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491
- ↓ 0.77
- ꩜ 1.61
- ↑ 4.99
{C}{C} → Dragon Claw : 30
{P}{P}{C} → Dragonbreath : 80
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
illus. Yusuke Ishikawa · LV.70
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It was banished for its violence. It silently gazed upon the old world from the Distortion World.
Blob Takeshi
Giratina, like Dialga, gets 5 cards this set. Palkia on the other hand gets 3.
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This Giratina and Giratina Lv.X are the only cards in this set which actually originate from Platinum’s nominal counterpart (DPt1, Galactic’s Conquest) – hence being the only (non-Lv.X) Giratina in the set to actually have its Platinum dex entry! – with the rest coming from sets/products whose cards otherwise mostly (entirely?) got adopted into Stormfront¹. What is interesting about this card, particularly in the context of the Gen 4 TCG, is that it doesn’t indicate its forme anywhere on the card – compare to SW Wormadam cards, LA Deoxys cards, etc. The reason for this seems to be a matter of planning – as I speculate on my first comment on Shaymin PL 14, the new formes in Platinum don’t seem to have been planned out by the time Creatures planned out the DPBP# system at the start of DP, and it also seems like it might be possible they didn’t know Giratina was going to get a new forme as late as 2008, or else I think they would’ve printed LA Giratina as “Giratina Altered Forme Lv. 52”. Alternatively², they might not have bothered either because (1) the DPBP# system wouldn’t be able to include Origin Forme Giratina because Cresselia and Darkrai cards with higher DPBP#s had already been printed, locking it out, or (2) they knew of its existence and could’ve implemented it (and Shaymin Land Forme) but someone vetoed alluding to the existence of a new Giratina forme in the TCG before the movie and/or games had a chance to introduce it proper.
Either way, I get the sense that this really flustered the card design team, and its effects linger on – as Twylis notes on Origin Forme Palkia V (ASR 167), it ends up looking unusual when Origin Forme Palkia V and Origin Forme Dialga V are indicated as such on those cards, but their immediate counterpart Giratina V doesn’t have an “Origin Forme” indicator. The game hasn’t always bothered to be consistent with this kind of thing across eras, though, and they could choose to change their approach at any point (so why haven’t they!?)
¹ This is also true for all the non-Galactic Dialga and Palkia cards in this set.
² hahaha this isn’t a pun