All "Megalo Cannon" scans and Kyurem/Blastoise deck scans revealed!!!

[pokedan24]

Cradilly is just amazing. It gives stage 2s something unique. I also like the new fossil mechanic. It makes it much, much less luck based since you can just put them in your discard pile.

Tropius: If Blastoise/Keldeo is still a thing, this will be a good counter. Built in draw never bad either.

Virizion EX: One of the better EXes of the set. Gives your guys immunity to lasers and gives grass some energy acceleration. Not the best attacker, but it's nice to see EXes have uses outside of attacking.

Genesect EX: Very good but thankfully not broken. I think Darkrai's night spear is better than Megalo Cannon. The catcher like ability is balanced by the fact that you need to use your attachment for the turn.

Volcarona: Could have been good to put fossils in the discard pile (and then at the bottom of your deck), but it's a stage 1.

Lapras: WHY DO THEY HAVE TO MAKE THIS SO BAD?!! It's one of my favorite pokemon!

Relicanth: More fossil support. Combos well with the fossil abilities.

Carracosta: Really really bad. I'd use the NV one before I use this.

Eelektross: Nice to have a playable Eelektross that compliments dynamotor. The second attack is just like Zapdos NXD. I really like.

Drifblim: Will not be surprised if this sees play. You'll probably get to attack for free quite a bit. Even if you don't, it's not a terrible attack on it's own, and is splashable.

Sigilyph: I want to make a fun deck with this and the tool drop trubbish. Several giant capes and eviolites should make this hard to catcher up and kill.

Machamp: Pretty average, though I do like that it does 120 without too much of a drawback.

Archeops: Not worth it.

Houndoom: Another anti plasma card, nice to see some balance to a broken mechanic.

Aggron: Could combo with Plasma Freeze Mr Mime to protect your bench, but I still don't think it's very good.

Jirachi EX: Level ball --> this --> Skyla --> any trainer you need.

Dialga EX: This and TP Beartic could make a good mill/beatdown deck. Thunderus EX can retrieve the plasma energies.

Palkia EX: Nothing amazing, but it could tank.

Haxorus: Lots of potential. Dragon axe is above average and it's second attack is a free prize against any plasma pokemon. The only problem is getting it out. Cradilly perhaps?

Druddigon: This + Victini+ plus altaria = BDIF.

Porygon Z: Good with plasma Frigate.

Ursaring: That first attack is one of the worst ever! I don't even think it would have been good in base set days.

Silver Bangle: Finally an anti EX card!

Silver Mirror: Another anti plasma card?

Reserval trigger: And this is one of the reasons we need those anti plasma cards.

Iris: Another comeback card. This has potential to be broken, especially with plasmazone.

Caitlin: Will be a staple in fossil decks. Could also make Aerodactly playable.

G Scope: The lesser of the two Genesect ace specs.

G Booster: Now this can be scary. I think it will see play in the right deck.

Suicine: Might see play.

Kyurem EX: Very good. A beefed up version of the BW unova dragons.

Kangaskhan: Could this be better than Emolga? No free retreat and fighting resistance, but you get 30 more HP and a cheap offensive option.

Master Ball: Completely average. Some decks might choose this, but most of the time, I'd rather use computer search (even with the discard).

Pretty cool set overall. Lots of new mechanics, interesting ideas, and some anti meta options. This should be good.

 

[Fox_Master51]

The Dialga EX could be pretty good with Porygon-Z. Move Plasma Energy to Dialga, throw down Deoxys EX and it could be pretty potent. As always this would also benefit Lugia EX. A couple Colress Machine and Shadow Triad should keep those Plasma Energy flowin'. Just a thought. And if Porygon-Z fails, there is always Scramble Switch.

 

[SolarPichu]

Exeggcute could be an interesting card for Ultra Ball and Computer Search. Simply discard those guys, and if when you need to play another Ultra Ball or Computer Search, simply bring them back to your hand. Only problem would be starting with it.

 

[Regis_Neo]

Some pretty good looking cards, kinda tempting to get a box. However, then you run into the fact it has those horrid fossil Pokemon and kinda reconsider...

Exeggcute is definitely intriguing, basically giving you a "free" way to play cards that need you to discard normally.

 

[Kozman]

Guys, run Exeggcute with Weavile from Plasma Freeze. That would be more effective in my opinion.

 

[Raen]

Guys, run Exeggcute with Weavile from Plasma Freeze. That would be more effective in my opinion.

Yeah, this. Also, you so all know that Exeggute was in the set before this, right? People seem to be acting like its a new card.

 

[Tagrineth]

Virizion EX is broken. <3

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Ursaring: That first attack is one of the worst ever! I don't even think it would have been good in base set days.

Er... 3 for 50 was pretty much considered solid back then, and that's ignoring the snowballing effect. What?

 

[Kozman]

Yeah, this. Also, you so all know that Exeggute was in the set before this, right? People seem to be acting like its a new card.

Yeah I knew that, haha. I guess since it is a shiny now it is more noticeable. I could see someone just skimming through bulbapedia and not noticing that lonely eggxecute.

