Just wanted to get everyone's opinion on cards that use the names of other cards on them? Like recently with the rise of Garchomp, Lucario, and Cynthia. I personally feel that it kills creativity in deck building and that if you have to have the card to be used in junction with your main attacker named on said card it kind of brings the game down. I get that this all rises from the anime but is it beginning to be too forced of a transition?
Some of us find that more creative... of the game's designers. Done
well, it can lead to a better-balanced game than the "orphan" effects. Effects that don't connect to such things have a nasty habit of being
too good or
really bad because they are generic.
I know it is fun to "discover" new combos, but understand that most of the time...
you're really not. There are people TPC
pays to try and break the game.
Most of what works has been discovered by the game's creators, because they
need to know such things to avoid broken cards. So the stuff they miss, that the players discover? It is usually the stuff that causes problems.
Well... still no clue how they missed Lysandre's Trump Card causing problems. XP Sorry if I'm sounding like a buzzkill, and I do appreciate your concern about being force-fed combos... but the truth is they do it all the time, but with a tad more subtlety.