Very rough day 1 thoughts and predictions on new cards that I find interesting, mostly gonna talk about 1 prizers but will talk about the occasional ex if it interests me enough
:ribombee: - looks evil ngl. gives you broken ice pop but SLIGHTLY worse, except the item doesnt take up deck space and you can get infinite amounts. i think this will have a place fs, maybe even in non-grass deck just cuz of how strong the ability is
:exeggutor-alola: - fat fuck with a good secondary effect and its baby form has ramp. this + ribombee looks strong. not much to say there
:venusaur::charizard: - these two cards looked p good on their own, but then we found out that blue’s provocation was a card. oh my fucking god blue’s provocation is batshit insane. i think these two will have a strong place in their respective type decks almost PURELY because of blue.
:fuecoco: - this could be fun, esp with eviolite. 120 for 2 with a basic 2 pointer is good on its own, and you can even pair this guy with zard to do effectively 150 for 2 AND have effectively boss’s orders at your disposal :eyes: prolly wont be meta by any means but i think it could be funny
:greninja-mega: - frogadier is getting a lot of the attention now but i think this guy is kinda underrated as a result ngl. obv 100 for on a stage 2 megamon isnt that strong but the trapping effect is really cool. mayhaps it could be used to trap a megamon and set up a ko with a suicune or smth. idk i think this has potential despite its low damage.
:pikachu::pawmot: - i wasn’t impressed at all by new pikachu ex even when i found out about pawmot, but then i learned about light ball. and i realized… wait this mon can do 60 for 1 as a basic which iinm was unheard of until now. already that’s really good but then you throw on energy ramp and the ability to do 160 for 3… i can see this being strong fs
:mewtwo-mega-x: - my mind keeps going back and forth on whether this thing is good or bad, which is a huge shame bc i really want it to be good. working with both peculiar plaza and arena of antiquity is cool, but it cant really slot into fighting decks well cuz it needs psychic energy to attack. maybe i’ll be proven wrong and it could be good but atm it seems kinda underwhelming
:pupitar: - the fact that this and brock are the closest things we have to fighting ramp is depressing. its okay we’ll get proper ramp with groudon ex in the hoenn miniset :copium: NGL i kinda wonder if some crackhead will use this with arceus ex and SR ttar to do 160 with a 1 pointer. it probably wont be consistent or good tho :( and i mostly can say the same about mega ttar
:umbreon: - potential 80 for 1 on the first turn sounds crazy. i could easily see this slotting into various dark decks.
:melmetal: - looks strong purely for the effect, idk what steel you’d pair this with rn but it seems good. mega skarm ex maybe idk
:giratina-origin: looks like mega latios but if it was a 2 pointer and slightly weaker. seems good for dragon decks.
:eviolite: - suicune with eviolite :aware: have mercy
serena’s choice looks really good, it’s no oak obv cuz that card is broken but i think this effect is comparable in power to copycat, maybe slightly weaker but not by much. i expect this to see a lot of play.
this set definitely brought a lot of interesting new cards and synergies to the game, let us hope it’s enough to shake up the meta significantly from sleep spam cancer. cheers to the C series!
