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That sucks...If i could go back to 1999 I would buy everything up

I still see some old ex boosters bundles with boosters from DPPt/HGSS. I got an Exploud ex a few months ago from a Crystal Guardians. Strange that all of the boosters from the second generation and earlier were always hard for me to find. Even back in 2004 I would rarely see a booster of Aquapolis of Skyridge.

Yeah old stuff EXSPENSIVE right now im trying to get he rest of Gym challenge set so.

I think the reason there's so relatively little of it around (besides demand and age of the sets) is that Wizards seems to have had a policy to dispose of unsold stock rather than selling it to reputable re-sellers.

Yeah the Delphox from X/Y is pretty great.

Ability is to draw up to 6 cards once per turn.
Attack: 50+20 for each fire energy attached. CCC cost.

So basically Delphox/Emboar.

That sounds like my kind of deck! Always loved energy acceleration in that style.

Deck would need a Garbodor counter, though.

Just use tool scrappers or catchers.

Then using the Ball searching for the 'mon fetching?

Changing the topic, did anyone make a prerelease for XY this past weekend? I was going to go to one on Sunday, but the weather forecast of 45 MPH wind gusts and consistent 30 MPH winds and possible whiteout conditions in broad daylight with no cloud cover made me change my mind late Saturday.

Hawaii didnt have its pre release yet...

Profen said:

Hawaii didnt have its pre release yet...

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So that would mean yours are Super Bowl weekend (as in, this next weekend), then?

We've got another round of two this coming weekend, but they're a fair bit further from me than Sunday's was.

Idk its not this week either. Theres some sort of magic prerelease or something this weekend too. So idk when the pokemon one is.

Nope, my weekend involved zero prerelease activity. Although the weather hasn't been the greatest here either, I didn't go because there weren't any prerelease events nearby -_-
But is anyone else looking forward to XY?

Profen said:

Idk its not this week either. Theres some sort of magic prerelease or something this weekend too. So idk when the pokemon one is.

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If I had to guess, there's not one happening. :( XY officially hits stores on the 5th, and most shops prioritize the Magic playerbase (which is bigger and more reliably buys packs from them) over the Pokemon playerbase if events conflict. Do you have an area TO that runs official events there?

Wobbu said:

Nope, my weekend involved zero prerelease activity. Although the weather hasn't been the greatest here either, I didn't go because there weren't any prerelease events nearby -_-
But is anyone else looking forward to XY?

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I'm looking forward to it as a player, but the foils are a disappointment as a collector after the excitement of getting the Shiny Collection released as the Radiant Collection inside Legendary Treasures.

I noticed something fun. The japanese Megas have English on the cards and English cards have Japanese on the cards.

Profen said:

I noticed something fun. The japanese Megas have English on the cards and English cards have Japanese on the cards.

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I... totally forgot that was a thing.

I dub it the "Foreign languages make everything cooler!" effect.

So now that we've had a second weekend of prereleases happen and the set releases officially tomorrow, does anyone wanna share their prerelease experiences?

I was only there for like 1 round. I got horribly crushed by a chesnaught. A jigglypuff almost saved me but my opponent drew into evosoda and won the game. After that i got a bye and had to go to work.

That doesn't sound like it was a very pleasant prerelease.

Oh well. Dud prereleases because of life and bad luck with packs happen from time to time.

Both prereleases i've had terrible luck. Even with LT i only got really bad Exs like black kyurem while people were pulling mew and darkrai. I think i need to stop going to those.