Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Paldea Evolved Elite Trainer Box (9 Boosters & Premium Accessories) & TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Paldea Evolved Booster Bundle (6 Booster Packs)

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In this set, there is a stage two Pokemon, Baxcalibur, with an ability that allows you to attach any number of water energy from your hand to any of your Pokemon.

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Paldea Evolved is the sophomore set of Scarlet and Violet and if it had a subtitle, it would be ‘bringing balance to the force’, because this set is all about the underdog. Luckily, Forretress has an ability that attaches five grass energy to your Pokemon for the cost of knocking out the Forretress – two prize cards to the other peep! Plus, it makes a handy storage box and has energy and dividers for building and organising your decks and cards. It’s a moose; with a pot; on its head), Ting Lu is a fighting Pokemon (good against those Regieleki-boosted electric decks out there), which has an attack that does 150 damage to the active (see ya, Raiku!BABS doesn’t have the exclusive promo card, but it does have two potentially different promos… not quite as pretty as that Pikachu, but probably a lot more playable. For example, Iono, Reversal Energy and Wattrel are uncommon, uncommon and common respectively, yet I have only drawn one Iono, one Wattrel and no Reversal Energy in 30 or so booster packs; in the same number of packs, I have drawn five Garganacals, a ‘rare’ card. If you are familiar with Scarlet and Violet, you will have possibly come across Legendary Overbite Pokemon Chien-Pao (they have a broken sword; in their mouth) and Legendary Crockery Pokemon Ting Lu (they have a bowl; on their head). Whereas there used to be only eight packs, there are now nine, and where you only used to get a promo card with the holiday boxes, every ETB now contains a promo. Well, Iono is going to end up everywhere (like, everywhere, dude) because it has both players shuffle their hand, put it on the bottom of their deck and then draw a number of cards according to their prize cards.

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The Glittering Terastal phenomenon affects Pokemon ex like Tyranitar, Eiscue, and Vespiquen, giving them different types. But here’s the thing; Ting Lu has an ability that turns off the abilities of any non-ex Pokemon if it has damage in it (see ya, Regieleki! Now Paldea Evolved, like all second offerings, is not quite as exciting as Scarlet and Violet - I mean, there’s nothing as mind-bogglingly useful as Miraidon ex, Gardevoir ex or Electric Generator – but it is no set to be sleeping on, as goes the parlance of our times.Meanwhile, Forretress, Slowking, and Dedenne shine as Tera Pokemon ex, and Chien-Pao ex, Ting-Lu ex, and others bring daunting strengths requiring courage to command.

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For the money, I would say that the ETB juuuuuust edges ahead of the BABS for value for money… this time.ETBs have also been notoriously hit-free in the past, but the cards I drew from it were Meowscarada ex (an interesting card that has discard a grass and damage ability), a Special Illustrator Art Quaxly and a Full Art Squawkabilly ex (completing my United Wings deck – thank you kindly! Though the humble booster pack is still an option, you'll now also find dozens of unique packages offering access to thousands of eye-catching cards. A not bad haul, but comparatively not quite as good as the ETB, but again this is not a guaranteed thing – I got pretty lucky on both, but it’s still a gamble.

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The sleeves, featuring the three Paldean starters, are also bold and colourful, and though they aren’t the most play-friendly, one can never have too many sleeves. The Stadium also contains the same dice, status counters and energy block as the ETB, but also has three additional booster backs.And even the not-so-hot Pokemon look like they might make for some interesting new decks and, more importantly, a chance to get back in the game and hit back at some of those ever-present meta decks. The base set alone has 14 ex cards and three Tera ex cards, so that makes for a lot of heat whilst still not being over-bulked out with unplayable filler Pokemon (Ed. which works out about one hit every three cards – so much better than the one hit every four or five boosters of previous sets I could mention (Ed. I managed to pull a Paldean Clodsire ex from my two Build and Battle boxes (which has a very nice poison-your-opponent-if-there-is-a-stadium-in-play ability) which would definitely have given me the edge with its 200 hp attack. Even Pikachu joins the Pokemon ex party in the Pokemon TCG: Scarletand Violet - Paldea Evolved expansion!