Scarlet & Violet: 151 is the newest set coming to the Pokemon TCG! Explore the Kanto region and gather up all the classic 151 Pokemon with each of their evolutions. Check out the newest ex editions of your favourite Pokemon, and show the world that you are the next Pokemon champion!
The Kanto region is making its return! As the original setting of the Pokemon television series, the Kanto region is filled with classic Pokemon. Whether it is the basic starters Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle, or Pokemon found in the wilds, this set is filled with some fan favourites. However, this isn’t just a reprint series – each of these classics is getting a fresh set of abilities. Every one of the 151 Pokemon is coming out swinging with something new, ready to turn the tide of battle.
Not only that, but some Pokemon are getting a revised ex treatment! With the return of ex cards to the format, higher evolution cards are getting a powerful upgrade. Expect to see some ex editions of Blastoise, Charizard, Venasaur, Mew, and more!
If you are more on the collecting side of things, then make sure to check out the special illustration and special illustration rare alternate cards of your favourite Pokemon! These special edition cards will be hard to come by, so make sure to pick them up when you have the chance.
Scarlet & Violet: 151 comes out on September 22nd, 2023!
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Paldea Evolved is the newest booster set release coming to the Pokémon TCG! Explore the region of Paldea as you search for new powerful ex evolved Pokémon and non-ex Pokémon alike!
Get your hands on some evolved starters! Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly are getting their ex final forms in Meowscarada ex, Skeledirge ex, and Quaquaval ex. Channel the powers of Meowscarada’s healing magic, Skeledirge’s burning song, and Quaquaval’s dodging dance to wipe out your opponents!
Looking for some more aggressive creatures? Then check out Chien-Pao ex and Ting-Lu ex to unlock the destructive powers of nature! Chien-Pao will rain down icy blades from above, while Ting-Lu will erupt the earth from below your enemies Pokémon, wiping out their benched creatures for good!
But these new ex Pokémon are not the only new creatures in this set for you to deck it out with. There are dozens of new cards to collect, including the titan Baxcaliber, the Nymble evolution Lokix, and Tinkaton. There will also be special prints of both new and old cards, including special holos of Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly!
Scarlet & Violet – Paldea Evolved comes out on June 9th, 2023!
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Welcome to the Paldea region! Pokemon’s newest booster set collection, Scarlet & Violet, is nearly here! Get your hands on never before seen Pokemon, Trainers, special art cards, and learn about some revamped game mechanics!
Get your hands on a whole new collection of Pokemon! Choose your new starter with Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly making their debut! Once you have evolved your collection, battle your way to get Koraidon and Miraidon. Train even further to get their ex variants to channel some powerful abilities!
But don’t think that Koraidon and Miraidon are the only ones seeing the return of the ex treatment. Many evolutions are getting the ex expanse, including Arcanine and Gyarados! Collect all of these powerful creatures to become the most powerful trainer in the world!
Looking to add pieces to your art collection? Then you have found your wellspring. This set will include special illustration art cards of dozens of Trainers and Pokemon! Also make sure to look out for the new Tera Pokemon ex, each with their own special crystalline abilities!
Scarlet & Violet comes out on March 31st, 2023!
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Sword & Shield is coming to its mighty conclusion! Crown Zenith is the final booster set in the Pokemon Sword & Shield collection. Gather up the most powerful Pokemon of Galar as we traverse these wild lands one last time!
Some old favourites are making their VSTAR comebacks. Zacian, Zamazenta, and Charizard are channelling their VSTAR powers to destroy your opponents – and they are only the beginning! Gather up all 8 of these new VSTAR warriors to put your enemies to shame.
But that’s not to say that we are only going to be getting the greatest hits of the Sword & Shield collection in this set. We are also getting some brand new Radiant, V, and Colossal VMAX Pokemon! These beasts will be the best of the best, so make sure to ready your decks for some powerful new additions.
For collectors, get your hands on the special Galarian Gallery art series cards! These beautiful art cards will include common and rare Pokemon and Trainers alike. Make sure to get your hands on them early before their gone forever!
This booster set will include over 160 new cards to add to your decks and collections! The full card breakdown is:
Crown Zenith comes out on January 20th, 2023!
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It is time to harness the energy of the cold, icy depths of the world in the newest Pokemon TCG release, Sword & Shield: Silver Tempest! Awaken powerful Pokemon from their frozen slumbers as you dive into this new set, filled to the icy brim with new VSTARs and Radiant Pokemon alike!
Deep within ice-covered oceans and frost bitten landscapes, powerful creatures are slowly beginning to rise from their deep sleep. In order to find these ancient Pokemon, you will need to acquire some help. Collect some companions for your journey, such as Alolan Vulpix VSTAR, Serperior VSTAR, Unown VSTAR, and Mawile VSTAR! There are 190 possibilities for Pokemon to fill your roster and take into the unknown, including 15 V Pokemon and one VMAX!
