Today's Pokémon Card:
X&Y - Blastoise EX (Full Art)
Total Overview:
Hi peeps, hope you're all doing well.
I haven't been posting the last few days because I just started school again and there is suddenly a lot to attend to :) I hope to get your understandings.
SO, tomorrow is the big release date of Pokémon X and Y, and I've already seen some pack openings, have you? I'd love to hear from you, if any of you guys have been attending pre-releases or anything like that. We don't have that here in Denmark, so I just need to wait.. Fortunately I've already ordered a booster box which should be arriving soon!
This Pokémon has 180HP and 2 attacks. The first attack is called Rapid Spin, which costs 2 energy cards of your own choice and does 30 damage to your opponent. Furthermore, when you use this attack you have to replace your active Pokémon with one of your benched. The same goes for your opponent :)
The other attack is much stronger. It requires 3 water type energy cards, but also requires for you to flip a coin and IF that tails, the attack will do 30 damage to the Pokémon itself.
Blastoise has no resistance to any type of Pokémon - have we even had a Pokémon yet with a resistance to anything!?
It is weak to grass type Pokémon x2, which means that if a grass Pokémon deals 20 damage to Blastoise, you have to double that up to a total of 40. If you wish to retreat the Pokémon, it will cost you 3 colorless energy cards, so it's definitely something you have to consider wisely before doing.
I haven't been posting the last few days because I just started school again and there is suddenly a lot to attend to :) I hope to get your understandings.
SO, tomorrow is the big release date of Pokémon X and Y, and I've already seen some pack openings, have you? I'd love to hear from you, if any of you guys have been attending pre-releases or anything like that. We don't have that here in Denmark, so I just need to wait.. Fortunately I've already ordered a booster box which should be arriving soon!
This Pokémon has 180HP and 2 attacks. The first attack is called Rapid Spin, which costs 2 energy cards of your own choice and does 30 damage to your opponent. Furthermore, when you use this attack you have to replace your active Pokémon with one of your benched. The same goes for your opponent :)
The other attack is much stronger. It requires 3 water type energy cards, but also requires for you to flip a coin and IF that tails, the attack will do 30 damage to the Pokémon itself.
Blastoise has no resistance to any type of Pokémon - have we even had a Pokémon yet with a resistance to anything!?
It is weak to grass type Pokémon x2, which means that if a grass Pokémon deals 20 damage to Blastoise, you have to double that up to a total of 40. If you wish to retreat the Pokémon, it will cost you 3 colorless energy cards, so it's definitely something you have to consider wisely before doing.
Personal Opinion:
What is great about this Pokémon is of course a few things.. But mostly the fact that Blastoise usually is a stage 2 Pokémon, but not when it's an EX! This means that it's a basic Pokémon, and you don't need to play either Squirtle or Wartortle to be able to have Blastoise EX as your active Pokémon. It has a few limits though..
It only has 2 attacks, and in the first one you have to switch out your Pokémon with another, so you have to have some kind of combination maybe with another Pokémon that has a switch ability that you can use during the turn. Besides that, one of the attacks doesn't really do much damage, 30 isn't that good at all.. The other attack deals a huge amount of damage, but you also have a 50/50 risk of dealing 30 damage to Blastoise EX. This is not too bad though, considering that the Pokémon has 180 HP already ;)
And then you have to remember, when playing an EX card, that if your opponent gets to knock it out, he/she wins not only 1, but 2 prize cards.
So, based on these couple of things, I think we will end up at:
It only has 2 attacks, and in the first one you have to switch out your Pokémon with another, so you have to have some kind of combination maybe with another Pokémon that has a switch ability that you can use during the turn. Besides that, one of the attacks doesn't really do much damage, 30 isn't that good at all.. The other attack deals a huge amount of damage, but you also have a 50/50 risk of dealing 30 damage to Blastoise EX. This is not too bad though, considering that the Pokémon has 180 HP already ;)
And then you have to remember, when playing an EX card, that if your opponent gets to knock it out, he/she wins not only 1, but 2 prize cards.
So, based on these couple of things, I think we will end up at:
A bit about the artwork:
This card is awesome!
I'm a huge fan of the first couple of Pokémon generations, so this really appeals to me. It looks like it's totally ready for battle, and you can almost imagine it jumping out of the card and into your living room! It's simple in many ways, but it just looks really powerful, and has this characteristic "Blastoise colour" all over the card :P
I really hope that this is one of the cards I will be able to pull out of a pack at some point!
I'm a huge fan of the first couple of Pokémon generations, so this really appeals to me. It looks like it's totally ready for battle, and you can almost imagine it jumping out of the card and into your living room! It's simple in many ways, but it just looks really powerful, and has this characteristic "Blastoise colour" all over the card :P
I really hope that this is one of the cards I will be able to pull out of a pack at some point!
Next Card Review:
I think next time, I'll do Venusaur EX full art from X&Y as well! It gives a good view of, where we stand in this set with some of the cards. I'll soon be doing a fairy type as well, so you guys can see what they look like, in case you haven't seem them yet.
Pokémon Code Card Giveaway!
This time, in order to get the code to the code card, you have to visit my facebook page! You can find it in the sidebar here on my blog. Go in there, and there will be a post with a code ;)
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