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Squirchampion
congrats bro, they finally made a Pokemon card of you
Squirchampion
The condition for use and name are loosely reminiscent of Blaine’s Last Stand, which was in turn a callback to Blaine’s Last Resort. However, there are many other cards like Brandon that have the same precondition for play but don’t have any fancy “finality” in their names.
Whirlpool
This Big Wing ability is totally different from the Big Wing Poke-Body on LA Swellow.
But funnily enough–this is very similar to the Drive Off Poke-Power on a different Swellow card!
Whirlpool
This Ability is a buffed version of the Poke-Power that was on the very first Swellow card (which required Swellow to be your Active Pokemon for it to activate).
A very similar virtual reprint of this card appears in the TCG Pocket set “Fantastical Parade”.
Whirlpool
“Drive Off” pops up again on R/S base set Swellow.
Whirlpool
I like this Poke-Power better than “Dragon Wind” or “Drive Off“–it’s always more fun to pick which new Pokemon gets switched in.
Whirlpool
This Ability reminds me of Magmortar Lv.X’s “Torrid Wave,” which also lets you burn your opponent’s active Pokemon if Magmortar Lv.X is in the active spot.
Whirlpool
Normal Bastiodon: chilling in a field.
POP6 Bastiodon: TIME WARP
Squirchampion
Skyridge was very late in the day and they were at their most “idgaf” when it came to translations, but following from comments on Scoop Up, the text of Evolution Helper would suggest that WOTC either really thought that Evolution cards were attachments, or perhaps thought they should be and this was one of their many “improvements”.
Three examples immediately come to mind;
– consistently trying to classify damage as an ‘effect’ of an attack
– “Baby Pokémon counts as a Basic Pokémon”
– multiple cases of apparently considering Evolution cards are attachments
In all three cases, there is not much in the original text of the cards to suggest that they could’ve plausibly made these translation errors as mistakes. Also common to all three is trying to combine together different conditions/classifications that they really shouldn’t have tried to do – had it worked, they’d have less translation work to…
Squirchampion
Yes, you can, and it would be ‘processed’ as an evolution.
Squirchampion
I would not expect the mechanic to return. Even though it’s reasonably intuitive, it looks like there were a number of clarifications necessary that couldn’t neatly fit into a rulebook. (You can fit anything into a rulebook, of course, but if you’re dedicating entire sections or subsections for a mechanic you’re only using on one or two cards, but each major section has to have subclauses accounting for its presence, then it’s generally easier to omit the mechanic.)
Whirlpool
Interesting that the first-ever Honchkrow card has a mechanic where it directly interacts with Murkrows, because I don’t think this concept has been revisited on any other Honchkrow card.
Whirlpool
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee!
lightshard054
This is still one of the best Jerky has done for Pokemon, but Thievul IR is a close second.
fgfg
wdym this is an interesting design lmao
fgfg
Looking back at it now, both the art and card itself reminds me of Pitbull’s “Timber” song LMAO (since I pulled this card when I was young and that song was playing)
Burma
Dope artwork. I like how monochromatic it is.
Burma
this boi is so big, you’d have to give him like 20 poffins to lure him onto your team.
someone
Even wailmer’s first card isn’t compatible with buddy-buddy poffin. With how far power creep has come, this gives a huge example of how strong wailmer is.
Burma
True! It’s a 10/10 card