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Aegislash
#85 (XY)
Up for review over the next two days are a couple of
interesting and unique Pokémon, both called
Aegislash.
It’s kind of hard to review them as separate cards
because they are clearly designed to work together in a
deck that centres around
their Stance Change Ability and uses it to switch
between copies of Aegislash
while locking opponents’ attacks. I’ll talk about that a
bit more in tomorrow’s review, but for now let’s look at
the role played by today’s card.
Aegislash
#85 is the designated heavy-hitter for
Aegislash decks. If needed,
it can come in and hit for 120 damage with Buster Swing.
That may not seem like such a good deal
for four Energy, but remember
that Stance Change means that
Aegislash can be swapped with an existing one,
using the Energy that has already been attached. The
damage output is just about adequate (120 plus the 50
from Aegislash #86 = a KO on
a lot of EX Pokémon, and there’s always Muscle Band for
the rest). I suppose I ought to note that Buster Swing
ignores Resistance, but that doesn’t matter at the
moment: only the Raichu XY
line resists Metal and they would be
OHKO’d by Buster Swing
anyway.
You can see what the designers were going for with this
card – a finisher to take the last couple of Prizes for
a dedicated Aegislash deck.
Unfortunately, as we shall see tomorrow, that deck
concept is flawed to the point of being unusable.
Rating
Modified: 1.5 (barely adequate for a deck that doesn’t
work)
Limited: 1.25 (far too much investment required for such
a mediocre pay off)
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