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what does it matter? This board is full of children anyways and man children like yourself making a fucking thread that for what is basically a post you'd find in a shitty facebook post

>LIKE IF YOU AGREE!!!
>90'S FTW!!

kill yourself

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:04:04 No.26714235 Report

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>>26714211
Scyther pack got me nostalgiaing hard

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:05:32 No.26714243 Report

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>>26714223
>>26714227
Settle down now, children.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:07:04 No.26714257 Report

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>>26714211
who cares old fag? yo uwill never know what is like to be our generation......

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:07:51 No.26714262 Report

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>>26714227
I wish I can like this post but I don't know how on this site :(

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:10:18 No.26714276 Report

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But those still exist in every store ever? It's not like it was ever a good TCG.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:13:43 No.26714303 Report

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>>26714220
Fossil/Jungle/Team Rocket were unfun as shit to open because 2/3rds of the time you got a shitty non foil card that should be a foil but isn't because WotC was a gaggle of faggots.

Base Set and Gym Challenge were the best. I'd include Gym Heroes too but FUCK WOTC yet again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:14:45 No.26714317 Report

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>>26714211
Jungle was really nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:15:41 No.26714329 Report

Quoted By: >>26714416 >>26714426

>tfw you collected cards for the pictures and never learned how to play the TCG

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:18:55 No.26714361 Report

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>>26714211
Pulling a base set charizard and then later on pulling a first edition base set charizard was the most exciting shit in the world at the time.

Of course, I ended up trading the first ed charizard for a blastoise since I was obsessed with getting all of the starters + evos at the time, bit of a shame in retrospect but that's what I get for being a stupid kid.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:18:58 No.26714362 Report

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>>26714211
Nothing but these fuckers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:19:47 No.26714371 Report

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>>26714361
no you fucking didn't stop lying

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:21:32 No.26714390 Report

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>>26714211
You do know that boosters still exist right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:24:36 No.26714416 Report

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>>26714329
I did the same thing as a kid but learned how to play the TCG recently, it's simple as fuck and takes like 10 minutes to understand it. It's a little too simple and boring though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:25:45 No.26714426 Report

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>>26714329
I knew how to play but still only bought it for the art.
It's the same still.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:29:46 No.26714459 Report

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>Pokémon cards

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:37:36 No.26714559 Report

Quoted By: >>26714584 >>26714619 >>26714989

>>26714211
You do know that they still make the cards right? And now they aren't just "copy and paste the mon's official artwork on a random background".

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:40:00 No.26714584 Report

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>>26714559
Yeah they copypaste the effects now instead so you're still playing LITERALLY THE SAME DECK now AFTER rotation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:41:11 No.26714598 Report

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>>26714211
Disappointment everytime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:42:38 No.26714619 Report

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>>26714559
>"copy and paste the mon's official artwork on a random background
Are you too young to have seen the first editions or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:43:55 No.26714634 Report

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>>26714362
I have literally a ton of these.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:45:02 No.26714649 Report

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>>26714619
He's talking about Sugimori's official artworks being copypasted onto random backgrounds for tons of the early cards.

Was especially bad in the first three sets, as well as the Gym sets. Also Neo Genesis.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:45:28 No.26714659 Report

Quoted By: >>26714678 >>26714693

Gen 3 and 4 were the object golden age of the TCG.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:46:42 No.26714674 Report

Quoted By: >>26714697

>>26714649
I mostly remember the cooler ones. Like the CGI illustrations, those really impressed late 90s me.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:47:06 No.26714678 Report

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>>26714659
Gen III, yes.

Gen IV, no. FUCK Lv. X.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:48:33 No.26714693 Report

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>>26714659
>100 HP
>current kyogres are nearly double
>primal is more than double
What a time to be alive

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:48:40 No.26714697 Report

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>>26714674
Big Mama Tagawa and Keiji Kinebuchi were the fucking best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:48:41 No.26714698 Report

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I remember trying to get Pokemon cards but I could never get more than like 5 energy cards in my deck of like 50 pokemon, was fucking ridiculous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:49:42 No.26714713 Report

Quoted By: >>26714730

>>26714678
What even was level X? I dropped out at the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:50:40 No.26714728 Report

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>>26714693
Nice photography

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:51:13 No.26714730 Report

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>>26714713
You level up the regular version of the card into it. So for Stage 2 pokemon like Infernape, it's basically like a fourth stage. They keep the attacks of the previous stage, so it's kinda cool.

