Trevenant XY14 & Slurpuff XY15 – Pokemon Promo Card Reviews

by  ElspethFTW, Old School Duelist

The Pokemon Trading Card Game has many promo cards only available by purchasing  certain blister packs in retail stores. One of these blister pack products contains one of two promos: either  Trevenant #XY14  or  Slurpuff #XY15.

Trevenant #XY14  is a Psychic-type Stage 1 Pokemon with 2 attacks. The first is Eerie Wave, for only a single Psychic Energy, and deals 20 base damage plus also makes your opponent’s Active Pokemon confused. The second attack, Wood Hammer, costs 2 Psychic energy and 1 colorless energy and deals 90 base damage. Also, you flip a coin, and if it’s tails, Trevenant deals 20 damage to itself.

As far as play-ability goes, Trevenant is not terrible, but its second attack is a bit below average. Being able to force Confusion on an opponent is pretty good, however.

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Slurpuff #XY15 is definitely the better of the two promos. It’s a Stage 1 Fairy-type Pokemon with two attacks. The first, Cotton Guard, requires 1 Fairy Energy and 1 Colorless Energy, deals 30 base damage. During your opponent’s next turn, any damage done by attacks to Slurpuff is reduced by 30. This is certainly quite a useful attack.

The second attack is Sleepy Ball, which requires 1 Fairy Energy and 2 Colorless Energy. It deals 60 base damage, but also puts the opponent’s Active Pokemon to sleep. This is very solid, even if the opponent’s Pokemon wakes up in between turns, since this attack will always hit.

While both are good cards for collectors to have, the Slurpuff definitely has the game-play advantage for being a very solid way to slow down an opponent’s game plan. The Trevenant is a bit under-powered for today’s EX dominated format.

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