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Ho-Oh! A-ah!
He’s a miracle!
King of the impossible!
Savior of the Universe!
Unbeatable! The best!
It makes it searchable by Heavy Ball in Expanded, but the designers were possibly also thinking that Clamperl itself is an incredibly slow Pokemon [yes, I know there have been Clamperl’s with a RC of 1. Blame the inconsistent designers ;)]
wait, he isn’t immune to your own attacks? nevermind he’s pure trash
Pretty bad card, reminds me of a far inferior donphan prime, where all the benched whiscash avoid magnitude damage. But where donphan could be set up in two turns, this guy would take quite a bit longer and is far easier to knock out
I somehow imagined a level 100 arceus being a bit stronger than this… at least more than 90 hp
The ultimate Salamence and Bronzong counter (since no other card ever resisted fire apart from them and their pre-evos)
No. Wide Lens specifically only causes Weakness and Resistance to apply for Bench hits, as per its effect text. There is a website, pokegym.net, run by a group that includes members of the official rules’ team. They collect old rulings in a document known as “The Compendium”. There are older versions of The Compendium, but the latest one consists of not only new rulings but also older ones still in effect. One such ruling is
It has been ruled that W/R does not apply to the bench unless …
If I put a wide lens on a card like this where the effect only says “Don’t apply weakness and resistance” even if benched pokemon aren’t mentioned specifically, will it still apply weakness or resistance?
In what world does this card need a retreat cost of 3? What were the designers thinking?
I’m not entirely familiar with errata rules, but is this still playable as it is written, or do you have to play it like you would the stadium card with the same name?
Misread. Pumped up with insecurity seems a bit strange though…
Pump Up’s effect makes it sound like you’re pumping up Drifblim’s arrogance
If in Unlimited during current rulings, then it affects all energies that provide metal energy. But for old RSE rulings, I’m not completely sure.
When this PokePower says you may move a metal energy card, does that only mean metal energy? or can it be dark metal energy or any other card that provides metal like blend energy or rainbow energy?
When it comes to designing cards, and converting video game Weakness/Resistance to TCG Weakness/Resistance, you’ll find either inconsistency or else the suggestion that the guidelines must be shifting behind the scenes and/or not very strict. To be fair, I would prefer they prioritize TCG game balance over faithfulness to the video games.
At the time this card was printed, Gardevoir were purely Psychic Type in the video games, which meant that only Bug, Ghost, and Dark did x2 damage. At th…
It’s the same reason why Golem ex is weak to grass, one weakness is enough to warrant it it seems, even if the pokemon resists the other two types
Ah, that makes perfect sense! Thanks, Otaku!
As I didn’t see it plainly stated before, the main combo from when this card was Standard-legal was to use Imposter Oak’s Revenge to force your opponent down to a four card hand, Rocket’s Sneak Attack to hopefully discard at least one Trainer from your opponent’s hand, and finally The Rocket’s Trap to force your opponent to shuffle their remaining three cards back into their deck. Preferably, before using the “Trapper Combo” as it was known, you used multiple copies of Erika, swelling your own…
Switch is (usually) a viable card for at least three reasons which is really one: you’re not retreating at all!
1) You get a single manual retreat from the Active position per turn; Switch doesn’t use it up.
2) You do indeed usually have to discard Energy in order to manually retreat; Switch spares you this cost.
3) You usually are unable to manually retreat while a Pokémon is Asleep or Paralyzed; Switch doesn’t care about such things.
Perhaps it is not as obvious with Escape Board in t…
I’ve added the missing Exeggutor:
https://pkmncards.com/card/alolan-exeggutor-forbidden-light-fli-2a/
Thanks for bringing that up, and thanks for the kind words!
Quick note – I think the promo version of this Exeggutor, illustrated by kawayoo and released alongside Lost Thunder in blister packs, is missing from the site; seems to be the only English kawayoo card I can’t find here! Otherwise, sweet database!
New player here… can anyone tell me why Switch is a viable card? Is it just because it gets passed the Retreat cost?
Reuniclus BW and Hustle Belt w/ Fliptini? This combo…it’s still pretty gimmicky. interesting idea tho
We’ve found the new BCIF for this metagame, and a universe-tearer for the next 2 years. Like Neo Discovery Hoppip, who nearly single-handedly tore the universe in half, it does 20 damage for 1 grass energy. However, unlike that Hoppip, this one has a colossal amount of HP at 40, and a long-coveted weakness to Lightning, removing that pesky weakness to Fire that Grass has always had, and the Fighting weakness designers realized could rip the fabric of reality after Neo Discovery. 10.5/10, will d…