Card of the Week – Double Colorless Energy HS #103

HeartGold & SoulSilver HS #103

Cons:
A Special Energy card, so not searchable.
Also, limited to only four copies in deck.
Limited recovery options once it hits the discard pile.

Double Colorless Energy, or DCE for short, is one of the best cards to come out of HGSS. It meshes very well with a lot of current popular decks, and makes a few that were a turn to slow, now a little faster, thus more viable in the format. It definitely will do its part in a meta-shift, thus making it a very exciting, promising, and stable card.

Get your hands on 4 (or more!) copies now, if you don’t have any already.
9/10

One of the biggest threats DCE brings us in this shift of the metagame is Garchomp C. Once it levels up (healing everything as it does), we get a mean sniping machine, ready to take out unshielded Claydols on the bench for one simple drop of a double colorless. The fact that this can come out of nowhere makes the combo powerful, as it adds a degree of versatility and a surprise tactic to any deck that utilizes it.

Flygon is also hyped to be big with this card, and rightfully so. DCE gives a lot more consistency to Flygon for its attacks, hardening up what was once a weakness to the deck- a slow set up. It also gives Flygon more combination opportunities, pairing with anything ELSE that likes DCE to attack with alongside Flygon. Free retreat + faster attacks = nice deck there trainer

Unfortunately, we can only have 4 copies of this card in any deck, which limits its options, as it is barely searchable by reasonable means. It is a nice card to draw however, no matter when you get it, as you can just save it in your hand for that big comeback after your main hitter has bit the dust or come out with a surprise snipe from the Garchomp C described above.

DCE will be a mainstay in the metagame, much like Claydol has become, until it too is cycled out, but surely we will all be able to find our favorite cards to use alongside the special energy card from the distant past.

Anyone else remember using this in the old “haymaker” deck? :6

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It is undoubtedly a great card and makes Upper Energy completely useless. It covers all your 2 Colorless Energy costs, making cards that were once unplayable possibly formidable now. Luxray AR, Gardevoir SW, Machamp SF, Flygon RR, and Garchomp SV are cards that come to mind that can make full use of DCE. I am sure there are many more cards that could use it effectively, but those are a few that come to mind.

The card that is probably going to abuse DCE most effectively will be Garchomp C LV.X SV. It allows you to snipe anything for just a TGI Energy Gain and 1 Double Colorless Energy. That’s pretty gnarly! You are basically going to get a prize every time you’re able to drop a DCE on it. I think Garchomp C LV.X is the card that probably benefited the most from it, and it was already a really good card.

So did anything in the format really change because of Double Colorless Energy? I am not too sure yet, but we’ll see. I think it only made strong cards stronger and made weak cards a little more potent, but still average at best.