 

[EricDent]

They must have fixed Abonasnow, Reuniclus, Mackoke, & Chatot.

Mushrana still says Basic though.

There is a Suicune that people would like to see the translations for.

 

[Fox_Master51]

Hmm. Musharna does say Basic.

Suicune has a translation.

 

[Otaku]

Ursaring: That first attack is one of the worst ever! I don't even think it would have been good in base set days.

Er... 3 for 50 was pretty much considered solid back then, and that's ignoring the snowballing effect. What?

If you actually look through the Base Set, you'll notice that for each :colorless: Energy requirement in an attack's cost, it did about 10 points of damage. Multiple other factors applied as well that can change that, but that seemed to be the baseline. Each non-Colorless Energy requirement on a card yielded approximately 15 points of damage; sometimes this was rounded up (usually at the cost of something else), sometimes the "five points" were "traded off" to pay for another effect, etc. Rattata from Base Set was an Evolving Basic Pokémon that could do 20 points of damage for colorless) but had 30 HP and Fighting Weakness... alongside this guy, and it only Evolved into this. It was also the only thing Rattata could do; no other attack, no Pokémon Power.

If you actually go through the cards of this time period, colorless::colorless::colorless for 50 was pretty impressive. Something that didn't further Evolve would usually get a bit of a bonus to its attacks... but looking at the second attack, another interesting comparison comes up: the only other Pokémon with an attack for colorless::colorless::colorless::colorless in this set is Chansey, and it did 80 points of damage to itself and the Defending Pokémon. On many cards, doing 10 points of damage to yourself is worth doing 10 points to the Defending Pokémon so... yeah, Chansey be nerfed.

Still, strength has a return that is twice as high as the Energy cost would indicate, plus combos directly with the first attack; if your opponent doesn't somehow interrupt the effect, you can hit for 50 one turn then 130 the next! The actual nature of the game when Base Set was legal would hurt the performance of Ursaring; Base Set Hitmonchan was there to happily score double damage, Energy Removal and Super Energy Removal (often played with said Hitmonchan and in most decks of the day) would make powering up a chore. Ursaring also lacks Resistance sychic:-30 like most other Colorless Pokémon of the day, but probably makes up for that with 130 HP (10 more than had ever been printed at the time).

Considering Wigglytuff from the next set had a deck back then, pretty sure Ursaring could pull it off as well. :thumb: In fact, Ursaring looks good for several formats, just not now. Imagine it when Boost Energy and Pokémon Nurse were still legal.

 

[Frost]

It really bugs me that Froslass isn't in this set when Snorunt and Glalie ARE. >_>

 

[Dragonmaster]

So is that the whole set i was under the imprison that kingdra was going to be in this next set.

 

[rcxd999]

This is my impression of the Exs:

Genesect Ex: This card is pretty good and will probably be good in a deck with Virizion Ex. 100 damage and built in catcher ability is typretty good the only bad thing being the fact that you have to manually attach a Plasma energy for the ability so you can't use Colress Machine for energy acceleration.

Virizion Ex: This is the card that makes Genesect Ex useable as it is the first grass type energy acceleration for the BLW-on format. The only thing disappointing about this card is that it only does 50 damage.

Jirachi Ex: This is the worst Ex ever as it only has 90 HP and pretty much has a recreation of Slowpoke's first attack. The only thing good about it is it's ability but I'm not sure I'm willing to give up 2 prizes for any card I like.

Dialga Ex: This card is quite interesting. It's first attack is quite good if you have fliptini as it gets any card you want back from the discard pile and it's second attack is quite interesting if you get 4 plasma energy but I doubt either things will happen so this card probably won't ever really see play.

Palgia Ex: This card is much better than Dialga Ex. It's first attack allows it to switch at will and it's second attack Allows Palkia Ex to heal up to 80 damage at a time but since that's unlikely, it probably won't see play like Dialga.

 

[Frost]

So is that the whole set i was under the imprison that kingdra was going to be in this next set.

Megalo Cannon is the newest Japanese set. Kingdra was in the previous Japanese set, Thunder Knuckle/Spiral Force, and therefore should be in the newest English set (Plasma Freeze).

 

[Otaku]

Genesect Ex: This card is pretty good and will probably be good in a deck with Virizion Ex. 100 damage and built in catcher ability is typretty good the only bad thing being the fact that you have to manually attach a Plasma energy for the ability so you can't use Colress Machine for energy acceleration.

You can't use Colress Machine and use that particular Plasma Energy to trigger Red Signal; if you don't need the Ability, you can still use Colress Machine for acceleration. Team Plasma Badge would allow Virizion EX to access Colress Machine for a Plasma Energy, and then a manual attachment could allow it to attack first turn. As Pokémon Catcher was reprinted in a deck alongside this in Japan, odds are either ours won't be rotated out or we'll get another reprint and so you can still run four Pokémon Catcher in the deck (and probably should). Shadow Triad can also fetch a Plasma Energy from the discard, so you aren't necessarily limited to four in a match.

