Banette ex · Legend Maker (LM) #85

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   Pokémon 31337

   (14 years ago)

   It’s pretty interesting, I would use with Espeon UD.

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     Curtis Pokémon 31337

     (14 years ago)

     If your playing unlimited and your opponent has trouble hitting above 50, something’s going terribly wrong. Also, you can build a very consistent deck in unlimited without a single supporter, so that rules his attack out. Basically, if we look at him an unlimted light, he kind of sucks. In his days of Modified, though, he’s actually pretty interesting.

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       HEZ Curtis

       (14 years ago)

       Even at the time he was quite a risky play. It was the first ex I ever got a playset of but it was definitely a high risk – high reward strategy.
       In Unlimited you probably wouldn’t touch any Banette but in 150 there’s some decent uses for them. The one from Triumphant really punishes decks using non-Claydol draw engines.

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   Anonymous

   (14 years ago)

   “Banette generates energy for laying strong curses by sticking pins into its own body.” – Great role model for children XP.

   “A doll that became a Pokémon over its grudge from being junked. It seeks the child that disowned it.” – Nintendo’s way of scaring kids into keeping their Poke Dolls.

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   Innocent_Shine

   (14 years ago)

   What’s it say when this EX card is incredibly lame compared to a current card like Chandelure, but when you KO Banette, you take two prizes compared to Chandelure’s one? Wish the new EXs were this easy to take out.

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     reshikrom64Innocent_Shine

     (14 years ago)

     POWA CREEEEEEEP

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4. 

   Adam Capriola

   (14 years ago)

   This card was good mainly because of this Shuppet: https://pkmncards.com/card/shuppet-crystal-guardians-cg-40/

   Turn 2 50 was fairly normal with stuff like Rainbow Energy and Strength Charm. That OHKO’d most Basics and then it was off to the races.

   I played it with Vaporeon ex at Nats in 2007 and got Top 16.

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     quazikoAdam Capriola

     (14 years ago)

     For months you also didn’t know that you could move counters onto your OPPONENT’S pokemon, too. I will never let you forget that.

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     CharmasterAdam Capriola

     (5 months ago)

     It’s also fairly popular in the EX Ruby and Sapphire through EX Power Keepers (EX Block) format despite having virtually an auto loss to Bomb–Tar. I love how it bears similarities to a deck like Night March, yet can only scale at a rate of ten or twenty damage a turn thanks to the best discard effects in the format being TV Reporter and the Holon engine. You can’t even put the Supporter you just played in the discard pile until the end of your turn, per the rules of this era!

     https://play.limitlesstcg.com/decks/banette-ex?format=ex Banette ex is a pretty beginner-friendly deck in this format if you’re not looking to grind a more complex top deck like BombTar or Gardevoir ex, but thanks to small things like Shady Move synergizing with Warp Point, Warp Energy and Jynx DF, bonus attackers like Mew POP5, Mew Star and Jirachi ex CG allowing more complex lines of play, and PokémonReversal giving you access to your opponent’s bench that not every deck in this era has, Banette ex is a fun and engaging deck to play. And it really puts later decks that reward you for discarding resources in a historical context, reinforcing how much more restrained this era of the game was.

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     CharmasterAdam Capriola

     (2 weeks ago)

     It’s worth noting that you couldn’t play a Supporter on your first turn going first and that Supporters you played only went into your discard pile at the end of your turn, making Shadow Chant’s damage ramping even MORE moderate.

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5. 

   Anonymous

   (14 years ago)

   He’s very spooky
   Shupett made him really good
   I am very scared.

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6. 

   Jiří z Poděbrad

   (3 years ago)

   Was the Japanese version of this card only printed as a non-holo?
   https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mirage%27s_Mew_Constructed_Starter_Deck_(TCG)

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     CharmasterJiří z Poděbrad

     (3 months ago)

     I believe so, but the Chinese version of Banette ex has an even more interesting story. You see, until the release of the Simplified Chinese set Storming Emergence (https://www.pokipair.com/simplified-chinese-pokemon-set-list/?srsltid=AfmBOorhdInQ88Uhs9vZimWbMc4VfVo36O7uIzTe27WP2hD9IcFuyClA) on October 22nd, 2022, the only Pokémon cards officially distributed in mainland China were from Base Set and Legend Maker, and the only Supporter card in that selection was Field Worker. This meant that Banette ex couldn’t reach its maximum damage output without bootleg or imported cards for about a decade and a half.

     Incidentally, I can’t help but wonder what a Base Set+Legend Maker format would look like.

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