Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Dragon cards that will have the most impact

Strangely enough, my favorite card from this new set is Gyarados. This is for the ultimate cheapskate in all of us. The card is uncommon, has a better attack than Wailord (80, no resistance applied) and has very good HP for a s1 (100). That with a decent retreat and Water Call Swampert make this guy the main attacker of the Modified Raindance deck.

Others that I like:
Rayquaza ex: OK, it isn't all that great in constructed play, but in Limited, it ownz. I only got it out once, and it cleaned my opponent out of about 3 prizes. And, no, it will not replace Eggy in Blaziken decks because Eggy can take energies from ANY Pokemon that you have, not just your active, and Blaze only puts the NRG onto a benched Pokemon.

Briney: One of the better trainers in Modified, IMO. combine the good qualities of Mr. Fuji and Super Scoop, and you get this card. Better in Limited than Constructed, but can be used in both places.

Kingdra ex: The good old KingdraCenter combo is gone, but PokeNurse almost makes up for it. The two new Seadras also make for good combo cards (one doing straight bench damage).

Cards that I respect (but hate):
Cargo ex: Reincarnation of one of the greatest deck threats of all time, now packing more HP and a secondary attack. Without Entei, tho, it's pretty useless.
 
Golem ex looks very interesting...

Golem ex
160 HP
(F)

(F)(C)(C) Magnitude- Does 10 damage to each Benched Pokemon (both yours and your opponent's). (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokemon.)
(F)(F)(C)(C)(C) Double-edge- Golem ex does 50 damage to itself. 120

Weakness: (G)(W)
Resistance -30: none
Retreat: (C)(C)(C)(C)
 
Buffer Piece goes away after your opponent's next turn. So they can just not attack and it will go away anyways. It says right on there.
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Girafarig. Will do 60 to most evolutions even on the bench and for only 2 nrg, basic, 70 HP and only 1 retreat. Psychic continues to get better.
 
Call me crazy but I seriously think the Dragons will see play (Ray and Lati@s). You can power them up quickly, the decks fit perfectly together, and they have great support.

If I had to choose a non EX Pokemon it would definitely be Magneton (Magnetic Field). Expect to see him a lot.
 
I read the salamence differently, it said that the opponent picked, that was during the prerelease.

Anyway, I was thinking of using the new amphy with the old one with expedition.
 
Interesting comments from everyone. I've got to agree with those who mentioned Ampharos EX and Charizard.

Muk EX is there to stop decks like Blaziken which can't work without it's power. So, I think it certainly will impact the modified meta game.
 
TV Reporter might just impact the game enough for all those Tops Ex players. Think about it, you draw three cards, discard your Kabuto you just Reconstructioned for or drew and wham, Undersea Ruins brings them right back.
 
I'm not sure if rayquaza ex is good. Can you choose to discard both R and L energy or you must only choose one of them? If you can discard both, then rayquaza is pretty good.
 
For Rayquaza EX, you choose either, not both. So, in a Blaziken/RayquazaEX deck, you'll probably want to include either Multi/Rainbow or a few Lightning energies, and choose the discard only Fire. If you have Multi/Rainbow, you'll need to discard them, but you'll get an extra 40 damage. If you have Lightning, you'll never need to discard them, and RayquazaEX's first attact will be more effective.

Anyway, the reason I think RayquazaEX could replace the Eggy cards is that it's a basic. You'll be replacing 6-8 Eggy cards with 3-4 RayquazaEX cards and 3-4 Multi/Rainbow/Lightning energies. The RayquazaEX change will also require slight changes to the trainer engine, and the speed benefit should be significant enough to offset any disadvantages.
 
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Ampharos ex
(L)
150 HP
Weakness: (F)
Resistance: (M)
Retreat Cost: (C)(C)(C)
(ex rule)

Poke-Body: Conductivity
As long as Ampharos ex is in play, whenever your opponent attaches an Energy card to his or her Pokemon from hand, put 1 damage counter on that Pokemon. You can't put more than 1 damage counter even if there is more than one Ampharos ex in play.

(L)(C)(C) Gigavolt 40+
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 40 damage plus 30 more damage. If tails, the Defending Pokemon is now Paralyzed.
 
I see amphroas ex (sp?) and kingdra ex being backbones in 2 major archetypes. Then secondly I see Muk EX being good back up in maybe kingdra or possibly something like that. The salamance and other dragons just seem horrible unless your using them in combo with venusaur (ugh) or blaziken like SteveP said.
 
why is everybody ignoring Holo Flygon the card rules 60 damage minimum for 3 energy put 6 energy and your doing 90 it powers itself and kecleon and Skyridge Ditto and even zangoose I love Flygon it helped me with my dream of making a good kecleon deck.well that's my rant.
BLiZ
 
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Flygon is going to rule. Lady Outing + Energy Shower = You just attached at least three energy in one turn.

Don't count that card out.

I may be biased, but Kingdra ex is going to be good.

The Charmander line is trade fodder the second I get it, though.
 
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Defenitely high on Kingdra EX and Magneton. Not together, but Magneton will be a good support Pokemon. I mean its attack is decent, and great later on. (LC- 10x number of energy in play) and its power rocks. Works great when comboed with Delcatty/Jugglers.


I liked the holo Flygon, and to further on the combo with Lady Outing + Flygons Energy Shower, dont forget the rare Vibriva's attack... for C, its a Lady outing attack. By turn 3, when you evolve Flygon, you can have massive energy in hand, any where from 2 and up without a Lady Outing....
 
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I dunno if you people know but Muk ex's power only works when active. That and his sucky attacks makes him pretty bad.
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Muk EX is horrible, the card sucks. His attacks aren't that great, his power is nice.. but unfortunately he has to be active like you said, which is a major draw back because he's just going to be koed relatively fast, much before he's able to do much harm. It's not worth playing it.

The Dragon Gust Salamance is gonna be pretty good, Rayquaza EX is very good, I'm going to make a deck with it.. I've pretty much got a strong idea for it. It's gonna be quite nice.

IF you could find a way to get Dragonite EX going properly and keep it going, it'd be nice, but I can't see it happening anytime soon.

Ampharos EX and Kingdra EX are going to be very big.

Who ever said Absol is good... umm not really, there's not many times in this format your opponent has many cards in his hand, if there was a lot of times like that, Copycat would be played more than Oaks research... but they generally have 4-6, it's not gonna be very useful.
 
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