Shuckle (HeartGold & SoulSilver Promo HGSS15) – Card of the Day

Written by | April 22, 2011 | 9 comments | 1,699 views | Rating: +7

kn3ll_ here with your Card of the Day! Requested by DrMime, Here’s Shuckle Promo!

Shuckle is a Basic, 60-HP Fighting type. It’s weak to Water, which isn’t a big deal at the moment, since Water isn’t very popular. Its retreat cost is one, which isn’t bad.

“Fermenting Liquid”, Shuckle’s Poke-Body, allows you to draw a card whenever you attach an Energy card to Shuckle. Other than this, though, there isn’t much of a reward for energizing Shuckle. Its attack, “Shell Stunner”, will inflict 20 for GC, and a coin flip heads prevents all damage done to Shuckle by attacks next turn.

Shuckle isn’t all that amazing, but could be a valuable tech when BW hits America. Emboar BW 20‘s Poke-Body, “Inferno Fandango”, allows you to throw down as many Fire energies from your hand as you’d like. Combined with Shuckle’s ability to pick up cards, you can burn through an Energy-heavy deck easily.

But what good is this if all the energies are on Shuckle? Well, it’s not much good, but Unown HS 54‘s “RETURN” Poke-Power allows you to return all energies attached to a Pokemon to your hand.

Now you’ve got all the energy back into your hand, you can do a few things…

- Magmortar TM can discard a card from the opponent’s deck for each Fire energy attached to it

- Forretress LA‘s Poke-Body states that whenever you attach an energy to it, you must flip a coin. If the coin is heads, you put 2 damage counters on every Pokemon in play besides Forretress.

- Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND could become quite a threat when paired with Shuckle and Emboar.

- Using any number of Pokemon with a “Grind” attack that does damage based on energy attached to it.

Shuckle is an interesting upcoming draw engine, to say the least, and will certainly be seen in Fire decks alongside Emboar and Unown RETURN. I give Shuckle a 2.5/5. While being a useful tech, getting a lone Shuckle start will not leave you with a smiling face. Its attack and HP leave a lot to be desired. 60 HP on the bench is an extreme late-game liability. However, when teamed with Emboar and a whole lot of Fire energy, it becomes a game-winning deck-to-hand teleport device.

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  • Anonymous

    Forretress Energy Spam FTW. Shuckle wouldn’t be the best draw engine with Emboar decks, since Emboar is fire type and Ninetales can get better use out of Fire Energy.

    • Anonymous

      But you have to evolve Ninetales, and not Shuckle. So while I’d have to tech in multiple cards to get a Vulpix and a Ninetales, all I need for Shuckle is… Shuckle.

  • Anonymous

    Two things. One, be careful about hyping it with Forretress LA, because we had something like that with blastoise EX, but it was errita’d to count as only one “bulk” energy attachment.

    Secondly, seeker is a much better option than an unown “return” HS, because in this format, we have so many snipe options available, between crobat G, Garchomp C, Blastoise HS, Yanmega TM, etc, etc. Not to mention spread will also hurt majorly. And of course, it’s just askign to get luring flame’d active, or bright looked, or sleep inducered, etc, etc. And one catcher is released, it’ll be an even larger liability.

    • Anonymous

      I personally don’t think Forretress LA is a good partner with it, but people mentioned it so I figured I’d throw it in. I also don’t think Seeker is a great way to pick up the energy, because you couldn’t do it more than once in one turn.

  • Anonymous

    Quick question about Foretress LA if u have manetric PL on ur bench does his poke body/power do damage to your benched pokemon still?

    • Anonymous

      No because it prevents all damage from attacks. Both your’s and your oppenent’s. But Manectric will not be protected unless youi have a Bench Shield on it.

      • Anonymous

        No. Manectric offers no protection against Forretress, for two reasons:

        1. Manectric only protects against attacks, and thus has no effect on Forretress’ body.
        2. Manectric only prevents damage, but Forretress places damage counters.

      • Anonymous

        No. Manectric offers no protection against Forretress, for two reasons:

        1. Manectric only protects against attacks, and thus has no effect on Forretress’ body.
        2. Manectric only prevents damage, but Forretress places damage counters.

  • Anonymous

    use magmortar TR, load shuckle with 10-15 fire energy then shaymin UL/lucians/scoop up/seeker/unown return to get the energy on magmortar and top burn 10-15 cards which is a major disrupt just by itself eating up valuable resources, but the win condition is exeggutor LA which for no energy forces your opponents to shuffle their hand into their tiny deck and draw a massive amount as your hand is filled up by shuckled, seeing as how its your attack they go to draw a card at their turn and lose before being able to play any of the cards they drew…. tomb AR as a starter to evolve into emboar and slow them down… you dont take any prizes so twins is almost always usable… i tested it, and can eat the 1st set of 10-15 on turn 2/3 depending on seting up, no uxie needed either which is a plus as most people have all theres in other decks