Monday, September 14, 2015

Ariados -- Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Review

Ariados Ancient Origins Pokemon Card
Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Ariados from the Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Set.  Ariados is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 70.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Ariados' Ability is called Poisonous Nest and says that during your turn you may use this Ability, it poisons both the defending Pokemon and your active Pokemon, but does not poison them if either is a grass type.  Besides the Ability, Ariados just has one move called Impound, this move for two energy cards, one each of grass and colorless, does 30 damage, plus it makes your opponent's active Pokemon unable to retreat during their next turn.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Ariados is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Spinarak into play (I reviewed Spinarak from this set yesterday) and then evolve Spinarak into Ariados.  If you read yesterday's review of Spinarak, you'll know that I thought that card was a very poor Basic Pokemon card, not only did it have a low HP, but it was limited in what it could do only having one attack that was based on a coin flip and didn't even do any damage.  So knowing this about Spinarak and looking at this Ariados card, the main reason why you would want to incorporate this Ariados card into a deck would be for its Ability, meaning you'll want to use this card in a mostly grass type deck since then it will never affect your own Pokemon.  Because you are just using this card for its Ability, only include a 1-1 line because of how poor Spinarak is.  Impound is a decent move, but because Ariados only has 70 HP, it would be best to keep it out of the active Pokemon spot.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Ancient Origins set.  This card would get a higher rating from me if it had more like an HP of 90 instead of such a low one, but other than that, both the Ability and move on this card are very good and I would definitely recommend using this Pokemon line in a grass type deck.  Together with Spinarak from this set, I would give both cards a 3 out of 5 rating, even though I gave Spinarak a 1, this card brings the whole line up to average.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Ariados from the Ancient Origins set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Sceptile EX, which is 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 --
How many total Ariados cards are in the English TCG?
Please respond by including your YouTube username and link to your YouTube channel.  If the question is quite tough, the first correct comment will win, otherwise I'll use a random number generator to choose a winner.

26 comments:

Cabal said...

There are a total of 9 Ariados cards in the English TCG, Ariados (27/111, Uncommon) from Neo Genesis, Dark Ariados (17/105, Rare) from Neo Destiny, Ariados (H3/H32, Rare Holo) and Ariados (3/147, Rare) from Aquapolis, Dark Ariados (30/109, Uncommon) from EX Team Rocket Returns, Ariados (2/115, Rare Holo) from EX Unseen Forces, Ariados (20/123, Rare) from Mysterious Treasures, Ariados (15/123, Rare) from HeartGold & SoulSilver and Ariados (6/98, Uncommon) from Ancient Origins.

cabalw

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnLY5kCyPH6tBOPfSjiVgsg

Kayc said...

Answer: 9

Youtube ID: Kenny Crossheart

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFgK9JQ5MDpVQ9oizfVM6w

Anonymous said...

There have been a total of 9 Ariados cards in the English TCG.

Channel: Cardboard Bender

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxobSuJnrSm_hQF82DZK1w

Unknown said...

Nine

Youtube ID: Alderon

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFfrO8n3Q_mdb8-u4DBo-1Q

Unknown said...

9

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCK8hJIdqb-C38qG0ejJ7cag

Zain

Unknown said...

There are 9.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSoazZxy8qrI0uxVy7pBytg

Unknown said...

9

jsills413
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzjX6RsUEGIUfeu4xevfCig

Unknown said...

There have been eight unique Ariados cards in the English TCG in total. That number rises to nine if you include the Holo and Non-Holo cards of Aquapolis as different cards. Those cards come from these expansions: Neo Genesis, Neo Destiny, Aquapolis, EX Team Rocket Returns, EX Unseen Forces, Diamond & Pearl: Mysterious Treasures, HeartGold & SoulSilver, and XY Ancient Origins.

Kai Tung Ng

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_wX6pMW7wFZFmb9E3XmOw

GreenTeaTG said...

There are a total of 9 different Ariados cards in the TCG
Youtube name: TGBlaznKira
Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQCeRsxm4oPfSnZMg844Sg

Unknown said...

Nine

AndréBernacchi
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkDyqBw81MxVR3kSxCofH6w

Unknown said...

Nine

VanessaBuda

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk2xD7O0tYOAV9dkhgjrflw

Ward said...

9

Ward Vercouter

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdLcfPuEBtNULBZww2D2lg

Unknown said...

9
Hill jlk

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I_qXVlFZBiCFAg5JHGneg

Unknown said...

9

Youtube ID: Bruno Pinheiro

Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ScELxZ2jBCRaCNNwLrlQA

Adolfo said...

9 different Ariados in TCG

User and channel name: Adolfo Morera

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFAccPxHCzwnZKhsEomJoAg

Unknown said...

9

-KiFoWnEzZz

My YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjolQM5P1y-jacNsexfMsA

Dancvg said...

There are 9 Ariados cards in the english TCG (11 counting japanese-exclusive cards.)
Daniel Chen
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLL8CERppiRcdWh7xNLnm4Q

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

There are nine total Aridos cards in the English TCG.

Primal Kyogre

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTvBt8m8OQe5HSOqa8t55iQ

Unknown said...

There are actually nine total Ariados Pokemon Cards.

Hoopa EX

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIABBCybvc7rp1sVvdPi_vg

Unknown said...

Nine

Martin T

https://www.youtube.com/user/BRISINGRRRRR

Unknown said...

9!

BurstAngelJo99
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCADekaoDMlioVTRnxU1E-qw

Unknown said...

9!

Asin TCG

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxMJHG_E19dIiUoOvS44rpg

Unknown said...

There are 9 different Ariados cards in TCG.

Chasista said...

Nine of them

Chasista

https://www.youtube.com/user/Chasista

PrimetimePokemon said...

Congrats to Cabal for winning!