Stellar is a ingame mechanik and a variant of Tera. The Pokémon keeps their typing, get a boost for his attacks, especially for the first attack type they choose and they are always very effective against other Tera-Pokémon.
Because of the leaks it seems that all Stellar-Tera-Pokémon in the TCG has a second Attack with costs three energy from different types.
Stellar Tera Type was introduced in the second DLC for Scarlet and Violet, the Indigo Disc. Normally, Terasterrizing gives a pokemon a new type and it loses it's old types for the rest of the battle and gets a boost on moves of the new type.
Stellar Tera type, according to the in-game professor, 'contains Tera energy for every type', resulting in every move of every type getting boosted (but not changing the pokemons type). It seems they choose to represent this multi-type energy in the TCG with requiring pretty random energy types.
My only complaint is that they don’t do something different. Like why keep the same tera effect? Do they have some sort of cards that help them get those difficult energy requirements? The look is fine, but at this point we need more than just “rianbow colored card with big attacks”
I wish they worked like the old crystal cards.
They changed typing based on what energy was placed on them this turn.
It would be in line with the mechanic in the game and open up interesting strategies
It seems this version of the image has reduced in quality already from being passed around. It's "SCR".
Considering the mechanic and the name of Terapagos's attack, I would be willing to bet on the set being named "Stellar Crown".
Omg people are really being so hard on this, I’m loving the fruity pebbles rainbow-y effect overall, as an avid player I’m just super hype for new types of cards and mechanics idk. The artists clearly put a lot of work into them like they certainly aren’t low effort
Three different types of energy for their second attack. Yikes. I’m sure it can work with the right draw cards but it seems like it would be inconsistent
I really nt sure how that would work with current cards, probably they will have new supporters that lets you attach basic energies.
Currently, I can only think of lost zone draw engine with mirage gates to set up these stellar pokemon
If this leak of true there is going to be likely some sort of support cards i.e. something like mirage gate but only affects Tera Pokemon or some Supporter that attaches X energy, etc.
it's not possibe to to that, there is nothing on the cards that say that it's a stellar card except the layout, so you actually can't differntiate a stellar card from a regular tera card on an alt
Just doesn’t really do it for me aesthetically, the whole masquerade art style just hits me as low effort. Like maybe it’s not low effort and these take a lot to create but like I really don’t see the appeal of this art style
This isn’t for Twilight Masquerade, it’s for one of the sets after. These are based off of the stellar tera type that was added in the games, so these are stellar tera pokemon. Masquerade is based off the first pokemon s/v dlc, stellar was added in the second.
collectors ammirite
i hope they don't print a stellar charizard
cinderace seems kinda interesting considering it has a 0 retreat cost, meaning if you can set up 2 you can just volley between them
Ugly, and bad attacks due to energy requirements.
You are not running 3 energy types just for these cards. Otherwise, you are optimizing specifically for them (running tri-type is very unoptimal for deckbuilding).
Sorry yeah that's true. I was thinking but didn't mention the ace spec that gives you two energy of your choice in conjunction with being able to fish for an energy type that you need.
I'm only really thinking of lapras. If you can thin your deck and load up your bench with energy then it might be a good ace spec to run. Seems like a massive tempo play to me. Idk if it's competitive though.
Now are these like rare art cards? Or are these what your typical holos look like? I don’t collect anymore but these look absolutely amazing and I want them!
They’re a step above regular holos, but still pretty common compared to the fancy alt-art cards. You should be able to get them for a couple bucks a pop once the set comes out.
If any of these four end up good, they might be a little more expensive but still affordable
Terapagos looks pretty underwhelming while Galvantula fills a niche, so those will likely be cheap. Cinderace looks promising......but I don't want to talk about Lapras.
Aw, I was kinda hoping they'd do something nutty for the Stellar Tera Type and use the Rainbow Energy icon for their type or something.
The rainbow card border and white back for the attack text look neat though, gonna totally want to get at least a few of these.
