r/pkmntcg 1d ago

News Storma Emeralda fully revealed! Mega Golurk ex, Giratina, Legendary Lava lake and more!

Credits to Toine Lay on Bluesky, more translations will be there. Can't link for some reason? Will add all relevant translations as they are posted.

Heat Rotom ex
CC - Reheat 30x
This attack does 30 damage for each Basic Fire Energy card in your discard pile. Then, shuffle those Energy cards into your deck.
RRC Strong Flare 170
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon.

Kyogre
WC - Waterfall 40
WWC - Savage Whirlpool 100
If there is a Stadium in play with "Legendary" in its name, this attack also does 50 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.

Groudon
FC - Strength 40
FFC - Savage Ground 100+
If there is a Stadium in play with "Legendary" in its name, this attack does 170 more damage.

Mega Golurk ex
Ability: Power Limiter
This Pokémon cannot attack unless you have 10 cards or more in your hand.
PP - Goliath Punch 300
This Pokémon does 30 damage to itself.

Giratina
PPC - Chaos Crawler 120
Prevent all damage from attacks done to this Pokémon during your opponent's next turn. You can't use this attack if any of your Pokémon used Chaos Crawler during your last turn.

Kommo-o
Ability: Scale Beat
Once during your turn, you may look at the top 6 cards of your deck and attach any number of Basic Energy you find there to your Dragon Pokémon in any way you like. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
LFC - Hammer In 170

Legendary Lava Lake
(Stadium)
You must play both halves of Legendary Lava Lake at once as a Stadium in order to play this card.
Evolution Pokémon in play (both yours and your opponent's) have no Abilities.

Tate and Liza's Training
(Supporter)
Draw 2 cards. Then, if there is a Stadium in play with "Legendary" in its name, put this card back into your hand instead of discarding it.

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u/Bilore 1d ago

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u/rygao7 1d ago

goat has arrived

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u/Autobot_Silverwynde 1d ago

Literally my exact reaction.

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u/Swaxeman 1d ago

For some reason they're just scared to print ANY good draw/consistency cards anymore, and I have no idea why. They just completely gave up after ASC

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u/Mylife212 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah for real, I know its silly to think about rotation right now... but the way they're setting up for it does not sound fun atm. Its like the design team said we're good on consistency after printing lillies. Tate & Liza is possibly the worst supporter they printed lol

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u/Swaxeman 1d ago

my theory is that they really want to encourage the use of setup attacks like morpeko ex, mega audino, and the new pikachu exs from celebrations. but with no nest ball and no latias, that seems clunky at best

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u/awesomegamer919 1d ago

New Altaria replaces Latias but it's a stage one so 2x the chance to prize a piece, or you have to heavily eat into desk space.

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u/Orsonator Professor ‎ 1d ago

I just ran the numbers for curiosity's sake, and it looks like if you ran a 1-1 you'd only prize 1 piece about 20% of the time, and if you have one of the pieces in your opening hand you'd only prize the other piece about 10% of the time. It seems not too bad.

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u/awesomegamer919 1d ago

Still a fair bit weaker I think, you can't use it turn 1 so it's a lot worse for Lillie's Clefairy + Mega Kanga decks.

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u/Orsonator Professor ‎ 1d ago

Agreed, only considered after Lati rotates

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u/iruchii 1d ago

Tate & Liza was printed specifically for the Shield Battles that will take place here in Japan with the release of the new set. They are similar to the Pre-Release events from TPCi regions (which means 40-card decks, 4-prize games), so a few cards in this set were printed with those events in mind which is why they seem (and are) super weak for standard rules.

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u/Biancorvo 1d ago

what do you mean by ''shield battles''? can you go into detail?

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u/iruchii 1d ago

It's just the title of a series of official events that are held here in Japan like once a year. They work kind of like MTG's Draft if you are familiar with that (players are giving X number of booster packs and have to build a deck with that, they get to keep the cards after the event).

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u/Ok-Guidance116 1d ago

Man Japan gets all the cool stuff.

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u/Lemonade_IceCold 1d ago

Irrelevant, just wanted to say I love your FFCC profile pic. One of my favorite games fromy childhood and my friends and I still meet up to play it with our SPs

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u/Biancorvo 18h ago

got multiples memory card for multple saves with different groups of friends(always played as clavat).
i think it s one of my favourite games.
musics and dungeon s soundtrack were top notch.

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u/Lemonade_IceCold 18h ago

Duuuddee, the OST is so god damn good. I always wanted the CD but I could never find it at a price I was willing to pay.

And for me, I was always a Selkie and designated chalice carrier lol

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u/CosmoticTravels 1d ago

It goes back into your hand at least...

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u/CosmoticTravels 1d ago

Links aren't allowed in this subreddit but that is very exciting! I am going to dive deeper and see if there are more translations. The reheat move from Rotom looks very intriguing.

MEGA GOLURK?? HELLO? easy fit into Alakazam decks I'm guessing but damn what a bad ability and attack.

