Pokemon Card of the Day: Flygon ex (EX Legend Maker)

Today's Pokemon Card of the day is Flygon ex from the EX Legend Maker set, I think this is the third ex card I've reviewed in the last 3 days. But oh well these are really good cards and fun to review. Flygon has really good hp, which most colorless type Pokemon do, it has 150 hp which is really important for an ex card to have high hp since if it is knocked out your opponent gets to take two prize cards. A x2 weakness to colorless Pokemon can damage Flygon quite a bit, but these powerful weakness is supplemented by its -30 hp resistance to two types of Pokemon, electric and fighting, I think this is the first card I've done where a Pokemon has two resistance types, also a 2 colorless energy retreat cost isn't too bad for a powerful ex card like this one and a card with a move that requires 5 energy cards to perform. Flygon's Poke-Power Emerge Charge is quite handy when you decide to put Flygon ex into play you can search your discard pile for two energy cards and attach them to Flygon, if I were using this card I would search my discard pile for one grass energy and one electric energy so I could for sure use Dragon Claw in a few turns. Flygon's first move is called Reactive Blast and only takes 2 energy cards, 1 colorless, 1 electric and does 40+ damage depending on if you want to discard any react energy cards from Flygon while you perform the move, so in essence, Reactive Blast can do 100 damage for 2 energy cards, if both your energy cards attached to Flygon are react energy cards. For more information on react energy cards click here. Flygon's second move is called Dragon Claw and for 5 energy cards, 1 grass, 1 electric and 3 colorless it does 100 hp damage every time. As far as strategy goes with Flygon ex I would wait a while to evolve Vibrava into Flygon so you could utilize Flygon's Poke-Power and be able to attach two energy cards to Flygon from the discard pile. I would do this so I would have enough energy cards to use Dragon Claw every turn, all you basically need is two energy cards on Vibrava and then you can put Flygon ex out and attach two more energy cards to it and then attach one from your hand to Flygon and then move Flygon to be your active Pokemon if it isn't already and then you're ready to use Dragon Claw every turn. And you should be able to do quite a bit of damage since Flygon's hp is 150 and it has two -30 resistance types. So once again thanks for reading my review and stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Gardevoir Lv. X.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Tyranitar ex (EX Dragon Frontiers)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Tyranitar ex from the EX Dragon set. First off you'll notice that Tyranitar is an electric type Pokemon, this is because Tyranitar is a Delta Species type Pokemon in this set, for more information on Delta Species Pokemon click here. This ex card has 150 hp which is very good considering you don't want this card to get knocked out since your opponent will be able to take two prize cards for it. It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon which could hurt it but shouldn't be too bad. Tyranitar doesn't have any resistance and it has a costly 3 colorless energy retreat cost so if you have to retreat Tyranitar you'll have to take all the energy cards necessary for its moves off of it and put them in the discard pile. Tyranitar doesn't have any Poke-Body or Poke-Power but it does have 3 moves. The first is called Electromark and takes two energies, one electric, and one colorless and allows you to put a Shock-wave counter on any of your opponent's Pokemon. I wasn't sure what this Shock-Wave counter was so I had to look it up, I guess it is just a marker or any thing to let you know that there is a counter on that Pokemon and if there is a counter on that Pokemon you can knock it out with one of Tyranitar's moves. Tyranitar's second move is called Hyper Claws and does 70+ hp damage for 3 energy cards 1 electric and 2 colorless energy cards and if the defending Pokemon is a stage 2 evolved Pokemon it does 90 damage to it. So this move is pretty good for only 3 energy cards. Tyranitar's last move is the best and is called Shock-Wave and this move also takes 3 energy cards, but this time you need 2 electric type and 1 colorless energy cards. This move allows you to choose any of your opponent's Pokemon that has a Shock-wave marker on it which you were able to put on it by using Electromark earlier. So this move essentially could do unlimited damage to a defending Pokemon as long as they have a Shock-wave marker on it. So overall you can basically knock out any Pokemon no matter how high their hp in two turns by using Electromark and then Shock-wave the next turn. As for strategy goes I would use Hyper Claws mainly, unless your opponent has some strong Pokemon on their bench, because this way you can inflict damage every turn with Hyper Claws and in two turns Hyper Claws can do at least 140 damage which will knock out just about anything and if their Pokemon is over 140 hp then use Electromark and then Shock-wave. I would definitely shape my deck around this card, it is very powerful and can knock out anything. Once again, thanks for reading my review and stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Flygon ex from EX Legend Maker.