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A reprint of Bianca/Prof. Birch, but since it’s a Rapid Strike card, it at least has something else going for it.
This art’s so powerful. The angle, the metal reflection, the bubbles and focus lines, it’s all raw.
ADP + Endgame = LOL
I would be totally for them rotating expanded and giving players an option (particularly on PTCGO) to play a XY-Lost Thunder format without 3 prizers. Since there’s already legacy, which is basically where Black and White era cards go to play. I just want to have formats where cards can have a chance to shine, at least online, since I understand it would hard to regulate multiple formats irl.
I’m rather torn myself. Part of me wishes they’d issue errata for at least some of the older effects that specifically worked on, worked for, or didn’t work for these old Rule Box Pokémon. Obviously some, like Mega Turbo, should still work only on what they were intended (Mega Evolutions).
However, at this point I just wish the powers-that-be would be honest and rotate the Expanded Format. Because there are two very legitimate reasons for why they had not…
It’s only a matter of time imo
It’s frustrating how little the card design team cares about older sets. I understand the way Pokemon works is different than, say, Magic, and the main draw to new sets really just is bigger numbers rather than new mechanics. But I hate how things like Mega Evolutions and standard evolving GXs are really out of luck when you put them next to a Pokemon V. By having consistent terminology you can at least let those old cards benefit from new support and allowing anti-two prize effects to remain r…
One proposal I had heard around this is that they could’ve used terminology like “1-prizer” and “non-1-prizer”, which would’ve covered both older and future cards. (it wouldn’t cover things like BREAKs or Prism Stars but most balance issues imo are around non-1-prizers)
Yes, it would remove that effect!
I wish the TCG could errata early cards that reference “EX” Pokemon to include all Rule Box cards. It would make so many old cards viable in expanded
I love this card and yeah it’s not great, especially for a Mega with that HP. But being able to shred multiple energy off of a defending Pokemon is killer. Coin manipulation is useful as are extra Hammers for making sure your enemy can’t attack. Makes me wish power creep in the TCG hadn’t gotten so rapid the past few years
Would evolving the defending Pokemon remove the effect of Allergic Shock?
prices go up and down so fast these days… is it this exact same one (base set 2 instead of jungle)?
I want It!
Stoutland CEC sort of counts, if just for the fact it has one Ability that has 2 individual functions: Hammer effect upon evolution, and hammer effect upon KO. Not exactly the same, but I can’t think of any other Abilities designed like that.
This card technically doesn’t work properly in PTCGO. If you flip a coin and get heads, and your opponent has no Basics in their hand, you don’t get to look at it. Might seem inconsequential, but having the ability to see what they have going on in there can be really useful.
also Igglybuff (Crystal Guardians CG 21) and Heatran LV.X (Stormfront SF 97) but we have yet to see a double Ability, only Powers and Bodies
Snorlax (Dragon Frontiers DF 10)
petitioning tpci to print a pokemon with 2 abilities and no attacks
Not three moves, but 3 attributes
What’s especially annoying is that the *good* cards they reprinted from the EX era with three moves ended up getting 1 cut. Magcargo and Ludicolo both got their weaker attacks removed.
I wish there were more new cards with 3 attacks or an Ability + 2 attacks. They did it a few times in XY with Lucario-EX and Haxorus, that was cool.
It always bugged me that they just randomly re-printed this 3 attack Kangaskhan and didn’t make any other 3 attack Pokemon during SuMo, besides GX Pokemon obvs
People used to play this with Breakthrough Xerneas to boost Rainbow Force by 60 and cover additional weaknesses. Cool card.
I remember trying this with Flareon from this same set so I could charge it with Blacksmith. Wasn’t a good deck but I had fun with it
I should amend this by saying I “recently” realized. It’s what made me want to make a deck with those other cards.
I just realized there’s no real downside to Superpower as long as his ability is active. Fun! I like pairing this with the Ancient Origins Eeveelutions and Allergy Panic Vileplume, just for fun