Pokemon Card of the Day: Unown P (Majestic Dawn)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Unown P from the Majestic Dawn set. This is a basic, psychic type Pokemon with an hp of 50. It has a +10 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Before I go any further the only reason I am reviewing this card is I wanted to review all the rare cards in the Majestic Dawn set and since this card is a rare I am going to review it. So Unown P's Poke-Power is called Put and it says that once during your turn if Unown P is on your bench you may put 1 damage counter on one of your Pokemon. Its only move is called Hidden Power and for one psychic energy card, Unown P does 20 damage plus 20 damage more for each unown card that is discarded when each player discards the top card from each of their decks. As far as strategy goes I would never use this card EVER, I absolutely hate Unown cards and there is absolutely no point to them. You can't evolve these cards so there is no point to using them, and its move Hidden Power will never do more than twenty damage unless both decks are just stocked with Unown cards which more than likely they won't be. I guess you could try to really strategize your deck and use moves or trainers that allow you to search for a card in your deck and then put it on the top of your deck but why would you want to have more than one Unown card in your deck? Also I don't understand Unown P's Poke-Power at all, why would you want to damage your own Pokemon? It does not make any sense at all, that is why I am giving this card a 0 out of 5, stay away from all Unown cards no matter what, there is no need for them in the TCG and I have no idea why the Pokemon creators even created these Pokemon at all, I absolutely hate them and there is no reason why an Unown card should ever be a rare card at all. So thanks for reading my bashing of Unown cards and stay tuned for a more positive review tomorrow of Vaporeon from the Majestic Dawn set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Umbreon (Majestic Dawn)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Umbreon from the Majestic Dawn set, this is a stage 1, dark type Pokemon card with an hp of 80. It has a +20 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Umbreon's Poke-Body is called Moonlight Veil and says that each of your Pokemon that evolves from Eevee has no weakness and a free retreat cost. Umbreon's only move is called Confuse Ray and does 50 damage and confuses the defending Pokemon for 3 energy cards for 3 energy cards, two colorless and 1 darkness energy cards. As far as strategy goes I would recommend using this card with the Espeon card from the same set since that card has a Poke-Body that increases the hp of each Pokemon that evolves from Eevee by 20. So if you had that card and this card in your deck any Eevee-Evolution would have free retreat costs, no weaknesses, and a hp that is 20 higher. And you wouldn't even have to attack with these cards you could just leave them on your bench, but if you did want to do an Eevee deck I would recommend putting a couple of special energy cards in the deck so you could use one of these cards if you wanted to, but you also could do a psychic and darkness type deck. As far as Umbreon's move is concerned it isn't bad since it basically has the possibility of doing 80 damage each time you use it since it will do 50 damage and then if your opponent flips a coin and gets tails that Pokemon will do 30 damage to itself and not be able to attack Umbreon at all. So I would give this card a 4 out of 5 because I always like cards that inflict special conditions and Umbreon's Poke-Body alone is reason to use this card. So thanks for reading today's review of Umbreon from the Majestic Dawn set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Unown P from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Toxicroak (Majestic Dawn)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Toxicroak from the Majestic Dawn set, this is a stage 1, psychic type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90. It has a +20 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. It doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Paralyze Poison and for one psychic energy card, Toxicroak does 20 damage plus poisons the defending Pokemon and if you get a heads when you flip a coin the defending Pokemon is also paralyzed. Toxicroak's second move is called Slash and does the standard 3 energy cards for 60 damage, in Toxicroak's case it does 60 damage for 1 psychic energy card and two colorless energy cards. As far as strategy goes I would use Toxicroak for its first move, Paralyze Poison, I would try and make the defending Pokemon poisoned and then hopefully make them paralyzed and then the next turn retreat Toxicroak and move in a Pokemon that does a bit more damage, I wouldn't waste 3 energy cards on Toxicroak for Slash I would rather just retreat it and put in another Pokemon that either does more damage per attack or spreads damage to the opponent's benched Pokemon since the defending Pokemon is now poisoned and will have damage done to it every turn. So I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating because it is very average with 90 hp and a 60 damage/3 energy card move. I like how it can inflict two special conditions at once and that it has a low retreat cost but I see this card as a catalyst to another card in your deck. So thanks for reading today's review of Toxicroak from the Majestic Dawn set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Umbreon from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Torterra (Majestic Dawn)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Torterra from the Majestic Dawn set, this is a stage 2, grass type Pokemon card with an hp of 140. It has a +30 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a 4 colorless energy card retreat cost. It doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two powerful moves, the first move is called Earthquake and for two colorless energy cards Torterra does 60 damage but unfortunately this move also does 10 damage to each of your benched Pokemon. Torterra's second move is called Frenzy Plant and for four energy cards, two each of colorless and grass, Torterra does 100 damage but you can't use this move twice in a row. So as far as strategy goes I would recommend using Frenzy Plant as often as you can since it can one hit KO a lot of Pokemon and if you use Frenzy Plant one turn and Earthquake the next move it will do 160 damage in two moves which will knock out pretty much everything. The only bad thing about this card is that Earthquake does damage to your own Pokemon so you can use a Pokemon that removes damage from your own Pokemon or use a lot of trainers and supporters that remove damage or you could just not have very many Pokemon on your bench so you reduce the amount of bad damage Earthquake does. Also Frenzy Plant requires a lot of energy cards so you'll have to either stock up Torterra with energy cards on your bench or devise a way to get more than one energy cards on Torterra per turn. I would rate this card a 4 out of 5 because it has great moves and it can do a lot of damage with both of its moves, what's holding it back from getting a 5 is that it has such a high retreat cost and that it does damage to its own Pokemon but other than that I do like how Earthquake doesn't require a specific type of energy cards and that Torterra has a high hp so it should be able to do Frenzy Plant at least once. So thanks for reading today's review of Torterra from the Majestic Dawn set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Toxicroak from the same set.