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Kingdra ex (EX Dragon)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Kindra ex from the EX Dragon set. It has pretty good hp for an ex card with 150 hp. A x2 weakness to grass Pokemon and electric type Pokemon could hinder its great hp. I would have liked this card to have some resistance type but again 150 hp is really good. The retreat cost for this card is 3 colorless energy cards which is quite expensive so if you're going to use this card you will either have to play until it feints and give up two prize cards or discard all the energy cards required to do Hydrocannon to retreat Kingdra. Kingdra ex doesn't have any Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves. The first is called Genetic Memory and for only 1 water energy card you can do any move from the Horsea or Seadra card under Kingdra for only 1 energy card no matter how many energy cards the move on the original card took, so this move gives Kingdra many more moves than just the two moves on this card. The second move Kingdra has is called Hydrocannon and for 3 colorless energy cards it does 50 hp damage which is slightly above average for 3 energy cards but not anything spectacular. You can also add up to two more water energy cards to this Kingdra card and for each water energy card you have in addition to the 3 energy cards you need for Hydrocannon increases Hydrocannon by 20 hp each, so at max Hydrocannon can do 90 hp damage for 5 energy cards, 2 water and 3 colorless. This is a pretty expensive move but you should be able to knock out just about any Pokemon in two moves and you also don't have to discard any energy cards when you use Hydrocannon so that is nice too. As far as strategy goes I would try and get Kingdra ex onto my deck as soon as possible because then all you need is 1 energy card to use any of the Pokemon under Kingdra's moves. But I would definitely use Hydrocannon as much as possible when I get 3 energy cards on Kingdra and I would make sure to put 5 energy cards on Kingdra so I could do 90 hp every turn and this way if Kingdra is close to being knocked out you can retreat it and put it back out the next turn again if you wanted and just add one energy card to it and you could do 50 hp damage right away. Since Kingdra needs so many energy cards I would definitely include supporters/trainers which allow you to get energy cards to your hand right away. I might also think about putting potions in your deck or some type of Poke-Power that lets you remove damage from Kingdra every turn so it can last just about the whole game. So once again thanks for reading my review and stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Tyranitar ex.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Staraptor FB Lv. X (Supreme Victors)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Staraptor FB Lv. X from the Supreme Victors set. This is a stage 1 Lv. X card and has only 100 hp which is pretty low for a Lv. X, most of the other stage 1 Lv. X cards in this set have 10 more hp. A x2 weakness to electric type Pokemon can knock out Staraptor pretty fast, I wish this wasn't a x2 weakness because really this card isn't very powerful. A -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon is helpful but it really can't make up for a x2 weakness to any type Pokemon. At least Staraptor has no retreat cost so you can easily retreat it if it is close to being knocked out. Staraptor's Poke-Power is about the only reason I would use this card, its Poke-Power is called Fast Call and allows you to search your deck for a supporter card and put it into your hand once every turn. I would use this Poke-Power to find supporter cards in your deck that allow you to search for evolved Pokemon so you can get your Powerful Pokemon into play as soon as possible. Staraptor FB's only move is called Defog and does only 40 hp damage for 3 colorless energy cards, which is pretty weak but if you discard any stadium card in play before you execute this move it does 70 hp damage instead of 40 hp damage. As far as strategy goes I would only use this card for its Poke-Power which can aid other Pokemon in your deck that either need a lot of energy to do their moves or that need to be evolved to their stage 2 Pokemon form to be effective. I wouldn't use Staraptor FB Lv. X at all for attacking because there are numerous Pokemon out there who can do more than 40 hp for 3 energy cards. So overall I really don't like this card too much, but its Poke-Power is really good, and if your opponent is using a stadium card you can use Defog and discard their Stadium Card and then deal them 70 hp damage. Once again thanks for reading my review and stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Kingdra ex from EX Dragon.