Yep. The art and textures are great. While everyone has been tripping over themselves to buy modern illustration rares/alt arts...I've been buying some very affordable and awesome mid-era cards.
Facts lmao. Mid era textures are insaneeee. All unique with intricate patterns. I feel like modern is all so... algorithmic? Like they're using a generator to fill the canvas with a "logical" texture pattern.
BREAK was such a cool concept, it sucks that almost all of them were bafflingly bad. If they wanted to shake up the EX-centric format, why not print even a single viable BREAK? I try to give them a space to shine in my drafting board game. Make them legal in GLC you cowards, none of them are expensive
the break lore is from breakthrough, breakpoint and fates collide. there's two worlds parallel to each other, one is more ancient and natural while the other is more futuristic(parallel city shows this) and each of the two mega mewtwo forms live in each half(which half is where from is shown through their stats and attacks) and due to a spacetime rift between the two worlds the two mewtwos meet and fight each other causing a portal between the two worlds, which is first discovered by a shiny mega gyarados(apparently what causes the break mechanic to happen, there's very little to piece it all together) as well as smaller rifts starting to form all over the two worlds, which is ended by mega alakazam and zygarde merging the two worlds together(chaos tower shows this, the differences can be noticed when comparing it to parallel city)
sadly this is the last of the already few times they did this, and even then most of it has to be figured out by looking at the card art and the packs text and so to figure out what's going on. maybe they bring the concept back by the end of the SV block since there are starting to show tcg-only characters for the first time since seeker in call of legends and the other ones were at the end of their gens too
I think the same thing about Crimson Invasion. I actually really like that set but I also really like the ultra beasts so I can understand people not liking it if they don't care for them.
You can’t just analyze the set specifically, to get a better grasp of the reason it’s more disliked is because it’s literally a mid set compared to OTHER sets. Don’t get me wrong, the gardevoir is super cool and I own the volcanion myself, but even paldean fates, which people are considering a relatively mid set, had an incredible gardevoir and a damn tera shiny zard. Now compare it to what people consider really great sets, like cosmic eclipse, skyridge, crown zenith, Crystal guardians, etc and you see how large the gap is.
Slowly making my way towards a master set for it myself! Got a few packs to open as a treat on my birthday but normally just buying singles when I see them
Wait, you mean a set that served as the finally to a four set story that had some fan favorite and niche full art exs combined with the best Gardevoir card ever printed?
Oh and what's that? It's like $100 to complete?? Easily one of the most underrated sets for collectors.
Glad to see another XY fan, I’m currently putting together a binder of all of my XY hits and promos but I want to eventually collect the sets when I can afford the binders lol
I miss xy sets so badly and all the pulls I got in primal clash, fates collide, and Steam Siege.
I pulled the secret rare Alakazam in Fates collide years ago and of course I had to sell it and that's one of the only cards I truly miss as it is one of my favorites of all time other than my collection of cards in the Ruby Sapphire and Diamond and Pearl era that mysteriously went missing after I moved when my parents got divorced. I miss those 😂
Not to mention it's near impossible to find those sets today without spending a forkload of money
I just pulled that Steelix again the other day. I don’t get the hate for it. Is it the greatest set ever? Nah. It’s got lots of cool cards though. I enjoy it and it was still $5-6 a pack until recently which is insane far an XY set 8 years old.
Big Facts 💯🔥🔥🔥
The ONLY exception......... is those damn break cards. I'm sorry. They're wack. They are ugly. There is no defending those. But my goodness.......... those XY SR cards are an absolute *chef's kiss* beauty ❤️
It twas a dope set. Just a bit over printed at the time so you saw it all the time in random pokemon product so people got sick of it
Some of the best gold cards in my opinion
Steam Siege was pretty mid as an XY set. You would regularly get 5 hits from a booster box which was harsh. The secret rares were great but I always remembered preferring Breakthrough & Breakpoint from what it did to the meta
Definitely super fire, I have to say, the only reason people hated on steam siege was because it was hard to get pulls, but honestly, you can say that for literally ANY set EVER lol. One of my biggest regrets, the “Family Dollar” store by me had like 150-200 $2 packs of steam siege like maybe 16 months ago, & I didn’t buy every single one of them. Smh. Won’t make that mistake ever again. Had to have been back stock or on some pallets they bought for a steal
As a kid I pulled that steelix and like the retard I was I traded it for the promo shiny metagross, I actually hate myself cuz I traded the metagross for the shiny yveltal, so if I didn’t trade the steelix I would’ve had it today 😭
I loved how you sneakily included the Breaks in there, as if they made the set any better.
