Baby Mario
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Mismagius UL
Mismagius is today’s Pokémon, and the third Psychic we
have reviewed this week Conveniently, it also works very
well with the other two, but more of that later . . .
Mismagius is a Stage 1 with unspectacular 90HP, so it is
going to need to deliver in terms of attack and/or
PokePower to be worthwhile. The Weakness to Dark
shouldn’t cause too many problems as Dark Pokémon are
relatively uncommon. Mismagius has little to fear from
Sableye, and Tyranitar is not a Pokémon you will run
into all that often during a tournament. The Colourless
Resistance is a very nice bonus, making an active
Mismagius a problem KO for Garchomp C LVX (which will
probably just rip a Pokémon off your Bench instead, but
. . . oh well). The Retreat cost of one seems a bit much
for a Ghost Pokémon, but it isn’t that much of a
drawback.
So, does Mismagius deliver with its Power and attack?
Well . . . sort of. The Power, Magical Trans, allows you
to switch a Psychic Energy from one Pokémon to another,
once per turn. That can be a useful form of
pseudo-acceleration, saving an Energy attached to a
Pokémon that is about to be Knocked Out, or moving one
on to an attacker to get it powered up faster. So far,
so good, but what about the attack?
As it happens, Psychic Pulse isn’t bad either. It’s
cheap at least, costing just a single Psychic Energy and
doing 30 damage to the Active, while spreading 10 damage
to any of your opponent’s Beched Pokémon that already
have Damage counters on them. 30 for [P] with the chance
of 10 spread is certainly good value, and could combine
well with other spread attackers to put more damage on
the board. On its own though, it is unlikely to make
that much of an impression. You should think of
Mismagius as a support Pokémon for Psychic/Spread decks
with a usable attack, rather than a main attacker
itself.
But what about that combo I mentioned earlier? Well it
uses Metagross as a big damage spreader, Jirachi for
Energy acceleration and devoluting for multiple KOs, and
Mismagius as the key piece of the puzzle to make sure it
all works together. Using Magical Trans, you can shift
Energy from a Jirachi drop on to Metagross for faster
use of Double Leg Hammer, then you can move it back to
Jirachi if required so that Time hollow can de-evolve
another Pokémon. What’s more, Psychic Pulse is not a bad
attack to use in conjunction with Metagross’ spread
abilities.
So, has Unleashed given us a new, combo-licious tier one
deck? I have severe doubts about that. Three-Pokémon
uber combos are not easy to get into play in fast,
disruptive formats, and there are too many metagame
cards that laugh at spread strategies (Nidoqueen RR,
Garchomp C LV X), and decks that are immune to
devolution (anything SP based). Nevertheless, it makes
for a neat and fun to play deck that you may want to
experiment with.
If you do, then good luck! (You will certainly need it
against SP decks!)
Rating
Modified: 2.75 (neat little techy card for Psychic
decks)
Limited: 2.25 (hard to make the most of it here)
Combos with . . .
Jirachi UL
Metagross UL
For clunky uber-combo ‘goodness’!
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Mad Mattezhion
Professor Bathurst League Australia |
Mismagius (HS Unleashed)
More of the art I'm beginning to really dislike. Did
they fail to get their Energy Switch approved and
cut-and-paste the picture?
Mismagius is another of the Psychic pokemon from this
set that is really useful in Limited. Mix with Metagross
and Jirachi for a serious triple threat (though don't
try this in general League play, you'll get shredded).
We have a fully evolved Stage 1 at a respectable 90
HP with one retreat and a nice weakness and resistance
(Darkness and Colourless respectively). 1 retreat makes
this card a quick-moving tech pokemon that might see
some play in the future.
Mismagius has a poke-power that allows you to move 1
P energy per turn from one Pokemon to another, which is
useful if you aren't running Gardevoir PT which has a
spammable power that moves the energy to the active.
Mismagius would be particularl useful to Gengar SF,
allowing you to use a single energy to power each of
your Gengars using Shadow Room. This combo becomes more
feasible when you consider that Mismagius' sole
attackdoes 30 damage to the active and 10 damage to each
benched with damage counters already on it for one
Psychic energy.
The question is whether or not Gengar players will
find room for this card in their decks. The answer
really depends on the playstyle of the user, so it won't
be a staple in the archetype but expect to see 1 or 2
around. Gardevoir decks will use the PT version for
energy switching, while other Psychic decks don't really
exist as far as I am aware.
If other decks emerge then Mismagius may well become
popular, or be completely forgotten. Only time will
tell.
Modified: 3 (a cheap tech with some offensive
capabilities, it may well find a niche)
Limited: 4 (cheap and nasty with good stats, works well
with Kingdra Prime and Metagross)
Combos with: Gengar SF, Gengar PA (Curse), Gallage E4
Lv X
Hope these reviews help the site out, hopefully I'll
be back with Sahymin's review before the end of the
week.
Mad Mattezhion
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virusyosh |
Hello again, Pojo readers! Today's Card of the Day is
Mismagius from the Unleashed expansion.
Mismagius is a Stage 1 Psychic Pokemon. Being a Psychic
isn't so bad right now, as Dark Pokemon aren't played
very often and there is a decent amount of support. 90
HP is slightly above average for a Stage 1, and will
allow Mismagius to take a few hits on average. Double
Weakness to Dark could be much worse, but is far from
ideal. Colorless Resistance is great, keeping Ursaring
and others at bay. A Retreat Cost of 1 is pretty good,
as it won't set you back too far if you must pay it.
Mismagius has a Poke-Power and a single attack. The
Poke-Power, Magical Trans, allows you to move a Psychic
Energy attached to one of your Pokemon to another one of
your Pokemon, but only once per turn and not if you're
affected by a Special Condition. This power is pretty
decent as Psychic support, and can combo with the
Jirachi in this set as well as anything that requires a
heavy investment of Psychic Energy. My only problem with
this Power is that it can only be used once per turn,
which slightly hampers its usefulness.
Mismagius's single attack, Psychic Pulse, does 30 damage
to the Defending Pokemon and 10 damage to each of your
opponent's Pokemon. The attack is fairly cheap, and is
pretty decent on a support Pokemon. It may work pretty
well with Curse Gengar, as Curse can move damage
counters around to all of your opponent's Pokemon for
maximum spread damage potential.
Modified: 2.75/5 Mismagius has some potential here in a
deck where manipulation of Psychic Energy (or spread
damage) happens. It might make a decent supporter in a
Gengar deck, and could potentially see even more play
once the rotation happens.
Limited: 3/5 Spread damage is good here, and the ability
to move Energy to any of your Pokemon is great, even if
it only is once per turn.
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