Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

What is the power 9 in this game??

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Actually Magic's Power Nine only refers to cards from Magic's earliest printing (err... the equivilant of Base-Fossil in Pokemon). And concerning value, Magic's Power Nine are valueable because they're extremely useful and broken in Magic (and people like using useful cards).

No new Magic cards would be part of the Power Nine because they're... well... too new. Which is why cards lke Tolerian Academy and Memory Jar aren't part of those Power Nines. Which also means cards like Sneasel, Slowking, or Mewtwo ex wouldn't be elegible for Pokemon's Power Nine.

Rarity also plays a part in what makes a Magic Power Nine, for as far as I'm aware, Magic's Power Nine are Rares. Likewise, cards like Plus Power and Town Volunteers wouldn't make the list because they're not rares.

Therefore, following the rules of oldness, rarity, and game play value (collector's value is based on demand, and useful cards are in demand more than unuseful cards)... Pokemon's Power Nine would be:

Computer Search
Hitmonchan
Electabuzz
Blastoise
Super Energy Removal
Lass
Scyther
Item Finder
Wigglytuff

:) Well... that's what I would pick at least. :D
 
Sneasel got banned because it is freakishly overpowered. It can easily average 80 damage on turn 2, which is enough to Knock Out most Pokemon. Add to that that it had no Weakness and a free Retreat, and you had a Pokemon that could punish with impunity. Every deck had to either use it, counter it, or both. That's still true in Unlimited, which severely limits deck types. It's a real drag.
 
I'm not an avid Magic player, but I thought the point of the power nine was those cards used in combination that practically guaranteed a first turn win to whoever won the flip. On that basis, the I don't think anything in Pokemon compares. But... the cards that can end a Pokemon match very quickly:

Computer Search
Prof Oak
Item Finder
Energy removal
Super Energy removal
Gust of wind
Base Blastoise
Jungle Wigglytuff
DCE
 
OK, what's DCE? I can never remember appreviations. :(

At my old League, only one guy had a Sneasel deck surprisingly, and it was just plain evil. Sneasel can do up to 140 damage on turn freakin' two WITHOUT playing a single Plus Power! Usually against a proper Sneasel deck, you're not going to be able to build up a proper defense OR offense before the body count begins.
 
Double Colorless Energy. Some people also abbreviate Super Energy Removal SER, which always confuses me.

-Steven Edward Reich
 
I don't really think base Charizard is the most expensive card. Even if it's 1st edition, it only goes for around $30.
 
base set charizard has more than material value; though it has sharply declined sience its $300 days, it is still a treasured card by those who own it (i have four...) Mistake cards are the really valuble ones, like the smiley char, or ancient mew spelling mistake...
 
As in brokenness (face it, the power 9 are some of the most broken cards in Magic's early history that did not recieve a ban)

-Computer Search (Get anything you want for just two measly cards)
-Item Finder (Do it all again for just two measly cards)
-Super Energy Removal (Destroy your opponents strategy for just two measly cards)
-Professor Oak (Get a fresh hand, usually just for two measly cards, and I know it's just an uncommon, but it's way too good)
(Are you sensing a pattern here?)
-Lass (trainer denial never failed me before)
-Ditto(FO) (it is just brutal, turn two hittings on anything that got in it's way and it could kick Sneasel's butt on turn 1)
-Clefable(JU) (Didn't you just love beating the snot out of your opponent's BBPs and Blaine's RK9 and still be immune to Muk?)
-Double Colorless Energy (another uncommon, but this one gave such a boost to every deck, you could retreat more, attack on turn one with almost any basic and it combined really well with Ditto and Scyther)
-Cleffa (the only newcomer, but this guy basically defined card drawing since Modified format)
 
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