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Trick Shovel
Hello and welcome to a short week of reviews here on
Pojo’s
CotD. We’re going to spend it looking at some of
the Trainer cards from the latest
Flashfire set. We kick off with this strange
little card. Trick Shovel can be used to look at the top
card of either your own or your opponent’s deck. You can
then choose whether to discard or replace it.
Obviously, there is useful information to be gained
either way, and the potential
to stop your opponent getting something useful or avoid
drawing something you don’t want . . . but that’s not
really good enough is it? This is actually a card that
screams ‘put me in a hand disruption deck!’ The theory
being that if you can limit, or preferably destroy your
opponent’s hand, fixing their top deck for the next turn
can prevent them from recovering it (unless they have
two Supporters there, of course).
We’ve actually got quite a few half-decent hand
disruption cards at the moment: Red Card, Hooligans Jim
& Cas, and
Malamar XY are the obvious
ones (N is likely to help rather than hurt your opponent
in a deck like this). We also have
Sableye DEX, so we can use Junk Hunt to keep on
using Trick
Shovel while winning via Poison damage
from Hypnotoxic Laser. It
all sounds as though it might be fun (unless you are
playing against it), but it’s one of those decks where a
lot has to go right for it to work (especially
Malamar flips).
Because of that, I don’t see Trick Shovel/disruption
decks being too competitive right now, but who knows
what the future will bring? It could end up being very
nasty indeed.
Rating
Modified: 2.5 (funny little card that can be used in an
annoying combo)
Limited 3.75 (you could even consider using it to give
yourself a better draw here)
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