Glalie -- Guardians Rising Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Glalie from the Guardians Rising Pokemon Card Set.  Glalie is a Stage 1, Water type Pokemon card, with a HP of 120. It has a x2 weakness to Metal type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three Colorless Energy card retreat cost.  Glalie does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move on this card is called Crunch, for two Water Energy cards this move does 40 damage, plus if you get a heads when flipping a coin, the defending Pokemon must have an Energy discarded from it.  Raging Floe is the second move on this card, for three Water Energy cards this move does 70 damage, plus 80 more damage if Glalie has any damage on it.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Glalie is a Stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Snorunt into play (I reviewed Snorunt from this set yesterday) and then evolve Snorunt into Glalie.  If you read yesterday's review of Snorunt, you'll know that I thought it was an average Basic Pokemon card overall.  The only negative on that card was its high retreat cost, other than that it had a solid HP and two good moves.  So knowing this about Snorunt and looking at this Glalie card, if you're building a Water type deck and are in need of a powerful attacker, I would highly recommend using Glalie in your deck.  Not only can you just use Snorunt as a starter type Pokemon and evolve it in the Active Pokemon spot, but you can use Pokemon that do damage to your own Pokemon with this Glalie card, all because of its Raging Floe move, which does 150 damage a turn for only three Water Energy cards.  So again, if you need a powerful Pokemon for your deck, definitely try and fit this card in.  Like Snorunt, this card has two good moves, an even better HP, but it does have a high retreat cost.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is an above average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Guardians Rising set.  Other than a high retreat cost, this card is excellent overall.  It has a high HP, and two great moves, the first move can prevent your opponent from attacking by having an Energy card discarded from their Active Pokemon, and its second move can do up to 150 damage a turn.  Combined with Snorunt from this set, I would give these two cards a combined 4 out of 5 rating.

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Glalie -- Plasma Blast Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Glalie from the Plasma Blast Pokemon Card Set.  Glalie is a stage 1, water type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100.  It has a x2 weakness to metal type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Glalie does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Powder Snow, this move requires two energy cards, one each of colorless and water, and does 30 damage, plus it puts the defending Pokemon to sleep.  Glalie's second move is called Reflect Energy, this move requires three energy cards to use, one water and two colorless, and does 60 damage, however after using the move you must move a water energy card attached to Glalie to one of your benched Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Glalie is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Snorunt into play (I reviewed Snorunt from this set yesterday) and then evolve Snorunt into Glalie.  Just to note, Snorunt does have two stage 1 evolution cards in this set in Glalie and Froslass, I'll be reviewing Froslass tomorrow and in that review will compare the two stage 1 evolutions of Snorunt.  So, if you read yesterday's review, you'll know that I thought Snorunt was an average basic Pokemon card that had two good moves, but its retreat cost was a little too high for my liking.  So after knowing this and summarizing Glalie in the overview section of this post, I would not recommend using the line of Snorunt and Glalie in a deck.  I say this because both Snorunt and Glalie's retreat costs are two energy cards and the strategy I would use with these two cards would be to put these cards into the active Pokemon spot early in the game and put the defending Pokemon to sleep giving you time to setup your benched Pokemon, I just don't like that you'll have to discard both energy cards attached to Glalie to retreat it and then have to attach two more energy cards if you want to use Glalie again.  Plus, if you don't want to retreat Glalie and want to use Reflect Energy you're going to have to keep attaching energy cards to Glalie to use that move more than one turn in a row.  So if I were to use this card in a deck, I would use a 2-1 line of Snorunt and Glalie, and like I just mentioned, use this line for its ability to put defending Pokemon to sleep.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an average to slightly below average stage 1 Pokemon card.  Even though I wouldn't use this card in a deck, I am still giving Glalie an average rating because that is what it is, average.  It has an above average hp, below average retreat cost, one above average move in Powder Snow, and one below average move in Reflect Energy.  So if you need 2 or 3 more water type Pokemon cards to use in your deck, this line wouldn't be my first choice but it wouldn't be my last choice either.  So overall, the line of Snorunt and Glalie from the Plasma Blast set would get a 3 out of 5 rating, both Snorunt and Glalie were 3 out of 5.

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