Spiritomb -- Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Spiritomb from the Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Set.  Spiritomb is a basic, darkness type Pokemon card with an hp of 70, it does not have a weakness or resistance, but it does have a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Spiritomb does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called B Cancel, for one colorless energy card this move does 10 damage, plus it prevents your opponent from evolving one of their Pokemon during their next turn.  Spiritomb's second move is called Confuse Ray, this move requires two energy cards, one each of darkness and colorless, and does 30 damage, plus if you get a heads when you flip a coin it confuses the defending Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Spiritomb is a basic Pokemon with no evolutions, you only have to use this Pokemon in your deck if you want to use this card.  With that being said, I definitely wouldn't use more than one of these in a deck if you choose to use one at all.  If you do choose to use one of these in a deck, you would want to get it into the active Pokemon spot early in the game, that way you could prevent your opponent from setting up their Pokemon by using B Cancel and then preventing your opponent from attacking by using Confuse Ray.  Both moves on this card are pretty quick so it would work well as a starter type Pokemon, I just wish the HP would be a bit higher since it doesn't evolve at all.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is an average Basic Pokemon card from the Phantom Forces set.  I like how this card has two pretty good moves, plus a low retreat cost.  If you're building a darkness type deck, this card is definitely worth consideration, especially to be used as a starter type Pokemon.  So you can't go wrong with using this card in your deck, but I wouldn't use more than one of these.

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Mightyena -- Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Mightyena from the Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Set.  Mightyena is a stage 1, darkness type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90.  It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Mightyena does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Crunch, for two energy cards, one each of darkness and colorless, this move does 30 damage, plus if you get a heads when you flip a coin, you get to discard an energy card attached to your opponent's active Pokemon.  Mightyena's second move is called Darkness Fang, for three energy cards, two colorless and one darkness, this move does 80 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Mightyena is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Poochyena into play (I reviewed Poochyena from this set yesterday) and then evolve Poochyena into Mightyena.  If you read yesterday's review of Poochyena, you'll know that I thought that card was a slightly below average Basic Pokemon card.  It was really pretty good overall with an average HP, low retreat cost, and two moves, but it really could only do 10 damage per turn because the second move it had was entirely based on the flip of a coin.  So knowing this about Poochyena and looking at this Mightyena card, if you're building a darkness type deck and need a bit of power in it, this Pokemon family is worth considering.  I wouldn't use more than a 1-1 line of Poochyena and Mightyena and try and get Mightyena into the active Pokemon spot with three energy cards on it as soon as possible in the game.  That way you can do 80 damage a turn and knock out most Basic Pokemon in one move, almost all Pokemon in two moves.  As strong as Darkness Fang is, the one thing you'll have to be careful of later in games is that Mightyena only has 90 HP, so it could get knocked out fairly fast.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Phantom Forces set.  There really isn't anything that I dislike about this card, but there just isn't anything on this card that wows me either.  I really like that this card can do 80 damage a turn plus the fact it has two moves.  Pair it with Poochyena from this set, and I would give the two a 3 out of 5 rating, they definitely could be used in a darkness type deck.

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Poochyena -- Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Poochyena from the Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Set.  Poochyena is a basic, darkness type Pokemon card with an hp of 60.  It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Poochyena does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Bite, for one colorless energy card this move does 10 damage.  Poochyena's second move is called Lunge, for two energy cards, one each of darkness and colorless, this move does 30 damage, however you must flip a coin when using this move and if you don't get a heads when flipping, the move does nothing.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Poochyena is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Mightyena, which I'll be reviewing tomorrow, you'll more than likely want to use this card with that Pokemon.  However, since I haven't reviewed that card yet, I'll just act as though I plan on using this card without its evolution.  So, on its own I would not recommend using this card in a deck, the main reason being this card is quite limited in what it can do.  Even though it does have an average HP, low retreat cost, and two moves, Bite is the only move you can count on because Lunge is based on a coin flip.  So if you're looking to just include a basic, darkness type Pokemon in your deck, I would look elsewhere, if you have to use this card in your deck, don't use more than 1 and stick to using Bite every turn.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  So in my opinion, on its own, without considering Mightyena, this card is a slightly below average Basic Pokemon card.  Like I stated above, there are plenty of good things about this card, like the fact it has two moves, and a decent HP, but because this card can really only for sure do 10 damage a turn, I can't give this card an average rating.

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Honchkrow -- Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Honchkrow from the Phantom Forces Pokemon Card Set.  Honchkrow is a stage 1, darkness type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100.  It has a x2 weakness to lightning type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Honchkrow does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Hypnoblast, this move requires one darkness energy card and does 20 damage and puts the opponent's active Pokemon to sleep.  Honchkrow's second move is called Nightmare Mambo, this move requires three energy cards, two colorless and one darkness, and does 60 damage, plus it does 60 more damage if the defending Pokemon is asleep.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Honchkrow is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Murkrow into play (I reviewed Murkrow from this set yesterday) and then evolve Murkrow into Honchkrow.  If you read yesterday's review of Murkrow, you'll know that I thought that card was an average Basic Pokemon card, it could do damage for only one energy card or you could choose to put 3 energy cards on it and do even more damage.  So knowing this about Murkrow and looking at this Honchkrow card, I would definitely recommend using a 1-1 line of Murkrow and Honchkrow in a darkness type deck.  Both of these Pokemon together could get you attacking early in the game and if you get Honchkrow into the active Pokemon spot soon enough, put the defending Pokemon to sleep.  I would definitely try and use Hypnoblast first then Nightmare Mambo second to do 140 damage over two turns, of course if the defending Pokemon only has 120 HP or less, there is no point in using Hypnoblast first unless you don't want that defending Pokemon to attack you.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an above average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Phantom Forces set.  This card is definitely a great card to use in your deck, it has an above average HP, low retreat cost, and two moves that both work well together, one putting the defending Pokemon to sleep (and doing damage) and the other doing double the damage if the defending Pokemon is asleep.  So together with Murkrow from this set, I would give this line a 4 out of 5 rating, it is definitely worth a long look at using this Pokemon family in a darkness type deck.

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