Battle Frontier · Emerald (EM) #75

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   feyblade

   (13 years ago)

   Can someone PLEASE explain to me why the battle frontier hates all three of these types and -only- these three types?

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     HEZ feyblade

     (13 years ago)

     Because these were all “special” types at the time, before there was Basic energy for Dark and Metal. I think it was specifically made to counter Pidgeot · FireRed & LeafGreen (RG) #10 which was pretty big at the time.

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   RotomAmiti

   (2 years ago)

   Piggybacking off Ambassador’s musings on EX Emerald over on Rayquaza EM 9, I’ve always felt the set did a relatively good job at cohesion in spite of being a mish-mash. Excluding the random box topper Farfetch’d and a common Larvitar, every Pokémon in the set appears in Hoenn’s regional Pokédex, with the majority being from Gen 3. They even included full sets of the starters, mascot legendaries, and ex versions of the Regi trio.

   But this card — as well as Scott, Deoxys, and Deoxys ex — are what makes the set Emerald, right? After all, these four cards feature things that were introduced in that game; specifically, the Battle Frontier and Deoxys Speed Forme. So I figure, if EX Emerald has no Japanese equivalent, where did the Emerald cards come from?

   The Deoxys cards are pretty straightforward. Small Deoxys was a random promo from January 2005 (the same promo campaign as the aforementioned Larvitar, actually), and Deoxys ex was included in the aptly-named Gift Box Emerald, released to promote the video game in November 2004. Gift Box Emerald is the Japanese product that most directly references the Emerald video game, but Scott and Battle Frontier are absent.

   Scott and Battle Frontier would be released in the Mirage’s Mew Constructed Starter Deck, a theme deck released alongside the Japanese Mirage Forest set (their EX Legend Maker equivalent). Mirage Forest released on June 30, 2005, nearly two months _after_ EX Emerald.

   In order to make EX Emerald a truly Emerald set, the western designers pulled ahead two cards from an upcoming Japanese Theme Deck, from which the remainder of its new cards wouldn’t be released overseas for nearly another year.

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