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I couldn't disagree more about rainbow rares. I find them absolutely pointless when they're a rainbow palette swap of another card (FA GX's, VMax's/VStars, FA Supporters for some reason). They only bloated sets further in the SM era, especially when the Japanese sets started releasing monthly...

It's the first time it's been held outside of North America. And the only other time Worlds was held outside of the US was Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada in 2013.

Ah, man. Lostgar was so neat. A lot of the DPPt/HGSS era ones were interesting! Even though I think making more cards for the Lost Zone won't last past this Lost Abyss set (though I'd love to be wrong!), I'm right there with you in hoping for improvements. That Barbaracle was a surprise. Or...

No? I'm not missing the point of how the Lost Zone works. Perhaps I worded something oddly or didn't explain every situation, but I started playing the TCG late in the DPPt era when the Lost Zone was introduced, and it's one of my favorite gimmicks introduced to this day. So I do know that...

Well, that's just silly. I have much higher hopes for the variety of Lost Zone cards now.

The visual indications of Lost Zone cards look neat, but my interest in the Lost Zone mechanic is… the mechanic. Now take this with a grain of salt because I have been out of the loop with the Trading Card Game for years now, and the fact that I have a strong opinion of a mechanic rather than...

Yeah, man, cool.

The only thing I can't imagine here is getting this outlandishly upset. Every. Single. Time. This you?

Of course when there's some unique card, like a possible VStar Alolan Vulpix character rare with Lillie--which is what has my interest--but there's also a mention of a shiny Charizard, people lose their collective minds over Charizard because that's the thing to do on Pokebeach. Charizards...

There's a great comment on the trailer pointing out a past vs future theme for these games. Sada seems to refer to "pasada" which is the female conjugation of the Spanish word for past, and Turo seems to refer to "futuro," the male conjugation of future. It's seen in the designs for the...

Yes, it is common. I was saying I forgot about these games until the other day, and then this was announced the next day. That was the weird timing for me.

I had a realization yesterday that these games were actually releasing later this year, and all that was shown so far was the teaser trailer. Weird timing.

Gardevoir is my favorite Pokemon; you and anyone else can go ahead and make incorrect and inappropriate assumptions about that. But when I saw this card yesterday, I was very happy. And then I played a game of "Find the spambot" in the comments to see if anyone would bemoan a popular Pokemon...

Did you look at the rest of the artwork on the pack? Or did you just look at Mewtwo and think, "CG BAD"?

Oh, finally! Actually good photos of the missing cards without a giant name slip taking up 1/3 of the card, taken with a potato quality phone in terrible lighting. Just for 20 minutes of fame. (Or a day of useless infamy?) Seriously. Who does that? Anyway. I'll forego the glaring issue of the...

Neat. Gloria is (almost) like the return of Pokemon Collector, or a balanced, one-effect version of Brigette. Very interesting attack on Mimikyu VMAX; that could swing games in certain situations. But I do wonder how well it would actually work in practice, especially requiring Acerola's...

"Largest set in history!!" AGAIN! In other news, water wet! More at 11. Well, at least they did include the Celebi V and Espeon VMAX alt arts.

Phenomenal artwork on these cards!

Marketing like this is fine and all, but when you turn your brain back on, it's canonically baffling. I guess we'll see if time traveling is involved in three months.

Meta aside, I say good riddance to the visual mess of VMAX's. I really love how vibrant this Arceus VSTAR looks!