12/3 - COTD - Pokemon Nurse & Traveling Salesman

[Gokey Shuckle]

Rate & Review

Thanks to Water Pokemon Master from www.pokebeach.com for the scans.

 

[Cipher 2008]

Travelling Salesman
Why bother? No TM cards legal at the moment, just use Castaway instead. 4/10.

Pokémon Nurse
Discard all Energy? No way. Plenty of cards which, even if they don't remove all damage counter, they at least help. 3/10.

 

[Eruption]

Travelling Salesman - A.K.A. Freaky Hitchiker
Same as above. 4/10
Pokémon Nurse - A.K.A. Hair Dyer
Yeah this is useless, I prefer the Energy Root. 0/10

 

[Jaimes]

Since these cards are neither in modified, being unlimited can massively tarnish their use. Travelling Salesman is practically useless since there's nothing really worth getting out a deck, that Computer Search could do better.

Pokemon Nurse I think is an all round decent card depending on where it used. For cards like Suicune/Blastoise it can effortlessly heal Suicune for no cost. Same with Energy Trans decks or cheap beatdowns.

 

[Cipher 2008]

Since these cards are neither in modified, being unlimited can massively tarnish their use. Travelling Salesman is practically useless since there's nothing really worth getting out a deck, that Computer Search could do better.

Pokemon Nurse I think is an all round decent card depending on where it used. For cards like Suicune/Blastoise it can effortlessly heal Suicune for no cost. Same with Energy Trans decks or cheap beatdowns.

I believe we're supposed to rate them as though they were legal in Modified (e.g. if they were reprinted). That's how I did it.

 

[Charaxes]

I usually do it for the Unlimited, but lately, I'm more mindful of Mod.

Nurse, once you find a setup that moves around energy, it's a good, cheap healer. 6/10.

Salesman, I think it's best early in the game, but it's always useful until late. If you can't get Castaway. 7/10.

Edit: Forgot about the format of the Blast of the Past. Silly me.

 

[Jaimes]

I believe we're supposed to rate them as though they were legal in Modified (e.g. if they were reprinted).

Since when.. bit pointless since they're more than likely not getting reprinted. ¬_¬

Even so Castaway > Travelling Salesman. Nurse would still find a use in Infernape/ Electivire, Blissey (if done correctly), Honchkrow, R-gon and other energy manip decks.

 

[Shiny]

Well, it's kind of pointless to remove all damage counters if you can't attack