Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

2009 Modified Format announced!

Lucario EX

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From the Organized Play website:
Pokémon Organized Play Seasonal Format Change
Effective: 9/1/2008
In the interest of maintaining a healthy tournament environment, Pokémon Organized Play
removes older sets from the Modified format at the beginning of each new tournament season.
Each rotation challenges existing players to create new strategies while allowing new players to
get into organized play with a minimum investment.
The following Pokémon TCG sets will be removed from the Modified format for the 2008–2009
tournament season:
EX Holon Phantoms
EX Crystal Guardians
EX Dragon Frontiers
EX Power Keepers
POP Series 4 Promo Cards
POP Series 5 Promo Cards
All Black Star Promo Cards numbered 037-040
As this change does not take effect until the end of the current tournament season, the sets listed
above will continue to be tournament legal through the 2008 Pokémon TCG World
Championships.
New sets will become tournament legal when they are released, per the Pokémon Organized Play
Tournament Rules.

http://www.go-pokemon.com/op/tournaments/docs/2008-2009/modified_format_08_09.pdf

Kind of duh, but nice to know for sure.
 
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wow... so sad to see castaway gone, and stevens advice which i've grown to love dissappears...no..not my copycat.
 
Hurray!

*Says goodbye to Pokémon-ex*:frown:
Time to start promoting Unlimited at my league.:smile:
 
I was just saying to myself today that I thought they were going to release the new format for next year, and wow, I didnt expect to be right. :lol:

I think everyone realized that this was going to be the format.

Drew
 
Nice to see this. Meaning now it's time to really start selling the extra cards and clearing out for the format.
 
NOOOOOOOO! There goes Infernacatty. :frown:
I've been dreading a DP-on format, but I guess we all knew it would happen.
Goodbye, Delcatty. :(
 
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Awesome. But i woulda been superhappy if they let us keep PK. Absol Ex with yanmega and zong and spiritomb was one of those things i was thinkin of for the rotation if for some rreason we kept pk.
 
A format where my DP collection can shine YAY!
Oh? And everything PK- is inferior? The league is going to go haywire when I bring the news (for those who haven't heard of my local league, all the kids (noobs) think PK- is worth less than nothing.):nonono:
 
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You know...every time around this time of the season, I always start to wind down a little. But every time I see the new format announcement, it just makes me so much more excited about the next season. Man, I gotta organize all my cards now!
 
If anyone wants a list of all the trainers that will be illegal (unless reprinted in LA), here it is:

Battle Frontier
Bill's Maintenance
Buffer Piece
Castaway
Celio's Network
Cessation Crystal
Claw Fossil
Copycat
Crystal Beach
Crystal Shard
Drake's Stadium
Dual Ball
Energy Recycle System
Energy Removal 2
Glacia's Stadium
Great Ball
Holon Adventurer
Holon Circle
Holon Fossil
Holon Lake
Holon Legacy
Holon Mentor
Island Hermit
Master Ball
Memory Berry
Mr. Stone's Project
Mysterious Fossil
Old Rod
Phoebe's Stadium
Pokemon Fan Club
Pokenav
Professor Birch
Professor Cozmo's Discovery
Professor Elm's Training Method
Professor Oak's Research
Root Fossil
Scott
Sidney's Stadium
Steven's Advice
Strength Charm
TV Reporter
Windstorm

edit: And Special energy that won't be legal:

Boost Energy
Cyclone Energy
Dark Metal Energy
Delta Species Rainbow Energy
Double Rainbow Energy
Heal Energy
Holon Energy FF
Holon Energy GL
Holon Energy WP
Holon's Castform
Scramble Energy
Warp Energy
 
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