Okay. One last question, then.
Do you want to build a snowman?
Get it?
The reference is, obviously, robot substitute, with a twist; the idea is that you can load your bench (the tradeoff is, obviously, that you have less space for useful pokemon) with snowmen, and they'll protect your active pokemon from damage, at least for a while; after all, some
people pokemon are worth melting for.
I had doubts about the HP, really; I know most cards of this type use 30HP, but I felt that, with the power levels we see in both the real metagame and mine's, 30HP could only help you if your opponent is loaded with basic pokemon anyway; if you ask me, 40HP is still too little, but I thought it would be better to balance the capacity they have to cover multiple times an attack with an HP that could take light hits but would lose easily to a slightly stronger one. The specific type and weakness is the way I found, which I've already used multiple times, to specify that a pokemon is ice-type; while this is appropriate for snowmen, it also has some gameplay consequences.
And here are the runner-ups, why not.
Obviously I couldn't not make an item specific for Alolan Ninetales. But, it seemed too basic for this, really.
New idea for Z-crystals; and it
actually works with GX moves because I renamed them (hear that, TPCi?); you can see there one of the ways in which specifying the type and weakness works mechanically; the crystal can only be used by an ice-type pokemon that
is an ice-type pokemon (so no dark-type weaviles using it; only water-type weaviles with the corresponding weakness). This one seemed a bit off the prompt, really, since the item itself is nothing new (going back to TMs and the spheres of yore) and the attack is an attack, not really a trainer effect.
This one is... okay, I messed up. I didn't remember that full-art supporters take almost all the rectangular space of the card, plausible poses be damned; I only noticed my mistake after the drawing was finished, and I'll be frank, I didn't feel like remaking it entirely.
The effect connects a little with Glacia saying she went to Hoenn from a faraway region because her ice-types (which are all from Hoenn... somehow) train better in the heat of a tropical region; so when you
don't have Wintry Field in play, your pokemon get stronger in addition to the usual effect of the card. But I wasn't completely sure about the wording, and the drawing is crap, so it didn't make the cut here.
