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It is pretty evident that Pokemon was an influencing factor when Magi-Nation was designed. Pokemon influenced a lot of things with it's widespread success and popularity. This is especially true for the gameboy game. Instead of storing pocket monsters in red and white balls, rings of animite are used to summon dream creatures from the dream plane.

Anyway, I was thinking that some pokemon could actually make decent dream creatures for magi-nation duel. Water pokemon could be Orothe dream creatures. Fire type pokemon could be Cald dream creatures. Grass type pokemon could be Naroom, Weave or even Paradwyn. Ice type could be Nar. Rock type could be Kybar's Teeth. Ground type could be Underneath. Dark/Evil type pokemon could be Core or Bograth. Flying type pokemon could be considered Arderial. And so on and so on.

I have not fully figured out how this would work. Like for Electric type pokemon. What region would a pikachu be for? Or a Denryu?

Anyway, the point of this thread is to design Dream Creature cards based on Pokemon for the Magi-Nation Duel game. Try to keep them true to source and, if possible, game balanced. Super powerful pokemon like Mewtwo might actually be better as magi or even like the unreleased Guardian cards.

I dunno, I'd make Pikachu a Naroom dream creature.
It's a rodent after all.
Heck, it might even be in the the realm of a flying hinko where it's Arderial/Naroom *shrugs*

50% of Pokemon aren't cool enough to be in the Dream Plane...
But Cards like Charizard, Mew, and Pika should be guest cards of.

As to the Pikachu region totally Arderial but there's always dual regional Surfing Pikachu...

Well, Pikachu simply has to be Arderial/Naroom. After all, in the GB games, you first find it in Viridian Forest.

My ideas:

Beedrill
Naroom Dream Creature
6
Power: Twin Needle 2: Whenever a creature does combat with Beedrill and survives, it loses an extra energy in all attacks therafter.

Onix
Kybar's Teeth/Underneath Dream Creature
5

Ninetales
Cald Dream Creature
6
Power: Flamethrower X: Remoxe X energy from Ninetales. Remove energy from any number of targets, that totals X.

Dragonair
Arderial Dream Creature (counts as a Hyren)
7
Effect: Weather Control Dragonair is immune to the effects of any cards that have 'rain', 'snow', 'hail' or other weather terms in it's name.

Gyarados
Orothe Dream Creature (counts as a Hyren)
9
Power: Bite 3: Gyarados does 5 damage to target creature. Gyarados may not attack this turn.
Power: Hyren Rage 5: Remove two energy from every creature in play. Remove an extra energy if they are not Orothe Dream Creatures.

Gardevoir
Arderial Dream Creature
5
Power: Psywave 2: Remove energy from one creature equal to the number of Powers and Effects it has.
Power: Teleport 0: Return Gardevoir to your hand. May only be activated during the first Powers, Spells and Relics Phase. It's energy is returned to your Magi.

How's that sound? (And yeah, that's my fave team.)

Those sounds like pretty good powers. Making Flamethrower like a thunderquake spell is kind of cool.
I don't know about Onyx being only 5 energy, though.... that's a pretty big creature. I'd expect it to be like 8 energy. That's the size of a Tunnel Parmalag. It would also probably be invulnerable.

I was trying to think of a way to make the Rock Slide power used by Onyx. I was thinking of rolling a die. It misses if you roll a one, since that attack can miss. But I was not sure about what to make the other die rolls. I wanted it to be damaging but not broken. Right now it's something like:

Power - Rock Slide: (2) Roll a die.
1 = Power does nothing.
2-5 = Choose an opposing creature. Remove 4 energy from it.
6 = Choose two opposing creatures. Remove 3 energy from each.

About the Gardevoir
Since it's second power is basically Undream
You'd have to reword it so that you can't add energy to your magi over it's starting energy.
They errata'd all the undream cards to that style so it'd only be fair to do the same for Gardevoir

Oh, I don't know about that... It's not a garunteed 2 for 4. It has 1/6 chance of doing nothing. I originally made it do nothing for die rolls 1 and 2, but when I asked my friend his opinion was that 1/3 chance of spending energy for nothing was too risky. Also, Rockslide was an attack that could miss quite a bit but I don't think it missed THAT badly.

Don't forget, Flame Rudwot is an official card that does 2 for 3 by itself, but with Scroll of Fire it does 2 for 4 garunteed (barring the protection of Arderial Guard Wings or something...). And with The Last Words, it does 2 for 5.

Still, I could maybe change it to something like this:
1 = power does nothing
2 = choose an opposing creature. Remove 2 energy from it.
3 = choose an opposing creature. Remove 3 energy from it.
4 = choose an opposing creature. Remove 4 energy from it.
5 = choose two opposing creatures. Remove 2 energy from each.
6 = choose two opposing creatures. Remove 3 energy from each.

I was thinking about how to do one of the heavy hitting powers that you can find on several fairly common pokemon as well as on TMs. Hyper Beam.
Not sure which MND pokemon conversion should get it, though. Could be Gyrados, could be Mew, could be nearly any pokemon capable of learning it or using the TM. But I guess defining the power first is more important as you can't give something a power if you don't know it yet.

Power - Hyper Beam: (3) Use this power only before the attack step. This creature may not attack this turn. At the start of your next attack step, if this creature is still in play, choose an opposing creature. Remove 15 energy from that creature.

"HYPER BEEAAAM!"

I figured that 15 is a good number. It's damaging on the level of Gauntlets of Colossal Power or an Inferno Xyx.