Pokemon Card of the Day: Emboar (Black and White)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Emboar. This is a stage 2, fire type Pokemon, and it is the final evolution of the starter Pokemon Tepig. It has an hp of 150, a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a retreat cost of four colorless energy cards. Emboar doesn't have any ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Heat Crash and does 50 damage for three energy cards, one fire and two colorless. Emboar's second move is called Flare Blitz which does 150 damage for four energy cards, two each of fire and colorless. However when you use this move you have to discard all fire energy attached to Emboar. As far as strategy goes, I would recommend using Flare Blitz as often as you can. To do this I would have this card in a deck with at least one other type of Pokemon in it so you would only have to discard two energy cards every time you use Flare Blitz. I would also suggest finding ways to be able to attach more than one energy card per turn to this Pokemon so you could use Flare Blitz every turn instead of every two turns. Regardless this Pokemon should be able to knock out most Pokemon it faces in one turn. I would rate this card a 3 out of 5. It was hard for me to decide what to rate this card, the good things about Emboar is its high hp and high attack power of Flare Blitz. But it has many negatives, it has an extremely high retreat cost, no resistance, and its first move doesn't do as much damage as it should. So I would rate it an average card overall unless you can get more than one energy cards on Emboar per turn. So thanks for reading today's review of Emboar from the Black and White set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Darmanitan from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Sawsbuck (Black and White)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Sawsbuck from the Black and White set. This is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon, and is the evolution of Deerling. It has an hp of 90, a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to water type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Sawsbuck doesn't have any abilities but it does have two moves, the first move is called Nature Power and for one colorless energy card it does 20 damage plus 10 more damage for each grass energy attached to all Pokemon in play. Sawsbuck's second move is called Horn Leech and does the standard 60 damage for three energy cards, in Sawsbuck's case it requires one grass and two colorless energy cards. Also when using this move you may remove up to 20 damage from Sawsbuck. As far as strategy goes you would want to utilize Nature Power so you'll want to make sure there are plenty of grass energy cards in play so you can do a lot of damage for only one energy card. I would try and make Nature Power do at least 60 damage before I would put it into the active Pokemon and if you do get in trouble when battling with this Pokemon you can use its second move and heal Sawsbuck. I would rate this card a 3 out of 5, to me this card is quite average, it has the average hp for a stage 1 Pokemon and the normal moveset. I do like that it can heal itself making its hp seem a little higher than 90. If you're looking for a grass type Pokemon to fill a spot in your deck you may want to take a look at Sawsbuck. So thanks for reading today's review of Sawsbuck from the Black and White set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Emboar from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Serperior (Black and White)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Serperior from the Black and White set. This is a stage 2, grass type Pokemon and the final evolution of Snivy. It has an hp of 130, a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to water type Pokemon and free retreat costs. Serperior doesn't have an ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Vine Whip which does 40 damage for only two colorless energy cards. Serperior's second move is called Leaf Storm which does 60 damage for two grass energy cards and it also heals each of your grass Pokemon removing 20 damage each from them. As far as strategy goes I would recommend using this card in a mostly grass deck so you could heal the most Pokemon at once. I would recommend keeping this card on your bench until you have retreated all of your other Pokemon, therefore all your benched Pokemon have damage on them, then you can use Serperior two or three turns in a row using Leaf Storm each turn and removing the bulk of the damage from your benched Pokemon. And the good thing about this card is that it has a free retreat cost so you can move this card into and out of play whenever you like to heal your Pokemon and do a fair amount damage. I am going to give this card a 5 out of 5, I haven't reviewed too many Black and White cards yet but this one seems pretty good, it has a good hp, no retreat cost, and is extremely fast only requiring two energy cards maximum to attack. So thanks for reading today's review of Serperior from the Black and White set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Sawsbuck from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Zoroark (Black and White)

Today's Pokemon Card of the day is Zoroark from the Black and White set. This is a stage 1, darkness type Pokemon 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. Zoroark doesn't have any abilities but it does have two moves. The first move is called Nasty Plot and for one darkness energy card you are able to search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Zoroark's second move is called Foul Play and for two colorless energy cards you can choose one of your opponent's attacks and use that attack as your own. So as far as strategy goes I would probably use this card in place of some Trainer's cards or other cards like that that let you search your deck for certain cards. I would probably keep this card on my bench most of the game unless my opponent would have a Pokemon out there that has a really powerful move, that way I could move Zoroark into play and use that move against the defending Pokemon and hopefully knock that Pokemon out. I would give this card a 3 out of 5 because it is average overall. I do like how Zoroark has a decent hp for a stage 1 Pokemon and that it has the ability to knock out Pokemon in one move, but the thing with this card is that it depends entirely on what Pokemon your opponent is playing, if they aren't playing any cards with great moves, Zoroark won't be very effective, but if that is the case you could always just use Nasty Plot to find a card that you want to use and switch Zoroark out of the active Pokemon spot. So thanks for reading today's review of Zoroark from the Black and White, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of another rare Pokemon card from the Black and White set.