Omanyte · Skyridge (SK) #41

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Pokémon (Omanyte) › Stage 1 : Evolves from Mysterious Fossil or Buried Fossil and into Omastar

{C} → Water of Evolution
Put an Omastar from your hand onto Omanyte. This counts as evolving Omanyte.

{W}{C} → Drag Off : 20
Before doing damage, you may choose 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon and switch it with the Defending Pokémon.

weak: {L}×2 | resist: n/a | retreat: 1

illus. Yukiko Baba

E-Card › Skyridge (SK) › #41/144 : Uncommon · ↘ May 12, 2003

Formats: Modified: 2003, 2004

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Overall: 26.67% (4 wins, 11 losses)

Within Set & Formats:

Skyridge: n/a (0 wins, 0 losses)
E-Card-on (Modified 2004): 0% (0 wins, 4 losses)
Neo-on (Modified 2003): 0% (0 wins, 1 loss)

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AmbassadorSIMBA

(3 years ago)

Volume 15 of Pokémon Card Trainers Magazine – Thanks again for pointing out scans exist online, JP! – suggests playing this set’s Omastar in combination with Mystery Plate 𝛾 – that’s also a situational card, with the function depending on how many Prizes your opponent has left.

Stared at it a bit and this was the best I could come up with.

Turn prior to your opponent taking their fourth prize: You have Omanyte, Omastar, and Mystery Plate 𝛾 in your hand. You have Buried Fossil on your Bench.
Opponent’s turn: Your opponent takes their fourth prize.
Your turn: You get Omanyte in play, attach an Energy card, and get it into your Active Spot. You use Water of Evolution and evolve into Omastar. Surprise! They’re now evolution locked.
Opponent’s turn: They are now evolution-locked.. but they can still react by attacking, switching, etc.
Your turn: You attach another Energy card to Omastar, as well as Mystery Plate 𝛾. Surprise! You use Mystery Plate 𝛾’s attack to devolve one of your opponent’s Pokémon, while they’re evolution-locked!
Opponent’s turn: They can still react to things by attacking, switching, etc. albeit at this point they might be stuck with only the attacks of a comparatively weaker Basic/Stage 1 than the stronger Stage 1/Stage 2 they had last turn.
Your turn: Your attach a third Energy to Omastar. By this point, you’re probably able to satisfy Energy requirements to use Omastar’s Spook attack.
Opponent’s turn: Depending on how well they have or haven’t reacted, they are capped at a Basic/Stage 1 Pokémon that now cannot retreat.

So I think there is an element of surprise here, but it’s quite clunky as I’ve proposed it.
* Buried Fossil on the Bench is pretty open-ended since your opponent doesn’t know if you’re going to evolve it into Omanyte, Kabuto, or Aerodactyl, if you want to maintain the element of surprise you can’t use its Reconstruction Pokémon Power (or use it to fake your opponent out by picking Kabuto or Aerodactyl after you’ve already got an Omanyte in your hand anyway. Play some 4D chess..)
* This is all a bit too slow, right? If Omanyte’s Water of Evolution attack was a *power*, so that you could evolve it *and* use Mystery Plate 𝛾’s attack all on the same turn, I think you could’ve gone somewhere with all this.
* Omanyte’s Drag Off attack does seem like it’d would fit nicely into the above sequence of events somewhere, but where? There’s no time for it.
* e-Card doesn’t offer your opponent a *ton* of options to look at your hand or disrupt it, so you can probably get away with playing the cards in the proposed sequence, but once you’ve gotten these pieces lined up, isn’t this all just so readily undone by Warp Point..?

Best I’ve got. Maybe someone’ll look at this and realize a way to speed it up?

10 comments

Mantidactyle

(13 years ago)

I think this first attack is nearly useless.

Poor Omanyte.

- coolestman22Mantidactyle
  
  (13 years ago)
  
  BTS didn’t exist then, so it made it easier for Omanyte to stay alive between turns. Also there could have been hand manipulation back then.
  
