We've gotten so many Luxray cards in S&S and S&V sets it's kinda insane, and several of them have been pretty decent. You'd think it was Charizard with all the cards it's getting.
I have the OG Scoop Up Cyclone, so I finally have a good tournament legal Ace Spec, at least until hopefully Prime Catcher or Cape get included in a League Battle Deck or something.
Also those super illustration rares are like... full art level of cool to me, not SIR.
If we ever get something...
That Clefable can be a lot of fun as a 1 of in the Moon Party Clefairy deck.
Also between this Tatsugiri and that Drakloak we saw earlier, Dragon is getting the much needed support Pokemon it was desperate for in GLC.
The sad thing is that kids would be so thrilled to get these extra garbage ex's in the Battle Academy, but instead they choose to upset everyone else by including them in sets.
Shame I won't be competing, because that's where Pokemon began for me. My family was on a vacation there, and another kid showed me his GBC with Blue version, so I bought a Japanese Lt. Surge starter deck (this was back when TCG was just getting base set and the anime had just started airing). I...
So...
-Grass Ogerpon is deliberately an answer to Zard, as it OHKO's it if both have their minimum energy requirements.
-Water basically gives Chien Pao a Delphox V (could be nice whenever Radiant Greninja and Manaphy rotate in like a year? Hell, could use them together back to back maybe)...
I get that the mechanic has been part of the TCG since its inception, but I have always maintained that prizes are the worst mechanic in this TCG and I infinitely prefer the point system that they'll be using here.
With prizes you can lose simply by prizing an important card(s) before either...
Kinda crazy to think that there are still relevant megas in Expanded too, despite being super old now... mostly just to copy their attacks though (Mega Ray via Regidrago VSTAR, and Mega Gengar via Mew3, granted the latter doesn't really see much play anymore).
I wonder if they deeply regret not having in-app purchases in PTCGO and PTCGL (minus code cards in RL products) and are now going to have those in the new game... also wonder when/if they shut down PTCGL, because the new app is acknowledged globally, unlike PTCGL. Might explain why PTCGL has had...