Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

2008-11-30 Bronzong SF 13/100

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Love it. Just awesome. Really nice with Kingdra and Raichu.

8/10

Yay first post.
 
this card is very limited by what u use it with. if used with raichu or kingdra or any other card like this its great.

6/10
 
its alright but with no dres and scrambles, it could be a little slow with teh energy attachments, great powers and attacks though

7.5/10
 
SF brings us what...the 3rd or 4th Bronzong I think by now (hint, please stop making so many versions of the same Pokemon :nonono:)...anyways, Bronzong has the usual solid 90 HP for a Stage 1, +20 Weakness to :psychic: (eh, not good if AMU is still played), -20 Resistance to :fire: (good since Heatran and fire Pokemon are picking up), and an expensive :colorless:colorless:colorless for a Retreat Cost. Cycler is the only reason you'll want to use Bronzong; getting 2 basic Energies for putting only 1 card on top of your deck is a great way to lessen any dependency on Roseanne and such. Attack-wise (which you shouldn't be doing), Strange Spin does a weak 20 damage for :psychic::colorless, but can grow to 60 damage and Confusion if you and your opponent have the same number of cards in your hands (not that common an occurance, but still might happen). Heavy Potential costs :psychic::colorless:colorless, but lets you place damage counters on all the opposing Pokemon based on their Retreat Cost, which could deal some solid spread damage.

Modified - 7/10 (Ok, but there's probably other Pokemon you'll want to use before slotting in this guy)
Limited - 9/10 (You should have time to power him up for attacking, and Cycler lets you get specific Energy if you run more than 1 type)
Unlimited - 1/10 (No use here)
 
Have you guys actually played this with Kingdra? Idunno how it works with Raichu, but in my Kingdra, I generally have 2 energies in my hand anyways, with Claydol cycling and Roseanne's Research.
 
I hate how underrated this card is. I have seen it work wonders in Raichu and Kingdra, and it really helps if you don't have the energy in your hand. However, the MD one is still a lot better IMO.

8/10.
 
A little late but, okay card I have a few only reason I'd use it is incase I don't have enough Rose's.
It's attack are decent but not my favorable choice for energies.

5/10
 
This card is BEAST with Raichu. Think for a sec, how many energy do you discard for a Voltage shoot? Also, Raichu's main weakness is Machamp right now, and this is it's weakness.In that respect, Strange Spin may sound hard to do, but if you both have Claydol, hand sizes are almost always six or less, so if it is that important, you purposely sync your hand. Also, Cycler provides within-one-card hand control, you can put a card and take two energy, or put one and take none, so you really only need to sync within one card, and Claydol shrinks the common range.
 
This card does have some synergy with Ariados (MT) which increases every Pokemon's retreat cost (except Ariados') by 1 colorless Energy with it's Sticky Poke-Body for Bronzong's Heavy Potential attack. But all in all Bronzong (SF) is more of a tech than a main attacker...

Strange Spin is hard to pull off cause it's situational based on how many cards are in your Opponent's hand to do maximum damage with it. At best you're gonna be spreading damage counters with it using Heavy Potential or using it's Cycler Poke-Power which is the main reason why you would want to use Bronzong.
 
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