Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

The top 4 most broken cards in this format

My TOP 4
1. Luxray GL LV.X, impossible for me to pick against this thing, JPN versions are worth more than all the ENG LV.X's...
2. Team Galactic's Invention G-105-Poketurn-This is the card that makes SPs so GOOD, no prize for you, more flashbites,healing breath, bright look etc..
3. Spiritomb(PA), IDK if it's broken but it slows a lot of stuff down.
4. Azelf(LA)-Yes I am picking him over Uxie and the reason is this, it essentially gives you 5 cards to pick at your choosing late game, he himself can only get pokemon but late game you might need that bebe's for something else or need to pull a key card that you can't search out(out of Cyrus's?) so that is why i put him on my list.

Narrowly missing the cut-Uxie LA, Entei Raikou Legend, rest of the SP engine, Call Energy, Unown G, Claydol GE, and Machamp SF.

Not so close but good-Gengar SF, Cyrus's Initaitive, Sableye SF, Gyarados SF, and Double Colorless Energy

Broken but not like GODLY(aka these cards are keeping SPs from owning the format)-Broken Time Space, Rare Candy, Jumpluff and Donphan Prime
 
1) PokeTurn
2) Jumpluff
3) Machamp SF/Lv X
4) Azelf

know some peopel dont feel machamp is very broken, but from playing it, it made the list for me... auto KO a SP deck basicilly, and even tho its weak to Psychic his rage attack just hits back harder... with the Lv X... its just to big of a power house for basiclly anyone.
 
1) Luxray Gl. Lv.x
2) Energy Gain
3) Expert Belt
4) dos, claydol uxie, and tons of others

These arent in any particular order, but yeah. crobat and poketurn could easily be in der, but its is so hard to condense the best into a list of 4.
 
Originally poted by Mystery Thing

IMO if anything is breaking the game at all, it's Pokéturn and Energy Gain. Anybody can use Expert Belt, any anybody can use Cyrus (it's just a third of a card less good for other decks). SP Radar got knocked down a step with Pokémon Communication; they're (nearly) the same card, just that one is for everybody. Granted, Cyrus can hunt the Radar out, but still. Pokéturn and Energy gain are what make every SP deck what it is. Luxray is a one time deal without the Turn, and without Energy Gain, Luxray, Garchomp and Promocroak all now need 2 Energy cards to attack instead of 1, which hugely slows their lethality down, especially with Promocroak - the only reason you can surprise drop it on somebody is because of the Energy Gain.
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I agree 100% with this analysis. They make all SPs, and only SPs, far too fast on the attack and strong on the defense (Poketurn being instant, guaranteed healing if you can't OHKO them.

As a side note, I think Luxury Ball is an excellent example of a card that is very good, ubiquitous, but not broken. If Poketurn had a limitation like Luxury Ball, it would be much more balanced. With E-Gain, it could say that you could not have more than one in play at any one time - that might balance that card somewhat better.
 
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Luxray
Claydol/Uxie
Power Spray
Unown G


The definition for a broken card for me is something that makes other cards literally unplayable. Each one of these does this.

Luxray makes high retreat supporting Pokemon virtually unplayable (how much Dusknoir do you see these days compared to other years? Nidoqueen gets by because it can attack for 1)

Claydol and Uxie make all other draw in the format laughable at best and are used in every deck

Power Spray makes soooo many cards unplayable. Regigigas fell into the hole once Power Spray was released and other things are not played solely for Power Spray. I think everyone would be surprised by how much the format would change if this card was taken out.

Unown G, again, makes a plethora of cards unplayable. "Oh I'll play Nidoking SW, lock their Claydol for a bit while building up and then take the game when they're out of draw" NU-UH. Unown G is sooo good and the format will miss this little guy next year.
 
This thread is hilarious.

Luxray is the most broken card in the format hands down. It is a freakin' GUST OF WIND. It is way too good.

I am not sure what I would go with second, but nothing is as broken as Luxray is. I think I would have to go with Poke Turn, DCE, and Crobat G in no particular order.

The reason those are my 4 are that 3 of them are splashable in ANY deck and the other doesn't really need to be explained on why it is so good. I would love to see someone try to disagree with my 4 as I really don't think they could give me a decent arguement of why something else is more broken. I will say that Uxie is good, but it has it's drawback like being stuck on the bench and whatnot, the 4 I gave you really don't have any big drawbacks.

Drew
 
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Top 4? I'm no fan of SP, so here's mine:

Claydol/Uxie/Azelf - there's going to be a lot of bad starts and inconsistent draws without these guy next season
BTS - only way for a non-SP deck to have a hope of keeping up with SP decks
Pokemon Communication - who doesn't have at least 2 of these in their deck?
 
