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Shuffle up to 3 in any combination of Pokémon and Basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck.
· Item rule: You may play any number of Item cards during your turn.
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Twylis
When Ordinary Rod released I saw it almost universally regarded as superior to Super Rod, but now that Ordinary Rod rotated out of standard and Super Rod is legal instead, I’ve been seeing a lot of claims that Super Rod is the better recovery card.
Did the merit of Super Rod’s increased flexibility only become apparent after having been limited to Ordinary Rod, or is the playerbase just biased toward whatever is currently legal? It does seem Super Rod can adapt better to the current game state, but numbers-wise Ordinary Rod seems like a clearly stronger effect.
s
the “up to” errata text definitely pushed super rod back over the line. prior the forced shuffle 3 made it situationally worse while ordinary rod could get back more at max and less when required, now super rod can get back more (of 1 type) at max with same flexibility.
SenatorStonk
It also depends on the deck. Gardevoir ex, for instance, would prefer Super over Ordinary (in a hypothetical standard format where both are legal) because Gardevoir ex rarely wants to recover basic energy, so being allowed to recover three pokémon is better than the two pokémon Ordinary Rod allows
brken11
Bonus, Gardevoir ex decks like using it to recover Pokémon primarily. But in some situations, they can use it to recover 3 Psychic Energies and use Shining Arcana to accelerate 8+ energies in one turn.
This kind of flexibility makes Super Rod so much more versatile than its pre-errata version.