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Poké-POWER ⇢ Extra Boost
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a basic Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Stage 2 Pokémon-ex. This power can’t be used if Altaria ex is affected by a Special Condition.
{W}{C}{C} → Healing Light : 60
Remove 1 damage counter from each of your Pokémon.
· Pokémon-ex rule: When Pokémon-ex has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Ziggmiceter
Were stage 2 ex’s playable? That sounds too specific to work well.
CAT5e
Yes, some Stage 2 EX cards were viable. My favorite back in the day was Flygon ex (Dragon Frontiers DF 92). Flygon ex received energy acceleration from Flygon (Holon Phantoms HP 7), which conveniently shared the same evolution line and pulled energy from the deck instead of hand. This was a popular deck at the time.
Back in the day I made a rogue deck that ran this Altaria ex (Dragon Frontiers DF 90). I combined it with the absurdly powerful but energy hungry Salamence ex (Power Keepers PK 96) and disruptive Gardevoir ex (Dragon Frontiers DF 93).
For setup I remember using Holon Mentor and Fearow (Crystal Guardians CG 18). Salamence ex was my late-game heavy hitter. I tried to get Gardevoir ex out ASAP to disrupt my opponent’s setup by permanently disabling a single Poke-Power/Poke-Body each turn. Gardevoir ex’s attack was reasonably powerful at 80 for three energy, and the option to transfer an attached energy to a benched Pokemon was nice if it were soon to be KO’d.
houou
Man… the EX sets were by far the best the TCG has ever been (ironically while the game’s popularity was at its lowest). Even with the absolutely busted set that was Holon Phantoms.
Goobga
Colorless Weakness? Did it become Water-Dragon?
Jack
Delta Species Pokémon retained the Weakness of their original type, so even though this is a Water-type card, Altaria retains its Colorless weakness from being a natural Dragon-type.
Charmaster
Except when they lost their weakness entirely. [Laughs in Rayquaza ex Dragon Frontiers.]
Richard
Sometimes dragon Pokemon don’t have a Weakness, so it’s not unique to Rayquaza.
djcashtag
I’m thinking of testing this in RSPK with Flygon ex DF. Flygon ex almost always uses Flygon HP for energy acceleration, but why not both? You could get a Flygon ex attacking in just 1 turn, which seems really good. So many RSPK decks play 4 Windstorm and when facing another 4 Windstorm deck you usually don’t need them, it makes me wonder what if we just cut all those Windstorm and put in more gas to get Flygon ex going sooner. Load up on more Jirachi DX and Warp Point to abuse Wishing Star and dig for Rare Candies faster, max out the Flygon ex line to 4 copies to aim for Sand Damage being on immediately. If there’s room try some Crystal Shards for the BombTar MU to just run them over instead of trying to fit Exeggutor n there. In my experience as the Flygon player once you put down the Exeggutor then BombTar just Pow’s it up to the active and knocks it out before it can do much, I know I need to be more strategic about when to drop the egg but a raw power turbo version sounds so fun. Worth a shot.
Squirchampion
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to be able to understand why Altaria ex δ became a Water-type Delta Species. The reference is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Chinese mythology most of the analogy will go over a typical person’s head.
Memes aside this one is kinda crazy and I’m not Chinese, so I don’t think i would’ve ever figured it out on my own. This is a pretty fun exercise, and I’ve learned about the upcoming Qixi Festival on August 19th. (I guess Altaria is basically the Chinese Jirachi?)
Squirchampion
See also: Chinese Jirachi and Chinese Altaria