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Ninetales (Base Set BS 12)
Ninetales — 80 HP — [R]
Stage 1 — Evolves from Vulpix
[C][C] Lure
If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them and switch it with his or her Active Pokémon.
[R][R][R][R] Fire Blast: 80
Discard 1 [R] Energy card attached to Ninetales in order to use this attack.
weakness: [W]×2
resistance:
retreat: 1
Illus. Ken Sugimori
Base Set — 12/102 — Rare Holo
Very smart and very vengeful. Grabbing one of its many tails could result in a 1,000-year curse.
WilliamH.
Seems like this was a good card back then. It has built-in Gust of Wind, and a strong attack with only a single Fire energy discard, and a great retreat cost. HP seems kinda low but, I bet it was good back then.
Curtis
It was a decent card, but its biggest issue was ?Energy Removal. An ER on Nintetales after a Fire Blast, and its basically down 2 turns of attachments.
WilliamH.
I could see how that would ruin the strategy. Better respond with an ER of your own!
Mantidactyle
Tis a bad card, 4-energy attack without any form of acceleration on a stage 1 made it unplayable.
WilliamH.
haha. That’s too bad. So this energy acceleration, it sounds like it’s been a huge deal since the very beginning of competitive play.
Chosen_Pikachu
Competitively speaking, any attacker with more than a 1-energy cost was unplayable in Base Set, because every deck ran 4 Energy Removal, 4 Super Energy Removal, 4 Item Finder. It was literally impossible to charge a(n?) RRRR cost. Lol, even typing that is painful.
WilliamH.
That’s too bad. I guess Pkmn has never had a slower competitive format?
feyblade
If they wanted this to be symmetrical to Arcanine, fire blast should have been (R) (R) (C) (C) . If that were the case, this would actually be an acceptable card. As it is , though ,you won’t be pulling a fire blast out on turn 3 , and , with multicolored energy as rare as it was at the time, your deck’s energy base would have to be very heavily invested in fire for Fire Blast to accomplish anything.
I do have to wonder, though… which is more valuable in any given modified format? HP, or Energy? Which drawback really was the worse one?
Anthony POKEMON EXPERT
My friend has this but it sucks because its from the second base set ahhhhhhhhhh this agravating typing this