Oh hey MTG, nice to see ya here again.
These sets are just too big, especially for packs being released with only 10 cards. I don't think we should have bigger packs, instead we should eliminate the smaller Japanese sets so that International sets dont come out so bloated.
Who remembers sets like Dark Explorers with 111 cards or Furious Fist with 113 cards? They had some memorable, meta-defining cards in their day.
I can't keep up with this game anymore. Every set it seems that they come out with a bigger atom bomb of a card. And printing stuff like the 3rd basculin or bronzor in the same set dosent help at all. It makes it impossible to pull anything in packs. For example, when unified minds came out I bought an ETB and 6 packs, and all I got was 1 cherish ball and 1 reset stamp. It was ridiculous. With that money i shouldve just bought a ttgx, and their prices are blown out of proportion too because everyone is buying the same 3 cards tbh.
I 100% agree about the Unified Minds pull rates. I must have opened around 40-50 packs of it by now, and I only pulled 1 Cherish Ball, 1 Reset Stamp and 1 Coach Trainer myself, I had to buy singles for the rest that I needed. I think it's ridiculous to get a pack with 3 random useless uncommon Pokemon and a rare from one of the family set things in a pack (this has happened to me multiple times, especially with the useless Toxapex which is somehow a rare). At this point I think we should either be guaranteed at least 2 Trainer cards and 2 Uncommon Pokemon, rather than the ridiculous amount of repeating commons and uncommons.
With the current set sizes and the kinds of packs that Japan gets, I really believe that we should start getting packs with 4 Commons, 2 Trainers, 2 Uncommon Pokemon, 1 Reverse, 1 Rare and 1 Holo Rare+. At this point, I'm always disappointed if the last card isn't a GX or secret, because of how useless normal Pokemon are in the current meta. And when holos are actually usable, they seem to be rarer than GX's! In Team Up, I managed to pull 3 useless Lycanrock GX's and not a single Jirachi... please TPCi, give us some packs like the Japanese ones with guaranteed GXs, I mean even the Hidden Fates packs are ridiculous... we only want the shinies yet we were given 3 in 4 packs of just useless cards...