Arven’s Mabosstiff ex, Greedent, and More Arvent’s Pokemon Revealed!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onFeb 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM · 54 Comments

Arven’s Pokemon have now been revealed from Heat Wave Arena, which releases on March 14th in Japan. The cards from the set will become part of our Destined Rivals set in May.

Thanks goes to JustInBasil for the translations!

Arven’s Maschiff – Darkness – HP70
Basic Pokemon

[C] Stampede: 10 damage.

[C][C][C] Confront: 50 damage.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2

Arven’s Mabosstiff ex – Darkness – HP270
Stage 1 – Evolves from Arven’s Maschiff

[C] Hustle Tackle: 30+ damage. If this Pokemon has no damage counters on it, this attack does 120 more damage.

[C][C][C] Boss’s Headbutt: 210 damage. During your next turn, this Pokémon can’t use Boss’s Headbutt.

When your Pokemon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Grass (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2

Arven’s Skwovet – Colorless – HP60
Basic Pokemon

[C] Gnaw Through: 10 damage. Before doing damage, discard all Pokémon Tool cards from your opponent’s Active Pokémon.

Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1

Arven’s Greedent – Colorless – HP120
Stage 1 – Evolves from Arven’s Skwovet

Ability: Greedy Order
When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may put up to 2 Arven’s Sandwich from your discard pile into your hand.

[C][C] Rolling Tackle: 50 damage.

Weakness: Fighting (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2

Arven’s Sandwich – Trainer
Item

Heal 30 damage from your Active Pokémon. If that Pokémon is an Arven’s Pokémon, heal 100 damage instead.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn.

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Arven's Mabostiff

Honestly, it's pretty boring. Other from hitting Gardevoir, you only KO Fezanbird for 3, which is too much when Dragapult can hit 200 for 2, AND can spread dmg counters, which you can use to KO the bird.
 
gigachad said:
Cloyster, Scovillain, Toedscruel, and Garganacl, and looks like we're getting none of those...
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it really would have only taken one of those being here and being interesting. a cloyster (ex?) with serious damage reduction to actually make a healing gimmick worthwhile comes to mind, i'm sure you could come up with something for garg (who would no doubt have a good HP pool due to being stage 2)
 
Not very good but I like what they were going for here. Arven and his Pokemon are always teaming up with the player, so it makes sense that his Pokemon use only colorless energy and his item somewhat works on other Pokemon. The 'Arven' archetype should be able to mesh with and, to some degree, work within all types of decks.

Much like several of the cards in Battle Partners, this feels like a good idea that just wasn't developed enough, assuming this is all there is

*** Greedent retrieves 2 Arven's Sandwiches from the discard pile, not 2 Arven's Pokemon. ***
 
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I am extremely whelmed right now. The Mabostiff ex is somewhat salvageable, but it would need a lot of support to work. I’m a bit scared this really bad Greedent is all we’ll get in terms of abilities for the archetype; if that’s the case, this deck is dead on arrival
 
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Arven's Mabostiff

Honestly, it's pretty boring. Other from hitting Gardevoir, you only KO Fezanbird for 3, which is too much when Dragapult can hit 200 for 2, AND can spread dmg counters, which you can use to KO the bird.
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What did you expect? Not every archetype in the set was going to be good. Cynthia and Ethan look pretty good with Misty looking to have some potential. I didn't expect much from Arven. Plus Arven isn't exactly known for his battle prowess.
 
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it really would have only taken one of those being here and being interesting. a cloyster (ex?) with serious damage reduction to actually make a healing gimmick worthwhile comes to mind, i'm sure you could come up with something for garg (who would no doubt have a good HP pool due to being stage 2)
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No Pokémon but Mabostiff was ever going to be the ex for Arven though.
 
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