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{D}{C} → Rotating Claws : 20
You may discard an Energy card attached to Charizard Star. If you do, search your discard pile for an Energy card (excluding the one you discarded) and attach it to Charizard Star.
{D}{D}{D}{D}{C} → Dark Swirl : 150
Discard all Energy cards attached to Charizard Star and discard the top 3 cards from your opponent’s deck.
· Pokémon Star rule: You can’t have more than 1 Pokémon Star in your deck.
illus. Masakazu Fukuda
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Mike Vukovich
I’m still waiting for a new Shiny Charizard card… honestly, the art on this one isn’t the best, who’d pay $50 for it?
Ziggmiceter
There have been way too many ultra rare Charizards.
Kara
I have a first gen first edition dark charizard holo card… mint…. I also have many more holo cards form the first gen and also many holo Japanese cards… If interested email me @ kara.loehr@gmail.com
Blob Takeshi
It’s over $600 now!
NosrednaTrebor
oh boy I just WISH I could have snagged this bad boy for 50 bucks, I really missed my opportunity cause this guy will never drop in price
coolestman22
Hey Adam, the Amazon price is for a Typhlosion.
Adam Capriola
Good catch, thanks man!
feyblade
About as badass as they could ever come. A basic shiny dark type Charizard star with elaborate effects that both pay homage to the base set version (it can type-fix its energy and it discards energy to cause maximum pain) .
Also, when it was first printed, it was probably the most unplayable pokemon ever. DDDD alone was essentially impossible to pay at the time of its printing.
I guess some players at the time might have took this as a suggestion that basic dark type energy cards would show up soon…
Ambassador
Eh. I don’t think this was a premonition of Dark-types getting a Basic Energy at all. While it wasn’t compatible with R Energy or Double Rainbow Energy, Charizard ☆δ would’ve been able to work with [Special] Darkness Energy, Rainbow Energy, δ Rainbow Energy, and Dark Metal Energy to pay for the attack. Dark Electrode and Electrode 𝒆𝒙 can situationally offer you some acceleration as well.
I’m not suggesting the card is hyperviable, but at this point in the TCG they were cautious about doing too much to enable milling as a viable wincon – the half-deck format was common at the time and discarding 3 cards from your opponent’s deck might essentially been *worth* the attack cost, and that’s just if you were to do it once. The heavy discard penalty is to make it hard to do it several times in a single game, otherwise I think this card actually could’ve been really good, which would’ve been a whole other problem unto itself.
This card and Basic Darkness Energy did co-exist in the 2008 Modified format and that, presumably, didn’t enable this card to see any more play than it did when it was reliant on Special Darkness Energy. It’s not the real limiting step insofar as this card’s design.
Ambassador
· This is the third appearance of Rotating Claws, following its debut on Rocket’s Scizor 𝒆𝒙 and subsequent appearance on Pidgeot δ. Note that the attack’s original name, ローリングクロー, is pronounced “ROLLING CLAW”¹.
· This is the only appearance of the Dark Swirl attack, but it seems to be intended as a Dark variant of another attack. The attacks name is やみのうず [𝐘𝐀𝐌𝐈 𝐍𝐎 𝐔𝐙𝐔]. You might recognize うず [𝐔𝐙𝐔] from my comments on Misty’s Poliwhirl, where I was discussing that card’s Rapids attack, originally[はかいのうず 𝐇𝐀𝐊𝐀𝐈 𝐍𝐎 𝐔𝐙𝐔]. That’s the first attack I thought of as a possible progenitor, as Dark Swirl’s discarding effect seems like it might be intended to be a very liberal variant of the Hyper Beam family of moves², but it’s a bit of an abuse of the transitive property to suggest that. There’s a much more likely candidate, which would be the attack ほのおのうず [𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐎 𝐍𝐎 𝐔𝐙𝐔], which you could translate as Fire Swirl – or, if you’re Nintendo of America c.1998, you could translate it as Fire Spin.
Yep. I’m not terrifically sure where the additional milling effect can trace its ancestry to, but this card is actually part of a series of Charizard cards with Spinning/Whirling attacks – BS Charizard, Neo 2 Charizard, and EX Charizard (B-72)³.
¹ You might recognize the ローリ characters from M Slowbro EX’s artwork, which corresponds to the original name of its Loll Roll Spin attack.
² See my comment on BS Dragonair et al. Note also there are a bunch of other うず [𝐔𝐙𝐔] attacks than what’s been mentioned here. It’s very unlikely to be related.
³ Respectively translated as Fire Spin, [untranslated, but presumably would’ve also been translated as Fire Spin], and Scorching Whirlwind. The last one was was originally しゃくねつのうず [𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐊𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐒𝐔 𝐍𝐎 𝐔𝐙𝐔].
Nos
Played some casual kitchen table Pokémon with my friend today. He had a darkness deck with this guy and Dark Dragonite and it wound up finishing me off with Dark Swirl. I couldn’t even be mad.
Twylis
the split-second panic I had before remembering proxies exist
Nos
Yep, I do own quite a few Pokemon Star, but the ones we play with are all proxies