my rare pokemons and reveiws

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Terrakion from the Noble Victories set. This is a basic, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 130. It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost. It doesn't have an Ability, but it does have two moves, the first move is called Retaliate and does 30 damage for two energy cards, one each of fighting and colorless. If any of your Pokemon were knocked out last turn this move does 90 damage instead of 30. Terrakion's other move is called Land Crush which takes three energy cards, two fighting and one colorless and does 90 damage.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, this is another card you'll definitely want to set up on your bench first. As soon as one of your Pokemon gets knocked out, you can move Terrakion in as long as it has two energy cards on it and then use Retaliate. After that use Land Crush every turn to knock out most Pokemon in two turns or less. Since Terrakion's retreat cost is higher than either of its energy costs for its attacks I would keep this card in the active Pokemon spot until it gets knocked out or you win the game.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Golurk from the Noble Victories set. This is a stage 1, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 130. It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to electric type Pokemon, and a four colorless energy card retreat cost. Golurk doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Hammer Arm and does 60 damage for three energy cards, two fighting and one colorless. Besides doing the damage, you may discard the top card of your opponent's deck when using this move. Golurk's second move is called Hurrican Punch and for four energy cards, two each of fighting and colorless, this move does 50 damage times the number of heads you get when you flip four coins.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, this is very strong stage 1 Pokemon that requires some energy cards to get going so you'll want to set this card up on your bench first. Once you get the necessary energy cards on it, I would use Hurricane Punch every turn, I usually don't prefer moves that rely on coin flips but even an unlucky person will be able to do 100 damage per turn once in awhile so it is definitely worth the chance and going with Hurricane Punch every turn. Obviously if you can knock out the defending Pokemon with 60 hp or less you'll want to use Hammer Arm instead.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Reuniclus from the Noble Victories set. This is the first of two Reuniclus cards I'll be reviewing from this set. This is a stage 2, psychic type Pokemon, 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. Reuniclus doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Future Sight and for one colorless energy card you may look at the top 5 cards of your deck and arrange them in any order you like and put them back on the top of your deck. Reuniclus' second move is called Net Force and for one psychic energy card this move does 40 damage times the number of Reuniclus cards you have in play.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, you'll definitely want to have more than one Reuniclus cards in your deck so you can put more than one into play so Net Force will do more than 40 damage. Other than that, you can use Future Sight to level up Pokemon if you have a lot of Stage 2 Pokemon in your deck, you can move the evolutions to the top of the deck. If I were to use this card, I would stick with Net Force the entire time

