Broken Poke-Power?

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YourP1MP

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So as the title reads I thought of a Poke-power that could be reasonable to make in the B&W set.

Poke-POWER
Instant Luck: Once during your turn (before you attack), you may flip a coin. If heads, treat any coin flip during your next turn as heads instead. You may not use more than one Instant Luck each turn. This power can't be used if _______ is affected by a special condition

Poke-POWER
Instant Luck: Once during your turn (before you attack), you may flip 2 coins. If both are heads, treat the first coin flip (excluding Instant Luck) during your next turn as heads. If both are tails, you can not use any Poke-Powers on your Pokemon during your next turn. You may not use more than one Instant Luck each turn. This power can't be used if _______ is affected by a special condition.

Would the following be a viable power?
Would it be too broken?
What could combo with it besides Super Scoop Up and Dialga Lv.X

Discuss!
 
Pokemon like this and this would get a nice advantage from that pokepower. I don't know if it would be broken, but it is a really good pokepower.

Edit: Nevermind, THIS! pokemon would make that power very broken.
 
there are just too many good flippy cards that would be really broken if there was something like this.
 
okay thats still pretty broken though. It would be completely game breaking, making things like super scoop up incredibly broken.
 
Cards like stone barrage would not be broken. Why? Because an attack has to finish before KO's are checked (think Uxie Psychic Restore). Since you never stop attacking, I never get KOed :)

Yeah the power should be.

"During your next turn, treat the result of your next coin toss (excluding Instant Luck) as heads instead."

That seems a little better.
 
But that makes it the same as flipping for the said next turn flip. It could be if heads treat your next 2 flips as heads, whether they be during this turn or next, excluding any instant luck powers.
 
Yeh infinite damage combos? No thanks, I'm not playing type 1 Magic the Gathering, it might be more reasonable if A: you could only use one per game, or B: if you could only use that power when the Pokemon was knocked out. I have to say though, it is a very interesting idea.
 
@YourPIMP: Instant heads on the next coin flip without a coin flip would still be broken. You could paralyze every turn easily.
 
(It's still possible to paralyze every turn using Magnezone and Heatran LV.Xs, and possibly even with skillful use of Super Connectivity, but the point is understood.)
There is probably no 'treat coin flip as heads' ability because of the 'flip a coin until you get tails' bit. There are plenty of 'treat it as tails', but as far as the rules go, if there was a 'treat every coin flip as heads' ability, and you used a 'flip a coin until you get tails' attack, it technically makes a never-ending situation. You technically are not allowed to call something quits if you keep flipping heads.

It would not be viable whatsoever to have a 'treat coin flip as heads' thing. Maybe one flip, but even so that can be game-breaking (SSU, Life Herb, confusion...).

I think there are more broken Poke-Powers out there. Like Electric Trans. Or Intimidating Roar. Or Healing Breath.
 
@ Amisheskimoninja, you have to remember that you need to get heads in the first place.

Here is the most recent revision of the Poke-Power:


Poke-POWER
Instant Luck: Once during your turn (before you attack), you may flip 2 coins. If both are heads, treat the first coin flip (excluding Instant Luck) during your next turn as heads. If both are tails, you can not use any Poke-Powers on your Pokemon during your next turn. You may not use more than one Instant Luck each turn. This power can't be used if _______ is affected by a special condition.
 
Uh, Fainting Spell anyone? If Gengar is about to get KO'd, use the power and it saves you a turn, or gets you a prize card.
 
^Fainting Spell happens on your opponent's turn, and the effect of the power states "If both are heads, treat the next coin flip during your turn as heads" so it wouldn't effect Fainting Spell.

~A+G
 
So now you have to flip 2 coins to see if the next coin flip you do is automatically treated as heads with a HUGE downside if you get two tails... why wouldn't you just flip the coin for the card with the coin flip? That way you only have to flip one coin. We've gone from a broken Poke-power to a completely redundant one.
 
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