(1) BW5 'Dragon Blade' and 'Dragon Blast' Scans! [3/14]

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Setosama said:
Am I reading the ability on that Sigilyph right? Does that ability say it's immune to damage from Pokemon EX?
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Yes, it's immune to both damage and other effects from EX Pokémon's attacks. And its attack does 50 damage plus 10 more for each energy card attached to the Defending Pokémon. It seems like it was designed with Mew EX in mind - if Mew EX has any energy on it, Sigilyph could take it out in one hit.
 
Sigilyph all the way! XD (Mewtwo Lv.X? Familiar kinda XD)
Seriously its great. I would have loved a better attack for Jumpluff though. Its ability is ok. Milotic is cheren lol. Not worth teching though. I think the format just got A LOT more interesting. More rogue decks for sure. Wrong claydol pokemn inc! We want Cosmic Power! XD Gothitelle just blew. my. mind. lol Rogue deck, but too easy to OHKO. Sigilyph w/ it would help a little. I like Ninjask too, very trolling card lol. Aggron=Rhyperior DP. hmmmmm....? After looking closer at terrakion I say.....it is epicals. Good set actually. (WHY must you reprint a Luxray GL X Pokemon inc. WHY? (ninetales))

I actually like the EX art. They look really cool. .0.
 
Milotic is cheren lol. Not worth teching though.
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There is a big difference between drawing 3 cards and searching your deck for 3 cards.
 
Ohman, these look so cool. I'll start worrying about strategies when the cards are soon to be released Stateside and we know the new format, but for now the collector in me is going "shiny!!!!" Can't wait to get my boxes next week.
 
In a way I'm a little bummed most of the EXes in this set aren't that great, but on the other hand I'm glad because that way they won't dominate the format. Just a couple issues with the set though. Where's Shizurow? And no supporters?! Whaaa?!

Anyways, tons of interesting cards. Even if a lot won't see play, at the very least there is a lot of stuff worth playing around with just for fun.
 
Deus: Nightmare Autarch said:
There is a big difference between drawing 3 cards and searching your deck for 3 cards.
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.o. I misread. Omg that makes it a little better. Wow. thanks.
 
This is looking like it is going to be a pretty awesome set. Terrakion EX is obviously the best EX out of the set by a long shot. It is out of Zekrom's OHKO range, and has energy acceleration for the rest of your field. The Sigilyph is promising, Safeguard being on a psychic Pokémon with a 50 + attack can pose some serious threats towards Mewtwo. Ho-Oh is interesting. Tool Scarper and Large Cloak are game changing as well. Looks like Poké Tool are going to be playing a larger role in the next meta.

Also, all of the art <3
 
Vulpix Yolk said:
Terrakion EX is obviously the best EX out of the set by a long shot.
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Yeah, about that... You're wrong. Rayquaza EX is a better card then Terrakion. Is Terrakion a great card? Yes. Is he one of the the better EX's so far? Yes. Is he the 2nd best EX in the set? Probably. Is he better then Rayquaza? No.
 
Terrakion EX is obviously the best EX out of the set by a long shot.
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I'm not quite so sure. Rayquaza and Mew are both highly promising contenders...Rayquaza more so because he can't really be hit for weakness and has much beefier HP.
Terrakion EX is...okay. The second attack is very good, no mistaking it, but there isn't much difference between it and our original Terrakion. The difference is that EX cannot do 90 damage for 2 energy, and of course the obvious prize penalty common to all EXs.
 
Deus: Nightmare Autarch said:
I just noticed that several cards from the new set (Throh, Sawk, Sigilyph, Slaking, Claydol, the whole Deino and Gible lines, Skuntank, Ninjask, Magmortar, and a few others) have backgrounds from either the Unova Pokemon League or N's Castle.
Very interesting...I think most Pokemon arts here are set in one of those two locations. Could this portend something?
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Not to sound rude but that was kinda obvious since the set was first revealed...

Ophie said:
Does anybody know where that Jumpluff card is set? All the others I can either determine (most are in Opelucid City, Dragonspiral Tower, or N's Castle),
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There are also some cards that show Tubeline Bridge (like Aron). I guess they picked off from where they stopped in Dark Rush (around Icirrus City)...

Futachimaru said:
MEW EX REPRINT. TPCI I LOVE YOU.
Seriously, love the almost-reprints of the older cards.
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Me too. Besides Mew, there's also Ho-oh-EX. It seems people are forgetting that this new Ho-oh is not an almost-reprint of SW Ho-oh. It's actually Ho-oh ex from Unseen Forces. Who wanna bet that the future Lugia-EX will have Elemental Blast?

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Anyway, this set is pretty awesome. Really good artwork on most cards. Nothing against Shizurow but I think I prefer the art on these EXs. IMO, Ho-oh and Mew EX have the better EX artwork so far.
Still, Ho-oh EX is kinda bad. It needs 3 different energy to do at least 80. I think that's weak (for an EX). Plus, it has 160HP, the lowest compared to the other EXs (minus the cute ones - Shaymin, Mew,...).
Yay, another Wailord with 200HP... I'd say Aggron could have use on Durant decks but Durant will pretty much be dead with the Heatmor from the previous set (that can be easily teched in any deck)...
Magmortar is also really disappointing and Slaking is a troll...
On the other hand, the first cards that work better against EXs have arrived mirroring the ADV-era (Bouffalant and Sigilyph) and there are other interesting cards...
 
These are awesome.
Does anyone know what Audino/ Ambipom do?
 
Ambipom's first attack flips 2 coins and does 20 damage for each heads, second does 10 damage for every card in your hand.

Can't quite make out Audino's first attack, but its second heals 30 HP from itself.
 
EonEye99 said:
Why do the Garchomp/Hydreigon Blend Energies look different? They look cooler.
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Looking over the scans, it seems as if the energies and also some other cards (Hydreigon, Gyarados, Garchomp) have a different sort of holo to them, on the background of the card (like our reverse holos). That's the only thing I can think of that would account for the darkness and the texture look. Not sure if that's standard in these sorts of decks or not, since I don't recall seeing scans of previous ones, and I've never bought any before. I did order one of each deck along with my booster boxes, though, so if anyone's interested, I can share more when I get them.
 
Artemis said:
Looking over the scans, it seems as if the energies and also some other cards (Hydreigon, Gyarados, Garchomp) have a different sort of holo to them, on the background of the card (like our reverse holos). That's the only thing I can think of that would account for the darkness and the texture look. Not sure if that's standard in these sorts of decks or not, since I don't recall seeing scans of previous ones, and I've never bought any before. I did order one of each deck along with my booster boxes, though, so if anyone's interested, I can share more when I get them.
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My take is that one is called Blend Energy while the other is called something else. I can't read japanese but just by comparison one says Blend Energy while the other says something else.
 
We're not talking about the text, we're talking about the appearance of the card itself. Look at this Blend Energy from the set, and this Blend Energy from the Garchomp deck. Both are the same card (same energy types and text, etc), but have different appearances: the one in the deck has a speckled background behind the text and it's also darker.
 
^That's a recent trend in japanese cards... The Victini theme deck for example (the one released along with the movie) also had those reverse-holo-like cards...
 
Now that I look at it, Ho-Oh EX can have some serious potential. Just discard it with something like Sage's Training (Yes, I know we probably won't have that anymore when we get Ho-Oh. But do I care? Not really, there have to be some other discard cards) or Juniper and BAM, revive it and do 80 damage right off the bat.
...what? Why are you giving me that look?
Oh, EXCUSE me for wanting to have fun and play decks that involve more than 2 types of basic energy. >:I
 
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