But the icing on the shit sundae that ruins the whole thing is that Infernape and Infernape Lv X both count towards the 4 Infernape you can have in your deck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:51:49 No.26714740 Report

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>>26714697
Also the clay ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:52:14 No.26714747 Report

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>>26714728
I know right?
You have a stack of games blocking the light and a tablet without a flash too thank.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:53:32 No.26714759 Report

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>>26714220
Jungle. I still have an unopened pack from when I was a kid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 22:54:18 No.26714764 Report

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>>26714759
Open it, faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:02:56 No.26714847 Report

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>>26714759
Why? It's not like any of those cards are worth anything

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:04:14 No.26714860 Report

Quoted By: >>26714887 >>26714896

>>26714693
Are you actually praising that? The Power Inflation is one of the biggest problems with Pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:06:57 No.26714887 Report

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>>26714860
Sarcasm

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:07:31 No.26714896 Report

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>>26714860
It's not really a problem in pokemon since you can't use cards anymore older than a certain set, almost all of the best cards right now are like 3 years old

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:08:44 No.26714910 Report

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>>26714896
Then there's no excuse or purpose for the ridiculous Power Inflation that's been going on since Gen 4.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:11:05 No.26714935 Report

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>>26714910
If everything gets inflated at the same time then the balance level still stays the same though

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:11:50 No.26714939 Report

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>>26714896
Except it is a problem because the balance was never that great in the first place and it's even worse now.

That said, all hail Jolik, destroyer of worlds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:12:52 No.26714946 Report

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>>26714935
If the level is staying the same then why inflate it at all?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:13:40 No.26714954 Report

Quoted By: >>26717169

>>26714935
You're missing my point. There's literally no point to make the numbers bigger. If everything inflates and everything is the same, it's the same as if not inflating the power levels at all. It's redundant and retarded and only there for kids who like M-MUH BIG NUMBERS

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:13:41 No.26714955 Report

Quoted By: >>26714975

>>26714946
People like big numbers

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:14:01 No.26714960 Report

Quoted By: >>26714975

>>26714946
Kids like big numbers

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:14:51 No.26714970 Report

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>>26714935
>>26714946
Big numbers do nothing to serve the game when it becomes the new standard. Power Inflation is cancer.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:15:16 No.26714975 Report

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>>26714955
>>26714960
Kids are stupid. I miss this card being an ass ravager.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:16:05 No.26714980 Report

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>>26714975
Duh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:17:27 No.26714989 Report

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>>26714559
Actually the first set of a gen usually does that a lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:17:41 No.26714994 Report

Quoted By: >>26715018 >>26715025

>>26714935
>>26714946

It's the same shit that happened to YuGiOh. The numbers just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, but it doesn't really add any value to the gameplay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:20:19 No.26715018 Report

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>>26714994
It's not really the same thing that happened in Yugioh though, early Yugioh was boring as shit because it was just "put basic beatstick down then sacrifice for bigger basic beatstick" now it has more strategies to win at least.

Pokemon tcg is still the same simple game it was 15 years ago with bigger numbers

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Anonymous Sun 12 Jun 2016 23:20:59 No.26715025 Report

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>>26714994
Yugioh's numbers aren't anywhere near as inflated as Pokemon's if were just counting numbers. I mean, Summoned Skull was the relevant big numbers card, and 14 years later the biggest we have at the same cost is this. And BEWD is still the best for two tributes.

Yugioh's power creep is based on the amount of words that are on the card, and the numbers have fuck all to do with it.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 00:02:03 No.26715388 Report

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>tfw girl I know has a binder literally full of 1st edition holos in mint condition

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 00:11:39 No.26715492 Report

Quoted By: >>26715539 >>26716504 >>26717647

Sup /VP/

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 00:15:25 No.26715539 Report

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>>26715492
Holy fuck, open them anon, they're not first edition so it's okay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:17:50 No.26716092 Report

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>>26715539
Unlimited and Shadowless packs are still worth quite a bit sealed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:50:51 No.26716439 Report

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>>26715388
Don't know why people assume this matters, old unplayable cards are hardly worth shit unless there's huge nostalgiafaggotry for MUH 1ST EDITION CHAWIZAD, look up things like 1st Gyarados or Machamp and compare them to any full art card from the most recent set.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:53:12 No.26716468 Report

Quoted By: >>26716476 >>26716501

>>26716439
theyre bought for collection value. almost any card before the power creep of gen 4 is unplayable. and machamp is a bad example for a card because of its misprint.
Stop being a twat and let people use their disposable income however they want.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:54:22 No.26716476 Report

Quoted By: >>26716531

>>26716468
Actually plenty of cards early on are stupidly overpowered.

