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I mean, it worked for Lv. X, which might as well be Mega Evolution in the TCG a couple generations early. The game is of course very different than it was back then, but there were plenty of Stage 2 Lv. X cards that saw play.

Woah, new cards for Magnemite and Eevee. This is the first time that’s ever happened

I wonder if Rocket’s Pokémon will be the only Trainer’s Pokémon in The Glory of Team Rocket or if they’ll do say, Red or Giovanni in it as well

I think this set was really hamstrung by them deciding they wanted to stick as close to canon to possible, despite also giving Hop a Sandaconda that he doesn’t have in canon while not evolving N’s Joltik and Purrloin. Also I must say Iono’s setup is really limited considering half her Gym Battle...

What’s up with all the Hop support? I mean, I support it, but it sure is lopsided when Lillie is basically batting with Clefairy and a dream. Why did they even pick her when she’s very much not known as a trainer?

I know Lillie is of course a very, very popular character, but including a trainer who in canon has a total of three Pokémon is a really strange choice for trying to create a mini-archetype. I was hoping at least she’d have Cosmog, Cosmoem, Solgaleo, and Lunala given to her, but right now that...

I don’t have a problem with this card choice but it IS pretty interesting how obscure this trainer class is in the grand scheme of things yet is getting a card. There’s three Ruffians total, they only show up in Kitakami, and all three have slightly different designs. This one is specifically...

Any chance that 028 is Tera Mismagius maybe…? Well, probably not. If it is a Trainer’s Pokémon, it would pretty much have to be Hop’s Pincurchin, unless it ends up as some random Electric like Togedemaru.

I’m surprised that people are surprised that there’s regular Pokémon mixed in. The Platinum era sets, which were the last main appearance of Trainer’s Pokémon, also had regular Pokémon mixed in. I am surprised though that it really seems to just be four trainers here, but I guess they wanted to...

Yeah, I personally really don’t see Tera going away right now. VMAX lasted until the end of its generation even after VSTAR came around, and there will probably be ex cards of non Trainer’s Pokémon, or they can just get by with Sudowoodo, Mismagius, Glimmora, etc if they do a couple Paldea...

I think the reasoning for doing Gen 5 for the next self-contained “print every Pokémon” set is because it and Gen 7 are the only other wholly self-contained lineups, though I suppose you could also do Gen 3 since printing Wynaut and Azurill doesn’t mean you’d have to print their evolutions. But...