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Another Supporter has shown up in
the form of Fisherman. Truth be told, I've always
thought of Fishermen as the real nerds of the Pokemon
world - they're all literally obsessed with catching
Pokemon with a fishing rod and will hang out in houses
all day long waiting for Trainers with equal enthusiasm
(or at least very mild interest) to come inside so they
can hand them a stick with some string to them.
...dang Fishermen.
Anywho, this guy actually first
appeared in Skyridge (yeah, in eReader card days) before
making a return appearance in the HGSS expansion. And
now he's come back to us again with the same effect he's
had since day one: retrieve 4 Basic Energy cards from
your discard pile and put them into your hand. Sure, the
wording's changed again and become even simpler, but at
least with Pokemon you don't have to worry about having
4 or more Basic Energy to use him.
So what decks really stand to
benefit from this? We're looking for a deck that really
uses a lot of Basic Energy to get what it needs done,
and it doesn't have to rely on Special Energy as much
since that can't be used with this. Personally, Primal
Kyogre looks like a good candidate for this, since you
can't really use Alpha Growth with Special Energy, but
there may be some other decks that could stand to
benefit from it. I just don't know off the top of my
head which ones would.
It's a bit of a difficult thing to
gauge when decks will only run so many Energies, and not
many of them are even Basic Energies. There are even a
couple of decks which don't even bother with having
Basic Energy, and a lot of the ones that do already have
some means of bringing it back. Fisherman may be more of
a one-off if that, seeing as how tight Supporter space
has been.
Rating
Standard: 2/5 (it's not like he's
got a terrible effect or anything - it's rather decent!)
Expanded: 2/5 (but all things
considered, not many decks have a ton of Basic Energy -
if anything, it's not even necessary to run Fisherman
because of how many other ways the Energy can be
retrieved, some of it in more useful ways)
Limited: 3/5 (...okay, I don't know
exactly how bad Energy situations get in Limited, seeing
as you only have so many cards to pull from and an
unlimited stock of Basic Energy, but if it's really that
tight of a problem, I suppose go for it?)
Arora Notealus: Fisherman as of now
is a lot like a Magikarp: not very useful at the moment.
But looking a little down the road, I do see a bit
of...potential for him to really leap out of the water
and astonish us all.
Next Time: An old favorite returns!
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