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Poké-POWER ⇢ Dragon Curse
Once during your turn (before your attack), if Kingdra is your Active Pokémon, you may put 2 damage counters on 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon with δ on its card. This power can’t be used if Kingdra is affected by a Special Condition.
{R}{C} → Extra Flame : 30+
If the Defending Pokémon is Pokémon-ex, this attack does 30 damage plus 30 more damage.
{R}{M}{C}{C} → Heat Blast : 80
· Dual Type rule: This Pokémon is both {R}{M} type.
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reshikrom64
Like a delta-specific Chandy.
Anonymous
Kingdra’s on Fire!
Blob Takeshi
Funny that the Water Type DS Pokémon end up being really weak to EQ.
Nikolo
So, its P-Power requires its target to have Delta on its card. Could a non-Delta Pokemon that mentions Delta in an attack (e.g “does +X damage to Delta”) be chosen as a target?
nago
Almost certainly against the intent of the card. I don’t see a ruling right away, though …
Matthew Verive
Is there a card with which that situation might even occur?
Penmanovic
Yep, but only a couple. I searched for ‘delta’ in the card text here and found the following:
Camerupt (Crystal Guardians CG 3)
https://pkmncards.com/card/camerupt-crystal-guardians-cg-3/
Holon’s Castform (Holon Phantoms HP 44)
https://pkmncards.com/card/holons-castform-holon-phantoms-hp-44/
According to the wording on the p-power, Kingdra would place damage counters on both pokemon. But I think that, as nago suggests, the weird “on its card” wording refers to delta species pokemon only.
There’s also Delta Rainbow Energy (Holon Phantoms HP 98) etc which can only be used by pokemon with delta “on its card”. I doubt that this could be attached to Holon’s Castform or Camerupt. The same would probably go for effects of trainers like Holon Lake, Holon Adventurer, etc.