Recent content by Elliot Gale

Maybe she's getting the privilege of a full art Supporter card instead? None of the other trainers with dedicated archetypes that appear in the Owner's Pokémon block so far have, and it would definitely make her stand out more in that regard. Or maybe I'm just huffing copium seeing two spare...

Pocket is honestly spreading the love around like crazy. Tons of Pokémon are getting their first-ever rulebox variants, and others are showing up in types that the paper TCG hasn't used on them for several years.

The designs of the main characters for the game feature Dynamax Gloves alongside Mega Rings. It would stand to reason that they have the capacity to invoke the power of Z-Crystals as well. It's just that we have no guarantee that any or all of these mechanics will overlap at any given time. If...

ie. itself. Nothing prevents you from moving that energy elsewhere with another effect afterward.

Nah, let's be real, if this were in Pocket, it would only have one of the two attacks and it would definitely have -30HP, give or take.

Oh, the acronym pops up in other card game circles too, whether or not those games have any history of an official card creation contest. All it takes is a community member that isn't quite satisfied with a particular archetype's competitive standing, or a community member that would really like...

What a polarizing set of reveals. Colress's Tenacity is a certified banger, offering the format its most convenient method of reaching Stadiums and Special Energy yet. But playing it (or the more obvious Colress's Experiment) puts you at risk of being obliterated by this Kyurem that reads like...

It sure helps your sales figures when you're actually printing beyond demand instead of forcing people to enter lotteries to buy your products.

Attacks or abilities a card has are the ones printed on it, and only the ones printed on it. Attacks or abilities a card can use include both the ones printed on it as well as the ones printed on other cards, such as the TM or Seal Stone Tools. The reason we're even having any confusion about...

We already got this sword kitty by way of our ex battle decks, yeah?

It's pretty clear about what it does. It does not allow an attack effect from an opponent's basic Pokémon to place damage counters on your benched Pokémon. As usual, raw damage is not an effect, so it won't block the likes of Scream Tail or Zapdos ex.

I might be the only person in the world who's excited to see Future Booster Energy fixing a long-standing translation error that English cards have had. "attacks a Pokémon uses" are not the same as "attacks belonging to a Pokémon"; Lost Origin Cramorant is an example of a card that has the...

They actually don't, at all. Their regulation marks aren't changing. lol

I'm kinda floored seeing how good these starter sets are after the abysmal quality of the ex start decks, and they aren't even being released that far apart from one another... what gives?

Paradoxes could be pushed, sure, but I don't think there's any obligation for the cards to be Basic. If they were a category of their own, they could easily be regulated in terms of speed. They could also be regulated in terms of impact by requiring other cards to function. Just spitballing...