Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

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hey there. so i'm new to this, and one of the first questions i have is about the sp cards... are they really basic? and if so whats the catch? can you only have so many in your deck or something? if any one can explain that to me i'd greathly appreciate it, thanks!
 
Yes, they are really basic.

No there is no catch other than the "You may only have 4 of one name of card in your deck." Meaning only 4 Palkia G total, normal and Lv X included.
 
Another catch--Machamp's Take-Out attack one-shots any active basic for only one energy. There are ways around it, such as attaching Unown G. Machamp isn't all that popular anymore as a main attacking line, but it remains a significant factor.

Which shouldn't dissuade you from playing SPs. Just be prepared for Machamp.
 
Quite the opposite of a catch really. Energy Gain, Poke Turn, and Power Spray are three of the best cards in the format right now, and they only work for SP's.
 
Also, please keep in mind that even though some of them are evolution Pokemon, they are not as strong as they would be if they were an evolution card rather than being just basics.

I mean, of course their strength is comparable to other non basic Pokemon but only because of speed and support.
 
Way to jump in and help the guy out everyone.

WELCOME TO THE GAME !!!

The SPs are the Pokemon of the trainers in the show. They're supposed to be cool because they are stage 1 and 2 that just run into the game in the form of a basic/unevolved pokemon!

This makes SP decks really fast and tricky to battle against; there are special trainers and supporters made JUST for SP pokmon too!

For the most part, the SP decks are less expensive to put together than Stage 2 LvX decks as well.

I'm looking forward to the day when the MAIN characters (Ash , Brock , Dawn) have SPs released. They should be pretty darn impressive... I'm guessing anyway...
 
Well, generally they keep the Show and TCG seperated for the most part, the TCG is more based off of the video game, but they do have those Arceus movie promo cards that we will hopefully see in english :]
 
The catch is that they are evil, and that they tend to have relatively low HP compared to their Stage 2 counterparts.
 
Back on topic: SP pokemon are generally faster and set up more often than stage 2 decks, but stage 2 decks generally do more damage and have more health.

Also, SP has good trainer support in the form of PokeTurn, PowerSpray, Energy Gain, and Cyrus's Conspiracy.
 
SP pokémon are basic and they follow the same copy rule as all the other cards do.

Some like running a full fledge SP deck and some like mixing a few SP pkmn with evolving pkmn.

The biggest SP deck we've seen so far is Luxape. (Luxray GL and Infernape 4)
 
I thought the exact same thing when I first started playing again. I thought there was a special way of playing SP pokemon.. turns out they are just overpowered lol
 
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