Ninetales from Call of Legends (#17) [4/5]

[dmaster]

Guiding questions:
1. How does the card stand on its own? 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.

 

[Mist]

1. It doesn't stand on its own very well. In a fire deck, it is good to be played and has excellent potential because of Roast reveal.
2.Charizard.
3. I don't know, maybe typhlosion prime or fisherman.
4.4/5. Its ability is good, but does not do well on its own.
5.3/5. It looks cool, but it isn't that appealing.

 

[Sevus]

Aha, Ninetales! I love this card. And this Pokémon, but without Drought it's not that useful competitively. Back to the card.

1. Ninetales (HGSS/CoL) is definitely a Team Player Pokémon, similar to Uxie (LA) or most closely Delcatty (PK). The Power is excellent even if you're using it solo because she uses Fire Energy anyways, but the attack is only mediocre - RRC for 60 is terrible in a format where knockouts for 1 or even 0 energy are common, and even without them, we have Reshiram and Zekrom coming up in Black and White that deal twice the damage for the same energy cost.

2. There aren't any metagame decks that utilize Ninetales, exactly, as Gyrados tears apart R decks, and SP Toolbox of any sort disrupts your setup as well as OHKOing Ninetales with Dragon Rush and a Crobat G drop. However, it's a critical part of the Charizard (AR) deck, and can potentially be useful in Speed Reshiram as well.

3. Since Ninetales discards energy, cards that recover Energy from the Discard Pile work well, such as Fisherman, Typhlosion Prime, or even the improved Energy Retrieval. Additionally, cards that get Energy from the Deck play nicely with Ninetales as well, Bronzong (SF) can put two Energy in your hand while getting rid of an unwanted card, and Cyrus' Conspiracy can fetch an Energy from the Deck as well as a Supporter to help you set up on your next turn. And obviously, Ninetales contributes to Charizard's (AR) Fire Formation Poké-BODY while providing the honorary dragon with continuous draw power.

4. 3/5. Roast Reveal is an excellent Poké-POWER, but her weakness to W and the overall speed of the format makes her more of a liability than a help at the moment. Pokémon Catcher isn't going to help matters much either, though she'll have a much better Pokémon to support in Reshiram.

5. I love the artwork, but then I'm biased as I love Ninetales. The original art from HGSS was better, though.

 

[Hunga]

1. How does the card stand on its own? Is it good, bad, or have potential? Is it worth being played?
It's useless on it's own, if you want to tech it. You should be playing fire to use it's full potential.
It's retreat cost are okay, it has a weakness that's not common and it has no resistance but thats okay. ^^
Beeing a stage 1 is always nothing bad, but still you want the card fast into play.
It's poké power is the main reason you would tech/play it for, since it's attack is aweful (3 energies for 60? Donphan laughs out loud).
Roast Reveal was quit hyped after claydol rotated out, but today nothing of that is left.
You just don't play it, since discarding each time an energy is to expensiv.
A cost you can't pay endless.

2. What popular metagame decks could it be used in?
Charizard I think...There not many fire decks running wild...

3. What combos can you use it with? How so?
Delcatty PL maybe or anything else returning energies to your hand.

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 It has a nice poké power but that's all. You have again the problem, that this card in this format just doesn't fit. There is no deck for this card.

5. How's the artwork?
0.5/5 I don't like it at all. Looks really ugly. Ninetales is a mythical pokémon like arcanine, but this atmosphere just isn't delivered.