Card of the Day – Palkia & Dialga Legend (Triumphant TM 101)

I know that a lot of requests have been made for my review of this card. Sorry I didn’t get to it sooner, I’m simply going down the list of requests. So, without further ado, here is my take on Palkia & Dialga Legend.

Note: In case you don’t know, Palkia & Dialga Legend = PDL.

Palkia & Dialga Legend comes with a huge 160 HP. Since it’s a Legend Pokémon, similar to ex Pokémon, your opponent will collect 2 Prizes when it’s KO’d. It is a Water and Metal type, meaning it can hit Donphan along with yesterday’s reviewed Charizard for Weakness. However, this is near pointless as it doesn’t actually do damage, but we’ll get to that in a bit. One nice merit about its types, however, is it can (ab)use Special M Energies.

Perhaps DPL’s biggest Weakness is literally its Weakness. Being weak to Lightning and Fire is terrible. That means Magnezone Prime/SF, Luxray GL LV.X, Blaziken FB LV.X, Charizard, Typhlosion Prime, etc. will all hit you for twice the damage. Frankly, unless its attacks are mind-blowing, this fact alone will prevent it from seeing play.

So, are its attacks mind-blowing? Well… let’s find out! “Sudden Delete”, which costs WCC, already gets us off to a good start as it can (ab)use Double Colorless Energy. Sudden Delete allows you to choose one of your opponent’s benched Pokémon and put it, as well as all cards attached to it, to their hand. The biggest card stopping this from being an amazing attack? Broken Time-Space. Obviously, it would be most useful on a Stage 2 Pokémon with 2-4 Energy attached. However, with BTS, Rare Candy and as well as a format filled with one Energy attackers, it just isn’t an effective tactic.

PDL also comes with the attack “Time Control”, which, for the high cost of MMC forces you to discard all M Energy attached to it. After you do, take the top two cards of your opponent’s deck and make them Prize cards. Well, I don’t see this attack as being very useful for a few reasons. First of all, not only does it require three Energy, but each time you use the attack, it requires you to discard at least two of them. The odds of you being able to use this attack at least twice before it is KO’d is very low.

Overall, its attacks are interesting and seem like they’re good, but if you read the fine print, you realize that they’re easy for your opponent to play around. Frankly, I find this disappointing because this card seemed like it could be the first truly amazing Legend card. I appreciate that ERL is a good card, but I’m talking about a hands down good one.

One other strategy that people have been talking about is to combo PDL along side Flygon LV.X for a milling deck, but I don’t think that would work very well as the main cards would have x2 Weaknesses to Lightning, Colorless and Fire. In addition, IMO, it would be too slow and underpowered damage wise to work, but perhaps someday something to that extent will be viable.

My Recommendation: I want it to be good, it seems like it’d be good, but it’s not.

Rating 2.75/5 (It’s a 2 Prize card liability)

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20 replies

  1. Anonymous

    Floatzel GL Lv.X and Magnezone SF (Super Connectivity). There’s a photo of a real CC’s game where someone used PDL to give his opponent twenty-one prizes. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. XD

  2. CarlosPero

    One interesting aspect about Luxchomp is that it burns through DCE to take cheap prizes. It can take 6 prizes consistently, but can it take 8 or 10 for the win? Good question.

  3. James Hall

    This partnered with Heatran X could allow you to get two off before it is ko’d. Exploud would help too.

  4. venny kid

    Compiling Comments:
    Heatrean X for energy recovery
    Floatzel GL X for DPL recovery.
    Deckout/Out Prize your oppentent.
    Remember: as long as you use time control once before DLP is KO’ed, no prizes are gained by you oppenent. Sit on DLP forever until your opponent ends up with 1,000,000+ prizes.

  5. theo Seeds

    I don’t think 2 prizes is big since you will add 4 or 6, and Heatran X can combo this, as well as Versi pointing out Magnezone.

  6. billy fischer

    your wrong, its second attack is combo-ed quite nicely with heatran lv.X, allowing you to add 2 prizes each turn.

  7. Grant O'Brien

    You are at a tournament. Time is called. You are down a prize. Send up this with MM, attach, Time Control, you are ahead a prize. BANG!!

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