Magcargo · Neo Revelation (N3) #33

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   Nosredna

   (5 years ago)

   I love this kind of scalable damage. Why do 100 damage to a 50 hp pokemon if you have to discard more energy? With Magcargo you control the action

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   CuriousMan37

   (1 year ago)

   In my opinion this is the most powerful pokemon ever printed till Neo Revolution. Very unbalanced. With Lava Flow attack you can decide to kill a low hp pokemon without discarding energy cards or kill a high hp pokemon. If you use it with this entei power you can easly attach energy cards to it:
   https://pkmncards.com/card/entei-neo-revelation-n3-6/

   What do you think guys?

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     JP CuriousMan37

     (1 year ago)

     Entei/Cargo was a top deck in the Neo-on (2003) modified format! (Sneasel and Slowking were banned.)

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       AnonymousJP

       (1 year ago)

       That reminds me of something. In Base-Neo, Typhlosion from Neo Genesis was the primary attacker in it’s own deck, presumably because otherwise it couldn’t keep up with the efficient Kingdra or with fast big basic decks like Sneasel.
       https://jklaczpokemon.com/base-to-neo-decks/#typhlosion

       In Rocket Onward, the format’s power level had fallen enough that Typhlosion could be paired with a stage 1 attacker, Blaine’s Arcanine. This Pokémon’s two attacks serve similar functions to Magcargo’s one, letting you OHKO baby Pokémon for a lower investment or larger Pokémon for a higher investment, but while it lacked the flexibility of Magcargo, it’s second attack hit that magic 120 more efficiently (you still need 4 Energy, but you only discard 3), and the Blaine’s Growlithe with Stoke was a better basic all around than either of the Neo Slugma (or either of the e-card Slugma for that matter.
       https://jklaczpokemon.com/rocket-lc-decks/#typhlosion

       However, what baffles me is this; while Blaine’s Arcanine doesn’t exist in Neo-Skyridge, making Magcargo the optimal replacement attacker for Fire decks, Typhlosion was dropped for Entei. Why Entei? Why now?
       https://jklaczpokemon.com/neo-on/#entei-cargo

       I have had to wrestle with this question ever since I saw this deck profile video on the WoTC-20 format. It’s a Blaine’s Arcanine/Entei deck.
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_eW4luHSg&list=PLv1b3V2tgLropfB8evlmvQLhYzLdudOg5&index=4&t=672s
       The card pool for the fan-developed WoTC-20 format may be Base Set through Skyridge (with a few notable, such as for Super Energy Removal and the aforementioned Sneasel), but the concept cold easily have existed in Rocket Onward. So… why didn’t it? Surely it wasn’t the absence of Dual Ball, when cards like Pokémon Trader and Good Manners put Entei into your hand instead of onto your bench. I doubt it was the absence of Town Volunteers, since Nightly Garbage Run already existed. Was the Neo-Skyridge format just generally kinder to decks that milled away much of their own decks? I wouldn’t be surprised if something like Paint Lock punished an Entei deck more than it punished a Typhlosion deck.

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         AnonymousAnonymous

         (1 year ago)

         Wow, this is at least as long as an above-average abstract, so I’ll need to write a “too long and/or didn’t read” version: Blaine’s Arcanine was used prior to Magcargo because it had a better basic and comparable attacks, but it wasn’t much worse. However, I don’t understand why Entei suddenly began being used in Neo-Skyridge when Typhlosion had already been playable for two formats in a row. My best guess was that a basic Pokémon that can’t steadily accelerate Energy to itself is much more vulnerable to being trapped by Murkrow, and that the absence of Paint Lock in Neo-Skyridge had something to do with Entei’s surge into the spotlight.

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   Kiyukitsune

   (1 year ago)

   I’m sorry, man, but this card wasn’t even good. Cleffa, Sneasel, Wigglytuff, etc. all blow it out of the water.

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4. 

   leaf

   (1 year ago)

   i am trying to decipher what emotion this magcargo is trying to portray but i cannot figure it out

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