 

[hunter994x]

It really bugs me that Froslass isn't in this set when Snorunt and Glalie ARE. >_>

This. Especially since Froslass is a favorite of mine. Not a top 10 favorite but, she is a favorite.

It's sad too because IMO, BW8 did a pretty decent job as we had a good chunk of Pokemon who, until then, had not yet appeared in the BW era

 

[Shino Bug Master]

It really bugs me that Froslass isn't in this set when Snorunt and Glalie ARE. >_>

NXD did this with Gardevoir too, which bugged me equally. We did get a Gallade eventually, but i dunno. I don't understand why they won't keep evolution lines and legendary trios/duos/quartets, yet are willing to print 2 eevees and 7 eeveelutions all together.

It takes away some of the meaning of the Pokemon for me. Its obviously not a competitve complaint, but LEGENDS just did the opposite so well last block that its a dissapointment. Like Thundurus and Deoxys have nothing to do with each other, adding an awkward duality to Thunder Knuckle/Spiral Force. Whereas the old Forces of Nature package I thought brought together a feel beyond just the shiny cards. The shinies have done this the same way, with shiny Emboar/Serperior but no Samurott and Charizard/Blastoise no Venusaur. Wouldnt it have been much more fo a draw for collectors and kids to release shiny Zard/Toise/Saur all in one set?

Obviously, its one of the last things that should get looked over in this stage of the game, but it also seems like the simplest to change. I just dislike when Pokemon get neglected (Wynaut, Azuril, Bonsly anyone?) or made to be part of a group in al aspects except the TCG.

Except Unown. No more 20 something Unowns is fine by me.

 

[hunter994x]

NXD did this with Gardevoir too, which bugged me equally. We did get a Gallade eventually, but i dunno. I don't understand why they won't keep evolution lines and legendary trios/duos/quartets, yet are willing to print 2 eevees and 7 eeveelutions all together.

It takes away some of the meaning of the Pokemon for me. Its obviously not a competitve complaint, but LEGENDS just did the opposite so well last block that its a dissapointment. Like Thundurus and Deoxys have nothing to do with each other, adding an awkward duality to Thunder Knuckle/Spiral Force. Whereas the old Forces of Nature package I thought brought together a feel beyond just the shiny cards. The shinies have done this the same way, with shiny Emboar/Serperior but no Samurott and Charizard/Blastoise no Venusaur. Wouldnt it have been much more fo a draw for collectors and kids to release shiny Zard/Toise/Saur all in one set?

Obviously, its one of the last things that should get looked over in this stage of the game, but it also seems like the simplest to change. I just dislike when Pokemon get neglected (Wynaut, Azuril, Bonsly anyone?) or made to be part of a group in al aspects except the TCG.

Except Unown. No more 20 something Unowns is fine by me.

Eh, the thing about Gardevoir/Gallade is that when Gardevoir debuted in the BW era, it was the set BW era started introduced old Pokèmon. Gallade did eventually come and it's still similar in regards to Glalie/Froslass but with XY on the horizon, we don't know if we will get a BW10 or not. Even if we do get BW10, we still might not get Froslass. Either way, XY will have to pick up where BW left off.

 

[Fox_Master51]

This is my impression of the Exs:

Genesect Ex: This card is pretty good and will probably be good in a deck with Virizion Ex. 100 damage and built in catcher ability is typretty good the only bad thing being the fact that you have to manually attach a Plasma energy for the ability so you can't use Colress Machine for energy acceleration.

Virizion Ex: This is the card that makes Genesect Ex useable as it is the first grass type energy acceleration for the BLW-on format. The only thing disappointing about this card is that it only does 50 damage.

Jirachi Ex: This is the worst Ex ever as it only has 90 HP and pretty much has a recreation of Slowpoke's first attack. The only thing good about it is it's ability but I'm not sure I'm willing to give up 2 prizes for any card I like.

Dialga Ex: This card is quite interesting. It's first attack is quite good if you have fliptini as it gets any card you want back from the discard pile and it's second attack is quite interesting if you get 4 plasma energy but I doubt either things will happen so this card probably won't ever really see play.

Palgia Ex: This card is much better than Dialga Ex. It's first attack allows it to switch at will and it's second attack Allows Palkia Ex to heal up to 80 damage at a time but since that's unlikely, it probably won't see play like Dialga.

The fact that you must attach for Genesect EX's Ability makes it to where it isn't overly broken. That way it is more balanced.

Virizion EX is a good all around Pokemon. The fact that its base damage is 50 isn't an issue since we have Laserbank and Plasma Badge for Deoxys support.

Jirachi, I agree is a disappointment. Giving up 2 cards for any card is best left to Comp Search. haha.

Dialga EX is a great card in my opinion. It's attacks would go well with Porygon-Z and Deoxys EX among other strong Pokemon.

Palkia EX is okay I guess. It could be teched in with Virizion EX given its Grass requirements and bulky offensives.
(Healing + HTL protection + Plasma Frigate + decent damage) Would make for a pretty good tank.