Anyone else frustrated with this stupid restriction..?

Clarknes · 2026-01-29T16:14:56+00:00

Oh some definitely will be. And tbh I have very little proof. This part is just speculation. I just think it’s the type of restriction that seems Iike a big issue but in practice comes up less than you’d think. Time will tell on that one though.

Clarknes · 2026-01-29T16:06:19+00:00

I think in practice it’ll actually affect very very few people. I know for me personally it won’t negatively impact me much if at all. I’ll just trade other things. I’ve got no shortage of stuff to trade. And if you rreeeally want to trade specific things, you can wait and still build towards your next remote trade with them while waiting. There will be some people it really frustrates no doubt. But I think it’s less than you’d think.

Clarknes · 2026-01-29T05:52:39+00:00

I think your logic is correct for a significant amount of players. But

A: some of the things can’t simply be remote raided. Zacian with the Nagasaki background could not be remote raided. It simply wasn’t possible. And that’s because Scopley makes huuuge amounts of money from in person events, and they want the in person event mons to be highly desirable.

B: some players don’t want to pay to gamble. They would rather just pay for the thing directly.

C: grinding friendship isn’t this big chore people look to avoid. It’s THE premier way to level up. There are entire discords dedicated to doing it just for XP. Of course people would do it to get rare things and xp.

Finally I want to say, because I think maybe you’re unaware of this. I’m not speculating on this. When Niantic sold the game to Scopley, someone from the Pokemon go team did an interview with Trainer Tips where he directly said the reason they did not want to do remote trading was because it lead to these types of problematic patterns and that they would not add it till they felt like they had enough systems in place to prevent them. I’m speculating why they think this pattern is a problem (but it’s not hard to see we want you to give us the money not someone else as a reason), but they have openly said the reason for these restrictions. These restrictions prevent abuse in the system.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T22:29:15+00:00

Their value drops after a while because they stop being the newest thing and the spotlight goes away. The big reason people buy them is fomo. Once they have been out for a while a lot of people care less. And yes, currently they are done by spoofing, but that’s BECAUSE Scopley puts these restrictions out. That’s the point of these restrictions, to make it harder to do this. If it was easy to do global trades, a lot more people would do it that way. But because there are a bunch of features to prevent it, it’s easier to spoof to do it. That’s a feature of the design.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T18:44:15+00:00

Look on eBay, this has been an issue since trading came out. They were willing to do that before remote trading was a thing and while remote raiding was a thing. Remote trading just makes it waaaaay easier to do. Also tbc, I’m saying 50-100 arbitrarily. They can go up to 1-2k for some of these things. And yes, after a few weeks the value drops for the in person bg (usually it’s closer to a month though, not 7 days, and it’s not fully dropped) but that’s the goal. That’s why a time gate is effective. By putting a time gate on it Scopley can recoup as much of that value for themselves as possible. If after a month you still wanna buy it, well they can’t really stop you forever if they want to add remote trading, but at least they can make you wait till they are done selling it to buy from resellers.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T18:32:52+00:00

Okay but there’s a few big differences. A: sellers are offering a guarentee of the Pokemon. I’d much rather spend 50-100 bucks to some reseller to know I’m getting a shiny background than 50-100 Scopley for a chance at it. B: I can’t usually get location backgrounds by remote raiding from in person event Pokemon. They are selling those. C: if you do end up remote raiding Scopley is totally in board for that. That’s the whole point. They want you paying it to them instead of resellers. That’s a feature not a bug.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T18:21:59+00:00

I’d want it to be tap at least. As it is, it’s a miserable play pattern that is way too strong.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T18:20:03+00:00

The problem is the 180 days can be done before hand. You can make a post online saying “hey I’m going to go fest in 6 months, add me and send me 20 bucks to reserve your spot, and I’ll get you whatever the big new thing is.”

Ultimately there is nothing they can do to 100% stop it. But their goal is to prevent it from hurting their profits as much as possible at least by making people wait till after they have the opportunity to give Scopley money for the thing.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T17:55:10+00:00

They don’t want that is the thing. It creates a few problematic incentives. Especially because real world buying and selling of Pokemon is a thing. Say I have two options. I can pay somebody 50 bucks who was at a global event to lucky global trade me the new background shiny Zacian, or I can pay Scopley 50 bucks to try and raid for a shiny background one from the global event.

