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If the Pokémon Darkness Energy is attached to does damage with an attack (after applying Weakness and Resistance), the attack does 10 more damage. At the end of every turn, put 1 damage counter on the Pokémon Darkness Energy is attached to, unless it’s {D} or has Dark in its name. Darkness Energy provides {D} Energy. (Doesn’t count as a basic Energy card.)
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Darkness and Metal Energy are not printed with e-TCG ID numbers in Expedition, which is unusual for the e-Card era – everything except Basic Energy cards were assigned ID numbers, even Special Energy.
The reason for this appears to be that the Expedition prints of these two Energy cards are unique to the English TCG. Expedition is made up of two sources;
• All A-##-# cards come from the Pokémon Card-e Starter Deck (the ‘theme deck’, if you like)
• All B-##-# cards come from the Pokémon Card-e First Expansion Pack (the ‘main set’, a.k.a. “e-Card 1”)
Darkness and Metal Energy cannot be found in either the A-##-# or B-##-# set of cards, hence, no card IDs can be printed as no cards IDs had been assigned yet. They WILL be printed with C-##-# ID numbers when they are printed again in Aquapolis, as for that set they’re based off of their prints from e-Card 3, where ID numbers had been assigned to them.
Arguably, there wasn’t really any need for WOTC to print these two cards in Expedition, anyways – none of the Darkness or Metal cards in the set *require* it;
• Houndour has a single attack for {C}.
• Tyranitar’s Stamp costs {D}{D}{D}{D}, but its Dark Aura Poké-Body will convert all attached Energy to {D} Energy anyways.
• Skarmory would be the closest thing to getting “orphaned”. For lack of {M}, it wouldn’t be able to use Steel Beak, but Air Cutter could be used fine (albeit it’s the more expensive of its two attacks).