Fun Game, The Card Collab Collecting Game

[donavannj]

Artwork: 5/10. Boring Sugimori art.

Playability: 4/10. It's a Stage 1 with an attack that costs 3 energy, which is a lot of energy for an attack of a Stage 1 back in its time.

Collectibility: 4/10. It's an uncommon from Neo Genesis. It doesn't trigger much nostalgia for me.

Feraligatr, you're up!

 

[Wobbu]

Artwork: 6/10 follows the dark, 3D, and headshot theme of the Primes but that's not necessarily a good thing IMO

Playability: 7/10 no drawbacks and basically takes two turns at most to knock out a card but nothing special

Collectibility: 7/10 I still see many HG/SS era cards in stores but Primes are still hard to come by. I only have two ._•

Ret's sent out the next card:

 

[Squirrel]

Artwork: 10/10 - ahahah oh my god I love it. Look at the tiny cute little thing trying to act so tough and strong, it's beyond adorable.

Playability: 4/10 - very standard for a basic Pokémon, nothing great, and as far as I remember the evolution is pretty poor - usable for casual games though.

Collectability: -1/10 - is there anyone that doesn't own this card?

 

[donavannj]

Artwork: 6/10. Cute and all, but meh.

Playability: 3/10. Just so outclassed by so many other Pokemon in its era because of its low HP and low damage.

Collectibility: 2/10. It's a rare, but I've managed to end up with probably 7 or 8 copies of this and a few other "rares" from HGSS.

Now into the night we go with an owl!

 

[Wobbu]

Artwork: 7/10 Nice 2D illustration and a cheerful forest setting at night; perfect way to show off Insomnia :D

Playability: 2/10 Nice Sleep prevention but could be 1HKO'd by a lot of staged Pokémon and a lot of basics that don't evolve. Peck is meh


Collectibility: 6/10 HGSS Promo that I've never seen before. I'm assuming it's like the other promos from that set where you can see it through the plastic packaging and can still be found in stores.

Noctowl's staying up all night with Hoothoot to get lucky rated:

 

[Captain Gizmo]

Artwork: 10/10 Is this a foil card? It would look so nice in foil.

Playability: 7/10 It's Poke-Power is pretty useful to foreshadow what your opponent might play and it's attack is pretty good, but requires a bit too much energy for it imo.

Collectibility: Not sure about this one, I'd give it a 5/10 if it ain't foil but if it is, I'll give a 7/10.
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Next up, a Pokemon that isn't well known for it's combat abilities in the Pokemon world!

 

[donavannj]

Artwork: 7/10. Happy Ledyba is great!

Playability: 5/10 for its time. Not great for a basic, not bad.

Collectibility: 6/10. It's from the Southern Islands set, and those cards can be hard to come by.

Next up, Ledian!

 

[OliveCopper]

Artwork: 10/10 Fits the Style Perfectly!
Playability: 5/10
Collectability: 7/10

Just to catch up with the thread, making up for a poster's accident, I'm gonna post 2 cards as opposed of 1. It's perfectly legal as I am the thread master, though I started it with my old account.

Don't believe me? That's fine, but just to clarify, the first post was my own, under my old username before I switched accounts.

Anyways, Spinarak and Ariados. You are not allowed to post 2 after this, only I can.

Yeah Ariados is the Japanese Neo Destiny one, but who cares?

Translation, to avoid breaking a rule

Spoiler:

{G} Entrap
If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them and switch it with the Defending Pokémon, then flip a coin. If heads, the new Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
{G}{G}{G} Poison Bind
30 Damage. The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon can't retreat until the end of your opponent's next turn and if the effect of an attack, Pokémon Power, or Trainer card would change that player's Active Pokémon, that part of the effect does nothing.

 

[donavannj]

Combo rate go!

Artwork 5/10 and 5/10. A pair of boring pieces.

Playability: 3/10 and 5/10. A pair of Pokemon with meh HP and expensive attacks that don't do as much as they could for their time.

Collectibility: 2/10 and 3/10. A common and an uncommon, both from older sets. Meh.

Go, Crobat!

 

[OliveCopper]

Artwork: 9/10... Looking scary, just how a bat should be.
Playability: 9/10 It's PokePower will stop the opponent from playing ANY Pokemon from his or her hand, allowing an easy donk.
Collectability: 2/10 (Can't say 1/10 due to being a Rare)

Plug the fish in!

