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Pokemon TCG Destined Rivals Gets First Tease, Won’t Solely Focus On Team Rocket

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sam Woods

Published Feb 19, 2025

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Team Rocket will seemingly not have their own set in the Pokemon TCG in the West, sharing the limelight with other trainers.
The upcoming English set, Destined Rivals, will feature a mix of Team Rocket cards and other trainers' Pokemon.
The artwork for the set features Giovanni, Mewtwo, Rocket Grunts, Ethan, and Cynthia, but no sign of Jessie and James.

It's been known from as far back as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:August last year that Team Rocket would be returning to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Trading Card Game, with some hopes and expectations that the antagonists would featurꦚe in their own set.

While that's certainly the case in Japan with🃏 The Glory of Team Rocket expansion, it doesn't seem to be in the West.

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In May, a new English language set, Destined Rivals, is due for rel💜ease, and it looks like it will be a combina🐎tion of Team Rocket cards and other Trainer's Pokemon.

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Pokemon hype is off the charts right now. Cards are selling for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:150 percent more than𝔍 they were three months ago, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:sealed products are b𒀰ein𓃲g scalped like crazy. A Team Rocket expansion looked set to compound things, playing onꦦ the nostalgia from early expansions like Team Rocket and Team Rocket Retu🦹rns.

Whi🌜le Ro𝓰cket stans will still be feasting in Destined Rivals, it looks like they'll be sharing the limelight with other trainers, courtesy of artwork featured on Gamescom Latam badges.

The badges for the event appear to reveal pack art for the upcoming set, with Giovanܫni and Mewtwo front and center. Giovanni will be joined by Rocket Grunts, Ethan, and Cynthia on the front of the booster packs. Notably, there seems to be no Je♈ssie and James.

The Japanese sets Destined Rivals will pull from have already seen some cards revealed, including E𒅌than's Ho-Oh, Cynthia's Roserade, Steven's Beldum, and Marnie's Morpeko, and it's likely Giovanni's Mewtwo and other Roꩲcket favorites will follow soon.

Future sets look to be focus𓃲ed on Pokemon Black and White and Mega Evolutions, so the hype isn't going to die down any time soon; it's just a shame we're not getting that standalone Rocket set.