The Most Disruptive Set in Pokemon History: Team Rocket!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- Andrew Mahone reviews the best cards from the most disruptive set in the history of the Pokemon Trading Card Game: Team Rocket! Check out these original Team Rocket Pokemon Cards in action and learn about the best Pokemon TCG strategies from year 2000!
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The quality of this series always blows me away.
As someone who started playing as a kid a month before fossil came out, your retro videos fill me with a ton of nostalgic joy.
I loved the tone and vibe of the vid, reminded me a lot of The Gaming Historian.
Thanks for the great content!
The holo energies in this set are beautiful!
I love them too! Too bad there was only Rainbow energy as the only holo energy in this set. Potion and heal energy where just standard uncommon cards
This is my favorite type of video on this channel, feels like I'm an official Pokemon museum
the most badass golduck
I remember playing a Dark Charizard deck when this set came out. I miss these days, when things were simple.
Can’t wait to see the Gym challenge video!
I love this series! You got alot of knowledge for Pokemon so it's nice finding out more stuff about Pokemon.
Just started playing Pokemon TCG nearly 20 years after getting my first cards. I was one of those kids you described that never had enough cards or friends to play the full game as a kid, so we just sat around talking about the cards and trading them. I was getting nostalgic thinking about what fun it would have been to play competitively back in these first few years of the game. These videos did just that and completely filled that need. Short of an actual time machine this was an amazing trip to the past.
The intro was absolutely phenomenal and extremely well done. Amazing video and I’m glad I got to watch it the second it dropped
This set was the last set I was really trying to make a name for myself by playing all around Texas and Louisiana before moving on to the competitive game side of GSC.
What Pokémon cards did I pilot? None other than dark Weezing and dark Muk! Makes my heart overflow with joy to see them mentioned and covered
absolutely worth the wait trickygymHeart
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I love these videos Mahone, I can't wait for you to cover some of the sets I used as a kid and was baffled by especially the Holon ones
This series is a time machine, i remember vaguely reading about these powerful strategies on magazines and trying to do a "budget" version, since kids only wanted to buy boosters.
Team Rocket most intriguing mechanic to me is subtle but the antithesis of modern Pokémon tcg design: All dark pokemon, even stage 2 ones, were pretty low on HP to balance their disruptive power. I miss these old times with 80HP Dark Charizard or a Dark Jolteon with mere 50HP.
The first set I completed. I remember buying these packs for $0.75. my favorite was the dark Pokemon.
Please do more of these you explain everything better then any other video in my opinion.
Awesome video! This set has always been special to me.
Fantastic content! Team rocket was my absolute favorite set as a kid also
Awesome video, would love to see more. I remember the Rocket set as it was around the time I stopped playing first time around, very nostalgic.
Hell yeah I was waiting for this one! Great job :)
LOVE this video! Amazing work yet again. Great job on this video!
Please continue that series! Those videos are amazing, and they teach me a lot about the game as a whole.
Loved this! Old formats and sets are so fun.
Great video👍, this is my favorite set too, I remember buying the 1st edition packs at some liquor store, Asian couple ran it, every time a anew set of Pokémon came out they had it !
Team Rocket is my favorite set, too. It's also the last set I experienced before I stopped playing during the OG era - I didn't come back until XY Flashfire!!
I still remember pulling a Dark Raichu and being amazed, but also confused.
I love this set so much too, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a 1st edition booster box a few years back - totally worth it!
Awesome video - very nostalgic! I loved the Team Rocket set as well (mostly for the artwork), so it was interesting to hear about how these cards fared in the competitive scene.
I love your history series. Keep it up!
Love these videos!!! Keep up the good work Andrew!!
Many years ago, when I was a child, I used to play a deck based on the sinergy between Dark Muk, Dark Golbat and an other Dark Pokémon you don't mentioned, Dark Arbok. It was a very tough deck, even against those made of psychic Pokémon: fast, hard-hitting, bench-destroyer and very very poisonous
I like the artwork in this set it looks really cool
Great Video watched it again because it was so well produced. You really poured some soul into this Andrew.
