Recent content by Hikari_Netto

As a collector I'm typically against it. I tend to play with the lowest rarities of cards in order to preserve my full arts, reverse holos, etc. They can't be damaged if I don't play with them, after all.

I disagree with having separate promos for each age division. It just creates another unnecessary hurdle for collectors and will drive up the price of cards in age divisions with lower attendance. It would far better to just print promo variants of more playable cards in general and distribute...

I'm on board. This has been a huge pet peeve of mine for years, ever since tins were first introduced to the game, in fact. I've noticed this as well and feel the same way. I especially hate how, with many cards, the corners are raised just enough above the rest of the card that they get...

I don't tend to double sleeve at premier events anyway, as it makes the deck a bit too thick for my liking, but I've yet to find any direct mention of double sleeving being disallowed in any sort of tournament document. Are these the floor rules in question? Or is it a different document...

As King Piplup said, it's up to the head judge. Double sleeving doesn't magically create marked cards, but if a marked card situation does arise it's of course treated as such. You just have to make sure your oversleeves are free of markings and replace them if the wear causes particular cards...

I think it's worth mentioning that you can always opt to double sleeve, making the quality of the sleeves in question more or less irrelevant.

Yes. The artwork on the card is a reference to its original PokeDex entries from Diamond and Pearl.

5ban Graphics won't be going anywhere, it's just the name of Creatures' own in-house art team.

Yes, the majority of Bushiroad's operations are out of Singapore and Japan. They only recently opened an office in Los Angeles to further support their products and organized play in North America.

It wasn't just an international thing either as Platinum was marketed as a new block in Japan as well.

I think they're speaking more to generations then they are to blocks. In the English TCG, both Generation III and Generation IV had exactly 16 sets. The current generation has far fewer sets, but that's mainly because Generation V is a "filler" generation, for lack of a better term. It was...

If this were any other TCG I'd be inclined to agree with you, but it's not. We've already seen all too well what "variety" does to this game and it is not good. Unless Creatures specifically balances XY for use with the BW sets TPCi should tread extremely carefully.

I already have, actually. I was really just saying that an official English release would give the game much more exposure.

Here's hoping the rest of the world gets it, too. It really is a fantastic game and would make another great alternative activity for league.

Except that, as baby mario suggested, the 15+ crowd are the majority of every TCG's competitive community. There are plenty of younger fans, they exist in droves; however, there aren't nearly as many of them participating in OP. This is why Pokemon consistently has great sales, yet typically...