Recent content by MechanicalMarine

Hey, it makes them more money so don't expect it to stop anytime soon. It appeals to maybe a more "mature" audience, being most of the Masters division in competitive play, and they're going to spend money to get playsets of full arts, which in turn gives Pokemon revenue. It's a company, after all.

Guzma and Acerola say hello. It takes too much setup for a fairly bad attack, and is just more bulk. None of these cards are particularly good, really.

Underwhelming card, too luck based... But the art is a different story. might have a new favorite full art supporter

I can assume from the picture provided that after Lusamine had the whole Nihilego conundrum, the Aether Foundation disbanded and as a result, so did Team Skull. Guzma and Wicke are on the ground with the protagonist, which makes me think that they have now sided with them. However, it seems Faba...

So far: Keldeo: Keldeo is a great non-GX/EX attacker in Water decks! Same attack as Entei (Ancient Origins 14). With Aqua Patch around, two Water is quite easy to get out and is especially powerful when people are jamming up their bench with Tapu Lele-GX, Brigette, and Pokémon Fan Club...

Alolan Exeggutor-GX (hopefully Grass type!) Alolan Exeggutor is one of my favorite of the Alolan Formes, Exeggutor already being one of my favorites on top of that. Exeggutor has never really had a super playable card in the past other than Delta Species Exeggutor (EX Holon Phantoms 41), so I...

After many formats of Lysandre and Pokemon Catcher, I think that Guzma is a good balance. Lysandre was able to swing games drastically at times because of its single dragging factor. Guzma just means that you, as a player, have to play smarter and be able to switch into what you need.

As of now, this looks promising at the 1 tournament where this (Noivern-GX) and DDE will be legal in Standard at the same time, but even more expanded. Not having DDE will be a problem, but there is a possibility that TPCi will reprint it.

You can attach a Float Stone, or use something like Switch or Escape Rope or Olympia. With Vileplume, this might be interesting because then the only outs your opponent has are Lysandre Stall, Olympia switch, or Hex Maniac into any item switch. I guess Ranger works as well.

Auto-Paralysis is always good. Might see a splash of play with Super Scoop Up coming in SM3 as well, but is fairly mediocre. LLC for 130 and 30 to itself is bad. 1 retreat on a bench sitter is not great either, but could still be toyed around with and might have a spot in a deck or 2. The art on...

I see what you're saying. None of those cards, other than Jolteon-EX, got far above $10-$15 in price however. I think that they are making good decision making GOOD cards available as promo cards, but having AMAZING cards in boxes which well exceed $30+ in market price would be a bad idea.

TPCi never really makes Tins/Boxes of cards that are worth a significant amount of money, and I doubt they ever will. It makes people want to keep buying packs from them so they can profit from sales of boxes and packs. Making a Lele box would drastically up the supply, so the Supply/Demand...

I think the other Alolan Grimer from SM1 is better. Not that it really matters, but if you ever are put in a situation where you have to attack with Grimer for some reason, poison is better than just searching out another Grimer. Most decks only play a 1-1 or a 2-2 line of Alolan Muk at most...

Might see play, as the old Gyarados did in the DP era. I believe the Full Retaliation Gyarados/Magma Base will be better until the end of the season, but in the 17-18 format this Gyarados might shine more.