Unfortunately still worse than LOR Chandelure. Main use case I could think of is maybe growing their hand and then using Eri to snipe important pieces like Rare Candy but that's too gimmicky
Theoretically can hit good damage and there are good stage 1s to pair alongside it, namely Xatu and Kirlia. But I'm not sold personally. This would be absolutely horrifying to play against if they reprinted Sky Field however
It's not... horrible, honestly. With Codebreaker you hit 280 which OHKOs VSTARs, and with Max Belt you can straight up OHKO Zard too. It's not viable but I can at least see some merits to Magcargo compared to many other bad ex cards we've gotten
Here's a list of other notable cards revealed in this, mainly in regards to the new 2 prizers and some other cards:
Gardevoir – Psychic – HP 110
Stage 2 – Evolves from Kirlia
Ability - Psy Shadow
Once during your turn, you may take 1 [P] Energy from your Energy Zone and attach it to the [P]...
Greninja – Water – HP 120
Stage 2 – Evolves from Frogadier
Ability - Water Shuriken
Once during your turn, you may do 30 damage to 1 of your opponent's Pokemon.
[W][C] Mist Slash: 60
Weakness: [L]+20
Retreat: [C]
I'm actually eager to try it out and see how a new meta's like with a drastically lowered power level. Been theorycrafting stuff out of the limited pool and I can already tell from a mile away that Greninja's going to be the undisputed BDIF
This would be legitimately good if the meta ever devolved into Zard v Zard since it's just a straight-up better Ultra Ball in those matchups. Otherwise though not great
SV1 Drifloon and Scream Tail can use Luxurious Cape anyways, the combo has seen some competitive play, mainly Scream Tail in Gardevoir decks since it can bench snipe
I'm eager to give Lugia VSTAR another run post-rotation with Mist Energy, since that completely invalidates Roaring Moon. It'll be even stronger in Expanded to deny stuff like GG End GX but Expanded is a dead format anyways.
Rabsca's fine, the problem is just if you're willing to dedicate deck...
This is actually worse than useless - Stall Lax players already had Luxurious Cape and any other deck trying to use this with 2 prize attackers are susceptible to just getting Lost Vacuum'd anyways. A 430 HP Zard ex is pretty hilarious, but there's absolutely no way you'd ever want to run this...