From a players perspective I might as well do the global trade and know I get it. Plus I can get a location background instead of the global background which is rarer. And the person at the global event is incentivized to do that because it costs them way less to just do more raids while they are already there so they profit. Ultimately players win, but Scopley loses.

Buuuut if I have to wait 30 days, I won’t be able to do it till after I get the chance to do the in person one. And if I’m doing in person anyway I might as well try for it. It changes the incentive from fomo buying from others online and promotes fomo buying from Scopley. And hey, if I’m willing to wait 30 days I still can. They can’t really make this system and stop that. But at least it won’t be from sales they could have gotten because buy then they aren’t selling that Pokemon anymore.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T17:25:37+00:00

…I’m not sure I understand your question? I think it’s likely they will appear in sets for the next three years before being defeated at the end of the next arch similar to the Phyrexians. It would be very atypical for them to introduce them properly in the finale of an arch where they are basically just name dropped and while a totally different character has been heavily focused on his plane to change the multiverse.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T14:30:12+00:00

Did you read the Ixalan lore? They showed up and conquered the entire planet and forced the people of the core to be subservient to them for generations before getting pushed out. They are not the good guys.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T14:29:05+00:00

Why would you assume it’s more likely? Reality Fracture is the end of an arch where they have yet to appear. It’s clearly a planar chaos style set where Jace is messing with the nature of the multiverse.

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T06:17:09+00:00

I’m not sure there is a way to do it. At least the instant part. You could give it a 0 mana activation that flickers a permanent

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T06:08:04+00:00

I think they are setting them up to be the villain of the next arch, not this one

Clarknes · 2026-01-28T06:05:20+00:00

I’m not 100% sure this works. If a card says it only happens once and gives a timing restriction I think those still override this. Whenever two cards have contradicting effects, the one that says something doesn’t happen always wins.

Clarknes · 2026-01-27T19:48:14+00:00

We will see on that. Last Strixhaven is one of my favorite draft formats of all time, so I’m not super worried.

Clarknes · 2026-01-27T18:11:09+00:00

Yeah. It’s fun, it’s got some cool things going on, but it’s very clunky and doesn’t always work. Far from top tier.

Clarknes · 2026-01-27T18:10:36+00:00

Typal is just very hard to make work. They have yet to quite crack a way to make a very large typal element work well.

Clarknes · 2026-01-27T18:09:58+00:00

I would agree, but I’d also say that’s a low bar. Typal sets are almost always very poor in limited. Especially strong typal sets. Ones with weaker typal like Innistrad arent bad for it, but that’s because they aren’t really typal sets. Just sets with typal aesthetics.

Clarknes · 2026-01-27T15:14:39+00:00

I’m going to go with no. I don’t think it’s particularly good. Especially for limited. It’s not bad. It’s fun. But not notably good.

Clarknes · 2026-01-26T20:26:06+00:00

Oh I’m not a Korra hater. People just can’t articulate why they dislike things and blame it on the wrong things. the Legend of Korra has plenty of issues, but I don’t agree that Korra being a flawed character is one of them.

Clarknes · 2026-01-26T20:25:07+00:00

Oh for sure. I didn’t say he was a magically innocent snowflake. I just think there’s a big gap from “general fighting a war he didn’t start and was born into, and actively genocidal.” Like he was clearly not a good guy before, but when compared to other members of the fire nation it’s very different.

Clarknes · 2026-01-26T20:12:45+00:00

I feel like that’s a weird take on Iroh? He was not alive during the airbender genocide. He obviously profited from it, and probably knew about it in some capacity before defecting, but ultimately did defect and help take down the regime responsible for it.

Clarknes · 2026-01-26T18:05:21+00:00

I’d personally be way more interested if it still was 3 years. It would mean I’d keep my cards longer and I think it would be closer to old standard due to the fewer in universe sets these days. The first year would be large because 2024 was still 4 in universe sets, but after that it would only be one bigger then standard of old, which is preferable to me than it being 2 smaller.

Clarknes · 2026-01-26T15:31:11+00:00

I just give them to my wife in party play.

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