Hello, everyone! Sorry for the long wait, but I finally got back around to this. This week, as requested by SuperSquirrel, I will be reviewing Magmortar from the Unleashed set. Here’s the card:
This card seems a little hard to run in a deck judging by the fact that it has a 2x weakness to water, a retreat cost of two, and worst of all, discards at least two cards whenever it attacks. And as of now, it is hard to run. The only things that slightly make this work are Porygon-Z Lv. X if you use Hard Crush or Heatran Lv. X if you use Mantle Bazooka. However, I can feel the anticipation in this card for when the next set, Lost Link, rolls around in August.
Combining this Pokémon with the Research Documents (Trainer card) lets you choose exactly what it will discard. Then, with cards such as Mew Prime and Lucario, you can deal massive amounts of damage. (Link to entire set here: http://pokebeach.com/tcg/lost-link)
Here’s how I would rate this card:
Art: 7. I have to admit, I’m not feeling the art for this card. It doesn’t look like much detail was bothered to be put into it, and it makes a Pokémon I always thought was really BA look stupid.
Playability: 7. It’s only stage two, but you still need a backup, be it PoryZ, Heatran, or Research Documents to use him properly. Overall, not that easy to use.
Usefulness: 7. Even if you can use this guy, he sorta just sets up and then dies. It’d be better if he had a drawing attack or at least did some decent damage without giving himself whiplash.
Overall: 7. Just a meh card. The artwork isn’t great, it’s not rare or collectible, and it isn’t a great card to use in decks. It’s not horrible in any category either. It’s the card you have to check back halfway through my review to remember what I was talking about, and even if you did want to use it, it’s worthless until safely after the World Championships.
Tune in next week for my review of a mystery card from Unleashed! Speculation welcome!
Ill agree with you on the artwork of this card (not gonna get into the usefulness or playable cause i dont play). If the artist had made the explosion from Magmortar’s arm cannon visible, instead of what looks like a “charge up”, I think the picture would look a lot better. Not too mention, Magmortar is looking at the cardholder, not at it’s target. It’s almost like it’s saying, “Hey, look at me!! I can shoot fire!”
Does ANYONE read these? People? I don’t want to be writing all these articles if I’m getting one reader.
I would take Nape over him any day of the week. Less energy cards wasted for the same damage, and a means of retreating without burning energy cards and Nape can shuffle with RAWR.
However, this card looks really cool so I guess it isn’t entirely useless.
Just because there is one comment doesn’t mean there is one reader. I didn’t read it personally, but the thing is, TCG really only attracts the younger audience. You know, the ones that have to ask permission before going online (apparently this is not the case anymore). If you want more readers I suggest going in a different direction, toward the more hardcore pokemon fan. Doing something game related would be a good idea because little kids=card game and tv shows, older audience=video games and art. This is just a generalization, I’m not saying that all people that play the card game are little kids.
Y’know, it’s funny you mention that.
Seeing as the Master’s Division at TCG nationals had more players in it than Juniors and Seniors combined.