Haha the amount of hate this card receives.
Any particular reason why the thumbnail on the front page is the regular art and this is full art? Just asking since you sometimes redo the same card but with full art and reg art.
Anyway, the card has to fit into a very specific deck for it to work successfully, but I'm not sure people realise that it isn't Blastoise/Keldeo, especially due to the plasma energy requirement. It fits in a more plasma based deck, whether its a more toolbox like deck, or a Lugia/Articuno/Tornadus which aims to get 2 big KOs with Lugia ex.
I reckon the problem with the card is that people look at it for the gimmicky second attack, which does an automatic paralysis, which is good, but not by itself for such a high retreat cost. People seem to dismiss that the first attack, although not amazing, pairs well with several other attackers, and make the card a generally good Landorus counter. 60 damage and 10 spread is pretty decent, especially considering the use of HTL.
The second attack although not brilliant, is still very good, but only against certain decks. It's almost useless against the type of decks that you know has switching ability, whether its Keldeo Blastoise, or Decks that always run large amounts of Switch/Escape Rope. This should be an indicator that a deck shouldn't be focused around this card, and definitely not the attack. However, it is hard to miss how well it does against Darkrai variants, as it allows you to catcher up a darkrai, or even a keldeo if they run a single copy, and trap either their support pokemon, or main damaging card, until it's knocked out. The best part is that you can do this 2 times in a row, as Darkrai cannot KO this in one hit.
I give the card an 8/10, but has to be played in the correct deck.
