>>36381961Who the fuck asked for this? It's like some 7 year old kid walked into PCL's R+D department, squeaked about his dream card of pikachu and zekrom joining forces and being a super powerful card and then they actually fucking print it. I've seen better balanced fakes of donutsteel legendaries on deviantArt than this.
They're not even a fucking tag team, there's no reference to being a tag team. They could have just shaved Pikachu off the card, called it 'Ultra Zekrom GX' and it would be a damn site more convincing than this desperate, shameless predation of hyperactive children "mummy I want the card that has pikachu and zekrom on it I'll win every game buy it me please mummy!" that becomes a crippling blow to the state of the game the second they print one not weak to Sledgehammer or Riotous Beating.
The only way they can salvage this is by saying "oh how it works is you need a pikachu-gx and zekrom-gx in play, discard both and put this on your bench" but no instead you just put it down as is because they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Seriously, take away the picture, take the words 'pikachu' and 'zekrom' off it and you're left with something that has less redeeming factors than LGP/E.
In fact, I don't bloody care that it dying to Sledgehammer is how it loses. That just means everyone who isn't playing this is playing Buzz to beat it, and then because Buzz is everywhere people start playing Trashalanche or whatever other hyper-efficient Psychic there is - which in turn loses to P&Z TT. At this stage I wouldn't put it past them that they just let the game become an endless rock-paper-scissors (where sometimes the scissors are blunt) but PCL, if you're reading this (which you aren't) if you're seriously happy with the game being in that state, you fucking suck at balancing and shouldn't be anywhere near Pokemon, card games or anything even remotely competitive.
>b-but it looks fun!Fuck off, you probably thought Mewtwo-EX was a good idea.
