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Card of the Week

Week of 9/16/06

Delcatty 
90 HP 
Stage 1 Pokémon - Evolves from Skitty
Constrain

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may use this power. Each player discards cards until that player has 6 cards in his or her hand. (You discard first.) This power can't be used if Delcatty ex is affected by a Special Condition.

Upstream
10x

Search your discard pile for all Energy cards. This attack does 10 damage times the number of Energy cards you find there. Show them to your opponent, and put them on top of your deck. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Tail Slap
60
Weakness
Resistance
Retreat Cost
  
  
  
Illus. Shizurow
91/100    




Teriki Tora
Teriki Tora's Review
YAY!!! CUTE AND POWERFUL!
I've always wanted a cute card as the COTW, and I got it! :3 Well, it wasn't my choice to pick the card but heck, I love cuteness! XD Yeah yeah, I'm messing around lol, onto the stuff!

Main Stats:

This card is kinda of short-handed, I mean, come on, a 90 HP EX! The Kingler card that was reviewed earlier was better! And it wasn't an EX! That's this card's MAJOR downfall! But what this card lacks in HP, makes up for attacks.

Attacks:

PokéPower Constrain - Don't diss this attack because it gets rid of your own cards! Just think of it this way, you play it whenever you have 6 or less cards in your hand, and you oponent has 7 or more. It will force your oponent to get rid of cards, and if he/she has only good ones in his hand... >=3

Upstream - "I'll never have enough energy to do this attack" That's where you're wrong. Have a Pokémon that uses a LOT of energy, And waste as much as you can (Gyarados ^_~), then use Delcatty's Upstream attack, and BAM, any energy in your discard goes to attack you, so if you had 13 Energy in your discard, that's 130 damage.

Tail Slap - My only words are, just an attack if you need it.

Last Thoughts:

I like this card, and I can see a lot of strategeys with it. I mean, I mentioned the Gyarados strategy I've seen, and it's risky, but if you can pull it off, it can be a major Power-buster. And because of Upstream's ability to put energy BACK into your deck, it's good for restocking your deck (that and it makes people stop using the Holon's DRE, and start using the Delta DRE, and DRE)

  Teriki Tora's Rating: 3.5 / 5.0