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Pyukumuku
(Sun & Moon, 47/149), again another brand new,
never before seen Pokemon coming out of the most recent
expansion Sun & Moon, has 60 HP and a little bit
of an unusual ability.
Innards
Out allows you to place six damage counters on the
opponent’s active Pokemon if that Pokemon knocks
Pyukumuku out
by damage from an opponent’s attack.
I tried
Pyukumuku out early on in a
Decidueye GX
(Sun & Moon, 12/149) deck thinking that I could
park Pyukumuku
in the active spot and drop
Feather Arrows
on opponents.
I quickly found
Pyukumuku
lacking, however, especially in comparison with its many
alternatives.
Pyukumuku
has a couple of major problems with it.
Innards
Out only works if
Pyukumuku is
knocked out.
Six damage counters for a prize card doesn’t seem
like a good trade to me.
I’d find
Pyukumuku much more appealing if it did, say, ten
damage counters or six damage counters and left the
opponent’s active Pokemon confused or poisoned.
Also, we would probably use
Pyukumuku
significantly more if it worked like a
Bursting Balloon
(Breakpoint, 97/122) and put damage counters on
the opponent’s active Pokemon even if it did not get
KO’d. We’d
also probably prefer if it had 120 or 130 HP, but at 60
HP, Pyukumuku
probably will be OHKO’d by the majority of attacks.
Innards
Out, like
Bursting Balloons, does not work if
Pyukumuku
gets KO’d from any damage other than from an attack.
As I mentioned, however, we have a number of superior
options to choose from over
Pyukumuku:
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Tauros GX
(Sun & Moon, 144/149)
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Sigilyph
(Breakpoint, 55/122)
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Froslass
(Generations: Radiant Collection, 8/32)
I would use all three of these over
Pyukumuku.
Tauros
will probably put a lot more than six damage counters on
your opponent’s active Pokemon if it gets hit.
Sigilyph
works even if it does not get KO’d.
Froslass
has a 50-50 chance of KO’ing a Pokemon that knocks it
out. All of
these clearly do more for you than
Pyukumuku.
Rating
Standard: 1.5 out of 5
Summary
While not the worst card in the set,
Pyukumuku has
too many limitations to function as we’d like it to in a
competitive deck.
The designers could have made it much better than
the version they settled on, and that simply provides us
with a number of superior options that will help us win
more than if we used
Pyukumuku.
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