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2011-1-8 ndt dark espeon 004

Psychic Pokemon

  • Great Card

    Votes: 13 25.5%
  • Good Card

    Votes: 2 3.9%
  • League and Fun Card

    Votes: 8 15.7%
  • Collectible Card

    Votes: 28 54.9%

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[gal=46696] 2011-1-8 NDT DARK ESPEON 004 [/gal]


HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAIT!!​
 
Amazing card.

10/10 if in this format. Straight up Dark Espeon would be even bigger than Luxchomp.
 
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! All I have to say lol. Auto 10/10

But srsly, the second attack is pretty cool, HP is bad. But for the set, pretty good :D
 
I'm so confused why this is a CotD... :confused:

It was never really that good, don't see why it would be considered "better" now. I'm not going to justify my review with a number as having an out of card reviewed based on playability is just stupid. :nonono:

Drew
 
I'm so confused why this is a CotD... :confused:

It was never really that good, don't see why it would be considered "better" now. I'm not going to justify my review with a number as having an out of card reviewed based on playability is just stupid. :nonono:

Drew

Look under the PIC. It is my daughter's BDay and this is one of her favorites.

Very few of these old cards have ever been used for CotD and ALSO remember that this is for Collector's as well as Players... Drew. :nonono:
 
Love the artwork and am now looking to grab one of these cards ! 10/10 collection upgrade.... Check !
 
So for today's CotD, we have a special birthday review for Da' Fish's daughter Kait (happy birthday!), in the form of Dark Espeon from NDT; Espeon has always been one of my favorite Pokemon as well ever since it was introduced way back in GS. Statwise 60 HP is rather poor for a Stage 1 (though you have to remember, many Dark Pokemon had bad HP values at the time in exchange for better attacks/support mechanics), x2 Weakness to :psychic: isn't good, no Weakness was common even long ago, and no Retreat Cost is always great. Gouge is ok for :colorless:, you get your basic 10 damage regardless, plus another 10 if you can flip Heads. Psysplash was a bit pricey for :psychic::colorless::colorless:, but deals an awesome spread-esq effect of 10 damage to each of your opponent's Pokemon for each Energy they had on them. It is rather a shame a card like this doesn't exist nowdays, would have made a nice addition to any spread deck.

Artwork - 10/10 (No one can resist the allure of Espeon...no one...)
Unlimited - 1/10 (Even back when it was new, more popular mechanics revolving around Slowking and Sneasel were all the rage, leaving no real place for Pokemon like this one)
 
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Definite 196/10 (yes that is Espeon's national pokedex number.)
This card, like most cards looks better in Japanese. I feel lucky to have 2 and I think 2 in English :D
 
It's a 10/10 of course, would be a 1.67*10^5/10 if it was Umbreon =P(JK)
Oh, and Happy Birthday Kait(If it even is still your birthday, if not then Happy *Late* Birthday!)
 
Picture 10/10. It's an Eevee evolution, what do you expect? :tongue:
Modiied 1/10. This score is given because if you use this in modified then you'll be getting a penilty.
Limited 6/10. It's pretty good in limited. A solid first attack and alright HP for cards back then. An alright/fun second attack. And free retreat.
Unlimited 2/10. Sadly I don't see it having any real use in unlimited.

Total 9/10. Low scores for not being very playable but that gets bumped up for being Espeon. :thumb:
 
*HUGGLES POKEGYM* You guys are the greatest site ever making this card COTD This is the greatest pokemon ever made cause of its cutness lol and im not lying ill choose to make a deck with this card and any other espeons instead of a top tier deck ima giving this card 100/100 lol
 
I'll jump into this one because I used to play this card at league years ago with Gengar from Fossil, later reprinted in LC, in order to move the damage around. There was only 1 Sneasel/Slowking running around the leagues I played at.

At 3 energy for Psysplash, it was slow to build up. Because of its low HP, I wouldn't get more than 2 Psysplash out of it before it was KOed but even 1 Psysplash put a nice spread on the opponent's bench.

Energy Evolution Eevee made it so that it should be found while trying to build energy up for it, so there was a twofer there. Throw energy on Eevee and possibly get the D.Espeon, but if you flip tails then you've still got an energy card on Eevee for when you find the D.Espeon later.

Overall, it was nice in a format where lots of energy was needed for attacks across the opponent's field. Even against Sneasel/SlowKing, because it required so much energy to go onto Sneasel, you could still get 1 good attack out of it (it ignores W/R), although the D.Espeon would surely get KOed the following turn. If they put energy onto the SlowKings for some reason, then even better. Today's cards, where the energy required is so much less to do so much more, this card wouldn't do as well even if it had higher HP and less energy cost for its attack.
 
Very few of these old cards have ever been used for CotD and ALSO remember that this is for Collector's as well as Players... Drew. :nonono:

Well, I don't know if I'd say that CotD is for Collectors. The ratings are pretty much based on playability.
However, going "rogue" once in a while for a fun event is certainly a fine thing to do. :thumb:

As for the card... Not so good. 60 HP is about as bad as it gets for a Stage 1. First attack is as bad as most evolving Basics' attacks.

But the second one is interesting. If there were a metagame where there was a lot of energy in play, I could see this one being interesting.
Or, maybe combo it with one of the Ambipoms that move energy cards around.
Make your opponent get energy on Pokemon that don't really need it and the use DE to KO them.
 
Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhhahahahahhahahahhahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Can't believe that they actually made this card of the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First attack Sucks HP Sucks For a Stage 2 Nowadays Second Attack is pretty good because if someone was running something that costs a lot of energy then it would seriously be good. 10/10 Just Because it's really funny Lol!!!
 
DARK CARD 10/10

and could somebody please tell me how to counter vileGar? Im plaaying Dialgachomp, and i would reaally appreciate the help because i have cities tmr :eek:
 
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^ Play more Power Spray

Dark Espeon is somewhat interesting. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL in today's standards, but at least the attack is interesting and the art is cool.

1/10 for unplayability
 
I give the art a 3/10. Nothing too spectacular,its just coming out of its ball. As for the attack, like stated before this card was never good, even for a rocket card.
 
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