Pokemon Card of the Day

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Granbull from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set. This is a stage 1, colorless type Pokemon card with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, no resistance, and a high retreat cost of 3 colorless energy cards. Once again this card doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Timid Tackle and for two colorless energy cards Granbull does 50 damage but unfortunately you then have to switch Granbull with one of your benched Pokemon and before you do Granbull does 20 damage to itself. Granbull's second move is called Chomp and for 4 colorless energy cards Granbull does 40 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter of Granbull, so this move has a maximum potential of 120. So as far as strategy goes I would recommend using this card in combination with a card that has free retreat cost that way you could use Timid Tackle a few turns in a row since you can just retreat the Pokemon you use in the switch since it has free retreat costs and at the same time it would want to have a high hp too, but then once you get 40 damage on Granbull I would keep it in there and then use Chomp. But the major downfall with this card is that it requires too much energy to do damage and since it is only a stage 1 Pokemon card it doesn't necessarily have the capabilities of getting that much energy cards on it before it gets knocked out, so I would rate this card a 2 out of 5, I think this card would be amazing if it had the hp of a stage 2 Pokemon but it doesn't so it isn't that great. So thanks for reading today's review of Granbull from Heart Gold/Soul Silver, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Hypno from Heart Gold/Soul Silver.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Furret (Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Furret from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set, this is a stage 1, colorless Pokemon card with an hp of 80. It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Furret doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Find a Friend and for one colorless energy card Furret can search your deck for any Pokemon you want and put it into your hand. Furret's second move is called Quick Blow and this move takes 2 colorless energy cards and does 20 damage unless you flip a heads then it does 40 damage instead of 20. As far as strategy goes I would really only use this card to Find a Friend, but I probably wouldn't even do that because it would take up too many spots in the deck since you'd have to have at least 2 or 3 Sentret's in your deck and 1 or 2 Furret's and by that time it would be a waste to have them just for the one move, so more than likely I would just use a supporter that would allow me to find a Pokemon I wanted. I would rate this card a 2 out of 5 because even though I wouldn't really use this card it isn't the worst one possible to use it can still do 40 damage a turn if you're lucky and you could always retreat the card as soon as you use Find a Friend. So thanks for reading today's review of Furret from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Granbull from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Feraligatr (Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Feraligatr from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set. This is a stage 2, water type Pokemon card with an hp of 130. It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a 2 colorless energy card retreat cost. Feraligatr doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Spinning Tail and this move does 20 damage to each of your opponent's Pokemon for 3 energy cards, 1 water and 2 colorless. Feraligatr's second move is called Surf and this move does a straightforward 80 damage for 4 energy cards, 2 each of water and colorless. As far as strategy goes you could either include in your deck Pokemon and/or trainers, supporters that allow you to remove damage counters from Pokemon, if you do this I would recommend using Spinning Tail most of the time and therefore being able to knock out many Pokemon at once after awhile. But if you don't want to do that you can always just use straight brute force to knock out the defending Pokemon and use Surf every turn, the only downside about both of these moves is that they require a lot of energy cards, because of this I would rate this card a 4 out of 5, I would recommend keeping this card on your bench until you can use one of Feraligatr's moves right away, and once you get the necessary amount of energy on it you should be able to knock out a few Pokemon before Feraligatr gets knocked out. So thanks for reading today's review of Feraligatr from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Furret from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Farfetch'd (Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Farfetch'd from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set. This is a basic, colorless type Pokemon card with an hp of 60. It has a x2 weakness to electric type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Farfetch'd doesn't have a Poke-Body or Poke-Power but it does have two moves the first move is called Collect and for one colorless energy card, Farfetch'd can draw 2 cards. Farfetch'd other move is called Spin Turn and this move also takes one colorless energy card and this move does 20 damage and also makes you switch Farfetch'd with one of your benched