Of course, its Pokemon Power is interesting. VERY interesting. And... it is interesting for only one reason. It can be comboed with a brilliant Brock card. Yep... Brock's Protection. Suddenly the Metals on your shapeshifted Steelix can't be removed. Another card that is Shapeshift worthy, is Misty's Gyarados. Read the Pokemon Power well: "It can't evolve, devolve, or _use the Pokemon Power of that Pokemon_." (Underline this please) That is so cute of you, Ninetales =D So it should be, like, a GOD card in Standard, right?

OMG, NO! I repeat, NO! What's the problem? Heh, STATUS EFFECTS. If you inflict a Status effect other than Poison, you must discard all Evolution cards from this Pokemon. "Come on, status effects aren't that big..." LOL. I know of a BABY pokemon that can make you asleep for 1 colorless energy... *grins* I know of another BABY that does 20 to all Pokemon that have a Pokemon Power. I know of yet another BABY that shuts off ALL Pokemon Powers...

Another problem is that... erm... you have to evolve from Brock's Vulpix, which is _slightly_ FTKOable. *ends sarcastic tone* Although, Hypnotic Gaze is a nice attack... But let's do that in another COTD :D.

Of course, so far I've only talked about Standard. You'll see the reasons in a jiffy :)

Standard Rating: 7/10 In spite of all the problems listed above, this card is definitely usable in Standard. A shapeshifted Steelix can be impossible to KO. I really do mean impossible. Annihilating Super Energy Removal from your opponent in this format is an angelic blessing :) Heh... if you don't have Status Effects, that is. Which, in the world of Standard, you usually don't :) But the Vulpix, I stress, IS easily FTKOable or OHKOable :( Hmm.

Modified Rating: N/A Heh, it's illegal here lol. And even if it weren't, it would be basically useless.

Booster Draft Rating: 2/10 Erm. This is a rare card which for once is not even WORTH drafting. If you want to get out a Stage 1 or a Stage 2, it's usually not hard to find its previous evolution cards as well. I would just evolve it from its natural basics, thank you very much.

The only one weakness or actually a few is that its mostly weakness to water. Yet when playing a evolution card make sure that the card isn't a weakness from you opponents pokemon. That is also another downfall of the poke-power. I am mostly seeing alot of water now with Kingdra so if this card gets played then you better have a nonweakness to water!! Example....(Elekid is a great card for fighting against water). Might want to add some in there. But also add a few other cards like or trainers that can help you out like DOUBLE GUST. Help kill those water or any other threat as quick as possible so they won't have much time to build up their pokemon.

In STANDARD i give it a 3 due to some play!! (Tyranitar DUH!!) In MODIFIED i give it a 5 because there are more options on what evolutions to play to help your gaming experience more worthwhile. In DRAFTING i really haven't played it, but i would give it a 6 because it's has a great power to help with evolutions and can build really quickly.