With regulations on Juniors/Seniors playing PTCGO sanctioned tournaments and Japan/Korea players not having nearly as much access to PTCGO causes issues. I do agree that they need to keep rotation this season.
It's for the best. I'd rather have safety rather than something that's a commodity. Prioritizing a Pokemon tournament over public safety is idiotic and selfish. They most likely will eventually have Worlds, and I trust the wait will be well worth it.
This is just my opinion as a competitive player. I think by the time they're released, The format would have changed tremendously (This year not really but still) But in an 6 year old shoes, yeah these are a great collection builder.
Why do they make these? I don't see the point. I think they should make them a premium product with real cards and sell them for more. I know that sounds unrealistic and one deck will be worth $200-300, but it's better than using them to trick kids for money into buying cards that they can't use.
Standard: Yveltal Garbodor fam
Expanded: Dark/Maxies (Or just dark as long as it has dark energies I'll play it.
For Fun: Quad Wobbuffet cuz I'm feeling memey when I play it.
My life is over.
SR Yveltal EX and Shaymin EX.
FA N, Hex, Karen, Flare Grunt, and Delinquent.
Next season's basically gonna be the same but with more bling.
MUCH more bling.
Watch my middle school-level salary be gone forever.....
I'm really excited for Necrozma GX, as it's probably my fav legendary and it's GX attack's gotta be interesting.
It's not a rogue deck in expanded anymore. The deck is now one of if not the most hyped for Philly and gets Karen, so now it almost has a guaranteed win against it.
My fav is the KMC Hypermats. I use them for my personal competitive deck. Problem is, only comes in dark colours and are approx. $15CAD for a pack of 80. My other sleeves I use are regular and Pokemon themed Ultra Pros, but the regular ones are cheaper and break within one tournament.