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Ability ⇢ Power Draw
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a card from your hand. If you do, draw 3 cards.
{C}{C}{C} → Hydro Pump : 80+
This attack does 20 more damage times the amount of {W} Energy attached to this Pokémon.
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It can swim while towing a large ship. It bashes down foes with a swing of its thick arms.
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This is the second Swampert with a card-drawing Ability/Poke-Power. The first one was the single-prize {F} type in Crystal Guardians.
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Celestial Storm’s Hydro Fury theme deck takes the new theme deck motif of “Consistency and Abilities” and cranks it up to 11. Every evolution line in this deck has an Ability, in most cases a consistency Ability (With Abomasnow UPR being the outlier). Between Swampert’s Power Draw, Magcargo CES‘s Smooth Over, and Delcatty CES‘s Search for Friends, this deck kind of resembles a Standard format Zoroark GX/Tapu Lele GX decks of the period. This wealth of consistency Abilities comes at the expense of leaving Swampert as the only viable attacker in the deck outside of a single Frost Rotom UPR, but the deck at least seems to have been designed with this in mind, with Abomasnow’s Blessings of the Frost and The Masked Royale (The latter of which can be recovered up to two times by Delcatty] making it easier to supercharge multiple Swampert. Plus, you can always set up a second Frost Rotom and/or third Swampert with the help of Rescue Stretcher and Lure Ball CES.
This comment is part of a Theme Deck Format trivia series inspired by the upcoming Theme Deck Format tournament on TCG One on Saturday April 4th. https://play.limitlesstcg.com/tournament/69c34e2336f5b5c303dbd0ad/details If you remember playing the Theme Deck Format on PTCGO, maybe sign up for the event! TCGONE also has the Legacy format, the Standard and Expanded formats for Chilling Reign, and… well, most major formats from 1999 to 2021!