Baby Mario
2010 UK
National
Seniors
Champion |
Volcarona
(Plasma Blast)
Our final card of the week is another fragile stage 1:
Volcarona. It’s obviously
designed to offer a bit of support to Plasma decks,
though it is really hard to see how or why it would fit
in there.
Solar Transporter only costs one
Energy and does no damage, but it does reveal the
top 5 cards of your deck and allow you to put any Team
Plasma cards into your hand while discarding the rest.
Do Plasma decks really
need this?
They have Team Plasma Ball to fetch Pokémon,
Colress Machine to grab
Plasma Energy, and even Skyla
to get Hypnotoxic Laser if
need be. I just can’t see why they would want to
dedicate deck and Bench space to a hit-and-miss Pokémon
like Volcarona rather than,
say, run more draw cards.
Leech Life, the second attack, doesn’t really offer
anything either. Three Energy for 50 is poor these days,
and the healing effect isn’t much use when you only have
100 HP. Fire Typing is nice with
Genesect being popular, but
Volcarona can’t even OHKO with a relatively
expensive attack. Nope, there really isn’t any reason to
put this in any Plasma deck I have ever seen or heard
of.
Rating
Modified: 1.5 (unnecessary)
Limited: 2.25 (uh, ok if you have a lot of Plasma stuff,
but be careful of deck out)
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