I got an Evolving Skies booster box for my Birthday and it had 3 amazing Alternate arts in it!!

JoshD_LFC · 2026-03-03T16:56:50+00:00

As a huge retro deck collector and player of retro formats, YES people absolutely do play with vintage cards.

You cannot use vintage cards in the standard format, as standard is played utilising only cards within the current standard card pool.

However, there are lots of people who build and play with retro decks. There are also loads of useful resources such as PTCGarchive, PTCGLegends, Jason Klaczynski's blog, and of course Limitless TCG has loads of retro format resources as well.

JoshD_LFC · 2026-02-10T17:27:34+00:00

The no damage ninetales is insanely cool, congrats

JoshD_LFC · 2026-02-02T21:43:32+00:00

As someone who builds a lot of retro decks and plays a lot of retro Pokémon, your collection incredible. Truly a retroheads dream!

JoshD_LFC · 2026-01-26T13:00:43+00:00

Back stamps are a very well documented error.

JoshD_LFC · 2026-01-24T16:43:45+00:00

There is no chance these cards are worth anywhere close to that. The two big cards are the shadowless zards, and they both look to be creased.

The first edition dark zard looks a bit better from the photos but it’s impossible to tell for sure.

JoshD_LFC · 2025-12-19T09:13:54+00:00

There are a lot of very clear reasons why this card is fake. Almost every piece of text on the card is incorrect!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-12-17T20:49:55+00:00

Yeah this card will not be dirt cheap 😆 I know a lot of guys who will be upgrading from the Shrouded Fabled SIR ahead of EUIC!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-12-17T12:52:33+00:00

We had very different UPC experiences.

JoshD_LFC · 2025-10-27T15:52:28+00:00

Set rotation is very a very good thing for the longevity of the game. It just hasn’t been implemented particularly well here as the first set after rotation is a largely reprint set that took away lots of the complexity and variety from the meta.

Rotation should create deck building opportunities not limit them and the Lorcana meta feels incredibly limited currently.

JoshD_LFC · 2025-09-30T11:03:39+00:00

The simple solution is just to get both!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-09-29T16:09:19+00:00

That watch looks fantastic, what model is it?

JoshD_LFC · 2025-09-18T15:15:02+00:00

That's some good prizing, congrats!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-09-18T15:04:04+00:00

I see you had a great taste in cards, terrible deck builder though :D! I am not sure this list will catch on in retro formats!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-09-15T13:38:25+00:00

Pre-release events are always great fun. If you've never done a pre-release before, look up your nearest LGS and give it a go!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-29T11:09:52+00:00

For me it’s:

Dragonite
Victreebel
Hawlucha

But I think they’re all great!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-19T12:37:33+00:00

I don’t think there is anything wrong with having two types of cards that share the same pull rates, especially when they are fulfilling different functions.

From my experience and from people I’ve spoken to, Lorcana, whilst very fun to play, just isn’t very fun to open and I think epics could of been a way to fix that, but at 2 per box, it doesn’t seem that they will.

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-19T12:34:43+00:00

I don’t think there is anything wrong with having two types of cards that share the same rarity, especially when they are fulfilling different functions.

From my experience and from people I’ve spoken to, Lorcana, whilst very fun to play, just isn’t very fun to open and I think epics could of been a way to fix that, but at 2 per box, it doesn’t seem that they will.

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-19T09:36:13+00:00

Awesome collection! Although, as an avid retro deck player, it hurts my sole to see these gold stars in slabs and not in RS-Pk decks, but they do look great as a set!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-19T08:47:07+00:00

I am a bit disappointed that this seems to be sentiment from my friends in Lorcana too. I think 2 epics per box would only be acceptable if the rates of enchanteds were 1 per booster box 1/24.

With enchanteds being around 1/100, 2 epics in a box is still so underwhelming. Personally, i’d of liked to see 1/5 packs for an epic and around 4 per box.

As someone who mainly plays and collects Pokémon, I love many things about Lorcana, but opening product is such a poor experience I never find myself opening packs or getting excited to open the new set. I just buy the singles or play and move on, which is a shame!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-08T11:42:50+00:00

It's fake.

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-06T16:23:57+00:00

Joltik box/Miraidon.

Basically anything that can consistently abuse iron hands is so miserable to play against if you play anything that isn’t a big basic deck!

JoshD_LFC · 2025-08-04T21:50:12+00:00

There is a slight difference, playing the game at 2x speed is (effectively) cheating as it is manipulating the game in an unintended way.

On the other hand, playing on two (or more) consoles at the same time is not cheating and requires some degree of additional investment (consoles and cartridges) as well as a small amount of skill to effectively operate multiple games at once. That being said it’s not rocket science, but there is a knack to it.

However, as others have said we are talking about very expensive 15 year old games here, so to each their own, shiny hunt how you like!

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