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{C} → Double Draw
Draw 2 cards.
{G}{C} → Leaf Wallop : 40
During your next turn, this Pokémon’s Leaf Wallop attack does 40 more damage (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
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Its head sprouts horns as sharp as blades. Using whirlwind-like movements, it confounds and swiftly cuts opponents.
Anonymous
What kind of leaf is this thing using to “wallop” somebody? Or maybe it’s defining wallop as an alcoholic drink… that still wouldn’t make sense though.
Anyway, this card is very good, in my opinion, but I still think it’s not as good as some of the other NV cards (Kyurem, Cobalion, etc.)
The artwork is okay – it’s a little boring that Virizion is just standing there, and the leaf-wormhole-looking thing is kinda weird.
Finally, it’s supposed to have sharp horns, but those horns don’t look too sharp at all.
Adam Capriola
wallop |ˈwäləp| informal
verb ( -loped , -loping ) [ trans. ]
strike or hit (someone or something) very hard : they walloped the back of his head with a stick | figurative they were tired of getting walloped with income taxes.
• heavily defeat (an opponent).
“I’m gonna wallop yo ass with some leaves!”
Anonymous
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=active&q=wallop&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=JlcLT_7-JsStsAKJpc2LBQ&ved=0CB0QkQ4&fp=1&biw=1280&bih=667&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&cad=b
The third definition under “noun” = lol.
How many leaves do you have to hit someone with before you do as much damage as an out-of-control blast of electricity (Thundrus)? lol
Curtis
Apparently only 2.
Adam Capriola
Huh I’ve never heard wallop used as a reference to alcohol before. I guess I learned something new today. :D
Curtis
I always have trouble imagining what the Pokemon is doing when it has a draw attack. Powers make sense to me, because I kinda see Ninetales “roasting” everything in its path to “reveal” a solution to a tricky spot, Magnezone is a giant magnet, so he just attracts random stuff that could be useful for you, and I take Uxie’s “Set Up” to mean its giving its fellow Pokemon some battle strategies, so its up to you to fetch what they need, so long as its nearby and you can carry it.
But attacks? What is Virizion physically doing during “Double Draw?”
Adam Capriola
Good question. In this case, I think at a board meeting TPCi decided Double Draw was an ingenious attack name for drawing 2 cards and insisted it be put onto a strong card, no matter how impractical that attack might due to the physical limitations of that Pokemon.
I wonder what the original Japanese attack was called…
Curtis
According to Bulbapedia, even in Japanese, it was called Double Draw.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Virizion_(Noble_Victories_97)
Still, I like to imagine the card game as an actual battle going on. Its especially amusing when you realize that Cleffa runs away screaming for so long that it puts itself to sleep. And its up to you to find it. So you pack up your supplies, and take new ones out once you find her.
Actually, I should film a match some time and commentate on what I think is really happening, rather than the strategy talk that every one else does.
Anonymous
That is an awesome idea! I may steal that from you :P.
Curtis
Go ahead. Part of the beauty of some attack names is that they have multiple interpretations.
Quentin
“Actually, I should film a match some time and commentate on what I think is really happening, rather than the strategy talk that every one else does.”
As in commentate, do you mean like;
“Virzion slowly lifts its grass sleeve revealing two unknown cards… Hoping for a some sort of basic search Virizion realeals the first card, and to it’s dissapointment finds a fire energy instead. I mean seriously, what the hell am is it gonna’ do with a fire energy, it’s a freakin grass type!? Dissapointed from the first card Virizion slowly reveals the second card and it’s an (dramatic pause) another fire energy.”
On second thought, it would take too long to do that every turn.
Curtis
The key would be to act like a wrestling commentator. You’d talk in flavor, but when the action catches up with you, you drop it and pick it back up at another slow point. Also, you’d rarely want to even acknowledge that its a game. This means hands, prizes, topdecks, etc are to be filled in creatively. For example you wouldn’t say “Yanmega may look as though it doesn’t have the energy to attack, but the players have the same number of cards in their hand, so it can anyway” but “Yanmega, see an opening and hits for a devastating blow, showing his visual fatigue has not gotten to him” but with the speed and infliction of the game’s current pacing.
Monferno
Now I’m gonna picture that every time I use Cleffa.
Pokémon 31337
This reminds me of Sableye from….Power Keepers I think. It had an attack like Virizion, called Down Draw, which let you draw two cards from the bottom of the deck instead.
Curtis
What we need is a 4th wall Pokemon. He could play a unique way in the games with an attack that switches around the opponent’s UI (For example, a wild one might put “Run” in the “Fight” position and force you to run away), in the anime, he can speak human talk and points out the inconsitancies in the plot of the episode, and his TCG card can have all sorts of crazy 4th-wall breaking shenanigans. Then I can better imagine a card with “draw” in its attack name.
Anonymous
LOL I had a similar idea – a Pokemon that has an attack that is something like this:
[C][C] I hate it when they take the Ken Suigmori artwork we’ve seen a billion times and lazily slap it on a background – so cheap! 20+
This attack does 80 more damage if the Defending Pokemon’s illustrator is “Ken Suigmori.”
Maybe Deadpool’s Weavile or something… idk
Adam Capriola
Anyone know how they can up with its name? I like to try figure and figure them out, but this one is stumping me. The word “virion” according to the New Oxford American dictionary is defined as:
===
virion |ˈvirēˌän; ˈvī-|
noun Microbiology
the complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell, with a core of RNA or DNA and a capsid.
ORIGIN 1950s: from virus + -on .
===
I guess that sounds about right. haha
Anonymous
Maybe they were having some wallops :P.
quaziko
From Bulbapedia:
“Virizion’s name may derive from viridian, a bluish-green color. It might also derive from “viridarium”, a Latin term for a garden.”
Verde is also “green” in Spanish, which is surely close to something similar in Latin to start the name. Combining it with “Zion”, AKA City of God, gives it that legendary portion to round it off as you would expect. “Vir – i – zion.” One of the more creative names I have to say.
Anonymous
Puts on Regis_Neo mask: Todays COTD is Virizion from NV, which has made a decent impact on the game. 110 HP for an unevolving basic is pretty good, although Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, and the other 2 musketeers can top it, and when the EX’s come out it will seem small, grass typing is bad because it hits almost nothing for weakness (KGL and Archeops don’t count), the fire weakness is meh, and no resistance is common but meh.
Looking at the attack, Double Draw is, well, interesting. It allows you to do something that, on a basic that evolved into something good, would be amazing, but that isn’t the case, meh. Leaf Slugger is decent, but nothing spectacular. Takes off Regis_Neo mask.
Micah Tate
Water resistance* Saved me a few games, so kinda important-ish.
BillehBawb
this card links to the incorrect tcgplayer page and as a result has incorrect pricing info
Adam Capriola
I’ve fixed the link and pricing. Thank you for pointing this out, BillehBawb.