The Glacial Prince of Strength

Now it’s time to present the Glacial Prince of Strength: Floedononh.

He got a theme: Iceberg. His name remember Iceberg, so I got that he will be theme as a Iceberg pokemon.

In the Pokemon TCG, pokemons don’t get themes. In the game, of course they get, but in the TCG the moves, PokeBody’s or Pokemon Power don’t appear to have some concept behind their. So, I’m gonna do different and make the Strength Prince a theme.

He is a prince for Strength, and also a Iceberg pokemon. When I think about Icebergs I think how their are more huge than we can see. Superficiality, their appear to be not so big, but in depth, there are enormous. And this is the theme of Floedononh family!

Supperficiality, their moves will be appear to be weak, but with a depth look, all players can see their potential. If this pokemon has few energy, he will stay in the surface of his moves, but as he accumulates energy, his moves will be stronger.

This also combines with the theme of Strength: The true strength lies in work yours potentials, and this will be the rule here! As these pokemon gather more energy, their strength grow up.

So, let’s stop talking about the theme and the concept in this line, and let’s see the Cards.

Glowice is fine. He is made for work with four energy. Water gun can do 10 points of damage with one energy (the cost) or 40 damage with the four energy. His other move, Cold Water Gun gather force to frozen the opponent pokemon. With two energy it got a 25% of chance for frozen the defending pokemon. It’s weak. With three energy it will have 50% chance of frozen, what is better but not so much for the cost, and with four energy the move will always frozen the defending pokemon, which is better and very defensive. Ok, his cost is not the better for the effect, but look, as similar to Pharaox, the first stage of the Strength Prince cannot be something so powerfull.

So, here is Floberg. He is cheap, but he is made for work with five water energy cards. Glaciaate can knock out a pokemon if it has three water energy cards or more. But if the move fail in knock out the defending pokemon, at last he will be frozen. And Icy Horn work here. If the defending pokemon is Frozen, this move will cause extra damage if you have more energy. With all five energy, this move can cause 90 pts of damage, what is great!

And here comes the Strength Glacial Prince: Floedononh. He got Charisma and a lot of Guts! Floedononh is made to work with six water energy cards. Ice Crash is a good move, but work very well with Icy Wind. If the defending pokemon is frozen, it can cause 120 points of damage, if he got the six energy he needs.

Icy Wind works to make Ice Crash a very good move. If has a chance of make the defending pokemon and other one pokemon in bench to be frozen. So, when the defending pokemon is defeat, the next can be already ready for Ice Crash. Or even this move can secure that you opponent can’t run from Ice Crash retreating his active pokemon. If you have all six energy cards, you will only loss the coin flip if you get real very bad luck.

But Iceberg Slam is the final crash move. With this move I want to pass the feeling of something very big colliding and damaging both sides, but more the opposing side, of course. With this move you have to sacrifice you water energy cards. The player decides how much he wants do discard. For each discarded card, the player chose one opposing pokemon and put two damage counters on it (this process ignore all effects that reduces damage!). Also, the Slam damages Floedononh, with 10 points of damage per energy discarded, and this will damage both players deck’s, discarding one top card on Deck.

Iceberg Slam, using all six energy cards, can put twelve damage counters on you opponent side! And this move have a versatile use. You can discard all energy and put lots of damage counters, or just one or two to knock out a benched pokemon.

The Iceberg Prince has a lot of potential. Work your potentials is the true Strength and this is why he is the Strength Prince. But, Floedononh family has is weakness too. These pokemon need a lot of energy card to use all his potential and has a high retreat cost, which makes retreat a choice not only for survival but too for weak these pokemon. Other weakness is that the more damaging moves needs the defending pokemon to be frozen. It’s not a great problem, but can slow the progress of the game. But if the defending pokemon is immune to frozen, oh, you have a great problem. And the only way to counter this is using Iceberg Slam.

Like the Pharaoh Theme, the Glacial Prince Theme has a few cards to support him. But this will be subject for the next post.

And, if you liked his design, here is the link for the source of his artist:
http://leafyheart.deviantart.com/art/097-098-099-Narwhal-Fakemon-368770678

For today, remember that work your potentials is the true strength.

And, if you like it: Hire me Nintendo for the VI Generation. ;)