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Poké-POWER ⇢ Final Sting
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may Knock Out Beedrill. If you do, choose 1 of your opponent’s Defending Pokémon. That Pokémon is now Paralyzed and Poisoned. Put 2 damage counters instead of 1 on that Pokémon between turns. This power can’t be used if Beedrill is affected by a Special Condition.
{G}{M}{C} → Super Slash : 50+
If the Defending Pokémon is an Evolved Pokémon, this attack does 50 damage plus 30 more damage.
· Dual Type rule: This Pokémon is both {G}{M} type.
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Pumpkin Man
I wonder why pokemon isn’t printing any more delta cards, instant money printer. they were a really cool idea and now we’re getting to the time period were kids who played with delta cards in there childhood are entering adulthood, so that just means that nostalgia will boost sales even more.
anon-san
That’s basically what tera is now, but not quite as good because they’re all 2 prize pokemon with a majority being underwhelming and having a built in mana put ability.
Charmaster
Delta Species Pokémon were a money printer because they were a cool lore drop, I assume? The novelty would have worn off if they’d printed them even for an entire generation, much less for several generations. But to print a second wave of them all these years later WOULD be novel, especially if they had the same degree of support.
Of course, I’m not sure how many kids cared about the “lore” (Consistent depictions of never-before seen settings being the most obvious layer) as much as the fact that the cards had different types, making them enigmatic and exciting. My brother and I weren’t collecting at this time, but neither of us ever turned down the chance to trade for delta species cards if they were offered (Unless we had nothing we were willing to give up that the other person would accept). He still won’t give me his delta species cards after several years of not looking at them, so I imagine he still counts on wanting to see them again some day.
Also, delta species cards were available in all rarities and had lots of effects that interacted with each other, making them easy to start collecting even now and letting you build entire cubes out of primarily delta species Pokémon and still have a blast drafting them. Tera Pokémon were only available as “hits,” which to be fair also works to their favor for being cool, but their gameplay is relatively shallow, with few effects that interact with them whether for good or for ill, and their main mechanical distinction, the Tera rule, punishes entire strategies passively but without extra work.
anon-sama
The biggest problem I have with Tera is it’s limited to 2 prize Pokemon with that other limit of being double rares and thus limited to hits. I keep a few delta species in my cube as fixers for type trumping, but they really do shine in a limited format like cube. Sadly it seems like game design feels more mellowed out after the great reset.