News New Legendary Battle Decks in September!

Foil Energy Fans: Yay!
Trubbish reprints fans: (walk out)
VS Seeker "Seekers": It'll be rotated. What's the use?
 
I am speculating the Ho-oh deck is going to be some sort of Rainbow Road deck with Xerneas. I believe these decks are great for the younger crowd or those just learning. I mean, $20 isn't too bad to start to learn with.
 
I'm new to the Pokemon TCG. I was wondering if this means that the cards are going to be legal for Standard? Or if its only legal for Expanded. Thank you.
 
HugeHeroesFan said:
I'm new to the Pokemon TCG. I was wondering if this means that the cards are going to be legal for Standard? Or if its only legal for Expanded. Thank you.
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Nope. These aren't reprints. The cards will have the set number and symbol of whatever set they were previously printed in.
 
Oh my god. The Ho-Oh deck is amazing.

Foil of several (each??) basic...



AND IT HAS SMEARGLE?!

Nice that the themes are Multicoloured and Colourless.

Guessing that the Ho-Oh deck is some combo of Skittles/Rainbow Road/Discard Pile Matters deck. In which case my predictions are:

BCR Vileplume
Could be any Cobalion...
FFI Dedenne
Could be any Druddigon...
BKT Meloetta
XY92 Sableye*
BKT Stunfisk
PLB Tropius
BKT Xerneas

And for Lugia:
DRX Blissey
AOR Golurk
PHF Girafarig (only expanded printing)
RSK Skarmory (only colourless printing)
BKT Cresselia (only expanded printing)
PLF Mr Mime (only psychic printing)
DRA Sigilyph (for Safeguard parity)
:/


*On the one hand, this is highly unlikely, on the other hand, it makes the most sense thematically.
 
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I'd guess probably Noble Victories Cobalion (it's better in this deck than the Emerging Powers one, and the Steam Siege one uses 2 Metal Energy for its damaging attack, making it unlikely here IMO), Flashfire Druddigon (it's a card I could see warranting a reprint, and it's the only good Dragon-type one), Dark Explorers or Ancient Origins Sableye (it's going to be a Darkness one so they can keep the every type gimmick, but I could see either of these being valid, with Dark Explorers a tad more likely), and Dragons Exalted Stunfisk (this is the only Stunfisk that makes sense here IMO. It's Fighting-Type with a 1-energy attack, which fits in well here. I can't imagine them including both a Lightning Stunfisk and Dedenne. That being said, I don't know what prompted them to include this over something like Furious Fists Landorus aside from Stunfisk being the non-EX option popular in Vileplume decks of the time.)


And oh god, I feel sorry for the poor people that try and foil out their Metal or Fighting decks in BW-XY-style foil energy, considering this is the first place they've been obtainable.
 
Matt G. here. I bought the Ho-oh deck if anyone wanted specifics. There's no lightning holo energy, but the coin is apparently new.
 

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carrotfoot said:
Matt G. here. I bought the Ho-oh deck if anyone wanted specifics. There's no lightning holo energy, but the coin is apparently new.
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Thank you!! :D

Now on the Lugia-EX deck... The Golurk is from Furious Fists, not the much better one from Ancient Origins.
 
Both of these cards have seen price spikes recently, due to expanded Rainbow Road / Lugia in Vileplume Owls. These will fly off the shelf.
 
The standard/expanded playable staples and foil energy might make them worth it alone. Not too sure on the playability of either as a deck though.
 
Apterous said:
Both of these cards have seen price spikes recently, due to expanded Rainbow Road / Lugia in Vileplume Owls. These will fly off the shelf.
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Yeah, I'm glad it'll make these EX's drop in card value :p
Side-note: The new XY2 Sudowoodo will be a pain for Rainbow Road users. Its ability is the same as HGSS era Ditto's.
 
I love how the editors didn't catch that Ho-Oh's energy type is not specified, whereas Lugia's is. It just says "Basic Energy (Foil)".
 
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