Baby Mario
2010 UK
National
Seniors
Champion |
Mesprit
(Plasma Blast)
Hello and welcome to a new week of reviews here on
Pojo’s
CotD. Dunno about
you, but I am super excited for the release of the X/Y
games later this week. I’ve been very careful to avoid
all the non-official spoilers so far because I’d rather
discover the new Pokémon for myself than brag about
seeing some blurry picture posted by an internet random.
But we still have some reviews to do, so let’s kick off
with the welcome return to the TCG of one of the Lake
Trio from Diamond and Pearl. These guys haven’t seen the
light of day since Legends Awakened, when they were on
some very good cards indeed.
This time around?
Not so much, although there may be some niche uses that
players can discover for one or two of them. As you
would expect, Mesprit is a
Basic with a very low 60 HP and its
Psyshot attack is ludicrously overpriced and
underpowered by today’s standards: 30 effect-free damage
for three Energy is almost
bad enough for the attack to become an in-joke. The
attraction (such as it is) comes from the combo with
Uxie and
Azelf: if you have them in
play too, then Mesprit’s
Mental Shroud Ability activates and means that each of
your Pokémon has no Weakness.
Obviously, this is a nice effect to have. With x2
Weaknesses currently in play a lot of Pokémon come under
some serious threat: think of how
Darkrai LV X fears Terrakion
or Genesect has to worry
about Victini EX. The
trouble is that Mesprit
doesn’t really offer a practical solution to this
problem. After all, what deck has room to just fill its
Bench with three low HP Basics, any of which can be
sniped to death in two turns by
Darkrai EX, Kyurem
PLF, or Landorus EX (no,
there won’t be room for Mr Mime to stop this happening)?
After all, it only takes one to get KO’d and the Ability
is lost.
Of the three Lake Pokémon in the set,
Mesprit is probably the
worst.
Rating
Modified: 1.25 (too weak even to be a gimmick deck)
Limited: 1.25 (attack is shockingly pathetic, even for
this format)
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