Or they could rotate to X and Y on. ether way the B&W on format will still have it. So if that format is well supported beach isn't going to get cheap anytime soon
There is no chance they'll rotate all the way to XY.
Or they could rotate to X and Y on. ether way the B&W on format will still have it. So if that format is well supported beach isn't going to get cheap anytime soon
There is no chance they'll rotate all the way to XY.
There are 4 sets legal in the B&W series (NXD, DEX, DRX, BCR).
There are 4 sets legal in the Team Plasma era (PLS, PLF, PLB, LTR).
We will get 3 more sets this season (XY1 in Feb, XY2 in May, XY3 in Aug).
It makes ZERO sense that they would break from their average 4-per-year cycle cadence to suddenly rotate 8, leaving us with 3 legal sets…notably less than the 5 that was forced to be the 2011 Nationals format. When TPCi decided to rotate early that year, it was because of an incompatibility of the new BW rules with the existing card pool (Sableye SF mostly, along with other supporting cards).
I understand the sentiment of "it would't surprise me one bit", but in this case we do know something about the logical reasoning of only rotating 4 as usual: we have new XY rules now, and nothing is broken.
Excellent analysis. Is there a reason for 5 set rotation for PLF-on? Something in PLS that is unsavory?
You make an interesting point of XY-on Standard, to contrast it to BW-on Extended. I could see that as a reason to do it. Which would mean only 3 sets legal at the beginning of 2014-2015 season, but it starts to open up.
If EX's didn't exist in XY, I might believe that a vastly deep cut past LTR could be in order. But if you have EX's in XY, you might as well also have the EX's in LTR, so why not keep precedent and rotate to Team Plasma.
One thing that shouldn't be overlooked is that no rotation past Dragons Exalted should come without a reprint of Tool Scrapper (unless they rotate past Legendary Treasures), since otherwise Garbodor just becomes way too powerful.