Lanturn · Hidden Legends (HL) #38

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   Nos

   (3 years ago)

   I think this art is one of the best instances of Lanturn looking like it’s actually lighting up the murky depths of the sea. I would love to see more moody and dark art in the TCG.

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     Jiří z PoděbradNos

     (2 years ago)

     Unseen Forces Lanturn is also a nice example of this :)

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   Ambassador

   (2 years ago)

   This card got a spiritual reprint many years later as CES Lanturn (it also got a direct reprint closer to the time, as PK Lanturn). Fellow commenters around the time I post this will be familiar, but for the benefit of future visitors, I note that the reprint originated as part of Japan’s SM6b Champion Road, reprinting the “best of the best” of the Neo, e-Card, ADV, and PCG eras of the TCG – that theme was diluted when the cards got scattered across 3 if not 4 or more English sets.

   Its a pretty straightforward write-up here. Energy Grounding is a good Power, and Lanturn showed up in decks in Worlds 2004 and 2005. https://archive.ph/YFAcx https://archive.ph/FdZPr

   Of interest, the localization team seems to actually have noticed the reprint theme, as they deliberately kept the name of the Lightning Strike attack, whereas the Japanese edition changed ADV4 Lanturn’s らいげき to エレキほう. The Japanese name change seems to be motivated by the fact らいげき became an in-game move [Bolt Strike] in the fifth generation of the video games, and らいげき’s usual TCG effect changed completely at that time, but retained the name. When the time came, the EN TCG was in a cleaner position to just abandon the name ‘Lightning Strike’ in favor of Bolt Strike, and so the attack by this name is making what is highly likely to be its last appearance – for a very long time if not never again – on this card.

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     AmbassadorAmbassador

     (2 years ago)

     *On that card! (i.e. CES Lanturn) ‘Lighting Strike’ showed up on a few more cards in Gen 3 and 4 of the TCG.

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   JP

   (1 year ago)

   This card is mistranslated and never got errata; its Power should only trigger “when any of your Pokémon is Knocked Out by damage from your opponent’s attacks.”

   Interestingly, the PK reprint also has the mistranslation (even though they fixed other mistranslations in PK reprints, like Steven’s Advice and Machamp HL; those cards already had errata though). I guess that’s because they didn’t realize the card was mistranslated the first time!

   The spiritual reprint in CES does only trigger upon KO from damage from an opponent’s attack.

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