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I think there are more, that’s probably the main reason. A secondary reason (not sure how much this contributes) is that demand for this card is being driven by people who want to play retro formats (specifically 2009 to 2011 pre-rotation), and if you want the most “historically accurate” version of your deck for 2009 and 2010 you want the non-League version, since the league version came out after 2010 Worlds.
Interesting how the two tails result is the most beneficial
I wonder why the League Promo is cheaper than the standard card. Are there just more in circulation?
A shame that it has to be active, could be a lot better if it could be used from the bench but only once per turn.
The best Skitty also happens to be the first.
Exactly, at least this one has more going on, trying to hide the fact that its stock art
That’s… basically the same card tho
It’s so ugly tho
Also I haven’t seen that card I’ll go look at it
Fairy never got a chance to be on an energy search card
Don’t be hating on my man Grumpig, and at least this art is better than Grumpig CES
Wow this card is lazy. Also one of the ugliest Pokémon ever in my opinion.
I don’t recall if this card actually was used with much competitive success but there are reasons:
1) You could run both cards in your deck.
2) You could even use both cards in the same turn.
3) The very first set rotation axed Professor Oak, but not Blaine’s Last Resort.
Blaine’s Last Resort released while Professor Oak was legal, but both cards predate both the practice of set rotation and the introduction of the Supporter mechanic. What we now think of as “Item cards” originally was…
Not sure why you would ever want to use this when Professor Oak exists, unless I’m missing something big
Good question. Wish I knew the answer. ;) I will mention that in this case, it may be a reference to an old Pokémon episode. Without looking it up, I seem to recall some episode where there’s a gang of humans using an Electabuzz and a rival gang using a Scyther. It is the episode where we learn Pikachu loves ketchup… and how that goes horrible wrong when the ketchup bottle Pikachu is holding gets slashed and the ketchup splatters across Pikachu.
Which draws the attention of Electabuzz…
“A wild Pokémon with a short temper. It is able to distinguish colors, and likes the color red.” I wonder how many Pokemon are able to see color, given that its notable enough to be in this dex entry
BAHAHAHAHAHA I can’t believe I didn’t realize that! oooops
Well if you ran those, your little Wishiwashi wouldn’t be able to power up the big one since their abilities wont work! So I rest my case!
I guess you’d have to run a Silent Lab or Garb too. Plus all the 30 HP mons like you pointed out. Maybe it’s balanced after all!
If this worked (and stacked) on Wishiwashi CEC, that seems… pretty strong? Maybe not broken but probably stronger than they intended this card to be…
yes!
Do status conditions count as effects?
Honestly not sure why this couldn’t just affect all Wishiwashi regardless of them being GX or not. The downside of having to use this card in your deck makes up for any “big” Wishiwashi becoming really powerful from having 3 of these in play.
Note: no word yet on whether these will be tournament-legal or not!
It’s obvious why it has that Ability, to allow Tag-Teams to continue to rule the format when this card was released, but thematically it just doesn’t make much sense. Where’s Latias when you need her
Ha, you know I really do just like spitballing ideas without thinking much about it. I tend to forget just how crazy powercreep is these days so yeah it wouldn’t be that great. Though if it were contending against cards from its own era or later ones like DP-Pt, it would be pretty nasty with all those Holon’s Castforms and Call energies floating around.