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Whumpee really looks up to powered Caretaker. Whumpee didn't seem to have any powers themself, but when Caretaker gets badly injured while trying to protect them from Whumper, Whumpee snaps and awakens uncontrollable powers, far more powerful that Caretaker or even Whumper.
I love it when something acts as a catalyst for dormant powers!
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Pokemon Card of the Day #1531: Recycle (Emerging Powers)
Recycle was a returning card from all the way back in the Fossil set, and this one hadn’t changed at all. It was an Item card that had you flip a coin. If heads, you put a card from your discard pile on top of your deck. Getting a card back was cool, of course, but the coin flip made it really unreliable. It was really hard to justify using this over other cards for any empty deck slot despite the fact that a heads flip did achieve a pretty notable result.
Pokemon Card of the Day #1530: Pokemon Catcher (Emerging Powers)
Pokemon Catcher may have been the most important card in the Black & White era. It was an Item card that let you switch you opponent’s Active Pokemon with a Benched Pokemon of your choosing. It was basically a new version of Gust of Wind from the Base Set with very similar results.
Basically every deck ran this card to some degree. Being able to pick which Pokemon your opponent had out front was incredibly powerful. You could get a KO on an important Pokemon, whether it was a Pokemon EX for extra Prizes or a supporting Pokemon holding up the opponent’s team. You could get something with a high Retreat Cost in Active slot to get them stuck for a while. This was even more impressive if you used this just before setting up an Item lock. Said Item lock from the opponent could prevent this from being played, but that was literally the only downside to this card.
Pokemon Catcher was so powerful, in fact, that they changed the wording of the card at the release of the XY set to require a coin flip to be successful. The BW era showed its full power and you had to build your deck to be able to play around it to some extent to be successful.
Pokemon Card of the Day #1529: Max Potion (Emerging Powers)
Max Potion was one of those cards with a very good effect but a major drawback limiting it to certain decks. It was an Item card that healed all damage from 1 of your Pokemon, which was amazing for all those bulky Pokemon, especially Pokemon EX, out there. The catch was that you then had to discard all Energy attached to that Pokemon, which was a problem considering a heavily damaged Pokemon would be far more likely to have Energy than not to have any.
Some decks could still make use of this despite that issue. Klinklang decks loved this card since they could move around Metal Energy to make Max Potion work at its best. Other decks running exclusively on bulky Pokemon that also had a bunch of alternate ways to switch out also used a copy or two sometimes. Terrakion could be a sitting duck if Active with no Energy, for example, but saving one with a Max Potion and using Switch or the like to pivot it out could help in the long run. Eelektrik decks had an engine to distribute the discarded Lightning Energy, so those liked Max Potion as well. There were other good examples when looking into the decks available once the XY sets started releasing, but those will be covered in another post at a much later date. Overall, Max Potion wasn’t for every deck, but those that could lessen the pain of that mass Energy discard could make very good use of it.
Pokemon Card of the Day #1528: Crushing Hammer (Emerging Powers)
Crushing Hammer was the new version of the old Energy Removal 2. It was an Item card that required a coin flip to work. If the flip was heads, you discarded an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokemon. The effect was strong, but that coin flip requirement made it so that Crushing Hammer didn’t make it into a lot of decks.
It did, however, make it into some. It was lucky enough to be around at a time where some decks had a ton of room for Item cards. It was also around with Enhanced Hammer, a card that worked all the time but only on Special Energy. Combining the two could put some of those decks that relied on a ton of Special Energy in a rough spot. The most famous deck to make use of this was certain variants of Darkrai EX that wanted to have the ability to slow down some opponents and could afford that deck space.
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Pokemon Card of the Day #1527: Cheren (Emerging Powers)
Cheren was another choice for a drawing Supporter, and it was probably the most simple of them all. You simply drew 3 cards no matter when you played it. Its impact was lower overall than most of its competition, which meant that it rarely saw use, but it was also a card that provided some help for a deck no matter what your hand was like. There was some value in this, so while cards such as Professor Oak’s New Theory, Professor Juniper/Professor Sycamore, N, Colress, Bianca, and even Shauna saw more use overall depending on the format (which extended for 4 years into BCR-On due to reprints), Cheren was still worth a look due to its consistent nature that didn’t make you lose access to any of your cards and worked even with a bigger hand.
Pokemon Card of the Day #1526: Bianca (Emerging Powers)
Bianca certainly started off well for a card. Being a Supporter that let your draw cards was always a nice thing. This one let you draw cards until you had 6 in your hand. While nowhere near as strong as Professor Juniper, it didn’t make you discard the rest of your hand. You did need a really low hand to use it well, however, so it was limited to those decks that both wanted to rush through cards quickly and didn’t want to lose an early turn to Tropical Beach. This limited type of deck that it was best in, along with heavy Supporter competition at the time, meant that Bianca wasn’t very common. It was still good enough to make it into a few top decks despite that since it was a very functional card that was going to find a few times where it was simply the best option on a certain turn. Even if it wasn’t and you were stuck with just Bianca in your hand, it wasn’t rare to be down to 3-4 cards and get something out of it anyway.
Pokemon Card of the Day #1525: Tornadus (Emerging Powers)
Tornadus was pretty typical for legendary Pokemon in the BW era. They had a lot of bulk for Basic Pokemon along with, in most cases, a very usable attack. Being a Colorless-type meant that it was a lot easier for Tornadus to fit into a deck than most Pokemon could, and it was only a matter of time before it would find a good home.
110 HP was impressive for a Basic Pokemon that only gave up a single Prize. Sure, it was still in the range of the likes of Reshiram and Plasma Freeze Kyurem, but there were a lot of attacks Tornadus could take. The Lightning Weakness did come into play if Magnezone or Thundurus EX showed up though Zekrom was still too powerful to care about such things. The big gem in the stats was a Fighting Resistance, which could help Tornadus get into decks that struggled against the likes of Donphan, Terrakion, and Landorus EX since a decent attacker that could actually take a hit from those was very useful. Tornadus also managed to require a single Energy to retreat, which was low enough to not need extra help.
Energy Wheel needed a Colorless Energy to work and simply let you move an Energy from 1 of your Benched Pokemon to Tornadus. Chances to use this were few and far between. It was best to power up your Tornadus in other ways.
Hurricane’s 80 damage was nice, even if not spectacular, for the price of 3 Colorless Energy. You had to move a basic Energy card from Tornadus to 1 of your Benched Pokemon, but that was doable and at least the Energy stayed on the field.
Tornadus wasn’t the most spectacular Pokemon, but there were a lot of Lightning-type decks based around things like Eelektrik and Zekrom. Tornadus could work in those decks since it could use Lightning Energy while also providing an important Fighting-type resistance. As time went on, even Tornadus fell behind compared to options such as Tornadus EX, but there were several months where this card was a common sight in top-level decks. It was a really good back-up to Zekrom.
