>>923 Rare Candy sounds good on paper, but would it actually end up being good? Stage 2 decks are still going to brick in the exact same ways.

>>923 >>924 >Solgaleo Better Gallade and Druddigon becomes a free retreat >Raichu Terrible, just like any Ex lighting card >Lunala Again, terrible, worse Vaporeon. Giratina with dawn is good enough >Rotomdex wtf why they made a worse version of Pokedex lmao >Rare candy pretty good with, any 2 energies or less/good skills, phase 2 mons like: <My boy Gengar-Ex -Beedrill -Infernape ex -Togekiss -Rampardos -Gallade -Blastoise ex -Greninja -Serperior PPs on socials are gettin hyped about NuCharizard-ex without Moltres, but keep in mind fire type has no good support >Ilima ehhh, maybe decent with TL Snorlax and thats it >Klame Hes alright with AL Marhoak, cant speak with the rest if i dont see their Pokemon first >Rayquaza lol rip Dragonite >Lila win more card

Omp omp omp >>945 >>Rayquaza >lol rip Dragonite 4 energy is a lot. Dragonite is a meme, but I don't see Fug being that good. Might be fun in Dialga decks.

>>925 yanmega rayquaza raichu brew?

I hope we get more tools in this set. I need something new for my nigga Skarmory.

>>944 Being able to jump straight into stage 2 is really good for mons like Greg. I think the main issue is that there isn't a way to search for item cards at the moment. Other than that Rare Candy has always been a great card.

>>945 I learned not to trust early analysis from you dumb niggas after everyone was shitting on Tina EX

>>923 >>925 Those Alohan Raichu looks cute, but I'm not returning to pocket myself. I don't care for battling and even collecting just isn't that interesting when it's digital (and expensive/very time consuming to have a chance at completing sets)

>>951 we barely know any new cards especially, so better off not listening to any of it

>>950 That's my point. You can skip the mid evo, and pokecomm becomes more consistent, but if your bottom two cards are Rare Candy you're fucked in the exact same way you would be currently. You could run 2x candies and 2x stage 1 to really fish for it, but then you're stuck waiting for your stage 2 if you don't get it. Evolution decks just aren't as consistent as running 2-4 basics.

>>923 solgaleo looks pretty damn good with rare candy, jeez steel energy on benched cosmog, rare candy and swap in for free to swing on turn 4 hot damn lunala is pretty ass though, might be good if it was a basic or stage 1 but dedicating 6 cards to that effect is wild it's not even that useful without using tina but if you're using tina you don't need a whole setup to move energy around i dunno maybe if there's a palkia-type psychic card someday that does like 200 damage and discards all energy it might be worth running

>>956 I can imagine Solgaleo being absolute cancer while hiding behind a Druddigon, but it can have Dialga provide the energy as well.

>>956 thinking about it more i'm wondering if lunala is meant to work with a card that isn't out yet like SR zard which was clearly made with rare candy in mind tapu lele, maybe?

Why are there 2 different non-FA arts for the starter Pokemon? Is this for "sun" and "moon" packs I guess? I never played the DS Pokemon games, and this was the other one (along with X/Y) that I still needed to play. I played D/P before its release, and I wanted to play S/M before its release as well, but there are too many games I wanna play and stuff I wanna (grind Pocket rank still, Clair Obscur) do before this set comes out that I'm not gonna be able to play S/M before it releases.

>>971 sun and moon packs, definitely. SM had a gimmick where moon's clock was set twelve hours ahead, so it would be night if you played it during the day and vice versa. this is the same deal, day cards for the sun pack and night cards for the moon pack.

>Lillie Immersive Rare >Mallow card confirms that we're getting Tsareena finally I'm happy.

