Not really, the attack cost isn’t really the best. If we had an e-generator for dark mons this would be better. Willing to test out some ideas tho
Paradox Pokemon Cards and Return of ACE SPEC Mechanic Revealed at Worlds!
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Yeah, but you give your opponent a prize tho and you have to loop this effect, in order for the deck to be functional
That's the reason I loved gen 5's early meta. The only 2-prizers were legends, and most meta decks at the time consisted of 1/2 stage mons...
And then they added EX's.
Jelly not worth it really to much u need more heals. So it have 150 hp left which is very easy to hit
160 snipe is great to Saguaro would be worse choice. Also u prob could do a single prize deck without gardy with Tina n stadiums , only issue is 2 energy
Guessing we’ll see these paradox cards in paradox rift
HOLY, and I mean this sincerely, BAN LIST, BATMAN
that is not a guess. You can lit.. read it at the bottom of the card since these are our english cards and not the japanese ones.
Is there ever an easier way to tell us Tower of Waters is getting reprinted????
me when i wash my water energy card
Nah. Deck's got too many issues from what happens if youre ever tool locked (Banette, Lysandre Labs and Goodra can kinda make u just die) to defensive things like Espeon VMAX, Toedscruel ex, Big Parasol, Wash [W] Energy, etc.
3 energy is a very workable cost and yea ohkoing everything is pog but I don't think it is going to be OP or anything.
scream tail will specifically serve as a snipe attacker in gardevoir ex decks, which is something the deck doesn't have. with no bravery charm, being able to do a 160 snipe (with 4 psychic energy attached) is really good. add on a bravery charm to do a 240 snipe makes the card reach pretty ridiculous numbers.
i really could see this being just as useful of a single-prize attacker as brainwave gardevoir, because of how ridiculous its damage stacking on the bench could get.
In the game, they are unveiled as regular pokemon with titan powers first. Only once you unlock Area Zero do you discover the concept of paradoxmons. So thematically it makes perfect sense
Hahahaha yeah.... Heres to hoping with ace spec returns they take interest in the format again though
Not the most broken thing especially in recent memory... tinachomp dialga, some of the stall decks and item locks that have been concocted in recent tourneys too just make traditional attacking decks really fall flat
Would still be quite fun to play
of course we do you can even check it. There is set mark ’PAR’ on the below which means Paradox Rift and they are G mark, Paradox Rift is last set with G mark
Ace Specs is a cool concept that was executed poorly the last time around. The challenge here, as it is usually the case with mechanics that involve having just one copy of a type of card in your deck, is making different cards that are useful for a vast array of different decks, instead of just making Comp Search and having 99% of decks run that one card because it's obviously better than any other gimmick-y card on the same class of Ace cards. Hope they do it right this time.
Also wish paradox was something more exciting and fresher than just "this gen's label X label mechanic". It's very boring at this point.
Also wish paradox was something more exciting and fresher than just "this gen's label X label mechanic". It's very boring at this point.
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Nah. Expanded is already full of basic Pokemon that can OHKO things with 300+ HP with high consistency.
Volcarona V already pretty much OHKO's everything including things with over 300 HP, also as a basic 2 prizer, and it does so extremely consistently off a 1 energy attack.
Fusion Strike Meloetta Turbo also does the same as the above, but on a 1 prizer (albeit with 2 prize liabilities on the bench) and is highly consistent in back to back full power attacks thanks to Special Charge and Dimension Valley, and of course the Power Tablets.
Tsareena V also OHKO's anything thanks to things like Sky Field and Distortion Door Giratina and Propogation Exeggcute.
Miraidon ex has Electopowers to further boost its power to OHKO 300+ HP things, but also Thunder Mountain and Tapu Koko Prism Star to make it easy to attack first turn going second, and Vikavolt V to mess with single prize decks.
Have you seen Lost Box in Expanded? The speed at which they power up Amazing Rayquaza and Amazing Raikou is insane.
ADP Dragonite/Zacian also beats this deck if they go second.
And those are just some of the most consistent ones, you also got ones like the Electrode GX degenerate decks that use Giratina & Garchomp + Dialga VSTAR + Cyrus Prism Star OR the Alolan Raichu with Reversal Energy variant, to wipe out your entire board on their second turn... or Blacephalon which is a single prize basic attacker that can match the above decks, just it is a bit less consistent. Lugia VSTAR is one of the slower decks, but is also even stronger than it was at full power in Standard, and has 4 aurora and 4 rainbow energies to work with its single prize powerhouses. And that's just the more aggressive decks and not the slow burn ones like Ultra Necrozma or control decks.
I'm not convinced Roaring Moon ex will be a top 10 deck in Expanded.
My two guess as to why the donphans came out early are:
1. They’re the first ones encountered in the video game as part of Arven’s story dealing with the 5 titan pokemon. 3 now have an ex (the donphans, Klawf, and Bombirdier), so we may get an ex of Tatsugiri and Orthworm down the line.
2. Design process change, maybe they were just going to be regular ex Pokemon until they decided to switch it up and give them special mechanics/cards supporting them since they’re the most “unique” aspect of this last gen. You can’t really do something like Team Plasma specific cards because the “evil team” in this game is technically just a bunch of students playing hooky in a wannabe gang, and there’s nothing like the fighting island in swsh to build off of either.
Damn I need that Komiya Brute Bonnet
I just need a bunch of Komiya artwork for all of the Ancient Paradoxes. He's Mr. Primitivism, after all, and he's damn good at it too!