Baby Mario
2010 UK
National
Seniors
Champion |
Meloetta
(the ballet one from Legendary Treasures)
Today’s card features Meloetta
in her Pirouette Forme. I’m
not sure why she becomes a Fighting Type when this
happens – the link between ballet and fighting is
unclear to me. But then I’m also puzzled as to why
something so obviously feminine is considered to be a
‘genderless’ Pokémon, so that just shows what I know.
As for the card itself, what we have here is an
unevolving Basic with 90 HP
– little on the low side for a Legendary, but then
Meloetta is much more the
Jirachi/Celebi
kind of Legendary than the Zekrom/Dialga
type. Both attacks are interesting and appealing in
their own way, even if they aren’t especially
competitive.
The first, Magical Dance, only costs
one Energy of any Colour and heals 30 damage from
each of your Benched Pokémon. Potentially, that is a
serious amount of healing but its effectiveness in the
current format is doubtful: spread decks aren’t really a
thing and are more efficiently dealt with by Mr Mime
PLB. We also have Potion and Max Potion to keep a
Pokémon in the game if necessary and they don’t give up
attacks. Shooting Star Pirouette (love the name) is, by
contrast, all about offence. It’s one of those ‘flip
until you get tails’ attacks that are capable of
infinite damage but, unlike most attacks of this type,
starts you off with a nice 40. The cost seems reasonable
too, but you would have to get super lucky to OHKO
anything significant with it (four consecutive heads to
deal with an EX, for example). Nevertheless, it’s fun
enough for casual play and definitely worth a punt at a
pre-release tournament.
In fact, I’d probably jump at the chance to use
Meloetta in a pre-release
where the low-damage environment and importance of Prize
denial makes Magical Dance useful too. For Modified, the
low HP, dubious utility, and relatively high cost of
Shooting Star Pirouette make it a fairly poor choice.
Rating
Modified: 2 (interesting fun card, but no more than
that)
Limited: 3.5 (two useful attacks for this format)
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Meloetta
Modified:
Today we have Meloetta who,
because it's not a big, scary looking Legendary gets low
HP a fairly weak attacks. Majical Dance could some
potential on an otherwise better card, being able to
heal away the residual damage racked up by Plasma Kyurem
and Darkrai EX, but it's not really worth losing a prize
for. Shooting Start Pirouette POTENTIALLY 1 hit KOs any
Pokemon in Modified. I suppose if you really wanted to
play Meloetta you could combine it with Victory Star
Victini and flip a whole bunch of coins...
Unlimited 150:
True spread decks are a bit
more viable here and so "spread heal" in turn is more
playable. It's a shame it doesn't heal the user as this
could stall out a Glaciate Kyurem quite well. That said,
combined with Eviolite it can do that job well! With
less competition from other Basic Fighting types in this
format (with things like Terrakion being "ex'd") you can
possibly get away with playing this card. Unfortunately,
the rule that gives it less competition also nerfs its
best partner Victini.
Ratings.
Modified: 1.5
Limited: 2.5
Unlimited 150: 2.5
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