Silcoon -- Roaring Skies Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Silcoon from the Roaring Skies Pokemon Card set.  Silcoon is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 80.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  Silcoon does not have an Ability and it only has one move.  The one move it does have is called String Shot, for one grass energy card this move does 10 damage, plus if you get a heads when attacking, the defending Pokemon is paralyzed.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Silcoon is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Wurmple into play (I reviewed Wurmple from this set yesterday) and then evolve Wurmple into Silcoon.  Silcoon does have a stage 2 evolution in Beautifly that you'll probably want to use with this Pokemon line but since I haven't reviewed that card yet, the strategy below will act like Silcoon is the final evolution in this line.  So if you read yesterday's review of Wurmple, you'll know that I thought it was a below average Basic Pokemon card.  The card had a good HP and two moves, but it just didn't impress me that much and needed two energy cards to actually do damage to the defending Pokemon.  When using Wurmple with one of its Stage 1 forms, the card actually would be better because then it would make more sense to use both the moves it has, the other move allowing you to retrieve a Wurmple from your deck and put it onto the bench.  So knowing this about Wurmple and looking at this Silcoon card, I would not recommend using either of these two cards without using Beautifly in a deck.  In my opinion Silcoon is even worse than Wurmple, it does less damage, has a higher retreat cost, and only has one move.  So there is no reason at all to use just Wurmple and Silcoon in a deck, you'll not want to put Silcoon into the active Pokemon spot because the retreat cost is two energy cards higher than its attack cost.

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.  This card should only be used to get Wurmple from Silcoon to Beautifly.  This card only has one move, it is decent if it were on a Basic Pokemon but very poor on a Stage 1, add in a below average HP and a high retreat cost, and this is one poor card.  Together with Wurmple from this set, I would give these two cards a combined 1 out of 5 rating.

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Silcoon -- Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Silcoon from the Dragons Exalted Pokemon Card Set.  Silcoon is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 80.  Silcoon evolves from Wurmple which I reviewed yesterday and evolves into Beautifly which I'll be reviewing tomorrow.  Silcoon has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  Silcoon does not have an Ability, but it does have two moves, the first move is called Harden which takes one colorless energy card and prevents your opponent from doing any damage to you unless the opposing Pokemon can do 70 damage or more per turn.  Silcoon's second move is called Bug Bit which takes three energy cards, two colorless and one grass and does 40 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, even though Silcoon is a stage 1 Pokemon card that has a stage 2 evolution in Beautifly and I usually recommend keeping stage 1 cards like this on the bench until you can evolve it, I would recommend putting Silcoon in the active Pokemon spot as soon as you can, especially early on the in the game, that way you can use Harden every turn to guarantee you can't be attacked and then either add energy cards to Silcoon in preparation for its evolution or set up your benched Pokemon while Silcoon is providing you with some time.  I would try and get three energy cards on Silcoon as soon as possible so I could keep using Harden every turn and set up the bench Pokemon after that, and if you have to you can use Bug Bite to hopefully knock out weak basic Pokemon in two turns.  Looking ahead at tomorrow's card review, Beautifly can't do any more damage than Silcoon can, so I would recommend this card for its Harden move, and use Harden as long as possible to set up your other Pokemon, then when Silcoon is knocked out or you retreat it (I would let it get knocked out because it has a high retreat cost), I would put in a Pokemon that is ready to attack.  So out of the two Pokemon in this line so far, I would recommend using a 1-1 line of Wurmple and Silcoon in a grass type deck, this line would be for a defensive deck.  After tomorrow's Beautifly review I'll be reviewing Wurmple's other evolution in Cascoon.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  This is an extremely good defensive card in my opinion, the only reason I'm giving this an average rating is because Silcoon has many negatives to go with its good defensive, it has a low hp, high retreat cost, and can only do 40 damage for three energy cards which isn't much.  But if you're looking for 2 cards for a grass type deck, you can't go wrong with 1 each of Silcoon and Wurmple.

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