Collecting What's your all-time favourite TCG set?

Yaginku said:
Evolutions.
One, it got me into the game. But two, it's kind of Wizard's fault.
If you've never played Magic, you might not know that Wizards have an exact opposite approach than TPCi's "REMEMBER KANTO?". Yes, they still often pander to nostalgia (I mean, it's a 26-yo brand), but they equally hate and reject their old sets and design philosophies. They've openly stated that they won't bring back "old card frames", even as promotional cards, because they subjectively don't like how they look.

In that case, Evolutions is everything I wanted from Magic, but in Pokemon. A massive nostalgia kick that goes all out and isn't pretentious about it. I just wish it was bigger and contained casually-playable Supporter cards.
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That's really interesting, I don't play MTG myself so I had no idea.
 
(slowly turns to dust and blows away because I was already in my mid-20s when BW sets were releasing)
 
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My favourite booster pack of all time is Dark Explorers. I love the full art Darkrai, and when I was new to the game my first full art pull was a full art darkrai. It also helps that there are several EX's that are from that set that I like as well as having the sr catcher, and archeops
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Ok. I'm going with an old set, and it's not a well liked one, but here it goes:

Neo Destiny.

When I first got in the game, I played from Base-Expedition. I loved how they handled the uniqueness of Dark Pokemon (the Team Rocket-defiled cards, not the Darkness type) and we were getting more Dark Pokemon with equally crazy attacks, and Pokemon Powers. And they tried their hand at a new mechanic: Light Pokemon, as well as give us a bunch of Shining Pokemon as chase rares in the set (both of which had next to no support and Light and Shining Pokemon in those days were AWFUL outside of booster drafting). The set itself was pretty big and was basically "Team Rocket 2 plus other stuff". There was a lof of cards, while not the most competitive in Unlimited, that were REALLY fun to booster draft with and work with the "Rocket-on" format. I know the set gets a lot of flak for being a dud of a set (to counter that, Neo Discovery and Neo Revelations were aeons worse and felt like Jungle and Fossil redux. They were sets to get the next gen out there, but nothing was really outstanding or fun or quirky or interesting).

Part of it is nostalgia (the art of Dark Gengar and the set having THE most useless Special Energy ever released in the TCG: Miracle Energy. But Miracle Energy has the best art for any Special Energy card out there and I'll fight anyone on that. Part of it is it being a really fun set to tinker around with. I was very enthralled by this set that when Expedition was released, I felt like the wind was taken out of me. Expedition was AWFUL for all intents and purposes. I even went in the Air Force because I wanted to be away from the E-Reader sets that much. No one told me that it was just 3 sets and it was just a phase. I was a stupid kid.
 
I really just sat and spent a week re-evaluating all of my card ratings:
  1. Legendary Treasures 8.114
  2. HGSS 7.984
  3. Undaunted 7.967
  4. Call of Legends 7.962
  5. Emerging Powers 7.939
  6. Jungle 7.938
  7. Rising Rivals 7.933
  8. Next Destinies 7.932
  9. Generations 7.922
  10. Secret Wonders 7.917
  11. Noble Victories 7.902
  12. Legends Awakened 7.89
  13. Roaring Skies 7.864 (110 cards)
  14. Triumphant 7.864 (103 cards)
  15. Supreme Victors 7.863
  16. Dark Explorers 7.856
  17. BW 7.852
  18. Great Encounters 7.849
  19. Primal Clash 7.823
  20. Ancient Origins 7.82
  21. Unleashed 7.813
  22. Platinum 7.812
  23. Unbroken Bonds 7.808
  24. Team Rocket 7.807
  25. Hidden Fates 7.804
  26. Dragons Exalted 7.781
  27. Boundaries Crossed 7.778
  28. Arceus 7.766
  29. Holon Phantoms 7.757
  30. Stormfront 7.755
  31. Emerald 7.748
  32. Flashfire 7.734
  33. Plasma Storm 7.732
  34. Phantom Forces 7.73
  35. Mysterious Treasures 7.726
  36. Delta Species 7.711
  37. Fossil 7.71
  38. Cosmic Eclipse 7.701
  39. Unified Minds 7.69 (258 cards)
  40. Unseen Forces 7.69 (145 cards)
  41. Plasma Freeze 7.68
  42. Team Up 7.679
  43. Dragon Frontiers 7.673
  44. Breakthrough 7.671
  45. Majestic Dawn 7.67
  46. Dragon Majesty 7.667
  47. TR Returns 7.658
  48. Crystal Guardians 7.65
  49. DP 7.646
  50. Ultra Prism 7.642
  51. XY 7.63
  52. Shining Legends 7.628
  53. Crimson Invasion 7.621
  54. Breakpoint 7.61 (123 cards)
  55. Plasma Blast 7.61 (105 cards)
  56. FRLG 7.603
  57. Fates Collide 7.584
  58. Deoxys 7.583
  59. Steam Siege 7.569
  60. Lost Thunder 7.559
  61. Gym Heroes 7.553
  62. Neo Genesis 7.55
  63. Legend Maker 7.548
  64. Forbidden Light 7.541
  65. Burning Shadows 7.538
  66. Furious Fists 7.531
  67. Gym Challenge 7.508
  68. Celestial Storm 7.497 (183 cards)
  69. Guardians Rising 7.497 (169 cards)
  70. Sandstorm 7.48
  71. Skyridge 7.473
  72. VS 7.472
  73. SM 7.465
  74. RS 7.459
  75. Power Keepers 7.454
  76. Neo Revelation 7.439
  77. Base 7.382
  78. Expedition 7.364
  79. Evolutions 7.363
  80. Dragon 7.36
  81. Aquapolis 7.357
  82. Hidden Legends 7.343
  83. Neo Destiny 7.31
  84. Neo Discovery 7.227
  85. Team Magma/Team Aqua 7.052
  86. Vending S1-3 6.875

At least Legendary Treasures makes far sense as a best set contender than freaking Emerging Powers does.
 
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My brain says evolutions, my heart says primal clash. I started trying to play competitively when evolutions came out and while it was a pretty bad set I milked that Beedrill deck for absolutely everything it was worth. But good god that pack/playmate art of primal kyogre
 
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