Hi there. In this Pokemon TCG post I cover the ACE SPEC cards Scoop Up Cyclone and Secret Box from the upcoming set Twilight Masquerade.
Scoop Up Cyclone
This Scoop Up Cyclone is similar to the supporter cards Penny and Professor Turo's Scenario. With Scoop Up Cyclone you can put 1 of your Pokemon and all cards attached to it into your hand. Penny only applies to Basic Pokemon and you can pick up attached cards. Professor Turo's Scenario picks up any Pokemon but discards attached cards. Scoop Up Cyclone picks up any Pokemon and all attached cards. This ACE SPEC card is useful for evolution decks that need to pick up a Pokemon and its attached cards. Being able to pick up a Pokemon to avoid potential knockouts is a powerful defensive strategy that is hard to predict.
Pros
- Rescue heavily damage Pokemon and pick up attached cards.
- Item Card and not a Supporter
- Searchable by supporters like Arven and Irida.
Cons
- Other more powerful ACE SPEC card options
- Not many Item Retrieval cards that are popular, watch out for Eri Supporter
- Not great against one hit knockout attacks and big damage attacks.
Secret Box
This Secret Box ACE SPEC item card is a very powerful search type of card. There were a few people who were expecting Computer Search to return as an ACE SPEC card but this one has more search power. By discard three cards from the hand you can search your deck for an Item card, Pokemon Tool Card, a Supporter card and a Stadium card and put those four cards to your hand.
This item card is like Arven plus better version of Pokegear and a Stadium search all in one. The amount of combos that you can pull here is quite insane here. Search for a powerful supporter like Boss's Orders, get a Pokemon Tool of your choice, a stadium of your choice and another Item of you choice.
Pros
- Search for 4 cards. One Item card, Tool Card, Supporter Card and Stadium.
- One of the few cards that searches for a Stadium.
- Directly search for Supporter which is better than a Pokegear and Lumineon V.
Cons
- Need to discard three cards.
- Not for every deck.
- Usually one time use. Not many item retrieval cards.