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Magcargo (Great Encounters GE 45)
Magcargo — 90 HP — [R]
Stage 1 — Evolves from Slugma
Poké-BODY: Magma Armor
Magcargo can’t be Asleep or Paralyzed.
[R][R][C] Lava Plume: 60
You may discard the top card of your deck. If you do, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned.
weakness: [W]+20
resistance:
retreat: 3
Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita
Great Encounters — 45/106 — Uncommon
Its body temperature is roughly 18,000 degrees F. Flames spout from gaps in its hardened shell.
EricDLee
“It’s body temperature is roughly 18,000 degrees F.”
That’s much hotter than the surface of the Sun, which begs the question: Why isn’t this, like, the strongest Pokemon ever?
WilliamH.
It’s so incredibly, ridiculously hot, that why doesn’t it simply incinerate everything and everyone around it?
EricDLee
I know. Even Mewtwo-EX would be rather crispy after dealing with it.
WilliamH.
Mewtwo is a Psychic Type and is lucky enough to never have to physically touch its opponents in battle.
Blob Takeshi
How does it even have a shell for that matter? Wouldn’t that logically mean Slugma is hotter than Magcargo, since Slugma has no cooled down shell.
LeoBN
Maybe only a tiny portion of its body is at that temperature, like a sphere of 5 cm diameter. The heat produced by this core spreads all its body, and we see its lava at only 2,000 °F.