Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Things I'd like to see come back to the game

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I don't think the problem is that those trainers are being reprinted, I think the issue is that now the Pokemon are much stronger than they used to be and they capitalize on the strength of the trainers much more easily.

It used to take more than one turn to power up a Pokemon, so when you Gusted something out, it wasn't an automatic guaranteed K.O. Yes in theorymon you will have a fully powered _____, but that isn't always the case.
 
Setstage said:
I think acting like Pokemon Catcher isn't going to be printed is foolish, I'd like to hear how it's "ruining" Japan's format, which is HGSS-on. Oh it isn't, that's what I thought. You may not like a card but acting like it shouldn't be translated and printed in america is just childish, they DO actually test the cards in Japan with their format, and assuming we have the same format as them, which we will, the card should all be printed here.

Your theorymon on why it shouldn't be printed isn't backed up with anything. Dig out your old GOW and test them as though they are catchers alongside with your HGSS-on testing, it shouldn't be that hard to do and if you aren't prepared for it, that is your fault.

It will be printed here, it will be fine, please everyone just get over it.
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Yeah they tested everything, everything like sp, gengar, machamp, never made mistakes. Cactcher will wrap the format around it, everything will come down to being able to catcher up things before they can build up, well have catcher and counter catcher decks, thats it, just like back then.

GoW is like one of the 5 strongest cards ever printed, candy is nerved again, do you want the haymaker days back? With catcher everything will turn sp... Japanese people seem to like this speedcrap, playing 3 prize formats etc, I have no idea how that is enjoyable but people dont like it over here, and they do so for a reason. Especially with sp finally gone having luxrays big brother around the corner is awful. I honestly think worlds will have the best format this game will have in a very long time.
 
Yoshi- said:
I honestly think worlds will have the best format this game will have in a very long time.
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I agree.

Also;

Pokemon Catcher will be such a good card, that it will be an auto-include x4 in every deck except maybe MewGar or decks that win via Lost Zone. It's just too good NOT to play it. With Rare Candy nerfed, nothing is safe. You play your basic and if they have anything that can do 50-70 damage out then your opponent takes a prize.

Don't get me wrong, I won't quit because of it, I just feel like Pokemon Reversal is already bad enough. The coin-flip makes it, in my opinion, perfectly balanced. Bringing up a pokemon of your choice on a heads is amazing. Doing it for sure, even though it uses your one supporter for the turn, is just broken. Late game it will be who uses Pokemon Catcher more skillfully.

I really believe that without too much time passing, Pokemon Catcher will have an errata applied which will make the card read something like "Switch the defending pokemon with one of your opponent's benched pokemon. Your opponent chooses the pokemon to switch."

At least I hope it will.
 
I'd like to see a new Pokemon ex like mechanic (that is, cards with a different NAME so they can extend your deckbuilding, and balancing factors on Trainers e.g. Celio's Network letting you search for anything except the powerhouse cards)... but without cards that improve the different cards (e.g. SPs).

Also, need either better card draw on Supporters, or every element needs a reusable poke-power/ability that generates advantage. Currently this only truly exists for fire (Ninetales) and grass (Sunflora). Electric (Magnezone Prime, but you practically have to build the deck around it to use it so it barely counts) and psychic (Slowking Prime, not a bad card but pales in comparison to the others) KINDA have draw powers, but they're unwieldy at best.

Don't get me wrong, I won't quit because of it, I just feel like Pokemon Reversal is already bad enough. The coin-flip makes it, in my opinion, perfectly balanced. Bringing up a pokemon of your choice on a heads is amazing. Doing it for sure, even though it uses your one supporter for the turn, is just broken. Late game it will be who uses Pokemon Catcher more skillfully.
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Catcher is an Item, not a Supporter.

I really believe that without too much time passing, Pokemon Catcher will have an errata applied which will make the card read something like "Switch the defending pokemon with one of your opponent's benched pokemon. Your opponent chooses the pokemon to switch."
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Pokemon Circulator says hello from the kindling pile you forgot it was in.
 
As much as I know about Japans format is they play with 4 Prizes cards. Our format is different from theirs. Pokemon Catcher will break out format. I play Pokemon Reversal and won serval games because of it. While Pokemon Reversal is balanced, it still does not mean the care is really broken.

We have decks that can hit for heavy damage so we don't need an 'auto KO' card in the format and I for one would love Pokemon Catcher. I just know the card is not healthy. It would ruin the format and make really good cards unplayable. If anything, Pokemon Catcher should be printed as a Supporter in the US and or with the text, you can't play this cards if you have this card in your discard pile.
 
vaperon with the crazy idea they change a card just because people think its unfair this is what people thought when sp
sf trio bts spirit vile were coming out
 
Umm... SP was broken, look at how much it has won. BTS would have been broken in any other format, now it just balanced the format. VIleplume is broken, trainerlock from the bench with no drawbacks like that Houndoom had. VIleplume was even more broken when spiritomb was around, game-long trainerlock says hi! Uxie was broken, azelf and mesprit were not.

