Ahhhh, a good card for once!:smile:
80 HP is average for a stage 1. The fighting weakness hurts, the psychic resistance is OK, and the free retreat is quite a plus.
I remember hearing about the Chicago, IL, UD Prerelease, and something seemed to be a bit odd about it. What is it? Well, many were hunting for this Weavile that very day, and now we will see why. The Poke-power is the primary reason why Weavile is actually useful. When you play Weavile down, you can look at your opponent's hand, and you can discard from your opponent's hand. The fact you can look and discard creates some very nice hand disruption that can certainly mess up your opponent's strategy if you manage to discard their key card this way. As an attacker, it seems to be a fine sniper. It can do 30 to any Pokemon your opponent has out, so it seems like this attack is good for KOing low HP Pokemon. Indeed, Weavile is certainly a nice card with its great hand disruption and a fine attack.
Overall 7/10 in modified, 10/10 in limited, and 6/10 in unlimited
In modified, this card can actually be pretty good. Weavile definitely has a very good Poke-power that can be extremely disruptive if played right. The power can even be a good partner with Cyrus's Initiative since Cyrus will help add to the hand disruption along with Weavile. This can mean that Weavile can a good partner with Sablelock, where it acts as a good early game disruptioner. As an attacker, it is fine with the 30 sniping ability. The problems with this card do include the fact it can easily be sniped by Garchomp C, and power lock can annoy it; yet, I can see Weavile as a great option for today's metagame.
In limited, this card is extremely good. With the lack of power lock and no Garchomp C, Weavile UD can be a pretty dangerous. It can get rid of a key card of your's in a format like this, and this can overall mean that Weavile might win you games thanks to that Poke-power. It could do a decent job sniping too, considering the fact that many Pokemon in UD have low HP. Indeed, Weavile can be a pretty good card for almost any deck here.
In unlimited, this card is relatively fine. Now, Weavile has to deal with the fact that there are better ways to disrupt here, so Weavile seems a bit inferior. Still, the power can make a good card, and with lots of low HP in unlimited, Weavile just shows that it is definitely not useless, even in an unlimited format.
