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{C} → Dark Provide
Attach up to 1 {G} or {D} Energy card from your hand to your Pokémon.
{G}{D} → Leaf Poison : 20
The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
· Dual Type rule: This Pokémon is both {G}{D} type.
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reshikrom64
“Why would I give this to the boss? With Celebi under my control i can rule Team Rocket, and the whole WORLD if I want to!”
Curtis
“Up to 1?” Is that even necessary? If you don’t want to do anything else, wouldn’t ending your turn be simpler than choosing to attack for no effect?
Chosen_Pikachu
Maybe “up to 1” includes negative numbers, and you can pull energy off a Pokemon that way.
coolestman22
Seems unlikely.
gxgahs
It is because it is accounting for the case where you have no grass or darkness energy in your hand; telling the player to “attach 1 … energy” would be an impossible action in that circumstance, so it allows you to attach 0 energy if you cant and 1 energy if you can.
televisionnation
I just found out the Japanese version of this card was pure Darkness type instead of Grass-Darkness type! (see for yourself by searching R団のセレビィ). Blew my mind, any other examples of TPCi actually changing the type of Pokémon for the international release?
JP
I think this is the most famous example; I don’t know of any other instances where it happened!
DMNBT
Technically speaking, they’re not the same card, as the japanese one’s name would be translated as Rocket’s Celebi, but yeah, I can’t think of any other example of TPCi straight up changing a card’s type.
linkinboss
3 years late to the discussion, but Also, Dark Celebi in English (Jun 2004) released several months before TRR was released in Japan (Oct 2004)
Bob
I would imagine the Celebi’s type was changed so that it would correspond with the English Jirachi theme deck, which is also a dual-type card. It seems as if they wanted to give both decks that cool new mechanic (Hidden Legends was the first time we saw dual types in the TCG).
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wish_Maker_(TCG)
Anon
“(Hidden Legends was the first time we saw dual types in the TCG)”
Team Magma vs Team Aqua: Am I a joke to you?
Ambassador
The team that worked on retooling this into a Dark Pokémon missed something that’s probably not so obvious, but ends up making it look out of place – while all Dark-*type* Pokémon took advantage of the Gen 3 card template to have their attacks as black text on a lighter black background, but still black background, Dark Pokémon of Gen 3 all have white text on a dark black background¹. This card took after the dual-type Team Aqua and Team Magma cards to create its template, but will actually look completely out of place next to actual Dark Pokémon in EX TRR.
¹ i.e. in a manner more like Dark-type Pokémon in Gen 2 cards, and what returned to being the normal convention for Gen 4-on Dark-type Pokémon. This is the case for both the English and JP Gen 3 TCG, and rather than being an aesthetic novelty, this is probably the functional reason that the Gen 3 card template was made the way it is. Incidentally, this makes it a bit weird that SV1 decided to bring back the lighter part of the card template, but Dark-type Pokémon nonetheless have their attacks/attack text written in white text.
Ambassador
Of course, that’s all on top of making a Basic Pokémon a Dark Pokémon, which isn’t right, and *another* thing NOA’s meddling ends up diluting one of the subtler thematic callbacks of the dual-type Pokémon in this set – Metagross’ Squared Attack is a reapprance of Crystal Crobat’s Squared Attack, and Jirachi’s Mind Bind is the reappearance of Crystal Celebi’s Mind Bend. This card doesn’t have any callbacks to any Crystal Pokémon, and “Leaf Poison” isn’t even the real name of this Celebi’s attack – originally どくのこな, it should have been translated as Poisonpowder like all other instances of that name appearing in the TCG.
This is an example par excellence of how bad ‘localization’ can get. It doesn’t fit with other Dark Pokémon, it doesn’t fit with the other dual-type cards in the set, the card template is wrong, one of the attack names has been deliberately mistranslated.. it’s astoundingly bad, and we don’t even have WOTC as an immediate fallback excuse for it being what it is.
Nos
All this to say, the Iron Mask Marauder truly messed with the balance of things by making Celebi a Dark Pokémon :(
Bbb888
Not to mention the prefix “Dark” is mostly used for evolved Pokémon!! Legendary or mythical Pokémon would use “Rocket’s” as in Rocket’s Raikou ex (Unseen Forces, I think?)
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EDIT: Ex Deoxys set