Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

New Fossil mechanic revealed

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thisguy said:
Archeops being easy enough to set up to be a tech in anything is a bad idea, that just helps the high HP basics even more, this way is a lot better, decks have to have a strong emphasis on fossils for it to work. There are quite a few possibility's with the fossil Pokemon (both of their ability's are awesome) and it'll be cool to see how they end up fitting into the metagame and if they make an impact. As above posters have mentioned, cards like Research Records can make this work.


Yeah I suppose having a type advantage over 3 huge metagame threats (Donphan, Reshiram and Emboar) and not being weak to lightning (uh-oh Zekrom and Megnezone) whilst having an ability that can turn the tide of the game on a coin flip (completely messes with Magnezone going for 1HKO with Lost Burn and Zekrom/Reshiram with their respective attacks and 2 Pluspowers) is grounds for making a Pokemon unplayable.

I cannot wait to play with these cards.
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How will you get it into play? And what will you do to get the next one into play once the first one goes down?
 
The way it is translated it is the BOTTOM 7 cards. Which makes sense because they are "Fossils". The bottom is way different from the top. We do not know all the trainers or new abilities yet so please do not be so quick to judge how viable these fossils are.
 
bottom 7 so its a dusk ball for one particular fossil poke yeah looks really hard to get out and the only card i see atm that helps is research record.

also super scoop up/seeker are almost useless with the new fossils since you can't play them back down like you can a reg poke's basic
 
You people have no imagination, this new fossil mechanic is way too playable, specially if it`s a lock that gives you an awfully good chance of victory.

Slowking prime is so gonna boost it`s price after this.

I can foresee Volbeat and Illumise becoming Top Tiers at CC.
 
ALEXARD said:
You people have no imagination, this new fossil mechanic is way too playable, specially if it`s a lock that gives you an awfully good chance of victory.

Slowking prime is so gonna boost it`s price after this.

I can foresee Volbeat and Illumise becoming Top Tiers at CC.
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I wouldn't say they have no imagination.
More like they realize that if their opponent gets to choose whether to put the fossil Pokemon in your hand (where it's useless) or on the bottom of your deck (where you want it), they're going to choose to put it in your hand! :lol:
 
ALEXARD said:
You people have no imagination, this new fossil mechanic is way too playable, specially if it`s a lock that gives you an awfully good chance of victory.

Slowking prime is so gonna boost it`s price after this.

I can foresee Volbeat and Illumise becoming Top Tiers at CC.
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Why would anyone play volbeat when we have Zekrom ???
 
ALEXARD said:
You people have no imagination, this new fossil mechanic is way too playable, specially if it`s a lock that gives you an awfully good chance of victory.

Slowking prime is so gonna boost it`s price after this.

I can foresee Volbeat and Illumise becoming Top Tiers at CC.
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how is slowking prime going to go up in price?
 
The lock people, the lock, Archeops ability gives a really hard time to evolved pokemon, a well built deck based on it won`t run evolved pokemon other than Archeops, right?, if we consider Archeops to become a popular deck, why not exploit it`s weakness to grass with Illumise (Volbeat is just a babykiller) and catcher, or just bring any other basic pokemon, since it can flip coins to do up to 120 damage with just 1 energy.

Slowking prime will get a good combo with Carracosta, even without underground expedition, is just a hunch anyway, but I will collect as many as possible.
 
^Why do you think we're getting Mysterious Pearl? o_O

Research Record definitely has value in a Restored Pokemon deck. :) "Oh look, it was my next card. Let's put it on the bottom and play my Fossil!" That being said, creating an engine to get your Fossils working will be..... interesting.
 
Pretty much total crap unless you get lucky with Research Record.

Why did PCL make fossil pokemon even harder to get into play... the problem has never been that they weren't powerful enough for how hard they are to get in play... the problem has always been that they've always been too hard to get in play.

Making it even harder? Great, way to alienate the Fossil pokemon even further. If they even see play, there's no way they'll make it past breaking even at majour events. Ever.
 
If Claydol was still around then it would make Archeops (sp?) lot more playable. Just search for it, then send it to the bottom of your deck and then you can play it - if I'm reading the fossil right.
 
On a somewhat related note, this will make fosil play confusing for unlimited at leagues. I know they are separate mechanic, but old mechanics always screw up the kids at my league, they just don't get it because they don't play modified.
 
Fix Fossils once and for all by treating them like Pokemon not only when they're in play, but also when they're in the deck/discard pile.
 
I don't understand... when people saw the Archeops on Pokebeach, they started complaining about how the game would be terrible without being able to play evolutions and how Archeops is way overpowered. Now that we know the full extent of playing fossils, people are complaining that it's too hard to get them in play. Whether or not you like the fossil mechanic, doesn't it feel good to know that evolutions aren't going the way of the dinosaur... er, fossil...
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The Gorn said:
Fix Fossils once and for all by treating them like Pokemon not only when they're in play, but also when they're in the deck/discard pile.
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I disagree. I think it's important to keep fossils special. If they were just considered Pokemon and could be searched for like other Pokemon, there would be nothing special about them.

At least it seems like TPC is trying to come up with ways to make it easier to play them. I wouldn't want to see them scrap the whole uniqueness of the fossil pokemon just because players feel its too hard to play them.
 
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