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When you wish upon a star, Jirachi
comes down and grants it - and then he smites your
enemies! Dawwww, who's a cute little ender of hopes and
dreams? You are! You are!
Okay not really, but this Jirachi
is not unlike his EX counterpart in one particular
fashion: he can retrieve a card from the deck for you!
The main difference being Jirachi-EX only needed to be
played from the hand in order to grab a Supporter from
anywhere in your deck while Jirachi's Diminutive Desire
needs 1 Metal Energy to attack and grabs any card you
want from the top 7 cards of your deck. But details,
right? At least the Metal Energy won't be hard to attach
if you've got Bronzong.
And that may be what helps Jirachi
out the most. See, he's also got this attack Doom Desire
that discards all of his Energy - which, he only needs 2
at most? So you know, that's a thing - and when he does,
he eliminates the opposing Pokemon during the opponent's
next turn. This can easily net you 1-2 Prizes if your
opponent doesn't have a Switching ability of some sort -
whether through Keldeo-EX (not for much longer in
Standard), manual switching, or the actual Switch card.
Not bad!
So Jirachi will never hold a Muscle
Band, but he's still got enough power to take on the
biggest baddest guys of the bunch. With Doom Desire and
a little bit of help from Diminutive Desire, Jirachi can
lend you a slow strategic victory - besides, even if
they do KO Jirachi, Doom Desire lingers till the end of
their turn before KOing. Not bad for a non-EX!
But Jirachi is not without flaws -
as mentioned before, Doom Desire can get shut down by
switching around, and if that happens, there's not much
stopping anything from trampling Jirachi's 70 HP. Keep
him safe though, and you can result him with all that
Metal Energy!
Rating
Standard: 3/5 (he forces choices at
times - put resources into getting Doom Desire off, or
let one fall to KO the small fry? most of the time the
opponent will want the former)
Expanded: 3/5 (while the search
attack ain't so strong here, Doom Desire still has a
powerful presence)
Limited: 4/5 (things are a little
slower without Bronzong, but less damage and only
needing 2 turns to pull off Doom Desire can demolish any
Pokemon standing in your way!)
Arora Notealus: So Jirachi goes to
sleep for 1000 years, and if you write a wish and put it
on its head, it will grant it when it wakes up. He's
like some kind of wish-master business man, just call
him up and he'll be like, "Yeah, sorry, napping, zzzzzz..."
Although if you wish for immortality and then die before
Jirachi grants the wish, do you come back normal or as a
zombie?
Weekend Thought: Will you be
running any of the Electric types from this week? What
about Jirachi in your Metal decks? Or maybe he's better
suited in his own deck? You gonna try and make that
work?
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