Ngl I'm pretty excited for unown vstar. Probably the weirdest pokemon to give a vstar to but unown cards always have really weird and unique abilities that are so much fun to mess around with
One thought on what they could do here;
- MISSING Unown from Lost Thunder (
LOT 92) is the only one of the 3 Unown from that set that didn't get banned for later turning out to have a broken/unbalanced wincon. Now that Lost Abyss is out and it feels like we've seen a bit of power creep on how easy it is to force your opponent's discards to instead be 'banishes' to the Lost Zone, I think it would be neat to have Unown VSTAR have a VSTAR attack that basically says "you win the game if your opponent has # Pokemon in the Lost Zone."
(Or # Supporters, or # Energy, or whatever. My guess would be that some amount of Energy would be the most interesting option; pick the average number of energy the typical Giratina VSTAR deck runs and make it that number less 1 or 2. Something designed to not be so much 'broken', but force Lost Zone decks to be careful about how reliant they are on using certain attacks, feeling "safe" about discarding Energy to the LZ once they already have enough attached, etc.)
It's becoming a trope for the Lost Zone to reappear towards the end of any given block of the TCG, but not be acknowledged before then, so Gen 9 is probably not going to have any cards that even acknowledge the LZ mechanic for a while. At the moment, Comfey is a free pseudo-draw engine with no huge risk to adding to your deck, and we don't have anything like MISSING Unown or
Lost World from way back in Call of Legends that would make your opponent afraid to keep using Comfey's Ability.
It both creates an interesting wincon for players to aggressively use the Lost Zone, and also something of a tech/deterrent against using something like Comfey or Giratina V/STAR, assuming it's exclusively to your advantage to create a situation where you can play the upcoming Fantina card, etc.
But with Unown it's genuinely a wildcard Pokémon in the TCG so it's anyone's guess.