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Celebi (Neo Revelation N3 16)
[G][G] Psychic Leaf: 10+
Flip a coin for each Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon. This attack does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each heads. Remove a number of damage counters from Celebi equal to the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance). If Celebi has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them.
weakness: [R]×2
resistance:
retreat: 1
Illus. Sumiyoshi Kizuki
Neo Revelation — 16/64 — Rare
When Celebi disappears deep in a forest, it is said to leave behind an egg it brought from the future.
feyblade
Psychic Leaf is an incredibly well designed move, flavor wise. It’s a 50/50 split between Giga Drain and Psychic, creating a perfect blend between the two types. Unfortunately, this Pokemon is also unplayably bad. If the move is supposed to be on par with Psychic(and it isn’t), this attack should cost GC at MOST. Given its low HP, G (or even C) would have been an acceptable energy cost for psychic leaf. This would have been balanced if this pokemon had 70 HP and its attack only cost G, it would probably be “ok.”
MarxForever
Ok? If this Pokemon had 70 HP (which there’s no way a Mew or Celebi card would have ever had back then, they were always locked at 50) and Psychic leaf cost a single grass? That probably would’ve been a bit over powered actually. Think about it, that’s a guaranteed 20 points of gain (+10 damage +10 Health), if the opponent has no energy at all. Then the attack will only get better each turn, another +20 for each heads, as your opponent tries to powers up. And you’ve only had to put down a single Grass, so you’re free to just keep putting energy down on your bench. This card wasn’t meant to be grass type Hitmonchan now with healing powers, it was meant to hold off other basics early game while you build up. And as is? It does alright that. The holo one in this set was way more interesting though (of course the Japanese version of this card was actually holo too…thanks WotC..).
Mantidactyle
With 70 HP and [G][C] as an attack cost, it still wouldn’t have been played
MarxForever
You probably have a point there.
Still Media Factory had an unwritten rule about Mew and Celebi, they can only have up to 50hp no matter what. That’s why that tended to have tricks like Time Travel, Neutral Shield and Devolution Beam instead o being outright fighters like this card was attempting to be.
And when I think about it again, after looking at cards like Rocket’s Zapdos and it’s Plasma attack, that this attack probably could’ve gotten away with costing a single Grass at least, especially with such low health.
Blob Takeshi
Oh god… are it’s arm attached to it’s foot?