(1) Cofagrigus, Landorus, and N from 'Noble Victories' [10/13]

Boom! The N card has been the one I've most been hoping we'd get as a FA, and I'm intrigued by Cofagrigus' ability. I suppose it acts like the 'Sturdy' ability within the games. I'd like to get it in the PR in a couple of week's time, but I don't think it'll be worrying too many decks...
 
It's great to have Rocket's Admin back...whoops--I mean "N". "N" will defiantly shape our metagame--not only for City Championships but the whole 2011/2012 tournament season, and next season! There are so many possibilities that this card brings to the table!

Landorus seems to be the weakest link of the whole legendary Pokemon, and I can't help but feel that the "cooler" looking Pokemon are always getting the raw end of the deal. Landoru's first attack should have been colorless, and his second attack cost could have cost less.

Cofagrigus is just annoying. I personally do not see this card becoming too much of a treat. However, most novice players may find him appealing to avoid a prize card.
 
I feel like such a noob after looking at these cards and then reading all the above comments.

My first thought was the Cofagrigus would be an annoyingly fun card to put into a joke deck, and that N is a good but not fantastic card....

...but after reading your comments, I feel like the ONLY person who doesn't understand what it is the N really does. :(
 
EspeonROX said:
Oh man. Why'd they have to make N a full-art card...I would strongly dislike it if I pulled him.
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Well it's better than pulling garbage like Escavalier and *insert filler rare here*
 
^ No, I don't think so, but I'm not 100% sure
I heard the musketeer trio holos and full arts from red collection will be in the set! I need Cobalion, he's beast! And know we have Landros.... mayebe Thunderus and Tornadus will be in the set? Mayebe the holos from the gift set? And in previous movie sets (Great Encounters, Platinum) had the Pokemon who's name was in the title. This didn't happen in Japan in Red Collection because they wanted to have all of the Unova Pokemon in the TCG as fast as possible, while that's not the case in the U.S. (We are on the 3rd set and still in BW while Japan finished in the 2nd set) so I have high hopes the awesome Gift Set Zekrom and Reshiram holos will be in Noble Victories (unless we get a new Zekrom and Reshiram, but other than the Gift Box promos it's just Zekrom EX and Reshiram EX)!!!!! I love the Gift Box! There are so many Victini, it's hard to tell how we will release them all (but the Red Collection Victini Holo is confirmed because it's the same print as the Victini Full Art)
 
Ty_Sylicus said:
My first thought was the Cofagrigus would be an annoyingly fun card to put into a joke deck, and that N is a good but not fantastic card....

...but after reading your comments, I feel like the ONLY person who doesn't understand what it is the N really does. :(
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It's just an amazing disruption card. Limiting your opponent to less than 4 cards (possibly 3 or 2) while netting you a new hand can totally swing a match (depending on what's on the field of course). It just has a lot of possibilities right now in a pretty stagnant metagame. A good Supporter is fairly hard to come by when most decks carry the same ones now. I extremely like the card and I liked it back when it was Rocket's Admin lol.

dmaster out.
 
I've GOT to get this specific card for N. I have never seen this Sugimori artwork before. I actually forgot that he actually draws original stuff for the card game from time to time.
 
dmaster said:
I extremely like the card and I liked it back when it was Rocket's Admin lol.
dmaster out.
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Actually, there is a minor difference between Rocket's Admin and N, with Rocket's Admin you drew up to the number of Prizes you had left, with N you don't.
 
EspeonROX said:
Oh man. Why'd they have to make N a full-art card...I would strongly dislike it if I pulled him.
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I completely agree, actually. When I first saw the Full Art N back in July, I just facepalmed. Because now Pokemon is getting so ridiculous with the super rare cards that we get super rare alternate artwork reprint Trainers.
 
dmaster said:
It's just an amazing disruption card. Limiting your opponent to less than 4 cards (possibly 3 or 2) while netting you a new hand can totally swing a match (depending on what's on the field of course). It just has a lot of possibilities right now in a pretty stagnant metagame. A good Supporter is fairly hard to come by when most decks carry the same ones now. I extremely like the card and I liked it back when it was Rocket's Admin lol.

dmaster out.
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hmm...I can definitely see the strong disruption point but, I worry about playing N card when I'm way ahead in prize cards. :/

the aura is with me8 said:
Actually, there is a minor difference between Rocket's Admin and N, with Rocket's Admin you drew up to the number of Prizes you had left, with N you don't.
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Frost said:
I didn't play back then but I looked up the card on TCGscans and, from how I read it, both cards do the same thing when played.

I completely agree, actually. When I first saw the Full Art N back in July, I just facepalmed. Because now Pokemon is getting so ridiculous with the super rare cards that we get super rare alternate artwork reprint Trainers.
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I'm sorry, I can't see how reprinted super old cards so that they can now be played in our current rotation, or how printing FA's of Trainers (or FA's in general) is at all a bad thing.

It's great to have more Trainer options and FA cards are always good for the kids; they make some serious trades down at the local card shop here. Kids think FA's are the greatest thing since Primes and Lv.X's.
 
It seems to me that they aren't releasing stuff as early as they used to.

I mean, my PR is in 2 weeks.

Nothing new for the cards. Hopefully the kids at my league "don't like" FA N.
 
the aura is with me8 said:
Actually, there is a minor difference between Rocket's Admin and N, with Rocket's Admin you drew up to the number of Prizes you had left, with N you don't.
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It's exactly the same as rockets admin. It's number remaining for both
 
Ty_Sylicus said:
It's great to have more Trainer options and FA cards are always good for the kids; they make some serious trades down at the local card shop here. Kids think FA's are the greatest thing since Primes and Lv.X's.
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Well, illustrations are the biggest reason I'm even into this card game in the first place (Bleach and Naruto only use clip art, which is boring), so a card like this is candy to an illustration aficionado like me.
 
pokemonjoe said:
It's exactly the same as rockets admin. It's number remaining for both
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Yeah, that's what I was going to say...

It's the same effect, dude. Just a different name haha.

Edit: Oh...I guess it is slightly different, even though the difference isn't a big deal. Huh.

dmaster out.
 
Aura is right with the minor difference between N and Rocket's Admin:

N: Each player shuffles his or her hand into her deck. Then each player draws a card for each of his or her remaining prize cards.

Whereas

Rocket's Admin: Each player shuffles his or her hand into his or her deck. Then, each player counts his or her Prize cards left and draws up to that many cards. (You draw your cards first.)

So with Rocket's you can choose how many cards you want upto the number of prizes you have left, with N you are forced to draw the same number of cards as prizes left. Minor, but still significant.
 
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