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Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put as many of them as you like back on top of your deck in any order. Then, put the remaining cards on the bottom of your deck in any order.
illus. Hideaki Hakozaki
Formats: Modified: 2012
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Ziggmiceter
Lol, all of the impressions are by me. I’m having a little too much fun with the new rating system.
Adam Capriola
I’m planning to eventually save data for cards within their own formats and set. The reason why I want to make the matchups totally random though is because some formats are weaker than others.
An extreme example to illustrate this is if you compare a card just to its own set. It’s rating is going to be different compared to all card legal at the time depending on how strong the set is. Power Keepers, for example, was a terrible set, and if you were just to rate PK vs PK card, the ratings would be skewed.
Within formats, it’s sort of the same thing, but to a lesser degree. Still, there is some influence, and cards are still linked anyway throughout all sets by the ratings. All rotations have had overlaps in legal cards.
So that’s basically why I’ve purposely set it to a totally random card. I think it makes the rating more accurate. Once I get it saving rating data within the cards’ legal formats + own set, then I think it’ll be pretty darn good.
Ambassador
The drawing in this book seems to correspond to the geography of the island(?) in the artwork of Lost World, if you assume that the little spiral thing on the left page is a depiction of the Lost Zone black hole(?) and it goes out of control and eats up most of the island.
Both these cards feature art from Hideaki Hakozaki – who I did a write-up on in the comments of HGSS’s Poké Ball – and both cards originate from Japan’s Lost Link. There were only two other Trainer cards in Lost Link, and their artwork also has a referential relationship – Seeker is wearing the jewellery featured in the artwork of Lost Remover.