The main thing to understand is that this is Psychic Energy’s version of Volcanion (SM – Unbroken Bond 25/214 SM – Black Star Promos SM179). I also won’t be going into a huge amount of detail for this card, because we’ll review it sooner or later. You’ll need multiple Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX is that is your only form of Energy acceleration, and that almost seems like a waste because the appeal of attack that counts Energy attached to other Pokémon is you can have the minimum amount attached to your attacker, with spare attackers at least partially prepped.Įnter Cresselia (SW – Chilling Reign 064/198 SW – Black Star Promos SWSH114)! I almost included this on my Top 15 list, though it would have been low enough that it wouldn’t have made the site’s countdown even if I had. Thanks to Underworld Door, it is reasonable. attached to Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX would only do 100 damage, and getting that much attached, quickly and reliably, would be at least a little tricky. On its own, Max Geist would be a little underwhelming. Unlike Underworld Door, this works with both basic and Special Energy cards, so long as they provide Energy in some form. The attack does 10 damage plus 30 for each Energy attached to all of your Pokémon. “Max Geist” is priced at, but this is a bit misleading due to its effect. So… do we have at least a decent filler attack like we did with yesterday’s Galarian Articuno V? There are also the various other forms of basic Energy support, so having fuel for Underworld Door shouldn’t be too difficult. I mentioned Fog Crystal earlier it is an Item that lets you add either a basic Psychic Energy card or a Basic Pokémon to your hand from your deck. Only basic Psychic Energy count as while in hand, but that’s still a good deal. Yeah, this is a half-power Welder for types, in the form of an Ability on a solid Pokémon VMAX. The former is “Underworld Door”, which lets you attach a Energy from your hand to one of your Benched Pokémon, and if you do, you get to draw two cards as well. Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX has one Ability and knows one attack. It is… normal? Typical? It isn’t low enough to be easy to pay and/or recover from having paid, but it isn’t high enough to be a serious issue, either. Before we get to effects, though, we have its Retreat Cost of. Coupled with how many types are Weak, Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX already looks promising against them, so long as the card’s attack doesn’t let it down. Any Resistance is appreciated, and -30 might actually come in handy. Unfortunately for Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX, its Weakness has also proven to be dangerous. We have no baseline Calyrex cards with which to compare, but yes, Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX is still beefy!ģ20 HP is 20 higher than the “smallest” Pokémon VMAX and 20 lower than the largest… and on other cards, has proven suitably durable even when factoring in being worth three Prizes. You may have noticed I didn’t mention the HP boost that Pokémon VMAX usually receive. SW – Chilling Reign introduced some new support for Psychic Pokémon, in the forms of Fog Crystal and Old Cemetery, so I may have been selling them short the last few reviews. ![]() We still have a few older archetypes kicking around, like Mewtwo & Mew-GX variants, plus somewhat newer stuff like Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX, where exploiting Psychic Weakness should come in handy. ![]() Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX is a type, which seems to vary between “decent” and “very good” in terms of type matching. Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX is also a Dynamax form, but even though it says so on the card, no mechanics deal with that right now. ![]() The name also reminds us that this is specifically the VMAX version of Shadow Rider Calyrex, worth three Prizes when KO’d, unable to use beneficial effects that say they exclude Pokémon V or Pokémon VMAX, vulnerable to deleterious that target such cards, and able to tap into that tiny bit of VMAX support. It has that oddly timeless quality of trying “too hard” to be cool… but dorks like me will fall for that every time. It is stupid, but one of the things I love about this card is its “Shadow Rider” name. Top three time! Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX (SW – Chilling Reign 075/198, 204/198, 205/198) is our third-place pick.
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