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So what’s the scoop on our number eight choice for the
Promising Picks of Plasma Blast?
Yes I went for the bad pun; its
Scoop Up Cyclone.
Stats& Effects
Scoop Up Cyclone
is an Ace Spec, a class of Trainer for which you are
only allowed to have a single member of in your deck.
This means that every Ace Spec card is in direct
competition with all others.
Speaking of the others, so far all have been
Items and Scoop
Up Cyclone is no
exception.
It continues a trend of several of the others in being
an update of an older card… sort of.
First came Scoop
Up, a normal Trainer (a.k.a. “Item”) that let you
select one of your Pokémon in play and return it its
Basic form to your hand; everything else was discarded.
Later we got
Super Scoop Up,
which is legal until the NXD-On rotation becomes
official.
Super Scoop Up
returns the target Pokémon and all cards attached to it
to your hand, but requires a
successful coin flip to work.
Scoop
Up Cyclone is the next
logical step; the effect of
Super Scoop Up,
sans the coin flip!
Usage
So is this effect ever worth using really?
It is hard to argue over giving up something like
Computer Search
for this, but indeed it can be a great card.
If you have “from hand” Energy acceleration, a
means of free retreat, and are attacking using just big,
Basic Pokémon, like a Deluge deck if you felt confident
enough you didn’t need
Computer Search
or Item Finder
to help set-up/manage things, yeah it makes perfect
sense. You
get to remove all effects and damage from your Active,
bring up something with
Float Stone
attached, replay your former attack, power it all up
again, Retreat the Active and you’re good to go.
Outside of that, there are decks that can afford other
kinds of Energy acceleration (to be fair, most of it
works when used with the correct combos), or with Energy
efficient attacks, or simply had the time to build up
your next attacker.
I think I would favor sticking to what already
works in most decks, but it’s a pretty close contest.
The other interesting thing is that if
Recycle gets
reprinted, one
Scoop Up Cyclone can then
spend the rest of the game acting like
Super Scoop Up…
except the coin toss is from
Recycle.
Ratings
Unlimited:
I… don’t really know.
Too many things I haven’t been able to learn
about Unlimited.
I thought that the Ace Spec
Computer Search
“overrode” the text of the original, but last I checked
there wasn’t an official ruling.
The effect of bouncing one of your own Pokémon
also might set up some First Turn Wins and would be
useful in a lot of decks in general so… I am going to be
hopeful in my scoring.
3/5
Modified:
A great card that happens to face stiff competition –
even losing Energy attachments (but not the Energy
itself) is well worth it for not actually giving up a
Prize, giving up the Pokémon, or giving up whatever was
attached to it.
4/5
Limited:
If you pull this, run it barring the usual exception of
when you’re running a deck built around a single copy of
a single Pokémon (as using
Scoop Up Cyclone
would cause you to lose).
4.95/5
Summary
Scoop Up Cyclone
is a card that seems to have a lot of potential, and I
only am hesitant to encourage its use due to the
phenomenal Ace Spec cards we already have.
I actually had it for my number six pick.
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