Brock's Ninetales
X-Act
Hmm. Brock's Ninetales. This Ninetales has an incredible "Will 'O The Wisp" attack... (Laughs Out Loud)

Of course, its Pokemon Power is interesting. VERY interesting. And... it is interesting for only one reason. It can be comboed with a brilliant Brock card. Yep... Brock's Protection. Suddenly the Metals on your shapeshifted Steelix can't be removed. Another card that is Shapeshift worthy, is Misty's Gyarados. Read the Pokemon Power well: "It can't evolve, devolve, or _use the Pokemon Power of that Pokemon_." (Underline this please) That is so cute of you, Ninetales =D So it should be, like, a GOD card in Standard, right?

OMG, NO! I repeat, NO! What's the problem? Heh, STATUS EFFECTS. If you inflict a Status effect other than Poison, you must discard all Evolution cards from this Pokemon. "Come on, status effects aren't that big..." LOL. I know of a BABY pokemon that can make you asleep for 1 colorless energy... *grins* I know of another BABY that does 20 to all Pokemon that have a Pokemon Power. I know of yet another BABY that shuts off ALL Pokemon Powers...

Another problem is that... erm... you have to evolve from Brock's Vulpix, which is _slightly_ FTKOable. *ends sarcastic tone* Although, Hypnotic Gaze is a nice attack... But let's do that in another COTD :D.

Of course, so far I've only talked about Standard. You'll see the reasons in a jiffy :)

Standard Rating: 7/10 In spite of all the problems listed above, this card is definitely usable in Standard. A shapeshifted Steelix can be impossible to KO. I really do mean impossible. Annihilating Super Energy Removal from your opponent in this format is an angelic blessing :) Heh... if you don't have Status Effects, that is. Which, in the world of Standard, you usually don't :) But the Vulpix, I stress, IS easily FTKOable or OHKOable :( Hmm.

Modified Rating: N/A Heh, it's illegal here lol. And even if it weren't, it would be basically useless.

Booster Draft Rating: 2/10 Erm. This is a rare card which for once is not even WORTH drafting. If you want to get out a Stage 1 or a Stage 2, it's usually not hard to find its previous evolution cards as well. I would just evolve it from its natural basics, thank you very much.

Late Sidenote: Heh. You're surprised at the length of my COTD review, right? Well, so am I ^_^

nikePK
Well, this is an interesting card. It could combo with something like Imposter Professor Oak or something. I actually like this card, even though it takes up your supporter for the turn. The plusses of the card is that your usually going to get a pretty good deal off of it, even if your opponent only has 4 cards in their hand. In my opinion, anything less than 4 would be a waste for you, unless you were horribly desperate for cards. Another plus, you can still play trainers, unlike Professor Elm, there is no discard like Oak. Drawbacks though, are that you have to plan for this card. Its something that if the situation isn't right, it won't help you. You can pray for oak, and get back in the game, but if you pray for this card, you have to make sure that your opponent has a great deal of cards in their hand.

In standard, there isn't much use for it... Elm and Oak are better, making this kinda useless. Still, its better than a lot of cards out there... 5.5/10
In MMF (neo-modified... whatever it is now lol) I can see this card helping out loads. There isn't a grand amount of drawing, and this card can really help out. Play it with lucky stadium to get cards in your opponents hand, or something of that nature. 8.5/10
Since I believe you'd be able to pick which opponent to choose the effects on, this card would work great in team games. One opponent only has 2 or so cards in hand, the other could have around 6, very good here. 8.5/10

Overall, try this card out, you may be pleasantly surprised.
-nikePK

Ace28
This card is awesome. It is total tech. But first lets go through some of the facts. This card is from Gym 2 Series. The 70 HP is ok but who really needs it when you are evolving it into other monsters. 2 Fire Energys for 30 isnt the greatest but once again when you are evolving it into better creatures who really gets aggravated by it. The main thing that makes this card broken is its poke power(duh:/). I mean seriously I could talk about combos for pages and pages but I will just say the main ones.In Standard(Unlimited) Wiggly is the most popular I saw Neo 3 Kabutops and Jungle Pidgeot too ;/(Tyrogue would usually be the downfall of wiggly). In Mf(Old Modified) It was insane I saw Steelix,Neo3 Kabutops, and even Tyranitar ;x. People were just getting anialated by these decks. But sadly there is no trace of it in Mmf(New Modified).This thing could metagame everything which made it virtually indestructable.(That is as long as you got everything you needed out on time). The only downfall of this card in standard was the famous turbo toise deck. In mf what stopped this was the overplayed Feraligatr decks. Too Bad Iggly trashes the idea sometimes. All in all this card pwns.

Standard Rating-9.5(1 Word Pwnage)
Mf-8.4(A Little more sloppy here.;/)
Mmf-Sadly Its Not Here But If It Was....9.6(Metagame Everything)
Draft-9.0(If you can get your hands on this you probally have a hard time getting everything else you needed.)

Popaa & Sons
Copycat is one of the new supporter cards in the Expedition release. These cards are played, only one per turn and left on the field until the end of your turn, and then discarded. They tend to have rather good effects. Copycat is no exception. Copycat allows you to discard your hand, and then draw as many cards as your opponent has in their hand. This has several potential uses. If your opponent has a rather large hand, you can draw as many cards as they have and still play other trainers and cards. What if you are about to deck? Well, if your opponent has fewer cards than you, you could potentially prevent a loss by playing Copycat. The downside to this card is that you are dependant on the number of cards your opponent has at the time. Professor Oaks Research is a little more predictable, always allowing 5 cards to be drawn, but Copycat has the potential to do better. We don't see this replacing Elm, but could certainly be another card drawing card in any competitive deck, generally better than Bill or Mary, which trade one card for 2 only. After play testing this successfully in a No Rares tourney this weekend, we feel we will be seeing a lot of Copycat!

Rating: Standard 5/10 - Inferior to Oak, not likely to replace Elm
MMF 8/10 - Not broken but one of the better cards for replenishing your hand
Draft - 9/10 - card drawing power is king in this format

Ash2000
Brock's Ninetales is a very strong card if used correctly. If you wanna be able to use this card successfully, then you have to use all the combos that help it out. One of the biggest disruption cards is the removal cards. The reason why Steelix is not played as often in unlimited is because of it getting ser'd and er'd, but if u use brock's protection then no one can defend against the powerful steelix. The only thing that makes this card somewhat weak is poison,and paralize. If this card gets these effects then the evolution played on it gets discarded. This card is sometimes underated by people, but the card can be easily countered so is not considered a big threat.

RATINGS:
MMF: N/A --not allowed :(--
UNLIMITED: 8.5/10 --if the deck is constructed properly, this card will work well here--
DRAFT: 4.5/10 --hard to get in a draft, but can be used in a variety of ways in this format--

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