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Everyone's favorite first traveling
companion comes back in top form to help more! Misty is
back and more determined than ever before!
Course when you're raring to go
like Misty, you've gotta keep a level head. Otherwise,
you might end up with something that looks like a good
idea but maybe it's not. For instance, Misty's
Determination doesn't seem that bad. You get to discard
a card from your hand and then pick another card from
the top 8 cards of your deck to replace it. Once you're
done, you shuffle the rest back into the deck - same
old, same old.
On the one hand, you've got the
advantage of picking out which card you get to discard
as well as which card you add to your hand. This can
help set you up on later turns for stuff like VS Seeker
or any form of Energy accelerator that grabs Energy from
the discard or even helps out with Vespiquen-based
Vengeance decks. And since there's no limit to what card
you can grab, you'll be able to snatch anything you need
for that turn.
On the other hand, though, Misty's
Determination is already outclassed by another
Supporter: Professor Sycamore. Not only does he toss out
your whole hand, but he also lets you draw the top 7
cards of your deck - far more than what Misty's
Determination can get you. Not to mention Sycamore has
the advantage of being playable even if you have no
other cards in your hand, whereas Misty's Determination
presumably can't. Not to mention you're only limited to
whatever's in the top 8 cards of your deck, which if
you're looking for a very particular card, you're not
guaranteed to find it on top.
So what does that mean for Misty's
Determination? Well, she's going to end up being used
rarely if ever. Anything it can discard, Sycamore can
discard better, and anything it can grab, there are
cards that can do it better. Basically, she's a 1-for-1
that costs you an extra card to maybe get what you want,
and in competitive play at least, that's not good enough
to warrant your Supporter for the turn. It's hard to
compete against a guy who can toss everything you need
to toss...
Rating
Standard: 2/5 (by no means a bad
card, but just not a fully advantageous one)
Expanded: 2/5 (she tries very hard
to do what she can, but there are ultimately better
cards for the job)
Limited: 3/5 (though maybe she'll
get run in BREAK Evolution decks? but then again,
Sycamore does it better...)
Arora Notealus: It's a shame that
Misty didn't get something better to come back with. She
could have easily been retooled to provide more Water
support, kinda like Blacksmith from back in Flashfire.
Or even better, she could've borrowed one of the effects
of her older cards like Misty's Tears or Misty's Wrath
or even just regular Misty. It would've been interesting
to say the least!
Next Time: Pump up the
volume!!...of water...from my cannons
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