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Cofagrigus from the Noble Victories set. This is the second of two Cofagrigus cards I'll be reviewing from this set. This is a stage 1, psychic type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to darkness type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost. Cofagrigus doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Damagriigus and for two energy cards, one each of psychic and colorless you may move all damage counters from 1 of your benched Pokemon to the defending Pokemon. Cofagrigus' other move is called Perplex and for three energy cards, two colorless and one psychic, it does 30 damage and confuses the defending Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, you'll definitely want to put this card into a deck that has a lot of Pokemon that either has free or low retreat costs. That way you can play whatever card you like until it is close to getting knocked out, retreat it, put Cofagrigus into play and use Damagriigus and remove all the damage from the Pokemon you just retreated and put that damage onto your opponent's active Pokemon. So I would search for the Pokemon with free retreat costs and the highest hp. If you don't have any benched Pokemon with much damage on them, use Perplex and hope that your opponent is confused when trying to attack.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Vanilluxe from the Noble Victories set. This is a stage 2, water type Pokemon card, with an hp of 130. It has a x2 weakness to metal type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Vanilluxe doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Double Freeze which does 40 damage times the number of heads you get when you flip two coins for two energy cards, one each of water and colorless, besides doing the damage, if either coin is a heads, the defending Pokemon is paralyzed. Vanilluxe's other move is called Frost Breath which does 60 damage for 2 water energy cards.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, I would actually use Double Freeze more than I would use Frost Breath with this card, the reason I would do this is that Double Freeze has the possibility of doing more damage than Frost Breath and more than likely you are going to Paralyze your opponent for the next turn. I would stick to Frost Breath if I knew 60 damage or less would knock out that defending Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Hydreigon from the Noble Victories set. This is a stage 2, darkness type Pokemon card, with an hp of 150. It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost. Hydreigon's Ability is called Dark Aura and says that all energy cards attached to this Pokemon are dark type energy cards. Besides the Ability, Hydreigon has one move called Berserker Blade which does 60 damage for four darkness energy cards. This card also does 40 damage to two of your opponent's benched Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, I would definitely use this card in a spread damage type deck, it really doesn't matter the type since Hydreigon's Ability makes all energy cards attached to this one dark type energy cards. You'll just have to make sure the pre-evolutions to Hydreigon are leveled up on your bench not in the active Pokemon spot. This Pokemon is fairly slow, but two turns using Berserker Blade and many of your opponent's Pokemon should be knocked out, especially if you already did damage to them using one of your other spread damage type Pokemon from your deck.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Haxorus from the Noble Victories set. This is a stage 2, normal type Pokemon card, with an hp of 140. It has no weakness, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Haxorus doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Dual Chop which takes two colorless energy cards, and does 50 damage times the number of heads you get when you flip two coins. Haxorus' second move is called Giga Impact which does 120 damage for three colorless energy cards, however you can't attack the next turn after using this move.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, first off, you can put this card in any type deck since this is a normal type Pokemon. With that being said, I would probably use Giga Impact if I could knock the Pokemon out for sure with 120 damage, otherwise I would use Dual Chop and hope to get two heads.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 2 out of 5 rating. For a stage 2 Pokemon card this card isn't very good, it can only do average damage, and it has a somewhat low hp for a stage 2 card. I would probably try and find a stage 2 card of the specific type your deck is instead of putting Haxorus in the deck.

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Luxray GL Lv. X from the Rising Rivals set. It has fairly decent hp of 110 which is above average for stage 1 Lv. X cards. A x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon is nice because fighting Pokemon aren't that popular, it could be a lot worse if Luxray GL Lv. X was weak to fire or water Pokemon then it could easily be knocked out in two moves. A resistance of -20 to metal type Pokemon won't do much since they aren't too prevalent. What is really nice about Luxray GL Lv. X is that it doesn't have any retreat cost so you are free to move Luxray GL Lv. X in and out of your active Pokemon position as often as you like. Luxray GL Lv. X's Poke-Power Bright Look can only basically be used once but it can all but guarantee a knock out of a defending Pokemon if you play it right. Bright Light allows you to, when you play Luxray GL Lv. X onto Luxray GL, switch your opponent's active Pokemon with one of their benched Pokemon whichever one you choose, the Pokemon to switch in there would be a Pokemon you could knock out on that one turn. To knock out the defending Pokemon you could always use Luxray GL's only move Flash Impact which takes 2 energy cards, 1 colorless and 1 electric and does 60 damage, which is quite high for only two energy cards, the only downside with this move is that it does 30 damage to one of your own Pokemon, at your choosing. As far as playing Luxray GL Lv. X I would definitely utilize it's Poke-Power and knock out one of the defending Pokemon and it is a really quick card too, since it only needs two energy cards to do 60 damage so if you are lacking energy on other powerful Pokemon you can just put Luxray GL Lv. X and do your 60 damage and then retreat it the next turn for free. So thanks again for reading my review and stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Milotic ex from EX Emerald.
Posted by PrimetimePokemon at 10:27 AM

