Re: Super Rares being reprints of Rares -- Why is this a bad thing? This is the perfect way to do them, imo. Everybody wins in that situation. If you're someone who doesn't care how cards look and just want them for functionality, then you get the easier to pull and therefore cheaper (these ones are even in tins!) versions. If you're someone who cares about the aesthetics (I fall into this camp), you get a sweet looking card that shows a bit of ballerness by being the rarer version of something. As long as these cards are somewhat playable and aren't just junk filling a set (ala COL), I don't see why this is a bad thing at all. If Zekrom and Reshi were only printed as supers, people would just complain that they were too hard to pull.
Re: Black & White being a bad set: This is kind of silly. I don't think it's right to talk about how we should all be thankful that it's not another COL as I don't think that's the correct attitude to have at all. However, this is a pretty sicks set no matter how you look at it. Emboar, Reshiram, Zekrom, Samurott, Zoroark, Reuniclus, Cincinno, Bouffalnt, Juniper, Communication, and Revive are all cards that are either tier one playable tier two playable, or are interesting enough cards that they have the ability to someday become t1/t2 playable. In addition, Donphan, Donphan/Machamp, Magnezone variants, Feraligatr variants, and probably a few decks I'm forgetting get better with the release of this set. Plus, even if you're not looking just purely at the cards in the set, and want to discuss outside factors: there are only 2 supers and one secret, meaning the set is easy to collect. All of the tins and whatnot come with all BW packs and actual playable cards (Reshi, Zekrom, Zoroark), which is a fantastic value. The reverse foil has also been improved. I've really got nothing bad to say about this set.
Re: Call of Legends -- This also isn't a bad set for new players or players that otherwise don't have some of the good cards in it. It also does us the favor of keeping good cards like Smeargle, Cleffa (this card is good, and if you can't see that you need to play more HS-on), Ninetales, PONT, Copycat, Elm, Dual Ball, and Sage's Training in the format for longer than they would normally be. Lost World and Lost Remover are also good cards, and those foil energy are sick as.
