No more Art Rares ever
Bouffalant ex from White Flare!
- Thread starter steffenka
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All main cards should be revealed friday morning.
Yeah uh-huh Pokemon cards are definitely the same thing as women's rights that's a sensible argument
At least try and make a solution that isn't "just make every card in a set viable" if you're going to attempt to tackle a perceived problem. "Print every chase card in perpetuity" like the game hasn't had rotations since its inception. Be serious.
"Collectors" don't understand how card games work beyond "give me money", in other news water is wet.
Seeing DRX Bouffalant being reprinted as an ex:
Is it weird that I actually think this card is a solid rogue deck? This plus both other bouf plus charm and maybe an eelektrik or two to accelerate is cool. Could even play azu and munkidori to have access to Crispin and also move damage back since I take 90 less and likely survive
No, this set comes out mid July
In Japan the whole list bar secret rares is revealed tomorrow night, or like in 30 hours
Good card... up: Eelektrik for energy acceleration, but downer: if the G block wasn't due to exit Standard in approx. 9 months, it could've been a killer card... The g block has the bulk of relevant damage enhancers, if not all, esp. Heatran ex and kingambit SVI. Oh, and maybe defiance band from SVI?
200 damage base for basic exes is not enough w/o damage enhancers that are better than same-set serperior. Sadly, that plus carracosta SCR, excluding one-off ace specs, will be all the damage enhancers still in rotation come next March unless defiance band gets reprinted in TCG:MEGA....
200 damage base for basic exes is not enough w/o damage enhancers that are better than same-set serperior. Sadly, that plus carracosta SCR, excluding one-off ace specs, will be all the damage enhancers still in rotation come next March unless defiance band gets reprinted in TCG:MEGA....
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It's been like this since its inception really. I think at first it was more of an accident, they were still trying to figure it out back then. But as the years went by, they did make an effort in some sets vs others. I've been looking at Stormfront recently and looking at rebuilding some decks out of there, because that set IMO was the best set for players. Like over half of the rare cards were playable, there are easily 12 different decks in that one set. But then you move 3 sets later to supreme victors, and that entire set is just bulk. SV had less than 10 playable cards, and it was a 150 card set! Stormfront was less than 100 cards, and almost every rare was playable in DP-SF, granted their playability went down over time, but some others actually rose later in the meta (see Gengar and Gyarados).
In terms of game design, I think Pokemon suffers a bit from it's lack of ways to play with its cards. The Standard format is great and all, and I personally like the rotation aspect as it keeps the game from becoming too stale, and makes onboarding new players super easy. But I've always been disappointed in the lack of a real sealed format. I just dropped Flesh and Blood, I'd been playing for 2 years or so, very difficult game, super rewarding to play well. But one thing that I liked in particular is their draft format. Each set has 3 "archetypes" in it (think warrior, thief, wizard and the like), so drafting felt pretty intuitive. If you are picking the warrior type, then you take the warrior cards and the generic cards that work with them. It also made the "open your packs, build a deck, and play" format pretty easy to engage with as well.
Pokemon doesn't have anything like that. The Build and Battle kit is really not a good product. You get 1 of 4 "archetypes" and 3 or 4 packs to add to it? That's not a good experience if you open a really cool ex and you have no way to use it because your "archetype" doesn't fit it. There is also the lack of a multiplayer format as well. Most TCGs now all kind of force one into their design, and I'm a little surprised Pokémon hasn't done that yet. I heard a bit about a raid battle format, but it doesn't seem like its supported well. I actually like the idea of a 4 player co-op game vs a raid Pokémon, it would be unique and also feel very similar to the video games multiplayer of late. Like if they just made it a box set or something and it just told you how to play it, and let you play with cards from your collection, I think that would be cool.
The idea here is that there is a lack of ways to use cards, so cards can only be designed in one direction. In Flesh and Blood, there are are cards you really DO NOT want to see in your sealed pool, because they need to be built around. There are rare cards that are garbage in constructed, but are some of the strongest cards in draft where passing one almost feels like a mistake. Then there are other cards that have that obligatory "target player" text, signifying that they are more useful in a multiplayer format.
All of that to say, if Pokémon cards could be played with in more than one way, sets would still have plenty of bulk in them. But at least the bulk would have a use case, even if that use case was for one set. Imo that is way less feels bad because then each card could have an opportunity shine.
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It's why the game remained cheap to make decks; having a higher rarity version of meta cards aimed at the collector community allows the base rarity version to be available to make decks out of.
I understand what you mean about giving recognition to pokemon with less representation. But that doesn't entirely track either because we already have textured alternate arts for Serperior and Genesect in modern era. Could've given the spotlight to two new pokemon instead of repeating
Oh absolutely I mean it's also what Im saying¿? Like I cant see myself getting upset ever about pokemon like Jellicent and Bouffalant specifically because theyve never had any sort of multiprize. I understand that they still put out popular pokemon, theyre not gonna stop that so for me it's a good mix to have them and niche picks, that is how you acknowledge the minorities. Imo everyone deserves a chance at that as a minimum but some people here believe only the top 100 popular pokemon deserve to get cards and the rest must never be printed. So Im not defending Serperior (and its my favorite unova pokemon) nor Genesect (popular or not it has the mythical status), Im just saying that if 2 or 3 ex out of the 12 arent popular... its okay, its good actually.
I'm a Buffalo Bills fan and since Unova got it's inspiration from NY there's probably some merit to that being Bouffalant's origin. Idk how you did it but you've somehow talked me into being excited for the Bouffalant SIR!
Ok Whimsicott absolutely pisses me tf off. A GX a VSTAR now an ex. When there were so many unloved grass pokemon from this region that is upsetting