Today's Pokemon Card of the Day is Blastoise from the yet to be released Heart Gold/Soul Silver Unleashed set. I believe this set is coming out May 12th so make sure you go out and buy some I know I will be buying everything they make of Unleashed when I get done with college May 25th. Now lets get on to the review. Blastoise is a stage 2 Pokemon card and has a very respectable hp of 130 which is very good for a non Lv. X card. A x2 weakness to electric type Pokemon is expected from a stage 2 water Pokemon and Blastoise doesn't have any resistant type. It does have a very high retreat cost of 3 colorless energy cards, but at least you should have enough energy to retreat Blastoise if you get in trouble since its only move requires 4 energy cards. Blastoise's Poke-Power Wash Out lets you move as many water energy as you want from your benched Pokemon to your active Pokemon, so as long as you have Blastoise on your bench you can use this move even though I would more than likely want to have Blastoise be my active Pokemon and move a lot of energy cards at once to be able to perform Blastoise's only move really quickly. Blastoise's only move is called Hydro Launcher and takes 4 energy cards, 2 water, and 2 colorless and lets you do 100 hp damage to any of your opponent's Pokemon, so I would target any of your opponent's basic Pokemon so you can one it knock out them. But if they do have a really strong hp or attacker Pokemon I would use Hydro Launcher twice in a row on that Pokemon because pretty every Pokemon can be knocked out with 200 damage. The only bad thing about Hydro Launcher is that when you use it you have to move the 2 water energy cards necessary to use the move back to your hand. At least you don't have to discard them and I would use Blastoise later in the game when you have a lot of your other benched Pokemon already set up so you can use Wash Out and easily move two water energy cards from your benched Pokemon to Blastoise to be able to do Hydro Launcher for more than one turn in a row. So once again thanks for reading this review and stay tuned for tomorrow's review of Tangrowth Lv. X.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Typhlosion ex from the EX Sandstorm set. This is a stage 2, fire type Pokemon card, with an hp of 160. It has two x2 weaknesses to water and fighting type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. This card doesn't have a Poke-Body or Poke-Power but it does have two moves, the first move is called Ring of Fire and does 40 damage for three energy cards, two colorless and one fire. After using this move the defending Pokemon is burned and can't retreat until after your opponent's next turn. Typhlosion's second move is called Split Blast and for five energy cards, three fire and two colorless, it does 100 damage or 50 damage to each of your opponent's two defending Pokemon if they happen to have two, you only need to discard one energy card when using this move.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
Out of the ex cards I've reviewed so far, I think Typhlosion ex can do the most damage most consistently, it can do 100 damage every turn as long as you have an energy card in your hand to attach to it each turn. This ex card also has the highest hp of any of ex cards I've reviewed recently. The artwork on this card is done by Hikaru Koike. I like the background pattern but I don't like the illustration of Typhlosion, to me it is an awkward angle. I do have this ex card in my collection.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $8, on Professor-Oak it sells for $10.80 and on PokeOrder it goes for $24.99. I would imagine the reason for this card selling for a bit more than others on eBay would be that Typhlosion is a more popular Pokemon since it is a starter Pokemon and more people are familiar with it.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Cobalion from the Noble Victories set. This is a stage basic, metal type Pokemon card, with an hp of 120. It has a x2 weakness to fire type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to psychic type Pokemon, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Cobalion doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Energy Press which takes two energy cards, one each of metal and colorless, and does 20 damage plus 20 more damage for each energy attached to the defending Pokemon. Cobalion's second move is called Iron Breaker and does 80 damage for three energy cards, two metal and one colorless. Plus doing the damage, your opponent can't attack during their next turn.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, as soon as I get three energy cards on Cobalion I'll want to put it into the active Pokemon spot and use Iron Breaker every turn. With 120 hp, Cobalion should be able to knock out quite a few Pokemon in a row, the sooner you get Cobalion into the active Pokemon spot the more Pokemon it will be able to knock out. If for some reason the defending Pokemon has 4 or more energy cards attached to it, I would use Energy Press if 100 damage would knock it out.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating. This is one powerful basic Pokemon card. As long as you wait a little while with this card, this card can knock out many Pokemon and withstand a few hits a long the way. If you are building a metal type deck this card is a must have in it.

