The Pokemon Go TCG Designs Have Missed A Trick

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Pokemon Go Trading Cards are a great idea. Adding them into the regular Pokemon TCG is an even better idea. Everyone loves trading cards, but fewer people will pick up an entirely new game or set of collectibles than will continue their existing collection. Many, like me, are fair weather TCG players who have one deck that they sporadically update and play a couple of games with, but otherwise just collect cool cards that speak to them. The Sword & Shield Jolteon V was one of those for me, and I thought the Pokemon Go set would bring even more coveted cards to keep in my binder.

However, as you probably guessed from the title of this article, I’m gravely disappointed. Not by the mechanics – as I said, I’m a very casual player – because most of them haven’t been revealed, other than the Ditto-sticker thing that doesn’t impact gameplay much. It’s the designs of the cards themselves that are lacklustre. This expansion was an opportunity to create some of the most fun card designs that the Pokemon TCG has ever seen, but the cards revealed so far have been derivative and, I’m sorry to say it, mostly boring.

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I’ll start with the positives. The Pokemon Company clearly knows what people want from these, hence it includes Mewtwo, Charizard, Pikachu, Eevee, and Snorlax. Look at the art for these cards, and you can see the Pokemon transplanted into the real world just like when you take an AR photo in Go. Pikachu is just chilling in the cross-promotional cap that we’ll undoubtedly catch far too many of in Go, and there's another walking by its trainer in a real-life setting. Eevee is sitting politely on its trainer's bed and Snorlax is asleep on someone’s