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!
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!
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.
Ever since it came into being in 1996, the Pokémon TCG has promoted itself through special, rare promo cards. They’ve been released for everything from movies to CD’s to tournaments to readers of CoroCoro Comics.
In my first article, I wrote about the top 10 cards in the first three TCG sets. My intention was to write my second article about the new Platinum TCG expansion around the time Pokémon Platinum came out, but unfortunately, school kept me from finishing this article in time (such is university life). But the recent announcement of the Gold and Silver remakes, HeartGold and SoulSilver, has given me a new idea – talking about the top 10 cards in the Generation II-based TCG sets, or the “Neo” sets. So here we go.
