Today's Pokémon Card:
X&Y - Venusaur EX (Full Art)
Total Overview:
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I promised I would do this one as well, so I thought that I'd better do that now, while my new Plasma Storm booster box video is uploading to YouTube!
Let's just get to it then.
Last time I did Blastoise EX full art, so now it's Venusaur.
This Pokémon has 180 HP which is excactly the same amount as Blastoise ;)
It has 2 attacks, the first one is called Poison Powder, and it requires one grass energy and 2 energy cards of your own choice. It deals 60 damage, and furthermore, your opponent's Pokémon is now poisoned! (I think it's therefore it's called Poison Powder) ;)
The second attack is called Jungle Hammer and requires 4 energy cards in total. 2 grass and 2 colorless. It deals a staggering amount of 90 damage to your opponent! But that's not all, it also HEALS your Venusaur by 30, and you don't even have to discard a single energy card, flip a coin, or anything like that! I mean, that's just plain crazy!
Venusaur has no resistance, and it's weak to fire x2. So if a fire type Pokémon deals 40 damage to Venusaur, you have to double up, which makes it 80 damage to Venusaur in total.
If you want to retreat Venusaur EX full art it will cost you 4 colorless energy cards, so.. Yeah.. Don't do that :)
Remember, that whenever you want to play an EX, if your opponent knocks out your Pokémon, he/she can have 2 prize cards instead of just 1. It's just worth considering..
Yup, also one more thing.. This Venusaur and the normal EX card have exactly the same amount of HP, the same attacks and everything, so you don't really have to play the full art, it wouldn't really make sense when the original EX has the exactly same opportunities in every way :P Well of course you can choose to play the full art instead of the regular EX, but that's your own choice.
Seeing Venusaur EX full art next to the Blastoise one, is really weird.. Blastoise's first attack deals 30 damage and then you HAVE to switch with a benched Pokémon. The other attack deals 120 damage, but when you use this attack you run a 50/50 risk of dealing 30 damage to yourself.
Venusaur's first attack deals 60 damage and then your opponent's Pokémon is also poisoned. The other attack deals 90 (not as much as Blastoise's 120 damage, I know), and here you don't run any risk - on the contrary your Venusaur actually heals itself by 30 HP when using this attack!
Is it just me or is there something here that isn't quite right?
I would like to start by saying THANK YOU for the 700+ views here on my blog! That really warms my heart, and I hope that the ones reading my blog like it, and if you have any ideas for changes you're so much welcome to write to me with your suggestion :)
I promised I would do this one as well, so I thought that I'd better do that now, while my new Plasma Storm booster box video is uploading to YouTube!
Let's just get to it then.
Last time I did Blastoise EX full art, so now it's Venusaur.
This Pokémon has 180 HP which is excactly the same amount as Blastoise ;)
It has 2 attacks, the first one is called Poison Powder, and it requires one grass energy and 2 energy cards of your own choice. It deals 60 damage, and furthermore, your opponent's Pokémon is now poisoned! (I think it's therefore it's called Poison Powder) ;)
The second attack is called Jungle Hammer and requires 4 energy cards in total. 2 grass and 2 colorless. It deals a staggering amount of 90 damage to your opponent! But that's not all, it also HEALS your Venusaur by 30, and you don't even have to discard a single energy card, flip a coin, or anything like that! I mean, that's just plain crazy!
Venusaur has no resistance, and it's weak to fire x2. So if a fire type Pokémon deals 40 damage to Venusaur, you have to double up, which makes it 80 damage to Venusaur in total.
If you want to retreat Venusaur EX full art it will cost you 4 colorless energy cards, so.. Yeah.. Don't do that :)
Remember, that whenever you want to play an EX, if your opponent knocks out your Pokémon, he/she can have 2 prize cards instead of just 1. It's just worth considering..
Yup, also one more thing.. This Venusaur and the normal EX card have exactly the same amount of HP, the same attacks and everything, so you don't really have to play the full art, it wouldn't really make sense when the original EX has the exactly same opportunities in every way :P Well of course you can choose to play the full art instead of the regular EX, but that's your own choice.
Seeing Venusaur EX full art next to the Blastoise one, is really weird.. Blastoise's first attack deals 30 damage and then you HAVE to switch with a benched Pokémon. The other attack deals 120 damage, but when you use this attack you run a 50/50 risk of dealing 30 damage to yourself.
Venusaur's first attack deals 60 damage and then your opponent's Pokémon is also poisoned. The other attack deals 90 (not as much as Blastoise's 120 damage, I know), and here you don't run any risk - on the contrary your Venusaur actually heals itself by 30 HP when using this attack!
Is it just me or is there something here that isn't quite right?
Personal Opinion:
I can't really find anything bad to say about this card at all! It has a huge amount of HP, it has 2 attacks which requires the amount of energy cards that you can expect from this type of card (EX/EX full art). The attacks deal great damage, and one of them allows you to poison your opponent's Pokémon, and the other you can use to heal yourself with! So it's just insane!
I'll just get to it:
So, I simply have to give this card the highest possible score! There are only 2 other cards in this race of being the best from X&Y, and that's the mega evolutions of Blastoise and Venusaur. The only reason why this doesn't get 5/6 and the other two 6/6 is because the mega evolutions are actually stage 1 Pokémon, so you need the EX in play first, and they "only" have 1 attack to use. So considering that this Venusaur EX full art is a basic Pokémon, and probably the best EX card of the entire X&Y set, this has to get the highest amount of Poké Balls possible :D
I'll just get to it:
A bit about the artwork:
What I really like about these full art cards (I forgot to mention this when reviewing Blastoise), is that you can actually feel them when opening a pack, if you do the card trick before looking through the cards.
I just did that today when opening a Deoxys EX tin, I could feel the stripes down the card and just knew something amazing was there. That feeling was incredible! It turned out to be a Lugia EX full art, so I was out of my mind with happiness for a long moment there!
I must admit though, that this Venusaur could have looked way better than it does on this card. You're just looking right up at its chin, which makes it look fatter than it already seems - to put it out there :P
But that perspective also makes it look much more dominant and powerful, so at some points it actually makes sense. What I really like about the card though, are the colours, I feel that way towards a lot of the X&Y Pokémon, I think Nintendo and the creators, animators have done an incredible job with this set!
I just did that today when opening a Deoxys EX tin, I could feel the stripes down the card and just knew something amazing was there. That feeling was incredible! It turned out to be a Lugia EX full art, so I was out of my mind with happiness for a long moment there!
I must admit though, that this Venusaur could have looked way better than it does on this card. You're just looking right up at its chin, which makes it look fatter than it already seems - to put it out there :P
But that perspective also makes it look much more dominant and powerful, so at some points it actually makes sense. What I really like about the card though, are the colours, I feel that way towards a lot of the X&Y Pokémon, I think Nintendo and the creators, animators have done an incredible job with this set!
Next Card Review:
So next time, I'll be reviewing the Mr. Mime from X&Y as well, just because I love the card and I want to share it with you :)
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