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Ability ⇢ Psychic Embrace
As often as you like during your turn, you may attach a Basic {P} Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your {P} Pokémon. If you attached Energy to a Pokémon in this way, put 2 damage counters on that Pokémon. You can’t use this Ability on a Pokémon that would be Knocked Out.
{P}{P}{C} → Miracle Force : 190
This Pokémon recovers from all Special Conditions.
· Pokémon ex rule: When your Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Anonymous
I was reminiscing on people’s early takes on Gardevoir ex while viewing Tapu Lele CRZ when I wrote this comment.
It’s funny to look back and see what people suggested using in early Gardevoir ex lists to attack with. Wyrdeer V ASR, Galarian Articuno EVS, Mewtwo V-Union, and, later down the line, Houndstone SVI and Drifloon SVI… and to top it off, most of these early lists ran a split of Gardevoir CRE and Gallade ASR. It took months for people recognize that Gardevoir CRE could actually function as the deck’s primary attacker, and while most people picked up on Zacian V CEL’s synergy with this archetype at once, Brainwave took much longer to be recognized than Storm Slash.
It’s fun to see how Gardevoir ex is still evolving, even now. The use of Luxurious Cape PAR over Bravery Charm PAL means that Drifloon SVI and, more relevantly, Scream Tail PAR, can not only hit for more damage, but don’t need the rare Champions Festival to maximize that damage. Speaking of Scream Tail and Bravery Charm, these cards and Counter Catcher are keeping Gardevoir ex a top contender even in a format of paradox Pokémon. Unfortunately, with the rotation of Gardevoir and Fog Crystal CRE (not to mention Level Ball BST and Battle VIP Pass FST coming up), Gardevoir ex may have reached its peak.
(November 29, 2023.)
Anonymous
do you still think gardevoir ex is past its peak or
anon-san
NTA, but it’s lost so much utility and gained as much as it lost. Never thought I’d see the day they dropped mew ex and went with 3 munkidori. That dog’s about to have a big bone thrown to it via mega gardevoir ex. If it manages to stay consistent enough until then it’ll be a banger until cycling out with the rest of G regulation mark.
Charmaster
Hey, anonymous, anonymous here. The Munkidori bombshell was not on my bingo card. The deck has just refused to die and makes regular returns to the meta each time it gains a new toy (Most recently Budew and Lillie’s Clefairy ex). I’ll probably end up building two or three different versions of Gardevoir for two or three different formats when I begin building Scarlet and Violet era gauntlets.
someone
Why have I never realized that Gardevoir’s ability is “as often as you like”. I always thought it was just once per turn!
Suspiciously cheese shaped
Gardevoir’s ability was incredible powerful for all three years it was legal! Please take all this with a grain of salt cause I never really played Gardevoir decks during the time it was legal: gardevoir’s ability was really strong for multiple reasons. Yes, being able to attach as many energy from your discard pile as you want was strong (it was often paired with https://pkmncards.com/card/jellicent-ex-white-flare-wht-045/). However, the probably more important effect was putting 2 damage counters on the Pokémon you attach energy to! You see, there were/are a lot of Pokémon that massively benefit from having a lot of damage on them:
https://pkmncards.com/card/drifloon-scarlet-violet-svi-089/ does massive damage while being a single prize Pokémon (and it did even more damage with https://pkmncards.com/card/bravery-charm-paldea-evolved-pal-173/ attached)
https://pkmncards.com/card/scream-tail-paradox-rift-par-086/ was able to knock out many strong Pokémon even when they were on the benches (once again paired with the aforementioned bravery charm)
The strongest damage counter abuser though was https://pkmncards.com/card/munkidori-ascended-heroes-asc-099/. This guy was able to move 3 damage counters to any of your opponent’s Pokémon. 2-3 of them, paired with a powerful attacking Pokémon, like jellicent ex or scream tail, could demolish the opponent’s field in no time. Gardevoir was a really terrifying deck to play against.