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Old 06/15/2011, 05:31 PM   #1
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Black & White-Emerging Powers Expansion Announced

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Landmark Release of Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powers
Ushers In New Age of Game Play with Link to Pokémon Trading Card Game Online
It's the dawn of a new age for fans of the Pokémon Trading Card Game with the release of Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powers. Coming in August, this landmark expansion will be the first to give Pokémon TCG players full access to theme decks and booster packs in the new player-versus-player Pokémon Trading Card Game Online!

Pokémon TCG players who log into www.pokemon.com will have the freedom to battle anytime, anywhere against players from around the globe. The competition intensifies when players purchase Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powers theme decks and booster packs. These products will allow players to build customized decks for online battle with virtual cards unlocked with special in-pack codes!

The new Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powers expansion, featuring only Unova region Pokémon, comes ready for battle, whether playing in the real world or online, with more than 90 cards and brand-new Item cards to revitalize each deck. As players explore the secrets of the Unova region, they'll discover a legion of 25 astonishing, never-before-seen Pokémon, including the debut of the Legendary Trio of Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion!

Two Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powers theme decks arrive at major retail stores nationwide on August 17. Each theme deck-Power Play and Toxic Tricks-will feature a special foil card! The four booster pack designs, debuting in stores August 31, feature fierce new Pokémon-Tornadus, Cobalion, Braviary, and Darmanitan-with each booster pack including one guaranteed foil card!

Key features of the new Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powersexpansion:
  • Free codes to unlock similar virtual cards for the player-versus-player Pokémon TCG Online
  • Over 25 new Pokémon from the Unova region
  • Debut of the Legendary Trio of Unova
  • Two new theme decks, Power Play and Toxic Tricks, built around powerful Pokémon Krookodile and Scolipede
  • Full-card art cards of the Legendary Pokémon Tornadus and Thundurus
  • Contains more than 90 cards
For more information about the Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powers expansion and Pokémon TCG Online, please visit www.pokemon.com.



In Stores August 17, 2011 In Stores August 31, 2011
MSRP for Theme Decks: $11.99 MSRP for Booster Packs: $3.99

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Old 06/15/2011, 05:54 PM   #2
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They look beautiful! Thanks for posting! I like the Cobalion and the Braivary the best ^^ Oh yeah, the one foil per pack thing has definately gotten me excited! :D
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Old 06/15/2011, 05:59 PM   #3
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I hope the full arts look great, and I wonder what the Secret Rare will be. I guess for now its a secret. :P
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Old 06/15/2011, 05:59 PM   #4
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Wow pack art is very good :)
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:02 PM   #5
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Sorry, I didn't see that the images and all were already posted in the other thread. Put these up as soon as I got home.
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:12 PM   #6
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I really like the bird's pack art.
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:13 PM   #7
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Awesome! Im excited now! the art for the cobalion looks epic. Do you know when prerelease will be?
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:15 PM   #8
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Whoa. What's with the Krookodile with the ability? Is there a promo of one in Japan? :O

Looks interesting!
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:18 PM   #9
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how do you know krookodile has an ability
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:19 PM   #10
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how do you know krookodile has an ability
You can look at the packaging and see it.
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:31 PM   #11
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what does that krookodile do? i cant find the translation
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:32 PM   #12
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The krookodile is unknown, japan has yet to see it either. This might make krokodile a viable deck, given that the one we got in BW was so close to being broken, so this might put it over the top.
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:36 PM   #13
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Whoa. What's with the Krookodile with the ability? Is there a promo of one in Japan? :O
Nope, Scolipede and Krookodile are totally new cards for the English set, probably because there were leftover cards of their pre-evolutions that didn't make our first BW set.

Based on the "over 25 Unova Pokemon" line, it's almost certain that nothing from Red Collection or the Victini decks will be in Emerging Powers, as was being discussed in the other thread.

Most likely cards are:
-7 remaining Beginning Set cards (Sandile and Krokorok for sure, Pansage, Panpour, Pansear, Audino, Minccino)
-21 remaining Black Collection cards (Sewaddle, Swadloon, Leavanny, Cottonee, Whimsicott, Basculin, Cubchoo, Beartic, Emolga, Gothita, Gothorita, Gothitelle, Roggenrola, Boldore, Drilbur, Excadrill, Tornadus, Crush Hammer, Max Potion, Recycle, Tornadus FA)
-13 remaining White Collection cards (Thundurus, Venipede, Whirlipede, Sigilyph, Ferroseed, Ferrothorn, Audino, Rufflet, Braviary, Great Ball, Pokemon Catcher, Cheren, Thundurus FA)
-25 Battle Strength Deck cards (Sewaddle, Swadloon, Cottonee, Darumaka, Darmanitan, Basculin, Cubchoo, Virizion, Joltik, Galvantula, Sigilyph, Gothita, Roggenrola, Boldore, Drilbur, Terrakion, Zorua, Zoroark, Ferroseed, Klink, Klang, Lillipup, Rufflet, Cobalion, Bianca)
-Japanese promos (possibly Gigalith, the new Simisear/Simisage/Simipour promos if their pre-evos are included, etc)
-A few cards that are currently English-exclusive (Scolipede/Krookodile so far)
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:42 PM   #14
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Thank you so much for posting!

