Eevee · Evolving Skies (EVS) #125

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   Hibachi

   (3 years ago)

   The artwork for this card is interesting. It obviously features a Rayquaza, but the JP set this card is from, S6a Eevee Heroes, didn’t have any Rayquaza card in it. But there is a Rayquaza in this, the English set, Evolving Skies (which came from S7R Blue Sky Stream).
   This kind of thing has happened before, but not quite like this. Sometimes artwork in a Japanese subset, let’s say X1a, will reference a card from its main set, X1, and both will get adapted into the same English set. In that case it makes sense in both contexts. But this Eevee card – which is probably, but not definitely* – referencing Rayquaza makes sense only in Evolving Skies, and a bit too jumbled in set order to make sense in the Japanese TCG.

   * If you want the counterarguments; this can all be seen as a bit of a reach, since none of the Rayquaza cards in Evolving Skies reference Eevee or the location in their artwork. Rayquaza just happens to be in this artwork. You could also argue that this artwork is foreshadowing S7R coming out after the Eevee set. (Ok but why? To the best of my recollection, none of the cards in Eevee Heroes ‘foreshadow’ Duralduron from S7D.)

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   Cappy

   (5 months ago)

   This my favorite card ever I use it a lot for decks and I love the artwork

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     CharmasterCappy

     (5 months ago)

     I’d be interested in hearing more about these decks! Most of my comments on here are about the competitive side of Pokémon, where games were too fast and cards like https://pkmncards.com/card/marnie-sword-shield-ssh-169/ too popular for Eevee’s Vee-Search to be effective, but I can still remember the decks I built in 2017 and 2018 when my brother and I were just using whatever cards we had and trying to make something cohesive and functional out of it.

     How many decks have you built with this Eevee? Do they feature any Pokémon for Eevee to evolve into? What Pokémon V do you search out with Eevee? Would you be willing to share any complete deck lists? https://pokemoncard.io/deckbuilder/

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       gwynCharmaster

       (5 months ago)

       If you want to look at decks featuring this Eevee, consider looking on Limitless for decks featuring the card (https://limitlesstcg.com/cards/EVS/125/decklists)! I personally only played during 2016 and picked the game back up last year, but it seems it was generally paired with Jolteon (https://pkmncards.com/card/jolteon-brilliant-stars-brs-tg04/) to block some important abilities. I assume the Vee-search attack was situationally used to get your big basics too :)

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         Charmastergwyn

         (5 months ago)

         I used that exact feature. It was played because it could evolve into a counter to https://pkmncards.com/card/inteleon-sword-shield-ssh-058/ and https://pkmncards.com/card/inteleon-chilling-reign-cre-043/ , and in the case of most of those lists, if you attached an Energy card to Eevee and used Vee-Search, it meant you wouldn’t be able to use any of your big attacks on your second turn and would probably lose the game.

         I’m assuming Cappy is using this card in a more casual setting, like the setting I described myself playing in up to 2019. The decks I built during that time period had fewer consistency trainers, weaker (if any) energy acceleration, and just a less cohesive strategy than competitive lists, and if I’d had any single prize basic Pokémon that could search out three EX’s or GX’s, I absolutely would have played them (I DID play my one https://pkmncards.com/card/alolan-vulpix-guardians-rising-gri-21/ in my deck, though that card was good even in competitive play because it could attack for free, could be searched out with https://pkmncards.com/card/brooklet-hill-guardians-rising-gri-120/ , and had two great GX’s to evolve into).

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