First Teaser Info for S6 'Silver Lance' and 'Jet-Black Spirit!'

ApricornNut

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The sentient Blue Poke Ball strikes again! Thank goodness the Shiny slot didn't go to someone like Gardevoir... that would've been overkill for the market!
 

ShinxieDim

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okay, the full art Celebi V and Blissey V are Ultra Rares I wouldn't mind pulling instead of an alternate art. The backgrounds on them work so well with the Pokémon.

Remember a year and a half ago? Celebi GX would've had a flat green background full art if it was printed... it's nice to have the EX-style full arts back!
 

ApricornNut

Optimistic Trainer/Collector
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okay, the full art Celebi V and Blissey V are Ultra Rares I wouldn't mind pulling instead of an alternate art. The backgrounds on them work so well with the Pokémon.

Remember a year and a half ago? Celebi GX would've had a flat green background full art if it was printed... it's nice to have the EX-style full arts back!
Yeah! I remember the first time I saw Sableye V's FA and how I was praising Arceus for getting rid of the solid color FAs of the SM era... and now I feel that the SWSH FAs are much more colorful than the older EX FAs!
 

Malavok

Aspiring Trainer
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However, no one likes the rainbow art.

Especially not with the glitter, which I hate. IMO they somehow managed to make rainbow art cards even more unappealing by adding tacky glitter all over them.
I hope they do away with that at some point.
 

Oddish22

Aspiring Trainer
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I'm both fascinated and sad. It's the same as for Matchless Fighters. So many beautiful arts, where the chance to get even one is so slim, unless you spend 100s of $.
I decided to open 2 Matchless Fighters boxes in the hope to get one of the 4 alternate arts I really like (3 birds+Slowking), and I got a Karen and a Slowking FA. Karen is my favourite of the 4 trainer FAs, so that is not bad, but the birds go for $100+ on Ebay, so more than one box, so I will never buy them.

Now there are another 6 extremely beautiful cards, but that's 6/50. You could open 100 boxes without getting all of those.

So it is very good that those cards are made, but I am sad that there are more and more cards like those released that I can never get.
 

Yaginku

H-on Will Save Pokemon
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Man, why can't all the alternate arts be the regular rarity?

it feels so awful opening Battle Styles packs for alternate arts, knowing that even if you somehow get lucky enough to get an ultra rare it's a 50/50 chance of it it being the cheap 3d render V or rainbow barf VMAX instead of these ABSOLUTE beauties
I mean, you really shouldn't go to the casino and expect to win...
 

Arthur Soares Nogueira

Waiting for Swampert V
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The pessimist in me is predicting a gold Gardevoir card. My wallet hopes I'm wrong. Edit: Nevermind. The gold cards seem to usually be from the previous set(s). So my wallet's safe. ...Until next set, potentially.
Very happy to see the Flannery full art!
There was a chance, gold and regular Houndoom and Octillery were released in Battle Styles.
 

Jean Luc

Aspiring Trainer
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Pokemon turning their back on collectors. So many alt arts which will be 80-150 dollars range. Go and try to collect that, pokemon collecting used to be fun, now it is impossible, even regular vmaxes have jumped 50% in battle styles than their usual price, alt arts up to double in normal pricing as in Darkness ablaze and VV. It is becoming harder and harder to collect and the Pokemon company is not making it easy. Pure cashgrab for people ready to cash a fortune on products so they can pull at least one alt art or secret rare. Ps. Battle styles pull rate was an insult to fans, players and collectors, absolute trash
 

TokenDuelist

YGO TCG is Cheaper. Fight me.
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Because some of us don't like the alternate arts and prefer the regular versions with the cool poses :p

Well, unfortunately we all can't have bad taste.

Would much rather prefer something with effort put into it instead of a re-used rigged model.
 

FireLizard

A man who knows nothing about proportions.
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These Pokèmon V illustrations are just awesome!I want them all.

Also why I think Melony is cute
 

Snowy Lilacs

Aspiring Trainer
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Well, unfortunately we all can't have bad taste.

Would much rather prefer something with effort put into it instead of a re-used rigged model.

No need to be nasty about it, everyone loves different things, grow up a little, folks like you make this community toxic
 

The Fish

0.o
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The little Skwovets in the shadow rider alt art...

Siebold in a kitchen is something I didn't know I needed. Rapid Strike Cook
 

Frost

Ice/Fairy Stan Account
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Prepare the scalpers getting angry because this set doesn't have a $200+ chase charizard or pikachu ultra rare.

Doesn't really matter, the current market will create equivalents. Two years ago Tyranitar V full art and the Urshifu alt full arts in Battle Styles would be $30 cards at most. Right now they're $120+.
 
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Dark Espeon

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My favorite alternate art cards are Shadow Rider V, Ice Rider V, Zeraora V, Shadow Rider VMAX, Ice Rider VMAX, and Galarian Rapidash V. Although all full art and alternate art cards look amazing these six stand out for me.
 
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