Back to the roots with an e-card, with wonderful RB throwback artwork! I love it. Comparing your Mew to an e-card Mew, it appears that the HP (and card name, by extension) is placed a little
too high – the bottom of your name/HP lines up with the bottom of the eye in the symbol, whereas they were almost lined up with the bottom of the symbol itself on actual e-cards. Not a huge issue, but it was enough to notice at first glance. I love the Poké-Power; I’ve always enjoyed cards, such as Base Electrode and the Holon cards, which allowed you to use them as Energy. You melded that mechanic with the common Mew ability to use other Pokémon’s attacks and it turned out wonderful, especially in combination with the attack. Using the wording from
Blaine Gym Challenge, though, I’d suggest adding ‘instead’ in between ‘you may’ and ‘attach’ – so it would read, “
…instead of attaching your free Energy card, you may instead attach…” Yes, it’s redundant and repetitive and redundant, but that’s one of the only examples we have of a similar effect in the Wizards era. I’m also not sure I’d word the second part of the Poké-Power that way, either, especially since there are Wizards-era cards that allow you to use other cards’ attacks as your own (
Alakazam Expedition), but for space purposes the newer-era wording is fine. Perhaps the type clause would be beneficial (Wizards-era cards were wordy), though. The ambiguity of Warp Away’s wording has been brought up, so if the card were printed today, I could see the card getting errata’d to clarify the intended effect (something like, “
Move all damage counters from 1 of your Benched Pokémon to Mew, then return that Pokémon and all cards attached to it to your hand.”). Also, remember to always use numbers instead of spelling them out (‘1’ vs ‘one’). The leading is again too great between lines, and it appears as if there’s a greater spacing between the last two lines in attack effect text than the first two. I know you’re probably using a symbol sheet (so I’m not taking points off), but the Energy symbol is too large for the blank. To give you an idea, it’s very similar in size to the symbols used on the Pokébeach card scans, while the blank itself is much smaller. Additionally, from the research I’ve done, the attack cost should be roughly centered between the border and the attack name/effect.¬ Everything else checks out. Great job, Spoon
(or should I call you cute-mew now?)!
Creativity/Originality: 19.5/20
(Great combination of using Pokémon as Energy with Mew’s common ability of using the attacks of other Pokémon)
Wording: 13.5/15
(Though redundant, add in another ‘instead’, clarify the attack, use of ‘one’ instead of ‘1’)
Fonts and Placement: 8.5/10
(HP [and in turn, name] are a few pixels too high, attack cost should be more centered, leading is inconsistent in the attack text and too great in most cases)
Believability/Playability: 5/5
(With a Poké-Power and attack that pair wonderfully, this could’ve been a real card in the e-card era)
Total: 46.5/50