Bouffalant ex from White Flare!

[Alex Hesketh]

12 exes I believe and we've got confirmation for Reshiram, Zekrom, Jellicent, Keldeo, Jellicent, Moeletta, Serperior and this.

I'm sure Kyurem will get one as a deagon type meaning only fighting/dark unaccounted for which will take up 2/3 of the last spots at least.

So maybe Conkeldurr/Gigalith and maybe Scolipede/Garbador?

In any case...View attachment 20857

Due to Tepig line of illustrations number we know there is another grass ex. So Simisage/Leavanny/Scolipede/Whimsicott(hope it’s not you)/ Lilligant / Maractus / Crustle / Sawsbuck / Escavelier / Ferrothorn / Accelgor / Durant (technically but don’t see happening) / Volcarona

 

[cocoasenpai]

There's no way to make a balanced game where every card is playable other than basically only releasing like 2 sets a year with 30-50 cards each. Besides, Pokémon is primarily for collectors.

They are perfect capable of making both playable and collectable cards. It's not about balance anymore. it's about how much can they squeeze out of consumers for cardboard. Because if they truly cared about the hobby, they'd fix the shortages by printing the chase cards from each set, indefinitely. Readily available.

 

[cocoasenpai]

"Feel like"? Every card game has to make a roster of commons so that the rares can be "rare".

100%, but my point is it's being over done. It's not about balance anymore,.

 

[kourasmeni]

She call me Bouffalant the way a lant her bouff (????)

 

[gemjadem]

Bouffalant SIR before any new treecko/chikorita card is insane

 

[Oddish22]

Bouffalant SIR before any new treecko/chikorita card is insane

I also like those 2 more, but this is a set about Unova. And with Meganium and Sceptile having Mega evolutions, I think Chikorita and Treecko have good chances of appearing in one of the Mega sets.

 

[GooMister]

This probably would be okay if it wasn't an ex. The original was pretty good but that's only because we had DCE in format, now there isn't any good way to charge this guy and because of that he's getting sent to bulk hell. Good job tpci guy

 

[Lindor]

Really gonna bouff my opponents with this guy. Going to bouff a lant with this one.

 

[piskfinne]

She call me Bouffalant the way a lant her bouff (?)

GET OUT

 

[Zakaria]

Give us unfezant ex you cowards! We need that pidove do some work.

 

[PkmnMstr10]

Give us unfezant ex you cowards! We need that pidove do some work.

The game makers finishing out this generation without an Unfezant ex would be legitimately hilarious and somewhat on brand.

 

[LOTTEN]

The game makers finishing out this generation without an Unfezant ex would be legitimately hilarious and somewhat on brand.

we were on track to not get the aerodactyl ex alluded to in 151, though now that we know megas are happening it's probably going to be that.

 

[WaffleCoptor]

They are perfect capable of making both playable and collectable cards. It's not about balance anymore. it's about how much can they squeeze out of consumers for cardboard. Because if they truly cared about the hobby, they'd fix the shortages by printing the chase cards from each set, indefinitely. Readily available.

Acting like they haven't printed trash ex's or equivalent in literally every set with them since the beginning, lol, and then just saying "they'd just fix it by printing more!!" like that's possible to magically setup over night, I love when children get forum accounts

 

[interestingy]

See Tapu Koko ex from destined rivals, see pikachu ex from prismatic, absolute slop

Regirock and electivire ex from destined also are only mildly better

Regirock and Electivire ex coincidentally being the only two exes I pulled from my prerelease

 

[Octowen]

"Feel like"? Every card game has to make a roster of commons so that the rares can be "rare".

But we don't need half of our rares to be common

 

[cocoasenpai]

Acting like they haven't printed trash ex's or equivalent in literally every set with them since the beginning, lol, and then just saying "they'd just fix it by printing more!!" like that's possible to magically setup over night, I love when children get forum accounts

Yee, yee. Because something has always been trash means they should just keep doing it. Let's bring back burning women for being educated as well.

Once again I've been met with someone that has 0 reading comprehension skills and are fully prepared to be passive aggressive instead of have a discussion online lol

 

[jdubs4lief]

Meh. A little underwhelming overall. I guess it's 250HP effectively which has zero effect on Gholdengo and Bolt, and I think everything that matters that 2 shots it still just 2 shots it.

 

[Omga1803]

I feel like all card games do this and it's actually a blatant 'FU' to it's consumers. Purposely making "bulk" product making their already trash pull rates even worse is so disrespectful. But they'll never stop because you'll always have people consuming it.

Made an account just to answer to this, Digimon TCG works around this by basically making a lot of the "common and uncommon" cards to be just archetypal cards in certain decks or generics, most of the time 95% of the cards in a set either belong in a respective deck (regardless if the decks are good or bad) or are very generic, but around 90% of the cards that get the equivalent of IR and SIR are usually either Good cards or important for their own decks (again regardless if the deck is meta or not) so most of the time when you pull an "IR" or "SIR" there its not "bulk", but its price might be low due to the meta potential of that deck (Since Digimon has next to no collectors, so card prices are almost entirely dictated by Meta relevancy, even extremely popular Digimon have cards that are like 1-2$ due to them not seeing any meta play)

I have been getting into PTCG for the last 6 months and this is one of the thing that baffles me so much with sets in this game, if you get a few packs you are like 99% sure you are pulling just trash, at least in Digimon the bulk is extremely useful, while here a lot of cards in sets even the low rarity ones are extremely useless in almost all contexts.

 

[cocoasenpai]

Made an account just to answer to this, Digimon TCG works around this by basically making a lot of the "common and uncommon" cards to be just archetypal cards in certain decks or generics, most of the time 95% of the cards in a set either belong in a respective deck (regardless if the decks are good or bad) or are very generic, but around 90% of the cards that get the equivalent of IR and SIR are usually either Good cards or important for their own decks (again regardless if the deck is meta or not) so most of the time when you pull an "IR" or "SIR" there its not "bulk", but its price might be low due to the meta potential of that deck (Since Digimon has next to no collectors, so card prices are almost entirely dictated by Meta relevancy, even extremely popular Digimon have cards that are like 1-2$ due to them not seeing any meta play)

I have been getting into PTCG for the last 6 months and this is one of the thing that baffles me so much with sets in this game, if you get a few packs you are like 99% sure you are pulling just trash, at least in Digimon the bulk is extremely useful, while here a lot of cards in sets even the low rarity ones are extremely useless in almost all contexts.

That's why I'm so confused why ppl are saying there's no way to fix it or it's always been this way.

 

[Omga1803]

That's why I'm so confused why ppl are saying there's no way to fix it or it's always been this way.

I think its been like this for a while, I asked my friends that have been playing for years and they always tell me that this has been the pattern for years

I think its impossible for Pokemon to actually implement that system though, mostly because 80% of the set are Pokemon, Digimon works differently because an Evolution line can be from 4 to 6-7 cards for a single line, so its easier to fit 10 lines (and sometimes a certain line can fit in like 3-4 archetypes) in a set and fit the rest of the stuff needed in a set, Pokemon relies mostly on Items and Supporters in every deck and most of them are generic pieces so its extremely hard to make all playables in a set, so they rely on just doing "trash" lines that are just nostalgia bait most of the time to sell the set for collectionist or casuals

Its annoying for sure but I feel like thats a reason why this game is so cheap, Digimon meta decks can go from 100 up to 500$ for base rarity easily depending on the deck, while most pokemon decks are mostly generic low rarity pieces and like 3-4 lines max that are also very cheap at base rarity