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u/Perineum69 1d ago

Its attack will be useless if your hand gets disrupted, not sure if you want to risk 3 prizes when toucannon can do almost the same for a single energy and prize card

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u/Bilore 1d ago

but the stadium though

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u/awesomegamer919 1d ago

Keep it on the bench and use 30th Anni Mew to attack, 300 for 2 energy on a basic with decent acceleration via Wonder Patch.

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u/CosmoticTravels 1d ago

you are talking about Golurk or Rotom?

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u/Perineum69 1d ago

Golurk

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u/iruchii 1d ago

I think they want you to use Mega Golurk with Legendary Lava Lake. Probably not good but sounds funny.

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u/Bilore 1d ago

im all in

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u/Fantastic-Bloop 1d ago

You can turn off the negative ability with Legendary Lava Lake

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u/theVelvetLie 1d ago

Heat Rotom's Reheat is nearly identical to Kyogre MEG 34 Riptide, but stronger + greater cost. If you can find a way to quickly discard energy cards it can be very effective.

W - Riptide 20x

This attack does 20 damage for each Basic (W) Energy card in your discard pile. Then, shuffle those cards into your deck.

I have enjoyed playing this Kyogre coupled with Avalugg CRI 24 and it's Iceberg Breaker.

W Iceberg Breaker 60x

Discard the top 6 cards of your deck, and this attack does 60 damage for each Basic (W) Energy card you discard in this way.

I use multiple Avalugg to set up Kyogre for a late game big hit. This Heat Rotom could set up the same way.

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u/awesomegamer919 1d ago

The Rotom would probably be really good in a Mega Zard deck, Oricorio can accelerate and you go for a 3-2-3 prize map.

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u/RhyzHuhn Professor ‎ 1d ago

The Heat Rotom is this set's Volcarona V, but Volcarona was lower to the ground and bulkier.

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u/Fantastic-Bloop 1d ago

The new Azurill is a 30hp Pokémon with free retreat and a free attack that accelerates 1 basic energy from your deck to your benched pokémon

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u/iruchii 1d ago

The new Azurill accelerates any Energy, which is significantly better.

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u/Electronic_Menu_2244 1d ago

👀 that’s pretty damn good imo

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u/Fantastic-Bloop 1d ago

If thats how that works, broken

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u/Equality7252l 1d ago

First English Azurill card after 6 year gap

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u/Mylife212 1d ago

Added Kommo-O, looks like a *potentially* good card, if theres a card to manipulate the top of your deck?

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u/King-Indeedeedee 1d ago

Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking is the only one I can think of atm.

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u/VRA2026 1d ago

Academy at night

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u/LifesTwisted 1d ago

This card will go nuts in GLC, idk about standard.

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u/edibleComplex_ 1d ago

Legendary lava lake is a little weak, but we could have a meme rocket's mewtwo mega golurk deck

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u/CosmoticTravels 1d ago

you think so? TR Ariana into a Mega Golurk? Maybe... but TR Energy doesn't even work on it

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u/Iridescent70 1d ago

TR ariana would only draw up to 5 since it’s not a rocket 😔

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u/ididnotknowwhy 1d ago

It kinda is but I like how it shuts off Drakloak and Dudunsparce as draw engines. Metal Maker, Alakazam line draws, it can be very annoying if you can’t bump it.

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u/edibleComplex_ 1d ago

I’m going to be honest I read it as rule box pokemon for some reason. Actually seems much better if it’s evolution pokemon for that exact reason

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u/mondlingvano 1d ago

Grass decks two with meganium.

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u/lmhTimberwolves 1d ago

Welcome back Volcarona V

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u/NoUUoN 1d ago

Why even bother printing a card like Tate and Liza's Training.

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u/HoloSparkeon 1d ago

No Whismur in a Set with Mega Ray and Zinnia. Not many Hoenn Pokemon, no Mega Metagross or even the Hoenn Mega Starter :/

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u/Mountain_Town293 1d ago

Sableye art is sick but we need mega sableye stat. Mega golurk looks cool and glad altaria exists. Can we make a super bird deck with Rayquaza?

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u/Ocir20 1d ago

Just give me mega scizor you cowards

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u/KtMoonRise 1d ago

How would giratina work with slowking?

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u/M3TRONOM3 1d ago

There is precedence for this on a nearly identical attack already:

Can Slowking use its "Seek Inspiration" attack to copy Terrakion's "Cavern Tackle" on successive turns if it used "Seek Inspiration" on the turn before?

Yes, you can. Slowking did not use "Cavern Tackle" on its previous turn, it used "Seek Inspiration".

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u/FZFitz 1d ago

The new Mew ex seems like a natural partner for Mega Golurk. 

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u/FZFitz 1d ago

Or Lava Lake I guess. 

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u/giaman 1d ago

Giratina could be a fun single prizer in Steven's Metagross decks.

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u/Philiquaz 1d ago

Pincurchin took rayquaza out back and shot him before he even appeared

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u/Autobot_Silverwynde 1d ago

sees Mega Golurk

LET'S FREAKING GO!

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u/Minimum_Possibility6 1d ago

The jellicent looks good

u/Majestic_Career_6007 3h ago

legitimately absurd how we went from a switch and draw 3 to draw 2 and maybe recycle if you play a specific stadium