The card packs look EPIC!!! Definitely going to get a few of them!

Can't wait!!
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Old 06/15/2011, 06:57 PM   #15
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These are the Japanese promos that we haven't received in English and therefore could be included in Emerging Powers:

1-20: Pansage 1, Pidove 2, Ducklett 8, Litwick 9, Gigalith 10, Patrat 11
21-40: Zorua 21, Minccino 22, Pokedex 23, Zoroark 24, Emolga 25, Druddigon 26, Cobalion 37, Terrakion 38, Virizion 39
41-60: Throh 40, Sawk 41, Landorus 47, Darumaka 48, Scraggy 49, Axew 50, Simisage 57, Simisear 58, Simipour 59
Unknown numbers: Reshiram, Zekrom, Klinklang, Golurk, Beartic, Zebstrika, Gothitelle, Reuniclus

I would not be surprised if Gigalith, Zorua, Zoroark, Minccino, Emolga, Darumaka, Simisage, Simisear and Simipour are in, since there's a good chance that they'll have other cards or cards of their pre-evolutions in the set too. I'd say the same for Klinklang, Beartic and Gothitelle except that their promos aren't even out in Japan yet... guessing that Litwick is going to be held back for our third set, unfortunately. :(

I'd also speculate that the 37-39 will be the tin promos for EP since they're just alternate artwork of the Musketeer Trio.

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Old 06/15/2011, 07:17 PM   #16
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Nope, Scolipede and Krookodile are totally new cards for the English set, probably because there were leftover cards of their pre-evolutions that didn't make our first BW set.

Based on the "over 25 Unova Pokemon" line, it's almost certain that nothing from Red Collection or the Victini decks will be in Emerging Powers, as was being discussed in the other thread.

Most likely cards are:
-7 remaining Beginning Set cards (Sandile and Krokorok for sure, Pansage, Panpour, Pansear, Audino, Minccino)
-21 remaining Black Collection cards (Sewaddle, Swadloon, Leavanny, Cottonee, Whimsicott, Basculin, Cubchoo, Beartic, Emolga, Gothita, Gothorita, Gothitelle, Roggenrola, Boldore, Drilbur, Excadrill, Tornadus, Crush Hammer, Max Potion, Recycle, Tornadus FA)
-13 remaining White Collection cards (Thundurus, Venipede, Whirlipede, Sigilyph, Ferroseed, Ferrothorn, Audino, Rufflet, Braviary, Great Ball, Pokemon Catcher, Cheren, Thundurus FA)
-25 Battle Strength Deck cards (Sewaddle, Swadloon, Cottonee, Darumaka, Darmanitan, Basculin, Cubchoo, Virizion, Joltik, Galvantula, Sigilyph, Gothita, Roggenrola, Boldore, Drilbur, Terrakion, Zorua, Zoroark, Ferroseed, Klink, Klang, Lillipup, Rufflet, Cobalion, Bianca)
-Japanese promos (possibly Gigalith, the new Simisear/Simisage/Simipour promos if their pre-evos are included, etc)
-A few cards that are currently English-exclusive (Scolipede/Krookodile so far)
N-No Haxorus? *Bawls*
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Key features of the new Pokémon TCG: Black & White-Emerging Powersexpansion:

An unintended unfortunate contraction, I'm confident.
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Old 06/15/2011, 07:57 PM   #18
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^^^Lol great joke
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I know at 50 I am supposed to be more adult in what I find funny, but this just made me smile and think of the recent Congressional twitter scandal.
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Old 06/15/2011, 08:25 PM   #20
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are there any translations or any known about the cards yet?
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Moldy orange shared this image that he found on Yahoo kids ( http://kids.yahoo.com/ ):
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O.0 woh awesome pics crappy cards
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Tornadus? Bad? HAH. An easily splashable Donphan tech in many things.
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Old 06/15/2011, 08:43 PM   #24
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^Exactly but I favor Tornadus more

Edit: Pori got his post in before mine
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98 cards.. We know of 66 so far. Expe t 32 cards to be promos and new cards
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