Absol's Poke Body 'Eye of Disaster' forces your opponent to place 2 damage counters on each Pokemon they place on the field as long as Absol is active. This is obviously a good starter for a possible deck seeing as you can get damage on the field really early while setting up Mandibuzz on the bench, this will give you some great targets for Blindside.
The same strategy applies through Tyranitar and Kingdra by being able to use 'Darkness Howl' and 'Spray Splash' to add damage around the board to keep sniping your opponent's bench before they can get anything going.
The single Darkness energy cost for this attacks is also a very nice plus.
Mandibuzz's second attack, Punishment can also be very handy. Costing just a Dark energy and a Double Colourless means that you can get it set up in a couple of turns and it allows you to do 40 damage plus 60 more if your target is a Stage 2. 100 damage is nothing to shy away from since this brings a lot of Pokemon into one-hit KO range and even more so if using the above Pokemon mentioned earlier. Not to mention it will also one-hit KO Gengar Prime in an instant.
Overall, this is a very interesting card that has a fair few partners to test out. Since it has a lot of options and a fairly nice resistance to Donphan and Machamp, I'm going to give Mandibuzz a 7.5/10. The same score as Lanturn from a previous day, but that's because I can see it having the same sort of potential in a possibly successful rogue idea.
Hope you liked this fairly lengthy COTD and, as ever, comment below what your score would be.
Dan
3 comments:
Hey Dan, Mike here from the states again- just wanna say, I love your COTD review on Mandibuzz, well written and very informative with good practical advice. I'm really looking forward to what you're going to post tomorrow!!
I really like it for it's amazing attacks I use it in my illusions deck or also known as zoroark deck for how effective this card can get. I give this card a 8/10 for it's amazing attacks and combo's you can use for it
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6cardman
i love madibuzz, props dan for picking up on its potential alongside gengar: with so many popular basic pokes with 60 hp, a blindside takes it 1 counter away...i hav tested a gengar mandi on playtcg.com and i was once able to take three pokes into the lost zone with a single cursed drop, i know it will be an uncommon occurance to expect this everytime you play the deck but the potential is definately there!
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