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Flip a coin. If tails, do 10 damage to your Active Pokémon. If heads, your opponent flips a coin. If tails, your opponent does 10 damage to his or her Active Pokémon. If heads, you flip a coin. Keep doing this until a player gets tails.
illus. Sumiyoshi Kizuki
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Krisi92
Would anybody tell me why this is a good card?
Adam Capriola
It’s not. I need to make a new rating system.
Blob Takeshi
OK, so now it’s 5%, I guess the rating got fixed!
Mantidactyle
This is a really, really bad card.
Tokiwa City Smuggle
It’s supposed to work with Dark Dugtrio · Team Rocket (RO) #6 decks, but I think Rocket’s Minefield Gym · Gym Challenge (G2) #119 is better.
coolestman22
Could you play this in unlimited SableDonk?
Mantidactyle
There is already 4 Scoop Up, 4 Poke Turn, 4 Super Scoop Up, 1 Seeker, 1 Narrow Gym, 4 Poké Blower +, 4 Plus Power, 1 Strength Charm to deal or add damage, and 4 Item Finder, 4 Junk Arm and 4 Celebi ex to recycle them :P
coolestman22
1 Seeker? If it’s prized, you’re screwed.
Mantidactyle
With an Azelf · Legends Awakened (LA) #19 you’ll know where it is after the first KO
Moxtway Mino
2/3 chance of doing 10 damage to your own pokemon, 1/3 chance of 10 damage to opponent.
Strč prst skrz krk
Interesting that Doduo live underground.
Ambassador
· This card is less awful than being suggested above. Yes, there’s a 66% chance of doing 10 damage to your own Active Pokémon, but it’s a high-risk/high-reward card that you could stack with PlusPower and the drawback is necessary to avoid the card being part of an overly lethal one-turn donk with no risk. In case it’s not quite clear what the problem could’ve been;
Erika’s Jigglypuff + DCE + 4 PlusPower = 80 damage
Erika’s Jigglypuff + DCE + 4 PlusPower + 4 Digger = on average, 93.33 damage and ~26.66 recoil (not enough to self-KO)
Obviously there’s a question of getting all those cards in your hand and in play on the same turn to gamble for the potential 120 damage maximum(!), but there’d be an obvious problem here even if you upped the odds to a 50/50. Even if you’re not playing around with a Hall of Famer like Erika’s Jigglypuff, the magic number for the TCG at that time was 70. Hitmonchan’s Jab + 4 PlusPower hit 60, and Digger now gave it a chance at hitting 70. You necessarily need a drawback when you start to introduce situations like that.
· This card’s original name was バトル場は穴だらけ! For whatever reason, the exclamation point was lost in translation. Goop Gas Attack, originally まきちらせ! ベトベトガス, is another card that dropped the exclamation. Incidentally, so did Fervor (originally 熱血!)
· Blaine aside, you can see that almost all the Team Rocket Trainer cards originally had this naming convention of somewhat awkward phrases with an exclamation point thrown into them, a novelty somewhat better preserved the second time around for Team Rocket Returns.
· Having said that.. Venture Bomb might be intended as a ‘sequel’ to this card. And just like Digger, upon its translation, Venture Bomb lost the exclamation point of its original name (originally びっくりボム!).
· The machine featured in this card’s artwork made an appearance in the “How I Became A Pokémon Card” manga – the chapter focused on Dark Dugtrio. (The name of the chapter was 真の冒険家!? わるいダグトリオ, and the syntax of that phrase might be intended to fit the aforementioned wonky naming convention.)
· The absurdity of this machine is reminiscent of the absurd machines the Team Rocket duo used (and would continue to use) in the anime. They make an appearance, obviously, on this set’s Here Comes Team Rocket!
· In contrast to a comment from a peabrain above, Doduo do not live underground. It could be an allusion to the popular misconception that ostriches stick their heads under the ground, or it could just be a random choice of Pokémon to throw into the art.