Team Magma vs Team Aqua
Team Aqua's Manectric
Versions of this card
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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
- 70
- Type
- LightningDarkness
- Stage
- Stage 1
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Weakness
- ×2
- Resistance
- -30
Its Ability
Power Shift
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may move any number of basic Energy cards attached to 1 of your Pokémon with Team Aqua in its name to another of your Pokémon. This power can't be used if Team Aqua's Manectric is affected by a Special Condition.
Its attacks
Thunderspark
50Does 10 damage to each Benched Pokémon (both yours and your opponent's) that has Energy cards attached to it. (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
- Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
- It has an Ability, Power 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.
- Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,299 tournament lists we have read, 760 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 38 Manectric cards on one page, priciest first.