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- ↓ 40.00
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{P} → Hypnoblast : 10
The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
{C}{C} → Swift : 20
This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Weakness, Resistance, Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon.
illus. Mitsuhiro Arita
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Bob
Why is this card in this set?
No Name
Looks like it was a Japanese promo that was just shoehorned into the next English set
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jirachi_(EX_Team_Magma_vs_Team_Aqua_97)
linkinboss
Yup, I think these were 7-eleven promos, which is where the other common non-team aqua/magma pokemon from the set came from (Squirtle, Pikachu, etc).
Ambassador
The other cards you’re talking about were the last ever cards to be printed with dot code technology and the only cards in the set that fit the “e-TCG” branding the set was printed under in the English language (it appears that no other language of the TCG printed this set as such). If not for them, the set would not have been printed as an e-TCG set and legal backend stuff like paying a royalty to Olympus for use of the technology wouldn’t have continued for EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua. Tons of promos get skipped, so why bother to include these when it cost them more money to do it? It is probably a much more complicated story than them being just “shoehorned into the next English set”, as someone above has put it, but we’ll probably never know the full story. (I have my guesses.)