It's already out there! Yaaaay! Now everybody Will have acesso to Dedennes for a fair price, also on PTCGO! Ita time to trade out those Regular Art for those!
Whats really screws up Raikou its that Metal energy on its cost, I mean, if it was (L)(G)(C) it would be acceptable on Expanded Ray or even Pikarom as 1 of, but now, only in decks with Counter Energy that already play either L,G or M.
Wow, really cool product! Dedenne-GX value would drop to the floor now, sell yours while you can! On PTCGO also, why anyone would want to keep a RA dedenne when you could have this awesome Alternate Art?!? Well done TPCi
Yeah, It would be nice to give some attention to Expanded, especially now that we will have the worst Standard in years!
Although, I dont think there many cards that would bê missed from Expanded rotating XY on besides
Darkrai-EX
Hypnotoxic Laser
Virbank City Gym
Is there anything more to be...
Peeking Red Card can sometimes work too, if your opponent plays down 3 Pokemons from starting hand, but still not a good ban just like Maxie's instead of just Archeops, and Delinquent instead of Red Card, and even Ghetsis,H Maniac and Wally (they could made an errata for them not allowing them...
Stakataka is amazing on fighting decks like Buzzwole. It's even better than baby Buzzwole after 3 prizes remaining and you can also use Beast Ring on him. With Diance prism star, strong and beast energy, choice band it will be able to even 1HKO a lot of popular GX/EX in Expanded
Starmie is actually pretty good, its possible to build a deck around it, with Choice Band and Cerulean City Gym, it deals 110 damage while powering up something else (could be another Starmie on the bench), and make use of it's free retreat next turn
SOOO MUCH better than expected indeed! This with Metal Frying Pan will be so tanky! And there's Dhelmise to add that 10 or 20 damage (with 2 on your bench). With Magnezone and Mt. Coronet this will be a beast! You can also use Dusk Mane Necrozma promo as a first turn attacker while setup and...
Its pretty interesting, with a Choice Band attached it will usually swing for a 3HKO, playing a 4-4 line with in a Vileplume deck it will be veeery hard to play around, cuz the only ways out would be Ranger (only played as a 1 of in Volcanion decks) or Olympia (usually played as 1 of in most...