That really is some huge news. For those who don't know, the last time the TCG has had a Pichu card was from Heartgold and Soulsilver. The baby Pokemon Tyrogue has only had five Pokemon cards since Gen 2. Some Gen 4 baby Pokemon like Bonsly had only one card, not including the promotional cards.
Why?
He broke one or more of Twitter's rules. I don't know any specific reason as to how Verlis got banned from Twitter.
No clue but it probably has to do with the fact that Baby Pokemon are basically a great way to search for a specific Pokemon from your decks. I say that because the newest baby Pokemon cards don't have the evolution mechanics anymore. For example, Cleffa no longer can evolve into Clefairy straight-away but instead gives you the chance to draw six cards with a coin toss. Actually that's another oddity about the baby Pokemon that I'm not too sure about. From the looks of it, you can't even evolve the new baby Pokemon cards in the regular way either.
However, those two were introduced in the same generation as their evolved forms (Togetic and Lucario respectively) and as a result they did not follow the same rules as the other baby Pokemon.
I don't know as the news is still brand new. Even the TCG analysis guys are somewhat unsure as there's nothing in the card that states it can evolve into it's next evolution which breaks the tradition of the original baby Pokemon. From the looks of it, a lot of people are guessing you can't evolve baby Pokemon for the SM meta.
Yes. They are effectively single stage in this set. Baby Pokémon also had an additional ruling that made them partially invulnerable to non-Baby Pokémon's attacks, but this was removed in BW era apparently.
Heheheh. You didn't complete that sentence. "I wouldn't be surprise if Gen 8 was announced after Alola."
You know what I mean!!
I expect Blue to get his own card eventually. Weirdly, despite how big of a character he is in the games, Blue has never appeared at all in the TCG.Red finally gets his very own TCG card! Like Blue (Fem Protag), this is Red's very first appearance in the TCG as his own very card and this is his second appearance in the TCG since Red's Pikachu, which features Red's Pikachu. The card is called "Red's Challenge" and it's basically the Supporter version of "Computer Search" which was pretty OP as an item card during it's day, Supporter cards can only be played once per turn whereas Item cards can be played as much as you want.
I think it's actually pretty understandable. Red & Green (Rival) didn't really had names back than and Blue (Fem Protag) never existed in the main canon originally.
I think that we're getting the starters, maybe the box legends, the titles, and some game footage. I don't think that there will be a Mega Mewtwo Z.