Actually, he might be one of the best “comeback” cards that I haven’t seen for a while. Raihan may be compared to Melony or Welder, but he is actually more flexible than Melony. Having one of your Pokémon get Knocked Out can either be trivial or painful painful if your Pokémon gives up multiple prizes (thus reducing the amount of chances to use Raihan, maybe down to only one chance), or trivial if it gives up a single prize (up to five chances). And if your Pokémon is Knocked Out between turns, then you still can’t play him. If there’s no basic energy in your discard pile, you can’t play Raihan, let alone fetching for any card. If it does, then you get to attach a basic energy from your discard pile to 1 of your Pokémon, and if you do that, you get to fetch your deck for any card and put it onto your hand. He is a Supporter card with a condition: your Pokémon has to be knocked out during your opponent’s last turn. The 2nd and 1st place pick are usually run together, but Raihan is on his own. We’re now on the third best card of Evolving Skies, and feel like those three cards are going to see a lot of play to some extent. Okay, maybe my 3rd-Place pick could have been my 2nd or 1st-Place pick, but everything else? Naw, Raihan seems like he tops them. Hence me scoring it a four-out-of-five for each Format, and that is why Raihan was my 2nd-Place pick. That goes for both Standard and Expanded. I think Raihan should be a big help for single Prize decks, and maybe even pop up in a few non-single Prize decks. That just snagged two card from your deck, without any attaching of Energy. If you’re fielding Lillie’s Poké Doll and your opponent KOs some of those, you might have even more chances to use Raihan! Which is something we learned with Teammates. On the other hand, decks built around mostly or purely just single-Prize targets get up to five chances to use Raihan. If you’re deck focuses around Pokémon VMAX, you can use Raihan, but you’ll probably only get a single chance to do so. If your opponent is using a deck that wins without KOing your Pokémon, Raihan will be a dead card in your hand. The thing is, since it may only be used on your turn after something of yours was KO’d during your opponent’s turn, Raihan becomes less useful the fewer KO’s your opponent needs to win. Even the things that are typically difficult to search from your deck, like Item cards, Stadium cards, and Special Energy cards.
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Pokémon, Trainer, or Energy, you can get the one card you need most, assuming it is still in your deck.
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Even if you’re attacking with Basic Pokémon that only need a single basic Energy to attack, you can get ahead on Energy attachments and add the exact card you need at the moment. Combined with the search, this means you can sacrifice your Supporter for the turn to maintain your momentum, your flow, or whatever you want to call it. While the Energy card you attach must be a basic Energy card, it can be any type of basic Energy, and the Pokémon that receives it can be any Pokémon. If you cannot attach a basic Energy from your discard pile, then you can’t play Raihan, because its search effect only happens if you attach. Assuming you did that, then you may search your deck for a card – any card – and add it to you hand. As long as these conditions are satisfied, you can play Raihan, which then has you attach a basic Energy card from your discard pile to one of your Pokémon.
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but the KO itself must have occurred during the turn and not during the Pokémon Checkup. The Knockout can have been due to attack damage, an effect, a Special Condition, etc.
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Third-Place in our countdown goes to Raihan (SW – Evolving Skies 152/203, 202/203, 224/203)! This Trainer-Supporter may only be used if one of your Pokémon were KO’d during your opponent’s last turn. That ends now, because we’re in the top three, and the cards in the top three just take stuff that has worked in the past and remade it into new cards that should still work about as well, if not better, in the present. Okay, folks: I know I’ve been more than a little wishy-washy (Wishiwashi?) with the several of our reviews, even when they’re cards I personally ranked highly on my own Top 15.