Plasma Blast

Genesect-EX PLB 97/101

PLBKOUltra Rare
Genesect-EX PLB 97

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?
Look at the bottom of your card: you should read PLB 97/101 there. Its illustration is signed 5ban Graphics.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Plasma Blast set, released here on 14 August 2013.

When it came out

Plasma Blast landed here on 14 August 2013.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
170
Type
Grass
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
97/101
Set
Plasma BlastPLB
Illustrated by
5ban Graphics

The Korean text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Its Ability

Red Signal

When you attach a Plasma Energy from your hand to this Pokémon, you may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with his or her Active Pokémon.

Its attacks

Megalo Cannon

100

Does 20 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.

  1. A strength

    170 HP. Only 3 cards in Plasma Blast carry more.

  2. A strength

    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.

  3. A strength

    Megalo Cannon hits for 100 on 3 Energy. Nothing in Plasma Blast hits harder for that price.

  4. A strength

    It has an Ability, Red Signal. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  5. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,417 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.

  6. Keep in mind

    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.

  7. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,417 tournament lists we have read, 1,251 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.

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