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Once during each player’s turn, if that player’s Active Pokémon is Asleep, he or she may remove that Special Condition and heal 30 damage from that Pokémon.
· Stadium rule: This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can’t play this card.
illus. Hitoshi Ariga
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Nixon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re…
Richard Rich
What is this strange city that has a statue of Karen in it??
Emoji
Ambassador did a cool blog post about this card: https://archive.ph/lc1AM
Stuart Newsby
Heck of a party going on here
Warnock 2022
And this stadium pairs extremely well in Expanded with “Unfazed Fat” Snorlax (2022)!
Ambassador
I’ve always wondered if the logo on the side of the building actually said anything, or if Ariga just came up with something cool looking to scribble onto the side of the building. Since I didn’t own the card myself, I couldn’t work off a decent scan, and typical res scans were hard to work with because getting rid of the neon glow made it hard to tell the characters apart from each other.
However! I did get access to a high resolution version of the artwork in the past year, and this was a lot easier to work with. It became immediately obvious that there was a set of 7 characters / 4 characters / 4 characters, and at least a few of the characters were repeats, which meant maybe it *wasn’t* just a case of repeating characters. I immediately had one guess for the first, 7 letter word that anyone else would’ve had, and lining up repeating characters, ended up with the following as a decent candidate;
POKéM_N CARD GAME
I then cross-referenced with the Pokémon Series Alphabet Guide over on Pokémon Aaah!, and one hit became immediately obvious, with Anime Unovan 1 suggesting
POK_M_N CARD GAME
https://archive.is/39Usy
That there is no match between E and é is fair, but it is weird that the two Os don’t match, when the two Ms and two As do. Squinting at the Alphabet Guide a bit more, it seems like the second O is taken from Anime Unovan 2 and the E from Anime Unovan 3. Why this is the case is up in the air for now, but the intended meaning is clearly there.
Twylis
Weird Berenstain situation for me; I could’ve sworn it said Pokemon Card Game in legible English this entire time.
Ambassador
Interesting! I wonder if you saw the general shape of the words the characters were making and your mind filled in what it would’ve made the most sense to say.