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Sure, but you need to be specific. It's only the modern games that are nominally limiting their intended audience a younger demographic as a way to excuse mediocre game design.

In SM12a Tag All Stars, Kouichi Ooyama illustrated a few alt art cards of some staple Trainer cards. They didn't all get English prints, but the Yellow A Pokémon Communication, Pokégear 3.0, and Reset Stamp come from some of these cards. Ooyama was one of the original TCG game designers and has...

Flawless logic!

No, it really doesn't. Gen 8 was the first time ever I decided "I really don't recognize these things as Pokémon, I'm not even going to keep the cards I pull of them" and set them aside from the rest of my cards. I haven't recanted on that, either. This looks to be the second time this happens...

The first block of any new era of the TCG focuses on the new Pokémon, and it's usually the second block / second half that shifts back to focusing on all Pokémon. For my Gen 8 TCG collection, I did not include any Gen 8 Pokémon in my binder, and as a percentage the number of cards I leave inside...

i'm gonna be sitting out most of the SV era of the TCG as well, it looks like

This artwork is a smart way of getting rid of/defocusing those clouds Gigamax Pokémon have floating over their heads. Like, I don't know if they have a narrative purpose in the games (I stopped playing them after USUM), but they just didn't work in the TCG, coming across as just a bit too...

cope

What do you mean? Cosmic Eclipse was a great concluding set for the English SM era, and Tag All Stars GX was a great concluding set for the JP SM era. VSTAR Universe is basically executing the same concept as the latter.

I reckon Team Japan's Pikachu will always be the best football-related card. https://pokumon.com/card/team-japans-pikachu-050-xy-p-japanese-promo/

Oh, that's atrocious.

Honestly, all these product boxes are ridiculous. ETBs are nice because the box has a functional use after the fact, but those large rectangular boxes (the ones with figures and/or jumbo cards) with the plastic blistering inside them have always felt off to me. There isn't really a better way...

If this is a thread about set names, I reckon very few things WOTC and/or PUSA/TPCI has ever come up with comes close to some of the bangers PCL comes up with for the Japanese set names. 闇からの挑戦, さいはての攻防, ジージーエンド, and オルタージェネシス all come to mind as some of the coolest set names ever and all I can...

Did the video confirm any pull rates for VMAX Climax? I want to buy a box but if the pull rate on Special Art Rares is only 1 per box I might actually wait for the English SWSH12.5. Using 5ban is a pejorative is silly. 5ban is Creatures' internal CG graphics group, and they're responsible for...

Umbreon VMAX has been subject to the most overt case of price manipulation I've seen in modern era cards. Many are ignoring it and I can only guess why.

Flower Picking was already used for the name of a different Ability on Floette and Florges from Cosmic Eclipse. Since the effects are different, it's almost inherently necessary to ensure the translation is different.

It's not just a 'gimmick', it's (1) an opportunity for Japanese speakers to pick up English phrases and learn a second language, and (2) an opportunity to break the language barrier at high-level organized play [that mistranslations like this undermine]. On point (1), I'll note that despite...

The original name of Radiant Alakazam's Ability is ペインスプーン. This is the English phrase "Pain Spoon" spelled out phonetically in katakana (paste the phrase into DeepL and/or Google Translate, and click the 'speech' button if you're not clear on what I mean). There's no 'translation' to be done...

Oh, neat! I'm glad to be corrected on that, thank you.

2023 Starter Set ex Decks: Sprigatito {G} and Lucario ?? {F} Fuecoco {R} and Ampharos ?? {L} Quaxly {W} and Mimikyu ?? {P} 2003 Constructed Starter Decks: Treecko {G}, Makuhita {F}, and Skitty {C} Torchic {R}, Electrike {L}, and Poochyena {D} Mudkip {W}, Ralts {P}, and Aron {M} Keep an eye out...