Now is the time to look back at the Pokémon TCG's Dark Obsidian expansion, which has also been announced. However, there was a leak in the last few hours, indicating that a new "intermediate" set might be on the way.
Let's go in order, and try to analyze the outputs one at a time. Scarlet and Violet's second expansion in Europe, which will have on the cover Pokémon such as Chien-Pao and Ting-Lu, two of the four legendaries from the Nefarious Quartet of Paldea.
Dark Obsidian will be released on August 9, the third expansion of the TCG set in Paldea, which will feature a beautiful Dark-type Charizard-EX Teracristal as well as an Electric-type Tyranitar-EX Teracristal.
Raging Surf, the fourth Scarlet and Violet expansion, is almost certain to be based on a Pokémon Teracristal, which will most likely be a special Garchomp-EX with Water Theratype. Gholdengo, the Treasure Pokémon introduced with the videogame adventures set in Paldea, is quite a certain name.
The possibility for the cards in this set to be distributed over several western expansions, rather than an actual standalone release, would be in Italy.
Scarlet and Violet's 3.5 expansion, which, according to PokéGuardian, should be placed between the release of Dark Obsidian and the release of Raging Surf, is for now unknown. The most common scenario is that it is the Western version of the Pokémon Card 151 set, which may also be released during the Pokémon World Championships in Yokohama in August.
