Umbreon -- Plasma Freeze Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Umbreon from the Plasma Freeze Pokemon Card Set.  Umbreon is a stage 1, darkness type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100.  It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Umbreon's Ability is called Dark Shade and says that each of your Team Plasma Pokemon in play get 20 more hp.  Besides the Ability, Umbreon just has one move called Darkness Fang, this move requires three energy cards, two colorless and one darkness, and does 70 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Umbreon is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Eevee into play, like I mentioned in earlier Eevee-evolution reviews from this set, there are actually two Eevee cards in this set but I have not reviewed either of them yet, you may also want to consider using one of the two Eevee cards from the Dark Explorers set, and then evolve Eevee into Umbreon.  Because I haven't reviewed either Eevee cards from this set yet I won't talk now about which one of those cards are best to use, but regardless of which one you use, if you want to use Umbreon in a deck, I would definitely use this card in a Team Plasma deck.  I would include almost all Team Plasma cards in the deck and then have two of these in the deck.  I would try and get one of the Umbreon cards on the bench as soon as possible and then use its Ability every turn to make all of your Pokemon have 20 more hp.  I would definitely put three energy cards on Umbreon to use Darkness Fang, because this is an above average move and one that requires mostly colorless energy cards.  So again, I would definitely recommend using this Eevee-evolution in a deck, it will definitely help your team out mightily.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 5 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an above average stage 1 Pokemon card from the Plasma Freeze Pokemon card set and there aren't many stage 1 Pokemon cards out there that I like better than this Umbreon card.  I like that Umbreon's Ability greatly improves your entire team (if they're Team Plasma Pokemon) so you don't even have to move it into the active Pokemon spot to feel the effects of this card.  But if you do move the card into the active Pokemon spot, you'll be able to do above average damage every turn with Darkness Fang.  Just make sure to get three energy cards on this card before you move it to the active Pokemon spot so you can attack right away, but even if you don't, it does have above average hp and a very low retreat cost.

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Umbreon #61/108 -- Dark Explorers Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Umbreon from the Dark Explorers Pokemon Card Set.  This is actually the second, uncommon Umbreon card I have reviewed from this set, the first one I reviewed awhile back since it was one of the first card scans released from the Dark Explorers set.  So, this Umbreon card is a stage 1, darkness type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100.  It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Umbreon doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Confuse Ray and for one colorless energy card it does 20 damage and confuses the defending Pokemon.  Umbreon's second move is called Shadow Shutdown and for three colorless energy cards, two colorless and one darkness, it does 60 damage and if you get two heads when you flip two coins you can discard all the energy cards from your opponent's active Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, I would recommend using this card in a dual type deck for a couple of reasons, the first is that Umbreon requires mostly colorless energy cards to attack and the second reason would be that you can pair Umbreon with another Eevee evolution, and then have 4 Eevee cards in the deck and then two each of Umbreon and whatever other Eevee evolution you would like.  I would try to get Umbreon into the game early on so you can start confusing your opponent's Pokemon, but if you can't get it out early, I would recommend putting it on your bench, attaching three energy cards to it, and waiting for your opponent to put a Pokemon with a lot of energy cards attached to it in the active Pokemon spot, I would then move Umbreon into that active Pokemon spot and use Shadow Shutdown until Umbreon is knocked out or retreated, I would hope to get lucky and flip 2 coins so my opponent would have to discard all their energy on that active Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  This card is a little above average but not extremely high above average, that's why I'm still giving it a 3 out of 5.  Between the two Umbreon cards from this set, both are fairly similar so if you like Umbreon and want to use Umbreon in your deck I would suggest using 1 of this card and 1 of the other card.  I do like the fact that this card has a high hp, can confuse a Pokemon, and do 60 damage, but the 60 damage is an average move, and you only have a 25% chance of being able to remove all the energy attached to the defending Pokemon when using that move.

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