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Lunatone
(XY)
Hello and welcome to another week spent looking at some
Pokémon from the new XY Set. We are going to kick it off
with a review of Lunatone.
Y’know
there have been times when
the designers have made powerful combos out of
Lunatone and
Solrock. There are times
when they have at least made them interesting. This is
not one of times.
Yes, there is
a very basic combo with Solrock
XY which allows it to do 40 damage
very cheaply, but that’s nowhere near enough to make
these low HP unevolving
Basics playable. Aside from that,
Lunatone does have a nice card drawing attack in
Double Draw, but it’s a lot less nice now that you can’t
use it if you go first and in any case
Virizion LTR does the same
thing while being a better card in just about every way
possible. Meanwhile, Moonblast
is just awful. Two Energy for 20
damage and an almost meaningless reduction in the
damage it takes next turn. This is one of the worst
value attacks I have seen in a while.
Good in limited simply because it draws cards,
Lunatone has no place in
competitive play.
Rating
Modified: 1.25 (people don’t even play
Virizion any more)
Limited: 4.25 (you would love to open with it)
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