Hello people, I am here to talk about Scyther.

Scyther is a one of the cards in the "Jungle" Expansion, you should know the stats already. If you don't, go to a spoiler/card stats for details.

Scyther, as we know, is a good card. I personally use two in my deck to protect my electric pokemon. Many people use it today in their haymakers.

The reason they use it is because it has good HP for a basic. I am here to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of this card.
Strengths
70HP
Free retreat cost
resistance to fighting
Weaknesses
Attacks (I'll explain more about this later)
weakness (there are a lot of fossil Magmar)  

Attacks
Swords dance is bad, you can't do more than 60 damage. It is only good once.
People thinks slash is a very good attack. It is actually fair. Think about it.  I have devised a method to determine how good attacks are. Only damage-only attacks count for this method.  For every 1 colorless energy, ten damage is average. For every one "pure"(fire,grass,etc) energy, 15 damage. Since no card can do 15 damage, you should round up or down, unless the attack needs more than one "pure" energy.

So, slash uses 3 colorless for 30, which is only average.
I'm not dissing him he is one of the cards I use most.

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