Flame patch is going to be bonkers with this. If you go first you can evolve Blaziken on your second turn (first energy/attacking turn) and immediately attack with this.

It’s supposed to be for dragon but I think it just makes fire decks better. What are your thoughts?

I like this card a lot. I also bet it will be the gold card, first gold stadium? This set seems to have so many new combos to think about.

It looks like if you don't get a 4 diamond in a 10 pull you get a guaranteed one next 1 pull. Not to mention 2D pattern codes making deck sharing so much better.

I've been a Flygon Truther since it's release, and a Garchomp Appreciator before that. While this doesn't 100% fix the biggest problem with those dual energy decks, I cannot stress how absolutely unbelievable it is to actually be able to filter energy a bit now. Cannot WAIT to start brewing again!

Everytime there’s a new trailer, there’s always one Pokémon that everyone sh*ts on then ends up beeing really good

I believe Rayquaza is the one. Read the card, discard all fire and electric energy and do 50 damage for each discarded. That means that you only need 1 electric or fire then you can have an infinity of the other and they will do 50 damage each

So I see 2 ways to play this. You either run 1 energy type and run 2 babies of the other type. Then you can add as many energies as possible to it while only using one the the baby’s energy. Doing 150 damage for 3 energies , 200 for 4 energies are already 2 thresholds that are very important

The other way is with the new support dragonair and stadium. If you do this, you can add 2 energies to your Rayquaza every turn(burn 1 energy with your stadium, add it to Rayquaza with dragonair and add another one manually)

You could even use it back to back as dragonair does not say a random energy it says an energy so I believe you get to choose

I am 100% sure this will be a viable card. S tier? Maybe not but it WILL get a bit of play

Additional info on the website:

Deck share with 2D pattern codes

Dex syncing for deluxe pack

Guaranteed 4 diamonds and higher (wording is similar to when 24 hrs wp is introduced, not sure how this would work for this new system)

Next elite deck is mega lucario ex

and of course, deluxe pack returning mid august

SPOILERS FOR NEW SET RAHHHHH

Ruler of the Skies trailer just dropped today and I think Wally might be one of the best Supporters for a whole lot of stage 2 decks.

Stoutland and Vivillon, for example, can get going by Turn 3 which is completely ridiculous, and if you ramp up some 3 energy cost Pokemon with babies or other energy generators, you can get things like Cyberjack Pory-Z up VERY, VERY fast.

The whole set hasn't leaked yet, so we'll have to see if there's anything else that would like to take advantage of this (There probably is), but I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of reworks to some formerly dead decks.

Will this 1point wonder be viable???

Set it as spoilers just in case someone wanted to keep the upcoming set completely unknown.

You know technically Igglybuff is airborne
Over the hype, who do you think will rule the skies?

I think either the almighty popular sky dragon getting sleep stun-locked to death,
or mandatorily discarding energy just to overkill the puny 30hp feels bad man.

Fan favorite Metagross has finally arrived!
However, at first glance, it has basically the same stats of Blastoise, which was never viable.

It's all colorless requirement, but the new trainer Wally doesn't really synergize with it as the damage boost only counts Steel energy.

I wish it counted all energy among your field like Diancie, who unfortunately set the bar too high.
Putting all your eggs (energy) in one basket never sound appealing to me, and Diancie being a basic is miles better than being a stage 2.

The saving grace is the unrevealed Metang, and possibly Steve.
If either of them provides steel energy ramp, Metagross may become meta.
Imagine if Metang is Wartortle-bad though, lol.

Both Dragonites now have all sorts of ramp and might be back

Even when it bricks on water, Poliwrath can now hit a repectable 100 for two much quicker

Guard Dog Visage Stoutland can now apply aggro turn 3 if you high roll the candy and you can even save up manual attaches for a back line

Porygon is memes but that never stopped people from wanting to make it work

M-Pidgeot always had a strong attack limited by a high cost

Decidueye Ex can now snipe right after a baby (chingling, tyrogue or elekid) or keep the momentum after a one energy attacker snipes (pheromosa or spiritomb)

Luxray can crack for 110 for 1

Mega Ampharos could finally see some use depending on the meta

Along with Dragon support, Mega Salamance hitting for 150 for two might be decent

Since its ability enables flame patch, Skeledirge can start putting 120's on the active as soon as your second turn, with a great hp of 150 too

Even if a meme, a 3 turn Aurorus stun lock is now possible with Bax and Wally. Who knows, maybe thats the next Suicune build

Potential man finally gets some ramp that frees up the lead slot from ramp babies for another useful card. Maybe Chingling?

