I started playing recently, around Furious Fist, but I think it's really cool when older cards are brought back. It's exciting to be able to purchase the older versions and use them instead of the new ones.
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Good point, I totally forgot about Hex Maniac at the time of typing that.
Yeah, decks that rely on benches are dead.
For the Bronzong, I'm wondering if you've seen any of Tomokazu's art (e.g. Exeggcute - Roaring Skies, Pachirisu - Majestic Dawn, Dark Slowking - Neo Destiny), he does a couple of cards now and then, and I personally think they're funky and different to other cards by different artists. Him and Sui are my favourite illustrators for PTCG. But each to one's own.
Honestly, ShayQuaza and Raichu decks are easily dropped a tier thanks to Parallel City. Any deck not using Water, Fire, and Grass get no drawbacks from that stadium. If Ninetales becomes played in them decks more, then people will just run Hex Maniac to further destroy the decks. Not to mention now that Eggs are gone, they have no reliable way to come back easily.
Anyway, I see Judge being really interesting, and I already have a deck planned with it. Keeping the deck secret for now though, for personal reasons.
Heavy Ball being back is nice, and had me questioning what deck I wanted to build for a bit. But it IS easy searching for quite a few scary things.
Float Stone is also nice, but I feel it's too soon... Town Map is also welcomed back as well, but one problem. Y u no Hoenn map!?
I think Super Rod and Fisherman are both awesome to have back! We need ways to get energy back since hammers are still around, as is crawdaunt. Still gotta feel a little sorry for decks that rely on special energy though...
Anyway, I see Judge being really interesting, and I already have a deck planned with it. Keeping the deck secret for now though, for personal reasons.
Heavy Ball being back is nice, and had me questioning what deck I wanted to build for a bit. But it IS easy searching for quite a few scary things.
Float Stone is also nice, but I feel it's too soon... Town Map is also welcomed back as well, but one problem. Y u no Hoenn map!?
I think Super Rod and Fisherman are both awesome to have back! We need ways to get energy back since hammers are still around, as is crawdaunt. Still gotta feel a little sorry for decks that rely on special energy though...
so am I.
I also found the heavy ball too
I think the reverse ticket will be a good 4 of in night march, as it lets you, 50% of the time, grab a DCE. Thats the entire reason computer search was good for it
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I have a question about Parallel City. Does its damage reduction side increase its effect for dual- and triple-type Pokemon? For example, if I have a Grass Pokemon in my active spot, and on my bench is the new Ancient Origins Flareon and Vaporeon, my active Pokemon will be a [G][R][W] type. Does that mean I am doing 60 less damage, or is it just straight 20?
Of course,dude! and the Starters of each region like Chesnaught will be usable.
That stadium is strange,two conditions and if you own that card and play,you -20 damage to Grass ,Fire ,and Water Pokemon.
I think this is the first Holo stadium card.
Do you think Delphox and Greninja will be appered in this set,since Chesnaught and its BREAK has been appeared?
Judge: grk :C
Fisherman: cool, some playability to Kingdra (and Sceptile -.-)
Super rod: woooooooooohoooooooo. Get out of my deck sacred ash!
Skyla: Fan service much? Somebody wants there to be a $100 card in the format - you know it's true
Parallel City: LOLOLOLOLOLOL There is no reaction I can have other than that, none.
Heavy ball?: cool.
Float stone:*heavy breathing*
Fisherman: cool, some playability to Kingdra (and Sceptile -.-)
Super rod: woooooooooohoooooooo. Get out of my deck sacred ash!
Skyla: Fan service much? Somebody wants there to be a $100 card in the format - you know it's true
Parallel City: LOLOLOLOLOLOL There is no reaction I can have other than that, none.
Heavy ball?: cool.
Float stone:*heavy breathing*
By playable I meant competitively viable, sorry for the misunderstanding
.I personally don't think that Delphox and Greninja will be in the set because if they were, they would've been hinted at. Also, Pokemon sometimes favorites Pokemon from a generation. Two recent examples are Emboar-EX and no Samurott or Serperior EX and Golden Rare Empoleon. There are other stage 2 fire type Pokemon that aren't starters and don't already have an EX, one that comes to mind is Talonflame. Also, there were Infernape and Torterra legal from more recent sets but they decided to go with Empoleon(you could also say the Golden Charizard and Blastoise and no Venusaur but I think you get my point.) I might be wrong, but it dosen't look like it
My reactions:Judge: grk :C
Fisherman: cool, some playability to Kingdra (and Sceptile -.-)
Super rod: woooooooooohoooooooo. Get out of my deck sacred ash!
Skyla: Fan service much? Somebody wants there to be a $100 card in the format - you know it's true
Parallel City: LOLOLOLOLOLOL There is no reaction I can have other than that, none.
Heavy ball?: cool.
Float stone:*heavy breathing*
Judge: Yes, less broken version of N!
Super Rod: HALLELUJAH!
Skyla: Wait, Pokemon, a game that is 6+ has fan service? What, why?
Parallel City: This looks like something is a movie, which there probably is but I can't remember.
Heavy Ball: I don't think that was comfirmed yet. But hey, I might be wrong.
Float Stone: Super Rod, Skyla, Town Map, Level Ball and Float Stone. All we need is LaserBank and we only loose two good trainer cards from the past two rotations.
Never mind about Heavy Ball.
That's exciting because I'm might try out Hippowdon and Girantina/Vileplume next year.
Has anyone else noticed the lack of information about Ancient Origins? There are still no English scans and I haven't seen a single article about the set for at least a few weeks. It's a little ridiculous that the set came out today (and the cards have been in stores for a few days) and there's been basically nothing said about it.
I truly love Parallel City, it's one of the most balanced cards we've seen in a while, and it requires skill to play. I know it kills mega Ray and other minor things, but if you look past that, it's truly a great cards for the game. It provides balance in possibly decreasing your attack power while lowering your opponents bench size etc, for vice versa. In XY on it hurts a mega sceptile deck/vespiquen, but at the same time it still hurts you to be lowered to 3 bench slots. Unless you play a fighting deck or something you can't have a total advantage over your opponent while it's in play. And in the event that you do play a fighting deck or something and lower your elemental damage by 20, for essentially no loss, your opponent could use paint roller and use their parallel city to lower YOUR bench down to 3, while reducing their elemental damage if they play a deck with one of those types. One of the best parts of this card is the fact that it will be an uncommon/common thus giving players who can't afgord that many expensive cards but are highly skilled a real fighting chance against skilled players with lots of money to spend on cards. If there is one card I will preorder of this set it will be Parallel City due to it's sheer awesomeness and playability.
I think the Skyla is just a fanservice reprint. It won't really get used nowadays with Trainer's Mail and whatnot.
I've noticed but I wouldn't call it ridiculous. It's a pretty boring set if we're all being honest.