Shiftry -- Flashfire Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Shiftry from the Flashfire Pokemon Card Set.  Shiftry is a stage 2, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 140.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Shiftry's Ability is called Leaf Draw, this allows you to discard a grass energy card from hand and draw up to three new cards from your deck.  Besides the Ability, Shiftry just has one move called Deranged Dance, this move requires three energy cards, two colorless and one grass, and does 20 damage times the number of benched Pokemon in play, both yours and your opponent's.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Shiftry is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Seedot into play and then evolve it into Nuzleaf before you can evolve Nuzleaf into Shiftry, both of those Pokemon are from this set and I've reviewed both of them the last couple of days.  Both of those Pokemon cards are pretty horrible, Seedot being extremely bad.  Because of this, I would hardly use any of the Pokemon in this line if I were using this line in a deck.  I would use a 1-1-1 line of Seedot, Nuzleaf, and Shiftry and I would try and set up this entire line on the bench.  That way I could put three energy cards on Shiftry and utilize Shiftry's Ability from the bench without having to move it to the active Pokemon spot.  Then when the game has gone on for awhile and both benches are full or close to full, I would move Shiftry into the active Pokemon spot, use Deranged Dance a couple of turns then retreat it back to the bench so I could continue to use its Ability.  This Ability allows you to remove any trainer cards from your deck that let you draw cards from your deck.

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 from the Flashfire set.  There isn't anything I don't like about this card, I like its hp of 140, it is solid, a 2 colorless energy card retreat cost is average, and then the Ability on this card is very good, and if Shiftry only had the Ability and no move I would still give this card an average rating.  I really like Shiftry's move especially if all of the bench spots are full, the reason I wouldn't give this card a 5 out of 5 is because Deranged Dance may end up doing no damage at all later in games.  Overall, I would give the entire line of Seedot, Nuzleaf, and Shiftry a 2 out of 5 rating and I probably wouldn't use this line in a deck.  Individually I gave these Pokemon a 1, 2, a 4 rating.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Shiftry from the Flashfire set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Roselia, which is from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

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