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7-27-13 CotD
By: Brochacho Date: July 29, 2013, 9:35 pm
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7-27-13
[center]Card of the Day: Terrakion EX
HTML http://pkmncards.com/?s=terrakion+EX&display=card&sort=date[/center]
This card is mainly known for its second attack pump-up
smash. What it does is for two fighting and a colorless energy,
it does 90 damage and lets you attach 2 energy cards from your
hand to your pokemon. This could be really powerful in a deck
that needs some energy acceleration, or in the deck Victinibox.
What Victinibox does, is using Terrakion EX, and Victini EX, you
power up attackers that are strong but don’t have good energy
acceleration, so you can hit for big numbers fast with pokemon
that are generally slow.
Terrakion EX’s first attack is mediocre to say the least. For a
fighting and a colorless energy, the attack does 50 damage and
is not affected by resistance. Sure, you can hit a Thunderus EX
for 100 damage, but that’s it. You would have to make Terrakion
EX survive 2 turns to knock out that thing. Without any added
bonus.
The thing has a 3 retreat, which is horrible, so you would
have to make sure to be able to retreat the thing so your
opponent couldn’t just catcher it up and take 2 free prizes
before you could retreat it. The thing is also weak to grass
type pokemon, which will really hurt it when our Plasma blast
set comes out soon. Genesect EX OHKOs it with its non- Ace Spec
attack, and Virizion EX 2-shots it and charges up their field.
The thing does have 180 HP, which is helpful. Sometimes
that 10 HP can make a HUGE difference in a game. It is really
cheap for an EX though, being about 5$ on EBay, so if you really
needed them, you could get a lot of them for a cheap price. This
card isn’t very playable, but it does have it’s own little niche
with Victinibox just like every other kind of meh EX, but they
all do have their own deck that they can be good in. But another
problem with it is that Victini EX really outclasses it. Sure it
may have only 110 HP, but for ONE fire energy you get to search
your deck and attach two energy to your benched pokemon in any
way you like. That right there is 3 energy cards on the field
turn one. Then it also has an Ace Spec which lets Victini EX
charge up for 0 Energy. If you were running Terrakion EX for
getting energy out fast, I would really recommend Victini EX
instead. But if you are uncomfortable with its HP, then
Terrakion EX might be the safer play. So, without further ado,
lets move to the Pros, and the Cons.
Pros
Provides another type of energy acceleration.
It has 180 HP.
It is cheap to buy.
Cons
It has a 3 retreat cost.
It is slow to set up.
It’s underwhelming in damage.
It is weak to grass type pokemon.
It has a bad type, with a lot of pokemon having a fighting type
weakness.
So overall this card is not very useable, and I would give it a
4/10 just because it can work well in very specific decks. So,
those are my thoughts on the cards, and I will applaud you if
you can find a new deck where this card works.
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Re: 7-27-13 CotD
By: Falco413 Date: August 11, 2013, 7:10 pm
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I'm seeing a weird kind of Rock Tumble + Pump Up Smash + HTL +
Virbank combo here, or maybe Plasma Badge and stuff. I suppose
it'd take too long to set up. It's got a nice type in the aspect
that it OHKOs Darkrai, however a water weakness in this format
is annoying.
7/10 for me, it's an interesting card I'd like to toy with
sometime.
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Re: 7-27-13 CotD
By: Brochacho Date: August 13, 2013, 5:19 pm
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it actually has a grass weakness, but that it just as bad.
#Post#: 640--------------------------------------------------
Re: 7-27-13 CotD
By: Falco413 Date: August 13, 2013, 9:04 pm
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Oh. Derp. IMO I wouldn't consider it bad untill we have some
major results with Virizion/Genesect.
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