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Toucannon
(Sun & Moon, 108/149), yet another new, Stage 2
Pokemon out of the Sun & Moon release back in
February, has 140 HP and two attacks,
Echoed Voice
and Beak Blast. I had never
even considered attempting to build a deck around this
Pokemon, and I couldn’t find any videos on
Toucannon
anywhere. So
I scratched my head a little bit, tossed around some
ideas, and came up with a
Talonflame (Steam Siege, 96/114)
Toucannon build. I threw
in Fairy Energy and some
Fairy Drop (Fates
Collide, 99/124) and
Fairy Garden (Fates
Collide, 100/124) to take advantage of those tech in
cards, and gave it a shot.
In my fifth match, I actually
managed to get a good set up.
I started
Talonflame and managed to get three
Toucannon
powered up on the bench.
However, I looked at my board and at my
opponent’s set up (Mega
Gardevoir (Primal Clash, 156/160)), and I
just knew that this was the best set up I had achieved
in any of the five games I had played with it, and I had
absolutely no chance of winning.
Actually, I don’t think I even had a chance of
knocking out a single one of his Pokemon.
As Fairy
Garden was the only stadium I played, he would have
free reign to switch his Pokemon in and out of the
active position, and I had no way to one shot any of
those Mega
Gardevoirs.
It simply dawned on me that this was as good as
it was going to get for
Toucannon, and
I had absolutely no chance to win.
I quickly conceded, but I still
wanted to at least speak to the attack
Beak Blast
only because it contains the new burn mechanism as part
of the attack.
So I decided to go into the test deck feature on
PTCGO figuring that I’d at least get to speak to the how
burn works.
I lost both of the test deck
matches I tried to play as well.
Yeah that’s pretty pitiful.
In all fairness, the first deck was a lightning
deck (Toucannon
is weak to Lightning), and I dead drew with only
Pikipek (Sun & Moon, 106/149) as my active Pokemon in the
second attempt.
But after seven matches and seven losses –
probably the first two test deck matches I’ve ever lost
– I simply cannot recommend
Toucannon as
an even remotely competitive deck.
Rating
Standard: 1 out of 5
Summary
Friends don’t let friends play
Toucannon.
Maybe if they’d made
Echoed Voice so it did 80 and then 160 or if
Beak Blast did 130 and if the burn mechanism didn’t involve so many
coin flips, then maybe
Toucannon
might have more value.
Honestly, though, this is just a bad card.
BTW, burn works like this:
1)
You attack and do your damage (100 in this case)
2)
Then you flip a coin.
3)
If heads you place a burn marker on the active Pokemon
and two damage counters.
If tails, you do not place the burn marker or
damage counters on your opponent’s active Pokemon.
4)
Then the opponent flips a coin again
before the
opponent moves on to his or her turn.
If heads, the burn marker is removed.
If tails, it remains.
5)
Your opponent takes their turn.
6)
A coin is flipped again.
If heads, the burn marker is removed.
If tails, two damage counters are added to the
active Pokemon and the burn marker remains.
This continues at every change in turn until
heads is the result of the coin flip.
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