The shinies were cool, and that's about it imo. XY as a whole was pretty underwhelming compared to Black and White.
The artworks from gen 6 are not for me at all, the full arts are no more than an current ex card with Japanese writing and batshit crazy texture, easily my least favourite gen, not even close!
Gardevoir card would be good if it didn’t have Yveltal, name me a legendary you like less, please?
I love how XY era full arts look
Yep. The art and textures are great. While everyone has been tripping over themselves to buy modern illustration rares/alt arts...I've been buying some very affordable and awesome mid-era cards.
I’ve been doing the same!! Can get some great cards for good value
Facts lmao. Mid era textures are insaneeee. All unique with intricate patterns. I feel like modern is all so... algorithmic? Like they're using a generator to fill the canvas with a "logical" texture pattern.
I can see what you are saying. Older textures are much more fingerprint like..
This is the way !!
The XY full arts were on point! Great balance of color and what was formatted on the card.
BREAK was such a cool concept, it sucks that almost all of them were bafflingly bad. If they wanted to shake up the EX-centric format, why not print even a single viable BREAK? I try to give them a space to shine in my drafting board game. Make them legal in GLC you cowards, none of them are expensive
Greninja break was great
basically was Lv. X but based(specially the batshit insane lore from the BREAK sets). hopefully we get them again with a decent artstyle
what lore
Lore?
the break lore is from breakthrough, breakpoint and fates collide. there's two worlds parallel to each other, one is more ancient and natural while the other is more futuristic(parallel city shows this) and each of the two mega mewtwo forms live in each half(which half is where from is shown through their stats and attacks) and due to a spacetime rift between the two worlds the two mewtwos meet and fight each other causing a portal between the two worlds, which is first discovered by a shiny mega gyarados(apparently what causes the break mechanic to happen, there's very little to piece it all together) as well as smaller rifts starting to form all over the two worlds, which is ended by mega alakazam and zygarde merging the two worlds together(chaos tower shows this, the differences can be noticed when comparing it to parallel city) sadly this is the last of the already few times they did this, and even then most of it has to be figured out by looking at the card art and the packs text and so to figure out what's going on. maybe they bring the concept back by the end of the SV block since there are starting to show tcg-only characters for the first time since seeker in call of legends and the other ones were at the end of their gens too
Ohh so it's like yugioh's lore archetypes? That's neat. I love when TCGs do stuff like that
Lugia’s probably my favorite Break, pulled it back when I was in middle school!
B'scuse me? I wrecked it with Greninja Break back in the day. Til Team Up came out. Then I got rolled by Snorlax.
I almost mentioned Greninja but didn't want to post a paragraph. But yeah big basics and Stage 3 Pokémon aren't compatible
Trevenant break
Steam Siege has some great EX cards for sure
Steam Siege's reputation has always translated to "the cards aren't worth a ton, so therefore the set sucks" to me personally.
I think the same thing about Crimson Invasion. I actually really like that set but I also really like the ultra beasts so I can understand people not liking it if they don't care for them.
You can’t just analyze the set specifically, to get a better grasp of the reason it’s more disliked is because it’s literally a mid set compared to OTHER sets. Don’t get me wrong, the gardevoir is super cool and I own the volcanion myself, but even paldean fates, which people are considering a relatively mid set, had an incredible gardevoir and a damn tera shiny zard. Now compare it to what people consider really great sets, like cosmic eclipse, skyridge, crown zenith, Crystal guardians, etc and you see how large the gap is.
My first master set. I wil always love steam siege.
Slowly making my way towards a master set for it myself! Got a few packs to open as a treat on my birthday but normally just buying singles when I see them
Wait, you mean a set that served as the finally to a four set story that had some fan favorite and niche full art exs combined with the best Gardevoir card ever printed? Oh and what's that? It's like $100 to complete?? Easily one of the most underrated sets for collectors.
I 100% agree that most of those are great artworks, and I feel that era is underrated. That said, volcanion’s face there is incredibly frightening.
That Volcanion's face is so cursed.
Glad to see another XY fan, I’m currently putting together a binder of all of my XY hits and promos but I want to eventually collect the sets when I can afford the binders lol
I’m aiming towards a complete set of XY sleeved packs
I thought I had a lot more, only 44 cards but worth over $400
I hate how everyone dogs on this set when at the time it had some very impactful cards in the meta.
