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All the Reprints of the "Playable" Cards, is it Good for the Game?

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So I saw on Pokebeach that the Victini with Ability (Fliptini) will be reprinted in a tin. (That is not the main point of the article.) Then I thought about what other playable cards there are in tins and boxes and whatnot. There are the starters with Abilities, Reshiram and Zekrom, Zoroark, Typhlosion Prime and Feraligatr Prime, and soon to be Yanmega and Machamp Prime.

Is it good for the game since it makes more playable cards available to younger players that cannot really afford to get pack after pack or buy singles? I think that it is good. On another note, too many reprints will hurt the value of the cards on the secondary market. Honestly, I'm not worried about that. I know that there is something that I am probably overlooking so I am posting this.

Are reprinting playable cards good for the game or not? Discuss.
 
Bad from the point of view of someone trying to make money off of trading and selling, good from the point of view of everyone else
 
What else is there to discuss? You basically said all that was needed to be said. Good for those who can't afford to drop a whole bunch of money for Pokemon cards but bad for the people trying to make a big profit from it.
 
What everyone else said. I want the younger kids to have yanmega prime. If the secondary market get's hurt, oh well. This is Pokemon, not Yugioh.
 
I'm all for it. Anyone who was speculating on Yanmega Prime should have made their cash a while back, when at the height of demand the card hit 79.99$ on card sites and they were buying them for as much as 65$ each.
 
You do realize that most of the reprints you're talking about aren't even legal for Sanctioned Events since they come in grey borders from the Worlds 2011 Decks. Any Pokemon card that have grey borders instead of the original yellow borders are only legal for Casual League. Furthermore the grey bordered cards will have "World Championship 2011" on the back of the card instead of the original Pokemon Logo with the PokeBall like the yellow bordered cards do.

The Fliptini Reprint from the Victini Tin is of course legal for Sanctioned Events since it will have the yellow border on the card just like every normal Pokemon card. There's a reason why the Worlds 2011 decks being distributed are printed in grey borders, it's so that the original cards don't lose value even though they keep their rarities. I'm sure there's a better reason for it but that's all I could think of at the moment. So the only card that really got reprinted thus far was Fliptini...
 
Poke Trainer J said:
You do realize that most of the reprints you're talking about aren't even legal for Sanctioned Events since they come in grey borders from the Worlds 2011 Decks. Any Pokemon card that have grey borders instead of the original yellow borders are only legal for Casual League. Furthermore the grey bordered cards will have "World Championship 2011" on the back of the card instead of the original Pokemon Logo with the PokeBall like the yellow bordered cards do.

The Fliptini Reprint from the Victini Tin is of course legal for Sanctioned Events since it will have the yellow border on the card just like every normal Pokemon card. There's a reason why the Worlds 2011 decks being distributed are printed in grey borders, it's so that the original cards don't lose value even though they keep their rarities. I'm sure there's a better reason for it but that's all I could think of at the moment. So the only card that really got reprinted thus far was Fliptini...
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That's not what he's talking about. He's talking about the tin promos. All the pokemon he listed were at one time featured in a tin (minus Machamp and Yanmega Primes which are coming out in the Prime challenges)

I feel very similarly. It keeps many Pokemon from becoming too expensive, like Typhlosion, which is really good for competitive play, and many people who don't play look and go 'ooh that looks cool, I want this' so it's good all around.
 
Poke Trainer J said:
You do realize that most of the reprints you're talking about aren't even legal for Sanctioned Events since they come in grey borders from the Worlds 2011 Decks. Any Pokemon card that have grey borders instead of the original yellow borders are only legal for Casual League. Furthermore the grey bordered cards will have "World Championship 2011" on the back of the card instead of the original Pokemon Logo with the PokeBall like the yellow bordered cards do.

The Fliptini Reprint from the Victini Tin is of course legal for Sanctioned Events since it will have the yellow border on the card just like every normal Pokemon card. There's a reason why the Worlds 2011 decks being distributed are printed in grey borders, it's so that the original cards don't lose value even though they keep their rarities. I'm sure there's a better reason for it but that's all I could think of at the moment. So the only card that really got reprinted thus far was Fliptini...
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You do know that the OP is NOT about the world championship deck, right?
 
