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{C} → Flock
Search your deck for a Caterpie and put it onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.
{G} → Bug Bite : 10
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Its short feet are tipped with suction pads that enable it to tirelessly climb slopes and walls.
Ambassador
Dear future visitors: no, nobody really noticed that this set had 264 cards in it. I don’t even know if it’s a record or not. Is it? Does it better? People are kind of ‘whatever’ about it at this point – players just focus on the cards they need as always, and collectors seem kind of split – for as many get driven away and have given up, there seem to be these bizarre diehards who go “challenge accepted” and say sure no problem I’ll collect 300 card sets every 3 months. If you ask me as a collector, personally, I think it’s extraordinarily stupid, and haven’t even bothered to try to collect more than a few favorites from any given SWSH-era set. Any set I really like I just go for a JP box because sets are still typically a much more manageable 80-100 cards.
Ambassador
Apparently it is the current record! It’s not to knock FST, it’s a perfectly good set and even a card like this Caterpie is gorgeous – nor is it really to knock any large set. For whatever reason Cosmic Eclipse is my favorite modern EN set and that card is also a bizarre 236 cards plus however many secret rares for a total of 271 (oh, FST is actually at 284 after adding in the SRs). It’s not a quality vs quantity problem at all, it’s more the quantity overload can make it harder to appreciate said quality? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ ???
Twylis
Most branches of the franchise have been buckling under the weight of their own production, with game releases being constant with increasingly dire consequences on the quality, and the anime has been besieged by clip shows and recaps and atrociously understaffed production conditions underlying that. The TCG, meanwhile, is producing more content than ever — but with no real drop in its quality whatsoever (likely thanks to being built off the efforts of commissioned non-employees). The TCG is easily my favorite aspect of Pokemon lately as a result :)
As far as I can tell, the meta’s pretty decently healthy too, as long as you don’t mind every single set introducing the new definitive dominant deck lately.