Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

2009-3-9 Giratina PL 10/127

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I like this Giratina.

A spashable and decent first attack. Whoop! And, if time allows, can do an OK 60 hit. 3 attacks at least gives the user choice and flexibility. No utilisation of Lost Zone, but hey. Can't have it all!

7.5/10
 
Well, at least it is better than yesterday's atrocity...
It does have some versitility, which yesterday's Giratina did not have.
At the least, a 5/10
 
Not totally horrible.

A least it tries to have some synergy with the LV X: Overslash starting the spread, and Dark Wing Flaps causing hand disruption. Not has techy as the Let Loose Gira, but if anyone feels that they absolutely have to play Giratina, it's a solid basic, and including 1 in a Giratina deck won't make it any worse than it is already.

5/10
 
4/10

As a Pokemon, decent attacks compared to the average. If there was more hand disruption, this card would be better; however, those decks wouldn't play this guy, so it doesn't matter.

Is average and will never be anything more.

Ever.
 
I don't like this Giratina, as (in my opinion), it's the second-worst.

It has three attacks. Woo-hoo, yippy-skippy.

The first, requiring two energies, does ten damage to all Pokemon. You can do better than that with other Pokemon, usually for less energy.

One does twenty for two Psychic energies... Not that phenomenal. Even with the secondary effect of Mars pinnned on, this isn't that great.

Sixty for three is fair enough, but still sort of a let-down.

All-in-all, I'll give it a 5/10. Use the Let Loose and Strafe Giratina over this one for certain.
 
The first attack would have been better for no energy. 3 for 60 and an effect would have been nicer.
I will give it 6/10
 
I don't like this Giratina, as (in my opinion), it's the second-worst.

It has three attacks. Woo-hoo, yippy-skippy.

The first, requiring two energies, does ten damage to all Pokemon. You can do better than that with other Pokemon, usually for less energy.

Yes, but a BASIC? Vibrava can do it for 1 Fighting, and Prinplup can do it for 1 Colorless (I think), but on a Basic Pokemon with 20 more HP than those for two COLORLESS? That is good.

I give this an 8/10. I don't think Giratina is a good deck at all, but in terms of Giratinas he is an 8 or 9.
 
I loved using this at the Pre-Release, but other than that, I haven't used it much. Brilliant artwork. And I have to agree, as a basic, it's pretty good.
 
This is my ranking of the 5 Giratinas

1. Let Loose
2. Strafe
3. LA
4. This one
5. Yesterdays

So this one deserves probably a 4. It is too Mediocore
 
Giratina week much?

Anyways, today's Giratina is personally my favorite variant, though overall it does suffer from some setbacks. 100 HP is, as usual, good, x2 Weakness to :dark: is ok, -20 Resistance to :colorless is good, and :colorless:colorless:colorless to Retreat is expensive. This Giratina features 3 fun attacks to choose from:

-Overslash for :colorless:colorless, which deals 10 damage to each of your opponent's Pokemon
-Dark Wing Flaps for :psychic::psychic:, which deals an underwhelming 20 damage and forces a random card in your opponent's hand into the deck
-Wrack Down for :psychic::colorless:colorless, which deals a slightly underpowered 60 damage

Overall, I like how this Giratina synchs with the Lv X; you start your light spread damage with Overslash to soften the opposing Pokemon until you level up and use Darkness Lost as an upgraded version. Wrack Down also gives you a solid 60 damage, in case you need to KO the active Pokemon.

Modified - 8/10 (One of the better Giratinas imo, combos decently with the Lv X)
Limited - 10/10 (3 attacks to choose from, as well as being a big Basic)
Unlimited - 1/10 (Giratina? What is?)
 
ohh a nice one this time. I never even bothered rating the last one..waste of my time.

Well overslash is a good damage spreader, dusknoir decks might start to run this. cheep enough to play aswell =2points.

Dark wing flaps, can cause chaos for the opponent, again its cheep and puts a card back into the deck, reducing advantage. =2points.

last attack, meh not so good but a good finishing move once overslash takes its toll. =1point.

and again the 100HP for a basic is always nice =1point.

6/10.
oh and this is the coolest picture of all the giratina's =D
 
I don't like this giratina...just comparing it to the others...it doesn't stand up. i give it a 2 for trying:pokeball:
 
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