Electivire -- Burning Shadows Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Electivire from the Burning Shadows Pokemon Card Set.  Electivire is a Stage 1, Lightning type Pokemon card, with a HP of 140. It has a x2 weakness to Fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to Metal type Pokemon, and a four 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 Thunder Punch, for three Energy cards, one Lightning and two Colorless, this move does 60 damage plus 60 more damage if you get a heads when flipping a coin, unfortunately this move does 20 damage to Electivire if you get a tails when flipping a coin.  This card's second move is called Giga Impact, for four Energy cards, two Lightning and two Colorless, this move does 170 damage, however Electivire isn't able to attack during your next turn.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Electivire is a Stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Electabuzz into play (I reviewed Electabuzz from this set yesterday) and then evolve Electabuzz into Electivire.  If you read yesterday's review of Electabuzz, you'll know I thought it was a below average card overall, although it had an above average HP and two moves, both moves on the card were slow and below average damage wise, so I didn't recommend using it on its own.  Knowing this about Electabuzz and looking at this Electivire card, this card follows the same path, it has a great HP for a Stage 1 Pokemon and it has two moves, both slow on the attack.  This card may be worth consideration in a Lightning type deck just because it can do up to 170 damage per turn, but you'll have to retreat Electivire each turn after using Giga Impact so you can attack two turns in a row.

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.  Despite having two heavy attack costs and a really high retreat cost, if you can get the necessary Energy on Electivire and put a Float Stone Trainer, this card has potential to do a good amount of damage.  However, with how poor Electabuzz is in this set, I would give the two Pokemon a 2 out of 5 rating combined.

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

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