With an entire win condition removed from the game, matches descended into players racing through their decks as fast as possible, discarding frivolously in the knowledge that everything would eventually be reset
Im a fan of Elite Trainer Boxes, but they arent for everyone, and if your main goal is to just get cards, then booster packs are probably the better way to go
Join me next week when I peek my head back into the world that is R&D
(A desire not helped by my sons mad luck at pulling the Obsidian Flames version from a pack.) My guess would be the Japanese version will start selling for around $300 pack fresh, and the international version next year will easily hit $200, before coming down to about half that
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Elite Trainer Box (ETB) , 9 packs plus a full-art Zarude promo , sleeves, energy cards, dice, and the storage box, the collector staple, with a separate Pokemon Center exclusive version