Main 190 Cards from ‘Shiny Star V’ Revealed, Only ‘Ball Guy’ New! By: JustInBasil Posted 3 months ago to TCG 24 comments The official Japanese Pokemon TCG website has revealed all 190 regular cards from Shiny Star V! This reveal comes one week earlier than usual. The only new cards revealed tonight are Ball Guy and non-shiny versions of some shiny Pokemon that were previously revealed. The main set has a total of 14 new cards. As posted before, most of the main set is reprints. Of course, the set’s main attraction is its secret rare cards. There will be 127 shiny Pokemon and other secret rares! None of those were revealed tonight. Shiny Star V releases in Japan on November 20th, so we have three weeks to see them all! Cards from this set will become part of our special 4.5 set in February, including the shiny Pokemon. New Cards in the Set Thwackey – Grass – HP90 Stage 1 – Evolves from Grookey Ability: Familiar Ground If you have a Stadium in play, this Pokemon has no Retreat Cost. [G] Branch Poke: 20 damage. Weakness: Fire (x2) Resistance: None Retreat: 2 Snom – Water – HP50 Basic Pokemon [W] Call for Family: Search your deck for a Basic Pokemon and put it onto your bench. Then, shuffle your deck. Weakness: Metal (x2) Resistance: None Retreat: 2 Koffing – Darkness – HP60 Basic Pokemon [D] Ascension: Search your deck for a card that evolves from this Pokemon and put it onto this Pokemon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. Weakness: Grass (x2) Resistance: None Retreat: 1 Rotom – Lightning – HP80 Basic Pokemon Ability: Rotochoice Once during your turn, when you play this card from your hand onto your Bench, you may search your deck for up to 2 Item cards with “Rotom” in their name, reveal them, and put them in your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. [L][C] Thundershock: 30 damage. Flip a coin, if heads the opponent’s Active Pokemon is now Paralyzed. Weakness: Fighting (x2) Resistance: None Retreat: 1 Ditto V – Colorless – HP170 Basic Pokemon Ability: Metamorphosis Once during your turn (before your attack), you may switch this Pokemon with a Basic Pokemon V from your discard pile. Any attached cards, damage counters, Special Conditions, turns in play, and any other effects remain on the new Pokemon. [C] Stick On: Attach 1 basic Energy from your discard pile to this Pokemon. When your Pokemon V is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards. Weakness: Fighting (x2) Resistance: none Retreat: 2 Ditto VMAX – Colorless – HP320 VMAX Pokemon – Evolves from Ditto V [C][C][C] Max Transform: Choose 1 of your opponent’s Active Pokemon’s attacks and use it as this attack. When your Pokemon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards. Weakness: Fighting (x2) Resistance: none Retreat: 3 Crobat VMAX – Darkness – HP300 VMAX Pokemon – Evolves from Crobat V [D][C] Stealth Poison: 70 damage. Your opponent’s Active Pokemon is now Poisoned. Switch this Pokemon with 1 of your Benched Pokemon. [D][D][C] Max Cutter: 180 damage. When your Pokemon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards. Weakness: Fighting (x2) Resistance: none Retreat: 1 Reshiram – Fire – HP120 Basic Pokemon [R][L][D] Amazing Blaze: 270 damage. This Pokemon does 60 damage to itself. Weakness: Water (x2) Resistance: none Retreat: 3 Kyogre – Water – HP120 Basic Pokemon [W][L][M][C] Amazing Surge: This attack does 80 damage to each of your opponent’s Pokemon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokemon.) Weakness: Lightning (x2) Resistance: none Retreat: 3 Yveltal – Darkness – HP110 Basic Pokemon [R][P][D][C][C] Amazing Death: Your opponent’s Active Pokemon is Knocked Out. Weakness: Lightning (x2) Resistance: Fighting (-30) Retreat: 2 Team Yell’s Cheer Towel – Trainer Item Heal 50 damage from both Active Pokemon. You may play any number of Item cards during your turn. Rusted Sword – Trainer Item – Tool Attach a Pokémon Tool to 1 of your Pokémon that doesn’t already have a Pokémon Tool attached. The attacks of the Zacian V this card is attached to do an additional 30 damage to your opponent’s Active Pokemon. You may play any number of Item cards during your turn. Rusted Shield – Trainer Item – Tool Attach a Pokémon Tool to 1 of your Pokémon that doesn’t already have a Pokémon Tool attached. The maximum HP of the Zamazenta V this card is attached to is increased by 70. You may play any number of Item cards during your turn. Ball Guy – Trainer Supporter Search your deck for up to 3 different Item cards that have “Ball” in their name, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn. ‘Shiny Star V’ Main Set Most of the main set is reprinted cards. ‘Shiny Star V’ Secret Rares These were revealed over the past few weeks; they are not part of tonight’s reveal. There will be 127 shiny Pokemon in the set and other secret rare cards. They will all be revealed over the next three weeks. All of the shiny Pokemon revealed so far are reprints.
SNOOOOOOOOOOM! awmigawsh he's adowable my life goal is now to pull every Snom card. I need to pull these buggy bois from the boosters myself. Even the shiny one. English and Japanese
Not bad. It's a powercreeped Apricorn Ball Maker, and by pulling 3 Quick Balls you can easily chain a Crobat, then a Dedenne, then a Zacian or whatever else you need. The main problem I'm seeing is that you would probably run out of Quick Balls first - and we only have one another "good" ball in the format, Cherish Ball. Maybe once they start to reprint Nest Balls, Dive Balls, Level Balls, or whatever else, it may start to see more use.
So ball guy can search pokeball items and other ball guy supporters... Neat! Maybe it would give people a reason to use great ball... or at least cherish ball would be better
"This entire set will become part of our special 4.5 set in February" Are you certain about that? Seems to me this would mostly be saved for next years holiday set, at least the shiny cards. If they are making something fancy for their 25th anniversary I think it will be something no one has seen yet.
In Expanded, Ball Guy's a pretty easy way to search 2 Level Balls + Quick Ball and find Jirachi Prism, Mr. Mime, and Oranguru. If your deck opts for Jirachi EX for Scoop Up Net synergy, Level Ball is a pretty legitimate option.
The choices of reprinted cards are a bit different than before. Often it were the most playable cards of previous sets. However, people will mostly collect it for the shining Pokémon anyway. While I have nothing against the shining Pokémon, it doesn't feel exciting having it once more and looking almost the same. We could use something like the radiant collections again.
So a lot of people think Research, and Boss will last for a while... but Research and Boss are still printed with the "D" art. Should one who just ordered their max rarity supporters IRL be worried, or do we think they'll skip over E for reprints and just print them for "F" block to save them from rotation? Any thoughts?
Per a ruling for Apricorn Maker, it doesn't fly. Q. Can Apricorn Maker be used to search for the Trainer "Bursting Balloon"? Taking the card literally, Bursting *BALL*oon contains the exact same "Ball" as given on Apricorn Maker. A. Of course not, don't be silly! You can only search for cards like Poke Ball, Ultra Ball, Beast Ball, etc. (Celestial Storm FAQ; Aug 2, 2018 TPCi Rules Team)