  - Ziggmicetercoolestman22
    
    (13 years ago)
    
    Also Omastar had a very interesting Body.
    
    - Mantidactyle Ziggmiceter
      
      (13 years ago)
      
      There is too many “Active” in it :(
      
feyblade

(12 years ago)

The card seems to be transcribed wrong, though it certainly would be funny to see four Omanyte stacked on top of one another.

- Adam Capriola feyblade
  
  (12 years ago)
  
  Hah, good catch. Fixed it. That would be pretty funny though!
  
Strč prst skrz krk

(3 years ago)

This move “Drag Off” first appeared on TR Dark Machoke and has re-appeared several times in the TCG since then.

SIMBA

(3 years ago)

That first attack is crazy situational. I could see it getting use on your second turn to get out omastar sk23’s ability a turn earlier, but besides that is there any evolution “lock” etc that could have made “water of evolution” useful?

Also as a side note does your opponents omastar prevent your omanyte from using its attack? It probably does but unsure

- AmbassadorSIMBA
  
  (3 years ago)
  
  Volume 15 of Pokémon Card Trainers Magazine – Thanks again for pointing out scans exist online, JP! – suggests playing this set’s Omastar in combination with Mystery Plate 𝛾 – that’s also a situational card, with the function depending on how many Prizes your opponent has left.
  
  Stared at it a bit and this was the best I could come up with.
  
  Turn prior to your opponent taking their fourth prize: You have Omanyte, Omastar, and Mystery Plate 𝛾 in your hand. You have Buried Fossil on your Bench.
  Opponent’s turn: Your opponent takes their fourth prize.
  Your turn: You get Omanyte in play, attach an Energy card, and get it into your Active Spot. You use Water of Evolution and evolve into Omastar. Surprise! They’re now evolution locked.
  Opponent’s turn: They are now evolution-locked.. but they can still react by attacking, switching, etc.
  Your turn: You attach another Energy card to Omastar, as well as Mystery Plate 𝛾. Surprise! You use Mystery Plate 𝛾’s attack to devolve one of your opponent’s Pokémon, while they’re evolution-locked!
  Opponent’s turn: They can still react to things by attacking, switching, etc. albeit at this point they might be stuck with only the attacks of a comparatively weaker Basic/Stage 1 than the stronger Stage 1/Stage 2 they had last turn.
  Your turn: Your attach a third Energy to Omastar. By this point, you’re probably able to satisfy Energy requirements to use Omastar’s Spook attack.
  Opponent’s turn: Depending on how well they have or haven’t reacted, they are capped at a Basic/Stage 1 Pokémon that now cannot retreat.
  
  So I think there is an element of surprise here, but it’s quite clunky as I’ve proposed it.
  * Buried Fossil on the Bench is pretty open-ended since your opponent doesn’t know if you’re going to evolve it into Omanyte, Kabuto, or Aerodactyl, if you want to maintain the element of surprise you can’t use its Reconstruction Pokémon Power (or use it to fake your opponent out by picking Kabuto or Aerodactyl after you’ve already got an Omanyte in your hand anyway. Play some 4D chess..)
  * This is all a bit too slow, right? If Omanyte’s Water of Evolution attack was a *power*, so that you could evolve it *and* use Mystery Plate 𝛾’s attack all on the same turn, I think you could’ve gone somewhere with all this.
  * Omanyte’s Drag Off attack does seem like it’d would fit nicely into the above sequence of events somewhere, but where? There’s no time for it.
  * e-Card doesn’t offer your opponent a *ton* of options to look at your hand or disrupt it, so you can probably get away with playing the cards in the proposed sequence, but once you’ve gotten these pieces lined up, isn’t this all just so readily undone by Warp Point..?
  
  Best I’ve got. Maybe someone’ll look at this and realize a way to speed it up?
  
  - AmbassadorAmbassador
    
    (3 years ago)
    
    * Volume 19 of Pokémon Card Trainers Magazine (and, to be specific, page 39). Sorry for typo.

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