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{C} → Cheer Up
Attach an Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon.
{C}{C}{C}{C} → Dump Truck Press : 120+
If your opponent’s Active Pokémon is an Evolution Pokémon, this attack does 120 more damage.
{C}{C}{C}{C}{+} → Megaton Friends-GX : 210
If this Pokémon has at least 1 extra Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack’s cost), draw cards until you have 10 cards in your hand. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
· TAG TEAM rule: When your TAG TEAM is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.
illus. Mitsuhiro Arita
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At time of this post, there is a Mitsuhiro Arita gallery of some his SM TTGX artwork – primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the domestic and international packaging artwork – at the Nippon Designers School in Tokyo. It’s a fairly modest gallery but it’s
Gallery information – http://mitsuhiroarita.com/2023/02/21/tagteam_exhibition/
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In the same way that Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX are a reference to an older promo[1], and I think you can make a case that Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff GX *might’ve* started off with the idea of making a reference to another older promo[2], it feels like it’s at least in the realm of possibility that this card’s pairing is a nod to the artwork of WOTC’s Promo #49 Snorlax? From the Japanese POV, all three of these promos were essentially never playable in their game (the first two due to being jumbos, the third due to being in a different language) and they were taking advantage of the TTGX mechanic to make ‘versions’ of them appear in the conventional card game.
[1] https://pokumon.com/card/articuno-moltres-and-zapdos-corocoro-1997-unnumbered/
[2] https://pokumon.com/card/pikachu-jigglypuff-and-clefairy-corocoro-1997-unnumbered/