Seedot -- Flashfire Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Seedot from the Flashfire set.  Seedot is a basic, grass type Pokemon card with an hp of 50.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Seedot does not have an Ability and it only has one move called Call for Family, this move requires one colorless energy card to use and allows you to search your deck for a basic Pokemon and put it onto your bench.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Seedot is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Nuzleaf and a stage 2 evolution in Shiftry, which I'll be reviewing the next two days, you'll more than likely want to use those cards with this Pokemon.  However, since I haven't reviewed those cards yet, I'll just act as though I plan on using this card without its evolutions.  So on its own, I probably wouldn't use this card in a deck, I would much rather use a trainer card that does the same thing as this card can do but you don't have to place a trainer card in the active Pokemon spot.  So if you don't want to use that strategy, I would use no more than one of these cards in your deck, try your hardest to get it into the active Pokemon spot, use Call for Family a couple of turns then retreat Seedot to your bench.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 1 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is a below average Basic Pokemon card from the Flashfire set.  If you aren't using this card with its evolutions, it doesn't make much sense to use this card since it has a low hp and can't attack.  If you're using it by itself a trainer card would be a much better card to use instead of this card.  So we'll see how the other two Pokemon rate in this family but this card is definitely a poor start to this line.

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Pineco -- Flashfire Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Pineco from the Flashfire Pokemon Card Set.  Pineco is a basic, grass type Pokemon card with an hp of 60.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Pineco does not have an Ability and it only has one move.  The only move this card has is called Ram, this move requires two colorless energy cards and does 20 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Pineco is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Forretress, which I'll be reviewing in a few weeks since it is a metal type Pokemon card, 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 consider using this card in a metal type deck, or any type deck if you are using it by itself, as a starter type Pokemon.  The only downside to using this card in a deck would be you have to discard all energy cards required for attacking when retreating it and the card is pretty slow.  So if you were to use this card in a deck, I wouldn't use more than 1 of these, you would get two energy cards on Pineco and use Ram every turn.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is an average to slightly below average basic Pokemon card from the Flashfire set.  I like the hp and only move that this card has, but as far as a basic Pokemon goes, the retreat cost is quite high, and because this card only has one move it is limited in what it can do, and the only move this card has requires two energy cards which makes this card slower for a basic Pokemon card.  So if you're building a deck, this card definitely isn't the worst card you could use, but there are definitely better ones out there.

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Butterfree -- Flashfire Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Butterfree from the Flashfire Pokemon Card Set.  Butterfree is a stage 2, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 130.  It has a x2 weakness to lightning type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Butterfree does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Quiver Dance, this move requires one grass energy card and allows you to search your deck for an energy card and attach it to Butterfree.  Butterfree's second move is called Gust, this move requires three energy cards, two colorless and one grass, and does 70 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Butterfree is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Caterpie into play and then evolve it into Metapod before you can evolve Metapod into Butterfree, both of those Pokemon are from this set and I've reviewed both of them the last couple of days.  Both of those Pokemon cards are way below average and should not be used without Butterfree.  Both of the first two Pokemon in this have quite low hp but both can evolve right away into the next evolution so you could potentially put Caterpie on your bench one turn and evolve it right up to Butterfree in that same turn if you had both Metapod and Kakuna on your bench.  Once you get Butterfree into the active Pokemon spot, the strategy is extremely straightforward, I would recommend using Gust every turn unless you don't have enough energy cards attached to Butterfree, then use Quiver Dance to get another energy card attached to it.  I wouldn't use this entire line in a deck, but I could see using a 2-1-1 line of Caterpie, Metapod, and Butterfree in a grass type deck.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an average stage 2 Pokemon card from the Flashfire set.  There isn't really anything I dislike about this card, both moves this card has are average to slightly above average, and the retreat cost on this card is great.  However, when looking at this card, you have to take into account both Caterpie and Metapod from this set, both of those cards received 1 ratings from me, so overall, I can only give this entire line a 2 out of 5 rating and can not recommend using this line in a deck.

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Metapod -- Flashfire Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Metapod from the Flashfire Pokemon Card set.  Metapod is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 70.  It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost.  Metapod's Ability is called Adaptive Evolution, this allows you to evolve Metapod on the first turn you play this card.  Besides the Ability, Metapod has one move called Harden, this move requires two colorless energy cards and prevents all damage done to Metapod by your opponent's active Pokemon if that Pokemon does 60 damage or less.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Metapod is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Caterpie into play (I reviewed Caterpie from this set yesterday) and then evolve Caterpie into Metapod.  Metapod does have a stage 2 evolution in Butterfree that you'll probably want to use with this Pokemon line but since I haven't reviewed that card yet, the strategy below will act like Metapod is the final evolution in this line.  So if you read yesterday's review of Caterpie, you'll know that I thought the card was below average and quite limited in what it could do because it had such a low hp and only one move.  But because you can utilize Caterpie's Ability and evolve it into Metapod right away this should help if you're looking to use the first two Pokemon in this line.  However, this Metapod card is quite similar to Caterpie in that it can evolve right away into Butterfree which you'll more than likely want to do, but because I haven't reviewed that card yet this Ability won't help us.  Your only option with this card is to use Harden every turn which never does any damage, only prevents your opponent from attacking you.  So the only way I could see someone wanting to use this Pokemon in a deck is if they think they can set up their benched Pokemon extremely quickly, so you would get Caterpie and then Metapod into the active Pokemon spot to start the game, use Harden every turn until your benched Pokemon is ready and then move one of those Pokemon into the active Pokemon spot.  I personally would stay away from this line at all costs.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 1 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an extremely poor stage 1 Pokemon card from the Flashfire set.  If you want to use this card without using Butterfree this card is absolutely horrendous because you can't attack with it and it has a low hp.  But if you think you can accomplish a lot with a defensive card go for it and use this card.  But in my opinion, both of the first two Pokemon in this lot are pretty bad, both individually and as a group these Pokemon get 1s from me.

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