Alternative assets offer value because they may not move with the stock market, Fang said
Changing a card's text, usually to weaken their effects, is significantly different from retraining (creating a new card with a different name based on an already existing card)
It's not a guaranteed thing, but knowing the card you want is there is better than blindly pulling from a Booster Pack
With Red Gyarados being the first shiny Pokmon introduced to the series in Pokmon: Gold & Silver , Shining Magikarp followed suit in 2001 as an unnumbered promotional card
While the Extra Deck was only comprised of Fusion and Synchro Monsters at the time of the card's original Western release (it was released in 2001 in Japan, when only Fusion Monsters existed in what was then the Fusion Deck), in modern play the card could bring out a whole host of Xyz, Pendulum and Link Monsters with ease -- were it not for the card's errata
Product lineup and dates As I mentioned above, Pokmon TCG is taking a staggered release approach with a multitude of different products for the new set