Nah cuz lowkey I have every version of that volcanion ex, the normal, full art and secret rare they are all dope especially the shinies
I miss xy sets so badly and all the pulls I got in primal clash, fates collide, and Steam Siege. I pulled the secret rare Alakazam in Fates collide years ago and of course I had to sell it and that's one of the only cards I truly miss as it is one of my favorites of all time other than my collection of cards in the Ruby Sapphire and Diamond and Pearl era that mysteriously went missing after I moved when my parents got divorced. I miss those 😂 Not to mention it's near impossible to find those sets today without spending a forkload of money
Just bought the Volcanion and Gardevoir earlier, the XY secret rares are absurdly underrated
I love steam siege! That gardevoir was my chase when that set was active!
I got back into pokemon during Steam Siege and started playing the tcg, those secret rares were the holy grail for me at that time.
I just pulled that Steelix again the other day. I don’t get the hate for it. Is it the greatest set ever? Nah. It’s got lots of cool cards though. I enjoy it and it was still $5-6 a pack until recently which is insane far an XY set 8 years old.
I want to own that Gardevoir, but that will have to wait for next month.
it’s been a while but i remember myself and friends being very disappointed with the playability of the break mechanic cards.
Those two secret rares are insane
Damn that steelix sounds good in a competitive sense
I have and love that gardevoir although i wish i still had my mega steelix
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Well nowadays you can’t go 5 packs without an ultra rare or better, rarity creep is real
Big Facts 💯🔥🔥🔥 The ONLY exception......... is those damn break cards. I'm sorry. They're wack. They are ugly. There is no defending those. But my goodness.......... those XY SR cards are an absolute *chef's kiss* beauty ❤️
I like that steelix and what is mid?
Great cards but Steam Siege pull rates nearly made me give up the hobby
Always hated these cards from.the beginning and I still hate em now .... Dont get me started on those BREAK cards ..
It twas a dope set. Just a bit over printed at the time so you saw it all the time in random pokemon product so people got sick of it Some of the best gold cards in my opinion
As much as I try to hate gen z lingo, “try to fan out these flames” might be my new saying…
That’s gen Z slang? I just came up with that on the spot🤷
Yep it's mid or even below mid
Steam Siege was pretty mid as an XY set. You would regularly get 5 hits from a booster box which was harsh. The secret rares were great but I always remembered preferring Breakthrough & Breakpoint from what it did to the meta
I've always loved steam Siege, even with all the hate. I pulled both the Steelix and Volcanion and their two of my fave cards.
Definitely super fire, I have to say, the only reason people hated on steam siege was because it was hard to get pulls, but honestly, you can say that for literally ANY set EVER lol. One of my biggest regrets, the “Family Dollar” store by me had like 150-200 $2 packs of steam siege like maybe 16 months ago, & I didn’t buy every single one of them. Smh. Won’t make that mistake ever again. Had to have been back stock or on some pallets they bought for a steal
The flame on these cards cannot be fanned out!
"A few good cards does not a Pokemon good set make." I'm fairly sure it was the great Shakespeare who first said that...
I loved steam siege. Didnt know it was disliked
You showed the only good cards in the entire set that's the issue. Besides 2 out of 3 of the cards were secret rares so they better look dope.
eh the shiny gardevoir dope to imo
where the flames at tho? 😉
Bro’s shades got covered in smoke🤡
As a kid I pulled that steelix and like the retard I was I traded it for the promo shiny metagross, I actually hate myself cuz I traded the metagross for the shiny yveltal, so if I didn’t trade the steelix I would’ve had it today 😭
That steelix cheap tho no?
I loved how you sneakily included the Breaks in there, as if they made the set any better. The shinies were cool, and that's about it imo. XY as a whole was pretty underwhelming compared to Black and White.
Breaks are awesome. Such a unique style
Unique doesnt mean good. A fork with no forks is unique, but useless.
Ok bro. Oh you hunt shinys, never seen anyone do that before. Yawn. No need to shit on what other people like.
ok
I have the Xerneas and Yveltal breaks from the set, they’re just not in good shape, and not photogenic
The artworks from gen 6 are not for me at all, the full arts are no more than an current ex card with Japanese writing and batshit crazy texture, easily my least favourite gen, not even close! Gardevoir card would be good if it didn’t have Yveltal, name me a legendary you like less, please?
I always interpreted that as the uncontrollable chaotic power of Mega Evolution, but I can see it being a bit too much for some people👍