What Cards Are in Pokemon in Eternal Time?
- The Eternal Time theme deck is built around ideas of time.time image by max blain from Fotolia.com
In the Pokémon trading card game, players do battle with decks made up of colorful cards, each of which represents a different Pokémon creature, a power-up card or a utility, trainer card. Eternal Time is a preconstructed deck, put together by the manufacturers of the game, that provides players with 60 game cards themed around the concept of time. The deck is available as part of the Great Encounters series of game cards. - A stage two Pokémon card that needs to evolve during the game from Mankey, Primeape is an aggressive Pokémon with a substantial amount of hit points—90—that will allow this card to stay in play for quite some time. Primeape is a card from the Fighting subtype and has one attack, Whump, which puts Primeape in the Confused game status but can also lead to your opponent’s Pokémon not getting an attack in the next turn. Primeape also has a nifty capability that comes into effect whenever it has damage counters; in such situations, Primeape’s attacks do more damage.
- The deck contains just one of these Stage 2 Pokémon cards, which evolve directly from the Porygon-2 cards. Porygon-Z has tons of hit points and an attack that relies upon lucky coin flips; essentially, the player has to flip three coins whenever he makes an attack in the game with the Porygon-Z card, with the result of the flips determining the damage the card deals to an opponent’s Pokémon. The Porygon-Z card also has its own PokePower, which lets it change its Pokémon subtype for a turn.
- Another card that crops up only once in the deck, the Amulet Coin is not a Pokémon creature card but a trainer type of card. It takes the form of a Pokémon Tool, which a player places onto one of her Pokémon creature cards that’s already in play. At the end of the turn, the player gets to draw a bonus card as long as the Amulet Coin is attached to her active Pokémon, which is handy because drawing more cards gives the player more options during play.
- One of the deck’s basic Pokémon creature cards, the Dialga card doesn’t need to evolve from any other cards and can be placed straight onto the game board. It is of the Temporal Pokémon subtype, and its first attack, Time Bellow, doesn’t do much damage—only 10—but it does allow the player to draw an extra card whenever it’s used, which is more helpful. Dialga’s secondary attack, entitled Flash Cannon, requires plenty of energy cards to play and does 40 damage; in addition, it lets the player reconfigure which evolved Pokémon his opponent has in play.
