{"id":104535,"date":"2019-11-27T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_trading_cards_arrive_in_february_new_vmax_cards_revealed"},"modified":"2019-11-27T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:20:00","slug":"pokemon-sword-and-shield-trading-cards-arrive-in-february-new-vmax-cards-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/27\/pokemon-sword-and-shield-trading-cards-arrive-in-february-new-vmax-cards-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Trading Cards Arrive In February, New VMAX Cards Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re a keen Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game player, or if you fancy making the jump from the video games, you’ll be interested to know that the brand new Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a> expansion is due to arrive in the west in February 2020.<\/p>\n

The news comes alongside some fresh details for the latest set of cards, including the introduction of VMAX cards. VMAX sees Sword and Shield’s Dynamax and Gigantamax features be represented in TCG form, with the cards in question boasting lots of HP and powerful attacks. Here’s the full rundown:<\/p>\n

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Pok\u00e9mon VMAX evolve from Pok\u00e9mon V and feature Dynamax or Gigantamax Pok\u00e9mon, as seen in the recently launched Pok\u00e9mon Sword<\/em> and Pok\u00e9mon Shield<\/em> video games. These cards have massive HP and powerful attacks, but when a Pok\u00e9mon VMAX is Knocked Out, the player\u2019s opponent will take three Prize cards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Trainers can look forward to collecting Pok\u00e9mon VMAX cards like Snorlax VMAX and Lapras VMAX\u2014both in their Gigantamax forms\u2014in the new Sword & Shield<\/em> expansion from The Pok\u00e9mon Company International, releasing worldwide starting February 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The new set will be available in traditional booster packs, theme decks, Elite Trainer Boxes, and special collections, with 50 new Galar Pok\u00e9mon being featured. Expect to find the starter Pok\u00e9mon, Galarian forms like Ponyta, and the Legendary Pok\u00e9mon, Zacian and Zamazenta.<\/p>\n

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Key cards from the set include:
17 Pok\u00e9mon V and 12 full-art Pok\u00e9mon V, including Zacian V and Zamazenta V
Four Pok\u00e9mon VMAX, including Snorlax VMAX and Lapras VMAX
35 Trainer cards, including four full-art Supporter cards
One Special Energy card<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The new expansion is teased at the end of a brand new trailer<\/a> shared today, which also finally introduces the new starter Pok\u00e9mon evolutions in an official manner for the first time. If you still don’t want to see the new evolutions, you might want to skip the following image.<\/p>\n

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Do you play the Pok\u00e9mon TCG? Will you be collecting this new set? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re a keen Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game player, or if you fancy making the jump from the video games, you’ll be interested to know that the brand new Sword and Shield expansion is due to arrive in the west in February 2020. The news comes alongside some fresh details for the latest set of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}