Realistically, how often are you going to hit this though?
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I wonder how this will work with Gladion?
Except it does not waste a Prism Card slot; once we have 60 or more Prism Cards available, you could build an entire deck using Prism Star cards. It is not like the Ace Spec mechanic, where you were not only restricted to one copy of an Ace Spec but one Ace Spec card overall.
It does eat up a general slot in your deck and a space on your Bench. Specifically, a space you need to keep open so its Ability will Bench itself when triggered (or else you don't get to take an extra Prize). There are ways to manipulate what ends up in your Prize cards, but none of them are efficient or reliable. Barring effects that trigger based on the number of Prizes taken, what matters in Pokémon is taking six Prizes before your opponent achieves a win condition (or you achieve an alternate win condition). The obvious exception is if the game goes to time and is decided based on Prizes (if that is how that is even handled nowadays in tournament play). If you take an extra Prize but do so in a way that weakens your deck, it is more likely to make you lose the game than win it.
It is interesting, even if the card isn't worth running competitively (and I mean remotely competitively). Still, most of this seems like you skimming and only seeing the gushing posts like the one I quoted before, or mistaking people trying to find a way to make it work as anything more than fun speculation.
It doesn't. You look at your prizes, so Jirachi Prism Star isn't face down when you pick it up. Being that the case, the ability won't activate.
It does "waste" one of the prism card slots for the expansion, is what most people so far probably meant. Which I disagree, since I feel with just some other decent card appearing in the future this could see some play (and we're definitely getting more stuff tampering with prizes, so the possibility is there! As for right now... Yeah, the card sucks lol).
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Meant it in a different way, as in people thought this wasted a spot in the set where a different prism star could've been printed, that's all.
If only there was some way you could guarantee drawing Jirachi PS from the prizes and utilizing it like somewhat of a strategy, but like @savarin said it's way too luck based. Even through modifying the odds with cards like Rotom Dex, Gladion, or Naganadel's GX attack you still don't know which prize card is Jirachi. Looking past that, we're looking at an attack comparable to GRI Absol's Doom News. Absol's Doom News, in which in order for it to work you gotta do some weird gimmicky trick to lock them in the active using an ability to attempt to get an OHKO for 3 total energy.
Not going to lie, I like to look at the positive to most cards revealed, I barely see much here. Normally I shouldn't care if one or two shiny cards get bad stats, but this is Jirachi we're talking about, the same kind of Pokemon with that great Wishing Star ability in 2006 or the one from Rising Rivals that let you search any card. Great support effects like that but not here. I'm disappointed, I believe this is the worst prism star card out of all the ones released / revealed so far. If you want to prove me wrong please do so when this card comes out as I usually like Jirachi's presence in the card game.
Not going to lie, I like to look at the positive to most cards revealed, I barely see much here. Normally I shouldn't care if one or two shiny cards get bad stats, but this is Jirachi we're talking about, the same kind of Pokemon with that great Wishing Star ability in 2006 or the one from Rising Rivals that let you search any card. Great support effects like that but not here. I'm disappointed, I believe this is the worst prism star card out of all the ones released / revealed so far. If you want to prove me wrong please do so when this card comes out as I usually like Jirachi's presence in the card game.
actually you probably need lucky clover, greedy die, rotom dex, cards that get items out of your deck like order pad, trainer mail. the thing is you need to have jirachi in the prizes, if its in your deck you need multiple rotom dexs just in case it doesnt shuffle it into the deck. use a card that searches your deck look to see if you have jirachi in the prize. puzzle of time.
this probably needs to be in latios deck in expanded, for 1st turn prize.
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well, uhmmmm sounds fun but risky
uhm it wont work if you use blaster gx, it is indicated that it needs to be a face down prize card. rip
I can see some fun clowny mid to late games where you went from 4 prizes to 1 prize because you drew jirachi prism star off the 2 prizes from a GX Knockout. You then accelerate energy to it somehow, N your opponent to 1 with him having no answer to a Pokemon trapped active, and announce Dream of Destruction for game 
They have been printing more "Trainers-as-Abilities" lately (Volcanion Prism = Repel, Kartana GX = Enhanced Hammer)
But I NEVER would have thought they'd try to land Greedy Dice, of all things, to print as an ability.
I love this card because, mechanically, it's goofy. I love it when Pokemon makes weird stuff. Like Gladion, Team Rocket Machines, Imakuni?'s Doduo, etc.
Competitively, it won't see any play.
Casually, this card will see play in every deck.
But I NEVER would have thought they'd try to land Greedy Dice, of all things, to print as an ability.
I love this card because, mechanically, it's goofy. I love it when Pokemon makes weird stuff. Like Gladion, Team Rocket Machines, Imakuni?'s Doduo, etc.
Competitively, it won't see any play.
Casually, this card will see play in every deck.
I will be playing it with the eizards ratatta that lets you switch a prize with the top card of your deck
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The ability’s great but it’ll be hard to tech it in decks since it’s a stage 2. And I don’t see it being a deck by itself because it doesn’t do much damage. But the ability is still great and you could play Lance or Dragonite GX to get it out without evolving so that could work for it. If Salamence GX gets big this will be amazing for it.
Too bad it’s got a terrible attack. The ability could’ve made it a viable deck.
- Salamence - An ability that is like a Lysandre is the thing that I can agree with. Although the atk is not worth playing it. We have Salamence-GX in this set that can retreat this Baby Salamence #HeyNick?! and switch to more hard-hitting atkr. GX has a 200-for-4 atk but they are better ways. For now, as long Guzma is a thing, 3 Geodudes