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Gladion is pretty good. Can be clutch to get something you prized back. I'm just surprised they didn't call the card Full-on Edge Lord or Shadow the Hedgehog.
 
First thing, is that type null a holo, if so thats weird since it has an evolution, but holy crap that gladion artwork is amazing, probably the best artwork in the sun and moon era yet, gladion is one of those supporters where u can probably fit it as a 1 of in decks without vs seeker, like brigette, its interesting and im in love with the artwork
 
Look at your deck with ultra ball for example, memorize important things or see what's missing, use gladion, and get something important, then later when you search again you know what's in there after
 
Firewyn's Ratings (IMO):

Type Null:
+ Basic, so can use Max Elixir
- Retreat Cost of 2 is a bit awkward
- Attacks are average (costs are a bit too high)
Rating: 5.5/10

Gladion:
+ Consistency (can help you with any bad luck with prizes)
+ Can be one of in most (if not all) decks
+ Great early to know what is in prizes
Other notes: Can't find anything majorly wrong with this card, Love the Full art!
Rating: 9/10
 
Firewyn's Ratings (IMO):

Gladion:
+ Consistency (can help you with any bad luck with prizes)
+ Can be one of in most (if not all) decks
+ Great early to know what is in prizes
Other notes: Can't find anything majorly wrong with this card, Love the Full art!
Rating: 9/10

How about the fact that it does nothing in most games?

Outside of greninja desparately wanting all of their frogadiers or passimian needing their rugby monkeys, most decks are built in a way that prizing one copy of a card is no big deal, and the chance of prizing more than one copy of a card is low enough to be almost insignificant when deck building.
 
How about the fact that it does nothing in most games?

Outside of greninja desparately wanting all of their frogadiers or passimian needing their rugby monkeys, most decks are built in a way that prizing one copy of a card is no big deal, and the chance of prizing more than one copy of a card is low enough to be almost insignificant when deck building.
IMO....
I believe it can be a great card.
 
How about the fact that it does nothing in most games?

Outside of greninja desparately wanting all of their frogadiers or passimian needing their rugby monkeys, most decks are built in a way that prizing one copy of a card is no big deal, and the chance of prizing more than one copy of a card is low enough to be almost insignificant when deck building.
What about going against a Darkness deck with Gardy and you prize Gallade?
 
What about going against a Darkness deck with Gardy and you prize Gallade?

Chance of prizing gallade: 10%.

Concentration of dark decks in the meta: approximately the same thing.

Combined, that's 1% of your games will be games against dark where gallade is prized.

I'm not saying that it is always useless, but it's only useful in situations that are rare enough that you shouldn't be building your deck around them.

If you build your deck around things that only happen a small percentage of the time, you'll win those games more often, but lose the more common games more often, and the expected value of return there isn't worth it.
 
I like Gladion. This is good if you need a card and it prized, and it lets you know what else is prized...

I can see popping one copy into a deck. Just because...
 
How would that make it better? It wouldn't be mutually exclusive with town map, but most decks that use town map would rather just use gladion, which isn't many of them.
 
I think Gladion is a good filler, just have one in your deck in case you prize something important. Also the art is great.

About the greedy dice, you can't pick it up with Gladion (well, you can, but it wouldn't work) and you need to re-shuffle the prizes, so not good for that either.
 
How would that make it better? It wouldn't be mutually exclusive with town map, but most decks that use town map would rather just use gladion, which isn't many of them.
Because then you basically get to choose your Prize Cards?
 
What?

Gladion lets you look at all your face down prize cards. So you know which is which. Then you pick one of them.

It's the same as if gladion said "Flip all your prize cards face up. Switch one with this card, then put them all face down"
 
What?

Gladion lets you look at all your face down prize cards. So you know which is which. Then you pick one of them.

It's the same as if gladion said "Flip all your prize cards face up. Switch one with this card, then put them all face down"
The only problem is you have to shuffle your prizes + Gladion, the good thing is if you take the Gladion from the prize you get to use it again and choose a prize
 
That Gladion is looking beautiful, and very playable! Looking forward to testing with it!
 
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