#neo destiny

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illus. Kagemaru Himeno "Light Vaporeon" from Neo Destiny

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Light & Dark Pokémon from Pokémon TCG Neo Destiny (2002) illustrations by Tomokazu Komiya ⭐️

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Pokemon Card of the Day #3148: Counterattack Claws (Neo Destiny)

Counterattack Claws was another new Tool in Neo Destiny, and it brought another potential coin flip. If the Pokemon this was attached to was your Active Pokemon and was damaged by an opponent's attack, you flipped a coin. A heads flip put 2 damage counters on the Defending Pokemon, then Counterattack Claws got discarded. You were using something for a 50% chance to get a bit of chip damage, and there was some argument for sing this in a few decks that commonly fell just short of KO numbers. Kingdra liked it against common Fire-types, for example. It was almost never better than just using Gold Berry or Focus Band for their stronger overall impacts, as a flip for an entire free turn was bigger than a flip for 20 damage and a big heal could also buy a turn pretty often. It was still decent enough when it worked in the right spot, but the one chance then discard thing was hard to overcome.

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A few of my Favorite Mareeps (in no particular order) #2

Neo Destiny 75/105 ~ Kagemaru Himeno

Best Quality: da big city, baaabyyyy!

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Neo Destiny Espeon & Blaine's Arcanine

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Shining Magikarp

Neo Revelation 66/64

2000

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Snagged some oldies.

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illus. Naoyo Kimura "Light Wigglytuff" from Neo Destiny

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Pokémon TCG Neo Destiny (2002) Dark Pokémon illustrations by Mitsuhiro Arita 🤩 (I removed the holographics)

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Pokemon Card of the Day #3154: Mantine (Neo Destiny)

Mantine dealt decent damage for the cost of its attack, which was nice on a Basic Pokemon. It couldn't do it on back to back turns, which prevented it from being a reliable Pokemon to build around. Didn't seem too promising unless there was a common Pokemon that had a Weakness to it that often needed dealing with... Okay, so that existed, and Mantine suddenly looked pretty cool at a time where one of the best decks really wanted a Water-type to help it out.

60 HP wasn't amazing by any means, but this was a Basic Pokemon so it was rather expected. At least Magcargo had to discard 1 Energy to KO here, which was notable considering Mantine's role. The Lightning Weakness tended to only matter against Electabuzz or Elekid due to it really only seeing use in Neo-On, while a Fighting Resistance was always nice to block Tyrogue. The Retreat Cost was 2, so if you could fit some Switch or Balloon Berry it was a pretty good idea to do so.

Giant Wave was the only attack here. 2 Water Energy got you a very respectable 40 damage, but Mantine couldn't attack during your next turn. 40 was just enough to KO an Entei or Magcargo on a Water Weakness, and that in itself was a role for Metal-type decks like Scizor. It could be hard to deal with Fire-types otherwise.

Mantine was pretty common alongside Scizor, as it was the most reliable way to get a KO on a Magcargo or Entei at the time. Other things like Suicune and even Vaporeon were tried for different effects, but Mantine needed 2 Energy and was a Basic Pokemon so it was generally the best choice. It was only going to be good in those spots, but they came up often enough that Mantine was an important Pokemon in the Neo-On format.

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Light Jolteon Neo Destiny

Jolteon Undaunted

If requests are still open, could you do a nonbinary jolteon or seviper?

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