- ↓ 1.68
- ꩜ 2.64
- ↑ 9.99
Ability ⇢ Troubleshooting
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Special Energy from this Pokémon. If you do, heal 80 damage from it.
{C}{C}{C} → Abnormal Overheating : 160
This Pokémon is now Burned.
{C} → Critical Error-GX
Search your deck for up to 10 cards and discard them. Then, shuffle your deck. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
· Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Foxy
this card can be 0hKO by Darkrai GX
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This ability seems to have been designed with Recycle Energy in mind.
No Name
Lots of fun gameplay avenues open up if you can get this card in the discard pile then use Mewthree GX for “Critical Error GX.”
For instance, you can set up a Mad Party / Night Watch deck for PGO Ditto. Or a BRS Wormadam deck.
Ambassador
You don’t get to keep them, but as of this point, Critical Error GX is the card that lets you search for the highest number of any cards in your deck (i.e. cards you are deliberately choosing without any constraints on your selection). As a point of comparison, Metagross GX‘s Algorithm GX would give you an example of a GX attack that would let you search for any cards you want and actually keep them in your hand, and it caps off at 5.
In terms of simple draw power, Drampa GX‘s Big Wheel GX and Rayquaza GX‘s Tempest GX have different caveats but let you do 10 card draws. This could suggest that the designers value 2 randomly drawn cards as approximately equivalent to 1 searched card.
However, first off, you ought to keep in mind that GX attacks on a Basic will be balanced to be weaker than on a Stage 1 or a Stage 2 – for example, compare Drampa GX’s Big Wheel GX to Venomoth GX‘s Ten-Card-Return GX. Functionally identical and the same Energy cost, but Venomoth GX’s attack also does 60 damage. Second, if “2 randomly drawn cards”=”1 specific card” was true, Bill/Bill equivalents that offer a straightforward “Draw 2 cards.” (something we’d assume could be dropped in a contemporary meta without issue, not even sure if it’d still be classed as a Supporter) would be at par with a card which offers the effect “Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand.” but we have yet to see a Trainer offering that effect without some kind of caveat.
I don’t know if I’m arriving at a point here so I’ll jump to the one I was hoping to make; Critical Error GX is an interesting attack that probably represents the upper-limit of this kind of effect on any sort of card.