Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

EX Dragon Frontiers Card and Pack Scans and Info

You'd think that TTar ex's Shockwave counter or Gardy ex's Imprison Counter would disappear if that Pokemon evolved/de-evolved, right? Just like Poison/Burn?

~Jim
 
ADAM said:
he merely jests. its like saying snorlax d with cessation crystal is broken
btw, how do you make that delta symbol? its drivin' me crazy!
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Turn off num lock. Hold down Alt and press on the numpad, 2 3 5. The delta symbol should appear. It's worked on every PC i've tried it on. I have no idea how to do it on mac though.

Professor Elm said:
Gyarados D+Gatr D+Golduck D+Exeggutor D should become a very popular decktype.
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This would be feasible if Windstorm wasn't legal. A single windstorm destroys the holon stadium, and then you can drop the battle frontier and maybe lock it or hope it sticks. That shuts down Gyarados atleast. Wait, what am I saying? Why even go through all the work to do that. Just drop a cessation crystal or a lati@s HP, and the whole deck is shut off.

DX Minum FTW :p
 
This set has (as we all know) lots of broken cards.
In the argument to the fact that many think that Tyranitar EX is very broken, I would like to stsate something... *ahem*

Tyranitar EX is very good. Good in the fact that it can 2HKO anything. This will cost around 3 Energy and no additional effect are added to the ShockWave-Thundermaker combo.
This set has a huge number of ST.2 Pokmeon EX that are all nearing (or are broken) and the most notable is that many of them can do 80 for 3 Energy, the same as T-Tar EX and ALL have some sort of effect aded in with no drawbacks.

Look at this:

Garedvoir EX-(R)(R)(C): 80 --- You may move one R Energy from Gardevior EX to one of your Benched Pokemon.

Kingdra EX-(F)(F)(C): 80 --- During your next turn, Kingdra EX has no Weakness

Flygon EX-(P)(P)(C): 80 --- This atttack does 10 damage to each of your oppoenent's Bench Pokemon that already have damage counters on them.


Being that the highest HP in the game at trhe moment is 160, these attacks are hard enough to 2HKO anything that is not resistant and they have particularly nice effects (Flygon seems to have the most powerful adavantage with that and Sand Damage). What does everyone else think about these compared to ShockWave?

Oh and note Hermit: Flip 2 of your Prize cards over, then draw 2 cards.
 
Veyatii, I'd rather deal 80 damage a turn w/o a discard than having to place a damage counter and wait a turn and then KO a pokemon.
 
Here's a question I've been thinking about for a couple of days with regards to this set. So many people have expressed the opinions on these Pokemon-ex that they're all broken. I actually beg to differ. None of them possess the kind of speed that is required in the current format. Not one has a consistent one energy attack which made Eggs.dec the National Champion, nor is there enough consistent energy acceleration for these particular Pokemon for them to be as powerful as MewTrick or LBS (Altaria is a weak sub for Blastex, or even for Megex). I'm actually looking forward more to the Rares and Holos in this set than the ex's. I think there are some interesting combos in there.
 
most of them can start doing like 80+ on turn 3 how is that slow?
plus some of them have attacks that cost 2. I dont really get what you mean when you say their slow
 
LOL. I think I've heard it so many times yet it always makes me laugh. When people talk about stage 2's that require 3 energy costs to do attacks, and say stuff like, "it can easily get going turn 3, and a lot of the time turn 2," and what sceptilerancher said, "most of them can start doing....on turn 3."

You know what it takes for it to "start doing like 80+" on turn 3? You MUST have the basic down T1 and attach 1 energy to it. You MUST have the middle stage in play turn 2 and attach another energy to it. You MUST have the stage 2 down T3 and attach another energy to it. If you don't draw into 1 thing you need, the stage 2 doesn't get setup by turn 3. And getting out multiples takes 3 turns a piece. That's IF you can grab the exact thing you need every turn.

Every 2 turns it takes you to get out a stage 2, it takes me half the time to get out a stage 1. And many stage 1's are doing just as good damage than some stage 2's. So in the end, Stage 1/basic decks just outspeed stage 2 decks. Stage 2 decks might not be slow per say, but in this day and age of speed, they definitely can't keep up with the lower-stage decks.

(let's not think about rare candy 'k? :p)
 
bullados said:
Here's a question I've been thinking about for a couple of days with regards to this set. So many people have expressed the opinions on these Pokemon-ex that they're all broken. I actually beg to differ. None of them possess the kind of speed that is required in the current format. Not one has a consistent one energy attack which made Eggs.dec the National Champion, nor is there enough consistent energy acceleration for these particular Pokemon for them to be as powerful as MewTrick or LBS (Altaria is a weak sub for Blastex, or even for Megex). I'm actually looking forward more to the Rares and Holos in this set than the ex's. I think there are some interesting combos in there.
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He's completely right. There is little to no energy accelaration for these cards and there is a lot of good T2 type decks in this format. Once one of your big exs goes down, you're in a lot of trouble.
 
Shock wave doesn't sound very powerful for it's effect:/

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hitmonchan93 said:
Tex is broken! Good thing I got two of him at Nats :).
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How, how.. how!?!? Do you know where I can buy them?
 
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the dragonite is grass i dont know the attacks but i will say all the cards in the set will be beautiful the holows are amazing i think pokemon did a great job.
 
Burninating_Torchic said:
WOW.
AMAZING art.
Like the fact that each pack has two Pokemon, too.
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I agree. Some of the best art since I started playing this game eons ago.

Also, Power Wave appears to be Lightning/Fighting and Shadow Blaze appears to be Psychic/Fire.

phantom
 
Ok tell me they will errata tha t -tar ex. If they dont it will be the most abbused and overplayed card of the next set. I mean it can fuse with dragniote or any fire t-tar deck and just be the sickest pokemon on the market. I cant see this not being errated before cities. Also the ninetals just shows that even the smallest pokemon can make a big impact. imagine the new ninetails ex and how big it can be if combod with that. Woiw this new set will as big if not bigger then crystal guardians.
 
steelix wasnt errated and it knocked out most things with sub 110 hp in one hit, while t-tar needs to get 2 hits off. not to mention there are many ways of removing the shockwave counter. i dont think tyranitar is good at all.
 
lame japan are getting 11 card boosters and 20 boosters in a box and we only get suckedge 9. :frown:

PS why is the word j a p filtered ?
 
Because it's a racial slur, and an insult; the correct abbreviation for "Japan" or "Japanese" is JPN.

'mom
 
FireFighter095ReBorn said:
Ok tell me they will errata tha t -tar ex. If they dont it will be the most abbused and overplayed card of the next set. I mean it can fuse with dragniote or any fire t-tar deck and just be the sickest pokemon on the market. I cant see this not being errated before cities. Also the ninetals just shows that even the smallest pokemon can make a big impact. imagine the new ninetails ex and how big it can be if combod with that. Woiw this new set will as big if not bigger then crystal guardians.
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It's not nearly as good as everyone "thinks" it is. This isn't any Blaziken ex or even Blastoise ex. Turn 2 and Stage 1 decks are taking over this game, it isn't some coincedence that they've won the last 2 U.S. National Championships and Worlds 2006.
 
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