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#4 Druddigon
Like yesterday’s card, Druddigon
brings something to the TCG that we have needed for
ages. That’s why he occupies the #4 slot on our list.
Druddigon
is a solid non-evolving, Dragon Type Basic with one
very, very bad attack (Dragon Claw’s Energy cost is
absurd), but none of that really matters, because he has
Revenge.
Revenge is an attack we have seen before in the
post-Black and White era, and it is pretty much a
guarantee that the lucky Pokémon that has it will get
played (as long as it is a Basic). We saw it on
Bouffalant BLW (reprinted in
LTR), which got put into the old
Zekrom/Eelektrik decks. Most famously, it
appeared on Terrakion NVI
(also reprinted in LTR) in the form of Retaliate.
Basically, it is an attack with base damage of 20, which
is upped to 90 if used the turn after one of your
Pokémon has been knocked out.
Now we have it on Druddigon,
and he may well prove to be the best user of all.
Like Bouffalant,
Druddigon’s Revenge costs
just two Colourless Energy so
not only can he go in any deck, he can also be used as a
‘surprise’ if that deck runs Double Colourless Energy.
Unlike Bouffalant (but very
much like Terrakion),
Druddigon has extremely
relevant typing: being a Dragon he can exploit Weakness
to OHKO both Black Kyurem EX
and Rayquaza EX. Oh, and
because this card is post- XY, he is Weak to Fairy
rather than Dragon so he isn’t easy meat for Little
Rayquaza either.
All this
means that Druddigon is set
to become a very important card. Both
Rayquaza and Black
Kyurem have been extremely
powerful Pokémon because of their Ability to score
repeated OHKOs while being very difficult to take down
in one hit. Mewtwo EX and
Yveltal EX can’t cope with
the way they discard Energy, while Little
Rayquaza’s bizarre Energy
needs means he isn’t available to most decks. Things
like Darkrai, which up to
now have struggled with the
Blastoise/Black Kyurem
match up, now have an easy-to-use non-EX Basic which can
score a surprise KO and generate a big momentum swing in
their favour.
I highly recommend this card for any deck that runs DCE
or has another way of powering it up in a single turn (Aromatisse’s
Fairy Trans, or Energy Switch, for example). For decks
that struggle against Kyurem
and Rayquaza . . . well,
this is just an obvious choice.
Rating
Modified: 4 (sure to have a big impact and may make
people think twice about playing Rain Dance Dragon
decks)
Limited: 3.25 (Revenge is useful here too, and it’s a
solid Basic anyway)
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