Groudon -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Groudon from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card Set.  Groudon is a basic, fighting type Pokemon card with an hp of 130, it has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost.  Groudon does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Rock Smash, for two energy cards, one each of fighting and colorless, this move does 20 damage, plus 20 more damage if you get a heads when you flip a coin.  Groudon's second move is called Break Ground, this move requires four energy cards to attack, three fighting and one colorless, and does 100 damage, however it does do 10 damage to each of your benched Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Groudon is a basic Pokemon with no evolutions, you only have to use this Pokemon in your deck if you want to use this card.  With that being said, if I were to use this card in a deck at all, it would only be to use it for Groudon's Break Ground move.  So I would put this card on the bench and get four energy cards on it before moving it to the active Pokemon spot that way I could do Break Ground immediately and I would be able to retreat Groudon if need be, but I would prefer to use a Retreat trainer card.  Because Groudon does damage to your own Pokemon, I would either not have many Pokemon on the bench or find a way to quickly heal 10 damage or more from each of your Pokemon at one time.  Because this card does do damage to your own Pokemon, I would not use more than one of these in a deck and if you can find another card that does 100 damage or more a turn, I would recommend using that one over this Groudon card.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is an average Basic Pokemon card from the Primal Clash set.  There are both positives and negatives about this card, for positives it has a high HP, and two powerful moves, however this card has an extremely high retreat cost, does damage to your own Pokemon, and takes four energy cards to do its major attack.  So weighing the positives and negatives on this card makes it about average and a toss up if it should be used in a deck or not.

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