Pokemon. So as far as strategy goes I would probably include 3 or 4 of these in my deck and hope to get this card right off the bat, that way I could use Draw the first time and hopefully get something good with the two cards I can draw, and if not I can use Draw the next turn too and I would continue doing this until I get something I want on the bench and then I would use Spin Turn and switch it with the Pokemon I had been setting up on my bench. I would rate this card a 3 out of 5 because it is very average but for a starting card it is very well, I especially like how you can use this card with basically any deck type and that it allows you to draw cards very quickly to get your best cards in play faster than your opponent. So thanks for reading today's review of Farfetch'd from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Feraligatr from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Exeggutor (Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Exeggutor from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set. This is a stage 1, psychic type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to psychic type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Exeggutor doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Energy Absorption and this move allows you for one colorless energy card to search your discard pile for up to 2 energy cards and attach them to Exeggutor. Exeggutor's second move is called Big Eggsplosion and this move requires 1 psychic energy card and does 40 damage times the number of heads you get when you flip once for each energy card attached to Exeggutor. So as far as strategy goes I would recommend stacking up energy cards on Exeggutor on the bench prior to moving it to the active Pokemon spot, I would say at least 2 energy cards then I would use Energy Absorption the first time I moved Exeggutor into the active spot, thus being able to do 80 damage per turn, hopefully, every turn using Big Eggsplosion. I would rate this card a 2 out of 5 because it would be nice to be able to do 20 damage times the number of energy cards attached to Exeggutor but when you only have a 50% chance of doing damage for each energy card attached to it, it greatly reduces any incentive to stock up energy cards on it, I would recommend using another Pokemon to do massive amounts of damage with. So thanks for reading today's review of Exeggutor from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Farfetch'd from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Cleffa (Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Cleffa from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set. This is a basic, colorless type Pokemon card with an hp of 30. It doesn't have a weakness, resistance, or retreat cost since it is a baby Pokemon. Cleffa's Poke-Body is called Sweet Sleeping Face and it says that as long as Cleffa is Asleep prevent all damage done to Cleffa by attacks. This Poke-Body works really well with Cleffa's only move called Eeeeeeek which doesn't require any energy cards at all but lets you shuffle your hand into your deck, then draw 6 cards, and then makes Cleffa asleep. So as far as strategy goes I would really want to get Cleffa out early in the game and preferably be able to attack before the opposing Pokemon, because if I'm not first Cleffa will more than likely be knocked out quite quickly. But I would make Cleffa asleep right away and then keep using Eeeeeeek whenever Cleffa came out of its sleep all the while setting up my bench, and when I either have a Clefairy in my hand or a card I want to use on my bench I would retreat Cleffa once it wakes up and then use that other Pokemon. I would rate this card a 3 out of 5 because compared to most other cards this card is way worse in terms of attacking power and hp but it does do a good job for a baby Pokemon so I think it is a good card overall and if you are looking for a way to get the cards you want quickly without having to discard cards or move anything to the Lost Zone I would recommend you take a look at this card. So thanks for reading today's review of Cleffa from Heart Gold/Soul Silver stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Exeggutor from Heart Gold/Soul Silver.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Ariados (Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Ariados from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set, this is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card with an hp of only 80. It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Ariados has no Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Leech Life which requires 2 energy cards, one each of grass and colorless, this move does 30 damage and lets you remove the amount of damage you do to the defending Pokemon from Ariados so at a maximum you may remove 3 damage counters from Ariados every turn when you use this move, thus making its 80 hp seem not so low. Ariados's second move is called Poisonous Saliva and this move does 50 damage for 3 energy cards, 1 grass and 2 colorless energy cards, besides doing the damage the defending Pokemon is now poisoned. As far as strategy goes I would recommend determining which move to use by looking at Ariados, if it doesn't have much hp left use Leech Life, but if the defending Pokemon isn't poisoned yet use that move, I would probably poison the defending Pokemon first using Poisonous Saliva and then use Leech Life after that. I would rate this card a 4 out of 5 because