Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

2008-03-08 Sceptile - GE 008/106

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The amazing body is what makes this Pokemon acceptable. 100HP for a stage 2 is terrible, making it bad w/o weakness as its an easy bench peg. The retreat cost is way too much, and the attack isn't useable unless very desprate
 
Okay so yeah. This is a nice card. Two Grass energies for up to 70 damage is pretty awsome. Just one (well actually a few) problems. First off, what about CC? That makes you pay 4 energies for a very small amount of damage considering the cost. High retreat cost too. And where are some more attacks? As nice of an attack w/body as that is, it needs something better. Its always been for hitting high for not a lot, and as true as this card keeps to this custom, there is nothing more than a moderate damage attack. The only thing this is good for really is its body. Keep it on the bench for the most part. Sorry if I repeated anything, didn't read any posts.

7/10
9/10 w/body
 
This is a good card for support use only. The card can be koe'd by a magmortar sw with only 3 fire energys and a 1 power plus because his weakness and low HP. This is too bad in a metagame with a magmortar as the king.

His body is awesome. In combination with septile pop (I din't remember which) you move the energys and duplicate them, helps with that some decks like eggs, tangrowth and venusaur cg.

The best combination for me is using with eggs because he is a stage 1 pkmn, easy to put in play, he can charge itself or other eggs, you can do a massive damage if you get lucky with the coin and you have more flipping times thanks to the pokebody.

9,5/10 without magmortar
7/10 with magmortar or other powerful fire pkmn in the metagame.
 
Mod: 9/10 with Tangagroth, Venusaur, Eggs
Lim: 10/10 Awesome in Limited if you get the line.
Unlim: 9/10 Similar to haymaker with Meganium and Venasaur.
 
IMO the whole card is horrible except for the body which is really great. Sadly Magmortar gonna steal all screen time from Sceppy...

5/10 Modified
 
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