If you're a keen Pokémon Trading Card Game player, or if you fancy making the jump from the video games, you'll be interested to know that the brand new Sword and Shield expansion is due to arrive in the west in February 2020.
The news comes alongside some fresh details for the latest set of cards, including the introduction of VMAX cards. VMAX sees Sword and Shield's Dynamax and Gigantamax features be represented in TCG form, with the cards in question boasting lots of HP and powerful attacks. Here's the full rundown:
Pokémon VMAX evolve from Pokémon V and feature Dynamax or Gigantamax Pokémon, as seen in the recently launched Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield video games. These cards have massive HP and powerful attacks, but when a Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, the player’s opponent will take three Prize cards.
Trainers can look forward to collecting Pokémon VMAX cards like Snorlax VMAX and Lapras VMAX—both in their Gigantamax forms—in the new Sword & Shield expansion from The Pokémon Company International, releasing worldwide starting February 7, 2020.
The new set will be available in traditional booster packs, theme decks, Elite Trainer Boxes, and special collections, with 50 new Galar Pokémon being featured. Expect to find the starter Pokémon, Galarian forms like Ponyta, and the Legendary Pokémon, Zacian and Zamazenta.
Key cards from the set include:
17 Pokémon V and 12 full-art Pokémon V, including Zacian V and Zamazenta V
Four Pokémon VMAX, including Snorlax VMAX and Lapras VMAX
35 Trainer cards, including four full-art Supporter cards
One Special Energy card
The new expansion is teased at the end of a brand new trailer shared today, which also finally introduces the new starter Pokémon evolutions in an official manner for the first time. If you still don't want to see the new evolutions, you might want to skip the following image.
Do you play the Pokémon TCG? Will you be collecting this new set? Tell us below.
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Maybe some of the cut Pokemon will end up here.
I wish they’d actually balance the cards. The power creep has gotten completely out of control.
Will they be cutting the size of each card to focus on higher quality art?
@Aurumonado I think they already did that with letters - shortening Dyna/Giganta to V.
About a month late (makes more sense to reveal before launch) but it's nice that the starter evolutions have finally been officially revealed.
@Elvie : Many cut Pokémon wound up in the Sun and Moon TCG expansions, so the practice isn't without precedent.
But unlike Sword/Shield, all Pokémon could still be accessed in Gen VII by transferring them from previous titles.
I quit the game after the Tag Team storm, the power creep in this game is super unbalanced. I should not have to make a new deck every single expansion.
@nessisonett yeah I stopped buying pokemon gaming cards for 2 gen and now my cards are all obsolete and underpowered! back then a pokemon with 120 kp or 130 was counted as very strong with an attack of 60+, now even 100 is nothing, 200 hp is nothing too... they are going nuts
@MisterDevil That’s the problem with most CCGs, to keep players buying the new stuff, it has to be better than the old, so power-creep is all but inevitable...
@nessisonett Not saying the game doesn't need balance, but I don't think you know how to play the game if you think they need to be balanced just by looking at a few cards.
the cards probably have more effort put into them than the box art
@J-Plap I speak on a general sense given that I played the game regularly until last year. The tag team cards completely broke any semblance of balance and it looks like they’re going down another gimmicky route for this gen too.
Remember when 90HP was considered high? Good times. All these gimmicky cards ruined the fun
All of you PCG players talking about Power creep, you're all amateurs. Try stepping into modern Yugioh, prepare for a whole new world of MindF****ing
Love me some TCG but boy is it expensive.
Hope they have some nice theme decks with some V cards. I play these decks with my two boys. More than enough, not to hard to play. And also a lot of fun.
@MysticX sadly but you are right... this sucks for real
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