When Did We Get Another Flower Pokemon? - Florges EX 116/119 XY: Phantom Forces

[donavannj]

Spoiler:

Florges-EX HP160

(Fairy) Lead
Search your deck for a Supporter card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.

(Fairy) (Colorless) Bright Garden 20x
This attack does 20 damage times the number of Grass Pokémon and Fairy Pokémon you have in play.

Weakness: Metal ×2

Resistance: Dark -20

Retreat Cost: 2

116/119 Rare Ultra
Illustrator: Ryo Ueda

Card of the Week is now up!

Rate, comment, and/or discuss this card! Discuss the art, the playability, the collectibility, or just about anything else you can think of that is PC-appropriate!

 

[Scotash!]

I don't play much, apart from some online decks I have. But as a collector of which Card Art is extremely important, this is an absolutely breath-taking card. The colours used are perfect, and it really is stunning.. I think so far on the Fairy type cards they are really going all out. I don't want to say they're quite, girly, but I think they have that quality of being ones that particularly girls would find very appealing due to the vibrancy of the colours used.

 

[donavannj]

I don't play much, apart from some online decks I have. But as a collector of which Card Art is extremely important, this is an absolutely breath-taking card. The colours used are perfect, and it really is stunning.. I think so far on the Fairy type cards they are really going all out. I don't want to say they're quite, girly, but I think they have that quality of being ones that particularly girls would find very appealing due to the vibrancy of the colours used.

I'm pretty sure girly or at least more vibrant was what they were aiming for. On the TPCI corporate side, there's been a lot of pressure to get more girls into the games.

 

[RandomHype]

You can spam fairy pokemon with repeat ball and Pokefan club, whimsicott fluffy tag + muscle band fairy garden for KO.

Its 160 hp really was unnecessary though

I really feel that Medicham 81/160 Primal clash needs a COTW. I mean 180 damage T2 potential!

 

[donavannj]

You can spam fairy pokemon with repeat ball and Pokefan club, whimsicott fluffy tag + muscle band fairy garden for KO.

Its 160 hp really was unnecessary though

You can, but that also leaves them vulnerable as "free prizes".

Why is the 160 HP unnecessary?

I really feel that Medicham 81/160 Primal clash needs a COTW. I mean 180 damage T2 potential!

I tend to select cards for COTW just before posting the COTW. I'll consider Medicham for candidacy for the next one, though!

 

[RandomHype]

You can, but that also leaves them vulnerable as "free prizes".

Why is the 160 HP unnecessary?

The whimsicott thing is the only non-prized based thing I can think of that allows this kind of deck to 1hitKO

You see how manetric can pull off 120 damage in a heartbeat for two energy, and it has 170.
In comparison to a lot of cards, it doesn't make sense why it has 10 less than the others.

That 10 less hp helped me lose top 8 at cities too. Its just annoying as ever.

 

[donavannj]

The whimsicott thing is the only non-prized based thing I can think of that allows this kind of deck to 1hitKO

You see how manetric can pull off 120 damage in a heartbeat for two energy, and it has 170.
In comparison to a lot of cards, it doesn't make sense why it has 10 less than the others.

That 10 less hp helped me lose top 8 at cities too. Its just annoying as ever.

That's also easily negated. And its low HP makes it an easy prize target.

Well, the thing is, that attack has a catch: it assumes your opponent won't do everything they can to discard the tool once Manectric EX is active. And the low HP is also the "flavor" of the card, so to speak. It's not great, but if everything had great HP, the game would be boring.

And it's probably not due solely to the 10 HP it lacks compared to some other EX cards that you lost out on Top 8. You did choose to run the deck, after all.

 

[RandomHype]

That's also easily negated. And its low HP makes it an easy prize target.

Well, the thing is, that attack has a catch: it assumes your opponent won't do everything they can to discard the tool once Manectric EX is active. And the low HP is also the "flavor" of the card, so to speak. It's not great, but if everything had great HP, the game would be boring.

And it's probably not due solely to the 10 HP it lacks compared to some other EX cards that you lost out on Top 8. You did choose to run the deck, after all.

I was paired up against steel, I even won game 1, but my hopes died with
>Chrono Wind Turn 2 W/ Muscle band....
just the exact 160 to knock it out...


I see why fairy charms is a thing