Discussion Trainers Post-Rotation

coolsmiles424

Aspiring Trainer
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Trainers are a fundamental part of everyone's deck, and as we all know, we're losing many important ones with the new rotation, and sometimes, at least for me, it's hard to keep track of the cards that are legal.

So as I'm sitting in bed sick, grieving over the fact that I'm missing Hartford regionals right now (i'm so salty), I put together a quick list of Trainers that will be legal post-rotation, organized by which set they were released in.

I just put down all of the ones that I knew were very popular and ones that I thought might have future potential; let me know if I missed any!

Ultra Prism:
Cynthia
Cyrus P. Star
Escape Board
Lillie
Looker
Looker Whistle
Order Pad
Pal Pad
Pokémon Fan Club
Volkner
Lusamine (Full Art)
Crushing Hammer (Full Art)
Peeking Red Card (Full Art)

Forbidden Light:
Beast Ring
Judge
Mysterious Treasure
Ultra Space
Energy Recycler (Full Art)

Celestial Storm:
Acro Bike
Apricorn Maker
Copycat
Energy Switch
Rare Candy
Shrine Of Punishment
Steven’s Resolve
Super Scoop Up
Switch
Tate and Liza

Dragon Majesty:
Fiery Flint
Lance P. Star

Lost Thunder:
Adventure Bag
Custom Catcher
Electropower
Heat Factory
Life Forest (good for possible grass decks)
Net Ball (again, good for grass)
Prof. Elm’s Lecture
Sightseer
Thunder Mountain
Choice Helmet

Team Up:
Bill’s Analysis
Brock’s Grit
Electrocharger
Erika’s Hospitality
Pokémon Communication
Viridian Forest
Wondrous Labyrinth
Judge Whistle

Unbroken Bonds:
Dust Island (could work well with koga)
Fire Crystal
Giovanni’s Exile
Green’s Exploration
Janine
Koga’s Trap
Lt. Surge’s Strategy
Pokegear 3.0
Power Plant
Red’s Challenge
Welder
Energy Spinner
Dusk Stone
 
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Otaku

The wise fool?
Member
SM - Unbroken Bonds also contains Energy Spinner. It is the only Item that reliably snags a Basic Energy in Standard, IIRC.
 

NaganadelIsBeast

Pun Intended
Member
Here’s some Dragon Majesty stuff you might want to add.

-Fiery Flint
-Lance Prism Star

Also, I think Dusk Stone could have a spot, but that’s up to you. ;)
 

coolsmiles424

Aspiring Trainer
Member
Yeah, Fiery Flint will probably work well with Welder, basically two turns of guaranteed attaches, which would be great early game. I have a feeling pretty much EVERY card with some relation to fire types will see some play in the upcoming format...
 

AngryBokoblin

Guzzlord is fun
Member
Remember the FA supporters and FA items extend the card's legality.
For example crushing hammer secret rare from ultra prism and FA lusamine from, again, ultra prism
 

coolsmiles424

Aspiring Trainer
Member
Remember the FA supporters and FA items extend the card's legality.
For example crushing hammer secret rare from ultra prism and FA lusamine from, again, ultra prism
Oh yeah, I'll add them all in, but I didn't add them at first just because of the difficulty to get them $$$
 

AngryBokoblin

Guzzlord is fun
Member
Oh yeah, I'll add them all in, but I didn't add them at first just because of the difficulty to get them $$$
You can use other ones.
Because lusamine FA does the same thing as the crimson invasion lusamine, you can use a crimson invasion one instead of the expensive FA.
 

coolsmiles424

Aspiring Trainer
Member
You can use other ones.
Because lusamine FA does the same thing as the crimson invasion lusamine, you can use a crimson invasion one instead of the expensive FA.
Think I got most of them, but i completely forgot that you can do that, thanks for reminding me!
 
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