The Yanmega craze!
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Box of Fail
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How ironic the OP is calling Yanmega bad and then trying to buy it...
AlmightyGoldenGarchomp
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$65? and to think that I got mine for $9 each. I don't use them much, so it's money time!
Yanmega Prime isn't just good in its own deck. It's also good as a tech against Donpan Prime. The vesatility it has is what I believe has made it soar in price (the nats win is also part to blame, of course), while cards like Kingdra Prime and Donphan Prime stay around where they have been hovering. Kingdra/Donphan aren't as splashable. Therefore, their usability, and demand in turn, can't match Yanmega's.
I do agree with what Baby Mario says about this being its peak, though. It's a good card currently because of its combination of speed and ability to snipe (further enhanced when partnered with Kingdra's Spray Splashes and Jirachi's Time Hollow), but when Pokemon Catcher comes out, this expensive bug's sniping ability will be made less useful. Will it be useful at all? Of course it will. It just means that some decks with Pokemon Catcher may overlook Yanmega in favor of a heavier, bulkier main attacker (queue Zekrom w/ Defenders/Evolite), and that will be enough to drop its price down to something more reasonable.
That's my two cents. In my opinion, sell/trade them away while you can still get something good for them. Perhaps a good time to get Magnezone Primes (which is about $35, now, so you might be able to push for two of them for one Yanmega)?
I do agree with what Baby Mario says about this being its peak, though. It's a good card currently because of its combination of speed and ability to snipe (further enhanced when partnered with Kingdra's Spray Splashes and Jirachi's Time Hollow), but when Pokemon Catcher comes out, this expensive bug's sniping ability will be made less useful. Will it be useful at all? Of course it will. It just means that some decks with Pokemon Catcher may overlook Yanmega in favor of a heavier, bulkier main attacker (queue Zekrom w/ Defenders/Evolite), and that will be enough to drop its price down to something more reasonable.
That's my two cents. In my opinion, sell/trade them away while you can still get something good for them. Perhaps a good time to get Magnezone Primes (which is about $35, now, so you might be able to push for two of them for one Yanmega)?
Fact of the matter is, we have lost half of the format and are left with six sets. Out of those, Yanmega is one of the most solid cards, combining disruption (judge) with solid sniping for 40 on turn two with resistance and free retreat with decent HP and often free attacks. How is this not awesome? Demand soared for the card based on performance in Canada, and when suspicions were confirmed in the US I saw the card go from about 25-30 to 70 overnight that weekend.
---------- Post added 07/17/2011 at 08:53 PM ----------
You're right. 60 is a bit high but do we so quickly forget the days of Luxchomp? Things will settle down as the market reaches equilibrium. The demand side was really high due to Nats and now Worlds but following that, as well as the release of the next set (or two) we will have many more cards to choose from.
---------- Post added 07/17/2011 at 08:53 PM ----------
You're right. 60 is a bit high but do we so quickly forget the days of Luxchomp? Things will settle down as the market reaches equilibrium. The demand side was really high due to Nats and now Worlds but following that, as well as the release of the next set (or two) we will have many more cards to choose from.
It's funny.
Very few players are thinking outside of the box at the end of this season. Very few rogue decks are being played because most of the players assume that the current decks are the only good decks.
Then a random card does well and it's suddenly the next hot card with everyone buying them for high prices.
I guess that is what happens when the format changes right before Nationals. Even though players had months before to plan, many must not have tested many cards.
ZZZZzzzzzz....
Wake me when the next surprise card sweeps Worlds and becomes a $60 card.
Very few players are thinking outside of the box at the end of this season. Very few rogue decks are being played because most of the players assume that the current decks are the only good decks.
Then a random card does well and it's suddenly the next hot card with everyone buying them for high prices.
I guess that is what happens when the format changes right before Nationals. Even though players had months before to plan, many must not have tested many cards.
ZZZZzzzzzz....
Wake me when the next surprise card sweeps Worlds and becomes a $60 card.
