Baby Mario
2010 UK
National
Seniors
Champion |
Tierno
Oh look! It’s Cheren, only
fatter and with an amusing t-shirt! Yep, our
underwhelming pool of Supporters in now enhanced by a
card that is
exactly the same as one we already have and don’t
play all that much.
Historically, Supporters that draw three cards have been
at least decent (TV Reporter, Professor Oak’s Visit),
but that was in slower formats where other methods of
draw/search existed. We are so completely reliant on
draw Supporters right now that we
need them to
do a lot more, which is why we play Professor Juniper
and Colress over the likes
of Bianca and Cheren despite
the fact that those cards can have quite painful
drawbacks.
So I’m very tempted to just dismiss
Tierno as a worthless reprint of a card we
already have and wish that they had chosen to give us
something else from the past instead . . . Steven’s
Advice, Lookers’ Investigation maybe . . . only I
suppose there is something worthwhile in the ruling that
you are free to run both Tierno
and
Cheren in your deck. It
would give you consistency/predictability, if nothing
else, and maybe wouldn’t be a bad option for those new,
younger players who find Juniper’s discard a bit
daunting and aren’t sure when to play N.
Even so, this isn’t the greatest way to set the tone
with these new Gen Supporters.
Rating
Modified: 2.25 (now give us something that we don’t
already have)
Limited: 5 (duh)
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Unlimited 150 |
Tierno.
Modified.
Lazy, so so lazy. If you hadn’t realized yet, Tierno
is just a functional reprint of Cheren, the current
design team for Pokémon TCG just aren’t even trying. In
the games Tierno is all about dancing, he never shuts up
about Pokémon dancing, so why doesn’t his card reflect
this? Something like “Draw 2 cards. You may switch your
Active Pokémon with one of your benched Pokémon” would
have been nice! Anyway, it’s an ok card and probably one
of the only Starter deck cards that might see any
competitive play. There’s only so many ways you can just
say “draw some cards” on a Supporter and cards like
Colress and Juniper, while not as 100% reliable like
Tierno, will usually net you a lot more profit.
Unlimited 150.
The problem of being outclassed is even more
noticeable here. There’s non-Supporter cards that can
draw plenty of cards like Bill and Erika so Tierno seems
a little plain to use up your 1 per turn Supporter
allowance. There’s not even a full art version of him so
you can’t even use it to make your non-rotating deck
look more and more flash over the years. Newer U150
players with less cards will probably use him, but only
until they obtain better draw cards.
Ratings.
Modified: 3
Unlimited 150: 2
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