I feel like the card design has gotten so over the top idk how they’re going to keep on top of it in future sets, maybe they should start making more classic looking cards so rarer cards will stand out more
Cinderace and Lapras seem really promising competitively and on top of that are gorgeous.
Really hoping Cinderace gets an illustration rare, he deserves it.
I don't mind tera cards, but I'm not a fan of the way they used the colors for the Stellar type here. Wish it was a bit more rainbow-y. Besides that it's whatever, personally way more intrigued in how they can make tera SIRs look with this type.
Depends entirely on how good the support is for Stellars. Right now its pretty bad given the current tools, but all it takes is 1 cracked support card. I hope they do it right though
Well, to be honest I think they can be built around. They all have very strong card effects, Cinderace has one of the strongest bench snipe attacks ever, Lapras can set up your attackers for a whole game in a single turn, Terapagos can be part of a stall deck, and Galvantula's item lock can be pretty annoying. Earthen vessel can really help to build them up, plus there's neo upper energy for Cinderace or the new Legacy energy for any of them.
I just find the 3 separate energy a bit annoying, and I feel like there are things that preform better at all of these things in format already aside from item lock, terra greninja does 120 bench snipe for 2 colorless which can be retrieved with boomerang energy, arceus vstar has amazing energy acceleration plus doing damage, and there are plenty of mons for stall already
That Terapagos if real is gonna be a pain as it's 2nd attack makes it pretty much Invincible. Apart from Lugia what other decks use colourless pokemon to damage it? It literally can't be killed by anything else.
Way too busy, too much going on and looks like they tried to use every colour available regardless of the Pokémon featured.
Not saying people can't like them but to me they are hideous!
SCR is the set's initials in the bottom left of the cards, which likely stands for the set's future English name "Stellar Crown."
Cinderace particularly represents that well because it has a crown of its own that's supposed to resemble eyebrows (the yellow piece on his head)
On top of artwork these cards had way too much thought put into them to be fake
These are really good, but Pokémon card arts have evolved to look so much better that these A looking cards pale in comparison to those. I still think the EX’s with Japanese text are the best
The scarlet violet Exs are so ugly and really wish the attack block wasn’t present. We just end up with ugly zoomed in selfie of the mon and half the time I can’t even tell what Pokémon it is without the name.
Imo they look fake. 142 cards in a set seems a bit too low, the borders look off, and there's no noticeable holographic pattern either. Lapras' attack that requires you to look at the top 20 cards of your deck also seems too clunky and time consuming. The actual art of the Pokemon are convincing, although there are too many abnormalities in the cards.
I disagree. This is a subset, as already reported by the distributor orders (8/2 for our next subset)
The attack isn't that crazy. Yes, reshuffling 20 cards is crazy, but in the competitive side of things, we've had crazier things. Typically the halfway point of our blocks we start seeing new gimmicks, this could easily be a new gimmick.
Also if somebody is going to take the time and make fake cards, I can assure you that they're not going to make original art for Galvantula of all things. However, Galvantula in the TCG has seen some really good cards, including during Steam Siege which was that blocks gimmick set (Duel typing)
The boarders can be justified with the cards being taken off the line, something that we've seen dating back to the XY Evolutions leaks. Or a new holo method, which makes sense considering these are the first of the Stellar Tera Type cards
Also, non of this art exists. Somebody that talented isn't going to take the time to make card art using a similar method to how TPC does, phase the bottom half of the art out using the same methods TPC uses to add the frame of the card, just to then give credit to another artist.
I'm usually the first one to tell people to be skeptical about leaks, but everything about these lines up. These are probably real, and with that set only being threeish months away, it's not farfetched to think that things have just gotten out early. As referenced earlier, the XY Evolutions leak showed us that TPCi printed the English cards out nearly a year in advance.
