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

[Ambassador]

in this case, your blog is very misleading. The heads of wotc used magic priority fifo rules with many pokémon powers in their translations, including ones with static abilities. You mention this later and you link to Matoba. To say charizard is 'mistranslated' (in the same way as slowking for example) is a stretch. It has been not-quite-but-basically-reprinted before with original functionality, so there's no surprise its the same here.

It is a mistranslation even if they intentionally "used magic priority fifo rules" because of the fact that (1) most critically, doesn't match the original language text, and (2) results in incorrect interactions with other cards that does not match the intended interaction (an example is provided in the entry).

I'm not sure if I'm misreading your post or what you mean to convey, but Slowking would be another good example – there's circumstantial evidence that WOTC intentionally changed the effect of N1 Slowking's Pokémon Power. Intentionality doesn't decide if something is a mistranslation or not.

It has been not-quite-but-basically-reprinted before with original functionality, so there's no surprise its the same here.

As I mentioned in my blog, neither the JP Classic print or the EN Classic print can be read as an exact functional reprint of the respective originals.

 

[letsdobiz]

SCALPER!

u going to have to rip it from my dead hands

 

[axelfure]

I love the aesthetics of this set! I really hope they sell spare damage counters as I'd love to use them in normal play. I really like the energy too but I don't see myself pulling them from their decks and actually using them on a regular basis unless they sold extras of those as well.

 

[Water Pokémon Master]

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 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.

 

[Neutral]

It seems we'll get an inferior and more expensive release if rumours are to be believed. Reminds me of the yugioh kaiba briefcase.

 

[Ambassador]

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Thanks! It is different in that it's placing damage counters rather than doing damage, and the question mark WOTC added is gone, but the main thing I was looking for – rounding as a calculation step – is definitely back and functionally identical to the original. If you end up seeing attacks like this showing up in tournament-legal cards again, I think it'd be fair to say that reprinting this card must've played some part in bringing it back.

 

[kfun21]

It's annoying that they included all the legendary birds except Moltres unless I'm missing something...

 

[Kangaflora]

Looking back at this news article, it's a real shame that we don't have the English scans for all of the cards available in all three decks, I would love to see them.

 

[DX2069]

Do these sets have code cards in them? These would look sick in TCG Live