Gardevoir -- Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Gardevoir from the Ancient Origins Pokemon Card Set.  Gardevoir is a stage 2, fairy type Pokemon card, with an hp of 130.  It has a x2 weakness to metal type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to darkness type Pokemon, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Gardevoir's Ability is called Bright Heal and says that once per turn you may heal 20 damage from each of your Pokemon.  Besides the Ability, Gardevoir just has one move called Telekinesis, this move requires three colorless energy cards to use and does 50 damage to one of your opponent's Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Gardevoir is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Ralts into play and then evolve it into Kirlia before you can evolve Kirlia into Gardevoir, 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 Ralts was an average Basic Pokemon card, one that could be used on its own as a starter type Pokemon since it had a solid HP, two moves, and a low retreat cost, however I recommended either using that card by itself or using this entire family because I thought Kirlia from this set was underpowered and had a lower HP than I'd like.  So knowing this about the first two Pokemon in this line and taking a look at Gardevoir, the main reason you would want to use this entire line of Pokemon is to take advantage of Gardevoir's Ability which can heal 20 damage from each of your Pokemon in play each turn.  Because you aren't using this card as an attacker but instead keeping it on your bench, I wouldn't use more than a 1-1-1 line of this entire line.  I would also make sure you have plenty of Pokemon in your deck that either have a free retreat cost or a very powerful Pokemon card that does damage to your own Pokemon, either way, you can then make sure to move those damaged Pokemon to your bench and heal them every turn with Gardevoir.  It is nice that this card requires only colorless energy cards to attack meaning it fits in any type deck, but doing 50 damage for three energy cards is definitely an underpowered move.

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.  You definitely can't beat being able to heal 20 damage a turn from all of your Pokemon in play, it is like you are using multiple Potion cards each turn.  But, if you don't want to use this card for its healing ability, I wouldn't recommend using this line in a deck, just use Ralts as a starter type Pokemon at the most.  Altogether, I would give this line a 3 out of 5 rating, it is very solid overall and can be used in a multitude of decks.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
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Gardevoir -- Dark Explorers Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Gardevoir from the Dark Explorers Pokemon Card Set.  This is a stage 2, psychic type Pokemon card, with an hp of 110.  It has a x2 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Gardevoir's Ability is called Psychic Mirage and says that each psychic energy card attached to your psychic type Pokemon provides two psychic energy cards instead of one.  Besides the Ability, Gardevoir only has one move called Mind Shock which takes four energy cards, two each of colorless and psychic, and does 60 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, this is a card you'll definitely want to have in any psychic type deck you create.  Not only does Gardevoir's Ability improve the speed with which your team is able to attack, but it limits the amount of psychic energy cards you actually need in your deck since when you're using Psychic Mirage all energy cards are worth twice as much.  Since Gardevoir's Ability is so important I would definitely recommend keeping Gardevoir on the bench at all times, since it only has 110 hp, you need to prevent Gardevoir from getting much damage on it and thus getting knocked out.  I would either have a 2-2-1 or 3-2-1 line of Gardevoir and its pre-Evolutions in my deck.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  Even though Gardevoir's Ability is so great, I still cannot give this card anything better than a 3 out of 5 rating.  The reason I can't give it a great rating is because its hp is too low and it can't do very much damage.  Plus it is hard to know how to use this card, do you put a full line of Gardevoir in your deck so you can for sure use its Ability or do you have maybe 1 Gardevoir in your deck to limit the number of spots in your deck with Pokemon you are just going to keep on the bench?  Either of these questions result in problems for your deck, the first causes you to have too many Pokemon in your deck that aren't very good, and the second option may result in you not being able to use Gardevoir at all because you only have one of them and you never can get it out of your deck during play.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Gardevoir from the Dark Explorers set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of another Archeops card from the same set.