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Pokémon Circulator
Pokémon Circulator is a Trainer with a neat disruptive
effect: when you play it your opponent is forced to
switch their active with one of their Benched Pokémon.
Sure, it’s not as good as flipping heads on a Pokémon
Reversal or using Bright Look, but it’s a guaranteed
effect that if played right can cause an opponent some
problems.
Back when almost everyone (including me) was assuming
that the next rotation would be PL-on, people were
predicting that this card could see some play in future.
Now they are wondering why they ever bothered printing
this card. Why? Because next format we will still have
Warp Point.
Warp Point is exactly like Pokémon Circulator except
that you have to switch your active as well. Although
there may well be times when you want your opponent to
switch without switching yourself, this can usually be
worked around by sending up a free retreater (Crobat G,
Chatot MD, something with Unown Q attached) and moving
it back to the bench. In exchange for this occasional
inconvenience, you get much greater utility: I think I
have lost count of the number of times Warp Point has
saved me in a game by getting a damaged high-retreat
Pokémon back to the Bench, or allowing me to retreat a
Pokémon like Claydol or Regice that has been dragged
active by my opponent.
So, as long as we still have Warp Point, we have a card
that is more versatile and therefore superior to Pokémon
Circulator. The upshot is that, assuming we don’t get
another Warp Point reprint, this card is going to have
to sit it out in the binder until September 2011 at
least.
Rating
Modified: 1.75 (I’ll stick with Warp Point, thanks)
Limited: 3.5 (useful disruption here)
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