I don't see why you consider those products not being released to be a mess. It would have been damaging to the game TO release them. The Japanese market is less concerned about game balance (they have less large tournaments than elsewhere, for example), so keeping so many things like that in format doesn't hurt them as much. Keeping things like Shaymin-EX in-format here would be a disastrous decision. Also, realistically, reprint sets simply don't do as well here. Of the four reprint sets we've had (Base Set 2, Legendary Collection, Call of Legends and Legendary Treasures), I'm pretty sure only Legendary Collection actually sold well. Certainly, judging by the number of later products that contained Call of Legends and Legendary Treasures packs, they had a lot of leftover stock.



Also, it's not like we get everything Japan does anyway. We didn't get anything from the Everyone's Exciting Battle set in BW, for instance. Of course, those were very basic, filler-level cards, so it's a little different. Plenty of other cards don't make it here, either.





Either way, I think it's clear that Pokemon is giving us as many of the cards from these kinds of sets as possible lately. (We got all the new cards from CP4, too.) So long as there isn't, say, an alternate art Shaymin-EX, this shouldn't be a problem. I would stop bringing this up, but really, some cards just need to go away forever. Shaymin-EX and Forest of Giant Plants are among them.

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