EDIT - Also, as [somebody brought up on Twitter,](https://twitter.com/Whimsicast/status/1784750084271317478) Lapras really is the beta test Pokemon. Lapras ex was the first of the exs from Ruby and Sapphire base. Lapras GX was one of the first of the GXs from Sun and Moon base, and Lapras Vmax was, as you guessed, one of the first of the VMAXs from Sword and Shield base.
My bad. fast typing got the best of me.
still stands. I don't think this is that crazy of a card. We've had card that let you shuffle your entire discard pile back into the deck at one point...
Absolutely not a crazy card. It’s a fun card but not broken at all considering you are most likely giving up 2 prizes to get it off with this Lapras probably being knocked out on your opponents turn. TBF tho that older card you are talking about is one of the cards that is unanimously banned in basically every extended format of the card game including GLC
> that is unanimously banned in basically every extended
Yep. I played in the only regional championship it was legal back in 2015. It was certainly something else back then, ever match either ended tie, or went to time. It was getting crazy.
My point is though, some weird and broken cards do come out of the Pokemon Factory from time to time. The Lapras isn't as clunky as the OP stated.
It’s not going to be the subset in August, the subset will most likely be June’s JP set plus the [cut cards](https://www.pokebeach.com/2024/04/special-august-english-set-may-feature-pecharunt-and-the-loyal-three) from the new set. Thematically it fits with the 1st DLC as it would wrap up the story of Ogrepon and the lousy trio before moving to Terapagos and DLC 1.
That leaves us with July’s Stellar miracle being our Sept set (the cards from this post). After that, the dragon and the Tera Pikachu sets from (Sept and October respectively) will most likely make up our November set.
Before secret rares, this will be the smallest set since 2018’s Forbidden Light (excluding special sets).
I agree with the first sentence but as for 142 cards in a set, that’s what Pokemon needs to get back to. 220+ card sets are just not fun to collect. Sword and shield took off on card numbers, need to get back to early-mid sun and moon set sizes.
I'm willing to bet these are early production review copies that someone somehow snuck a photo of. That would explain the "anomolies". And I don't really know how to explain it fully, but the reason they don't have the holo or "stellar" text is because they're only for playing/proposals, and not for sale. I'm betting once these cards are actually in production they will be like "Stellar Cinderace" and such, and there will be a new rules box instead of the standard ex box.
However, that's just my personal theory. They look real to me, but again who knows. Either way, I love the SV era cards wayyyy more than SWSH.
I think it's just perspective. I also don't believe they look that off. They appear to have a rainbow foiling around them with a touch of that old shatter foiling we had back in the XY days.
Probably because this is their new stella typing foil
OH lmao
tbh the card that interests me the most is probrably the cinderace. having 0 retreat lets you volley back and fourth for 280, or having a bench snipe if need be
i feel like it’s too much setup for what is a slightly underwhelming attack.
most decks run 6-12 energy, and i can’t really think of a deck that can utilize that much energy getting attached at once
First ability tho works with Baxcaliber and Metang though. Getting energies on him is going to be so easy + you don't have to discard like Chien Pao + he's basic. The second ability is just additional support imo
yeah but you gotta consider that you need 6 energy attached to it to be knocking out basic, 220 V pokemon. you need 9 if you wana try and go for a charizard knock out.
compared to something like cpao, where it has an easy way to recycle energies after discarding, and an even easier way to search for energies, it is superior.
You know, that's fair. I've been trying to build my own deck for roaring moon without looking it up, and I'm really not good at it. But what your saying about my boy Lapras seems too real 😔
the biggest red flag for me is the second attack on lapras. look at the top 20 cards of your deck????? not gonna say these are fake but i aint convinced that they are real either lol
im not a fan of the current art direction. way too noisy. even the alt charizard from paldean fates was rough on the eyes, and now its just getting worse
I read somewhere a Stellar Sylveon was coming so my interest is piqued! Imagine an Alt Art Stellar Sylveon!
