Dragonite · Wizards Black Star Promos #5

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   Anonymous

   (10 years ago)

   Kind of neat because it is a promo from the first movie. Other than that, he is sort of junky (he’s a STAGE 2 XP)

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     AnonymousAnonymous

     (10 years ago)

     Just because all the stage 2s now have 130 HP doesn’t mean they did back then.

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       Pokémon 31337 Anonymous

       (10 years ago)

       Yea, heck, some stage 2s had 60 hp.

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   feyblade

   (10 years ago)

   This could have worked as a stage 1 back then, but the pokepower is REALLY uninteresting. The “return this to the top of your deck” thing basically amounts to you drawing a card in the long run, outside of using Oak variants or protecting yourself from targeted discard. You’re basically turning the top card of the deck into a permanent addition to your hand…which basically means that you functionally just drew a card. That begs the question: why did you run this thing in the first place?

   Jungle Scyther performs at a similar level, but happens to be unevolved.

   Of course, they eventually popped out a pokemon (FRLG pidgeot ) that cranked up the ability to insane levels. This is kind of a continuity from bad single-card acquisition to awesome single-card acquisition

   draw 1, return 1 to the top of your deck at radom/draw 1, discard 1 at random
   draw 1, return 1 to the top of your deck/draw 1, discard 1
   draw 1, shuffle one into your deck
   draw 1
   Search 1, discard 1/return 1 to your deck at random
   Search 1, it goes on top of your deck instead of your hand
   search 1, discard 1/return 1 to your deck
   search 1, shuffle one 1 into your deck
   search 1

   That’s more than just power creep ,though, that’s a comparison between an awesome card for its time and a subpar one for its time

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     HEZ feyblade

     (10 years ago)

     Another in-depth review :P Someone I know found a use for this! He’s making a deck with Salamence from Arceus (everyone’s trying that guy at the moment :S). He’s running Dark Dragonair anyway so this guy’s going in to put energy on top of the deck so Salamence can use his Power on it.

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   Mantidactyle

   (10 years ago)

   This + Ether

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   Dark Kira

   (8 years ago)

   I like that this card is called Dragonit in German, even though Dragonite’s German name is Dragoran.

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     Mantidactyle Dark Kira

     (8 years ago)

     Let’s not talk about Promo Mewtwo’s French name…
     « Deuxmiaou »… Which means “Two Meow”.

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