The trade-off is Pokémon-GX have some useful bits of support (Cherish Ball), better HP than their non-Pokémon-GX counterparts, and are likely to have stronger effects.Ĭharizard-GX is a Type at a time when it is good to be a Type they’re good enough that Type counters are seeing play, though they aren’t enough to wreck the usefulness of Fire Types. As a Pokémon-GX, Charizard-GX gives up two Prizes when KO’d, has to deal with counters, and is excluded certain beneficial effects. Though Charizard-GX Evolves from the same Charmander and Charmeleon as baseline Charizard cards, they do not count against each other for the 4 Copy Rule, nor would Charizard-EX or Reshiram & Charizard-GX.

150/147 SM – Black Star Promos SM60, Shiny Vault SV49/SV94), we’ve already reviewed, so don’t confuse the two and remember that they count against each other for the 4 Copy Rule. There is an older Charizard-GX (SM – Burning Shadows 20/147. We begin this week with Charizard-GX (Hidden Fates 9/68, SM – Black Star Promos SM211). Those prices are in triple digits while the other don’t cost as much! Don’t be that person! That is because one might try to scam others thinking that Charizard from either Hidden Fates or Detective Pikachu EQUALS one from Burning Shadows or it’s shiny counterpart. One thing to NEVER do is to try and mislead shoppers about Charizard-GX. If you want a one time heavy hitter, Flare Blitz got you covered, and it’s cheaper than the other 300 damage attacks by one energy. Because of Mew & Mewtwo-GX, Charizard-GX has seen some play, and for a card that I didn’t have any optimism (it still isn’t good on its own), this is pretty impressive!Īgain, this is a card that I didn’t have much to recommend with, but it helped other cards. Mew & Mewtwo-GX’s Perfection ability allows you to copy attacks from EX/GX Pokémon in your Bench or your discard pile, so it makes sense to put a single copy of today’s Charizard-GX in your deck for the purpose of being discarded as bait so you can copy it’s attacks. Those are some examples of attacks that did 300 damage like Flare Blitz, but those examples are REPEATABLE attacks. Charizard-GX from Burning Shadows has Crimson Storm which costs RRRCC and discards 3 fire energies attached to it. Mega Rayquaza’s Dragon Ascent costs RRRLC and discards 2 energy from it. Mega Charizard Y’s Crimson Dive costs RRCCC and does 50 damage to itself (or 100 damage due to it’s own Psychic weakness from it’s own Psychic type regarding Mew & Mewtwo-GX) Mega Charizard X’s Wild Blaze costs RRDCC and discard the top 5 cards of your deck.

In terms of other attacks doing a flat 300 damage: While Flare Blitz is labeled a GX attack, the others could suffer worse drawbacks. Expanded has other Pokémon that also does 300 damage, but it has other drawbacks. For the standard format, Flare Blitz is perhaps the only attack that does 300 damage, and it could easily take care of Tag Teams for an easy three prizes. I suppose the reason why Charizard-GX is worth a look is because it gives Mew & Mewtwo-GX an attack to copy. It isn’t that bad, but one wished that it did more or have a helpful effect. Flare Blitz is a one time deal, but then you are stuck with a vanilla attack. Flare Blitz is on a similar boat, OHKOing 99.9% of Pokémon before factoring damage reduction, increasing HP, or have a protective effect from GX Pokémon, and there are a few of them (Keldeo-GX, Hoopa SHL, A-Ninetales BUS & TEU, just to name a few). If we were to look at the base damage, then Flamethrower barely 2HKOs 99.9% of Pokémon in the game when not factoring damage reduction or increasing it’s Max HP. Flamethrower does 140 damage while Flare Blitz does 300 damage, but can only use that GX attack once per game.

Ok, so Charizard has only two attacks, both which costs RRCC and have no additional effect other than doing damage. This is one of those cards which doesn’t seem to have much going for it, but some players are trying to make it work. It seems like there’s a third Charizard-GX that we’re looking at based on the card effects.

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