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Ability ⇢ First Law
Prevent all effects of your opponent’s attacks, except damage, done to this Pokémon.
{C} → Trinity Star : 30
You can use this attack only if you have {G}, {W}, and {L} Pokémon on your Bench. Search your deck for up to 3 basic Energy cards and attach them to your Pokémon in any way you like. Then, shuffle your deck.
· {*} (Prism Star) rule: You can’t have more than 1 {*} card with the same name in your deck. If a {*} card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.
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It is told in mythology that this Pokémon was born before the universe even existed.
Psykicked
You could combo this with Rising Rivals Kecleon and Ho-Oh-EX for a fully equipped Ho-Oh-EX on Turn 1 or 2 (Depending on if you win the coin flip) and have a maximum of 140 damage on your opponent’s Active in a casual/unlimited match, deck permitting. I remember why I like unlimited now.
Foon-Gus Fring
This ability re-appears in this generation as “Unaware” and “Defensive Scales.”
Warnock 2022
It’s also a built-in GE Unown GUARD “Pokémon tool”!
Twylis
I do wonder why this card went with Grass, Water, and Lightning for the types linked to its effect. Grass, Water, and Fire or Lightning, Water, and Fire are much more common type trios, and Water, Metal, and Psychic would’ve had it match up with the Sinnoh legends with which Arceus is associated.
I suppose these types could abstractly represent “life”, though Lightning is a little bit of a stretch there since while many living organisms do rely on electricity for neural signals, it’s not exactly readily apparent.
Ambassador
The best guess I’ve had is that this was less about flavor for Arceus and more about Arceus Prism Star as a card in SM5+, which featured the following cards;
· A {G}-type print of Snover (FLI Snover) – which was a counterpart of a previous Snover with a different type ( the {W} type UPR Snover)
· A {L}-type print of Magnemite (FLI Magnemite) – which was a counterpart of a previous Magnemite with a different type (the {M} type UPR Magnemite)
· SM5+ also featured a {W} Dewpider (FLI Dewpider) – but it’s not a *direct* counterpart to the {G} Dewpider in UPR, so I’ve never been completely happy with this as the solution.
It could also be a meta thing – e.g. perhaps {G}, {W}, {L} were weaknesses of popular Pokémon-GX at the time, or the type of popular Pokémon GX at the time. This is apparently what dictated the release order of the Silvally-associated memory cards, and discussing Silvally isn’t a complete tangent from discussing Arceus.
Twylis
I believe the most dominant attackers at the time were Zoroark GX (F-weak), Buzzwole GX (P-weak), Guardians Rising Garbodor (P-weak), Necrozma GX (P-weak), and Rayquaza GX (Y-weak), so the meta angle doesn’t really work either. And SM5+ had retyped reprints of other types too (including the much more thematic Palkia GX and Dialga GX), so that’s unconvincing as well.
I almost suspect they simply didn’t have a good reason for it and picked the types arbitrarily :v
Also worth noting is that both SM5 and SM5+ had the first two Unit Energy cards, which grouped Fire, Water, and Grass for one and Lighting, Metal, and Psychic for the other. So type groupings were already on their mind, and there were already two options that made more sense, and they still did something else.
Ambassador
Last guess – pointlessly vague reference to BKP Ho-Oh EX?