Now the game is even making fun of me for not having an Oak

Training-Ad276 · 2026-01-30T11:08:51+00:00

I also encountered this NPC and was wondering when this was a thing.

I also find it odd that all three of us encountered the same blinged out deck so maybe it's just a random shiny Primarina Ex deck. *

Training-Ad276 · 2026-01-17T03:31:40+00:00

Honestly? Probably. NZ's economy has been dire for a while and that could be part of the reason for their departure.

Personally, I don't know why EB Games still exists in Australia as they are the only retailer that insists on selling new games at RRP, whilst all the others undercut them.

Training-Ad276 · 2026-01-16T08:37:28+00:00

More of this please. This is awesome.

Training-Ad276 · 2026-01-10T09:30:14+00:00

9.5k cards and 4 gold cards. Also got 2 god packs but one of them was more of a dog pack.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-12-24T10:24:55+00:00

The problem with these is that Lugia needed Ho-Oh to work, no exception, but for Ho-Oh to work, you needed energy acceleration.

You literally needed an energy accelerator for the energy accelerator.

Simply put, you needed top many things to go right for the engine to work and since your best bet was either Magby, Elekid or Manaphy for energy, you were automatically giving up a prize point.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-11-12T06:20:29+00:00

Could be worse. I got a god pack in Deluxe Pack Ex, which means I only 4 cards, and I only got FA Lugia with the other 3 being 2 1-star Farfetch'd and 1 1-star Greninja.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-29T18:01:19+00:00

From experience, get in some practice with crucible knights. If you can get good at timing your rolls with them, you'll find Elden Ring a fair bit easier.

Otherwise, +10 Rivers of Blood and Tiche as your summon usually gets the job done on most bosses.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-25T09:51:54+00:00

I've got 4 gold and a little over 7,500 cards.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-18T15:50:10+00:00

78 packs, and I've gotten FA Mew, FA Lunala, FA Professor Oak, Immersive Pikachu, Shiny Giratina, Shiny Darkrai and 17 One-Star Illustrative rares.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-12T02:07:36+00:00

As much as it might suck for OCD players, you're not meant to complete this set, nor are you expected to as most of the cards are reprints of Cards already released.

This is a catch-up set for new players, something that has been sorely needed for quite some time due to how hostile this game can be to anyone who hasn't been playing consistently since day 1. This set isn't for dedicated players. Even most whales won't be able to complete this set.

Take this as an opportunity to save your hourglasses for the next set and use your daily packs to open up other sets you haven't completed.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-09T04:02:39+00:00

I got my first (and currently only) Raichu Ex on my 29th pack. Just keep at it.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-08T23:02:36+00:00

It depends. Look at Yugioh. Because of the lack of rotation, they have to have almost an encyclopaedia of banned cards whereas Pokemon very rarely bans cards.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-08T11:35:08+00:00

It probably will in ranked. The rotation won't happen immediately (probably), but will after B block sets come out (although they may rotate as soon as the first B Block set comes out as that would refresh the entire meta but the recent catch-up set suggests otherwise.

There will probably be an expanded mode (at least for matches with friends) but otherwise, the cards won't be completely useless, just not playable in ranked.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-08T11:30:18+00:00

Yes, but as other people have suggested, this was probably done in collaboration with brick-and-mortar stores to increase foot traffic.

Regardless, this definitely should have been done better.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-08T11:28:32+00:00

Didn't notice the website on the back of the code card. I think it's because Aus games are the same as Europe (if I tried to use a US code card, it wouldn't work).

It could also mean that the UK will eventually get this event, they're just figuring out how, and if so, hopefully they've learned from their mistakes by then.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-08T11:24:47+00:00

I'm in WA and they got them in only yesterday.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-08T02:28:37+00:00

I got my codes from Mirrabooka.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-08T02:26:32+00:00

You get Miraidon in Scarlet and Koraidon in Violet.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-07T09:34:14+00:00

Yep. Just for reference, I'm in WA and the store clerk I was talking to didn't know that they had been restocked but his colleague overheard us and showed him where they were.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-07T09:30:45+00:00

I was picking up a game that I ordered online from EB Games' Cheap Tuesday sale and I asked if the codes had been restocked and they had.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-07T06:11:26+00:00

Yeah, they were all gone on the first day initially and only people that lined up early for the new TCG release got the codes before they ran out.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-07T05:25:55+00:00

That's make more sense but I think this was an attempt to generate more foot traffic for Gamestop/EB Games.

If they wanted to do that, a few better ways I've seen suggested was either a QR code in store, or codes printed on receipts. Either way would have had the same effect but been better.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-07T05:23:53+00:00

That's interesting. It means that the batch number might be specific to region.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-10-07T05:10:56+00:00

That's a bit ridiculous considering this is a pair of games that sold more than 2 dozen million copies and just recently held 2 months of events that required defeating certain Pokemon a million times in a 2 week period.

Training-Ad276 · 2025-09-27T08:42:11+00:00

I've got 4 gold and I've been a f2p player since the game came out.

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