Hello, and welcome to the fifth edition of Card of the Week! We return from our break to the regularly scheduled review of… Feraligatr Prime! This card is a fun remake of yet another old card! (Doesn’t Nintendo love doing that?)
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Pwnemon’s Card of the Week: Shuppet
26
Apr 2010
Hello, Pwnemon with this Card of the Week! As promised, this week we’ll be looking at a deck. So, in an effort not to cover the tired and conventional, here’s Shuppet!
This is the main engine in a fun deck called (guess what) Shuppet! A decklist for this could vary greatly, but here’s an example: more…
Category: Features
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Pwnemon’s Card of the Week: Typhlosion Prime
19
Apr 2010
Hello, I am Pwnemon, and this is the third edition of my Card Of The Week! In this edition, we’ll be reviewing the EPIC Typhlosion Prime! This card is super amazing, so here it is! more…
Category: Features
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Pwnemon’s Card of the Week: Meganium
21
Mar 2010
Pwnemon here, bringing you the next card of the week. This time, I am reviewing the Johto starter Pokemon over the next three weeks in honor of HG/SS (Unless another card catches my fancy, which is probable). Anyway, without further ado, here’s the card: Meganium!
Before we even start, let me tell you this card gets me a bad sense of deja vu. Some older players might recognize it; see if you can guess. Right off the bat, this has some wicked HP, sitting at a nice lump sum of 150. The Solarbeam attack is very powerful yet slow, reminiscent of, oh, say, this guy?
But he’s still not who I’m thinking of. Overall, I think this is a pretty basic power tanker, designed to just go up there and hurt ’til it drops. It doesn’t make a very good benchwarmer with its useless pokepower, and it’s a little slow to compete with faster decks that dominate the metagame nowadays. Here’s my score:
Art: 10. The art is very well done, the shading is perfect, and he looks like some PO’d Pokemon you just found in its native habitat about to kick your butt (all the prime Pokemon do). This is to say, I love the artwork.
Playability: 2. A Stage 2 is never fun to get out. A Stage 2 needing four energies to attack, even less fun. A Stage 2 needing four energies to attack who is not in any way a useful benchsitter, don’t even try.
Usefulness: 8. If you do by some miracle of modern engineering get this powerhouse out, it will sure as heck give them a run for their money. Good luck getting that far in any reasonable time, though.
Overall: 9. This card can’t do much more than die in battle. It’s completely hopeless. So why a 9? Simple: it’s the perfect collector’s card. Nintendo has to appeal to both sides. It has great artwork, and you can’t really blame them for it’s weakness. I mean, what else is to be expected when you recreate a base set card?
Sheesh, looks like the word of the day here is rebirth.. Maybe I was wrong about Infernape coming back.
Thanks for reading the card of the week!
Category: Features
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Pwnemon’s Card of the Week
14
Mar 2010
Hello, this is Pwnemon, bringing you a new feature article: the card of the week! In this article, I will cross examine a card, giving its uses in battle and an overall rating. I do this to give old time battlers a new stratagy idea; also, I want to attract more people to this site’s frankly weak TCG section. It’s only fitting that my first review will be from the new HGSs sets, so here we go!
I chose a Ninetails because it’s never really been that great of a Pokemon, TCG or otherwise. I thought it needed some love. Anyway, at first glance, it’s not a very extraordinary card. It has a decently damaging attack, but the energy cost is extremely high for 60. It has middling HP. It has a retreat cost, which is a major iconvenience in the typically fast paced fire decks. But the PokePower is where it really excels. In fact, some veteran players may recognize it…
Look out. They’re coming… again. In fact, this card has almost the exact same use as a Delcatty, sitting on the bench to pump up your hand and Infernape to massive proportions. I guess all we can do is thank our lucky stars that Infernape is about to cycle out this September… Or, run an Ampharos Pt with a Zapdos MD like my brother does. But that’s for a different installment. Anyhow, here’s how my overall rating of the card stacks up: more…
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In Anticipation
09
Mar 2010
By Kalylia
Anticipation of what you may ask? Well, my fair reader, let me enlighten you.
For those of you that are unaware, Nintendo has remade the second generation Pokémon games. Originally titled Gold/Silver (and rapidly after, Crystal), these two new titles will be called HeartGold and SoulSilver. While I’m not entirely fond of the title choice, I am absolutely stoked for these titles to be released in America.
What day will that be?
MARCH 14th, 2010! more…
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After the Neo sets and the small e-Reader sets, the next major group of cards released in the Pokémon TCG universe was the sixteen EX sets. It might be hard to pick the best card from so many sets, but it’s worth a shot. Let’s go!
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10. Beautifly (EX Ruby & Sapphire)
Aside from the cool art common to all holo cards, this card is a pretty decent addition to your deck. To start things off, Beautifly has a Poké-Body called Withering Dust that lets you not apply Resistance as long as Beautifly is in play. Since Resistance reduces the amount of damage you do to an opponent, to be able to simply ignore it is great. Beautifly’s two attacks, Stun Spore and Parallel Gain, aren’t bad either. Stun Spore, just like in the video games, can cause paralysis while Parallel Gain lets you remove 1 damage counter from each of your Pokémon.
9. Plusle (EX Dragon)
As a Pokémon Ranger fan, I obviously have a soft spot for Plusle. But that aside, this card is very good. Plusle’s Poké-Body, Chain of Events, takes full advantage of the new double-battle format introduced to the TCG by the Ruby & Sapphire set by allowing you to use Cheer On, Plusle’s main attack, after your partner attacks (but only once). Cheer On lets you remove one damage counter from each of your Pokémon, which would be a big help to your partner. Plusle’s other attack, Extra Circuit, lets you choose one of the opponent’s Pokémon and do 20 damage to it, or 40 if it’s a Pokémon-ex. Not bad. more…
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Pokemon Player Profile
09
Jan 2010
It has been three years since Pokémon Diamond was released in the States, and in those three years, we have seen a wide variety of players. Now, generalization is bad, but out of those wide varieties of players, all of them fit either of these three categories: overly competitive, overly aggressive players, lax players that played for social interaction, and players that played to catch them all, or players that played just because they like the game. However, calling, say, the first type, “overly competitive player” is too tiring and boring, is it not?
Therefore, we will name the three stereotypes. We will name the first stereotype, competitive battler, Gary. We will name Mr. Social interaction Brock, and Mr. Catch ‘em all Ash. This article will talk extensively about those three characters, give some examples, and maybe see what makes them tick.
Category: Features
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The holidays have come and gone, leaving trails of gift wrap and discarded eggnog in their wake. However, though the season of giving is behind us, it’s never too late to be thinking about next year, and Pokémon gifts are always a great gift option, even TCG-related gifts. Here is my list of the top 10 TCG-related holiday gifts to consider for next year.
10. Theme Decks
Theme decks have been coming out since there has been a Pokémon TCG. The first was the 2 Player Starter Set in 1998. Theme decks usually contain cards from one or two energy types, along with the other essentials for playing the game (coin, play mat, etc), and run about $10 or so. The themes differ depending on the deck, but they usually have something to do with the energy type or types of the cards in the deck. They also usually include one holo card, like Machamp in the 2 Player Starter Set and Vaporeon in the Water Blast theme deck. You can find these decks online or at stores that sell Pokémon cards, like card stores or even Target, Wal-Mart, and ToysRUs. more…
Category: Features
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The Tall Grass – Christmas Roast
25
Dec 2009
This is what happens when you forget to put the fire out before you go to sleep on Christmas eve.
Category: Comics, Features
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