The first cards from BW5 Dragon Blade / Dragon Blast have been revealed! The card images below were collected by Viper.Fox from the official TCG site and translations are also below thanks to Dorian Black. The sets and their 30-card decks will be released in Japan on March 16th.

Garchomp (#040/050), Altaria (#036), Emolga, Slaking, and their pre-evolutions will be in Dragon Blade while Hydreigon (#040/050), Ambipom, Durant, and Devolution Spray will be in Dragon Blast. Yes, it looks like Devolution Spray from Base Set is returning, though the text is too small to read to see if it is exactly the same card as before. Cards from the set’s two 30-card theme decks were also revealed: Hydreigon, Roserade, Devolution Spray, and Rare Candy will come in the Hydreigon deck while Garchomp, Gabite, and Rare Candy are confirmed in the Garchomp deck. If you buy a booster box of either set from stores, you can get a Ninetailes promo, which will also be in one of the sets but with different artwork.

As usual, the Dragon Pokemon have completely random Energy costs. We’re supposed to get a new Energy in this set – if we get a Dragon Energy, who wants to bet it’ll be a sort of Rainbow Energy for Dragon-types? How else are these going to be viable?

These cards reference the Dragon-type in their text for the first time. Since “D,” “R,” “G,” are all taken for Energy-types, we have decided to use “N” for these card spoilers.