pokemon noble victories booster pack Black & White: Noble Victories - Pokemon TCG

Outside of a brief teaser trailer, though, there was little we knew about the expansion

In most contexts or formats, I would rather work slightly harder or meet some deckbuilding requirement to see a better per-card return

The crosshatch pattern on the card surface makes it easy to distinguish Pokemon cards which were like this one, awarded at a Play

Ill also say that for some types, such as Dark (yes, Seviper is Dark typethe TCG has no Poison-type, so Poison-type Pokmon are Dark-type in the card game) , it is not very noticeable, which sometimes left me doing a double take to see if it was a reverse-foil or not

Thats net positive on an effect thats almost always card neutral

We knew that it would perform better at the tournament than it did in our internal testing because we had a lot of experience playing both with and against it, and we understood how the deck works, whereas our opponents at the tournament would not