“Pokemon Trading Card Game Classic” Deck Lists, Holo Patterns, and Details!

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The Worlds Activity Zone currently has demos for the “Pokemon Trading Card Game Classic!” I was able to take photos of the cards and accessories.
As posted last year, this premium boxed product will contain three 60-card decks headlined by Base Set Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise. Each of the decks will contain new and reprinted cards, although all of them are illegal for tournament play. The Japanese product will release in October and cost 35,000 yen (about $275). No English pricing or release date has been revealed yet, but it’ll release in “late fall.”


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Every card in these decks is holo. The cards feature a “glittery” holofoil paper. Whereas all the Japanese cards feature holofoil borders, only English cards from the Scarlet & Violet era have them — matching...
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Snowy Lilacs

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Of course Japan gets the better looking cards, though that holo does remind me of the 25th Celebrations set and a bit of Legends. Maybe they could've gone with a different color like purple for a change?
 
ApricornNut

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That Holofoil is GORGEOUS. It really helps make these stand out as "Look at me! Look at me!"cards that we know shouldn't be treated lightly!
 
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These cards are not really reprints. Beside the fact that the language of the cards has been tweaked to reflect modern language conventions, the function of at least one of these cards has been tweaked – Charizard's Pokémon Power has a different functionality from the original card, so that we're finally free of a WOTC mistranslation that affects gameplay, on the most famous card in the English TCG. (I wrote about this on my blog.)


EDIT: That the original JP cards have holofoil borders does not "match how the cards were originally printed in their languages," JP cards from the era in question didn't have holofoil borders. Actually, now that yellow borders have formally been dropped from the English TCG, I'm confused why the English cards don't have gold borders and holofoil – it's a deliberate nerf when put next to their Japanese counterparts. Hopefully they move on from yellow borders for future retro-themed products.
 
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This is the first time that Professor Oak has been printed as a Supporter, correct? Does that mean that in Unlimited format all copies of Oak are now Supporter cards? Or can you still play it as an Item because this print isn't legal for tournament play?
 
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By the way @Water Pokémon Master, if you're able to get a better quality photo of Lt. Surge's Raticate from the Blastoise deck, I would be very interested. The original Super Fang has a "round to the nearest 10" damage calculation that hasn't been seen in the English and Japanese TCG since Neo Revelation Golbat (and/or some Legendary Collection reprints), and hasn't been seen in the JP TCG since Pokémon VS Koga's Crobat*. We still have addition, subtraction, multiplication and any number of other (sometimes convoluted) damage calculation steps, but despite the thousands of cards printed and all the years gone by, rounding has been completely absent.

Given this, I'm actually quite surprised that they've reprinted this card, so I'm curious if Super Fang has retained its original effect and damage calculation, or had its effect altered.


* Koga's Crobat's Poison Bite attack removes the rounding step.
 
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Ranger64

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Can’t wait for an English price tag! It’ll finally convince me that I can’t afford this, and I’ll stop dreaming about it.
 
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PASS, WITHOUT MUCH OF A TROUBLE! They should've gone with Rocket's Zapdos instead of that Zapdos, and at least print some more vending cards. Best of all, go with the Japanese layout instead of the pitiful W*zards of the crap.
 
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The Vending Mr. Mime is a neat inclusion. It really makes me wish we could get some sort of anniversary or commemoration set in English getting all that early stuff WOTC couldn't be bothered translating in favor of Base Set 2 and Legendary Collection.
 
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Looking forward to buying this. Gonna be my Christmas present to myself this year. So great to see Fossil Articuno getting some love too.
 
Tvoretz

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What's up with the template change on the English Pokemon Nurse? e-Reader licensing alone doesn't explain it; the Japanese version managed to keep the template while stripping the branding and dot code.
 
Nirvanna21

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I am getting one of these HOWEVER.

They best have solved one major issue I experienced with Battle Academy.

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Those decks best host all those cards with sleeves on.
 
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Tvoretz said:
What's up with the template change on the English Pokemon Nurse? e-Reader licensing alone doesn't explain it; the Japanese version managed to keep the template while stripping the branding and dot code.
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I don't see how e-Reader licensing would it at all; remove the dot codes and the template alone isn't going to subject them to having to pay any royalties to Olympus. I can't help but assume it's laziness on the English team's part that they couldn't be bothered to use the e-Reader template. There are a couple of other tells* that TPCI took a path of least resistance / lacks attention to detail in localizing this product, and the more I look at the English set of cards the less impressed I am with it.

* Among several examples; as compared to the original Japanese print, the JP Charmander of this set has had the text of its Ember attack updated to say you must discard 1 {R} Energy or else the attack does nothing, in line with an errata for the card printed in Pokémon Card Official Book 2000, to ensure the card works as intended when interacting with copy attacks (e.g. Metronome on Base Set Clefairy, etc.) The EN Charmander hasn't had its attack text updated, which is weird, because the English text was previously updated for its Legendary Collection print.
 
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Goddammit I really want that Mr. Mime. MAybe I can buy a single. That was a contest winner in the Vending series, and I always loved those. I wish they'd rerelease the vending series since no one else got it.
 
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