All 172 Japanese “Black Bolt” and “White Flare” Main Set Cards Revealed!

come on now.

we don't "need" a dragon color hydreigon ex just because a black one exists. in fact, being dragon would make it a worse card.
It does kinda make it feel redundant, especially since the last one had an amazing SIR. At least with something like Charizard ex (of all things), it had one Darkness-type Tera variant and one Fire-type variant.
 
It's just future proofed. It's funny how everybody fixates on Unfezant ex but Aerodactyl ex has been teased the same way and nobody gives a fudge.
Well first off we do have an aerodactyl ex, both in capital and lower case.
Second, and this isn't sarcasm I just don't know what you are talking about, how was one teased in the same manner?
Third, I am sure if it was a lot of people fudged.
 
What attitude? I’m calling something what it is.

(In any case, it’s not that serious either)
I don't agree with him, but I do want to emphasize that although it's sadly the unova region, a set with a illustration rare of every pokemon can't be trash. That is gonna be fun as he'll for collectors and gambling addicts. Super fun stuff.
As for playable, maybe not, but I don't think limited sets should.
 
CLOWN supporter spotted. it hasn’t been translated yet but i already feel represented

Also fun fact, part of roggenrola’s name is a swear for a certain male reproductive organ in Portuguese. All I’m saying is that I’m banging Claytonic’s ex-wife

On a more serious note, I love how every single evolutionary line (from what I can tell) has had art done by the same artist, in the same style. I don’t think they’ve ever done that before for an entire set

Also- you translated the wrong Tirtouga and Carracosta! Not that we haven’t seen it before, lol.

Is this Hydreigon ex finally the use case for TM Blindside after so long and so many teases? From the current translated wording it seems like it’d work with a bench snipe attack it doesn’t actually have. Just ko’ing something with damage from an attack should trigger it.
They actually did the same artist per evolution line in 151 first. So it's pretty cool that they did the same thing with this set too
 
Man I feel like the way they did the ex cards in this set is so dirty. Samurott has never gotten a rulebox aside from the Hisuian version, we still haven't gotten Unfezant ex, Keldeo and Melotta are very underwhelming, Whimsicott is a worse version of Banette ex.

There are some interesting cards in this set I can see and a few abilities and mechanics I'm curious about, but also I was so hoping they'd reprint the damage moving Reuniclus and my hopes of building Scovillian post-Magma Basin are gettting more and more dashed ;w;
 
Man I feel like the way they did the ex cards in this set is so dirty. Samurott has never gotten a rulebox aside from the Hisuian version, we still haven't gotten Unfezant ex, Keldeo and Melotta are very underwhelming, Whimsicott is a worse version of Banette ex.

There are some interesting cards in this set I can see and a few abilities and mechanics I'm curious about, but also I was so hoping they'd reprint the damage moving Reuniclus and my hopes of building Scovillian post-Magma Basin are gettting more and more dashed ;w;
It's more of a collectors than a players set to begin with.
 
Personally, I mostly collect Dragon-type cards (and cards of Dragon-type Pokémon). Dark/Darkness is my second-favorite type, but it just feels like we're overdue for a Dragon-type Roaring Moon card or a Dragon-type rulebox Hydreigon (or hell, ANY rulebox Haxorus), and making another Hydreigon ex that might be overshadowed by the SSP one in terms of traits and collectibility feels like a waste.

I was also a little disappointed that the Reshiram ex/Zekrom ex/Kyurem ex weren't Dragon-type, since we don't have a Dragon-type rulebox version of any of them aside from the TAG TEAM and they already have a gazillion variants in their secondary types.
 
LMAO not giving us N but instead giving us that stupid clown as our shuffle in supporter is sooooo troll. I hope that's not all we're left with as a hand disruption supporter once Iono rotates.

They already ruined boss rotating because they printed rocket's giovanni and splashable, free retreat rocket's pokemon to go with it (mimikyu and chingling).
I imagine they'll just reprint Iono if they want that effect again, I wouldn't be surprised if the base N card got retrained at some point, the hand to bottom style saves time vs shuffling the whole deck
 
Reprints are amazing. Gear gets its 2 year renewal, and Tool Scrapper returning is what I've been waiting for, good Tool control.
 
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