Rhydon -- Burning Shadows Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Rhydon from the Burning Shadows Pokemon Card set.  Rhydon is a Stage 1, Fighting type Pokemon card, with a HP of 110.  It has a x2 weakness to Grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four Colorless Energy card retreat cost.  This card does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move on this card is called Rock Tumble, for three Energy cards, two Fighting and one Colorless, this move does 80 damage.  The second move on this card is called Megahorn, for four Energy cards, three Fighting and one Colorless, this move does 120 damage, however, you must flip a coin when attacking and if you get a tails, the move does nothing.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Rhydon is a Stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Rhyhorn into play (I reviewed Rhyhorn from this set yesterday) and then evolve Rhyhorn into Rhydon.  Rhyhorn does have a Stage 2 evolution in Rhyperior, which I'll be reviewing tomorrow, 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 Rhydon is the final evolution in this line.  So if you read my review of Rhyhorn, you'll know that I thought it was a below average Basic Pokemon card overall.  Despite having a solid HP and two moves, I didn't recommend using it, mainly because neither move it had could do that much damage, and the card had a high retreat cost.  The exact same can be said about this card, it has a good HP and two moves, but this card has an extremely high retreat cost, that may end up losing the game for you if you get it moved to the Active Pokemon spot and don't have something like Guzma or a Float Stone to use.  Besides the high HP, although it can do 80 damage per turn for three Energy cards, many Fighting type Pokemon out there can do more for the exact same Energy cost, and the second move on this card, Megahorn, is useless, since it only has a 50% chance of doing any damage at all.  So unless Rhyperior from this set is amazing, I would pass on this line altogether.

Pokemon Card Rating:  
I would give this card a 1 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is a well below average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Burning Shadows set.  While being able to do 80 damage per turn for three Energy cards is okay, because of this card's massive retreat cost, and its flop of a second move, I am not recommending this line at all, both cards combined, Rhyhorn and Rhydon, get a 1 out of 5 rating from me.

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Rhydon -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Rhydon from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card set.  Rhydon is a stage 1, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost.  Rhydon does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Take Down, for three energy cards, two colorless and one fighting, this move does 50 damage, however Rhydon also does damage to itself.  Rhydon's second move is called Horn Drill, this requires four energy cards to use, two each of fighting and colorless, and does 70 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Rhydon is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Rhyhorn into play (I reviewed Rhyhorn from this set yesterday) and then evolve Rhyhorn into Rhydon.  Rhydon does have a stage 2 evolution in Rhyperior that you'll probably want to use with this Pokemon line but since I haven't reviewed those cards yet, there are two of them, the strategy below will act like Rhydon is the final evolution in this line.  So if you read yesterday's review of Rhyhorn, you'll know that I thought that card was an average Basic Pokemon card, it had a good HP and a powerful move that required only two energy cards, but Rhyhorn did damage to itself when attacking and its retreat cost was higher than its energy cost.  So knowing this about Rhyhorn and looking at this Rhydon card, if you're prepared to use a ton of energy cards on a Basic and Stage 1 Pokemon card and discard a ton of energy to retreat these two Pokemon, go ahead and use a 1-1 line of these two Pokemon in your deck.  Like Rhyhorn, Rhydon can do major damage but requires quite a bit of energy to attack.  If I were using these two cards in a deck, I would put Rhyhorn into the active Pokemon spot to start the game, get two energy cards on it, attack using its move doing 40 damage a turn, then get three energy cards on Rhyhorn and evolve it into Rhydon.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is a below average Stage 1 Pokemon card from the Primal Clash set.  Even though this card has a high HP, and two moves, I am giving this card a below average rating because neither move on this card does that great of damage for the amount of energy cards it requires to use, plus this card is another card has an extremely high retreat cost.  So if you're considering using this Pokemon line in a deck, Rhyhorn and Rhydon, I would caution you a bit, because I give these cards a 2 out of 5 rating.

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Rhydon -- Pokemon X and Y Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Rhydon from the X and Y Pokemon card set.  Rhydon is a stage 1, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  Rhydon does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Horn Drill, this move requires three energy cards, two colorless and one fighting, and does 50 damage.  Rhydon's second move is called Mad Mountain, this move requires four energy cards, three fighting and one colorless, and allows you to discard a card from your opponent's deck for each damage counter on Rhydon if you get two heads when you flip  two coins.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Rhydon is a stage 1 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Rhyhorn into play (I reviewed Rhyhorn from this set yesterday) and then evolve Rhyhorn into Rhydon.  Rhydon does have a stage 2 evolution in Rhyperior 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 Rhydon is the final evolution in this line.  So if you read yesterday's review of Rhyhorn you'll know that I thought that basic Pokemon card was pretty miserable and shouldn't be used in a deck on its own.  Because Rhyhorn was that bad and this card is just as bad, I would not recommend using either of those two Pokemon in a fighting type deck.  So unless tomorrow's review of Rhyperior is amazing, I would stay away from this entire family in the X and Y set.  If for some strange reason you want to use this Pokemon line in your deck, I wouldn't use more than 1 each of Rhyhorn and Rhydon and then I would use Horn Drill most turns, there is really no point to using Mad Mountain because you only have a 1/4 chance of being able to do anything.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 1 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is another miserable stage 1 Pokemon card from the X and Y set.  Even though this card has a high hp and two moves, this card is not worth using.  Horn Drill does below average damage for the amount of energy cards it requires and Mad Mountain is a pointless move that can never really be used anyways.  Again, stay away from this entire Pokemon family.  Combined I would give the line of Rhyhorn and Rhydon a 1 out of 5 rating, both Pokemon are equally as bad.

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