Yesterday, Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket's next expansion, Extradimensional Crisis, was announced. Following on from the Sun and Moon-focused Celestial Guardians, Extradimensional Crisis introduces fearsome Ultra Beasts to the digital TCG for the first time.
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While many have been concerned about how these new cards will impact the game's meta, some eagle-eyed players have spotted a very confusing connection between the game's new cards, and they're trying to figure out exactly what it means.
First spotted on Reddit by user Poison_Soda, each one of Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket's new Ultra Beast cards has an attack named after a music genre, for some reason.
The Pokemon and their moves are as follows:
This even extends to a Pokemon coming from an upcoming event, with Ultra Necrozma ex having a move called Shoegaze when it's released as part of the game's next drop event.
As you can see, many of these moves are linked to obscure music genres, which has led to some big-brain theories from the Pokemon TCG Pocket community.
Blargen69 suggested that the naming convention was a "Close Encounters of the Third Kind reference," due to the fact that "the...