Hello. In this Pokemon TCG post, I cover the cards Flittle, Espathra, Disruptive Letter and Black Kyurem ex from the set Paradise Dragona from Japan. This Paradise Dragona set features a lot of Dragon Pokemon. There are Dragon Pokemon in this set that are not of the Dragon type but are listed as their secondary type.
Topics
- Flittle & Espathra
- Disruptive Letter
- Black Kyurem ex
Flittle & Espathra
Flittle is a low HP Basic Pokemon of the Psychic type. It has one retreat cost, Fighting resistance and Dark weakness. The Splashing Dodge attack does 10 damage for one colourless Energy. If you get lucky and flip Heads then on the opponent's next turn you prevent all damage and effects of attacks done to this Flittle. This effect is a very good defensive effect if you get Heads.
Here is another version of Espathra. This Espathra from Paradise Dragona set is a Stage 1 Psychic Pokemon that evolves from Flittle. The second attack of Spiral Drain costs one Psychic Energy and one Colourless Energy to do 60 damage plus heal 30 damage. The first attack of Mystic Eye for one Colourless Energy does no damage but it devolves 1 of your opponent's Pokemon. You put the highest Stage Evolution card into your opponent's hand. This Mystic Eye attack is a weaker version of the Tool Card Technical Machine: Devolution. The Technical Machine: Devolution card applies to all of your opponent's evolved Pokemon while Espathra does one only. This Evolution line is not very good.
Disruptive Letter
Disruptive Letter is an Item card that shuffles your opponents hand to the bottom of their deck. Then they draw the amount of cards equal to the amount of cards before shuffling.
This card is one of those RNG cards. If the opponent has a good hand then this Item card could give them a new hand that is bad. There is also the other case where the opponent could go from bad hand to good hand. A third case is going from good hand to good hand.
One combo that I saw in a Youtube comment is combining this Disruptive Letter with the Supporter Xerosic's Machinations. If the opponent has a large hand of seven cards or more for example, use Xerosic's Machinations first. The opponent would go down to three cards in hand of their choosing. Then you use Disruptive Letter to shuffle those good cards to the bottom and give a new hand. This combo is quite powerful in terms of hand disruption.
Black Kyurem ex
Black Kyurem ex from the Paradise Dragona set is a Water type card here. It is a big Basic Pokemon with 230 HP, three retreat cost and Metal Weakness. The first attack of Ice Age requires 3 Colourless Energy to do 90 damage plus paralysis if the target is a Dragon Pokemon.Black Frost is the second attack. It requires two Water Energy and two Colourless Energy to do 250 damage with 30 recoil damage to itself.
I am trying to see how this attacker can be good. If Dragon types are popular then Black Kyurem ex and its Ice Age attack can be useful. The Energy costs on its attacks are a bit high though. Maybe there will be support cards for it. I dunno.