Like Professor Oak.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:57:06 No.26716501 Report

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>>26716468
>implying people wouldn't still use Professor Oak, either of the energy removals, or Item Finder/Computer Search without their Ace Spec erratas
>implying people don't still use Pluspower

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:57:20 No.26716504 Report

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>>26715492
Reported for gore you fucking sicko. We don't need to be seeing that shit.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:57:24 No.26716505 Report

Quoted By: >>26716523

>>26714220
Neo Discovery

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:58:46 No.26716523 Report

Quoted By: >>26716535 >>26716953

>>26716505
Neo Discovery was complete garbage, fuck you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 01:59:56 No.26716531 Report

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>>26716476
The trainers are easily the best trainers ever made, but the Pokemon are mostly ass because after they were rotated out monsters got bigger numbers. Ultimately though, everything was scaled up accordingly and old sets are rotated out so it doesn't matter. If there was a vintage format for Pokemon like there is in MtG it would be all current monster cards and all old trainers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:00:25 No.26716535 Report

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>>26716523
I'm sorry (you) feel that way

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:22:46 No.26716768 Report

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>>26714220
>>26714211
Rocket set was the best to open since you had "dark" pokemon and this was really cool when you were 12. Also all artwork was original no more stock art from the games.

Worst set to open from was Base Set 2 since the holos were uglier and it had no new cards and I had already opened so many Base Set and Jungle boosters I didn't want more of them. Gym 1 is a close second with having fucking rare Goldeens and Tentacools.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:26:30 No.26716816 Report

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>>26714257
Thank fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:29:31 No.26716849 Report

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>>26714649
Actually stock art is still used every new gen for the new Pokemon. It's sort of a requirement before you get awesome artwork.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:38:39 No.26716953 Report

Quoted By: >>26716981

>>26716523
I'm legitimately curious why you feel this way. In terms of nostalgia I remember Neo having such a mystical draw to me, what with the box art centering around ancient things and a sense of discovery scraping against the unknowable. That being said, I don't have a single satisfying memory of opening a pack, everything I ever pulled was garbage, so I'm wondering if despite the cool, sleek "neo" theme the sets were actually bullshit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:40:21 No.26716981 Report

Quoted By: >>26717178 >>26717199

>>26716953
95% of the cards from Gym 1 to Neo Destiny were absolute garbage because they were afraid to make cards as broken as Hitmonchan and Electabuzz again.

It wasn't until the e-Card sets that Media Factory started taking risks again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:57:16 No.26717169 Report

Quoted By: >>26718837

>>26714954
Bigger numbers allows more variety in numbers. If 30 damage and 70 HP is average, for example, there's a HUGE difference between 30 and 40 damage. Any weaker Pokemon is stuck doing 10-30 damage. If the averages were 50 damage and 120 HP, bumping damage to 60 does the same thing, except you now have five "can't 2HKO an average Pokemon" numbers to hand out to weaker Pokemon instead of three.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:57:59 No.26717178 Report

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>>26716981

Remember how the EX Pokemon in R/S were meant to be as strong as the original Pokemon but gave two prizes instead of one?

Those EX were considered crappy as newer sets were released and the power of the EXs kept increasing and now we have tons of cards that do crazy damage and basically makes any older Pokemon useless against newer Pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 02:59:12 No.26717199 Report

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>>26716981
The e-card sets were a soft reboot and the vast majority of them were shit because they were trying to tone down the power creep. RS is when they just went "fuck it" and changed the power scale.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 03:00:37 No.26717213 Report

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>>26714220
Base and Rocket boosters

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 03:46:25 No.26717647 Report

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>>26715492
I envy you so much right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 06:17:28 No.26718837 Report

Quoted By: >>26719850

>>26717169
>he thinks numbers are fun
There's a reason Yu Gi Oh has maintained its attack and defense numbers for as long as it has. The Power Inflation should come from actual effects, conditions, TEXT. Not fucking numeros.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 08:46:58 No.26719735 Report

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>>26714303

>All those holo cards reprinted as rare just to fluff the card counts of the set

Fucking terrible

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jun 2016 09:27:14 No.26719850 Report

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>>26718837
You know the Pokemon TCG does both right?
And that number inflation literally does nothing but trick little kids.

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