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- ↓ 9.70
- ꩜ 14.26
- ↑ 199.72
{F} → Rock Blast
Discard up to 5 {F} Energy cards attached to Armaldo. For each Energy card you discarded, choose an opponent’s Pokémon in play and this attack does 20 damage to those Pokémon. (You may choose the same Pokémon more than once.) This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Weakness or Resistance.
{C}{C}{C} → Mach Claw : 60
This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance.
illus. Ken Sugimori
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This is the debut of Rock Blast in the English TCG, which had already debuted in the JP TCG on “Masaki Golem”.
This might be the debut of Mach Claw …except probably not. The Japanese name of the attack, マッハクロー, had already been used on what we know as POP1 Armaldo 𝒆𝒙 and had been “Supersonic Claw.” Supersonic Claw won’t show up as a name again, but Mach Claw will continue to, so just a change in attack name vs. anything entirely new.
https://pokumon.com/card/golem-evolution-communication-campaign-1999-unnumbered/
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I think this was the last set to use the full icon for energy types in the text of attacks / Poke Powers. In DP they went to a simple black icon like Japan has always done.