For 3 Water and 1 Colorless, it inflicts a whopping 150 damage to the Defending Pokmon plus 20 damage to all opposing Benched Pokmon at the cost of discarding 3 Water Energy
But because six of your cards are set aside as Prizes, its not a given that youll have access to the card you need, creating a kind of tension not seen in other games and an urgency to KO your opponents Pokmon to claim your Prizes just in case something you need is among them
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Compounding this with face-down creatures provides even more opportunity to psych out an opponent during gameplay
Im willing to bet thats not because Japanese kids in October 1996 took particularly good care of that smartly dressed fellow and his faithful Farfetchd, nor is it because considerably more copies were set for grading due to Pokmon Trader being several times more popular than even Lass, the original waifu card
Blackbeard sits at Tier 2 on onepiece.gg's current tier list with a 67.1% win rate, a real number that's individually higher than Rosinante's 66%, but tier placement on this tracker isn't a pure win-rate ranking, and Blackbeard is classified one tier below the Enel/Luffy/Rosinante Tier 1 trio