Prof Clay
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Yanmega is not a random card...there are very few cards in the format that offer the play value it does in the HGSS-on environment. Free attacks also open up your deck for even more options trainer wise and pokemon wise
those who played it before the format shift can tell you they knew it was going to be a great card to have....
price-wise..well it was only at $75 at nats due to the IMMEDIATE NEED and LOW SUPPLY
Sure the price is high, but think of exactly why it might be that way. 1st it can be tech'd into any deck because it doesn't need energy's to attack and because in any deck you can always burn trainers to get the exact number of cards/ or use collector to grab basic's to make the hand equivalent. Also think about the goods that Yanmega as among himself. Next format I think this card may see some play, because it can be tech'd in for Donphan/babies, or could be used as a early game disruption. It's speed is absolutely great, being able to 1 shot babies and basic's (w/ kingdra) is just great. With catcher coming, run this guy with vileplume? Need no energy's and as well as trainer lock now that will be something. So I say Yanmega still has it's way to go, it will still be something, it can definitely tag alongside Donphan to hold it's own against Zekrom. So I don't know about Yamega, but it definitely still has sometime, and hey worlds isn't exactly over, so who know's someone might win it with a Yanmega Variant..
This post is the exact opposite of the truth. We only have 4.5 sets to work with, so deck choices are quite limited if you desire to be competitive. However, we still managed to have an overwhelming variety of decks make the T128 at Nationals: Yan/Zone, Yan/Kingdra, Donphan/Dragons, Reshiphlo, Reshiboar, Magneboar, Ambipom/Weavile, Yan/Don/Zoro, Yan/Don/Zoro/Cino, Don/Champ, Lostgar, Plume/Mega, Plume/Ursaring/Roserade, Ttar/Serperior, Zekrom, Straight Serperior, and many more... need I continue? Many of these decks weren't even talked about in the run-up to US Nats. Countless players thought outside the box. Countless rogue was played. The only part of your post that is correct is the "zzzzzzzz" because you must have slept through nats to be this confused.
You're right that the cards we have to work with are limited but that doesn't stop people from trying out cards like Ambipom/Weavile or Tyranitar/Serperrior even when an entire playerbase feels one or two decks are the absolutely best deck in the format.
There really weren't that many different decks seen at nationals, it just seems like a lot. It was really just a few cards in a bunch of combinations. It's not much different than how SP decks were at events.
Garchomp/Luxray
Garchomp/Dialga
Garchomp/Dialga/Luxray
Dialga/Luxray
Is not 4 separate decks. It's just a combination of 3 cards.
Same goes for Yanmega/Magnezone or Yanmega/Kingdra or Yanmega/Donphan (or Yanmega/Donphan/Cinccino). A deck isn't totally different just because they put in a 1-1 line of Cinccino.
But people have to admit that the players are getting a little lazy when it comes to coming up with ideas. Yanmega/Magnezone and Yanmega/Kindra I truly like because they have synergy. Typhlosion/Reshiram is very similar to Emboar/Reshiram and really is a no-brainer. Then there are the stage 1 decks that can tech in any stage 1 they want. It doesn't make the deck vastly different from the other stage 1 decks.
My props go out to those players that tried something new. The ambipom players, the serperior players, the samurott players. Those guys thought outside of the conceived best cards.
Because even though it seems like we only have a few sets to work with, there are still plenty of decent options out there to be taking advantage of. It just takes the right player/s to figure out a good idea and soon enough the rest of the player base will be copycatting left and right.
I wouldn't be surprised of the Japanese players brought some kind of rogue deck to Worlds and surprised us all.
Haunter_FanBoy
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Because Weavile/Slowking/Ambipom isn't obvious? or Serperior?
badganondorf
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Yanmega Prime was never a random card in HGSS-format. For some reason people just underrated it before the tournaments and that's because people like to hype(EmboarMagnezone). It's a solid and versatile card that can fit any deck + babies make it an obvious metagame choice. So now, after tournaments, it's Yanmega's turn to get all the hype but this time there is a difference - it deserves the hype it's getting because the card pool is just too small.