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The Standard format (then referred to as the Modified format) was introduced in 2001. Tournaments in the 2001-2002 season were played in a format that only allowed cards from the {{TCG|Team Rocket}} expansion on up through {{TCG|Neo Genesis}} (with the exception of {{TCG ID|Neo Genesis|Sneasel|25}}, which was banned). Since then, [[Play! Pokémon]] has continued to rotate out expansions once per year, usually after the [[World Championships]], to keep the game fresh and, some speculate, to keep players buying cards. The 2009-2010 tournament season did not feature a rotation, and the rotation for the 2010-2011 season rotated out only four expansions, keeping roughly two years' worth of cards in the pool. Additional expansions are added to the current {{TCG|Rotation}} three weeks after they are released in the United States. Starting from 2016, they were added to the current Rotation on the third Friday in the month of release. | The Standard format (then referred to as the Modified format) was introduced in 2001. Tournaments in the 2001-2002 season were played in a format that only allowed cards from the {{TCG|Team Rocket}} expansion on up through {{TCG|Neo Genesis}} (with the exception of {{TCG ID|Neo Genesis|Sneasel|25}}, which was banned). Since then, [[Play! Pokémon]] has continued to rotate out expansions once per year, usually after the [[World Championships]], to keep the game fresh and, some speculate, to keep players buying cards. The 2009-2010 tournament season did not feature a rotation, and the rotation for the 2010-2011 season rotated out only four expansions, keeping roughly two years' worth of cards in the pool. Additional expansions are added to the current {{TCG|Rotation}} three weeks after they are released in the United States. Starting from 2016, they were added to the current Rotation on the third Friday in the month of release. | ||
If a card in a Standard-legal expansion is a [[Reprinted card|reprint]] of an older card, all prints of the card can be played in a Standard-legal expansion-legal deck ( | If a card in a Standard-legal expansion is a [[Reprinted card|reprint]] of an older card, all prints of the card can be played in a Standard-legal expansion-legal deck (e.g. {{TCG|Base Set}} {{TCG ID|Base Set|Potion|94}}, recently reprinted in {{TCG|Black & White}}). However, some cards significantly differ in wording between older prints and newer prints (e.g. {{TCG ID|Base Set|Charizard|4}} from the {{TCG|Base Set}} compared to its {{TCG|Stormfront}} iteration); those cards require a reference outside the deck in order to use the older prints in a Standard-legal deck. A reference must be either a new version of the card or a printout of the card's entry from the official Card-Dex. The {{TCG|Yellow A Alternate cards}} were introduced in 2017 which were reprints of cards from previous expansions with an alternate artwork. These cards are only allowed in the same formats as the original print. | ||
==Foreign language cards== | ==Foreign language cards== | ||