Does Claydol ex is a good card ?
Claydol ex Power Keepers
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IMHO it's so-so.
It's power is nice in that Psychic and Fighting are the most common weaknesses in the game so you can take nice advantage of that. However it also makes the card open to Cursed Stone, Zapp, and such.
I'm not sold on it's attacks either. The first one is a bit weak ... you will usually do 40 or 50 for 2 energy. The second one is going to be good against decks that rely on castaform for energy that's about it.
Finally the weakness is a killer & makes the card risky to play vs Metanite (metagross dx), Flygon, MSN, and Bandoom ... all of which are fairly popular at the moment.
It's power is nice in that Psychic and Fighting are the most common weaknesses in the game so you can take nice advantage of that. However it also makes the card open to Cursed Stone, Zapp, and such.
I'm not sold on it's attacks either. The first one is a bit weak ... you will usually do 40 or 50 for 2 energy. The second one is going to be good against decks that rely on castaform for energy that's about it.
Finally the weakness is a killer & makes the card risky to play vs Metanite (metagross dx), Flygon, MSN, and Bandoom ... all of which are fairly popular at the moment.
IMO, this card is quite good... 
Poke-Body: This power is very normal but it can very useful if you ran into a pokemon that has fighting weakness...
1st attack: No comment on this attack because this attack is kinda common...
2nd attack: I agree with v_g on this one...
Poke-Body: This power is very normal but it can very useful if you ran into a pokemon that has fighting weakness...
1st attack: No comment on this attack because this attack is kinda common...
2nd attack: I agree with v_g on this one...
Personally, I don't like it at all.
120 HP is the best thing about it. At least it makes it see possibly 1 more turn of the game than a normal Claydol.
It's Poké-Power isn't too bad as there are a few main decks in the format with weakness to Fighting that no one (other than RaiEggs players) are capitalising on. It does, however make it vunrable to Cursed Stones/Zzapps/etc.
Psychic Boom wants your opponent to attach loads of energies to their active. Unless they are the worst player in your metagame, I doubt they would do that. That means you will be doing roughly 30-50 damage per turn (before weakness and resistence). For a Stage one Ex, that isn't actually that good.
Shadow Crush is a nice way of annoying your Special Energy card playing opponent, but otherwise will do nothing to hurt them. Plus, you will need an energy accerelarator to do the effect every turn, which often come with annoying side effects, like getting it KO'ed quicker, or play Power Tree, limiting the energies you can play.
Psychic weakness is like telling all of the major decks in the format that you want to lose. Flygon Ex (Df), Banette Ex (Lm), Metagross (Dx), Mew Ex (Lm), Slowking (Uf), along with others, are all Psychic types that can OHKO it, plus there are more...
To top it off, a 2 retreat cost. About average, so slightly improves the card, but still not great.
120 HP is the best thing about it. At least it makes it see possibly 1 more turn of the game than a normal Claydol.
It's Poké-Power isn't too bad as there are a few main decks in the format with weakness to Fighting that no one (other than RaiEggs players) are capitalising on. It does, however make it vunrable to Cursed Stones/Zzapps/etc.
Psychic Boom wants your opponent to attach loads of energies to their active. Unless they are the worst player in your metagame, I doubt they would do that. That means you will be doing roughly 30-50 damage per turn (before weakness and resistence). For a Stage one Ex, that isn't actually that good.
Shadow Crush is a nice way of annoying your Special Energy card playing opponent, but otherwise will do nothing to hurt them. Plus, you will need an energy accerelarator to do the effect every turn, which often come with annoying side effects, like getting it KO'ed quicker, or play Power Tree, limiting the energies you can play.
Psychic weakness is like telling all of the major decks in the format that you want to lose. Flygon Ex (Df), Banette Ex (Lm), Metagross (Dx), Mew Ex (Lm), Slowking (Uf), along with others, are all Psychic types that can OHKO it, plus there are more...
To top it off, a 2 retreat cost. About average, so slightly improves the card, but still not great.
This card is amazing....negative obviously. I don't want to list all the negative stats of this card because they already did. Nearly any deck in a major tournament should be able to defeat a Claydol ex deck even if you manage to get energy acceleration and to get rid of your opponents special Energy. But if you really want to use it in a deck use the Gardevoir Emerald - Gardevoir Power Keepers energy acceleration combo.
I know Claydol ex needs lots of energies but, is really usefull destroy some energies and if phoebes stadium is in play Claydol don't need to pay is retreat cost.
Besides Gardevoir PK which cards are good to support Claydoll ex?
The types it can become are AMAZING.
The attacks are kinda meh.
If it had an Ascension Baltoy it'd be gg n00bs. But it doesn't, so I'm not sure I could call it a "Good" card.
Arcanine out.
The attacks are kinda meh.
If it had an Ascension Baltoy it'd be gg n00bs. But it doesn't, so I'm not sure I could call it a "Good" card.
Arcanine out.
But are only a few cards playable with "ascension" ,so I don't think that's the right way to compare Claydol.
Ascension Shuppet made Banette Ex what it is now. Without it it wouldn't be half as good.
But alas, Claydol Ex ain't bad considering a LOT relies on special energy.
But alas, Claydol Ex ain't bad considering a LOT relies on special energy.
Just wait until DP 2 gets released and this card will see some play.
The pokepower is very usefull vs a dark pokemon can be very good .
