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Standard tournament play

PokemonGod15

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    When does a card go illegal in standard tournaments. I have 2014 and 2015 cup cards. Is it when sun moon comes out or after so many years.
     
    donavannj

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    PokemonGod15 said:
    When does a card go illegal in standard tournaments. I have 2014 and 2015 cup cards. Is it when sun moon comes out or after so many years.
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    Typically, about 2 or 3 years after a card's release, or at least, the next "rotation", which is basically just a point in time each year where The Pokemon Company will choose to make the oldest handful of Standard legal sets not legal in Standard. The most recent one happened back on September 1st, and it rotated out the 4 sets released in 2014. The next one will probably happen on September 1st, 2017, removing all 4 sets released in 2015 from the Standard format.

    Keep in mind that as of right now, all of those sets are still legal in the Expanded format, which some tournaments use.
     

    handel

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    rotation keeps blocks from exactly 2 years ago, why it feels like 3 for some is because of the re-prints. Rotation is always based off of block, so each year we always get about 4 sets to a block, because of the 20th anniversary we get 6, generations and evolution's, and every year we gain 4 and rotate 4. Sometimes things happen were they rotate 3 or whole gen's but those are usually to keep cards in format or for ruling compendium. https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/pokemon-tcg-format-rotation-for-2017/
     
    ddrox13

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    I mean, there have been a COUPLE weird years, 2013 standard rotated out CoL despite being the first set of the year to allow for a BW On format, but yeah, that is true (XY, PC [ORAS] and likely SM were/will be delayed from their November game release so that they could be the first TCG set of the following year).

    The important point that everyone above somehow missed is the current standard format being Primal Clash (again, effectively the ORAS Base set) On.
     
    Hands

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    Primal Clash, Roaring Skies, Double Crisis and Ancient Origins would be the next 4 we're likely to lose, right?
     
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