Hmm.... it's sad to see this game be forgotten about. I hope someone catches on soon...

 

[donavannj]

Honestly, I thought this thread was going to kick the bucket before you posted I was thinking I might have to let it die and then reboot it.

Artwork: 6/10. It's Sugimori art, but that's practically on everything Pokemon related.

Playability: 4/10. That 50 HP does nothing to negate the fact that Supersonic is dependent on a coin flip and that Flail needs damage on Chinchou to even do damage.

Collectibility: 4/10. It's a 1st Edition print, but it's still just a common.

 

[OliveCopper]

donavannj is right, this thread might hit the boot if people don't continue posting, otherwise, we'll have to start AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL over from Bulbasaur.

Anyway

Artowrk: Fits the Pokepower nicely! 8/10
Playability: Type changing engaged! 8/10
Collectability: 6/10 Uncommon from Neo Revelation.

#172 is Pichu.

I tried a google search for Hs-Triumphant Pichu, and when I came up to this card, I posted it.

Because Pichu is a Basic Pokemon, it can't evolve into Pikachu like in the main games, making me give this card a 1/10 for Playability. Since the BW-era, baby Pokemon have been removed all together and will never be printed on cards again...

 

[donavannj]

Collectibility: 4/10. It may be a rare, but I think I ended up with 6 of them.

Playability: 7/10. Greate early turn disruption and setup for the era it's form.

Artwork: 6/10. Goes great with the HGSS card style, but it's not something that stands out.

Cleffa is up next!

 

[OliveCopper]

Alrighty, my turn.

Playability: 6/10 It's a Basic with 30 HP, but it was a staple in decks during the 2011 season, with its move...
Collectability: 4/10 Junk Rare in Call of Legends. Aw jeez...
Artwork: 9/10 What a face

OK, Igglybuff, you next!

Did you know that Igglybuff and its evolutionary relatives are the only Pokemon with the type combination of Normal/Fairy? The rest of the Normal-types that became Fairy-type got completely changed to pure-Fairy, making the Igglybuff line unique.

 

[donavannj]

That typing decision they did was very odd...


Playability: 5/10. Auto sleep, but Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff from its era aren't exactly things to write home about, so it's basically just there to stall.

Collectibility: 4/10. It's a Wizards Promo, but it's just Igglybuff. And Wizard's Promos are not worth very much at the moment since so many are in circulation.

Artwork: 8/10. Two Igglybuff playing. Looks like oodles of fun.

Up next is Togepi!

 

[OliveCopper]

The Southern Islands set is valuable indeed, and this Togepi is worth the coillecting, but the holofoil of the scan makes it too had to read. But from what I see, the attack only does 10 damage and requires a coin flip for the secondary effect...

Artwork: 6/10
Playability: 1/10
Collectability: 9/10

Since the Pokemon Company has not yet released a Fairy-type Togetic card, this Delta Togetic will have to do...

 

[donavannj]

Artwork: 6/10. Pretty common style on all the cards.
Playability: 6/10. Delta Copy is interesting, but hard to pull off.
Collectibility: 4/10. It's a rare from a Delta Species era set, but it's still just a rare.

Natu is next in the order!

 

[OliveCopper]

Help! This game is getting buried! We're gonna need help to continue to avoid having to start over!

Artwork: 10/10 The poor Natu are lost in the cold...
Playability: 3/10 Only 20 damage for 2 Energy (at least one of which Psychic)
Collectability: 8/10 At least it's worth some collectability.

Let's evolve this thing into a Xatu!

This game is about to hit the boot. Somebody post here before it gets buried.

 

[donavannj]

Artwork: 6/10. It's got Xatu flying over a bridge, though it doesn't feel like it's popping out at me.
Playability: 4/10. That first attack is too risky, and that HP is extremely low. That second attack is decent, but expensive.
Collectibility: 4/10. It's just a newer set non-holo rare. Those can easily be had in abundance.

Up next, Mareep!

 

[OliveCopper]

Artwork: 10/10 So cute! Despite being Sugimori art, the way it's designed is CUTE!!!!
Playability: 4/10 there are better Electric Pokémon...
Collectability: 5/10 Though Neo Genesis is old, and no longer in production, this card will appear in many booster packs of that set.

Marrep have evolved into Flaaffy!

I Flaaf, I cry, it's moving.
Next up is Ampharos. Someone rate Flaafy and post Ampharos FAST.