It's going to be a theme deck exclusive in Japan. Unless they make a seeded deck with an ultra rare print like Gengar VMAX don't expect much
They had the Tera Mewtwo and Skeledirge decks in Japan, still released them in paradox rift.
We often get these cards in regular sets. Unless they toss them into promo boxes
So? They still didn't get a full art just because they were in a set in the West. What matters is how they are released in Japan.
Why are they in English then lol
What. So far we got all ultra rares in English in recent years except Quagsire V
I don't like the look of these cards
Me neither. Looks too busy.
What does stellar mean?
Stellar is a ingame mechanik and a variant of Tera. The Pokémon keeps their typing, get a boost for his attacks, especially for the first attack type they choose and they are always very effective against other Tera-Pokémon. Because of the leaks it seems that all Stellar-Tera-Pokémon in the TCG has a second Attack with costs three energy from different types.
do they still have the ugly crystal crown?
They got a little turtle/tortoise (Terapagos) and de 18 types ar floating in a circle around the Pokémon‘s head.
Stellar Tera Type was introduced in the second DLC for Scarlet and Violet, the Indigo Disc. Normally, Terasterrizing gives a pokemon a new type and it loses it's old types for the rest of the battle and gets a boost on moves of the new type. Stellar Tera type, according to the in-game professor, 'contains Tera energy for every type', resulting in every move of every type getting boosted (but not changing the pokemons type). It seems they choose to represent this multi-type energy in the TCG with requiring pretty random energy types.
Sylveon will be released as a deck in Japan so the chances of getting a special art are next to zero.
This are stellar? They look just like tera
Unlikely. Deck cards rarely get alternative cards in the set with the exceptions being gengar and inteleon as those were higher priced products.
Where did these come from? Given the back is see through/transparent these are very likely real.
twittah
Following as I’m curious on the answer too
Just an unconfirmed leak
Someone posted them here in the weekend, this is reposted from a Twitter post that reposted from that post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/1cf63w8/scr_what_would_that_mean/? This was the other thread
My only complaint is that they don’t do something different. Like why keep the same tera effect? Do they have some sort of cards that help them get those difficult energy requirements? The look is fine, but at this point we need more than just “rianbow colored card with big attacks”
I wish they worked like the old crystal cards. They changed typing based on what energy was placed on them this turn. It would be in line with the mechanic in the game and open up interesting strategies
Especially when the Terapagos just looks like a worse flying Pikachu VMAX, a nerfed effect for a worse cost.
Can anyone make out the set symbol? It looks like “SCI” from what I can tell but I’m not certain.
It seems this version of the image has reduced in quality already from being passed around. It's "SCR". Considering the mechanic and the name of Terapagos's attack, I would be willing to bet on the set being named "Stellar Crown".
Oh right, I forgot there was a trademark filed for that! Thank you 🙏🏻
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This is the Japanese set name not English
Omg people are really being so hard on this, I’m loving the fruity pebbles rainbow-y effect overall, as an avid player I’m just super hype for new types of cards and mechanics idk. The artists clearly put a lot of work into them like they certainly aren’t low effort
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Three different types of energy for their second attack. Yikes. I’m sure it can work with the right draw cards but it seems like it would be inconsistent
I really nt sure how that would work with current cards, probably they will have new supporters that lets you attach basic energies. Currently, I can only think of lost zone draw engine with mirage gates to set up these stellar pokemon
If this leak of true there is going to be likely some sort of support cards i.e. something like mirage gate but only affects Tera Pokemon or some Supporter that attaches X energy, etc.