>Solgaleo Suffers from being a Stage 2 Pokemon. There's Rare Candy now, but all Stage 2 Pokemon have Rare Candy now. He's 2 Steel, and his ability brings him to the front for free, so they obviously want you to turbo him out, but you still have to get the pieces. Remembering that the only reason that Gallade is playable is because it has a 2 energy attack, and remembering that Meowscarada is also a Stage 2 with a 2 energy attack, I wonder if this now solidifies that Stage 2 Pokemon are DoA unless their attack only costs 2 or less energy. Thinking about it more, Rampardos is also 2 or fewer energy. Of every Stage 2 Pokemon that has ever been playable, I think only Charizard is an outlier of this, and you stack energy on him with Moltres. However, with Rare Candy now, is Charizard stacking to 4+ energy too slow? If you high roll Moltress it can still compete of course, but is that reliable? I knew before now (from personal experience) that Machamp is trash because of his 3 energy attack and that Gallade is playable only because he has a 2 energy attack, but I never truly realized how far this went until just now. Stage 2 Pokemon need to have a 2 or lesser energy cost attack in order to even have a shot at being playable. It also looks like they're still playing heavily into Red/Cape breakpoints. Anyway, I think the best comparison for this guy that we have in the game right now is Gallade. On the low end, Solgaleo does more damage, but on the high end Solgaleo does less damage. I'll be surprised if a Stage 2 deck usurps Basic EX slop as best deck, but you can probably play him with Skarmory like playing Gallade with Sudowoodo. >Alolan Raichu Powercreeped GA Alakzam? It's EX but it's a Stage 1, colorless version of GA Alakazam. I don't know if any non-Psychic decks want a GA Alakazam. Playable, but probably not very good, like GA Alakazam (which has Rare Candy now btw). >Lunala This might be spicy due to Giratina's existence. Hard for me to tell. >Alolan Marowak More gambling. Seemingly not an EX this time, and with energy gen support. Pretty cool "turn 2" smash, but will be extremely unreliable damage wise just like regular Marowak. Cubone -> energy -> A.Marowak -> energy trainer seems like a pretty sick play if you can flip 2 heads though, and it will only give up 1 point. actually, I just got to Kiawe, and I changed my mind. This probably fucking sucks. Kiawe ENDS YOUR TURN wtf why >Rotom Dex Scry 1. Pokedex. Fucking trash. We have too many good cards nowadays to waste a slot on this thing. Why does this exist? Is S/M when they introduced the "Rotom Dex" and they just have to include it? >Rare Candy Very good, but as touched on earlier, I think this now solidifies that any Stage 2 Pokemon that does not have a 2 or fewer energy attack (or some energy support) is trash. This was already true (explained above), but now it's even more true. >Ilima Koga/Expeditioner version 3. I wonder if we'll get a nice new colorless Pokemon to go with this. You could turn GA Snorlax into a better Druddigon (with Helmet) but I think we might be past that era and it requires too many cards to be anything more than cute I think. I don't even know if Arceus EX decks want this as is. Deck space is becoming premium and Mew EX didn't really care for Expeditioner. >Lana <only if you have Araquanid in play Doesn't need to be the active Pokemon, just in play. Exactly how good Lana is depends on how good Araquanid is, because Cyrus still exists and you can still just run 1 Cyrus and 1 Sabrina, and neither of those require a Stage 1 Pokemon be in play to use. If your deck is playing Araquanid, I think Lana is very good, but if Araquanid is mid, I can't imagine water decks choosing to include a playset of Araquanids just so that they can play Lana. Cyrus is good enough already. >Kiawe I thought this was decent until I read that it ends your turn. I change my mind about Alolan Marowak. Turtonator better hard carry this guy cuz Marowak isn't. >Acerola Depends on what Palossand and Mimikyu do, but seems very cheeky. I like the concept of this card a lot (it's basically 1 hit from GA Kabutops) so hopefully Mimikyu is good. I have a harder time believing that Palossand might be good, but hopefully he is too. >Mallow Cute brown girl. Depends on if Tsareena is good or not, since the Shiinotic we have now is not very good. Tsareena basically needs to have a 2 or fewer energy attack in order for Mallow to be potentially playable... but you can just play Erika, so Tsareena needs to have like 170/180 HP, and also a 2 energy attack. >Sophocles Again, if any of these Pokemon are really good, then this cards is pretty much like a better Red if your deck is using these guys. Alolan Golem and Vikavolt need to hope they have 2 energy attacks, so of these my money is on Vika being potentially playable. I just don't like Togedemaru so I hope he doesn't end up being the usable one. >Immersive Lillie Cute. Slight upgrade to Erika, for all colors, as long as you're all in on Stage 2. Definitely playable in Stage 2 decks, though maybe only as a one-of, because deck space is really getting small now that you probably want Rare Candy and also at least 1 Comm

