Pokemon Card of the Day: Vespiquen (Stormfront)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Vespiquen from the Stormfront set, this will be the last Stormfront card I review since I have reviewed every rare card from the set. I will be moving onto Platinum cards, at least for a day, then the next day I will be reviewing my first Black and White card. So Vespiquen is a stage 1, grass type Pokemon card, with an hp of 100. It has a +20 weakness to fire type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Its Poke-Body is called Green Dignity and says that Vespiquen's attacks does 10 more damage for each grass Pokemon card you have on your bench as long as you have more prize cards left than your opponent. Besides the Poke-Body, Vespiquen has two moves, the first move is called Bee Drain which takes one grass energy card and does 20 damage and allows you to take the number of damage counters off of Vespiquen equal to the amount of damage you did to the defending Pokemon. Vespiquen's second move is called Bee Powder and for two energy cards, one each of grass and colorless, Vespiquen does 50 damage and if you get two heads when you flip two coins the defending Pokemon is now Burned, Paralyzed, and Poisoned. So as far as strategy goes, this card can really be powerful if you use this card when you're losing and your bench is full of grass type Pokemon. Also if you're lucky, you can do a ton of damage and inflict special conditions with Bee Powder. I would pair this card with other poison type Pokemon or cards that do special conditions to really frustrate your opponents. I would give this card a 4 out of 5 because it has an above average hp for a stage 1, low retreat cost, superior attacking power if you're losing, and is frustratingly annoying to the defending Pokemon and your opponent. So thanks for reading today's review of Vespiquen from the Stormfront set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Ampharos from the Platinum set

Pokemon Card of the Day: Reshiram (Black and White)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Reshiram from the Black and White set. This is a super-rare card from the set, it reflects the Legend look from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver sets but it isn't a level up Pokemon or anything like that, this card is played like any other basic Pokemon. So Reshiram is a basic, fire type Pokemon, with an hp of 130. It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. One change with the Black and White cards are that Pokemon no longer have Poke-Bodies or Poke-Powers but have Abilities, this card doesn't have an Ability but I just wanted to make you aware of what abilities were. Reshiram does have two moves, the first move is called Outrage which does 20 damage for two colorless energy cards, plus it does 10 more damage for each damage counter on Reshiram so it could potentially do 140 damage for only two energy cards if Reshiram is only 10 damage away from being knocked out. Reshiram's second move is called Blue Flare which does 120 damage for three energy cards, two fire and one colorless. However you have to discard two fire energy cards attached to Reshiram after the move. As far as strategy goes since this is a basic Pokemon card you can put it on your bench right away and I would recommend putting it into the active Pokemon spot as soon as you get two energy cards on it so you can use Outrage and if you move it into play earlier in the game it has the potential to get more damage on it so Outrage will do more damage each turn. So I would do Outrage first, then use Blue Flare, and then go to Outrage the next turn since you won't be able to do Blue Flare more than once at a time because you have to discard energy cards, I would also make sure to include a card in the deck to retrieve these discarded energy cards from the discard pile and put them back into your hand or deck. I would give this card a 4 out of 5 because it is quite good. It has a high hp and the potential to do massive amounts of damage, especially when Reshiram gets some damage on it, it should be able to knock out one Pokemon every turn or two. So thanks for reading today's review of Reshiram from the Black and White set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Zekrom from the same set.

Pokemon Card of the Day: Ampharos (Platinum)

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Ampharos from the Platinum set. Before I get too far into the review, I will start reviewing the Black and White cards tomorrow and I plan on reviewing every rare in the set consecutively, so look forward to that. Anyways, Ampharos is a stage 2, electric type Pokemon, with an hp of 130. It has a +30 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to metal type Pokemon, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Ampharos's Poke-Body is called Damage Bind and says that any Pokemon in play that has damage counters on it can't use Poke-Powers. Ampharos has two moves in addition to the Poke-Body, its first move is called Gigavolt and this move requires two energy cards, one each of electric and colorless, and does 30 damage plus 30 more damage if you get a heads from a coin flip, if you get a tails the defending Pokemon is paralyzed. Ampharos's second move is called Reflect Energy and for three energy cards, two colorless and one electric, it does 70 damage but unfortunately you have to move one of the energy cards attached to Ampharos to one of your benched Pokemon after using this move. As far as strategy goes, I would recommend using another electric type Pokemon in your deck that does some spread damage so when you have Ampharos in play your opponent can't use any Poke-Powers. Other than that this card is pretty straightforward, I would use Gigavolt when I have two energy cards on Ampharos, and Reflect Energy when I have three. I would give this card a 3 out of 5. To me there is just not anything too special about this card, I do like that you can do extra stuff with both of Ampharos's moves, it doesn't really matter if you get a heads or a tail when you use Gigavolt, you can still do something, and even though you have to move an energy card from Ampharos with Reflect Energy you can at least move it to another Pokemon. So thanks for reading today's review of Ampharos from the Platinum set, stay tuned for tomorrow's review of a Black and White Pokemon card