discard-bench energy scoop pokemon, and use their advantage to not only KO the inferior one-energy-attachment-from-discard-and-done-for-turn pokemon, but they could use Lysandre to force out, and KO the pokemon set up to render the strategy as fruitless and foolish, as the set-up pokemon's KO would force another set-up with one or two prizes left to give up before the opponent draws their last prize and wins the match. Therefore, if the opponent has maintained their set-up while yours is crushed to the point that it must be re-established with too little time left to complete it before you give up your last prize to your opponent, then if your energy accelerator failed to allow your deck's main attackers to successfully carry out their job before they are KO'd, letting three or four, maybe five, prizes slip away from the opponent's prize area, and if you have to reset at that point of the game, then you are most likely to suffer defeat before you even accomplish the reset...
In the case of yveltal your only energy attachments are not the ones coming from oblivion wing you can still attach for the turn and therotically start to set up 2 yveltal ex while one is coming from oblivion wings and the other is coming from ,amual hand attachment. So you can still set up multiple cards per turn while getting some damage in play. You dont need to worry that greatly about blastoise or emboar decks any more because there are easy ways to knock out the main attackers in those decks.
The whole rotation rules are for tournaments/sanctioned tournaments so if you are going to play with some friends or at the Pokémon League (for fun) and they don't mind, you can still use rotated cards.
There's also going to be a new format that allows you to use cards from BW up to the latest expansion. I think it starts on Sep.
There's also going to be a new format that allows you to use cards from BW up to the latest expansion. I think it starts on Sep.