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As I have said since the release of PL,:

Luxray Gl. X-Gust of wind
Powerspray-card you play on opponents turn for SPs, nuff said
Poketurn-free SSU for SPs
Energy Gain-1 less attacks for SPs

See a pattern?
 
After reading a lot of PokeGym threads, I have discovered that the top 4 broken cards are . . .

1. Anything to do with SP which has broken the game and sucked every last bit of skill from Pokemon
2. Ursaring Prime
3. Crobat Prime
4. Ampharos (it doesn't matter which one)
 
Getting back to what is "Broken" by definition for a format. I would call it a card, card combo, that mechanics are so superior that they define the format and narrowly focuses all potential winning decks to a small fraction of the universe. Luxury Balls and Roseannes are used by all decks, they aren't broken.

2 years ago .Garny / Gallade was a Broken format, because NO other deck could compete with it. SP / Lux Chomp is our current dominate deck, but there is some valid competitors to that deck. 2010 is more balanced then then it was in 2008. 2008 was a format with Paper, and Scisors, but no ROCK, if you will.

The SP trainer engine can't best be used in traditional builds, thus the trainers I would agree are broken. People say Luxray is broken, but don't say that Metagross, Poke-Blowers, Pokemon Reversals are broken. Luxray by itself isn't broken.....I have been Playing Blowers all year, (and now with reversals), Luxray requires a Turn-a-head, drop before using it, thus a signal. I find reversals and blowers more devastating, then Luxray without Poke-turns. Thus it's the turn's(and Conspiricy to get them) that make Luxray broken.
 
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baby mario said:
After reading a lot of PokeGym threads, I have discovered that the top 4 broken cards are . . .

1. Anything to do with SP which has broken the game and sucked every last bit of skill from Pokemon
2. Ursaring Prime
3. Crobat Prime
4. Ampharos (it doesn't matter which one)
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haha, lmao.
so true
 
There can be so much debate about which cards are the most broken. However, I am going to say that Luxray GL Lv. X has to be up there. Gust of Wind was such a good card, and it's back in the form of a Pokemon.

Mewtwo Lv. X could also be considered. If your opponent is using a certain SP build, you basically autowin because they can't attack you.

Gengar SF, maybe? Free prize when they kill you? Not to mention it forces your opponent to change their playing style up unless they want to get whacked with a huge Poltergiest.
 
FurretFTW!!1! said:
Cyrus is an engine in itself, so I consider it better than Roseanne's. I'll miss Rose when she leaves, though ;_;

1) Double Colorless Energy (it lets Flygon and so much more attack attack)
2) Psychic Energy (it lets Mewtwo, Shuppet, and so much more attack)
3) Multi Energy (it lets a lot of Pokemon attack, but can't be stacked ;_;)
4) Fire Energy (it's part of an engine)

Imagine Pokemon without these cards, everyone.
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Well, I play Donphan, so...

I'm good. :biggrin:

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Yarac said:
Top 4? I'm a fan of SP, so here's mine:

Claydol/Uxie/Azelf - there's going to be a lot of bad starts and inconsistent draws without these guy next season
BTS - only way for a non-SP deck to have a hope of keeping up with SP decks
Pokemon Communication - who doesn't have at least 2 of these in their deck?
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Then it's not the BTS which is broken, it's a needed card to keep up the pace with sp decks, otherwise they would be, and to a certain extend are, broken.

Don't blame the runner that tries to keep up, blame the runner who dopes himself. (Marathon analogy, any1 remembers?)
 
Again, what is meant by Broken? If ever deck can and does run them, then the card is good, "core", Not Broken. Luxury Ball and Communication aren't broken. because all deck can and do generally run them. Broken should mean that the format would be healthier and more diverse without those cards.
 
Broken for me is anything that enables the less skilled player to win without any sense of strategy, also cards that keep lots of other really nice and interesting combos out of the format.

Uxie- singlehandedly created one of the worst formats in years. If there's anything I blame for creating a format where almost every single viable deck runs on one energy, it's this card. Now before you argue that it's used in everything, it helps fast decks far more than it helps slower ones, because the slower ones never set up, they're too busy getting ohkoed on the first turn. Can't wait for this to be gone and we can get around to rebalancing the game.

Poketurn- luxray and crobat wouldn't be half as bad if this wasn't released, yet next format it might be one of the few things keeping us from playing nothing but gengar prime post-rotation, go figure.

Luxray- cheap gust shouldn't be in pokemon, another card that sucks skill out of the game and forces everyone to play fast decks.

Power spray- makes good ideas suck.

Above all else, I can't stand the fact that most of the top decks are running on one energy attackers. I miss having a few turns to breathe so I can set up. Fast formats suck.
 
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