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New “Premium Champion” TCG Set! Releasing to Japan!

Premium Champion
There will be a Premium Champion Pack: EX x M x BREAK set release in Japan. This set will contain 131 cards and feature nine types of Basic Energy cards. Each card in the set will be a holo. There is no other information about what will be in the set.

Judging by the product image and the timing, I am going to guess that this Premium Champion Pack is a massive reprint set. The Pokemon on the dummy pack are all Legendary Pokemon who have already been released in previous sets such as Primal Groudon, Mega Mewtwo, Mega Rayquaza, Hoopa, Xerneas and Yveltal. The only two non-Legendary Pokemon in the image are Mega Lucario and Mega Gengar but those two also had sets dedicated to them in Furious Fists and Phantom Forces.

Next is the timing of the set. Every so often, about ten or eleven sets, we always see some sort of reprint set such as Call of Legends or Legendary Treasures. When the Premium Champion Pack is release then it would be about eleven sets since Legendary Treasures. We are also looking at the possible rotation in 2016 of some of the Pokemon featured on the dummy image for Premium Champion Pack. Some of the Pokemon that will be rotated include Xerneas EX, Yveltal EX, Lucario EX, and Gengar EX. If these cards were reprinted in Premium Champion then they will be playable in the Standard format for another year.

What may happen is that Premium Champion will be release in Japan as some sort of set. We will find out that several EX Pokemon, Mega Pokemon and BREAK Pokemon will be reprinted. Then we will then receive word that Premium Champion (possible English release for August 2016) will be our English release for after English Awakening of the Psychic Kings (possible English release for May 2016). This is all speculation though.

Premium Champion Pack will be release in Japan on April 16th, 2016. There is no news about an English release.

Source: PokeBeach


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