Hi people. Over in Blogged On Stuff I took a quick look at a card from the classic Wizards Of The Coasts Pokemon set, Golem. Here I thought I'd look at the card from a gameplay perspective. Now I'd like to get this card myself, not only because I'm a big Golem fan (his a quality Pokemon, was always one of my favioute from the original monsters) but also because it has some great abbilities. If you have some Geodudes and Graverlers in stock you can get evolving to this rock beast. Right the stats.
Let's start with the critters HP: 100.
So a solid round number on a stage 2 monster. Golem has a Pokebody, and this is one of the reasons I really like the card, which reads: 'Whenever you attach a leaf, fire or fighting basic energy card from your hand to Golem, Golem's type (color) becomes the same as that energy untill the end of the turn'. So with this Pokebody you can help engineer Golem to have advantages with weakness' and resistance's against your opponeont's Pokemon. Whilst you adding these energies, it will also be helping to power up both Golem's attacks which need these energy types anyway. These attacks are Rock Throw and Earth Bomb (sounds epic). Rock Throw does 30 damage for 2 fighting and 1 colourless. Solid as an attack to cover your other Pokemon, if you can get it up and running quick with the rignt energies. Next attack is Earth Bomb which has a base damage of 50. Using this attack Golem does 20 damage to itself, you also do 10 to benched Pokemon (both yours and your opponeonts don't apply weakness' and resistance). I like the cards combo of attacks and Pokebody and I think Golem here, would make a great edition to decks.
Feel free to let me know what you think of this (or any other) and I'll be back with more soon.

If your perhaps building a deck around cards from classic sets like Skyridge, some of the cards are still very common to find, overs might take a little more searching (and money). This Golem can be quiye rare, but their are trading card websites that often have it in stock, eBay had just a handfull on a recent check. Or theirs the chance you could grab yourself one from a Skyridge booster (avaliable on many trading card shop websites and eBay).