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- ↓ 0.85
- ꩜ 0.85
- ↑ 3.50
{@} → Delivery
Put any 1 card from your discard pile into your hand.
{@} → Lifting
Search your deck for up to 2 Basic Pokémon and put them onto your Bench. For each Basic Pokémon you put onto your Bench, you may search your deck for a basic Energy card and attach it to that Pokémon. Shuffle your deck afterward.
{P}{C} → Ominous Wind : 40
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused and can’t retreat during your opponent’s next turn.
illus. Hajime Kusajima · LV.48
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Pikey
I really like this card… Probably just for it’s novelty factor. I’d love to see it played in something…
coolestman22
Back when it was legal I played this in something, but I don’t remember what.
The Hawth
This is actually a very good card. I could see this getting play today, especially with all these big basics.
tototavros
For which attack?
The Hawth
The first two. Delivery can potentially decide games with the right card, and Lifting is essentially a better Pokémon Fan Club. And it has free retreat!
Foon-Gus Fring
Is this the only card with two separate {@} attacks? (i.e., two attacks with no energy cost)
Twylis
Looks like there’s three others: Mysterious Treasures Dunsparce, Alolan Raticate GX, and Astral Radiance Hisuian Electrode. Surprisingly recent examples with the latter two!
Foon-Gus Fring
Thank you!! :)
Twylis
An interesting quirk of gen 4 that I’m only now noticing is that, beginning in Stromfront, they began omitting the dex entries on cards that had a lot of text — essentially turning the dex entry into a sort of “flex space” where if it fit nicely, they could keep it, but otherwise they could comfortably remove it to accommodate for the increasingly complex and text-heavy attacks and effects of gen 4 cards (especially in cases with three attacks/abilities).
Gen 4 also omits the dex entries on cards with held items, Pokemon SP, and Lv. X cards, but those have significant layout changes to begin with. I don’t know of any other gen that would regularly remove the dex entry from the layout simply for the sake of space management.
The practice stopped in the HGSS block, likely since there was a new layout entirely with a heavier focus on the illustrations. Probably not coincidental that the HGSS block also appears to contain no cards with more than two attacks or abilities.
Twylis
Addendum: that HGSS bit is excluding Pokemon Prime, which consistently omitted the dex entry and *also* were still allowed to have three attacks and abilities.
Twylis
Further addendum: Unleashed Metagross is a genuine exception, and appears to be the only one. Other than that singular counterexample, non-Prime, non-LEGEND pokemon in the HGSS block all kept their dex entries and only had two attacks or abilities.
Ambassador
I forget on which Platinum card I asked this, but I vaguely recalled some Platinum-era cards having the Pokédex in the EN print but not having them on the JP print (or vice versa), and you mentioning Metagross here gave me at least one example – SV Metagross.