Baltoy 32/98 -- Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Baltoy from the Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Set.  This is the second of two Baltoy cards I've reviewed from this set.  Baltoy is a basic, psychic type Pokemon card with an hp of 60.  It has a x2 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. This Baltoy card does have an Ancient Trait called Stop that prevents all effects of your opponent's Abilities used on this Pokemon.  Besides the Ancient Trait, this card just has one move called Future Spin which requires one psychic energy card to use and allows you to look at the top 3 cards of either player's deck and rearrange them in any order that you'd like.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Baltoy is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Claydol, which I'll be reviewing tomorrow, you'll more than likely want to use this card with that Pokemon.  However, since I haven't reviewed that card yet, I'll just act as though I plan on using this card without its evolution but I will be comparing both Baltoy cards later in this post.  So, on its own, I wouldn't recommend using this card in your deck mainly because it can't do any damage when attacking.  So if you just wanted a Basic Pokemon card to use in your deck as a starter type Pokemon, use yesterday's Baltoy card, otherwise, if you know that you want to mostly use Claydol in your deck and can get away with just keeping Baltoy on your bench, this Baltoy card would be the better card to use because you can keep it on the bench and use its Ancient Trait to help it stay there longer, plus if you have to move it to the active Pokemon spot you can mess with your opponent by rearranging their cards.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  So in my opinion, on its own, without considering Claydol, this is a below average Basic Pokemon card that shouldn't be used on its own, because if you have to put it in the active Pokemon spot you'll never be able to do any damage.  So do not use this card unless you're using it with Claydol, and again, if you want to use Baltoy in a deck, use yesterday's card.

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Baltoy 31/98 -- Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Baltoy from the Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Set.  This is the first of two Baltoy cards I'll be reviewing from this set.  Baltoy is a basic, psychic type Pokemon card with an hp of 60.  It has a x2 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. This Baltoy card does not have an Ability or an Ancient Trait but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Slap and for one psychic energy card this move does 10 damage.  Baltoy's second move is called Spinning Attack and for two energy cards, one each of colorless and psychic, this move does 20 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Baltoy is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Claydol, which I'll be reviewing in two days, you'll more than likely want to use this card with that Pokemon.  However, since I haven't reviewed that card yet and I haven't even reviewed the second Claydol card from this set yet, I'll just act as though I plan on using this card without its evolution and I do not know which Claydol card is better.  So, on its own, this card could definitely be used as a starter type Pokemon in a deck since it can attack for only one energy card, has more than one attack, and can retreat for only one energy card.  So if you're building a psychic type deck, I would definitely recommend at least giving this card a look, but you won't want to use more than one of these in a deck just because it isn't that great overall only being able to do 20 damage.  But strategy wise, you'll want to get this card into the active Pokemon spot to start the game and do up to 20 damage after the second turn while working on setting up your benched Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  So in my opinion, on its own, without considering Claydol, this is an average Basic Pokemon card from the Ancient Origins set.  Other than not being able to do a huge amount of damage, I have no complaints about this card.  This card has an average HP, low retreat cost, and two average moves, you can do plenty worse than using this card in your deck.

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Baltoy -- Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Baltoy from the Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Set.  Baltoy is a basic, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 60.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Baltoy does not have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Spinning Attack and for one colorless energy card this move does 10 damage.  Baltoy's second move is called Reverse Spin and for two colorless energy cards this move makes your opponent shuffle their hand into the deck and redraw only four cards.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Baltoy is a basic Pokemon that has a stage 1 evolution in Claydol, you'll want to keep Baltoy on your bench until you can evolve it into Claydol.  I would do this since Claydol is much better and can do much more damage than Baltoy can.  So what I would recommend doing is keeping Baltoy on the bench as long as possible and attaching three energy cards to it, so when you evolve it into Claydol (which I will be reviewing tomorrow), you can start attacking right away with it.  If you have to put Baltoy into the active Pokemon spot, I would use Spinning Attack every turn since it is the only move that does damage, and I would only use Reverse Spin if the opponent has a good amount of cards in their hand.  I would not recommend using this card on its own, you'll have to read tomorrow's review to see if I recommend using this card with Claydol.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is a solid basic Pokemon card.  I like how this card has two moves, only one does damage though, and both of its moves require only colorless energy cards so you can put this card into any type deck.  Besides that, Baltoy's hp is average, and its retreat cost is average as well.

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