Manectric · Lost Origin (LOR) #055

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   Jiří z Poděbrad

   (3 years ago)

   I get it that a lot of the way Western sets are designed nowadays is to deliberately preserve some of the style of WOTC sets that launched Pokemania in the 1990s: yellow borders, the three shapes for rarity, 10-card boosters, etc…
   But TPCi, I’m begging you: please discontinue non-holo rares!! We aren’t nostalgic for base set Dugtrio and Beedrill!! We are ok with this tradition ending!!!

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     Jiří z PoděbradJiří z Poděbrad

     (3 years ago)

     There are literally **six** different levels of rarity of Giratina card in this set. The lowest rarity, plain vanilla Giratina V, is a lame pull. So why have even two rarity tiers BELOW that??

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       TwylisJiří z Poděbrad

       (3 years ago)

       I mean, the Giratina situation is more an issue with rarity bloat in the other direction. Having regular prints, rainbow prints, *and* gold prints of the Vstar is utterly absurd, and its artwork is barely distinguishable from the basic V to begin with.

       Still, agreed that non-holo rares are terrible. They’re still around because it’s profitable, Wizards just normalized it before the US knew anything different. I don’t know Japan’s more recent history with them, but they did briefly experiment with non-holo rares in the Gym sets and Neo Genesis before dropping them again — likely to try to replicate Wizards’ borderline malicious profit model and then being hit with backlash for it.

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         Jiří z PoděbradTwylis

         (3 years ago)

         Yeah, the Japanese TCG respecting its players and being (perhaps) less driven by profit seems to me a nice cultural difference that I wish we’d import into the West!

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     SamJiří z Poděbrad

     (3 years ago)

     I agree. I hate that non-holo rares in English are just upshifted uncommon’s from the Japanese sets.

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