Generations has Fossil Slowpoke, Imakuni?, and the original Jungle Tauros art on XY Tauros' stats, but is otherwise modern-era cards.
There's not a lot of stuff that can stand up to the current meta but yeah, they're mostly the same as the old cards. It's only a section of Base Set though, missing certain cards like Blastoise, Alakazam, and Venusaur. If you want to play with the old cards I'd just suggest the Gameboy game instead, the English one goes up to Fossil and if you bother with patching 2 from Japan it goes up to Team Rocket with their Extended Sheet cards as well.
Where and how do you preorder boxes that aren't tampered with. This is probably the one time I will want all cards in a set.
There is no easy way to get everything.
That's a killer for any cross generational environment though.
More comparison shots, this time of the actual holo the American sets will be getting. It's not an exact match to the original holofoil paper, but it's pretty close. I would have been fine with cosmic but this is even better.
Theme decks, mostly. They're all usually balanced against each other without getting into the more advanced strategies that cost a lot to build. If you want to learn how to play in the first place they also have a half deck set with an instruction booklet called a Trainer Kit.
Not a fan of some of the font choices on the new one, but it's still pretty good. Wonder if they couldn't 100% accurately reproduce them because of some deal with Wizards.
Sweet it's water m-gardevior ex
It's from Boundaries Crossed and got rotated out years ago, which is why I wanted the original back in the first place. Even thought it was an XY Blister "promo" it wasn't made legal in standard, probably because Japan didn't get it at the same time.
http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=4311963
Toys R Us is having an event tomorrow, Sunday, October 30th from 2-4pm. You can get a free Charmander foil card and a 'Pokemon TCG collector's album'. The first 50 attendees will also get a Pokemon figure (looks like it's Pikachu or Meowth). I'll probably stop by to see if I can get the free card and maybe buy both Pikachu and Mewtwo theme decks and one of the Evolutions Elite Trainer Boxes if they're selling them.