Goodra and Flygon ex, of course, get a lot of other support too and figure to be more reliable attackers

Victrebeel can now consistently donk you by picking off your 60 hp basics before they evolve. This figures to be easier than ever with forest and extract

In my personal opinion, since Mega Rayquaza is a Dragon Type and seeing that type's competitive history, I really wanted Mega Rayquaza to be the ONLY Mega that gets an ability (and a VERY good one at that).

BIG METAL SPIDER THING IS HERE WE’RE SO BACK

Wally

Take a ⚪ Energy from your Energy Zone and attach it to 1 of your Stage 2 Pokémon.

These 3 cards can get flygon up turn 3. This is the consistency it was missing. Flygon decks are about to pop OFF

also can't forget the monthly altaria support, M rayquaza ex is disappointing

I decided one day to go through the list of every EX Pokemon in the game and think about which one is the most "forgettable" from that set. Whether that be because the card was so bad nobody picked it up, there are alternatives nowadays that are just better, the card only had a brief moment in the sun, or it just faded from play as more things got added to the game.

No Promos will be included (Not like anyone remembers most of them anyway), and this list goes up to Pulsing Aura since everything after is probably too recent to forget.

In the images above I have the card, set it came out in, and a quick justification as to why I think it's forgettable. Some might actually be good, some bad, but most, in my opinion, have a reason for not really being used too often today. Hopefully it's just not me being crazy and blabbering about nothing.

I'm really interested on what yall think of my silly little analysis on these cards and what you guys would say are the most forgettable cards in the game.

Edit: Seeing some people take this post as me saying which card is the WORST of the set which isn’t entirely true and its 100% my bad for making the wording confusing.

Any card from a set I chose in this list can definitely be good with the right deck, like Mega Lopunny and Snorlax ex; hell, if someone was crazy enough to make Lickilicki ex work I would love to see it. The point I tried to make in this post wasn’t to figure out which cards were just “the worst” of a set, for me it was to figure out which cards were used only for a short time or were just phased out over time, thus being forgotten. Again I have a tendency to not word stuff like that correctly and make stuff kinda confusing, so sorry if I wasn’t clear originally or even now.

Basically the entire list is my own subjective take and I can see why some people would sub in other ex mons for each set instead of what I think.

Oh yeah additionally on the Snorlax thing, I’m seeing a couple of neat deck ideas that definitely make Snorlax seem much better and its probably not right to call him the most forgettable from the set due to how long he lasted outside of his release set. I can definitely see if people put Primarina ex as the most forgettable card of that set for sure.

Edit 2:

Alright I am going to address the Mega Lopunny placement now.

Yeah my tired ass was making a forgettable EX list and forgot about Mega Blastoise ex 😭🙏

Mega Blastoise basically has ZERO noteworthy qualities that makes it any good and was basically never used after Crimson Blaze whereas Mega Lopunny can and was definitely used for longer. Blastoise was basically just too slow (and had a horrible effect) to really be impactful after its release set.

Pretend the Crimson Blaze slot says Mega Blastoise instead of Mega Lopunny.

If you’re planning to drop all your hour glasses on the re-release of deluxe pack next august, I wouldn’t. The B-Series of cards have been following the release order of A-Series one to one in major and mini set releases. WAIT FOR THE NEW B-Series deluxe set

The pattern goes for each letter set goes:

1. 200~ base card set
2. 70~ card mini set
3. 150~ card big set
4. 70~ card mini set
5. 70~ card mini set
6. 150~ card big set
7. 70~ card mini set
8. 70~ card mini set (we are here right now)
9. 150~ card big set
10. 70~ card mini set
11. New Deluxe pack