History of Cradily in the TCG The Pokemon Trading Card Game Overview!!

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The Pokemon TCG Overview is a video series where I talk about a Pokemon line and how it has fared in the TCG along with other trading card game facts relevant to the Pokemon.
Fossil pokemon have always been a cool concept in the games but a very difficult bunch of cards to use in the trading card game. This is due to fossil pokemon always needing trainer cards to be played and always starting out as stage 2 pokemon. The lileep and cradily line is no different; even the few soild cradily cards printed have this consistency problem just because they are fossil pokemon. Nevertheless cradily might just be the most dear fossil pokemon to me so I was keen to talk about my history with it and its cards.
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[@chilup2007]

Cradily in Plasma Blast is probably the only one that cannot be selected to evolve via Rare Candy since it’s printed as a Stage 1 (unless it’s considered stage 2 as well?). And at the same time, it has one of the best attacks for decks running heavy on stage 2s (but without lower stages).

[@SaberWolf94]

No it's a stage 2 and Lileep is a stage 1. You can't use rare candy because root fossil in gen 5 isn't a basic pokemon, it just gets llileep on the bench from the deck. The searching range is bad though.

[@chilup2007]

@@SaberWolf94 I forgot about the “Restored” mechanic. It definitely makes fossil Pokémon hard to get on play.

[@SaberWolf94]

@@chilup2007 Facts.

[@emberpowertcg7692]

I think it's a shame we haven't seen too many cradilys in the tcg lately

[@SaberWolf94]

To be honest even if they print more they would probably be filler and then they'll make me angry.

[@emberpowertcg7692]

@@SaberWolf94 that's fair, we really could do with a fossil centric set for the next mechanic that puts them in the front line of attention to get good cards (or cards in general, still salty about tyrantrum)