Anytime something low enough HP pops up, you can use Ride of the High King for the KO instead. Drawing three cards is likely just enough to keep a deck running, and between Melony and your manual Energy attachment for the turn, probably with Pal Pad, you can keep up a pretty steady assault. Yes, it is kind of like Welder but for Water types only one attached but from the discard pile, so you can reuse discarded Energy with ease. Melony’s effect has you attach a Energy from your discard pile to one of your Pokémon V, then draw three cards. As an Evolution, you can use Cheryl to heal it of all damage, though you’ll probably want to use your Supporter on Melony most turns. Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX is a 2HKO machine, and that is still great given the rest of the card. So you can discard a Triple Acceleration Energy with this attack and get +240 damage without the cap on discarding two Energy, this would have been good for +360 damage! Also, Water types are very good at Energy acceleration great at it in Expanded without the cap, Max Lance would be a OHKO machine. It reads “ any Energy” and not “Energy card“. Pretty obvious why the damage cap for this is built in. The “+” in this case is that Max Lance’s effect lets you discard up to two Energy from the attacking Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX and do an extra 120 damage per. Ride of the High King isn’t the greatest attack ever, but at worst it should be “decent”, and at best it could be very good indeed… Against an opponent that relies on Sky Field (in Expanded) or an Eternatus VMAX deck, suddenly you’re doing up to 250 for any two Energy. Under normal circumstances, Ride of the High King Maxes out at 160 damage, enough to 2HKO an opposing Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX in the mirror. Remember, as a VMAX you cannot use Twin Energy, so it isn’t super easy to cover this, though Triple Acceleration Energy would work.

If your opponent has at least three Benched Pokémon, you’re doing decent damage (100+) for a relatively easy to pay cost. pays for “Ride of the High King”, which does 10 damage plus 30 for each of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX knows two attacks. A Retreat Cost of is simply typical not good, not bad, and also quite common. The Weakness is dangerous I don’t think Zacian V decks are going away any time soon. 320 HP is good even being worth three Prizes when KO’d, even being middle-of-the-pack for Pokémon VMAX, it is a hard to OHKO outside of Weakness. If this set’s name wasn’t a clue, types are getting some strong new examples and some new type support this set, so it is very good that Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX represents the Pokémon’s VG Ice typing by being a TCG Water type, instead of being a Psychic type (its other VG type). Water types were doing all right before SW – Chilling Reign, more in terms of type-matching than specific cards. It is also a Dynamax card, but that currently has no meaning in the TCG. Basically, it is a Stage 1 Pokémon that doesn’t count as s Stage 1 with respect to card effects, but which functions like one otherwise. Being a VMAX isn’t just a Rule Box mechanic, it’s also a Stage of Evolution. Ice Rider Calyrex should have significantly improved HP and likely better effects than it would otherwise enjoy as well.

There are a few beneficial effects that apply to Pokémon V or VMAX as well. Any beneficial effect exclusions or detrimental effect inclusions that apply to Pokémon V apply, as do those specific to Pokémon VMAX. As a Pokémon VMAX, it has a Rule Box and is worth three Prizes when KO’d.

Ice Rider Calyrex VMAX (SW – Chilling Reign 046/198, 202/198, 203/198) takes 7th-Place in our countdown of the 15 best cards from the latest Pokémon set.

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