Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Regirock ex – EX Hidden Legends Pokemon Card Review

Regirock ex Pokemon Card EX Hidden Legends SetPokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Regirock ex from the EX Hidden Legends set. This is a basic, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100. It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost. Regirock’s Poke-Body is called Healing Stone and says that any time between turns you may remove one damage counter from Regirock. Besides the Poke-Body, Regirock has one move called Tonnage which takes three energy cards, two fighting and one colorless, and does 60 damage plus 20 more damage if you want to do 30 damage to Regirock.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
Like Regice ex from yesterday, I like the ex design of this card. Once again, I like the background of the actually artwork but the Pokemon is too jumbled in the picture for my liking. Plus, all the Regi’s are weird looking Pokemon to begin with. Even if I could play this card today, I don’t know if I would, there really isn’t anything special about this card and with only 100 hp, I don’t know if I’d ever want to do 30 damage to Regirock just to do 20 more damage to the defending Pokemon. The only good thing about this card is its Poke-Body which can remove 10 damage per turn from Regirock.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $4, on Professor-Oak it sells for $15.12 and is sold out on PokeOrder.

Other ex Pokemon Cards in this set:
The other ex cards from this set are: Groudon, Kyogre, Metagross, Ninetales, Regice, Registeel, Vileplume, and Wigglytuff.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Regirock ex from the EX Hidden Legends set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Registeel ex from the same set.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Regice ex – EX Hidden Legends Pokemon Card Review

Regice ex Pokemon Card EX Hidden Legends SetPokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Regice ex from the EX Hidden Legends set. This is a basic, water type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to metal type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Regice’s Poke-Body is called Crystal Body and says that all effects of attacks except for damage are prevented on Regice. Besides the Poke-Body, Regice’s only move is called Freeze Lock which takes three energy cards, two water and one colorless and does 60 damage and if you get a heads when you flip a coin your opponent can’t attach any energy cards to their Pokemon during their next turn.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
The first thing I want to say about this card is I really like the design of the card. I like how the ex pattern is full of shimmering polygons all over the card, I wish all ex cards looked like this. The artwork of this card is so-so, I like the background colors of the card, but Regice looks like a total mess, it looks as if Regice just got attacked and is exploding in the picture. Besides the artwork, this is a pretty simple card that could be useful for one spot in a water type deck since it can’t be affected by special conditions and can dole out a hefty 60 damage.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $6, on Professor-Oak it sells for $19.14 and $22.49 on PokeOrder.

Other ex Pokemon Cards in this set:
The other ex cards from this set are: Groudon, Kyogre, Metagross, Ninetales, Regirock, Registeel, Vileplume, and Wigglytuff.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Ninetales ex – EX Hidden Legends Pokemon Card Review

Ninetales ex Pokemon Card EX Hidden Legends SetPokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Ninetales ex from the EX Hidden Legends set. This is a stage 1, fire type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Ninetales doesn’t have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Intense Glare and for one colorless energy card it makes your opponent switch their active Pokemon with one of their benched Pokemon, when this benched Pokemon is put into the active Pokemon spot that Pokemon is now burned and confused. Ninetales second move is called Fire Blast and for four energy cards, three colorless and one fire it does 100 damage, after performing the attack, Ninetales must discard one fire energy card from it.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
I’m surprised at how quickly the ex cards in this set are improving, Metagross yesterday and Ninetales today both can do quite a bit of damage, much more than Kyogre and Groudon from this set. I would even consider in an unlimited format to make a metal and fire type deck just so I could combine Ninetales and Metagross ex, I would put 40 damage on as many Pokemon of my opponent’s as possible with Metagross then I would put Ninetales in and use Fire Blast to knock that Pokemon out and then the next turn if I couldn’t attack with Fire Blast again I would just use Intense Glare. I really like the artwork on this card with was done by Rya Ueda, I like the red glare of Ninetales eyes, it looks like it is just about to attack. I know I have this ex card in my collection.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $12, on Professor-Oak it sells for $21.65 and $18.74 on PokeOrder.

Other ex Pokemon Cards in this set:
The other ex cards from this set are: Groudon, Kyogre, Metagross, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Vileplume, and Wigglytuff.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Metagross ex – EX Hidden Legends Pokemon Card Review

Metagross ex Pokemon Card EX Hidden Legends SetPokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Metagross ex from the EX Hidden Legends set. This is a stage 2, metal type Pokemon card with an hp of 150. It has a x2 weakness to both fire and fighting type Pokemon, a -30 resistance to grass type Pokemon, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost. Metagross doesn’t have a Poke-Body or Poke-Power but it does have two moves, the first move is called Metal Reversal which takes two energy cards, one each of colorless and metal and does 40 damage to the defending Pokemon, before attacking you may choose to attack the defending Pokemon or have your opponent put in a different Pokemon and attack that Pokemon instead. Metagross’ second move is called Extra Comet Punch which takes four energy cards, two each of metal and colorless and does 50 damage, the next turn Extra Comet Punch does 100 damage instead of 50.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
If this card were playable today I would definitely use it. I really like the move Extra Comet Punch being able to do 150 damage every two turns. You just have to be patient and set up Metagross on your bench, as soon as it gets four energy cards on it put it in the active Pokemon spot and start knocking out your opponent’s Pokemon. This card also wouldn’t be bad in a spread damage type deck because you can use Metal Reversal numerous times to get 40 damage on almost all your opponent’s Pokemon and then put in a Pokemon card that does let’s say 20 damage to all of your opponent’s benched Pokemon. The artwork on this card is okay, I like the background colors but I don’t like how Metagross is basically facing you straight on, not at an angle at all, the artwork makes Metagross look too simple. I do have this card in my collection.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $7, on Professor-Oak it sells for $20.64 and $22.49 on PokeOrder.

Other ex Pokemon Cards in this set:
The other ex cards from this set are: Groudon, Kyogre, Ninetales, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Vileplume, and Wigglytuff.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Metagross ex from the EX Hidden Legends set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of Ninetales ex from the same set.