Love these kind of videos thanks for the cool content!
I just find out about this channel, Great series !!! have a big collection and also like 6 decks of old school tcg, i love it. I hope you talk about gym heroes/challenge next. that’s my favorite set.
great video Andrew, greetings from Chile!
I think you missed out on discussing how good Dark Dragonair was in this video. Everything else was spot on. I hope to see a video for the Neo sets! I want to be reminded how toxic Beat Up Sneasel, Mind Games Slowking and Steel Chansey were to the meta
Big into this series man 👊🏻
Loving this series, keep it up!
It’s crazy that metal and dark type didn’t have basic energy for 7 years.
I'm jealous of the large diversity in your collection!
I collect Team Rocket in all forms, not just this expansion. Any Trainers, Pokemon named "Rocket's [pokemon]", Pokemon owned by Jessie and James in the anime, and cards that feature Team Rocket in the art. It's pretty fun to collect.
I'm currently experiencing a lot of these cards for the first time in the second Pokemon TCG gameboy game. I've been on the receiving end of Dark Vileplume a couple times. Still learning the game, it's fascinating to realize just how reliant on trainers you are when suddenly you can't use them. It's wild this card was printed so early on.
In general, I really like this expansion though. Dark Pokemon are really cool - they are an active downgrade numerically (with some not even getting an HP increase in evolution) which is quite rare in new expansions to my knowledge, but their effects are varied and unique. My first full deck was actually a version of a gimmicky Whirlwind deck from the first Gameboy game (spam Pidgeotto's Whirlwind, then move damage around with Gengar) where I learned to really love Dark Golbat since its attack and pokepower played into the strat 100%.
Also, the lighting on Dark Vaporean makes it look like its eventual shiny form, which is a neat touch.
This is definitely an awesome video and you have re ignited my passion of playing the game so thanks so much! Now do I play the online game myself or watch one of your videos again?
everybody loves base set, but for me it always was Team Rocket the best cards ever imo i just love this dark sinister vibe the cards have just the best TCG Set imo
Me too
See I was a child back in the day and I don’t even remember what my deck was when I used to go to my
Local card shop to play in tournaments and win gym badges but I always just liked the artwork on the cards so seeing competitive gameplay from the early years makes me wish I had been more mature at the time
Until recently I was under the impression that dark Raichu was the first secret rare but have now learned that in the jungle first edition set they had inserted a secret rare pikachu card.
I really enjoyed this video!!
It’s crazy how Pokémon balanced an anime, movies, video games, and a card game all at the top level. That’s a lot of variables.
Hi! I would really like for you to continue this series! I love retro tcg pokemon
I remember getting some Rocket boosters way back in the day. I even remember seeing some of the Japanese ones before the English ones released! It was the last time I really played the Pokémon TCG, though; after that, the craze at school moved on to MtG.
The expression on Dark Slowbro’s face as it ignores the pain in its tail is downright sinister.
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1st time watching any video of this series, but always saw people on stream spamming u to make this vid, no wonder lol
Great video!
Just built a Team Rocket Deck piece-meal on Ebay. So much fun.
thx for the quality content Lord Mahone
Yo rocket is so gas. Great vid 🚀🚀
I always loved the Rocket Set as a kid and still do to this day! A new Rocket themed Set would be amazing and might motivate me to buy some Boosters again. Until then I just love the nostalgia.
Now I see the origins of 2003 Yu-Gi-Oh! hand destruction format
Loved the video
Very nice video. I'd love to see these for a few sets.
Have you done this before? It's great.
Yes! He’s done Base Set, Fossil, and Jungle so far! - th-cam.com/play/PLsvuvINH-HTA4A2ZOBVv-bIMeEAteOhkw.html
please bring this back it’s so good
10 year old me and the schoolyard treated double colorless as rainbow energy. Had no idea colorless wasnt universal energy until now
Great video.
Great video
This is the best set to draft period! Small set and all the holos come as regular rares as well which makes drafting evolution lines easy.
