The booster pack includes a large number of practical and powerful cards, making it an excellent choice for optimizing your deck construction. What surprises will the cards included in this "Victory Star Guide" bring to the current environment?
Force all opponent Pokémon's weaknesses to become Psychic-type? Introducing the brand new Unown V and Unown VSTAR!
Unown V has a move called "Victory Symbol" that requires 3 energy of any type to activate. Its effect allows you to win the game outright if you have only 1 prize card remaining when using this move.
The VSTAR Power of Unown VSTAR, a move known as "Stellar Cipher," is even more "unreasonable." As long as this Pokémon is on the field, all opponent Pokémon's weaknesses become Psychic-type. This means all your Psychic-type Pokémon's moves can deal double or even more damage to the opponent, making it extremely powerful.
Try pairing it with the following cards to strike fear into your opponent!
The Pokémon tool "Supreme Goggles," included in the booster pack "Brave Allure Stars," allows the Pokémon equipped with this card to calculate move damage as ×3 when considering the opponent's Active Pokémon's weakness. Thanks to this effect, even Pokémon with low-damage moves have the chance to punch above their weight, knocking out opponent's Pokémon V, and taking 2 or more prize cards.
The Psychic-type Stage 1 Evolution Pokémon, Claydol, included in the booster pack "Azure Sea Shadows," has a move called "Psychic Arrow" that deals 60 damage to one of your opponent's Pokémon. This move calculates weakness and resistance even when targeting Benched Pokémon.
The Psychic-type Pokémon Medicham, also included in the booster pack "Azure Sea Shadows," has a move called "Vigorous Kick." This move deals a base damage of 80, and if there is a Pokémon VMAX on your opponent's field, it deals an additional 90 damage. After using Unown VSTAR's "Stellar Cipher," this is enough to knock out the majority of Pokémon VMAX.
A large number of cards related to the banished zone have appeared in the booster pack "Azure Sea Shadows." These types of cards are also included in the booster pack "Victory Star Guide." Let's take a look at them together.
Banette's move "Banished Vein" can be used if you have 10 or more cards in your banished zone. The effect of this move is to place 12 damage counters on your opponent's Pokémon in any way you like. Since the effect involves placing damage counters, even Manaphy with the ability "Wave Veil" cannot protect its Benched Pokémon from being affected.
Delphox V's move "Mystical Flames" can inflict both Burned and Confused status conditions on the opponent's Active Pokémon, disrupting their upcoming strategy. The move "Magical Fire" deals 120 damage and allows you to send 2 attached Energy cards to the banished zone, dealing an additional 120 damage to one of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.
Rotom V's ability "Quick Recharge" allows you to draw 3 cards from the top of your deck and end your turn, making it a great way for trainers who go first to replenish their hand. Rotom VSTAR's ability "Star Transformation" lets you discard any number of cards from your hand and then draw an equal number of cards. The move "Scrap Pulse" lets you send any number of Pokémon Tool cards from your discard pile to the banished zone and, in addition to dealing 80 base damage, it deals an extra 40 damage for each card sent to the banished zone this way.
The booster pack "Astral Radiance" includes two Radiant Pokémon cards: Radiant Greninja and Radiant Heat Rotom.
Radiant Greninja has the ability "Concealed Cards," which allows you to discard an Energy card from your hand during your turn and draw two cards from the top of your deck. This ability is particularly useful in situations where you need to replenish your hand or discard Energy cards.
Its move, "Moonlight Shuriken," lets you discard two Energy attached to this Pokémon to deal 90 damage to two of your opponent's Pokémon each.
Radiant Heat Rotom has the ability "Static Shock," which allows you to place two damage counters on a Pokémon V whenever either player attaches an Energy card from their hand to it. This ability can be strategically used to gradually weaken your opponent's Pokémon V as they power them up.
The above cards will all be featured in the "Astral Radiance" set, which will be released on November 15th. Stay tuned!
