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EX Battle Boost - Will We Ever See It?

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I'm surprised really that there hasn't been a thread made about this already...

This set is slowly leaking all over the interwebs. Evolved Pokemon are finally getting "EX-ified".

So far in this set we have a plethora of cool information + cards:

Cool EX's : Excadrill EX & Chandelure EX

Both EXs do not need to be evolved into.
Perhaps in the future we will have the pleasure of obtaining many more of our fan favourites as EX pokemon. Beartic, Gothitelle, Hydreigon, Garchomp come to mind.

Linking Artwork

I've noticed quite a bit of linking artwork throughout the leaks thus far. Hopefully there will be more of these sorts of cards in the future, as I think it is fun trying to interpret nintendo's vision.

Natu shivering in the cold, so a Bouffalant steps in to save the day.
A poor lonely Trubbish, without any friends soon has a beachside party with Manaphy and Empoleon.
There is also a Tepig, growing up with a family... (Hopefully it doesn't end with melancholy)
Charmeleon has a quick nap, only to realize he burned his Swablu buddy's wing!

Hmm...

This is the main topic of discussion. Sure this set ties up the Japanese sets, but I seriously have my concerns about it being North American release. Especially with X & Y around the corner...

This set has mostly reprints. We all saw how interesting COL was, when it was released... Reprints! Woot let's raise the roof!! In all seriousness if it weren't for the Shiny Cards inside, I doubt many people would purchase such a set. This set has reprints with sprinkles of new cards, they can't just give us the new cards, we need filler!

Since there is no rarity in this set, will it be released in English... They can easily add rarity to all the cards in the set, so I see no problems there, but why in the first place wouldn't they add rarity.

There is only 100 cards so they can easily shuffle them into upcoming sets (I mean come on it isn't like we have enough in our sets as is! -sarcasm-).

Some of the cards though, I doubt they will release due to the fact that in North America, we don't even know what Pokemon Smash is!

We have TONS of BW Promos, Shiny Collection AND NOW EX Battle Boost. Surely they can't glaze over this many cards!

Discuss... Sorry if I rambled...
 
I don't think we'll get it, mostly because of the cards that have characters from the Japanese Pokemon Smash show.

Plus, there have been tons of times where Pokemon gave Japan large sets and we didn't get anything. And all the halfdecks they get for the movies and whatnot.

I'm always surprised when we get any cards that look like they even might end up being Japanese exclusive.
 
There have also been times when we've got most of a set, minus one or two unsuitable cards. I wouldn't say that rules anything out. We'll know some time between Plasma Blast and the end of the year, but until the next set is announced, I doubt we'll know either way.
 
PokemonTrader said:
Evolved Pokemon are finally getting "EX-ified".
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Except as Basic Pokemon instead of Stage 1 and Stage 2 Pokemon like they should've been. There's no reason why Pokemon like Chandelure and Excadrill needed to be Basics when they're just fine as Stage 1/2 EX's. I don't get why everyone thinks this is okay when it's not. But If we aren't getting EX Battle Boost from Japan as our next set after Plasma Blast before X&Y Base Set then there won't be anything to worry about I guess.

PokemonTrader said:
Perhaps in the future we will have the pleasure of obtaining many more of our fan favourites as EX pokemon. Beartic, Gothitelle, Hydreigon, Garchomp come to mind.
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Don't encourage them to print more Evolved Pokemon as Basic EX's, it's bad enough for the TCG as it is with Stage 1 and Stage 2's not standing much of a chance in today's format aside from Blastoise, Eelektrik, Hydreigon, and Empoleon which are pretty good but not as good as Big Basics are right now.

Of course this hasn't been the first time Evolved Pokemon were printed as Basic Pokemon, there were the SP Basics in the Platinum block with cards like Luxray GL, Infernape E4, and Garchomp C just to name a few but back then Stage 1 and Stage 2 decks weren't crippled as much to compete in and now they are because they're getting less support on great abilities and great attacks.
 
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Poke Trainer J said:
Except as Basic Pokemon instead of Stage 1 and Stage 2 Pokemon like they should've been. There's no reason why Pokemon like Chandelure and Excadrill needed to be Basics when they're just fine as Stage 1/2 EX's. I don't get why everyone thinks this is okay when it's not. But If we aren't getting EX Battle Boost from Japan as our next set after Plasma Blast before X&Y Base Set then there won't be anything to worry about I guess.



