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Poké-BODY ⇢ Safeguard
Prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Dewgong by your opponent’s Pokémon-ex.
{W} → Cold Breath : 10
The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
{C}{C}{C} → Aurora Beam : 40
illus. Toshinao Aoki
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WilliamH.
I’m still waiting for an Ability that negates Pokemon EX.
Blob Takeshi
First Dewgong card in a set since Skyridge.
Jiří z Poděbrad
This was also the last time (as of 2022) that we’d ever see Dewgong as a holo rare card.
Crystal
This is also notable for being the last set Toshinao Aoki worked on for the TCG. Excluding reprints/reuses of his work later on down the line, this Dewgong is the last of only a few of his cards that got the holofoil treatment.
He’s still around, though!
https://twitter.com/aoki818
https://note.com/aoki818
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You’d think waiting 18 years and 5 months would been a fair amount of time to assume someone who hasn’t made any art for the TCG probably isn’t coming back and make that comment, but after 18 years and 6 months, Toshinao Aoki returned to the Pokémon TCG to illustrate the alt art for Unown V in S12 Paradigm Trigger*.
* pokemon-card.com hasn’t updated the site yet, but the card can be viewed from this tweet, among other sources. https://archive.ph/wip/DmsX8
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Let’s try again on this one, I guess? I have been corrected on this point of trivia as I overlooked S11a Incandescent Arcana Exeggutor, also illustrated by Aoki, which served as his return to the TCG. [https://archive.ph/0urON ] It doesn’t seem like that Exeggutor will release in Silver Tempest, so Unown V will serve as Aoki’s return to the TCG only for the English edition. (This is probably a good example on why writing about cards before they get an English print risks getting stuff jumbled up…)