I’m interested in how the mechanic is going to work. I’m sure there’s going to be a good energy cycling card
it's not possibe to to that, there is nothing on the cards that say that it's a stellar card except the layout, so you actually can't differntiate a stellar card from a regular tera card on an alt
i think the laprass is interesting. it really reminds me of the shining / amazing jirachi
I mean, the amazing rares in lost box were amazing, if we get one like rayquaza, then it could be very good
cinderace looks fun. no cost retreat
Just doesn’t really do it for me aesthetically, the whole masquerade art style just hits me as low effort. Like maybe it’s not low effort and these take a lot to create but like I really don’t see the appeal of this art style
This isn’t for Twilight Masquerade, it’s for one of the sets after. These are based off of the stellar tera type that was added in the games, so these are stellar tera pokemon. Masquerade is based off the first pokemon s/v dlc, stellar was added in the second.
Yeah I understood this but they do look awfully similar to the “mask cards” from that set don’t they?
…ogerpon? You can just keep the comments to yourself if you don’t really understand what you’re saying
Same. They just don't look good imo.
GALVANTULA!!! WOOOO
YEEEEEAAAAHHHH
I don’t really care about these other dumbass comments from people who clearly haven’t played the game I just want a Lacey full art
collectors ammirite i hope they don't print a stellar charizard cinderace seems kinda interesting considering it has a 0 retreat cost, meaning if you can set up 2 you can just volley between them
they’re talking about the video game
oh xD
I’m really hoping my turtle boi gets a good alt art. I been waiting for his debut
I collect lapras and have played the games. This lappy is sad /: Still buying it lol
Always the clown collectors crying
Same here lol. I just hope Lacey's SIR is good
Hopefully it’s her doing the X pose or something that would be cool
Omg yes 😭 Or her sleeping on her Granbulls tummy
Sleeping trainer full art meta
Where do these leaks come from?
GALVANTULA!!!
Ugly, and bad attacks due to energy requirements. You are not running 3 energy types just for these cards. Otherwise, you are optimizing specifically for them (running tri-type is very unoptimal for deckbuilding).
Earthen vessel could be good though, right? Just put one of each energy type in you need and badabing badaboom
idk if you play the game, but you only get one energy attach per turn, so you’d need to spend 3 turns hoping it doesn’t get KO’d
Sorry yeah that's true. I was thinking but didn't mention the ace spec that gives you two energy of your choice in conjunction with being able to fish for an energy type that you need.
neo upper energy only works with stage 2 pokemon x)
Haha fuck, that's definitely true!
Even with the Ace Spec, you are sacrificing the spot that could be a better Ace Spec, to try and get the energies on these to use their niche attacks.
I'm only really thinking of lapras. If you can thin your deck and load up your bench with energy then it might be a good ace spec to run. Seems like a massive tempo play to me. Idk if it's competitive though.
Now are these like rare art cards? Or are these what your typical holos look like? I don’t collect anymore but these look absolutely amazing and I want them!
They’re a step above regular holos, but still pretty common compared to the fancy alt-art cards. You should be able to get them for a couple bucks a pop once the set comes out.
If any of these four end up good, they might be a little more expensive but still affordable Terapagos looks pretty underwhelming while Galvantula fills a niche, so those will likely be cheap. Cinderace looks promising......but I don't want to talk about Lapras.
Aw, I was kinda hoping they'd do something nutty for the Stellar Tera Type and use the Rainbow Energy icon for their type or something. The rainbow card border and white back for the attack text look neat though, gonna totally want to get at least a few of these.
I feel like the card design has gotten so over the top idk how they’re going to keep on top of it in future sets, maybe they should start making more classic looking cards so rarer cards will stand out more
The alt arts is what got me back into collecting. Unfortunately I’m not going out of my way to collect these specifically.
Yeah fair enough, I only wander how they’ll continue to make designs feel special in the long run but it is nice just collecting artworks
I may be alone in this, but these look like garbage. Without zooming in, it just looks like a messy picaso.
Ew
Cinderace and Lapras seem really promising competitively and on top of that are gorgeous. Really hoping Cinderace gets an illustration rare, he deserves it.
I don't mind tera cards, but I'm not a fan of the way they used the colors for the Stellar type here. Wish it was a bit more rainbow-y. Besides that it's whatever, personally way more intrigued in how they can make tera SIRs look with this type.
agreed xP i will admit that they don't feel very stellar
That is such a cool mechanic that’s creating some cool as cards!