What Pokemon should you expect to see on your search into uncharted waters? Make sure to keep an eye out for Regieleki VMAX and Regidrago VSTAR as you explore the wilds… but that doesn’t mean that they are the only things out here. There has been talk of a Lugia sighting out from the waters…
But don’t think that Pokemon will be the only adventurous friends you can collect in this set! There were be 15 Trainer cards to help ensure that your Pokemon are well taken care of on the battlefield.
Sword & Shield: Silver Tempest comes out November 11th, 2022!
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Lost Origin will bring a lot of new ways to play in the standard format, and I’m not just talking about new cards. The Lost Zone mechanic is back from its break since the Sun and Moon block and a lot of new viable cards uses it to attain some really great effects.
Hisuian Goodra VSTAR doesn’t use the Lost Zone mechanic to its advantage, but a lot of cards that supports it do. Goodra VSTAR’s attack reduces the damage it would receive during the opponent’s next turn. This damage reduction can be stacked with other similar effects to make Goodra a living tank. Its VSTAR Power is an Ability that heals every damage on it. If you play your cards right, you can attack and tank for multiple turns in a row and then heal all of your opponent’s progress to make it a decisive victory for you.
Hisuian Goodra VSTAR is a 270HP Pokémon with the Iron Rollout attack that does 200 damage in addition of making it 80 damage resistant during your opponent’s next turn. If you add it with Radiant Gardevoir, you now take 100 less damage consistently every turn that you attack. In this format where it’s important for a lot of decks to 2-hit-KO or 1-hit-KO a lot of Pokémon, 100 damage reduction is already plan-foiling enough. But with Goodra’s VSTAR POWER – Moisture Star, you can cancel multiple turns of tireless swinging and go back as if they didn’t do anything.
The plan of a Goodra VSTAR deck is to do 200 damage every turn while minimizing damage as much as possible. The biggest problem around it is its attack cost. Charging 3 energies, including 1 Metal and 1 Water, is not a walk in the park. That’s where the Lost Zone engine comes in.
Comfey is the poster child of the Lost Zone engine. Similarly to Celebrations Mew or Amazing Jirachi, it is a Basic Pokémon that helps you get cards from the top of your deck when it is in the Active Spot. When you look at the top 2 cards of your deck with the Flower Selecting ability, you choose 1 to go in your hand, and the other goes to the Lost Zone. Normally putting a precious card in the Lost Zone is a really bad effect, even with a consistency boost like that, but our deck here will profit from this.
An example of that is Cramorant. It’s also a new Pokémon from the Lost Origin set that can uses it’s 110 damage attack for free if you have 4 cards or more in the Lost Zone. Having a Basic Pokémon that can attack for free in the mid-to-late-game can be really useful against cards like Miltank that are immune to Hisuian Goodra VSTAR, or when you need to take 1 turn for your main attacker to be ready.
Banette, again a new card that synergizes with the Lost Zone, is a Stage 1 Pokémon whose ability you can use at anytime. Puppet Memorial can grab you a Supporter card from your discard pile at the cost of putting the Banette and its pre-evolution in the Lost Zone. This is a nice recycling effect and +2 cards in the Lost Zone for you. Reusing supporters will prove to be really efficient for the deck as you’ll see later.
Instead of attacking in the early game, after using a bunch of Flower Selecting abilities, you can end your turn with a draw-up-to 7 with the help of Snorlax from Vivid Voltage. This can prove useful to help you stay in the game after a bad first turn as well. If you want to gamble or trust the consistency of your Goodra deck, you can remove the Snorlax for a Diancie from Astral Radiance for a different effect (giving you more of a protection to your Hisuian Goodra V waiting to evolve).
Colress’s Experiment will be the second main way of putting cards in the Lost Zone. It makes you look at the top 5 cards of your deck, putting 3 in your hand and 2 in the Lost Zone. Basically a Super-Comfey as a Supporter.
Sometimes, it is possible to attack turn 2 with Goodra if you attached an energy turn 1 to Goodra V, and then Melony + attach for turn to the Goodra VSTAR on turn 2. Melony is also a +3 cards in hand, so it helps getting a good hand in addition of the energy acceleration.
Once you’ve achieved putting 10 cards in the Lost Zone, the real fun will begin with Fantina. Her card makes all your Pokémon take 120 less damage from Pokémon V. So in addition to Goodra’s attack and Radiant Gardevoir’s ability, you now take 220 less damage from Pokémon V. Loop it with Banette and now you can have an almost endless absurd walling with Hisuian Goodra VSTAR.
Roxanne will be hard to find when needed, but if you manage to find it at the perfect time, or managed to fetch it back from the discard pile with Banette, you can excessively disrupt your opponent other than tanking more damage than necessary.
