Card of the day : Electrode Prime

Today’s COTD will feature a card that has seen very little play or nearly no play at all. The card of the day today is……..Electrode Prime! Zzzzzt ( this is suppose to be the sound or electric)

Use Colgate

First we break down the stats

HP:90HP for a stage 1 Prime is really bad when you compare with all the other stage 1 primes like Donphan,Yanmega,Lanturn,etc.

Type and Weakness: With a lightning type, this means it will really suffer to it’s brother, Donphan. With a x2 weakness,it’s basically a free prize for decks like megazord or DnD if its left lying around on the field.

Attack: Gigashock! 1 Lightning and 1 colourless to do 30 damage and do a 10 damage spread to 2 other pokemon? Wow that’s so game breaking.period. Obviously electrode cannot be a main attacker of any deck. With the energy cost and the damage it’s dealing. You’re better off using other pokemon to attack.  This also shows that Electrode is more of a support pokemon.

Poke-power: Energymite! This is where Electrode gets to shine. 2 words,Energy Acceleration. Make it 3 words RISKY energy acceleration. Why i said its risky is because, first you knock out your own electrode, and then the opponent picks up a prize. Then look at the top 7 and look for as many energy and attach them in any way to your pokemons in play. Sounds good right? But what happens when you don’t find any energy there? Yup free prize.  There are also reasons why you would want to give a free prize. This is to have prize control. To maybe abuse using twins or to not allow your opponent use theirs.

We can pair Electrode prime with Research Record (COL) to control the top deck of your deck. Shift all the non energy to the bottom of the deck and keep the energies on top.

Where can we see electrode prime being used? So far I can only see it being used in a few decks. They are, Basic Variants( Zekrom/Tornadus/Reshiram),  Gothitelle and maybe Steelix.

The rating I give for this card (Electrode Prime) is in general.

Artwork 7/10: The art work has some humour in it actually. With Eletrode giving that ‘heh what you gonna do with me now’ I like the artwork

Playbility 3/10: Other than the decks that I mentioned above, it has no other use in other decks or on its own

This comes to an end of the COTD. Leave your comments and let us know of what you think. Look forward to our next article :D