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And here we evolve from yesterday's card into today's
final form! aroramage is back again, this time with the
bedazzling Florges in tow! Let's see if she can appeal
to the card game with more than just her charm!
Truth be told, Florges has no Abilities this time, but
she has 2 1-Energy attacks. And they're reasonably
decent too! Her first attack, Brilliant Search, acts
similarly to Milotic from Dragons Exalted in that it
adds up to 3 cards from your deck to your hand. You can
use her to pull out whatever you need - a mighty Pokemon-EX,
a Juniper/Sycamore for your hand, some extra Energy or
just straight to Professor's Letter, a Switch and Max
Potion - really the possibilities are endless! Her
second attack, Petal Blizzard, isn't much to snuff at
either. With it, she deals 20 damage to each of the
opponent's Pokemon. Now that may not sound impressive,
but this can lead to a lot of potential KOs down the
line. Just set it up and Knock em Out! And all for the
price of just 1 Energy!
So we've got a Stage 2 with two interesting cheap
attacks. Question is, are they worth running Florges?
She does only have 110 HP, and using either attack takes
up a turn. Would she be able to overcome adversity and
bring you the cards you need or set you up for a big
sweep in the next turn? Well, consider that if you are
going to run Florges you'd be using her purely as
support, which means she's going to need a partner. She
only needs 1 Energy regardless of what deck you go with
(though Fairy Energy is needed for Petal Blizzard), so
all we need is the right partner.
Any deck can use a card that gets 3 cards they need,
that's a given. Haven't you wanted to draw out the cards
you need right before you need them? And since Brilliant
Search only costs 1 Energy of any color, she can run in
any deck. Need to boost your Yveltal-EX or Mewtwo-EX
with lots of Energy? Or just need your Black-Kyurem-EX
to deal that extra 20 damage with Muscle Band to take
down that Mega Charizard-EX before it wipes it out? The
thing is, it's a situational attack, and that means it
depends on what you're going up against. Unfortunately
that means that it's not 100% worth it to run 3 of this,
3 Flabébé, and 3 Rare Candies alongside whatever EX you
use her with and any other support (i.e. Blastoise PLB,
Emboar LTR) that goes with it.
And what about that 20 damage overall sweep? Well unless
you're running Rainbow Energy, Florges isn't nearly as
versatile. She'd be able to help Groudon-EX (DEX) or
more particularly Skarmory-EX (XY) set up to hit for 120
damage with their second attack, but you already have to
use an attack to do that AND switch out to the Pokemon
you're using AND hope that the opponent doesn't clear
the board of damage with something like Dusknoir (FLF)
and Max Potion. Oh, and of course the always peculiar
Mr. Mime (PLF) with his pesky Bench Barrier shouldn't be
around.
Between the two, I see Petal Blizzard working out in
terms of consistency and strategy, but Brilliant Search
is a nice supporting attack as well. Florges gives out
nice support for what it can do, but it's not going to
be KO'ing your opponent's Pokemon any time soon.
Rating
Modified: 2.5/5 (her support can help, but she's going
to get KO'd very quickly)
Limited: 4/5 (I think she's really going to shine here,
setting up lots of KOs and getting whatever cards you
need before she loses that 1 Prize to your opponent)
Arora Notealus: I actually have a copy of this card, and
I'll admit, it's glorious to look at. If you just want
to dazzle people while showing off your collection, get
a copy or two of this card!
Weekend Thought: The two most recent Types to enter the
TCG are the Dragon-type with its multicolored cost
attacks and the Fairy-type which brought its own energy
to the game. Which of these do you like better and why?
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