The last and most important piece of this Lost Zone puzzle. Mirage Gate triggers when you have 7 cards in the Lost Zone, and boosts up the deck’s tempo to 100. Mirage Gate can search your deck for 2 Basic Energy of different types and attach them directly to your Pokémon in any way you like. This is the card we needed to help the weird energy cost of Goodra’s attack. If you managed to put 7 cards in the Lost Zone on turn 2 (2 or 4 from Colress’s Experiment + 2 from Banette + 1 or 3 from Comfey), you can use Mirage Gate and have a ready-to-attack Hisuian Goodra VSTAR! And with Mirage Gate, Hyper Potion is also a really good card. It’s an alternative healing effect that can make a Goodra stick to the active for much longer.
Lake Acuity is the final card that reduces damage for this deck. If any Pokémon has a Water or Fighting Energy, it takes 20 less damage from attacks. This with Fantina, Iron Rollout and Radiant Gardevoir can make your Hisuian Goodra VSTAR take 240 less damage from attacks of Pokémon V (100 less from non-V).
To put it in perspective: Arceus VSTAR with no Double Turbo Energy and Choice Belt deals 0 damage to Hisuian Goodra. Palkia VSTAR with both benches full, a Choice Belt and a Leon used does 80 damage. Mew VMAX with a Choice Belt and 4 Power Tablets used copying Melodious Echo with 4 Fusion Strike Energy in play deals 180 damage after using all their resources. In all of those extreme instances, you can heal it right up with the VSTAR Power or with Hyper Potion. That’s how absurd this deck’s tanking potential is.
Ordinary Rod is a nice safety net for the deck: if you discarded energies and want to put some in the deck for Mirage Gate, if one of your Goodra got KOed early game and you have some bad prizes, if a sniping deck Boss-KOed your Manaphy, Ordinary Rod will be there for you.
Tool Jammer nullifies Choice Belt that could be worrisome against you. It also cancels Air Balloon, which is a nice roadblock versus some combo decks.
In my opinion, Hisuian Goodra VSTAR is the best Rule Box Attacker from Lost Origin. It has immense tanking potential, 200 damage is good enough damage to 2-hit-KO most evolved V decks, and it has the Comfey and others to help it consistency-wise. Goodra doesn’t need much more than that.
Goodra’s biggest weakness is effect prevention. For example: Duraludon VMAX does 220 damage while ignoring any effects on the defending Pokémon that would reduce damage. So Duraludon VMAX will always 2-hit-KO you, while you 2-hit-KO them. For this specific matchup, I think the player that uses the healing at the best time will be victorious. The Supporter card Phoebe and Mew VMAX’s Max Miracle are also to watch-out for. Path to the Peak is also harsh for the deck, but it’s not a deal-breaker. It only shuts off Radiant Gardevoir’s ability and Goodra’s VSTAR Power.
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Ancient beings are rumbling from the darkest dimension! Lost Origin is the newest Pokémon TCG booster set coming this fall, filled with dimension shifting, strange otherworldly creatures, and the return of the Lost Zone!
Giratina is stomping it’s way through the dimensions and into the Lost Zone. Channel the power of the Lost in order to charge up the VSTAR abilities of Giratina VSTAR, Aerodactyl VSTAR, and Hisuian Zoroark VSTAR! Discard your hand in order to draw seven new cards, negate Pokemon-V abilities, or immediately knock out your opponent’s active Pokemon!
But don’t think that Giratina, Aerodactyl, and Hisuian Zoroark are the only ones getting some VSTAR action. Get ready for Magnezone, Drapion, and Hisuian Goodra to all get VSTAR power-ups! And lets not forget about Kyurem VMAX, drawing in water energies to perform devastating attacks!
While the darkness spreads, there are those who oppose it’s return. Enamorus V and Radiant Gardevoir will be using powerful magic to counter these great VSTAR beasts!
Lost Origin comes out on September 9th! Pre-order your booster box at Three Kings Loot right here!
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Welcome to the Pokemon GO Expansion for the Pokemon TCG! In this upcoming Pokemon release, you will find some both beautiful reprints and powerful new cards with special artistic twists. Many of these reprints will include specialty art with different Pokemon appearing in the real world, such as Pikachu walking down a city street, or Snorlax taking a nap on someone’s front entrance.
Pokemon creature cards will not be the only cards getting the new art update. Trainer cards will also be updated to reflect Pokemon GO locations and items. You will also be getting your hands on some new Trainer cards, including Pokestop, which helps you find Item cards at the top of your deck, and Lure Module to search your deck for some much needed Pokemon.
Not only will there be special individual cards, but there will be some special team bonuses as well! Swear your allegiance to Team Mystic, Team Valor, or Team Instinct to get some exclusive booster set pieces. This includes new Supporter cards in the form of Team Leaders Spark, Blanche, and Candela. Use these Supporters to increase your card draw and gather energy from your deck!
And last, but absolutely not least, we will be getting three new special Pokemon for your next deck: Mewtwo VSTAR and Radiant Eevee! Use these powerful new cards to search your deck for cards, or deal incredible amounts of damage to your opponents based on the amount of V Pokemon they have in play.
The Pokemon GO Expansion comes out July 1st, 2022!
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