What great cards arn't in the Metagame?
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cacgbass said:
No it doesn't. Gengar places damage counters with Life Drain Pluspower adds damage. Damage counters and damage are two different things. I don't know if there is a way to explain it any simpler.
Edit, Straight from the compendium:
Q. If I attach a Strength Charm, then use Kirlia's Life Drain, can I one-hit-KO the Defending Pokémon?
A. No. Kirlia's Life Drain doesn't strictly do damage [it "places damage counters"] - Strength Charm only affects things that do damage. (Mar 25, 2004 PUI Rules Team)
Strength Charm and Pluspower have the same text regarding the +10 damage.
cacgbass said:
THANK YOU, SIR! Darkrai Lv X is totally awesome... I ask everybody here today to build a deck around it. Go! It works!
cacgbass said:
I've seen chatot being used in a lot of decks. It's a great tech becasue of it's free retreat and a copycat for free.
Darkria also works well with Exploud GE and Weavile SW.
The pokemon that really caught my attention here was Golem. With its double throw, it is like dual splash with +1 energy. It also has the option of 80, or reducing by 40, which is pretty good. My brother won states with the card and me and my friend (dudeman) were in awe.
Anyways...The other cards are really not very good. Lets start from the bottom:
Aerodactyl: Good tech, should be played as a tech, and nothing more.
Lapras: ONLY good as a starter, so unless you get it, it just takes up space
Exploud: slow. 1st attack is decent, but 4 energy for a mere 70 damage is not impressive.
Weavile: Asi-Asi (spanish for OK). Depends on how you play it, but most of the time it is Asi-Asi
Gengar: Great for reducing HP, but very flippy. By the way, combo? Also, it the defending pokemon has 10 HP left, life drain does 0, same if you add plus power, so it is not very good...
Now I hope you know why these are not in the Meta game, and why they may never be. But i like your ideas!
Anyways...The other cards are really not very good. Lets start from the bottom:
Aerodactyl: Good tech, should be played as a tech, and nothing more.
Lapras: ONLY good as a starter, so unless you get it, it just takes up space
Exploud: slow. 1st attack is decent, but 4 energy for a mere 70 damage is not impressive.
Weavile: Asi-Asi (spanish for OK). Depends on how you play it, but most of the time it is Asi-Asi
Gengar: Great for reducing HP, but very flippy. By the way, combo? Also, it the defending pokemon has 10 HP left, life drain does 0, same if you add plus power, so it is not very good...
Now I hope you know why these are not in the Meta game, and why they may never be. But i like your ideas!
I think Exploud/Weavile/Darkria and in the meta due to Gallade. Get Weavile SW out there and put 4 Dark Energies on Exploud, then make Exploud active with Darkria on the bench, and boom! For 4 energies you are getting 110 damage. And with moonlight stadium, you get free retreat as well.
TCC Co-Founder said:
thats not verry good >_>
Lapras would be a great starter, if it weren't for the fact that it requires water energy.