A Closer Look at Aipom

  by sneasel4856

 When you first look at Aipom, what do you think?  What a waste of

paper!  This card makes Magikarp look useful.  for those of you who

haven’t seen Aipom here are his stats:

Aipom--Neo Genesis

Basic Pokémon

40 HP

Colorless

1     Pilfer Shuffle Aipom and all cards attached to it

       into your deck.  Flip a coin.  If heads, shuffle a card

       from your discard pile into your deck.

1     Tail Rap Flip 2 coins.  This

       attack does 10 damage times     10x

       the number of heads.

Weakness:  Fighting

Resistance:  Psychic -30

Retreat Cost:  0

 I recently wrote, under another name, an article entitled “Base

Alakazam+Unown A” (June 22).  If you wanted to build a deck based around

Damage Swap, read “Base Alakazam+Unown A” and add Aipom to use later in

the game for the purpose of (a) getting rid of damage via Pilfer and (b)

getting back cards from the discard pile such as an Unown.

 Another time to use Aipom is in a deck with Darkness/Metal/Rainbow

Energies or other essential cards for a deck, again through Pilfer.

 Other Aipom uses:

  -In a Riptide deck to put more energy into your deck, then use Misty’s

Wrath or Trash Exchange

  -In a Haymaker deck to get back essential cards or to actually attack,

most preferably against a Psychic Pokémon.

  -Against, despite that it is rarely used any more, Mr. Mime.

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