If only I could afford to draft packs of team rocket 🤯 how do you suggest doing it ?
Thanks for the education!
Nostalgia overload.
Im here because i freakin love the sequel to pokemon tcg for the gameboy
Good video fr
"Probably the most recognizable special energy in the Pokemon TCG..."
Me: Has to pause the video to read what it does because I've never seen or heard of this card.
a masterpiece
I've been wondering recently if you have any plans to sell any more constructed retro decks on your etsy shop
Honestly I think gym challenge was a much more disruptive set with stuff like chaos gym and mainly the rockets trap you could clean your opponents hand before they even got to play and take huge oh kos with Erikas jigglypuff
They are pretty comparable, but it’s the backdrop of team rocket and the cards in it that makes gym challenge so wild imo
God I miss those days
3 cards were in almost every competitve deck(Nightly garbage run, Imposter prof Oaks Revenge, Rockets sneak attack) and all top players Ran Nightly Garbage Run and a copy of Imposter prof Oaks revenge when the set came out, honestly i would love a format of Base-Rocket to be a format, game opened up so much, but the Dark pokemon sucked only few hits and were fringe at best.
Professor Mahone is the best.
Why doesn’t tricky gym have more subscribers?????????????
Bro, you got a list of that dark weezing deck I can peep? 👀
It’s great theming that their HP is low because their growth has been stunted
Is gym heroes and gym challenge next?
Fun fact: the holo vileplume is weak to fire and the non holo vileplume is weak to fighting. :) it’s an error
From Pokegyms Compendium: The misprints that DO affect game play (The non-foil Dark Vileplume having Fighting as its Weakness and Grimer having a Poison Gas attack that puts the other Pokémon Asleep) will NOT be corrected. The game play effect misprints will be played as is, on the cards. When playing in an English League or Tournament, you will play these cards as is. If playing in an International event, then the cards will be played, as they originally should have been. This will be announced at those events beforehand. (April 27, 2000 WotC Chat Announcement)
DKQuagmire good to know. I didn’t know about the international effect. But I do know about the other one
sometimes i wonder if designers of ptcg forget the purpose of the game is the have fun
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Thanks for the Shoutout to dark Weezing! Theres a video on TH-cam of me being an opponent using the Dark Weezing deck in rocket-on, against the owner of the video called Semeai, who is the person trying to showcase a Giovanni's Machamp deck in the video. Just a heads up though. My version of Dark Weezing that I played in the video, didn't run Brocks Ninetales, and instead relied on darkness energy to boost attack. But Semeai does have his own Brock's ninetales/ Dark Weezing deck showcase.
If you want to see some of the old base set and rocket on format games online, you should check out Semeai's youtube channel. even though its been inactive for well over 2 years now. th-cam.com/channels/LiQHZfAuDed5MxVW5MwFWA.html
Before New Phyrexia, there was Team Rocket.
Rocket sneak attack is equivalent to confiscation in Yugioh both of which are broken!
Dark isn’t a no prefix, it’s a adjective.
Wait isn't Imposter oak's revenge basically just marnie but not as good?
When’s the next part
It's fun to be dark [bad].
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I'm working on this set.... were there any prerelease cards with this set?
Yep! Gyarados
@@TrickyGym nooooo way Holy cow gotta find it
This set made the format no longer fun to play. Blastoise was pretty much unplayable, and Haymaker decks were forced to run Muk as a counter to Dark Vileplume. Not to mention going first meant you could disrupt your opponents setup and get a donk.
How could you not like team rocket after watching this 😂
Sadly they have lowest hp and become wiped from the most played decks...
So much nostalgia, but this was always my least favorite set. I just don't like the card designs/drawings.
BUSTED video
I quit when this set came out. I absolutely could not bring myself to play with evil Pokemon. I could not fathom a reason why Pokemon would release a set like this and force everyone to become 'evil.'
They weren't evil, they were just kidnapped and forced to fight as slaves. The Basic Pokemon aren't dark yet because they're just kids.