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Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Eelektross from the Noble Victories set. This is a stage 2, electric type Pokemon card, with an hp of 140. It has a x2 weakness to fighting type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost. Eelektross doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Acid and for two colorless energy cards it does 30 damage and the defending Pokemon can't retreat during the next turn. Eelektross' other move is called Wild Charge and does 90 damage for three energy cards, two electric and one colorless, however this move does 10 damage to Eelektross.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, with such a high hp on this card I would definitely try and use Wild Charge every turn, that way you could knock out most Pokemon in two turns or less. The only time I would use Acid would be if 90 damage wouldn't knock out the defending Pokemon and I was fairly certain your opponent would retreat their active Pokemon the next turn. I would put this card in a mainly electric type deck but it wouldn't be the card the deck was built around.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating. This card seems pretty average to me, especially for a stage 2 Pokemon card. There is nothing to get excited about here, if you need a line of 4-3-2 Pokemon in your electric type deck this card may fit you but it probably isn't the best line of Pokemon to put in your deck.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Landorus from the Noble Victories set. This is a basic, fighting type Pokemon card with an hp of 110. It has a x2 weakness to water type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to electric type Pokemon, and a one colorless energy card retreat cost. Landorus doesn't have an Ability but it does have two moves, the first move is called Abundant Harvest and for one fighting energy card you may attach one energy card from your discard pile to this Pokemon. Landorus' second move is called Gaia Hammer and for three energy cards, two fighting and one colorless, it does 80 damage plus 10 damage to all other Pokemon in play.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, I would try and include this card in a spread damage type deck to possibly knock out more than one of your opponent's benched Pokemon at once when you use Gaia Hammer. However if you're forced to play this card before it has the necessary energy on it, hopefully you can use Abundant Harvest and be able to use Gaia Hammer in two turns.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating. This card is quite good for a basic Pokemon card. Usually Pokemon like this can do major damage but are extremely slow, this card can do pretty good damage and is pretty fast as long as you use Abundant Harvest, and if you get it out soon, it should last awhile against your opponent's basic Pokemon.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Salamence from the Arceus set. This is a stage 2, colorless type Pokemon card, with an hp of 140. It has a +30 weakness to colorless type Pokemon, a -20 resistance to fighting type Pokemon, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Salamence's Poke-Power is called Top Accelerator and says that once per turn you may reveal the top card of your deck, if that card is an energy card you may attach it to one of your Pokemon, if it isn't you have to discard the card. Besides the Poke-Power, Salamence has two moves, the first move is called Shoot Through and for three energy cards, one each of fire, water, and colorless it does 50 damage plus it does 20 damage to one of your opponent's benched Pokemon. Salamence's second move is called Dragon Claw which does 70 damage for 4 colorless energy cards.

Pokemon Card Strategy:
So as far as strategy goes, this card would be best used in a split type deck which includes water and fire type Pokemon so you have the necessary energy cards to perform Shoot Through. If you want to use Salamence solely for its Dragon Claw move you can put it into any type deck since it requires any type of energy cards to attack. I would recommend setting this card up on my bench and putting four energy cards on it and doing 70 damage until Salamence gets knocked out. I would consider using Shoot Through if I had other spread type cards in my deck. Once you do have Salamence in the active Pokemon spot you could consider using its Poke-Power to set up other cards on your bench.

Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 3 out of 5 rating. This card is pretty average. It can do a fair amount of damage but it will take time to do the damage. I don't see anything too spectacular about this card other than its moves require mostly colorless energy cards. So if you want to include Salamence in your deck this isn't a bad card to use.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Golem ex from the EX Dragon set. This is a stage 2, fighting type Pokemon card, with an hp of 160. It has a x2 weakness to both grass and water type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a 5 colorless energy card retreat cost. Golem doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Magnitude which takes three energy cards, two colorless and one fighting, and does 60 damage plus 10 damage to each benched Pokemon in play. Golem's second move is called Double-edge which takes 5 energy cards, two fighting and three colorless and does 120 damage but does 50 damage to itself.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
Even though this card can do 120 damage I wouldn't try and use it very much in a deck I would make, just because it takes so long to attack and it takes forever to retreat. I would think about putting it on my bench and occasionally attaching energy cards to it and at the end of the game use Double-edge. Other than that, I don't really like this card, I personally don't like the artwork, which is done by Hikaru Koike. I do have this card in my collection.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $5, on Professor-Oak it sells for $12.02 and on PokeOrder it goes for $29.99. I would say this is an averaged priced ex card from this set, but one I definitely wouldn't buy.


