>>58259439>MistyStill broken, but unreliable. It was more broken before when consistency was a lot harder to achieve. But now the best decks are those that are most consistent - hence why "draw your entire deck by turn 5" is the meta, because then you can guarantee your strat is in your hand/in play ASAP even if you get a bad first draw. Eevee doesn't give a fuck what your starting hand is most of the time because it'll be your endgame hand within a few turns.
>SabrinaLegitimately still useful. Cyrus is slightly better but situational and depends on what kind of pressure your deck needs more.
>Charizard nukeStokezard already outclassed it. It's too slow to justify now. Theoretically it has legs with Magby but that goes back to the initial issue of being less consistent than StokeZard who doesn't need baby support to get online fast.
>Pika ex and early gameToo little HP and too little damage. Plus, consistency, again - you need to stuff your eck with basic fillers to make it consistently deal 90 damage by turn 2, which takes up valuable slots. You can just run Sylvanny and do MORE damage while not being a prize sponge and synergy with any deck really. New Pika EX outclasses it entirely since it actually works as a nuke instead of an objectively worse Sylvanny.
There are few old cards that really hold their own weight anymore. Greninja is probably the best older designed card because they overtuned it as fuck probably on accident. You tried listing outliers and still kinda failed. Just look at the most prominent decks from back in the day and you'll see that there's just undeniable powercreep.
Mewtwo? Heh, you need FOUR energies, it can't gen its own energies, AND it destroys TWO energies when it attacks? Literally just a worse Giratina - the extra 20 damage and lack of recoil isn't a valuable tradeoff for literally having your attack go offline for 1 turn unless you have specific combos/support (which aren't consistent).
