Dragon Frontiers
Salamence ex δ
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What the card itself says
Everything below is written on the card itself: how much health it has, what it fears, and what its attacks cost.
- HP
- 160
- Type
- Water
- Stage
- Stage 2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -30-30
Its Ability
Type Shift
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may use this power. Salamence ex's type is Fire until the end of your turn.
Its attacks
Claw Swipe
60Dual Stream
80You may do 40 damage instead of 80 to the Defending Pokémon. If you do, this attack does 40 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
What to make of it
Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.
WHAT IT HAS GOING FOR IT
- 160 HP, and nothing in Dragon Frontiers goes higher. That is the wall your opponent has to break through before taking a Prize.
- Dual Stream hits for 80 on 4 Energy. Nothing in Dragon Frontiers hits harder for that price.
- It has an Ability, Type Shift. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR
- None of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
- It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.
- It is a Stage 2. You have to come through Shelgon to get here, or find a Rare Candy to skip the middle step.
- Weakness Colorless ×2. Against a Colorless Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 2,362 run at least one Pokémon of that type.
Who plays it
None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.
The other cards of this Pokémon
Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 28 Salamence cards on one page, priciest first.