All right, so the Trading Card Game Pocket game has just added a boatload of new features and aspects, so it seems apt to take a few posts to discuss about them. The first aspect is a new Themed Booster Pack, which only seems like it wasn't too long ago that one was added, and yet now there is another. Its composition can be loosely described as a "parade" of sorts with all sorts of novelties that haven't been present in the game until now... and thus its title of "Shining Revelry" fits the bill.
By its title, it would suggest that there are Pokémon of the Shiny sort, and there are. A number of Pokémon in this Themed Booster Pack have Shiny alternates at the tail end of the card selection, and they're well-known Pokémon from the past to the present. And like Shiny Pokémon in other games, one may really have to press one's luck to get them. So gleamingly wonderful are these Pokémon that the rest of their novelties will have to be described separately, but at least they're here, importantly.
Speaking of the present, the Themed Booster Pack also contains a number of Pokémon from the ninth generation and the region of Paldea. One example is the entry of the Sprigatito family, continuing its extended popularity from certain circles of Pokémon fans. It also completes the circle of Trainers as Supporter cards with the presence of a certain superstar Trainer who is ready to bring "oomph" to Pokémon in just about every deck the Trainer appears in. So, this collection of cards will surely have its fans.
Or at least, that's the idea. Some of the new cards in this mini expansion - not of the ones mentioned above - also seem to be "rehashes" of cards from earlier expansions with regard to both technical and artistic aspects. They may or may not present themselves differently when played (the "technical" side), but the "rehash" aspect seems to be self-evident artistically in some ways. Regardless, they still remain a part of the mini expansion, and the least that one can do is to collect the cards for posterity.
Looking at the "parade" of cards that is this Themed Booster Pack, quite a few things are going on within it, all of which might appeal to certain segments of Pokémon fans from past to present. That's certainly what a "parade" is all about: a variety of different things congregating to make a wonderful run that's pleasant to see for as many people as possible. In that sense, the Shining Revelry lives up to its name as the latest spectacle in TCGP, and collecting makes one a part of the "parade".
One year ago: Pokémon Go Community Day Classic, 4/7/2024
Two years ago: Quickies: Pokémon in My Countryside
Three years ago: The Silph Arena Factions Post-Season
Four years ago: Let's Go Meet New and Old Friends
Five years ago: Leaping off Ledges
Six years ago: Scat-Poké-Land
Seven years ago: Let's Go Research
Eight years ago: Caravansary
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