I would hate to go against this card since it can poison you and poison you and poison you always staying alive using Leech Life, luckily it does only have 80 hp so it probably won't last forever but it still is a good card. So thanks for reading today's review of Ariados from Heart Gold/Soul Silver stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Cleffa from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Ampharos (Heart Gold/Soul Silver)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Ampharos from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set. This is a stage 2, electric type Pokemon card with an hp of 120. It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to metal type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Ampharos doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Acceleration Bolt and this move does 30 damage for only one electric energy card. Besides the damage you may also search your deck for two basic energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Pokemon, so with this move you could end up with only 1 energy card on Ampharos by the time you evolve it and then you could use Acceleration Bolt and attach two more energy cards to Ampharos and use its second move, Thunder, in only two turns, this move requires 3 energy cards, two colorless and one electric, which does 80 damage but you also have to flip a coin with this move and if you get tails Ampharos does 20 damage to itself. You should be able to use Thunder a couple of turns and even get tails since Ampharos does have a high hp but still it would be nice to be able to do 80 damage without there being threat of doing damage to itself. But like I was saying earlier I would only using Acceleration Bolt if I need energy cards on Ampharos or another Pokemon or if the defending Pokemon would be knocked out with 30 damage or less. I would rate this card a 3 out of 5 because it is very average, I wish it would have had a higher hp and it wouldn't do damage to itself when using Thunder but I do like how you can add two energy cards to any of your Pokemon just about every turn if you really wanted to. So thanks for reading today's review of Ampharos from Heart Gold/Soul Silver stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Ariados from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Houndoom (Undaunted)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Houndoom from the Undaunted set, this is a stage 1, dark type Pokemon card with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Houndoom doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Fire Counterattack and for one darkness energy card this attack does 20 damage unless there are any fighting type Pokemon in play then this move does 80 damage instead of 20 which is great especially since Houndoom's weakness is fighting type Pokemon and you want to get rid of these Pokemon as soon as possible and by having this card in play it will prevent your opponent from playing any fighting type Pokemon at all because even if that Pokemon is on their bench it will still effect their active Pokemon. Houndoom's second move is called Dark Roar which takes 2 darkness energy cards and does 50 damage plus your opponent has to discard a card from their hand. So as far as strategy goes you'll have to really hope you are facing some fighting type Pokemon so you can do 80 damage every turn but even if you're not Dark Roar is a pretty good move, the only bad thing about this card is that it is a dark type so there aren't that many dark type Pokemon out there so building a really good deck might be a little harder than say using a water or grass type Pokemon. But overall I would give this card a 4 out of 5 because of Dark Roar since it does 50 damage for only two energy cards which is a good amount of damage for only two energy cards and your opponent is forced to discard a card from their hand. So thanks for reading today's review of Houndoom from the Undaunted set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Ampharos from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Xatu (Unleashed)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Xatu from the Unleashed set. This is a stage 1, psychic type Pokemon card with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to electric type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Xatu doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Psywave which does 20 damage time the amount of energy attached to the defending Pokemon for only one Psychic energy card. Xatu's second move is called Confuse Ray and this move does 50 damage for 3 energy cards, 1 psychic, and 2 colorless, besides doing the damage you can flip a coin and if you get heads the defending Pokemon is now confused. As far as strategy goes I would try and get 3 energy cards on Xatu but I would only use Confuse Ray if the defending Pokemon doesn't have any energy cards attached to it or you can't knock the Pokemon out during the next turn and you need to take a chance and try and confuse it but to get lucky enough to confuse the defending Pokemon and have it be confused when it tries to attack is only a 25% chance which is why I rate this card only a 3 out of 5 because Xatu's first move has potential for a lot of damage but more than likely it will either do 0, 20, or 40 damage until it gets knocked out. So thanks for reading today's review of Xatu from Unleashed stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Houndoom from the Undaunted set.