Metagross 49/98 -- Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Metagross from the Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Set.  This is the first of two consecutive Metagross cards I'll be reviewing on my blog.  Metagross is a stage 2, metal type Pokemon card, with an hp of 150.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost.  Metagross's Ability is called Magnetic Warp, and it says once per turn you may switch your active Pokemon with one of your benched Pokemon, if you do this, your opponent must do the same.  Besides the Ability, Metagross just has one move called Iron Cannon, this move requires four energy cards to use, two each of metal and colorless, and does 80 damage plus 80 more damage if you choose to discard all metal energy attached to Metagross.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Metagross is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Beldum into play and then evolve it into Metang before you can evolve Metang into Metagross, both of those Pokemon are from this set and I've reviewed both of them the last two days.  If you've read my reviews of those cards you'll know that I thought the two cards were slightly below average overall, I thought Beldum was a little limited because it could only do 10 damage a turn unless you wanted to put three energy cards on a Basic Pokemon and I thought Metang was average, neither move was great it had, just by itself, but with some luck, one move Metang had could do major damage.  So knowing this about the first two cards in this line, and knowing there is another Metagross card in this set, the main reason you'd want to use this specific Metagross in your deck would be for its Ability.  You could just have a 1-1-1 line of this entire Pokemon family and keep Metagross on the bench the whole time, thus allowing you to retreat all of your Pokemon for free.  Also, if this card was put into a spread damage type deck, and you were able to get damage on all of the defending Pokemon, your opponent would be forced to switch their active Pokemon with one on their bench that also has damage on it, making it that much easier to knock it out.

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 Ancient Origins set, based solely on its Ability.  If you can't utilize its Ability in your deck, don't use this line.  I am not a huge fan of Metagross' only move, not only does it require a lot of energy cards to use, but to do major damage, you may have to discard four energy cards.  So looking at the entire line of Beldum, Metang, and Metagross from this set, I would give them a 3 out of 5 rating, not anything that needs to be in your deck.

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

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