The Next Pokémon Trading Card Expansion, Vivid Voltage, Has Been Revealed

And the power creep continues

All the Pokémon games are great and this could be cool to pick up too. I mean just name one thing Pokémon has done recently that wasn’t good.

This is what I would’ve posted in the DS/3DS era

Edit: since I know people will get angry at my hatred for game freak recently let me just say this. Sun and moon are amazing games probably the best on the 3DS. I’m not a Pokémon hater I’m just not a fan of where the franchise is going.

@Blooper987 For me, it all fell apart with X&Y. Sun and Moon were pretty good and at least interesting so yeah, I do get what you mean about the direction of the series.

Man I would kill for a Pkmn TCG game on switch, and not a port of the pc game, but more like the gbc one.

I remember when I was in third grade, these cards made you a literal God if you had any legendaries, or just a large amount.

They were banned after someones entire binder was stolen, that was some real stuff back then.

Although I will indeed get cards from this set as usual, I don't remember Nintendolife being a Pokémon TCG site... 🤔

I used to be jealous of my friend for having more than me. Now I have twice as many as him. I always buy expansions when they come out!

Also, why is NL posting about this, while they didn’t for Darkness Ablaze or Champion’s Path? 🤔

I just want a sequel to Pokémon TCG for GB, please. That was easily my favorite GB game.

@nessisonett exactly. The switch from 2D to 3D with X&Y was the killer. Game Freak is still playing catchup. They desperately need Monolithsoft's supportive branch to chip in for the next one.

They never do tradingcard news on this site. But I understand, they have to do something to keep the site filled if Nintendo refuses to provide news.

Before the Directs there where the long release-lists released every few months. Maybe that was better because you had always a idea of what was coming. Though some games appeared on it for years without ever getting released (Kirby gamecube, I am looking at you!).

Big Chungus Pikachu... Will he fit in a single card? They may have to make him a multi card monster, Exodia style.

@Kalmaro Yeah, for real. I tried playing this game a few months ago online and it seems like the game just devolves into getting one huge creature out ASAP and killing the entire other team turn-by-turn. After several matches and messing with the decks, it's straight back to MTG for me, lol.

@stinkyx That's why I bought the basic-decks Battle Academy set — the next time the TCG bug bites, I can say "I already have cards" and replay the GBC game or something.

Because, let's face it, I built 5 decks around my favorite Pokémon, but I'll never have anyone to play with/against. Same goes for any of my Nintendo games, really. **** living in the U.S. and **** our global society of hypercompetition and facades.

@stinkyx @KingBowser86 The online version of the game isn't too terrible, it's a little easier to get cards... But good grief it's such a pain to stay current.

They just don't give you much time to enjoy where you are before they drop the next super golden epic Pokémon cards that you actually need 3 of in order to create a full card that you then play on top of your other cards.

@Kalmaro I just don't understand why they couldn't have just stuck to not messing with the hand cards beyond a little extra drawing / hand resetting like Bill/Prof. Oak (limit 2 or something on the latter), not accelerating energy beyond Double Colorless, etc. Who thought that the big huge Turn 1 "beeg" Pokémon would be a good idea when evolution is a critical mechanic?

Why couldn't it just be haymakers and strategies? Why couldn't it just stay that way with tons of different decks? "Because Gamefreak introduced Mega/XYZ/____Max." Those could easily have compounded the deck's effects or damage, enabled different strategies like weakness shoring or some other tactic tied to the Pokémon's other physical traits or the traits of the transformation, or sped up faster-but-not-game-ending deck flow. Not power creep.

@Kalmaro This, very much this. This is why i quit PTCG when the Tag Teams were intrduced. The power creep in ptcg is seriously disgustingly bad. I was in love with the game during the late X&Y up until Team Up, but I could not understand why they had to nerf a top tier deck or bring out a new one every other month. What a shame.

However, imagine a PTCG online game on switch with every card or deck. No microtransactions. Would buy 3 copies honestly.

I played a few years ago, back at the end of Gen 4 and just through the launch of the Black and White base set. When my kid got into the TCG last year and we started looking at the current cards I didn't even know what I was looking at. The meta is insane, and expensive to get running with real cardboard. I jokingly made an Eternatus VMax (look it up, it's bananas) to play, then realized that might be the most reasonable approach.

I've been hooked on the English fan translation of the Japan-only TCG2 game on GBC. Such a good sequel. I've poured 65 or so hours in to the game over the last month or so (though I've played the game sped up a lot of the time).

Would love a modern version of these games on Switch that are more like the GBC games as less like the in-app purchase/grindy nightmare that is TCG Online.

Eh... As others have pointed out this set’s been known for a while (Late July by my count) if you follow Pokémon TCG news on other places and the set’s cards have been known since Late May (Japan is getting these cards next month).

@SmileMan64 VMAXs fit on a single card just like LV. X and Mega Evolution cards did in the past, the only time more than one card was used for a single Pokemon were Pokemon LEGEND cards from HGSS sets.