Pokémon Playing cards Get Rid Of Hideous Yellow Borders After 23 Years

The date for the all-new Pokémon Scarlet & Violet TCG playing cards has been revealed, together with some actually good news: Worldwide playing cards are dropping their godawful yellow borders! Woo-hoo! We’re finally getting the grey/silver Japan enjoys, together with a bunch of different quality-of-life enhancements to how playing cards are laid out.

Coming in surprisingly late, given the widespread expectation that we’d see S&V’s first run of playing cards February 20, it seems the enlargement gained’t be formally showing till March 31.

Nonetheless, there’s a lot to have fun about them once we lastly do get them, not least the choice to have parity throughout the cardboard designs in each Japan and internationally, together with the far superior (and I’ll struggle you) grey borders, that significantly better let every card’s artwork shine.

It’s an enormous change, in fact, and anybody who’s nostalgic for the playing cards’ design will doubtless discover this a jarring change, proper up till about 5 seconds later after they cease noticing. Additionally altering to match Japan’s designs is the lack of set symbols, changed as an alternative with much more parsable set codes. I slightly preferred the symbols, but in addition acknowledge how ridiculously arduous it’s to memorize all 150ish of them. Codes make extra sense, even when they appear extra mercenary.

The opposite two revealed tweaks are that Coach card subcategories will now be displayed prime left, making it far simpler to see in the event that they’re an Merchandise, Supporter, or Stadium when holding your playing cards fanned; and Vitality playing cards will now have their smaller emblem backside proper as effectively, though I battle to see what distinction that can make to something.

We’ve additionally bought the pack emblem for the set, that we’ll be seeing an terrible lot for the following three years.

We also needs to take a more in-depth take a look at the revealed playing cards. Listed below are the three starters, and their puny talents:

Then we’ve the 2 characteristic ex Legendaries, who seem functionally an identical to the present gen of Vs:

There are two Coach playing cards revealed, with Scarlet and Violet’s lead Professors, every offering the acquainted Professor’s Analysis capability:

And listed below are these new Vitality designs:

See, you already stopped noticing the shortage of gaudy yellow till I simply reminded you.

There will be a approach to pay money for these starter Pokémon playing cards quite a bit sooner, because it occurs. The Paldea Assortment bins, launching January 6, will characteristic all three starter playing cards, plus outsized variations of the Koraidon and Miraidon ex playing cards. They gained’t be legitimate for event play, their talents and assaults inevitably nuked by the launch of the units correct, however we no less than now know what these flipped playing cards within the product pictures will appear like.

We additionally know a couple of extra particulars in regards to the new playing cards based mostly on what’s been revealed in Japan about their first S&V set. The most important information is that there can be terastalized playing cards, mimicking the characteristic from the brand new Swap recreation. ex playing cards with a crystal protect over the Pokémon gained’t take harm when benched. Oh, they usually can evolve from common Fundamental Pokémon!

Simply three-and-a-half months to attend. Though to assist bridge the hole, there’s the unbelievable Crown Zenith set to come back!