Seismistoad from Black Bolt!
- Thread starter JustInBasil
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With Triple Acceleration and Reversal in format, this is actually able to be powered up. Now we just need another basic Round attacker, or it will just be a worse baby Maushold, and that Maushold sees no play
Round 60x Meloetta ex cap at 240, anyone? 
Oh Id actually find that kinda fun
looking at Keldeo and Bouffalant it couldve been way worse
Round deck yippee. We'll see what other mons get round, but so far not a real deck
Absolutely not unless it's also a Standard-playable consistency card on top. Fezandipiti 2.0 or bust.Round 60x Meloetta ex cap at 240, anyone?
- The only UR Meloetta we've ever received was that Round EX, an unplayably bad 110 HP 2-prize bench sitter for a joke archetype
- This was unceremoniously tossed into the side collection portion of the end-of-block reprint set
- After going through XY without a second look, Meloetta was then given the unfortunate distinction of being the only Mythical Pokemon aside from Manaphy and Magearna to not receive either a GX or Prism Star in the entirety of Sun & Moon, and the latter two had EXs at the very end of XY legal for most of SM that were both very Standard-playable (Magearna even won Worlds)
- Meloetta was then once again skipped over for all Ultra Rare treatment in Gen 8 including even a token Amazing Rare, making it a full 3 generations since this *MYTHICAL* received an ultra-rare card of any kind
- They managed to finally print the first actually playable Meloetta as a 1-prize non-holo rare in a specific archetype for Fusion. Yes, it was very good in Mew. However, you'll notice that once Crown Zenith came around ALL OF THE REST OF THE DECK GOT THE ALT-ART TREATMENT EXCEPT FOR MELOETTA. Oricorio? Alt art. Deoxys?? Alt art. Hoopa V??? Alt art (and hi, other mythical Pokemon with a V). Latias and Toxtricity even got alt arts and were nowhere near meta and of course Mew V and Genesect V already had theirs from Fusion Strike proper (and they decided to give Mew the gold treatment on top). Meloetta, though? Nowhere to be seen.
And it only gets worse when you zoom out and look at what they've given to the other three Gen 5 mythicals since they arrived. How many incredible Victini, Keldeo and ESPECIALLY Genesect have we received? It makes me sick.
Completely, utterly, bafflingly neglected. Someone at Card Labs has a vendetta. If they finally have this chance to make it right and we get "hey guess what guys, Round!" again? I will actually scream.
/rant
being a generic gimmick attacking mon is absolutely a worse fate than keldeo/bouff, those two you can at least chuck into a gen 9 power level cube, a theoretical round meloetta wouldnt be fun or useful anywhere unless it has a really strong consistency ability stapled to itOh Id actually find that kinda fun
Only about 60 Pokemon have been revealed out of the 156 total from Unova so there's still hope that the two combined sets feature a genuinely competitive new deck archetype.
So far I have not been terribly excited by any of the reveals.
(Bring back Garbotoxin you cowards)
So far I have not been terribly excited by any of the reveals.
(Bring back Garbotoxin you cowards)
Makes me wanna party in a Mexican kitchen and has my heart pumping like I am being injected
You really want heavy item lock, tool lock, and ability lock all in the same format for the next 2 years?
Eh I disagree. Keldeo and the bull are what feel generic to me. Seismitoad here does actual damage, isnt terrible for a rogue deck and it isnt complex still but it would give you a choice as to how much you will rely on the single prize or double prize, assuming her attack cost and or damage isnt terrible and she doesnt stay a bench sitter. Like gimmick is still fun at least to me way more than generic ex, Bouff and Keldeo are not much more than a freaking battle academy ex if we're being honest
Possibly used with rabsca from PAL.
A Jellicent ex - Garbodor deck definitely sounds enticing.
Might as well bring back Ancient Power Archeops too but alas, the PTCG designers have no idea what brilliant game design looks like.