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Looking at the normal art for Orbeetle, the artstyle for the background and the Pokémon itself has a kind of 3D look that reminds me of the Team Plasma cards from BW. I have a little bit of nostalgia for the look of those cards, so I like the resemblance even if it might be completely coincidental.

Personally, I'm rather glad that the TR's Pokémon aren't all from Gen 1/2. We already got 151 for Gen 1 two years ago, and Gen 1 in general already gets a ton of representation everywhere. Also, the TR's Pokémon do have a pretty consistent theme in terms of artwork, showing the Pokémon with...

Really? I thought the Blackbelts were just a generic trainer class in most of the games.

Board 1: Use Buddy Buddy Poffin to get a second Duskull set up. Use Pidgeot to search for DTE and attach it to the Second Terapagos. Then, use Boss on the opponent's Dusclops and knock it out. This makes it so that my opponent cannot win on their next turn, allows me to win on my next turn, and...

Very excited for the Technical Machine Machine.

Marnie's Grimmsnarl ain't that good man 😭

This could be cool with the Adaptive Evolution Scatterbug. You could have a full bench of evolutions T1 going second 😮.

Pidgeot does not itself provide gust though, it only searches it out, meaning you need to use up more deck space to utilize gusting cards alongside it. It also requires two cards to evolve turn 2 versus Meowstic needing just one. And Meowstic's item card isn't equivalent to Rare Candy, it's...

I don't really understand the Pidgeot ex comparison tbh. Pidgeot ex is a Stage 2 with a once-per-turn deck search ability, while Meowstic is a Stage 1 with Boss' Orders as an ability. They're completely different cards.

Doesn't actually work against this, since if you're dealing damage then you're ending your turn.

In my experience it's good against passive/slow decks, but it struggles into any deck that is even remotely aggressive.

That just reinforces my point; Charizard already uses Briar and Dusknoir, and a thin Noctowl line has also been incorporated in some lists. I suppose Terapagos is still better if you want to spam Dusknoir. but I'm still not convinced of that being the greatest strategy ever.

Am I the only one that doesn't get the hype for this deck? It just seems like a worse version of Charizard/Dusknoir to me.

Koraidon, Miraidon, Great Tusk, and Iron Treads all got cards with and without the Paradox mechanic, so it's possible they'll do the same for the other paradox Pokémon.

If Turo and Sada get "Trainer's Pokémon" next year, we can still get exs for those Pokémon, they just likely wouldn't be part of the Ancient/Future mechanic.