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card review Gallade: The most flexible and powerful card in all of the Modified Legal sets and beyond!
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Gallade

Card text:
colorlessfighting Sonic Blade     
Put Damage counters on the Defending Pokemon until it is 50 HP away from being Knocked Out. If you do, your opponent switches the Defending Pokemon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokemon.

colorlesscolorlesspsychic Psychic Cut     60+
You may choose as many of your face-down Prize cards as you like and put them face up. If you do, this attack does 60 damage plus 20 more damage for each Prize card you choose. (These cards remain face up for the rest of the game.)
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Type: Fighting
  • Weakness: P+30
  • Number: 6
  • Subtype: Stage 2 Pokémon
  • Hit Points: 130 HP
  • Retreat Cost: CC
Gallade
The most flexible and powerful card in all of the Modified Legal sets and beyond!

written by jhhpokemonwc 

General description:
Gallade is the most assuring card you can get. Sonic Blade lets you put damage on your opponent untill it has 50 hp left. Psychic cut knocks out all pokemon affected by Sonic Blade, but if the situation is urgent, you can flip some prize cards over and get 20 extra damage for each you flipped over!

Uses:
I use this card to reveal prize cards, which is the popular use in tournaments. Another use is to give Cresselia Lv.X easy knock outs.

Strategies and game play:
This card really affects the vision of prize cards and being able to do extra damage for one hit knock outs of the best pokemon. Definite strategy is to use Sonic Blade on all of your opponent's pokemon then use psychic cut to knock them all out!

Combos with other cards:
Try combining Gallade with Gardevoir from Secret Wonders. It also goes well with Lunatone and Solrock. My favorite pair is Gallade and Cresselia Lv.X.

Ways to counteract it:
The simple ways would be to supply your deck with Flygon EX or some other pokemon with 150 hp and no weakness to fighting. Then put some buffer peices and pluspowers in. Also add some rare candies.
Strengths/Pros:
This card can knock out any pokemon in one hit exept for Wailord form Great Encounters. It dosent matter if it has resistance or if it's psychic. If it doesen't take one hit, it takes two.

Weaknesses/Cons:
It has a little problem with Flygon ex, but nothing to bad.

Variations:
This card has been writen in more than 50 languages, including english. The only Gallade version is the Secret Wonders originals.

Artwork and aesthetics:
The picture by Daisuke Ito is relly awesome, with it's psychic glow around it and the blades ready for attack. It totaly fits the attacks.
Overall rating:
If I could rate this card higher, I would, but 10/10!

 


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Subject: New Variation   Posted: March 30, 2008 11:50 am Reply with quote  Report content icon

About a week ago a new variation came out in the POP7 set.
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