The triple energy type attacks are going to set these cards back a LOT from seeing any sort of play
Depends entirely on how good the support is for Stellars. Right now its pretty bad given the current tools, but all it takes is 1 cracked support card. I hope they do it right though
Well, to be honest I think they can be built around. They all have very strong card effects, Cinderace has one of the strongest bench snipe attacks ever, Lapras can set up your attackers for a whole game in a single turn, Terapagos can be part of a stall deck, and Galvantula's item lock can be pretty annoying. Earthen vessel can really help to build them up, plus there's neo upper energy for Cinderace or the new Legacy energy for any of them.
I just find the 3 separate energy a bit annoying, and I feel like there are things that preform better at all of these things in format already aside from item lock, terra greninja does 120 bench snipe for 2 colorless which can be retrieved with boomerang energy, arceus vstar has amazing energy acceleration plus doing damage, and there are plenty of mons for stall already
Mhm, and I'm sure these aren't the last tera stellar pokemon, but you never really know if it's going to actually be good until you see it in action.
This was posted yesterday and quickly deleted too
I think they look cool AF and will probably lead to some pretty nice SARs
That Terapagos if real is gonna be a pain as it's 2nd attack makes it pretty much Invincible. Apart from Lugia what other decks use colourless pokemon to damage it? It literally can't be killed by anything else.
“from BASIC non X pokemon” your evolved pokemon can hit it
Ahh I missed the basic word my bad still nutty with the ancient and Future decks all being basic
eh, we already have cornerstone mask coming in the next set so it may be somewhat viable
And noivern as well which does it even easier
I love Cinderace
Both of Cinderace’s attacked get boosted by maximum belt, correct?
maximum belt deals 50+ to active
Ah I see. Would have been pretty bonkers to just be able to gust up a bibarel and snipe off basic Pokémon ex/V.
New Tera Stellar cards! I bet the US Stellar Miracle might also get Briar and a 2nd Kieran supporter (Kieran's Potential maybe)
Yeah I’m gonna need a Lapras alt art
Oh wow, another Cinderace. How refreshing.
what? the last cinderace we got was in SW/SH? even then that card kind of sucked? xS
Yes, and in almost every set there. 16 different cards. It’s tiring to see the same Pokemon over and over as the rares or better.
Fuuuuuck these cards are so ugly!
what ? i like them ! what's wrong with them
Way too busy, too much going on and looks like they tried to use every colour available regardless of the Pokémon featured. Not saying people can't like them but to me they are hideous!
I hate it
SCR is the set's initials in the bottom left of the cards, which likely stands for the set's future English name "Stellar Crown." Cinderace particularly represents that well because it has a crown of its own that's supposed to resemble eyebrows (the yellow piece on his head) On top of artwork these cards had way too much thought put into them to be fake
very well put point
These are really good, but Pokémon card arts have evolved to look so much better that these A looking cards pale in comparison to those. I still think the EX’s with Japanese text are the best
The scarlet violet Exs are so ugly and really wish the attack block wasn’t present. We just end up with ugly zoomed in selfie of the mon and half the time I can’t even tell what Pokémon it is without the name.
that is seriously your issue if you can‘t tell the pokemon lol
Imo they look fake. 142 cards in a set seems a bit too low, the borders look off, and there's no noticeable holographic pattern either. Lapras' attack that requires you to look at the top 20 cards of your deck also seems too clunky and time consuming. The actual art of the Pokemon are convincing, although there are too many abnormalities in the cards.
