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{C} → Provoke
Look at your opponent’s hand. If he or she has any Baby Pokémon and/or Basic Pokémon there, you may put any number of them onto your opponent’s Bench (as long as there’s room). Then, your opponent looks at your hand. If you have any Baby Pokémon and/or Basic Pokémon there, your opponent may put any number of them onto your Bench (as long as there’s room).
{C}{C} → Battle Frenzy
For each Pokémon in play (yours and your opponent’s), flip a coin. For each heads, this attack does 20 damage to that Pokémon. Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack.
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· Provoke is secretly the first appearance of the attack Taunt in the TCG, and its only appearance with this mechanic (see comments on Brock’s Mankey G1 #67). It’s clearly meant to power up Battle Frenzy, but I wonder if it was supposed to remind people of the Challenge! card from Team Rocket? (It reminds me of that card, anyways..)
· As already pointed out on N2 Unown N, Battle Frenzy worked well with that card. But, as noted on TCGOne, WOTC mistranslated Unown N (among a few other cards) and so Unown N should really just be protecting your cards with Unown in their name from the effect of Battle Frenzy. For DCE, it’s still a decent card, though the Pokémon you’re putting on your bench with Provoke probably just got a lot gimmickier.. https://archive.ph/feeMc
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Look how *itty bitty* that text of “Provoke” is! Wow, not the best graphic design.
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Provoke’s text is another example of how Baby Pokemon actually *aren’t* Basic Pokemon, as far as the original Japanese game is concerned. The discussion on Expedition Dual Ball goes into this further.