Explaining Rotation for beginners
For what I'm seeing in the forum, some people are confused why suddenly a bunch of cards are no longer standard legal. The reason? Set rotations.
As you may now, the game has 2 main formats: Standard and Expanded.
Expanded allows you to play with every card printed starting from Black and White (or at least it should, except that ptcgl expanded is not fully functional yet) Standard, on the opposite side, only has 2-3 years of cards at a time, and once we have more than 3 years of cards, we lose some of the oldest cards in standard.
If you look at the bottom left of a card, the card should have a letter D, E or F (cards from the new set tomorrow will have a G instead!) this is called a Regulation Mark and helps knowing when a card will rotate. Cards with a regulation D (cards from 2020) are rotating out of standard format today, cards from regulation E will rotate in 2024, cards from regulation F rotate in 2025 and so on.
However, some cards like professor research got reprints with updated regulation marks, meaning they will stay in the format.
If you look at the most recent print of a card and that print has a D on its bottom left corner, that card will not be playable in the standard format anymore unless it gets a reprint in the future with a different regulation Mark.
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The reason card games rotate their older cards out is to keep the format fresh and prevent any unwanted interactions. And dont worry if they rotate out your favorite card, they might just reprint it in a future set or make another card with very similar effects. While the base SV set looks weak, we will be getting alot of cards that will get even better with more cards to interact with.
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just wait until Paldea Evolved comes out, then we get N back as Iono
