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New dragon type announced!!!!

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Poke Trainer J said:
I don't get why they would make Charizard a Dragon Type Pokemon card, it hurts the way the video game franchise intended the Pokemon to be which is Fire/Flying. At first glance it looks like a Dragon but it's not. Alot of people might not like that idea that TPCi could take a Pokemon that looks like a Dragon Type but isn't in the video games and turn it into a Dragon Type in the TCG.

TPCi has tried to stay true with the video game franchise in the creation of what Types to make for specific Pokemon for example Donphan being Fighting even though it's a Ground Type. Most Ground Type Pokemon in the TCG are Fighting while Ice Type Pokemon are Water Types in the TCG. That's just how it works, messing that up would upset some people.
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*sigh*, you obviously do not know what I am trying to say or mean.
 
If they made types for each video game type, it would make the game too hard for the younger kids who play. I'm fine with how things are now but then again, all the ice types have metal weakness so who knows. What they should do is give the birds their own type.
 
Poke Trainer J said:
I don't get why they would make Charizard a Dragon Type Pokemon card, it hurts the way the video game franchise intended the Pokemon to be which is Fire/Flying..
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They would never make Charizard any type other than Fire or Flying.


Frost said:
This is such a strange move IMO. It's coming SO late and splitting Dragon and Colorless wouldn't have been my first choice, to be honest. (Rock/Ground and Fighting or Bug from Grass would have been higher priorities for me.)
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I think another thing to think about is marketing. It is much easier to market Dragon type cards than Bug, Rock, or Ground types. Dragons are just intrinsically more exciting for much of the card game's target demographic.
 
Envoyofduels said:
*sigh*, you obviously do not know what I am trying to say or mean.
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I was saying the same exact thing on the pokebeach forums about how Charizard would be cool to get changed to a Dragon type but I was saying that as a fan of Charizard lol but it could be possible that they would change Charizards type in the Video Game to Dragon. In the TCG they turned poison types like Muk into psychic types when really they are not psychic at all. They did that just bc psychic types are weak towards poison types in the game, they may as well and make all types into the TCG that we are missing: Ice,Poison,Bug,Flying,Ground,Rock,etc. but it could get really confusing I guess. Oh well we will have to wait and see what happens until everything unfolds. :biggrin:
 
I'm amazed and heart broken.
Reason being as everyone else said, "Why not making dragon a type itself when we got :dark: & :metal: ?"
 
Am I the only one who is skeptical? I mean "the Dragon Type" could mean a number of things such as a delta species counter part, or even just a slight vague reference to dragon types. Also distributors have been known to mess things up before. In any case I'm going to wait for physical evidence to make judgement on these cards.
 
Like I speculated in the previous thread, there might be some logic in suddenly doing this now.

Dark and Steel types being added to Pokemon was a HUGE deal in Gold and Silver. Due to the fact that there were only a small handful, they decided to turn them into "special" types that could only function with the use of a limited energy card (and both the energy and Pokemon, even Magnemite, were rare). Along the way, Dark and Steel slowly lost their luster and became regular types with a gimmick attached. Finally, they decided that it had been 10 years since Dark and Steel were "new and cool", so they gave them a basic energy. Now that Dark and Steel have become lost what made them unique, they might want to implement a new type to take over the "this type is different than the other types" position.

If they were going to pick a type for this purpose, Dragon was the obvious choice. All of the in-game dragons are either final evolutions, legendaries, or at least relatively rare.
 
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I'm really curious as to what Dragon's weakness will be. Because giving it colorless doesn't make sense now I think Dragon will generally be weak to either Dragon itself or the other type of the Dragon Pokemon.

Here's hoping their color is gold and the new "tradition" of Dragons like Hax having no weakness doesn't stand.
 
Victory Bell said:
I'm really curious as to what Dragon's weakness will be. Because giving it colorless doesn't make sense now I think Dragon will generally be weak to either Dragon itself or the other type of the Dragon Pokemon.

Here's hoping their color is gold and the new "tradition" of Dragons like Hax having no weakness doesn't stand.
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Maybe no weakness? That was the theme in the early days with Dratini, Dragonair, Dragonite...
 
As excited as I am for more types, could it be that this set is all unplayable cards? Japan has had those before, with things like movie promos, and the imakuni sets right? It could be that this is just a new, one of, not allowed in tournaments deal.
 
I don't like them doing it this late on, unless they bring back dual types again, which should be a laugh.

Oh well, at least hopefully Dragon's won't be weak to normal/flying type pokemon in the tcg.
 
Needs more duel types. They defiantly need to be more commonplace. I don't know why but Delta and duel types just added another layer to cards that I loved.

I really don't want Dragons to have no weakness. There would have to be no good ones if that were the case. They'd be just to powerful. (Think what Garchomp Lv.X or Salamence Lv.X would be like with a constant bubble coat)
 
Dragon Types, wow that is an interesting move. I really hope they'll divide other types in the near future. Namely Poison, especially after the terrible decision to make them :psychic: in the card game.

I still wonder if Dragon Pokemon will be weak to other Dragon types like they were in the past or if they'll be given their Ice weakness, or in the card game :water: weakness.
~Cyber~
 
I counted how many Dragon, Darkness, and Steel types that are out right now and I came up with a total of 29 Dragon, 36 Dark, and 35 Steel (That's including Genesect). 29 for one type isn't that bad, when Dark and Steel were first introduced we only had Murkrow, Sneasel, Steelix, and Scizor, which explains why they made only special dark and steel energies. It wasn't until they made a bunch of new steel and dark pokemon and changed some of the older pokemon to those types that we got basic dark and steel. It's also possible that they are thinking of creating a lot of dragon types for Gen 6 but that won't be for a while.
 
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