>>925 >>948 Yeah, seems like Dialga shell fodder. I thought the Yanmega variant was way better than people gave it credit for back when DarkZone was king, but I can see Rayquaza and/or Raichu being played in that deck too. Raichu is basically a different flavor of Yanmega... but I think maybe if you're playing Raichu, then in that case it might be better to just play Mew instead, because anything with a shit ton of energy on it probably kills itself if hit by its own attack, no? I haven't played Mew in a while so maybe that's not true anymore. And Rayquaza is interesting in Dialga because sure it's got the fun factor of Dragonite or Wugtrio, but 4 energy is an extra turn in Dialga. A 3 energy attack is ideal, and a 4 energy attack might be a turn too slow. You can't even really use Dawn to throw Dialga's energy onto Rayquaza, because you're either using Dialga's 2 energy to retreat, or you're using Leaf to retreat and thus cannot play another trainer. 4 energy is not ideal in the Dialga shell.

>>985 >Slight upgrade to Erika Venusaur is going to get more annoying now, 60+40 heals + cape, etc. Good, he needed some time in the meta

Can a nigga get any other card? I still dont have any full art trainers or immersives from the set

>>1001 the pull rates from this set have gotta be borked. I've already pulled 2 FA copies of rocket grunt, pokemon center lady, giratina and NOTHING else.

>>1002 I've pulled 2 FA EXes, and 0 regular ones, it's impressive. I haven't opened that many packs, either.

>mismagius is the only normal ex I'm missing >picrel this is absurd

>>925 fug

>>1002 i completed the whole SR set and got 2 of every ex worth playing but pulled 0 immersives, FA trainers, or crown pokeballs sometimes it just be like that

Immersive Lillie is so cute bros. That's going to be my chase card for this expansion, along with FA Mallow.

Lana Mallow and Lillie releasing this soon is diabolical to me who wants all three. Unfortunately, ever since playing the game since day 1, I have gotten only 1 FA trainer card. So my expectations are low.

8939 5030 6498 6416 Have: GA Blaine Koga Brock Surge MI Servine Druddgion Blue SS Cranidos Skarmory Galactic Grunts Cynthia Mars Volkner TL Sudowoodo Elder Barry Most likely most of the 2 diamond Pokémon not worth listing Want: Misty Pokémon Communicator Leaf

>>1225 I'll do Leaf and Pokecomm for Blaine and Koga. 7034513352129256 Do you just need 1 of each?

>>1227 One of each or two Poke Comm is fine

>>1228 Okay. I've been opening up Dialga packs for the past couple weeks, so I've got plenty of those.

>>945 I feel like there's a very legit case to make for GarchompEX once we get Rare Candy, I always felt like it'd become a monster if it became any faster to get online

So I guess we're going back?

>>1396 I don't think the threads had many or any shitposters to begin with and we don't really need 30mb sound webms to post the cards. I would prefer to stay to be honest, but the truth is that not everyone knew about this place, I'd say 85% of posters only now 4chan and were just waiting. I'll dual post though.

>>1406 Yeah, I got /tcgp/ open in another tab and it's MUCH more lively. It was an interesting experience at least. See you on the other side.

>>1408 Yeah, for most generals that didn't have many shitposters it's better to go back since the threads were actually natural, but on boards like /v/ that are basically dumpsters for /pol/ and discord raids, no way I'm going back to that.