Just make some people test catcher, say if it is broken and then tell can it be released as a trainer or as a supporter.
 
vaporeon said:
As much as I know about Japans format is they play with 4 Prizes cards. Our format is different from theirs. Pokemon Catcher will break out format. I play Pokemon Reversal and won serval games because of it. While Pokemon Reversal is balanced, it still does not mean the care is really broken.

We have decks that can hit for heavy damage so we don't need an 'auto KO' card in the format and I for one would love Pokemon Catcher. I just know the card is not healthy. It would ruin the format and make really good cards unplayable. If anything, Pokemon Catcher should be printed as a Supporter in the US and or with the text, you can't play this cards if you have this card in your discard pile.
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Er... Japan actually oftentimes plays with half-decks - 30 card decks with 3 prizes and up to 2 copies of each card in their decks. There's no 60-cards-with-4-prizes format.
 
Tagrineth said:
Er... Japan actually oftentimes plays with half-decks - 30 card decks with 3 prizes and up to 2 copies of each card in their decks. There's no 60-cards-with-4-prizes format.
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From a friend of mine in Japan: "About 30-card deck! This is for beginner. We rarely use 30-card deck. So I want you to think all I mention are about 60-card deck."

I've also heard that they play 60 card decks with 4 prizes, though I haven't actually confirmed it. If anyone can it would be great (and would explain Zekrom's popularity over there).
 
just to confirm, japan plays with 60 card decks and 4 prizes. with pokemon catcher in the format, i don't see how zekrom wouldn't be the most dominant deck.
 
my old "for fun" deck that killed everything? dark vileplume, lt surge's raticate, and Mr. mime. meditate for the win. also, pidgeot made some fun appearances if hitmonchan decided to crash the party.

we need something like Mr mime to be a good wall. only that the power be an ability that doesn't get bypassed easily like placing damage counters. that would be lots of fun. ir maybe if the baby pokemon protected themselves like the old days. Example: this cleffa first appearance of "abilities"? I think so =)

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I've read on the beach that Japan does play with 4 prize cards which is why Zekrom is BDIF, with Donphan and reshiboar coming close behind. and since Zekrom is all over the place, water stands no chance, which is why Donphan is played over donchamp (also the 4 prize cards are easy to get with just donphan primes running around)
 
carlitosbob said:
Or maybe if the baby pokemon protected themselves like the old days. Example: this cleffa first appearance of "abilities"? I think so =)
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The babies do still protect themselves similar to the way the past babies did. They all have attacks for 0 energy and then they are put asleep. They also have a Poké-Body 'Sweet Sleeping Face' which prevents all damage by attacks done to the baby that is asleep.
 
vaporeon said:
In the EX series, we had tons of different trainer. Sure the staples were used but we had Pokemon Tools, Stadiums, TMs, Engines that any deck could use, Supporters not everyone could use and some cards that would not work on some Pokemon. Looking into HGSS on, we have no real stadiums, pokemon tools or unique trainers.
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It's very easy to lionize the past. If you or anyone was magically transported back to when the format was Rub/Saphire-on or Hidden Legends-on, I'm sure you'd quickly make note of all the stuff that's wrong with the game.

And no, I'm not saying I disagree with you.
 
No more trainer lock please. It automatically makes every deck it plays against autopilot. Aside from that, I'd like to see Unown G, Roseanne's, Claydol, and Gardey/Gallade back. Maybe I'm just a DP on fanboy.

Oh yeah, and SW trapinch.
 
Nintendan said:
The babies do still protect themselves similar to the way the past babies did. They all have attacks for 0 energy and then they are put asleep. They also have a Poké-Body 'Sweet Sleeping Face' which prevents all damage by attacks done to the baby that is asleep.
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Its not really close to be the same thing. And the old babies had a 50 percent protection against all attacks, and theres no guarantee the new babies will be asleep up by the time you opponent's turn comes around. Stuff like crobat prime (complete doubt he will be played) go through the pokebody as well.
 
90% of people who've replied to this topic have probably never played a competive game using base set cards. GoW is not what made Haymakers broken. It was super/energy removal combined with item finder that made them unfair. GoW while no doubt a very powerful card wasn't broken because most of the attacks were only doing 10-30 damage, which meant it would normally take 2-3 turns to get a KO.
 
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