Special August English Set May Feature Pecharunt and The Loyal Three!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onApr 26, 2024 at 8:00 AM · 12 Comments

Based on English card numbers that were revealed this week for Twilight Masquerade, we now know the Illustration Rares of Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti will be cut from our English set.

The three cards released today in Japan’s Mask of Change set, which will largely make up our Twilight Masquerade set when it releases in English next month.

Earlier this week we also posted the release dates of two upcoming Japanese sets. Paradise Dragona featuring Dragon Pokemon will release on September 13th and Supercharged Breaker featuring Stellar Pikachu will release on October 18th.

With all this in mind, it’s now unlikely our special English 6.5 set will feature Paradise Dragona. Our set releases on August 2nd, but Paradise Dragona releases on September 13th. We would not get the cards six weeks before Japan. (We did receive 2021’s Celebrations two weeks before Japan, but it was a special case for the TCG’s 25th anniversary.)

So then what could be featured in our special English set?

Night Wanderer will release in Japan on June 7th. As we posted before, the official sell sheet said it will feature The Loyal Three: Munkidori ex, Fezandipiti ex, and Okidogi ex.

I also speculated Night Wander could feature Pecharunt ex. At the time the set’s sell sheet was published, Pecharunt hadn’t been revealed yet. Thus, Pokemon would not have been able to list it.

There aren’t any upcoming Japanese sets that feature Pecharunt despite it being an important Mythical Pokemon. It’s the leader of The Loyal Three (featured in Night Wander) and its the main focus of The Mochi Mayhem story in the DLC.

It would make sense for Creatures to put Pecharunt into June’s Night Wanderer before moving on to Stellar Miracle in July. Japan is getting Stellar Sylveon and Stellar Ceruledge decks in August, then they’re releasing Supercharged Breaker with Stellar Pikachu in October. Pecharunt isn’t going to fit in with these sets thematically.

Which finally brings us to our special 6.5 set on August 2nd!

It seems our English set could feature Night Wanderer, its Loyal Three Pokemon ex, their cut Illustration Rares, some or all of the 48 unreleased cards from Japan’s Battle Academy, and a few other odds and ends.

This setup also lines up with the current “narrative” of the TCG. We’re receiving Twilight Masquerade next month featuring Ogerpon. Ogerpon fought Pecharunt and The Loyal Three in The Teal Mask after they stole her masks. So it would make sense to cap off Ogerpon’s story with a special set featuring the Mythical Pecharunt before moving on to Terapagos.

Night Wanderer should be officially revealed in Japan next week. We should also get the reveal of our SV6.5 set in mid-May. Both sets should be revealed within two weeks of each other, which is even more evidence they could be linked.

As for Paradise Dragona, we now expect it to release in either September’s SV7 or November’s SV8. Once we can confirm the specific release date for our SV7 set, we should be able to better predict where it will go.

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Why do I get the feeling that the Stellar Sylveon and Stellar Ceruledge decks will be arriving in early August? I remembered from google to never look at the day, but the month, so it feels odd for me to think that.
 
A Pecharunt Mini set with 12+ promos (potentially more since the listing had “first wave” of products) seems really weird to me - I can see the obvious transposing of 3 art rare collection fitting right with the loyal 3 IR being pulled but really don’t see why that wouldn’t be a normal set a-la the way they did obsidian especially because getting the year of the dragon / dragon set the year *after* if they hold that back for us as a mini set makes even less sense than them adding dragon set to the stellar set for our version but what do I know ***giant shrugg***
 
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Jdbeardsmith said:
A Pecharunt Mini set with 12+ promos (potentially more since the listing had “first wave” of products) seems really weird to me - I can see the obvious transposing of 3 art rare collection fitting right with the loyal 3 IR being pulled but really don’t see why that wouldn’t be a normal set a-la the way they did obsidian especially because getting the year of the dragon dragon set the year after if they hold that back for us makes even less sense than them adding dragon set and stellar set but what do I know ***giant shrugg***
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Then what will those 2 ex special sets be for?
 
Kookaburra Kong said:
Then what will those 2 ex special sets be for?
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maybe it will be like the Archaludon + Hydrapple as they are literally the only other Pokémon that came out in that part of the DLC right? But that literally leaves very little to be in the set that makes any storyline sense // My secret hope was that it was an unrelated to the story special set and for the the Blastoise ex and venasuar ex from Japan that came out with the illustration rares of bulba /char / squirt and then the Zard would be IN the dragon set and those two as the EX promo with the illustrations as promo to sell it and get them to us as romps already - but no way that’ll ever happen -
 
Jdbeardsmith said:
maybe it will be like the Archaludon + Hydrapple as they are literally the only other Pokémon that came out in that part of the DLC right? But that literally leaves very little to be in the set that makes any storyline sense // My secret hope was that it was an unrelated to the story special set and for the the Blastoise ex and venasuar ex from Japan that came out with the illustration rares of bulba /char / squirt and then the Zard would be IN the dragon set and those two as the EX promo with the illustrations as promo to sell it and get them to us as romps already - but no way that’ll ever happen -
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Maybe those illustrations rares of Bulbasaur and Squirtle will be our promos for a future set based on The Indigo Disk. Or maybe I'm totally wrong lol.
 
Golago said:
Maybe those illustrations rares of Bulbasaur and Squirtle will be our promos for a future set based on The Indigo Disk. Or maybe I'm totally wrong lol.
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I really thought they were going to be the promos for Paldean fates and that their lines would be in the shiny vault too but NOPE!

SO now I’m thinking they’re probably banking these cards for down the line in the SV era in ‘25-‘26 for when they’re treading water without any new Pokémon / forms to plug into releases - maybe around when they bring back Megas for exM cards but before the Legends Z-A gives us new mons/mechanics -

And that’s a whole lot of speculation but I don’t know what the next 1-3 year of sets CAN even have if not pushing either back to Megas (which is logical since we KNOW megas are coming back to the game in Z-A) otherwise making Stellar the new Mega as a Tera “step up” // I still think they’re missing a HUGE opportunity not making like “baby-mons” Tera because having the sets be full of type shifted Pokémon would absolutely be cool and absolutely works mechanically (delta species proved it) and would match the game thematically
 
If the Stellar Type IS to come via SV6.5, it might be like a sampler. Hence why the Stellar Pokémon we DO know about (Terapagos, Sylveon, and Ceruledge) might be the only Stellar Pokémon in the set.
 
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