Has there ever been a good Probopass?
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I was watching a reviewer on Youtube (I can't remember if we are allowed to name names here...) who pointed out that Field Blower can help Garbodor by making it safe to attach the "wrong" Tool. It may not happen all the time, but I know I've gotten in trouble because I either had to waste a Fighting Fury Belt (or similarly inappropriate Tool) on Garbodor to trigger "Garbotoxin". Really bad when your opponent forces that Garbodor up front with Lysandre; s/he doesn't even need a OHKO if you don't have a Switch or the like handy.
There may also be an issue with, as they say, a false sense of safety. How many decks can afford to run four Field Blower? Garbodor players learned with its predecessor having to cope with Tool Scrapper and/or Startling Megaphone, pace Tool attachments. It has to be a "...and with that Float Stone discarded from Garbodor, "Irritating Pollen" from my Vileplume goes into effect." situations. If your deck really needs a particular Ability, Garbodor just needs to have one more Tool available than you do Field Blower cards.
Now, it isn't all doom and gloom (not even from me XD). A deck that really just needed to switch its Abilities back on at least once, those have some hope. For a lot of decks, though, expect the good to get better and the worse to grow weaker.
Why do I feel that Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam will be the only Aloan region pokémon to be neglected from being printed?
:'(
Why can't all of this selfish conformity with ones narcissism stop? I think someone needs to talk to James Randi as soon as they can to show how much of a corrupt egotist the company has been manipultated around by.
:'(
Why can't all of this selfish conformity with ones narcissism stop? I think someone needs to talk to James Randi as soon as they can to show how much of a corrupt egotist the company has been manipultated around by.
To imagine that this plus the last Strengthening Pack will be our 140+ Guardians Rising, and with around 24 secret rares @_@
Yeah, I had that realisation too.
I tend to dislike large, bloated sets because the pool of decent cards are diluted by all the filler rares.
At least most of these cards are far from filler. Not much filler anyway, so far Sun and Moon gives us even playable commons and uncommons which is fantastic!
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I don't know if sophocles is revealed before or not but this is the first time I am seeing it.
Even though ultra ball does kinda the similar thing, but you must have a shaymin, and is an item card, sophocles seems like more than a decent supporter. Discarding 2 cards is not really trouble considering most decks need to throw one thing or the other every time .
Even though ultra ball does kinda the similar thing, but you must have a shaymin, and is an item card, sophocles seems like more than a decent supporter. Discarding 2 cards is not really trouble considering most decks need to throw one thing or the other every time .
I think it's pretty meh as a draw supporter, I mean how often would you rather discard 2 to draw 4 than discard hand to draw 7? Especially with all of the item cards we have, it's so easy to play your hand down and get value out of every card before dropping Sycamore/Juniper. This thing only gets you one more draw than Hau/Tierno.
It will be decent after Sycamore is gone though.
It will be decent after Sycamore is gone though.
Does anyone know why the price of N full arts has spiked recently? Went from ~$70 to $90-$100. How long until it rotates out of Expanded? Do you think the price will drop once it rotates out? Thanks!
There is no reason to use Sophocles over Hau. At all. Even in decks that can take advantage of the discard, it's still going to be dead far more often than it's going to be valuable.
Could be good in vespiquen variants. Would make for a meh discard engine. No reason to play it over a card like Psychic's third eye. Where you can discard a lot and draw for a lot at the same time.
MY EVALUATIONS!
- Sophocles - Sycamore says, "I'm better than you, Young Kid!" Well, discard 2 for 4 isn't good enough than discard Hand Cards for 7. When Syca is gone, This and Hala is the possible one. I just give 2 Geodudes for now.
N was in Fates Collide so I think it's here to stay in Expanded for a long time.
Sophocles is translated slightly wrong. The actual text is "Kill your dad. Then, draw 4 cards. Also, you have uncomfortable feelings about you mom now good luck."
Expanded never rotates, also, now that I think about it N never left standard so it may be here for a while
Or, you could go expanded, use fighting stadium, protection cube, and multiple strong energy to scare dark decks into submission. All you need is a garb to stop fright night from taking away the protection cubes effect. Dang! Now you got me thinking...
Thanks, that saved me about a week of deck building to only find out that the minior deck I was working on does not work as expected.
Thank you!
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