RE: Worst trainer?
SpiderLocMTGO said:
Energy Search is like a M:TG fetchland that doesn't cost you life. I don't see why it isn't played more in lieu of basic energy.
Thinning out energy + not getting color-hosed = good
Pokemon doesn't use the exact same logic as MTG.
In MTG, you thin out your deck so that you can find your good cards faster then you could if you didn't remove some of the junk from your deck.
In Pokemon, You just use a searching card to find the good card right when you need it.
In MTG, the only Creature/Sorcery searching cards that look through your library are few and far between. (not to mention Mana hungry).
In Pokemon, library searching cards are a dime a dozen, and they can find almost anything at the same price as any of the other cards.
In MTG, getting Mana flooded is the result of not being able to "mulligan your hand in the middle of play" so to say.
In pokemon, you can shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 4-6 cards almost every turn if you wanted to.
So Energy Search is just not that useful because it only gets you one energy. Other cards like Holon Lass can get you up to 12 energy, Mr. Stone's Project can get you 2 energy from either the deck or the discard.
The only thing Energy Search does well is that it can be found by Budew's attack, and even then it still doesn't do much.