Shedinja -- Roaring Skies Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Shedinja from the Roaring Skies Pokemon Card Set.  Shedinja is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 30.  It does not have a weakness or resistance but it does have a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Shedinja does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Cursed Rain, for one grass energy card this move allows you to put one damage counter on each of your opponent's Pokemon and then to switch out Shedinja for one of your benched Pokemon.  Shedinja's second move is called Hopeless Scream, this move requires one colorless energy card to use and does 50 damage times the number of damage counters on Shedinja, which would do a maximum of 100 damage a turn.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Shedinja is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Nincada into play (I reviewed Nincada from this set two days ago) and then evolve Nincada into Shedinja.  Nincada has another Stage 1 evolution in Ninjask, which I reviewed yesterday and I will comparing both of Nincada's Stage 1 forms at the end of this section..  If you read my review of Nincada, you'll know that I thought it was a very poor Basic Pokemon card, mainly because it had such a low HP, but it also only had one move and the one move it did have did damage to itself making Nincada's HP that much lower.  So knowing this about Nincada and looking at this Shedinja card, the only time I would recommend using this card in a deck is if I were building a spread damage type deck, that way I could get damage on all Pokemon at once and then if I had another card that did let's say 20 damage to each of your opponent's Pokemon that already had damage on them, everything would work perfectly.  But, if you're not building a spread damage type deck, I would recommend avoiding this card altogether, it has way too low of an HP.  So if you use this line in a spread damage type deck, use a 1-1 line and get Shedinja into the active Pokemon spot early so it can't be knocked out in one move.  So after reviewing both Shedinja and Ninjask from this set, I would say Ninjask is a bit more solid and a safer card to use in a deck, whereas there's a lot of risk to use Shedinja in a deck.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 1 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is a very poor Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Roaring Skies set, unless you're building a spread damage type deck.  I just cannot fathom using a card, especially a Stage 1 card, with only 30 HP.  But, if you think you can get it to work in a spread damage type deck, it would be worth using.  Combined with Nincada from this set, I can't give these two Pokemon higher than a 1 out of 5 rating, more than likely you should avoid this Pokemon family.

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Shedinja -- Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Shedinja from the Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Set.  Shedinja is a stage 1, psychic type Pokemon card, with an hp of 60.  It does not have a weakness, resistance or retreat cost.  Shedinja is one of two evolutions of Nincada, I reviewed Nincada's other stage 1 evolution in Ninjask yesterday.  Shedinja's Ability is called Empty Shell and says that if Shedinja is knocked out your opponent can't take any prize cards for knocking this Pokemon out.  Besides the Ability, Shedinja has one move called Cursed Drop which takes one psychic energy card and does 30 damage to any of your opponent's Pokemon in any way you would like to distribute that 30 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Shedinja is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you need to evolve a Nincada to be abe to use Shedinja.  There are two ways you can do this, the first is the standard way of having Nincada on the bench or in the active Pokemon spot and moving Shedinja from your hand and putting it on top of Nincada, the other way is to have Nincada on the bench or in the active Pokemon spot, evolve Nincada into Ninjask and use Ninjask's Ability to search your deck or hand for Shedinja and put it onto your bench without placing it on Nincada first.  I would recommend the second method of getting Shedinja into play, this way you can evolve Pokemon quicker and evolve two Pokemon at once, with only needing one basic Pokemon card.  I would use Shedinja in a grass and psychic type deck, like I mentioned yesterday, I would include this card with Nincada and Ninjask (both grass type Pokemon) and Dustox (psychic type) and Beautifly (grass type).  I would include other Pokemon in this deck that can spread damage, and I would try to move Shedinja into the active Pokemon spot whenever the defending Pokemon can't do much damage, I would use Cursed Drop a time or two then retreat it for free.  I would do this throughout the entire game until Shedinja is knocked out.  That way it will be that much easier for my other Pokemon to knock out my opponent's Pokemon because almost all of them coming into the active Pokemon spot should have previous damage on them.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating.  Like yesterday, this card has a very low hp for a stage 1 Pokemon card, but since this Pokemon basically doesn't count if it is knocked out, this isn't as big of deal to me as it is with Ninjask.  That is why I'm giving this card a better rating than Ninjask.  Pluses on this card also include the ability to spread damage, and the fact that this card has no weakness or retreat cost.

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