Swampert 36/160 -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Swampert from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card Set.  This is the second of two consecutive Swampert cards I've reviewed from this set.  Swampert is a stage 2, water type Pokemon card, with an hp of 140.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  This Swampert does have both an Ancient Trait, called Growth, and an Ability called Diving Search.  Growth says that whenever you attach an energy card from your hand to Swampert, you may attach another energy card as well.  Diving Search says that once per turn you may search your deck for any card that you'd like and place that card on the top of the deck.  Besides the Ability and Ancient Trait, Swampert does have one move called Hydro Pump, this move requires three colorless energy cards to use and does 40 damage plus 30 more damage for each water energy card attached to Swampert.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Swampert is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Mudkip into play and then evolve it into Marshtomp before you can evolve Marshtomp into Swampert, both of those Pokemon are from this set and I've reviewed both of them the last few days.  If you've read my reviews of those cards you'll know that I thought Mudkip was an above average Basic Pokemon card that would work well on its own, but Marshtomp was better than an average Stage 1 card.  So knowing this about those two Pokemon, and knowing that I am a big fan of the first Swampert card from this set, I am an even bigger fan of this card.  It overall can do the same amount of damage, if you attach three water energy cards to Swampert, but it can do that damage for one energy card less and if you use Swampert's Ability to get energy cards on it, this card is that much faster.  So what I would recommend is building a water type deck around this Pokemon line and using both Swampert cards in it.  Using a 4-3-3 line of this Pokemon family, and including the other Swampert card from this set to do damage to your opponent's benched Pokemon, and just to have a little higher HP when attacking.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 5 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an above average Stage 2 Pokemon card from the Primal Clash set.  This card is, like yesterday's Swampert card is very powerful being able to do at least 120 damage a turn, if the card has all water energy attached to it.  Besides a powerful attack, this card also has an Ancient Trait and Ability which are both very useful.  So again, you can't go wrong with using either Swampert card from this set in your deck, and I would recommend using both.  So overall, I would give the line of Mudkip, Marshtomp, and Swampert from the Primal Clash set a 5 out of 5 rating, it is definitely a line to build a deck around.

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Swampert 35/160 -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Swampert from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card Set.  This is the first of two consecutive Swampert cards I'll be reviewing from this set.  Swampert is a stage 2, water type Pokemon card, with an hp of 150.  It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost.  Swampert does not have an Ability but it does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Water Arrow, for three energy cards, two colorless and one water, this move does 60 damage to one of your opponent's Pokemon.  Swampert's second move is called Waterfall, this move requires four energy cards to use, two each of colorless and water, and does 120 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Swampert is a stage 2 Pokemon card, you'll first have to get Mudkip into play and then evolve it into Marshtomp before you can evolve Marshtomp into Swampert, both of those Pokemon are from this set and I've reviewed both of them the last couple of days.  If you've read my reviews of those cards you'll know that I thought Mudkip was an above average Basic Pokemon card that would work well on its own, but Marshtomp was better than an average Stage 1 card.  So knowing this about those two Pokemon, and knowing there is another Swampert card from this set, looking at this specific Swampert card, I would highly recommend using this card in a water type deck and potentially building a deck around this line.  I say this because Swampert has two very powerful moves, the first one could be better utilized in a spread damage type deck and the second move is just a powerful move that will be able to knock out many Pokemon in just one turn.  So to best use this Swampert card, I would try and set up the entire line on the bench, get four energy cards on Swampert and then move it to the active Pokemon spot and then use Waterfall every turn.  You could also use this card in a spread damage type deck, leaving this card on your bench with four energy cards on it, you could use a move that does 10 or 20 damage to each of your opponent's Pokemon, then you could use Water Arrow to knock out a specifically weak Pokemon on your opponent's bench.  I would recommend using a 3-2-2 line of these Pokemon family.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 5 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion this is an above average Stage 2 Pokemon card from the Primal Clash set.  This card is just a very powerful Stage 2 Pokemon card and is worth the wait evolving Mudkip into Marshtomp and Marshtomp into Swampert.  Even though all this card can do is do damage, it can do major damage with the moves it has.  I like how this card can either choose to attack a benched Pokemon doing average damage or the defending Pokemon and do well above average damage.  Combined, Mudkid, Marshtomp, and this Swampert card would get a 4 out of 5 rating from me, I am a big fan of this family, and would recommend using it in a deck.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
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