Simisear -- Burning Shadows Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Simisear from the Burning Shadows Pokemon Card Set.  Simisear is a Stage 1, Fire type Pokemon card, with a HP of 90. It has a x2 weakness to Water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one Colorless Energy card retreat cost.  This card does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move on this card is called Scratch, for one Colorless Energy card, this move does 30 damage.  The second move on this card is called Flare Recharge, for two Energy cards, one each of Fire and Colorless, this move does 50 damage, plus it allows you to attach a Fire Energy from your discard pile to one of your Benched Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Simisear is a Stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Pansear into play (I reviewed Pansear from this set yesterday) and then evolve Pansear into Simisear.  If you read yesterday's review of Pansear, you'll know that I thought that card was slightly below average overall.  The card did have an above average HP, but it only had one move that did a maximum of 10 damage per turn, making the card very limited in play and not one to use in the Active Pokemon spot any other time than to start the game.  Knowing this about Pansear and looking at this Simisear card, I actually think this is a useful card for a Fire type deck.  Of course you're going to want to use 4 Burning Energy cards in your deck, so that if you have to discard an Energy card when attacking, you can immediately re-attach it, but if you need a quick way to get Fire Energy cards from your discard pile onto your Benched Pokemon, any type, not just Fire type Pokemon, this Simisear card may be for you.  I like how Scratch can use any type of Energy card and can attack quickly, plus, Flare Recharge does do a solid amount of damage for only two Energy cards in addition to re-attaching a discarded Energy card.  So while this card has to be in the Active Pokemon spot to be effective, if you're building a Fire type deck, this is certainly a card to consider.

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 Burning Shadows set.  Like I mentioned above, this card is very solid overall, having a good HP, and two quick attacking moves that both do a fair amount of damage, plus, if you're using lots of Fire Energy cards in your deck, this card is a good way to retrieve those cards from the discard pile.  Together with Pansear from this set, both cards get a 3 out of 5 rating from me.

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

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