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Do you think Irida is a balanced card for this game?

Personally, I think Irida is very strong for a 40 unit AoE heal on the board. What do you think?

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  • Blockinlick
    Blockinlick Member Posts: 75
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    It's pretty good, my problem is that the water decks I run don't have room for it.

    For instance: Palkia, Manaphy, Eevee, Vaporeon, Misty, Pokemon Communication, Poke Ball, Professor's Research, Leaf, X-Speed - what do I take out for this? X-Speed? Maybe, but I know that positioning pokemon the way I need to is crucial in this deck and I'm not sure an AoE heal will work out better.

    In that sense, yes, I think it's balanced… but only because water decks are already busted lol

  • Werenka1
    Werenka1 Member Posts: 22
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    Sure it may be hard to fit into a water deck, but the card specifies water energy, not water pokemon, so any card that could utilize water energy will heal 40hp. Yanmega ex, magneton, dragonite, and every colourless card. Honestly think this might get slept on for a little while

  • zetaDx
    zetaDx Member Posts: 5
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    From my experience with Irida in the past few days, this card has greatly increased the survival chance of Palkia decks, Barry snorlax+staraptor decks and many other decks. It may seem balanced because anyone can easily find this card to use, but if it's other types of decks that don't use this card but have to fight with the risk of encountering this card, from what I've encountered, I think 40 healing in AOE is a bit too strong.