We all should miss having such reliable search for any Pokémon in our decks for years, a copy of Ultra Ball plus even two cards you’d prefer not to discard but can, means you can get your deck moving again when it stalls out, and possibly enable some killer combos (generic or deck specific). Even the discard cost can be a big help in the right deck.įor those who like to (over?) analyze the game, Ultra Ball is a vital part of PokéMath, where we try to work out how much a card’s attributes or effects are worth. As with any search card, Ultra Ball grants the extra advantage of seeing (and arguably shuffling) your deck. Searching out a ny Pokémon, as opposed to Pokémon of a specific Type or Stage or other classification of Pokémon, and doing so reliably (as in, not requiring coin flips you might whiff if you lack discard fodder). You then search your deck for a Pokémon to add to your hand, with the option of “failing” the search as the contents of a facedown deck are considered unknown to “the game”, even if previous actions mean both players know that you have at least one Pokémon in your deck. Ultra Ball is a Trainer-Item that requires you discard two cards from your hand in order to use it if you can’t then it is a dead card in your hand. We’ve reviewed Ultra Ball thrice before initially as the best card from BW – Dark Explorers, then as the fifth best card of 2012, and two years ago fo Which is why we’re gir an official Throwback Thursday. As you can probably tell from how many releases I just named and how far back they go: BW – Dark Explorers officially released May 9, 2012, seven years ago! Guess we are getting a kind of “Throwback Thursday” this week, after all.
The second best card we’re losing due to the 2020 Standard Format going into effect on August 20th is Ultra Ball (BW – Dark Explorers 102/108 BW – Plasma Freeze 122/116 BW – Plasma Blast 90/101 XY – Flashfire 99/106 XY – Roaring Skies 93/108 XY – Fates Collide 113/124 Sun & Moon 135/149, 161/149 Shining Legends 68/73, 68a/73). Last but not least, what even tops Ultra Ball?! Net Ball and Mysterious Treasure seems to be the next best option for specific decks. There are still Ball related items, but Ultra Prism onwards have really specific effects that can naturally fit in a specific deck, but are nearly useless anywhere else. I wonder what the future holds when there’s much less search related item cards. That’s pretty much what Ultra Ball’s general use is about: a great searching method via item card that can potentially combo with other cards. Discarding cards also mean that you can thin your hand to that Shaymin-EX or Lillie can net you a bigger draw yield, and you can even use the excuse of “well, those cards are gonna be discarded anyways due to SycaPer”.
Even discarding 2 cards can be helpful in certain if you know for sure that you can get those cards back.
Searching for any Pokémon is wonderful such that it can support any mechanic being thrown. So why did Ultra Ball take the #2 spot of cards lost to rotation? Perhaps the card effect speaks for itself. Japanese’s Forbidden Light had Ultra Ball on the set list, but not in our English print, and even alternate prints won’t save them from being rotated out. Part of me wished that it had another print since the latest print of Ultra Ball is in Shining Legends. So after nearly seven years since Ultra Ball made its debut on Black & White Dark Explorers, it is about to leave rotation.
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