Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Great Encounters Details Released

They all work together, especially Espeon and Umbreon. If you want to relate to what I'm saying, go into the DP4 spoilers and find all the eeveelutions and see what they do. Nobody said that they were game-shattering, but many, like myself, love Eevee and would like to see it make a come back in the TCG.
 
They're good b/c Eevee is STUPIDLY BROKEN as a starter. The deck is essentially 4 Eevee, 2 of each Eeveelution, and 2 of each lvX, with draw and search power up the butt, as well as loads of recovery.
 
Nothing is invincible. Eevee for one energy searches your deck for any number of Eevees and places them on your bench. The Lutions have abilities that compliment each other, and Leafeon lvX has energy acceleration.
 
bullados said:
Nothing is invincible. Eevee for one energy searches your deck for any number of Eevees and places them on your bench. The Lutions have abilities that compliment each other, and Leafeon lvX has energy acceleration.
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So a couple of good cards will shut them down, right? Like BF or Cessation Crystal?
 
With hte recent direction of Tins having the Lvl X Pokemon in them and the Japanese Theme Decks having te Lvl X in them, it would be nice for PUSA to consider bringing our Theme Decks in Line with theirs. By doing this, they would definitely increase the sell of the Theme Decks and if they used the alternate art as Tego mentioned, it would still save the Value of the Lvl X in the sets. Or it could be possible to have the Lvl X versions in ohnly the Theme Decks driving the sale of these even higher and then releasing the additonal Lvl X in the set. Though it would increase the overall number of Lvl X in this set, it would allow international (Outside Japan) to catch up on usage and collectibilty of these cards.

It is just an opinion, but if PUSA wanted to make sells of Preconstructed decks increase and maintain the sales of Packs, Eliminate the tins (extra cost for those metal boxes so savings there as well) and bring our Precons in-line with Japans.

~Prof. Fish~
 
But aren't the japanese pre-cons 30 cards? We have 60-card decks here, so that would be different.
 
SuperWooper said:
Wait up:

There are 8 Lv. Xs we know of that we don't have in English, right? Palkia, Dialga, Darkrai, Cresselia, Leafeon, Glaceon, Porygon Z, and Garchomp.

We're basically guaranteed Palkia and Dialga in this upcoming set. The press release says that Cresselia and a new, powerful legendary guy (obviously Darkrai) will also appear. But there's no guarantee that both Cresselia and Darkrai will get their Lv. X forms in Great Encounters. 4 Lv. X in one set is an awkward number. On the flip side, since there are 8 Lv. Xs we don't have, 4 per set would catch us right up.

Some are also saying that we might get all of them except for Porygon Z and Garchomp. Personally I think that would be awesome, but to suddenly go from 2 and 3 Lv. Xs per set to 6 is an even weirder jump than that of the speculated 4...

Anybody know for sure when we'll know what's what in Great Encounters?[/QUOTE]

How about at the first weekend of PRs?? :thumb:

Keith
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I'm thinking they may stick with the trend of having an English/American set thrown together with all the Japanese promos/non-set releases (etc; ie - Emerald and Holon Phantoms). Although six Lv X's in a set may seem like a lot, maybe it'll bump up to one per box (or dare we hope for two again?).

(another parenthetical phrase: don't mention the two versions of Garchomp X)
 
I think the average has been one per box for the first three sets...
 
bullados said:
They're good b/c Eevee is STUPIDLY BROKEN as a starter. The deck is essentially 4 Eevee, 2 of each Eeveelution, and 2 of each lvX, with draw and search power up the butt, as well as loads of recovery.
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About Eevee DP4 - I've been wanting to write about it for a while, so here goes.

Actually, it's far from broken. It gets you 3 Basics OR LESS (if some are prized), which makes it worse than SS Dunsparce and DP4 Pachirisu. Of course it can evolve, and that's an important difference, but as far as Eevees go I'd prefer them to help you get out the Eeveelutions rather than to get out more Basics.

Unseen Forces Eevee, now there's a broken Eevee. Of all the Eeveelution decks I've seen played in Japan - like the very popular Glaceon deck that has become a solid Magmortar counter - none of them played Eevee DP4, they all played the UF version.

The good thing with the UF version is that it lets you grab one of the Eeveelutions on turn one. They all have 1-energy attacks, so an Eevee UF start is godly, and let's you do 30 damage from turn one. It also lets you get a Eeveelution lv X on T2, which makes them less like Stage 2s and more like Stage 1s.

When we outside Japan only get this weak DP4 Eevee as a Basic for our new Eeveelutions, I'm worried the great potential in the Eeveelutions can't be fully abused, and they will become slow set-up decks instead of swift, heavy-hitting decks that can compete with fast-hitting Stage 1 Pokemon like Magmortar, Lucario and Blissey. Oh, well, time will show.
 
Thx for that insight Eskil. Very interesting! The eevees will still see play here whenever we get them justbc people like them.

Keith
 
Tego said:
About Eevee DP4 - I've been wanting to write about it for a while, so here goes.

Actually, it's far from broken. It gets you 3 Basics OR LESS (if some are prized), which makes it worse than SS Dunsparce and DP4 Pachirisu. Of course it can evolve, and that's an important difference, but as far as Eevees go I'd prefer them to help you get out the Eeveelutions rather than to get out more Basics.

Unseen Forces Eevee, now there's a broken Eevee. Of all the Eeveelution decks I've seen played in Japan - like the very popular Glaceon deck that has become a solid Magmortar counter - none of them played Eevee DP4, they all played the UF version.

The good thing with the UF version is that it lets you grab one of the Eeveelutions on turn one. They all have 1-energy attacks, so an Eevee UF start is godly, and let's you do 30 damage from turn one. It also lets you get a Eeveelution lv X on T2, which makes them less like Stage 2s and more like Stage 1s.

When we outside Japan only get this weak DP4 Eevee as a Basic for our new Eeveelutions, I'm worried the great potential in the Eeveelutions can't be fully abused, and they will become slow set-up decks instead of swift, heavy-hitting decks that can compete with fast-hitting Stage 1 Pokemon like Magmortar, Lucario and Blissey. Oh, well, time will show.
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*sigh....

This format would be a lot more interesting if we have the same format as the Japanese's.
 
I think it will be either Dialga, Palkia, Darkrai and Cresselia in Great Encounters, and Leafeon and Glaceon in DP5, Garchomp in P7, or Leafeon, Glaceon, and Cresselia in Great Encounters, Garchomp in P7, and Dialga, Palkia, and Darkrai in tins.
 
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