Pinsir-GX · Hidden Fates (HIF) #6

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   Vanessa

   (5 years ago)

   I love Pokémon!

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   Louis Strasbourg

   (4 years ago)

   First ever 2-prize card Pinsir! But, it’s as bland as can be…

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     Strč prst skrz krkLouis Strasbourg

     (3 years ago)

     Closest thing Pinsir has had to a chase card since its holo debut in Jungle.

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     CrystalLouis Strasbourg

     (3 years ago)

     Hidden Fates is, in some ways, a stupid set*. A majority of the cards are sourced from the “Sun & Moon Family Pokémon Card Game,” which you can think of as being very similar to the Battle Academy box sets that are currently available, in that the cards you get are predetermined and all of the cards feature very basic, straightforward attacks – the target audience for this being young kids just getting into playing the TCG (and perhaps flustered parents trying to join in on their child’s hobby).

     Any cards in the main set that appear to be more complicated than that just came from other sets – for example, Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX probably should’ve been included in Unified Minds (like most of the rest of the JP set they came from ended up in), but was held back to get added to Hidden Fates.

     * It’s tricky. Hidden Fates’ Shiny Vault comes from GX Ultra Shiny’s Shiny Vault, but except for Shiny Vault, GX Ultra Shiny was mostly a reprint set, which the English TCG typically skips over (since we’re typically ‘behind’ as it is). Borrowing the Family Box to create the body of the ‘main’ set of Hidden Fates is probably preferable to having also made a reprint set, but it’s nonetheless such an awkward thing to group the two together to form this weird Frankstein set.

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