Other ex Pokemon Cards in this set:
The other ex cards from this set are: Ampharos, Dragonite, Kingdra, Latias, Latios, Magcargo, Muk, and Rayquaza.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Kingdra ex from the EX Dragon set. This is a stage 2, water type Pokemon card, with an hp of 150. It has a x2 weakness to both grass and electric type Pokemon. Kingdra ex doesn't have a resistance type, and its retreat cost is three colorless energy cards. Kingdra ex doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Genetic Memory which takes one water energy card and does any move from the Kingdra's basic or stage 1 Pokemon card, so similar to Lv. X cards. Kingdra's second move is called Hydrocannon which takes three colorless energy cards and does 50 damage plus 20 more damage for each water energy card attached to this card but not used to pay for this attack.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
If you're playing in an ultimate format, I would search through all the Horsea and Seadra cards out there to find the best ones to use with Genetic Memory. Otherwise I would put up to 5 energy cards on Kingdra so I could do 90 damage every turn. I like the artwork on this card which is done by Hikaru Koike. I like the background design, it almost looks 3d, plus Kingdra looks very dark and dangerous. I believe I have this card in my collection.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $6, on Professor-Oak it sells for $6 and on PokeOrder it goes for $37.49. This looks like a pretty cheap ex card, unless you want to fork over another 30 dollars and buy it from PokeOrder.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Latias ex from the EX Dragon set. This is a basic, colorless type Pokemon card, with an hp of 90. It has a x2 weakness to colorless type Pokemon, a -30 resistance to both psychic and fighting type Pokemon, and a two colorless energy card retreat cost. Latias doesn't have a Poke-Power or Poke-Body but it does have two moves, the first move is called Hypnoblast which does 10 damage for one colorless energy card. Also if you get a heads when you flip a coin the defending Pokemon is asleep. Latias' second move is called Mist Ball which requires three energy cards, one each of colorless, fire, and water and does 100 damage, but you must discard a fire and water energy card when you get done using Mist Ball.

PrimetimePokemon's Take:
It isn't often you see a Pokemon card that can do a damage that is more than its HP, but today's card does exactly that. I would save Latias for a one-hit wonder late in the game, put it in, use Mist Ball and then retreat it out the next turn. Just make sure to include this card in a fire and water type deck. This card was illustrated by Ryo Ueda, even though this card is red, white, and blue I don't really like the artwork on this card. I do have this card in my collection.

Pokemon Card Price:
This card sells on eBay for around $10, on Professor-Oak it sells for $14.99 and on PokeOrder it goes for $29.99. So this is a fairly inexpensive ex card for a Legendary Pokemon.


Other ex Pokemon Cards in this set:
The other ex cards from this set are: Ampharos, Dragonite, Golem, Kingdra, Latios, Magcargo, Muk, and Rayquaza.

Pokemon Card Overview:
Today's Pokemon Card Review is of Swampert ex from the EX Team Magma vs. Team Aqua set. This is a stage 2, fighting type Pokemon, with an hp of 150. It has a x2 weakness to grass type Pokemon, no resistance type, and a three colorless energy card retreat cost. Swampert doesn't have a Poke-Body or Poke-Power but it does have two moves, the first move is called Hyper Pump which takes one colorless energy card and does 20 damage plus 20 more damage for each energy card attached to Swampert not used for this attack. Swampert's second move is called Crushing Wave which takes three energy cards, two colorless and one water, and does 40 damage to one of your opponent's Pokemon, whichever one you choose. Besides doing the damage you may flip a coin and if you get a heads the Pokemon you attacked must discard any energy card.