Next set preview: X&Y Breakthrough!

[DarkStar20]

Coming soon: Pokemon X&Y Breakthrough

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A new page has been added to the Pokemon website, adding a preview to the next TCG expansion XY—BREAKthrough

They have also revealed two cards from the new set, Pokemon Break cards, a new form of evolution with the following rule:

BREAK Evolution rule
(Pokemon's Name) BREAK retains the attacks, Abilities, Weakness, Resistance, and Retreat Cost of its previous Evolution.

Raichu BREAK


Chesnaught BREAK


The set is scheduled to release November 04, 2015, with Pre-release event dates falling on October 24th/25th, and October 31st/November 1st!

Stay tuned for more updates!

 

[vaporeon]

I really expected more of break Pokemon. They are nothing more than LV.X pokemon. What I want to know is can you break evolve a Pokemon the turn it comes into play.

 

[PokePop]

It's evolution.
You would follow the rules for Evolution, including timing and 1st turns for each player.

There seem to be a couple of differences from Lv X Pokemon that make Break Pokemon more playable:

You can evolve it on the bench. That's a big difference.
The name is different. So, unlike Lv X Pokemon where you had to run a 2-2 line at best, you can use 4 of each card if you wish.

What "more" were you expecting?
More HP than EX Pokemon? Chesnaught has 190. That's pretty good.
Stronger attacks? The ones above are 170 and 160. Not bad.
And you only give up one Prize when one of these are knocked out.

I'm thinking this is going to be like Stormfront.
A set that was panned at first and then turned out to have multiple Worlds Championship level decks in it.
Pokemon players are too linear. They look only for increased power where they are used to looking for it.

 

[neophenx]

Think for just one minute. Raichu decks are already a thing. Add a lighting energy and more HP, Raichu becomes more playable, even if it's only a little harder to KO. Same with the Noivern. I've run a Noivern (Echolocation/Boomburst) deck online. How annoying do you think it would be to not only have to win the coin flip to damage it, but to have to deal more damage to begin with? With Breaks, Noivern is no longer OHKO'd by Giratina AND has a same-cost attack that doesn't rely on spread damage, giving me the faith to try the deck out again once we get these Break cards. I for one welcome the new Break cards. All you naysayers, be ready to lose to a few of them come Regionals and Nationals next year.

 

[icemanmatt]

All I'm gonna say is Raichu eels and muscle band = game breaker

 

[vaporeon]

It's evolution.
You would follow the rules for Evolution, including timing and 1st turns for each player.

There seem to be a couple of differences from Lv X Pokemon that make Break Pokemon more playable:

You can evolve it on the bench. That's a big difference.
The name is different. So, unlike Lv X Pokemon where you had to run a 2-2 line at best, you can use 4 of each card if you wish.

What "more" were you expecting?
More HP than EX Pokemon? Chesnaught has 190. That's pretty good.
Stronger attacks? The ones above are 170 and 160. Not bad.
And you only give up one Prize when one of these are knocked out.

I'm thinking this is going to be like Stormfront.
A set that was panned at first and then turned out to have multiple Worlds Championship level decks in it.
Pokemon players are too linear. They look only for increased power where they are used to looking for it.

I guess I expected them to be faster, comparable to the speed of Basic EX Pokemon, something they can come into play "as is" or at least can evolve the turn the last evolved Pokemon came into play. If they are just a next stage in evolution (Raichu BREAK being a stage 2 in terms of mechanics), then why not make evolutions better in general. Maybe I'm looking too much into it but the problem I'm having with my Pidgeot/Dragonite EX is I can't get Pokemon in play fast enough to attack with them, even more so when they take a lot of resources and get OHKO'ed.

The 190 HP on Chesnaught BREAK is cool but its an attacking stage 3 Pokemon, which is hard to do anything with. I'll wait to see what happens.