Can KO anything....except every single VMAX Pokemon released so far. Honestly I'm underwhelmed. I expect a Charizard card to have some ridiculous attack that can OHKO with a huge energy cost, but this thing can't kill a VMAX which is surprising for a Charizard card.
Important note: all of these features are OPTIONAL. There's no point being mad about ease-of-access features that you don't actually have to use if you don't want to. Not everyone enjoys certain aspects of the games and these features are designed to make the experience more fun for those that...
Man I'm getting tired of people saying we have no Stage 2 support when Rare Candy is still in rotation, and we arguably have even more reasons to run it with Trashalanche out of the format.
Idk. I know we don't have too many Dragons in the meta with 120hp, but with Welder you can power Clefairy in one turn. Use it's attack and you get all those energies back to re-use and you get to stall. That's not a game-changer, but it's still not complete rubbish either.
Would anyone else like to point out if the Solgaleo & Lunala shown are the correct ones we're getting, that those are actually the newer S&L that came in our premium boxes, and not from the og SM booster pack like the post implies. So they also would probably be promos instead of alt arts bc we...
Hella Amazing the stained-glass bird promo is the full-art we're getting. Guaranteed to sell ETBs, hell I'm gonna buy one even though I'm pretty bummed it's mostly "A" alt-arts. It was expected, it just means it'll mostly be a collector set.
They could still appeal to the Gen 1 fans and give us Fairy and Fighting GXs. I mean, we have tons of pairings ripe for the picking: Hitmonchan & Hitmonlee, Clefable & Togepi, Onix & Geodude....but nope. We get the same Pokemon in just a different form like always.
I feel like there wouldn't even be so much displeasure at some of the specific pairings if they were just flipped. Delphox & Charmander/eleon, Empoleon & Squirtle, and Surperior & Bulbasaur GXs all keep the same pairings but give us something we haven't seen before.
It almost completely blew my mind when I learned you could play Ultra Ball and not search a Pokemon, or that you could play Sycamore when it's the only card in your hand.
I could tell you were joking it's good mate lol. I started in that era too, and when I got back into it and finally learned the PSCT changes, I'd go and read rulings from Japanese tournaments and slap my palm in my face because of how obvious some of the answers were. Then again, they've also...
I wasn't sure if the "Treat this card as a basic Pokemon" clause made it count as a Pokemon when not in play, so thanks. I'm used to Yu-Gi-Oh where you have to take card text super literally.
My apologies, on my screen I can't see the link in your first response and didn't realize you posted it. You did answer my other 2 questions though, thank you (you interpreted my second question correctly).
Can you point me to this compendium? I'm also curious about whether you can play UF as a basic while setting up to play, and if it counts as a basic Pokemon when deck-building.