Don't encourage them to print more Evolved Pokemon as Basic EX's, it's bad enough for the TCG as it is with Stage 1 and Stage 2's not standing much of a chance in today's format aside from Blastoise, Eelektrik, Hydreigon, and Empoleon which are pretty good but not as good as Big Basics are right now.

Of course this hasn't been the first time Evolved Pokemon were printed as Basic Pokemon, there were the SP Basics in the Platinum block with cards like Luxray GL, Infernape E4, and Garchomp C just to name a few but back then Stage 1 and Stage 2 decks weren't crippled as much to compete in and now they are because they're getting less support on great abilities and great attacks.
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While I agree with you on this, let me pose this idea. What if TPCi realized big basics were gonna stick around for a while and this is there way to get people favorite pokemon to be playable as EXs. Would you play the chandelure EX or Excadrill EX if they had to evolve, probably not but as basics they could be usable. TPCi may have a plan in the work to eliminate the Power Creep of the EXs starting with XY1 and these Basic evolutions EX may be the start of this.
 
So in other words you're saying that Evolved Pokemon as Basics should be used more than Evolved Pokemon as Stage 1/2 Pokemon because TPCi says so? I don't see how this eliminates the power creep of Big Basic EX's at all when a hard rotation to XY might be the best solution to the problem (although it would be a disaster for many players). If everyone has to start from scratch in the XY video games by not being able to import their Old Pokemon over to them then why should those that play the TCG be treated any different?
 
Gold Zekrom FA variant! I really want this set now, do u guys think they will do Gold FA for all the variants? Or something special for each one? And what about the 7 secret rare? What could they b........
 
Bigbowlr1037 said:
What if TPCi realized big basics were gonna stick around for a while and this is there way to get people favorite pokemon to be playable as EXs. ... TPCi may have a plan in the work to eliminate the Power Creep of the EXs starting with XY1 and these Basic evolutions EX may be the start of this.
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Poke Trainer J said:
So in other words you're saying that Evolved Pokemon as Basics should be used more than Evolved Pokemon as Stage 1/2 Pokemon because TPCi says so?
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Remember, TPCI doesn't make the cards. That's all Japan's doing. TPCI just translates them and arranges them into sets for the international audience.
 
The EX battle boost is Japan's way of saying "hey, you non Japanese people importing our game, we're making this so you can catch up to us in time for the XY TCG release".

Even if it was impossible to have a completely simultaneous release, it would still be possible for us to release the first XY set before Japan releases their second XY set.

The only way to tell if we are getting simultaneous XY1 TCG release is to see how Japan releases their set. If they release it the way they have always release their sets, then it is for certain that we aren't get simultaneous XY1 release.

If we release an equivalent of the EX battle boost to the international market, then you can kiss [close to] simultaneous XY1 TCG release goodbye.
 
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 there are some signs that we may not get this as a real set and either not get it at all or get it as a side set. A sync is still possible. The new EX's and trainers are garbage, I certainly won't be upset over not getting them, and they seem to have been made extremely safe as to not cause meta problems.

The biggest new card in this set is Spiritomb which is actually playable. I hope we get him in Plasma Blast to soften Genesect EX a bit.
 
This set is supposed to be a Reprint set for them, Ideally they won't release the whole set over here so we can do X/Y Mass release for both VG and TCG. That's the hope anyways.
 
Honestly I really think with the Chandelure and Excadrill they may be indicating to us that they've likely tested the heck out of actual evolved pokemon EX and can't find a good way to balance them. For them to be viable they'd have to have ungodly health and damage, basically warping the game to a state where it is ONLY balanced around evolved EX.

A stage 2 evolved EX would have to have around 240+ HP and would have to deal at least 120 damage to be worth playing, at which point it would easily eclipse anything else out there.
 
Poke Trainer J said:
If everyone has to start from scratch in the XY video games by not being able to import their Old Pokemon over to them then why should those that play the TCG be treated any different?
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Because, the video game cost them 50 dollars max, these cards cost me over 400$ ... I'm sure I won't be the only one quitting pokemon if they tell me ALL my cards are illegal, go spend another 400$ now! mmmmm no thanks.
 
Cards I like outta this set would have to be Excadrill EX and FA Shadow Triad.

EXcadrill, as I call it, is actually a pretty good card. Turn 1 40 with built in Ether is good. At least on paper. Heavy Ball accessible and works well with DCE. It's second attack is clunky but can work with the right stuff. It's not the greatest but it shows promise.

I really hope they mistranslated Juniper's Dad. Unless you have Pokedex-like knowledge of Pokemon physiology, it's nigh improbable that you'll correctly guess a Pokemon's height. I mean really...
 
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