Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Scolipede -- Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card Review

Scolipede Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card
Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Scolipede from the Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card Set.  Scolipede is a stage 2, psychic type Pokemon card, with an hp of 150.  Scolipede is the stage 2 evolution of Whirlipede, and before that Venipede, both of those Pokemon I have reviewed the past couple of days, and both of those Pokemon are in this set.  Scolipede has a x2 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost.  Scolipede's Ability is the same as its previous two evolutions, its Ability is called Poison Point and says that if Scolipede is your active Pokemon and is attacked, the attacking Pokemon is now poisoned.  Besides the Ability, Scolipede has one move called Venoshock which requires four energy cards, two each of colorless and psychic, and does 80 damage plus 40 more damage if the defending Pokemon is poisoned.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Scolipede is a stage 2 Pokemon, you'll have to first get Venipede and then Whirlipede into play.  If you read my previous two reviews, I like Venipede better than Whirlipede, so if you can start the game with Venipede I would, but if you don't, I would evolve this whole line of the bench.  Either way, you're going to want to get four energy cards on Scolipede and then use Venoshock every turn, if you evolve Venipede to Scolipede in the active Pokemon spot more than likely the defending Pokemon will be damaged already so Venoshock should do 120 damage per turn, but if not, it will do 80 damage the first turn and 120 damage the second turn.  I would only use a 2-1-1 line of Venipede, Whirlipede, and Scolipede in a psychic type deck.  I would only use this amount of cards because Scolipede is quite slow and will take up too many energy cards if you have too many of them in your deck, this way with only 4 Pokemon from this line in your deck, you'll have a better chance of being able to set up this line on your bench instead of having to put one of these Pokemon into the active Pokemon spot before it's ready.  If you choose to use more Pokemon cards from this line in your deck I would recommend putting a couple basic Pokemon cards in there that can do a fair amount of damage but only require one or two energy cards to attack and have a low retreat cost.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is an above average stage 2 Pokemon card.  Even though this card is extremely slow to use and has a high retreat cost, I feel if you take the time to set this card up it can really be a determining factor in you winning the game.  120 damage per turn is quite a bit, especially when you can use the same move every turn without discarding energy cards.  So overall, this is a solid Pokemon line that I'll give a 3 out of 5 rating.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Scolipede from the Boundaries Crossed set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Gothita from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

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Today's Quiz for a Pokemon TCG Online Code Card --
Which Pokemon theme deck includes Scolipede as the special holo card?
Please respond by commenting with your answer and a link to your YouTube channel.

28 comments:

Joshua Kjx said...

Toxic Tricks

http://www.youtube.com/user/Turb0J0sh

tvOBT said...

Holographic Scolipede is exclusive to the Cracked Ice Holo Toxic Tricks theme deck.

www.youtube.com/magicmerliny

Unknown said...

Holographic Scolipede is exclusive to the Cracked Ice Holo Toxic Tricks theme deck.

www.youtube.com/user/chakuayteow

Unknown said...

Toxic Tricks theme deck.

Unknown said...

Scolipede is the special holo card in the Toxic Tricks theme deck.

http://www.youtube.com/user/iramj23

djstalk3r said...

Holographic Scolipede is exclusive to the Cracked Ice Holo Toxic Tricks theme deck.

Youtube username: danny2006mc

Youtube channel link: http://www.youtube.com/user/danny2006mc

Daniel Fermo de Oliveira said...

Toxic Tricks

http://www.youtube.com/user/KungWei

Unknown said...

Holographic Scolipede is exclusive to the Cracked Ice Holo Toxic Tricks theme deck.
youtube: Bob Builder
you can find me in ur subscribed people :D

JWLim said...

The Toxic Tricks Theme Deck from the Emerging Powers expansion.

Youtube Username: Jwern1994
Channel Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/Jwern1994

Anonymous said...

Toxic Kicks
Youtube - Lucas Cameron

Toh said...

The Toxic Tricks Theme Deck from the Emerging Powers expansion.

Username: maxtoh123

Unknown said...

Toxic Tricks theme deck.

http://www.youtube.com/user/KyzairChannel

Unknown said...

Toxic tricks theme deck includes Scolipede as the special holo card

Unknown said...

The Toxic Trick theme deck includes a Scolipede as a special holo card.

Youtube Username:RB68353
link to channel:
www.youtube.com/user/RB68353

Unknown said...

Special holographic Scolipede is a card found exclusively in the "Toxic Tricks" theme deck, from the Emerging Powers expansion.

Youtube: hfschippert

Unknown said...

Toxic tricks theme deck.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqMAp2tZkhFdgFPo-QQF5w

CALLEPOLIS said...
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CALLEPOLIS said...

Easy, Scolipede is from the Toxic tricks theme deck! :)

Youtube:www.youtube.com/user/xXs0

Unknown said...

Toxic Tricks deck
youtube niranmistry http://www.youtube.com/user/niranmistry

Unknown said...

You can get him from the Toxic Tricks theme deck.Youtube Username:DarkOriGiratina
link:http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkOriGiratina

Unknown said...

Scolipede is included as the special holo card in the theme deck "Toxic Tricks".

Username: Luis Espitia

Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsE_7IbOVz_qQBtiJcDSrtA?feature=mhee

kingcube said...

toxic tricks theme deck
http://www.youtube.com/user/MultiKillerface?feature=mhee

qwart said...

Toxic Tricks.

qwartkts

http://www.youtube.com/user/qwartkts

Alabrel said...

Tricksy Toxicses...

Yeah, I can't spell out a Gollum impression, but the theme deck is Toxic Tricks.

www.youtube.com/user/asaph437

Samuel Wu said...

Toxic Tricks theme deck

www.youtube.com/user/sambustaz

YunokiAz said...

The Toxic Tricks theme deck.

Username: YunokiAz

Link:http://www.youtube.com/user/YunokiAz?feature=mhee

PrimetimePokemon said...

Congrats to Joshua for winning!

Unknown said...

Toxic Trick