“Black Bolt” and “White Flare” Special Sets Revealed in English, Will Be First-Ever Dual Sets!

[gemjadem]

you may not, but the people who design the sets take special care, and as far as i know almost always have taken special care to ensure that every pokemon card can be played using cards from the set you pull them from.

moreover, there's a bit of a misunderstanding of the point. the point is that every generation after 5 (and 5 after they buckled in bw2) has a significant, if not overbearing presence of previous generation pokemon practically crowding out anything actually new they came up with. the galar pokedex for example has 400 pokemon in it. if you took out everything that wasn't a generation 8 pokemon, you would be left with a pile that you couldn't make a set out of that actually represents sword and shield as a game well at all.

crown zenith has a handful of stranded stage 1 evolutions - eelektrik, graveler, krokorok, metang… (more if you include galarian gallery)

 

[LOTTEN]

crown zenith has a handful of stranded stage 1 evolutions - eelektrik, graveler, krokorok, metang… (more if you include galarian gallery)

true, but this is a result of the english set pulling in various unreleased promos as far as i know

 

[Travinking0927]

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There are 156 pokemon in Unova, Am I misunderstanding this? Doesnt that mean 78 IRs at least? But the count only adds up to 70, and thats not including trainers

no; you are forgetting SIRs. There will be 144 IRs between the 2, so 72 each. However there are several IRs being taken out, such as Victini, Tornadus and Thundurus. You may notice that the White Flare press release says "70 Illustration Rares" while Black Bolt says "more than 65." This is cus more are taken out. To restate the number, the Japanese set will contain 72 IRs each, and 6 SIR pokémon (plus the one SIR supporter mentioned in the press release).

 

[Travinking0927]

You just made up a Problem that just applied to you: being spoiled and expect things that weren’t meant to be there. This Set had no IRs or FAs and just because zu demand them, doesn’t mean they have to be there. It’s not like it was a secret or anything.

Also what’s that number? I opened 23 packs, hit 3 SIRs and 4 Masterballs. I never heard from anything less from my local community, with half of them even having a Demi god pack. The pull rates weren’t as bad, you just didn’t have a special shiny art in every second pack as before. Again, that’s just the community being spoiled. What did you all do before IRs and SIRs?

finally someone who understands my view; just cus 1-2 people who are loud on the internet got low hits doesn't mean the entire set has low hits; in fact, on average, 33% of packs had a hit, often more with the frequency of Pokéballs. Yes, they are worth less than an IR or smth, but they are still a "hit." Now I myself didn't have that level of luck, but the pull rates seem better than most sets; the poké and master ball reverses were pretty common, full arts were pretty common, and SIRs were around 1 in 85-90, which Surging Sparks also had. Additionally, people made it worse by saying "ThE cHaNcE oF gEtTiNg An EeVeElUtIoN SiR iS 1 iN 360 pAcKs" and It is. but that isn't it's own rarity, so why would it be any better? Eeveelutions make up 1/4 of the SIRs, so it is 4 times as hard to pull one on average. Thanks for listening to me rant, I'm bored.