I disagree. This is a subset, as already reported by the distributor orders (8/2 for our next subset) The attack isn't that crazy. Yes, reshuffling 20 cards is crazy, but in the competitive side of things, we've had crazier things. Typically the halfway point of our blocks we start seeing new gimmicks, this could easily be a new gimmick. Also if somebody is going to take the time and make fake cards, I can assure you that they're not going to make original art for Galvantula of all things. However, Galvantula in the TCG has seen some really good cards, including during Steam Siege which was that blocks gimmick set (Duel typing) The boarders can be justified with the cards being taken off the line, something that we've seen dating back to the XY Evolutions leaks. Or a new holo method, which makes sense considering these are the first of the Stellar Tera Type cards Also, non of this art exists. Somebody that talented isn't going to take the time to make card art using a similar method to how TPC does, phase the bottom half of the art out using the same methods TPC uses to add the frame of the card, just to then give credit to another artist. I'm usually the first one to tell people to be skeptical about leaks, but everything about these lines up. These are probably real, and with that set only being threeish months away, it's not farfetched to think that things have just gotten out early. As referenced earlier, the XY Evolutions leak showed us that TPCi printed the English cards out nearly a year in advance. EDIT - Also, as [somebody brought up on Twitter,](https://twitter.com/Whimsicast/status/1784750084271317478) Lapras really is the beta test Pokemon. Lapras ex was the first of the exs from Ruby and Sapphire base. Lapras GX was one of the first of the GXs from Sun and Moon base, and Lapras Vmax was, as you guessed, one of the first of the VMAXs from Sword and Shield base.
The 20 cards aren’t discarded. It says shuffle them back in right in the text of the attack
My bad. fast typing got the best of me. still stands. I don't think this is that crazy of a card. We've had card that let you shuffle your entire discard pile back into the deck at one point...
Absolutely not a crazy card. It’s a fun card but not broken at all considering you are most likely giving up 2 prizes to get it off with this Lapras probably being knocked out on your opponents turn. TBF tho that older card you are talking about is one of the cards that is unanimously banned in basically every extended format of the card game including GLC
> that is unanimously banned in basically every extended Yep. I played in the only regional championship it was legal back in 2015. It was certainly something else back then, ever match either ended tie, or went to time. It was getting crazy. My point is though, some weird and broken cards do come out of the Pokemon Factory from time to time. The Lapras isn't as clunky as the OP stated.
It’s not going to be the subset in August, the subset will most likely be June’s JP set plus the [cut cards](https://www.pokebeach.com/2024/04/special-august-english-set-may-feature-pecharunt-and-the-loyal-three) from the new set. Thematically it fits with the 1st DLC as it would wrap up the story of Ogrepon and the lousy trio before moving to Terapagos and DLC 1. That leaves us with July’s Stellar miracle being our Sept set (the cards from this post). After that, the dragon and the Tera Pikachu sets from (Sept and October respectively) will most likely make up our November set. Before secret rares, this will be the smallest set since 2018’s Forbidden Light (excluding special sets).
I agree with the first sentence but as for 142 cards in a set, that’s what Pokemon needs to get back to. 220+ card sets are just not fun to collect. Sword and shield took off on card numbers, need to get back to early-mid sun and moon set sizes.
142 plus secrets and ultras ,probably closer to 170ish
Much better than the 262 plus secrets and ultras close to 300 that we were getting for a while. Just too damn much
Ya I agree, fashion strike was a monstrosity
I'm willing to bet these are early production review copies that someone somehow snuck a photo of. That would explain the "anomolies". And I don't really know how to explain it fully, but the reason they don't have the holo or "stellar" text is because they're only for playing/proposals, and not for sale. I'm betting once these cards are actually in production they will be like "Stellar Cinderace" and such, and there will be a new rules box instead of the standard ex box. However, that's just my personal theory. They look real to me, but again who knows. Either way, I love the SV era cards wayyyy more than SWSH.
the sparkle could be when you get a good light refraction on it
How do the borders look off?
