Charizard -- Evolutions Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Charizard from the XY Evolutions Pokemon Card Set.  Charizard is a Stage 2, fire type Pokemon card, with a HP of 150.  It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  Charizard has an Ability called Energy Burn that says all cards attached to this Pokemon are fire type energy instead of their usual type.  Besides the Ability, this card just has one move called Fire Spin, for 4 fire energy cards, this move does 200 damage, however after using this move, you must discard 3 energy attached to Charizard.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Charizard is a Stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Charmander into play and then evolve it into Charmeleon before you can evolve Charmeleon into Charizard, 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 both cards were average to above average.  If used with Burning Energy, both Charmander and Charmeleon could be used on their own and without Charizard respectively.  But, as usual, you want to use the full evolution of a Pokemon family when deck building because the final evolution form is usually the best.  So, does the reprint of the almighty Base Set Charizard holo deserve a spot in your deck, possibly.  This Charizard card can do 200 damage a turn and keep the damage coming almost every turn if you do 1 of 2 things, you could either use Double Colorless energy cards on this card and utilize Charizard's Ability to quickly get 4 "fire" type energy cards on this card, or, stick to the same strategy as with the Basic and Stage 1 forms and use 4 Burning Energy cards in your deck, the only problem here, is that you'll need to put 3 of those Burning Energy cards on this card just be able to attack every turn.  So if you're building a fire type deck, I would strongly consider using this card, you'll just have to decide if you want to use so much energy on one card, and no that, 200 damage no longer can one hit knock out all Pokemon in the TCG, most Mega EX Pokemon have a higher HP than that.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an average to slightly above average Stage 2 Pokemon card from the Evolutions set.  For nostalgia reasons I am probably giving this card a little better rating than it deserves, but if played right in a deck, this card can do 200 damage a turn for only three energy cards.  What makes this card even better is that both Charmander and Charmeleon from this set are good, altogether I would give this line a 4 out of 5 rating.  If only Blastoise and Venusaur holo reprints would have been in this set...

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Charizard EX Full Art -- Flashfire Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Charizard EX and Charizard EX Full Art from the Flashfire Pokemon Card Set.  There are two Charizard EX cards in this set, but only this card is available in both EX and EX Full Art versions.  Charizard EX is a basic, EX, fire type Pokemon card with an hp of 180. It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Charizard does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Stoke, this move requires one colorless energy card and allows you to flip a coin, if you get a heads you can search your deck for three energy cards and attach them to Charizard.  Charizard's second move is called Fire Blast this move requires four energy cards, three colorless and one fire, and does 120 damage.  After using this move you must discard an energy card attached to Charizard.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, because Charizard EX is a basic Pokemon card you won't need to use any other cards with this card.  But remember, because this card is an EX card, if this card is knocked out, two prize cards are taken instead of one.  So knowing this, and seeing that Charizard really only has one move that can do damage and that move requires four energy cards you'll want to limit the number of these cards you use.  Ideally, you would get this card into the active Pokemon spot very early in the game, use Stoke the first couple of turns hoping to get a heads and then getting up to 6 energy cards on Charizard very quickly.  Then you would use Fire Blast every turn knocking out most basic Pokemon in 1 turn and all Pokemon in 2 turns.  I would probably put 2 of these cards in a fire type deck.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 5 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is a very good EX Pokemon card from the Flashfire set.  Besides looking really cool in Full Art form, I like how Fire Blast can do 120 damage every turn and once you get the necessary energy cards on Charizard you can more than likely use that move every turn.  This card is pretty slow if you aren't able to get a heads when using Stoke but once this card is set up, it will be very dominant for you.

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Charizard -- Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Charizard from the Boundaries Crossed Pokemon Card Set.  Charizard is a stage 2, fire type Pokemon card, with an hp of 160.  Charizard is the stage 2 evolution of Charmeleon, and before that Charmander, both of those Pokemon I have reviewed the past couple of days, and both of those Pokemon are in this set.  Charizard has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  Charizard does not have an Ability, but it does have two moves.  The first move it has is called Split Bomb and for three energy cards, two colorless and one fire, this move does 40 damage to two of your opponent's Pokemon.  Charizard's other move is called Scorching Fire and for five energy cards, one fire and four colorless, this move does 150 damage, however after using this move you must discard a fire energy card attached to Charizard.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Charizard is a stage 2 Pokemon, you'll have to first get Charmander and then Charmeleon into play.  The easiest way to get a ton of energy cards on Charizard is to evolve Charmander into Charmeleon and then Charmeleon into Charizard on your bench, while you continuously put energy cards on this line, so when you do move Charizard into the active Pokemon spot you have 6 or more energy cards on Charizard.  Another, quicker way to get energy cards on Charizard is to put Charmander in the active Pokemon spot right away, make sure you have energy cards in your discard pile, and use its Draw In move that allows you to get two energy cards from your discard pile and attach them to Charmander.  You could use this move 3 times and have 7 energy cards on Charmander, then you could retreat it out and evolve it into Charizard on your bench.  Regardless of how you get energy cards on Charizard, when you put it into the active Pokemon spot, your hope is to be able to use Scorching Fire once and knock out the defending Pokemon.  But if you don't have five energy cards on Charizard or you don't want to put that many on Charizard, you could always put this Pokemon line in a spread damage type deck, and use Split Bomb every turn, and knock out multiple Pokemon at once after a few turns.  After reviewing all three Pokemon from this line, I would definitely recommend using Charizard in a deck, I would use a 4, 3, 2 line of Charmander, Charmeleon, and Charizard in a fire type deck, this line would be the line I build it around.

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.  This card has a high hp, and two great moves, one that can do a ton of damage to one Pokemon in one turn, the other move does a fair amount of damage to two Pokemon at once.  Even though this card does have two great moves and a good hp, both of its moves require a lot of energy, so this card is slow, so be prepared to use most your energy cards in your deck on this Pokemon.  Overall, I would give this card a 3 to 4 out of 5 rating, I think Charizard is above average, but both of its previous evolutions are only average.

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