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{G}{G} → Stare
Choose 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. This attack does 10 damage to that Pokémon. Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects that would happen after applying Weakness and Resistance still happen.) If that Pokémon has a Pokémon Power, that power stops working until the end of your opponent’s next turn.
{G}{G}{G} → Poison Vapor : 10
The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. This attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
illus. Mitsuhiro Arita · LV.25
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Freezes its prey with its stare. If you should encounter one, remember not to look into its eyes.
feyblade
It’s like Fossil Muk and Kyurem NVI decided to make a really, really, REALLY unplayable lovechild.
MarxForever
Heh heh.
Wizards wishes their Pokemon TCG copyright was until the year 23,000.
Blob Takeshi
WTF?! XD Is this a fake?
Robert
Would this be decent with 1 less energy for both of its attacks?
Trinket Mage
For today? Not a chance? For the time? Not even then. Mewtwo and Energy Removal were everywhere.
Otaku
Trinket Mage is more right than they know. The Typing, Stage, and Retreat Cost were neither good nor bad. The HP, Weakness, lack of Resistance, and both attacks were bad.
In slightly more detail, 70 HP was the “magic number” for BASIC Pokémon, and acceptable for a Stage 1 because 60 (or less) was too easy to OHKO. [P] Weakness would go from so-so to BAD due to Mewtwo (Wotc Black Star Promos 3,14). Stare just needed to be a Pokémon Power that did NOT do damage, making it a slightly stronger version of the “Gaze” Pokémon Power we’d eventually see on Igglybuff (Neo Discovery 40/75). Spread attacks, in general, were too slow and easily countered at this time; besides disruption and raw power, remembering Pokémon Center and how most Pokémon wouldn’t have Energy attached to them.
Robert
darn, this art is just too cool to be wasted on a weak card like this :/
Anonymous
Does anyone know if this illustration is inspired by Agatha’s Arbok in Pokémon Adventures? I was reading the synopsis for PS072 on Bulbapedia, and the picture of the title page shows that Agatha’s Arbok is much lighter… of course the image is in black and white, but it looks almost white… and since Sird inspired Rocket’s Admin., I figured the silvery serpent from Team Rocket could have inspired or been inspired by another Adventures character.
Twylis
Different designs.
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Variant_Pok%C3%A9mon#Arbok
Agatha’s are derived from the 1996 Pocket Monsters Encylopedia:
https://lavacutcontent.com/1996-creatures-pokedex-translation-5/