Torchic 26/160 -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Torchic from the Primal Clash set.  This is the second of two consecutive reviews I've done on Torchic.  This Torchic is a basic, fire type Pokemon card with an hp of 50.  It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  This Torchic card has an Ancient Trait called Barrage that says Torchic may attack twice a turn if the first move that Torchic uses knocks out the defending Pokemon.  So besides the Ancient Trait, Torchic does have two moves.  The first move that this card has is called Flare Bonus, this move requires one fire energy card to use and says to discard a fire energy card from your hand and draw 2 cards from your deck.  Torchic's second move is called Claw, this move requires one fire energy card and does 20 damage, however, if you get a tails when flipping a coin, this move does absolutely nothing.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Torchic is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Combusken and a stage 2 evolution in Blaziken, 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 but I will compare the two Torchic cards at the end of this section.  So on its own, I would highly recommend not using this card in a deck.  Even though it can potentially attack twice a turn, this card has a great chance of not being able to do damage at all, since the first move that it has doesn't do any damage and the second one is based on a coin flip.  So again, I would not recommend using this card at all, if you want to use Torchic in your deck or plan on using Combusken and Blaziken, use yesterday's Torchic card with it.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 1 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is a very poor Basic Pokemon card especially considering it has an Ancient Trait on it.  So I was very disappointed after looking at this card, I am just not a fan of moves that are based entirely on coin flips, and add in this card has below average HP for a Basic Pokemon card, and I just can't find a reason to want to use this card in a deck.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
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Torchic 25/160 -- Primal Clash Pokemon Card Review

Pokemon Card Overview:

Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Torchic from the Primal Clash set.  This is the first of two consecutive reviews I'll be doing of Torchic.  Torchic is a basic, fire type Pokemon card with an hp of 60.  It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost.  Torchic does not have an Ability and it only has one move called Ember, this move requires one fire energy card to use and does 20 damage, however if you get a tails when you flip a coin, you must discard a fire type energy card attached to Torchic.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, since Torchic is a basic Pokemon card with a stage 1 evolution in Combusken and a stage 2 evolution in Blaziken, which I'll be reviewing the next few days, you'll more than likely want to use those cards with this Pokemon.  However, since I haven't reviewed those cards yet, and I haven't even reviewed the second Torchic card from this set, I'll just act as though I plan on using this card without its evolutions or knowing which Torchic card is better.  So on its own, I would not recommend using this card in a deck.  The main reason being is that you're going to have to continuously attach energy cards to this card just to be able to attack if you get tails when flipping a coin.  As a starter type Pokemon, I would much rather have a card that can do 10 damage a turn for only one energy card and be able to use that move every single turn without having to add more energy to the card.  So unless you're desperate to use this card in your deck, I would not recommend using it.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating.  In my opinion, this is a below average Basic Pokemon card from the Primal Clash set.  Even though I wouldn't recommend using this card in a deck, it really isn't that bad, it has an average HP, low retreat cost, and the one move it does have, does do above average damage as long as you can flip a heads every turn.  But like I said, because this card cannot consistently attack without having to add energy to it, I would look elsewhere for a Basic Pokemon card to use.

Tomorrow's Pokemon Card:
So thanks for reading today's Pokemon card review of Torchic from the Primal Clash Pokemon Card set, stay tuned for tomorrow's card review of the second Torchic card, which is also from this same set.  Make sure to check below for the Free Pokemon TCG Online Codes!

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