So Yanmega Prime and Machamp Prime really are getting reprinted as Promos? Maybe
now I can finally run Mewbox afterall instead of having to budgetize with just MewPluff. vaporeon is right, Mewbox shouldn't be expensive to build like it is now, this isn't
Yu-Gi-Oh!

Envoyofduels said:
You do know that the OP is NOT about the world championship deck, right?
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:facepalm: silly me...

He was reffering to the Prime Challenge Boxes not the Worlds 2011 Decks in terms of card reprints. As tempting as it sounds to get 3 HS-Triumphant Prime Challenge Boxes for Yanmega Prime I might have to pass, the card itself isn't as good as it was before Noble Victories. It might still be solid, I dunno.
 
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I would prefer that they give out the very cool cards at Leagues. That way:

1. PUSA can get more people interested in Pokemon.
2. Experienced players will go to League to get cards for their deck. Newer players can get good cards to start a deck with.

Having them as league promos has precedent with Claydol and Uxie. I remember that my friends and I were so happy when they had Claydol and Uxie as league prizes. We would go to league most weeks, even though league was a bit far from where we lived. Getting a cool Uxie is much better than the Lillipup or Foil Energy or stuff they give out nowadays.

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GodBlessAmerica said:
Bad from the point of view of someone trying to make money off of trading and selling, good from the point of view of everyone else
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Buy low, sell high. This is why collectors should just take the money when Yanmega is trading at $20+ dollars. The more they wait, the more risk they take on. (reprint risk, rotation risk, risk that their card might get damaged, destroyed or stolen, etc.)
 
Yeah, one of the reasons I chose to play Pokemon over YGO was because the secondary market is a lot more reasonable, things like this just make it even better and I wouldn't even mind if a tin was released every time a new playable card came out.
 
I think the promo reprints of good cards like the Victini's, Reshiram, and Zekrom are very good for the game right now. In my area, attendance is down for championship events. And this is one step that would definitely encourage players to get into the game and start playing. The only thing I wish TPCi would do is be more proactive in their product to advertise the Championship series.
 
Yeah, I like it this way; most of the time there's no real money on the line, so there's no need for any card to go past the $10-$15 mark. Let's hope they keep it up with a Mewtwo EX tin or box; I saw the top 4 decks in a recent Japanese tourney and they all had Mewtwo EX in them (Interestingly, each deck had a different playstyle and used different non-Mewtwo Pokemon), so keeping the price of that down would be nice.
 
Reprints are great for the game aspect of the tcg, but I feel it hurts the collectable aspect of the tcg, but that's not unexpected by any means.

Admittedly, I'm going to get burned 11-fold with the yanmega box coming out and was reluctant to admit it at first, but it'll be great for the game since kids and anyone else starting out will be able to compete with strong cards making the game more viable and popular for the entry-level consumer.

Everyone had to start off somewhere and boxes like the yanmega, reshiram, and typhlosion tins make the barriers to entry a lot more pallet-able for cash strapped players and kids who don't make their own income.

the very last thing this game needs is a move towards a YUHIOH secondary market where the most powerful cards are also the most limited cards creating a crazy price barrier
 
This will be great for drawing in newer players or returning players to the game. If there is a reprint set, that is when more players who were out of the game will come back.
 
The reprints are fantastic for a lot of reasons:

-It makes strong cards more accessible to the masses, which in turn makes OP healthier, since tournaments are a more ideal reflection of what people want to be playing (as opposed to what they're stuck with).

-While the individual values of certain editions of the card plummet, the collector can still be satisfied with the wide variety of editions said card appears in. After all, now instead of having to collect one ultra rare card, you're collecting five of every high-end rarity (promo, holo, ultra rare).

-As the upcoming "shining" Emboar reprint in February shows us, it also allows for further justification of making certain editions of the card extremely difficult to get.
 
I'm completely fine with reprints of expensive and commonly used cards. But in my opinion they should make them different than the original ones in some way. Like making them actual black star promos (like Rshiram, Zekrom and Victini) or giving them a different foil pattern. If they did that then the original versions would still keep a bit of value while the "reprint" ones would be available for everyone.
 
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