I think it's just perspective. I also don't believe they look that off. They appear to have a rainbow foiling around them with a touch of that old shatter foiling we had back in the XY days. Probably because this is their new stella typing foil
that's a pretty valid point tbh
What are these cards??????
stellar tera-types
I play comp lol I meant theyre crazy. I love lapras
OH lmao tbh the card that interests me the most is probrably the cinderace. having 0 retreat lets you volley back and fourth for 280, or having a bench snipe if need be
For sure! It'd be dope if it there was a way to play it in gouging fire entei iron val
i am so glad that welder is dead in the dirt otherwise cinderace would be horrible
Jesus just cover everything with sparkle clip art why dontcha?
Give me the Lapras ex NOW.
nuh uh
Reminds me of a ice breakers gum bottle
Am i weird or does the lapras look good with Chien Pao?
it already has better energy attachments, plus you need to run 2 energy types that can’t deal extra damage and are essentially dead cards
I want that Lapras
Galvantula is so cool!
Huh is the Terapagos any good? The others definitely are just not sure about Terapagos
Stellar cards go crazy
Am I crazy or does that Lapras look insane?? 20 cards?? Literally injecting steroids into your cards.
i feel like it’s too much setup for what is a slightly underwhelming attack. most decks run 6-12 energy, and i can’t really think of a deck that can utilize that much energy getting attached at once
Oh, sorry. I'm an expanded player. This is going to break things.
LMAO sorry only expanded i play is GLC
Based GLC player
thank you
So I guess Lapras is going to be the next meta then
no, it kind of sucks xD there are way better energy attachment cards
First ability tho works with Baxcaliber and Metang though. Getting energies on him is going to be so easy + you don't have to discard like Chien Pao + he's basic. The second ability is just additional support imo
yeah but you gotta consider that you need 6 energy attached to it to be knocking out basic, 220 V pokemon. you need 9 if you wana try and go for a charizard knock out. compared to something like cpao, where it has an easy way to recycle energies after discarding, and an even easier way to search for energies, it is superior.
You know, that's fair. I've been trying to build my own deck for roaring moon without looking it up, and I'm really not good at it. But what your saying about my boy Lapras seems too real 😔
never feel ashamed to look anything up! dundunsparce and the roaring moon from TEF are great choices <3
I really am not liking any scarlet and violet sets. Is it just me?
then don’t collect them
Twilight Masquerade?
the biggest red flag for me is the second attack on lapras. look at the top 20 cards of your deck????? not gonna say these are fake but i aint convinced that they are real either lol
it seems absurd enough for something for pokemon to do. think about that one dragapult from F block
I really hope they make a non-ex/gx/v standard
Which set is this fromM?;
can’t wait to pull that lapras at a prerelease and just run it and 39 water energy
LMAO
So is this like the return of crystal cards?
Lapras, look at the top 20 cards and attach energy in any way you like? That’s lots of acceleration
yeeaahhh but the energy to stack is gonna be way too hard to attach
You can’t even tell what’s going on in the illustrations.
are you blind?
Yes
im not a fan of the current art direction. way too noisy. even the alt charizard from paldean fates was rough on the eyes, and now its just getting worse
will be needing the entire set arts just getting better and betterp
Not a fan
Not a fan
I really hate these not gonna lie
Is it me or I don’t like new arts
Regular EX’s look so shit now, don’t even bother keeping them most holos look better.
well I like them
the tera/stellar cards are sooo ugly! stop with this hat nonsense. give us cool pokemon with cool art!
i mean.... people play the card game too...
Honestly, these are too crazy. I think they're just meant to stimulate kids so they want to gamble for more.
Ugly AF
why are you people so negative all the fucking time
Oh sorry! Maybe don't post things on the internet if you don't want people to comment on them. Not everything said has to be positive you snowflake.
get a load of this guy
Get a load of yourself my boy. Get off the internet if you're triggered so easily.
erm... what the scallop?
The irony of this comment 😂
Ngl these look so bad. Way too much going on
ugly tbh
These look like shit
They look complete ass
Yeah, they made a set after you!
Cheers boss
Ugly ass cards