Flower Shop Lady from Undaunted (#74) [6/22]

[dmaster]

Guiding questions:
1. How does the card stand compared to other Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums? Is it good, bad, or have potential? Is it worth being played?
2. What popular metagame decks could it be used in?
3. What combos can you use it with? How so?
4. Give it a rating, and explain why you have given it that rating. You can also rate the card by rating the thread itself (out of 5 stars).
5. How's the artwork?

Posts MUST be several sentences long with proper grammar and spelling or they will be deleted - this forum is to discuss specific cards so other people can learn about their potential in the current metagame.

 

[emachel]

1. How does the card stand compared to other Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums? Is it good, bad, or have potential? Is it worth being played?
It's similiar to Palmer's Contribiution, to be honest. Only thing that was changed is the fact that you can have 6 cards shuffled instead of 5, but you have to be more specific about them. I quess this card is rather unuseful in the age of Fishermans, Energy Retrievals and Rescue Energies.

2. What popular metagame decks could it be used in?
Zekrom/Reshi donks I quess. All the decks that have the potential to search through deck fastly to get all needed energy and Pokemon cards. Which would be rare in HS-on...

3. What combos can you use it with? How so?
Anything that searches for Pokemon or Energy Cards. Sunflora HS is the most obvious thing that comes to my mind at the moment.

4. Give it a rating, and explain why you have given it that rating. You can also rate the card by rating the thread itself (out of 5 stars).
2 out of 5, since it is mostly a waste of Supporter in HS-on and Palmer's more efficient in older meta. This card still needs better drawing engines to come in handy.

5. How's the artwork?
The girl on the pic lookes kinda cute, but this Suduwoodoo just creeps me out 3/5

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[Alex Magicus]

1. How does the card stand compared to other Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums? Is it good, bad, or have potential? Is it worth being played?
It stands apart from any other cards. While Revive can only retrieve Basic Pokemon, and we have many things to retrieve energy to our hands, there is nothing apart from Rescue Energy to get all Pokemon back into Deck.
2. What popular metagame decks could it be used in?
Anything that could have problems if it has little cards of that Pokemon in the deck (which anyway is not good)
3. What combos can you use it with? How so?
Its just a card to use just in case, not any combo.
4. Give it a rating, and explain why you have given it that rating. You can also rate the card by rating the thread itself (out of 5 stars).
2.5/5 stars. Its not so useful, but if you have problems with your number of cards in your deck at late game or if you have little cards of one Pokemon in your deck it could help. But when its useful is late game, and you have to look for the things you get back in your deck.
5. How's the artwork?
I love it! Sudowoodoo's face, afraid of the water is awesome xD

 

[julliant]

1. How does the card stand compared to other Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums? Is it good, bad, or have potential? Is it worth being played?
Most decks would have to play, especially swarm decks, if they want to keep the prize race.

2. What popular metagame decks could it be used in?
Jumpluffs, Cinccinos, Gengars, mostly things that get one-shot by the current metagame.

3. What combos can you use it with? How so?
Fire decks with a Rayquaza & Deoxyx Legend tech.
Burn out the tech with Roast Reveal and Trainer cards, especially Junk Arm to discard the Legend. With little to nothing left in the deck, Flower Shop Lady (Legend, energy) + Legend Box = Boom.

4. Give it a rating, and explain why you have given it that rating. You can also rate the card by rating the thread itself (out of 5 stars).
3/5. Not the best recovery card, but being the only one it's still a necessity for some decks and we'll get used to it.


5. How's the artwork?
Girl's kinda cute, and I prefer the HGSS artwork than the BW one.

 

[Magnevire]

1. How does the card stand compared to other Trainers/Supporters/Stadiums? Is it good, bad, or have potential? Is it worth being played?

Lack of flexibility makes it pale compared to Palmer's, especially with so many trainers and supporters that get energy back. I can't see myself using a supporter slot this way, but I can see some decks that may use it.

2. What popular metagame decks could it be used in?

Tyranitar maybe. It's main attack mills, so shuffling six cards into your deck to buy time could be really handy. Yanmega too, though I don't know how much I would call either "meta" at this point.

3. What combos can you use it with? How so?

FSL + Sunshine Grace. That's really it. Unfortunately the only decent deck that can use that is Yanmega, which doesn't exactly run a lot of energy.

4. Give it a rating, and explain why you have given it that rating. You can also rate the card by rating the thread itself (out of 5 stars).

Putting six cards from the discard to the deck sounds awesome, but the lack of flexibility compared to Palmer's really smarts. Decks that don't rely on a lot of energy can only rescue the three pokemon, and with trainers like energy retrieval this card's recovery becomes really inefficient. I can see it being useful, but it's no Palmer's and certainly no Night Maintenance. Palmer's you could get away with running one of due to commonly available draw power and card flexibility, but in the current (albeit soon to be rotated) meta, loss of flexibility makes it shy compared to Palmer's, and in next format, one FSL won't cut it and two is probably not worth the card space.

In hindsight, it might help Yanmega a lot with Sunflora being to Sunshine Grace and all, and this is one time running two of them might be worth it.

2/5 overall, but I might say 4/5 for Yanmega.

5. How's the artwork?

Average. 3/5

 

[emachel]

Unfortunately the only decent deck that can use that is Yanmega, which doesn't exactly run a lot of energy.

My own personal Yanmega deck has no energy cards in it, though it still can do a lot of damage (it may be due to the fact that it's in DP-on and runs with Porygon2 GE & Claydol GE).

 

[Magnevire]

Yeah I don't face Yanmega often, so I have no idea if it runs any energy. It seems like it would be borderline autoloss though if it failed to score the kills it needs by the time it uses all 8 mimic cards.