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Poké-POWER ⇢ Duplicate
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may search your deck for another Ditto and switch it with Ditto. (Any cards attached to Ditto, damage counters, Special Conditions, and effects on it are now on the new Pokémon.) If you do, put Ditto on top of your deck. Shuffle your deck afterward. You can’t use more than 1 Duplicate Poké-Power each turn.
{C} → Energy Link : 10
Search your discard pile for an Energy card and attach it to Ditto.
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feyblade
In casual matches, run this in a basic heavy deck alongside…
Vending machine S2 Ditto
a proxy of Ditto GB 1
and Ditto RG 4
“oh, you’re fielding that? But wasn’t the Delta ditto pretty weak and gimmicky?
Wait, oh god, what?”
Nos
Good way to get Rainbow Energy on without the 10 damage, which is a lot for these little Ditto
Mint
Why would you ever use this card though? It doesn’t do anything, as far as I can tell
Nos
It’s not great, no, but the Delta Species set has multiple different typed Ditto that you can swap between using the Duplicate Poke-Power so you can hit for different weaknesses. It wont do much, but its what the card designers had in mind when designing this guy.
Ambassador
Nos has already outlined the cute gimmick of the Dittos in this set, but I think it would’ve also been nice to have a Ditto ẟ in the set as well. Besides the fact Metal Powder is a ‘signature hold item’ for Ditto in the games, Ditto’s original name is Metamon, and while the Meta [メタ] in Metamon [メタモン] most likely alludes to either ‘metamorphosis’ or ‘meta’, I’m going to go out on a limb and say a lot of the JP audience didn’t understand what its name is alluding to ..and maybe still don’t? Not unlike how a lot of things still go over the heads of some of the international audience.
Rather, ‘メタ’ probably makes most of the audience think of “Metal”, and I think that’s probably why Metal Powder [メタルパウダー] was made a hold item for Ditto in the first place. There was also a scrapped evolution for Ditto in the prototypes of Pokémon Gold and Silver that played with this idea as well – it evolved into Animon if you traded it while it was holding a Metal Coat¹! So it’s strange to me that they decided to have Metamon in a set where a bunch of Pokémon gain the Steel type as a special gimmick, but not include it in that gimmick. I think what we got in the end is more fun anyway ..but I wonder if they *wanted* to play around with the Metamon/metal thing for this set, and then second-guessed it in case the mainline games ever wanted to bring Animon back after all?
¹ https://tcrf.net/Proto:Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver/Spaceworld_1997_Demo/Pok%C3%A9mon#Demo_152-251