Recent content by The Pinecone

Hawlucha's (FUF) attack, Flying Press, does 60 damage and says if the opponents active Pokemon isn't an EX, this attack does nothing. Espeon's (DEX) ability, Solar Revelation, prevents all effects of your opponent's attacks, except damage, done to each of your Pokemon that has any energy...

I agree, the set should have had a new style of energy. It's such a simple thing to do and with fairy being new, people are already needing some for their collection. You can't get energy XY as a reverse foil can you?

Pretty happy to see Darkrai outperform Plasma Basics.

A stadium that enforces a maximum hand size? Could be interesting. 4 seems brutal though.

Speaking of Juniper the card... it is simply the best supporter in the game, and has been since BW-on. Sure, you can discard things you don't want to, but you wouldn't use her if it was that bad. There are plenty of times were the discarding aspect is actually helpful, such as getting rid of...

Master Ball was a theme deck Ace-Spec, it really is unplayable, and the WORST Ace Spec created. It should have been able to grab ANY of your Pokemon from your deck OR discard, but even then it would still be bad.

Pokemon also follows the game, and we didn't get Plasma cards until most people had beaten the game and were just grinding teams, rarely seeing Team Plasma. Now everyone's attention is on X/Y and we are still getting new Plasma Cards. Plasma cards should have been sprinkled in throughout the...

The question I have it, why did Pokemon wait so long to announce this? Why did the German TO have this info and leak it before Pokemon could officially release it? They missed a golden opportunity to look professional by not announcing it Day 1 at US Nationals. About rotation, we really do...

Plasma Raticate's first attack is his purpose. He is purely for set up/crutch. Grabbing a Plasma Energy, Plasma Pokemon AND Plasma Trainer is really good, and for just a single colorless energy. However this attack is on a weak 70HP Pokemon weak to fighting, and to make matters worse, evolves...

6 damage counters on an attacking Pokemon is really good, even 2 with Rocky Helmet can cause it's share of damage. It has an unwritten defensive effect as well, in that your opponent may simply pass their turn to avoid the 6 damage if the situation calls for it, There are ways around this card...

Pokemon needs to embrace the "half-pack" giving players half the cards at half the price. Magic and a few other card games do this which allows for a greater impulse buy and is more affordable to kids (and more likely their parents will decide on buying it for them). It would be fairly easy to...

It says the height has to be printed on the card, so you can not put an EX or FA on the bottom of your deck. If you want to put Emolga DRX on the bottom of your deck for who knows what reason, make sure you are running the Shiny Collection FA version. Not that I see this becoming an issue...

Looks like it's going to be NXD on according to German TO's (they really beat Pokemon to the punch? Why?)

I really don't want this set to get printed elsewhere. Well, actually, I don't want this printed as an official set elsewhere. This would mean two terrible things. 1, we don't sync up with Japan, a dream lost, and 2, we have to go through an entire set with basically the same meta. Thankfully...

Would be nice for those not going to Worlds to be able to get ready and practice for the next set in our free time, but since we don't know the rotation, if any, that's kind of hard to do.